User talk:Edward/archive2

Scalextric and slot cars

I saw on your to do list you wanted to create Scalextric, well I'm atm organising and expanding the slot car racing area a bit (including creating Scalextric) so if you want to help out you're welcome to. Cheers! JOHN COLLISON (An Liúdramán) 22:51, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stub sorting policy

Please help me and others in deciding the stub sorting policy. Thanks!

See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Policy

-- AllyUnion (talk) 01:46, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Revision of Gangrene

I had not wanted to revise what had been written. You on the other hand have gutted the page. Its a bit ridiculous for a medical information page. I did supply a lot of the corrections to mis-information and the pictures that accompanied it. I'll do a bit to revise and re-write from ground up. I might add that the divisions and separations into categories were entirely mine. Be nice to get a warning when someone zaps an article. It was on my 'to revise' list but will move up. DrGnu 19:54, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The page was mostly copied from another site on the Internet, articles on Wikipedia have to be licensed under the GFDL they can't include information copied from copyright sources. There was no choice but to revert the article. I explained this on the talk page. Edward 21:13, 2004 Dec 30 (UTC)

In need of a laugh

What do we both have in common? see [[1]] If you want a further laugh check out the history file of his talk page Happy new year! Giano 17:23, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations, Edward!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 21:42, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Grounded theory article taken away - why?

Hi! As I am doing research using grounded theory (GT) and there was no article on wikipedia I edited an article for wikipedia I've written on GT before. It comes from my PhD dissertation of January 2003. I put some work into this editing and eventually saved it unto wikipedia and when I went back to check its status it was taken away. I was surprised by the watchfulness of you Edward since you referred back to a page where I published the original article some weeks ago. This page is btw a user forum for grounded theory so the content is not copyrighted as far as I know. Of course you couldnt know it was me Hans Thulesius the actual copyright owner of the article appearing in my dissertation who published it on Wikipedia and you dont know if I am Thulesius logging unto this site and writing this but I do have my name address with a major Swedish internet provider as you may be able to see. However, I wonder if there is any meaning for me to put work into writing for Wikipedia anymore? I love the idea of the site but it mustnt be too complicated for me... h.thulesius@telia.com Hans

Thanks Edward!

I want to thank you for your editing of the Grounded Theory article.

Hans

liekomg

liekomg I'm Edward too and enjoy OSC and George Orwell. omgomgomgomg

In all seriousness, haha. Interesting coincidence.--Etaonish 03:44, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Hello, Edward, I was wondering whether the last bit on my Talk page might amuse you... but you're probably too high-minded, and quite right, too. I don't suppose I'll leave it there for very long in any case.--Bishonen | Talk 03:30, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Interesting, Thanks. Edward 08:19, 2005 Jan 12 (UTC)

Stub sorting guidelines

I sincerely believe that we really need to lay down the law in stub sorting, and really provide a guideline. I believe that we should all attempt to reach a general consensus by April 2, 2005 in a set of rules that we can follow. Once we have built a set of guidelines, we can formally create a policy out of those guidelines. We need to define what a specialized topic stub is, how many articles it should cover, when is it appropriate to create it, what defines its need for its creation, what defines its need for deletion, what criteria it should follow, what are the general steps should one take when sorting a stub, whether or not to start using subst: for all templates, whether or not use subst: for all templates created by the meta-templates, and any other matters that may come up in consideration. I thank jag123 for initially creating the subpage for the project at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Guidelines. Even though they have been discussed, I feel that we really need to confirm everything. For that, we should discuss each issue with its own sections, and raise a list of issues that we need to nail down before really continuing on. The English Wikipedia is nearly at 500k articles. Either the MediaWiki software needs to handle stubs such that they can be found with a simple union of categories, or the sorting is done manually by Wikipedians. Personally, I think the latter is less taxing on the server load, especially when we use subst:, which I think would help the Wikipedia out, performance wise. Please make your comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Guidelines. I apologize for making this somewhat of a spam notice, but since the project has more members, the project can finally decide on these important issues at hand. -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:22, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Western Jewish History Center

Edward,

I am the Archivist of the Western Jewish History Center, at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley. I put up the text from the Center from one of our brochures. There is no problem with copyright, as the brochure comes from the Center and the Judah L. Magnes Museum.

If you have any further questions about this, rather than comment about the copyright of the text without checking/contacting the Center first, please contact me directly at akornblum@magnes.org or at wjhc@magnes.org

Thank you.

