User talk:Esprit15d/Archive 3

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Ref conversion

Hi, I notice you converted the references in Principle of least action to use inline refernces. I'm sure you're intentions were good, but ... Please don't. That is an absolutely horrible way of doing references, making the article extremely hard to maintain! I know I should not complain here, I'll take this elsewhere, but in the meanwhile, don't convert any other articles. (Honestly, I'd like to get the inline referencing style banned. There could not possilby be any worse way of doing things. Oh well. Two steps forward, one step back, sometimes.) linas 14:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

You are right, you should not complain here. That is a matter of opinion, not Wikipedia policy. Best wishes on trying to get it banned, but until it does, I can use whichever style I like. --Esprit15d 02:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Ela112

Hey, just thought I'd mention that I added your signature to your comments to the above user. I'm trying like mad to get him/her to wikify their own articles, add stubs, categories etc, but it's proving difficult! Anyway, just wanted to let you know what I did. Budgiekiller 20:00, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

White Stripes

It is playing in Italy, and the commenter is Caressa. References? Somthing more than hearing it on national radios about 20 times a day since 10 july? The song was produced by the biggest radio station in Italy, Radio Deejay, and is now used even in TV shows. A special remix version is going to be published soon as a disco single. here you can find the song, on one of the most important internet web portals of Italy. here on the site of the radio --Jollyroger 08:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Pete Wentz Picture

Go for it, if you want to be an instigator. =] -- Diehard2k5 23:12, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

re: 5,000th Edit

Hi. Wikipedia is not showing that you've done 5,000 edits. Instead it is showing that you have done about 500 edits since March 2006 Stevenmitchell 09:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I think you are confusing my edit counts with the history log of the page of my 5000th edit.--Esprit15d 19:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

User:194.119.153.9

I've just blocked this user per your report on WP:AIV. You left a 'You have been blocked' message on the user's talk page some minutes before you reported the incident. Perhaps this was a mistake: if not, you shouldn't leave this message when reporting; it should be left by the blocking admin. --ⁿɡ͡b Nick Boalch\^talk 14:02, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Clay Aiken Talk Archive

I'm curious as to why you archived the entire Clay Aiken Talk pages. Some of the discussions there were waiting on further information before being added to the article. Maria202 17:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, Senior Pastor

Hi Esprit! You said Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, Senior Pastor was a copyvio. But unless you can give a URL for the copyvio, it can't be assessed for deletion. Care to try to re-nominate it with the information? Thanks! ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

If you look at the page history, I imput the url, but it wouldn't show up in the template. No clue why, must be a glitch. I even looked at the template to see if it had been changed, but I didn't see any. And I've been using that template all day.--Esprit15d 19:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for that. It wasn't a speedy - not commercial content - but I've put down for a slow copyvio delete. Thanks! ➨ ЯEDVERS 19:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Redirects

You added the {{rfd}} tag to TheOddfest the other day. However, you did not list it at WP:RFD. I have removed the rfd tag. If you still wish to nominate it for deletion, please follow all the instructions at WP:RFD. I would note, however, that redirects of this type are typically kept. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. -- JLaTondre 15:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyright overrun

I'm not sure how to send you a message, so I'm trying this. You just indicated a possible copyright violation for my article on Cost Overrun. I'm the author of the World Bank Paper you refer to and hold the copyright. How do I makie this clear and avoid being marked for a copyright violation? Gsaup 14:49, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyright: Evolutionary progress & Largest-Scale Trends in Evolution

Regarding copyright for Evolutionary progress & Largest-Scale Trends in Evolution: I'm the author of the papers that are mentioned. However, I decided to rewrite the text from scratch. Do we need to wait one week or is there a way to update the pages immediately? --Pdturney 17:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Category move request (in wrong place)

FYI, I removed your request to move Category:Fictional Las Vegans. You had it in WP:RM which is only for articles, not categories. The process for renaming a category is described in WP:CFR. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Nahuatl language GA nomination news and Q

Esprit, based on the suggestions/comments from your GA nomination review, we made a few changes/upgrades to the Nahuatl language article. Should we put the article back thru the GA nomination process, or can you still re-review it?? Let us know, and thanks, Madman 04:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Directive Principles in India

Please see reply to your comments on Talk:Directive Principles in India. Your comments have been addressed. Thanks! --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 15:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Two Things Cited for "Speedy Deletion"

Hello, I am in the process of writing a Wikipedia article about a soon to be released game called "The Spoils". Unfortunately, within minutes of writing it, it was nominated for deletion because it wasn;t done, it still is not but now at least has some content, I request the deletion tag be removed while I am still working on it.

Also, an image asociated with the article, the game's logo, has been cited ofr deletion, even though I have recieved(and linked to proof of) premission to use the files.

I would appriciate any help you could give on the matter.

The Spoils(TCG)

--Cosmic Larva 21:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou so much, I really appriciate it. I'll try the file under a different name, I said it was "with premission" because it was, I did not know that I should have chosen logo, now I do, thanks for the help.

Great Salt Lake

I'm not sure who added the ecosystem stuff originally (I only started working on this article a few months ago), but I added references where I felt they were needed, and removed the unnecessary (for now) subheading in the superstitions section. Any other ideas on how I/we can improve this article further are welcome. --Lethargy 23:34, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Lithuania GA Nominee

Hello. You on Lithuania talk asked for more refs. I added some. Please state your opinion. Regards, M.K. 15:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

San Francisco International Airport GA nominee

I revised the paragraph in question and added quite a few sources. Any thoughts? --physicq210 21:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Good Article

I do not really bite the newcomers. I always explain why an article failed or passed the GA nomination. If an article doesn't deserve to be a Good Article, it shouldn't be listed as one. Period. It doesn't matter whether the nominator is new or experienced. --GoOdCoNtEnT 17:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

cite templates

I noticed on the recent edits to put instructions on the page you included "...}}--~~~~" - since these are often used in the article space and people copy and paste from instructions, can you remove the "--~~~~" - thx in adv --Trödel 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Template help

I am working on a template ({{FGAN}}), and I used {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}} to show the date that the template was applied. However, everyday, the date is updated. So then I thought that I could add subst: to the template to make the date "stick." Then it dawned on me that as soon as I hit save, this will only make the template read "August 11, 2006" forever. This I thought to nowiki the subst, but then that would carry over to when I actually use it. Is there anyway to make the date automatically appear, but not update itself daily?--Esprit15d 19:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but try using this in the template and substing the template on the page that needs it:

{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTDAY}}, {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>CURRENTYEAR}}

 G.He 19:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Glad to be of help. :) G.He 15:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

On the Record (musical revue) GA failure

First of all, thank you so much for your constructive comments on the article On the Record (musical revue) after failing it's good article nomination. I have changed the image tags and added fair use rationale to those that specifically require it. Also, I have used names of specific reviewers and publications on the Response section to avoid the use of weasel words. Hopefully, this has addressed criteria #4 and #6 (though I would love you to look it back over).

I do, however, feel that that the article meets criteria #3. There is a fine line between what is broad coverage of a topic and what is superfluous fancruft. I did add a sentence or two about its lack of marketing and disappointing, small audiences, but there is honestly not much more I can put about the success of the show. Unless musicals are major hits, the budget and revenue is almost never released (believe me, I have looked). The only musical (well...opera, technically) that has achieved FA status is Porgy and Bess which doesn't mention the financial success of the show at all.

I also think that a section on merchandise is extremely crufty. I could say The show sold T-shirts, caps, keychains, and posters that say On the Record on them before and after the show and during intermission but that is just so redundant, because every professional show does that. As for the soundtrack.... Including a section on the recording would be an exact replica of the already existing Music section, because the show includes no dialogue. The soundtrack isn't exactly extremely notable or popular, either, being #56,893 in Music on Amazon.com, so I feel it is only worthy of it's brief mention. I would really like to see this article achieve GA status, so if you could please help me better understand your comments, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again. — warpedmirror (talk) 16:38, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Wordsmith