Aaron T. Kornblum, Archivist
Western Jewish History Center
Judah L. Magnes Museum

Sorry about that. I removed the copyright violation notice. Edward 12:55, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

Monowi

Hi Edward (I'm a 74yr old who is into the Wiki thing, living in Kent). I was delighted to see that you had included The Times article under Monowi, Nebraska to, as I see it, put a bit of balance into all the US articles which tend to eulogise everything about America. I love the way every article on each city/town is exactly the same: gives all the demographic facts and nothing whatosever interesting about the place itself. I see that those statistics gloss over the loss of populations. A good example is Obert, Nebraska which has the 2000 population as 58 (?) whereas the town sign according to the The Times article only shows 39.

I have included a bit under each of the states mentioned - each state article again only shows the positive side. I don't know whether you might like to cast an eye over what I have done?

Keep up the good work! Peter Shearan 10:21, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Charva

Chav should be merged into charva if anything, definatly not charva into chav. Charva was the original term and chav is a deviation of this. --Josquius 20:14, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

British car number plates

Hi, Edward. Have posted answer to your typeface question on Talk:British car number plates. -- Picapica 09:46, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image:PSP_and_DS.jpg

Can you put this image on Wikicommons rather than Wikipedia so that other wikis like WikiNews can use this image. 159753 10:41, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

See commons:Image:PSP_and_DS.jpg Edward 11:53, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)

Judæo-Aramaic redirect revert

I changed the redirect back to Judeo-Aramaic language and created a stub there. No offense intended... Tomer ^TALK 23:23, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

Title question

I see you wrote the stub on "Bombay Mix" - is this the same as bhelpuri? It sounds like it, but I've never heard it called this, so I'm not sure. --Mothperson 03:38, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think you may be right that it's a packaged version of the street food. I've bought similar in U.S. Indian groceries, but it wasn't labeled as anything - I assume because the package was clear and the contents were obvious. I missed the bhelpuri article. I thought your stub was it, and I was going to expand it, but I guess I can't. Thank you for your help. --Mothperson 10:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We've got the same handle!

I was wondering about the guy who took the handle "Edward" on OFTC IRC...and then I found out someone had that name here, and wouldn't you know it, it's the same guy. Of course, "Edward" is not my real name, so you deserve it more than me anyway. Autodeist 21:40, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Airport on Collaboration of the Week

As grand poobah of Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports, I recently listed airport on Wikipedia:Collaboration of the Week. This article is about to fall off the page due to lack of votes, beaten by an article on ancient rome. You know what to do Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 22:45, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Charva 2

I've rewrote charva. It now:

• (I think) fits the criteria for passing NPOV
• States the differences between charvas and chavs
• Contains more information, and two pictures

I think its better and now is good enough to stay as is without a merger to chav. Hedley 22:33, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Charva should definatly not be merged into chav. Chav could maybe be merged into charva but definatly not the other way around.-Josquius

Soviet Union

Hey man, fancy weighing in on Gosplan? If you have any ideas/thoughts I'd be keen to hear them. I see you're interested in the Soviet Union :) btw. I found your username from the edit on Factory Farming. - FrancisTyers 01:07, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Skyline

Why was Image:Seoul_skyline_daytime_2.jpg deleted? - 68.72.142.1 04:07, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Because the uploader didn't fully understand Wikipedia copyright.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&page=Image%3ASeoul_skyline_daytime_2.jpg

Edward 13:38, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

Book Monday Begins on Saturday category revert

I'd removed the category you added here (Monday). The name of the book has very little in common with Monday or any other day of week. The explanation is given in the article. Pavel Vozenilek 02:09, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Category:UK Wikipedians

Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 19:19 (UTC)

Yet Another London Wikimeet

Heya,

We're organising another London meetup, for Sunday the 11th of September; specifics still to work out, but it will probably be fun as ever, and involve a few drinks and a nice chat in a pub. We'd love to see you there...

James F. (talk) 22:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: London

Nope, but I can see why you'd think so what with London being such a tiny village ;) Joe D (t) 22:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Revert Vandalism

Edward, I have taken the liberty to remove obvious vandalism to your user page. Wiki-on my friend... Gblaz 00:57, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

New cat

Hi there. I see you just created Category:Unarmed people shot dead by police. Are you aware there is a discussion centering on the naming of such a cat over at CfD? -Splash 23:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Little Question

Why did you revert the edit I made to my User Talk page? Please answer on that page, thanks. Greaterlondoner