Hi, I noticed you blanked Wordsmith because you think it's not an appropriate redirect. You can't delete pages by deleting them. Please bear in mind that blanked pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. If you want to delete that redirect, please nominate it for deletion at WP:RfD. Thank you. --Zoz (t) 16:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Del Harvey.jpg

Hi, thanks for uploading Image:Del Harvey.jpg. The image description doesn't mention where you got the image, though; just that it's a TV screenshot. Wikipedia image rules require the source to be listed; I've tagged the image accordingly. I'm also not sure it qualifies for fair use on the Del Harvey article. According to the copyright tag, an image with that tag can only be considered fair use "for identification and critical commentary on the ... program and its contents." The Del Harvey article doesn't talk about this program at all, unless it's from Dateline. You might want to add a detailed fair-use justification to the image description page. Powers ^T 18:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

John Mayer Trio/John Mayer

I'm going to re-include the John Mayer Trio album "Try!" as to remain consistent as all albums where Mayer is a primary contributor. Please do not delete this again. This is in keeping with the WikiProject Albums in relation to page consistency, in which you'll see that all albums where an artist provides a major contribution is considered to be a part of that contributors albums.

The same applies to Ben Folds, and should also with Dave Matthews, Eric Clapton and John Mayer. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:202.147.44.80 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 15 August 2006.

WPWikiProject Musicians

You Wrote:

Wikipedia is in sore need of a policy on for musician pages, and you have been active in this area before. Therefore, please provide your comments and opinions on the policies there. Thanks in advance!--Esprit15d 19:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Which policy in particular ado you want me to comment on? --Jaysscholar 20:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Current singles

Hello Esprit15d. I have nominated a category that you created, Category:Current singles, for deletion. I've explained my reasons at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 August 16#Category:Current singles, and hope that you will join the discussion there. All the best. ×Meegs 23:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

I have made the appropriate changes to the aforementioned article - would you be so kind as to look at it, please? Thank you! --LBM | ^{TALK TO ME} 00:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Alien decoder.PNG

I noticed, though somewhat late, you expressed concern about the copyright of my image here. I was also concerned about it, though I was told it was free use. Please tell me if you think it falls under a different copyright as I do not want it incorrectly labeled. Feel free to respond here, on my talk page, or on the image talk page, too. Thank you for your help! --WillMak050389 03:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, if you look at the image talk page you will see that I was concerned also, but i guess with the information you gave me, it is not copyright. Also, I credited (or I will if I forgot) both Futurama and the site at which I got the font. --WillMak050389 15:50, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

nonsense

The problem is that "neologicism and inappropriately titled" aren't speedy criteria under WP:CSD. When it can be argued that it's nonsense, even if not totally incoherent (a frigate is a ship, not a bird), I'll at least make the attempt. An admin can always reject the tag. Fan-1967 18:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Beck Depression Inventory

Hi there, following on from your comments on S.Person's comments on rejecting Beck Depression Inventory, I'd be interested for your views on other ways we could improve this article. I've made a preliminary suggestion about images on the talk page. Cheers, --PaulWicks 20:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The way you can improve the article is leaving it to people that know what they're doing.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.42.2.23 (talk • contribs) 16:47, 31 August 2006.

As you commented from an IP which mostly seems to engage in vandalism, I'm choosing not yo reply there. Sorry to offend, but my opinion was solicited by another editor who is actually working on the article.--Esprit15d 20:57, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't addressing you. Sorry to offend, but I'm not interested in your opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.42.2.21 (talk • contribs) .