Image:Apple wine in a glass.jpg

Hi Edward, you missed to add a copyright-information to the picture Image:Apple wine in a glass.jpg on commons. How was Frankfurt? --Warden 08:57, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks spotting for that, I added the PD-self tag. Frankfurt is great, I'm still here, sitting in the main room waiting for Richard Stallman's Keynote. Edward 09:02:46, 2005-08-07 (UTC)

Thanks again/Where to find your answer

Please in future form a queue to take part in character assassinations. Plus have some decency in answering my previous question as to why you decided you should revert edits I made to my own user talk page. Greaterlondoner

Have a look at my answer to your latest message on user talk page. I know you've become very much used to visiting it recently. Greaterlondoner 19:00, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Ditto Greaterlondoner

Your talk page is on my Watchlist. Edward 19:19:09, 2005-08-19 (UTC)

It is likely that Greaterlondoner is a sock puppet of the banner user Irate. I have blocked him for 24 hours for disruption. -- Curps 22:32, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Edward, I would like you to know that Curps was wrong in that assumption and I am not a sockpuppet of anybody (being accused of being one was the first I knew of sockpuppets on Wikipedia anyway) and I am not here to cause trouble. Greaterlondoner

Plsea stop vadnalising Wikiipoedia

Hi Edward, have you seen this photo? Hilarious. There's a better one of us two with Sam, but I couldn't be arsed trailing through the now 27 pages tagged wikimania to find it (though I'd guess around page 10 at the moment). Won't see you at the London meetup but I see you're already down for Birmingham. So until then, so long. Cormaggio 11:29, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for uploading Image:J Sainsbury HQ 1.jpg, a great addition to the Sainsbury's article! Mark83 16:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Meetup

Heya,

Just a quick note to remind you of the London Meetup this coming Sunday (the 11th of September) that you signed up for (as 'definite', but it's always good to check ;-)). It's at the Archery Tavern, just next to Lancaster Gate tube station, from 13:00 (BST) onwards.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 13:46, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Mesage to Edward

I hope you don't mind me adding this to your page. This is the only way I know of to get in contact with a user. In response to your question, I did plan on answering your first question, but I blanked my page before I could get your user name. I forgot to get it first. Thanks, aido2002 P.S. Also, I added the iPod pic to show the latest version of the iPod.

again Image:PSP_and_DS.jpg ;)

Could your friend, Richard, take a photo of just PSP? I'm member of Polish wiki, so we cannot use fair use images that are on English Wiki and any other. I would imagine pl:PSP article with some photos of it. Could you do that? Hołek ҉ 15:02, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Blue Screen Phone.jpg

I had seen one of those errors too on a payphone like that. Shows you how useless they are. -- Thorpe ^talk 23:53, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:2012legacymap.jpg

Hey Edward. Just a little curious to know why you listed the above image as a copyright violation when it simply had the wrong tag. It needed the 'promotional' tag as opposed to being labelled a copyvio. I changed the tag for it and let Greaterlondoner know since he uploaded it. I see you've had some pretty intense sounding confrontations with him, I hope I'm not re-opening any old wounds or anything. Wikiwoohoo 21:29, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. It doesn't seem as if Greaterlondoner is active anymore. He left a message on my talk page on the 8th of November 2005 thanking me about the 2012 tube map image and said he was going to bed. He could still be sleeping! :) Wikiwoohoo 19:18, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Buses in London

Just got back from a nice long holiday. No sorry, I don't think they are. I must have listed them as such when I was confused about what was the best tag to use with all those other images. Sorry about all that. Please consider me as having been a confused new user, not a malevolant vandal. I hear you labelled me as a persistent offender with copyrighted images. Can you tell me exactly what you said where your reasons with that and where the page is. Thank you. Greaterlondoner 19:22, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Please vote and ask others to vote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ramallite

Pint glass image

Here is the URL for the pintglass image:

http://gallery.hd.org/_c/food/beer-in-pint-glass-held-in-right-hand-AJHD.jpg.html

Taiq 22:39, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Soviet Union

Hi, just a note to let you know about WikiProject Soviet Union (WPSU), a WikiProject to improve the quality of articles relating to the Soviet Union on the Wikipedia. It would be great if you could join up :) - FrancisTyers 02:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Package holiday

Hello, some time ago you added a fair bit of content to Package holiday. As you may be aware, we are currently trying to improve Wikipedia's verifiability and reliability by making sure articles cite the sources used to create them. Do you remember what websites, books, or other sources you used to add content to Package holiday? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? See WP:CITET for some quick templates to use for citing sources. Thanks! - SimonP 20:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Sure, add it to Clothing

What a nice picture! Sure, add it -- section about clothing as social message would be the best, since that bemedalled robe is nothing but message <g>. I can't believe that we forgot to add images to the article. It should be chockful of them. You seem to have a good eye -- are there other images, from different times and places, that could be added? Zora 18:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

History of fashion

Thanks for catching the typo on History of Western fashion. Working too fast. PKM 21:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham

This is just a reminder that the Birmingham meetup of UK Wikipedians that you have expressed an interst in is happening tomorrow. Sorry for the short notice. Thryduulf 15:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that I added and edited some data from the Western Jewish History Center entry.