You can hardly be surprised that the editor whose talk page this is chooses to reply. Powers ^T 18:34, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there, sorry about that intrusion on your talkpage, I think it was probably a General Tojo sockpuppet. Back to the point, would you mind giving me your critical eye again on Beck Depression Inventory? I'd quite like to get it up to GA quality! Thanks --PaulWicks 18:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for those comments, they will be very valuable to us in improving the article to GA status! Thanks again, --PaulWicks 14:35, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar! I've just found out one of my colleagues is connected to Aaron Beck and am asking him to review it. All the best --PaulWicks 15:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Glenn Ford image

I'm concerned that the Wikipedia copyright police will probably delete the Glenn Ford Superman image you added fairly quickly, due to lack of "fair use rationale". Although you have added the proper licensing tag, that's no longer considered sufficient. You need to indicate who holds the copyright, the year of copyright (presumably 1978 Warner Brothers Pictures), and you also need to add a sentence or two explaining why the image has been uploaded. Also, there's a technicality that has created a real tug-of-war on Wikipedia. Technically screenshots can only be used on articles about the film -- not the actors -- however the current wording says "contents" of a film may also be illustrated, and I contend that this includes the actors. Anyway, you might want to go back in and extend the image summary in order to (hopefully) avoid the image being deleted by some keener. Cheers! 23skidoo 17:12, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I didn't upload the Glenn Ford image. I just added it to that particular article. It was uploaded by someone over a year ago, and is currently linked to three articles and a user page. The user Postdlf might have more information on the actual image.--Esprit15d 17:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I added the appropriate rationale myself. But it turns out I was right as someone tried to delete the image right after you added it to the article. I have put the image back as my interpretation of the wording on the Fair use tag is that it is allowed for the reasons I stated above. Between you and me, I expect someone will remove the main image soon, too, as it seems there is a move afoot to remove virtually all images from Wikipedia because of copyright paranoia. Anyway, thanks for the quick reply. 23skidoo 17:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Concern about the GA status of Joe Beevers

Howdy! I recently failed the article Ram Vaswani due to concerns about the lack reliable sources and lack of a sufficent lead. One of the editors on that article's talk page put this article and it's GA status up as a comparision point. In looking at the Beever's article, I see that it has the same issue with using blogs/internet forum as the majority of its sources, which don't stack up with the guidelines listed in WP:RS. I also have concerns that the article's lead doesn't fit with the guidelines at WP:LEAD-namely because it doesn't assert the subject's notability and why one should want to read the article. There is a minor concern about the inclusion of the Trivia section but again that is minor compared with the lack of reliable sources. My concerns may lead me to want to de-list the article, but I would want to discuss that with you first for your views. I appreciate your time. Agne 03:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment - I have expanded the lead, and raised a discussion re: reliable sources at Talk:Reliable sources. Essexmutant 10:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Julianne Moore

I reverted your recent edit to Julianne Moore. The poster was not being used to illustrate the movie in question or to provide critical commentary on the poster itself. It was just being used to depict Moore. Sorry. --Yamla 15:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

GayFest

Once I understood that (several people made this clear to me), I passed the article as I had no other real objections to it. Thanks for the note. Daniel Case 18:51, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

The Fray (band) GA Review

Thanks for your comments on The Fray's GAC. I have combined the How to Save a Life section and the current events section, and fixed the prose so that it would be readable even if the page hadn't been updated in a while. I also changed the name of the "other releases section", and put the <small> on the chart names in the singles discography. As for the proposed "selected events" section, I'm not sure what to put there. That section will probably be handy when and if The Fray are nominated for any major awards. There's not likely to be any arrests in the band given their strict Christian upbringing, and they've been too busy promoting their album for any charity events so far. I'll keep the article updated if any events like those happen, but for the time being there isn't much to report. Do you think that the article would now qualify for Good Article status? Thanks. Teemu08 19:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Point taken

I'm happy to see how quickly my well-intentioned, but apparently misdirected efforts were noticed by someone. I'll get rid of the Vocal technique article and contribute what I can to Singing, if you think that'd be best. Thank you for messaging me. I'm trying to be the newbie that reads instructions and tutorials FIRST, but I guess I'll mess up here and there anyway...