If you have any questions about any of this, please contact me directly:

Aaron T. Kornblum, Archivist Western Jewish History Center Judah L. Magnes Museum

Disambiguation

Either that, or change Los Angeles to just Los Angeles and Chicago to just Chicago. SushiGeek 19:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:PSP and DS.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:PSP and DS.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stan 03:37, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! I've started checking history too, vandals having taken up trashing image descriptions lately, but missed this one. Anyway, since the commons image seems fine, I just put an end to the page editing by deleting the local copy. Stan 15:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Photo

I copied the image and modified it to some extent. The image is also tagged as a "symbol" on the creator's website, that's why i put up the tag, albeit only after a very cursory look at the copyright section for symbols on the image guideline page. I'm not sure yet about what effect this has but since i modified and touched up the picture its not a direct copy of the picture. I emailed the creator and I'm still waiting for a reply. Although I have been a wikipedia user for sometime I'm still relatively hazy on copyrights. I haven't been able to look thoroughly into the situation as i've been very busy over the last few weeks. Tell me what you think. Lesliestng 04:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The creator just replied. He has released copyright for the image, so its fine. Lesliestng 15:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Jerrycan Reduced.jpg

Hi Edward.

RE: the rather curt message you left on my talk page.

The image has been uploaded under 'Fair Use' [[2]] and [[3]] and has been properly tagged.

Regards, Ian Dunster 13:00, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:LordsMediaCentre.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:LordsMediaCentre.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

This image was moved to Commons with a slightly different file name. --Voyager 07:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Web security exploits

Category:Web security exploits: good idea! JonHarder 01:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey Edward why don't you update www.edwardbetts.com more often?

Hey Edward why don't you update www.edwardbetts.com more often?

You aren't that cool

Nope.

Edward Betts, oh Edward Betts!

He likes heads when they are headbutts.

War zone / Warzone disambig

I took the liberty of striking-through your to-do for War zone/Warzone disambiguation at User:Edward/Missing articles. I made a disambig page and while going through and disambiguating the old links I found that page. Please take a look at how I've set up the disambiguation and make any improvements you feel necessary. Cheers! — Saxifrage ✎ 18:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Addition of non-African flags section to Pan-African colours.

Hi Edward. I've been thinking about your addition of a section for non Pan African Flags to the Pan-African colours article, and I believe that it is, to say the least, out of place. Although the point can, and should, be made that the colours are not exclusively African, I don't think a gallery is needed to do so. Furthermore, this gallery could eventually stretch on for quite a while were it to be expanded to include more such flags. Image:Australian Aboriginal Flag.svg, Image:Flag_of_Lithuanian_SSR.svg, Image:Flag of Belgium.svg, Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg, and Image:Flag of the Shan State.svg, etc... I'll shortly remove it, but if you object, feel free to make your case. Happy editing, Picaroon9288•talk 01:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Frederik Willem de Klerk

G'day, I saw you on the talk page of Frederik Willem de Klerk. Could you help size the image in the infobox i put on the page? I'm finding it tough. Cheers and happy editing! Jpe|ob 07:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks, Jpe|ob 01:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

black monday graph

hello, i noticed you've uploaded (and apparently made) the Image:Black Monday Dow Jones.png.. i think it would be far better to have the y-axis start at 0 rather than 1700.. then it would give the impression in real terms (i.e. you can see the proportions properly) how much the drop was. is that possible? cheers, Mlm42 17:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Giovanna

I am not sure whether it is useful for disambiguations also include people by their first name. Pavel Vozenilek 17:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Some articles contain etymology and onomastics related info. Those with list of people by first name should be pruned, IMO. I cannot imagine what a huge list of Pavel's would be good for. I am not aware about any related policy but it feels like a common sense. Pavel Vozenilek 17:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

TDK Blue-Ray disc

The main reason i see to have this photo, is that, can u ever find a 100 GB RB-ROM free photo? because i couldn't... So there maybe "lots of free photos of optical discs", but not specific 100 GB capacity Blue-Ray Disc. --R2cyberpunk 02:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)--