P.S. I felt wierd just editing someone else's talk page, so I clicked the tab with the little plus sign in the hope that that was the right thing to do... I never did see a tutorial on how to message other Wikipedians (of course, that doesn't mean such a tutorial doesn't exist.) PeripheralV 20:23, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Copyvio

I'm going to remove the copyvio tag you placed on my talk page, since I did not create the page but only moved it to a place that appeared more appropriate. Any serious objections to this action will be heard. Djcartwright 20:37, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Template update

I've reverted your addition of a statement about time sensitive statements on Template:Update. The update template is used very widely accross the encyclopedia, generally at the top of articles, I think it's reasonable to discuss major changes to it on the its talk page first. I thought the edits made the template too big, and added a statement that wasn't generally relevant to the bulk of articles in need of updating.Richard Taylor 02:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up

I'd always ignored that section of the copyvio warning...saw the "Maintenance use only:" and never bothered reading the rest. I'll make sure to add it to the contributing user's page from now on. --Onorem 17:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted text - SpiderNet Services Public Ltd

Esprit - thanks for your note. Not sure if this is supposed to go here or under the page but here it goes.

Being employed by the above company since '95 I was asked to write a few words about it. I've used a copy from the text I wrote a while back, which has been posted on our company site under company history section, as a stub to work on.

If it conflicts with Wikipedia principles - no prob - can leave it empty until I'm done. - OknarZ 19:05, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

speedy tagging

Please don't blank pages that you tag such as this. It makes it harder for the admins to check before deleting. Thanks! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 20:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Earthquake of Cúcuta

Do you have any evidence that Earthquake of Cúcuta is a copyright violation? You didn't give the source that it was stolen from. --Descendall 03:44, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

{subst:image source|Image:Welling and kutcher.jpg}} Abu Badali 22:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Interracial match.gif listed for deletion

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Unspecified source for Image:Courtney Ford.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:J&M Kent - Smallville.jpg

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Jack White on 60 minutes.jpg)

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Unspecified source for Image:Jake Gyllenhaal for the ACLU.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Pete Wentz Gap ad.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Charney apres ski ad.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:John Mayer Fender Ad.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Serena for doublemint.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Serena for doublemint.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, 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.

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Category:Years in Pakistan

You have added cfd tag to this category. Then you must also add this tag to all other categories that follow the same format. Please check [[1]]. Siddiqui 15:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

I created this category and most of the pages. I was busy and plan to add info in all yearly pages.

16:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Rachel Bilson

Hi! I addressed your GA-related concerns on this page, and hope you'll now re-review it. Cheers, Mad Jack 02:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

No copyright

I got the article of Earthquake of Cúcuta frome the latinamerican wikipedia... That's not copyrighted!!!

Answer me as fast as posible..

--Ricardoramirezj 14:26, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Marriage Law Project

Thanks for the alert. I have now edited the content at Marriage Law Project to make it conform to wikipedia's standards. MPS 17:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

indexing

Hi, I have just undone some changes which you made to the articles on Christine McCafferty and Steve McCabe. As you will see in a telephone directory, names such as MacCarthy, Maccarthy and McCarthy are all indexed together as if they were all Maccarthy: this is because the capitalisation is often inconsistent within a family, and the "Mc" form is a contraction of "Mac". So the convention on wikpipedia is to index such names with the prefix standardised to "Mac", and the rest of the name in lowercase (because WP's indexing is case-sensitive). --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 03:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Michael Cosgrave

re your correction to Michael's entry I just wondered why you to chose to make the change: not notable. Member of a college troupe, that didn't even last long. Googling this name with "Raymond" only turns 176 hits, most of which are wiki mirrors or something else entirely.}}

You seem to have heard something about the Seven Raymonds though if you are 25 then you cannot have been at Oxford University with them!? Don't forget Michael was a member and the Seven Raymonds were the start of successful careers for Stuart Lee, Richard Herring and Emma Kennedy.

Yours in theatre, Stager

User:Stager 15:44, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

List of troubadours

I am wondering whether to revert your changes. The list was in alphabetical order by first name: you seem to be alphabetizing it by last name (though, as you say, more work is required to complete the job). But, in the case of medieval names, alphabetizing by last name doesn't make much sense. The last name of a medieval European is not usually a surname; more often a nickname, a place of birth or a place of work. Andrew Dalby 15:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. No, no question of vandalism -- we are all just doing our best in a sadly imperfect world! Andrew Dalby 15:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Rodri philipps

Hi, I've seen you has informed User:Robertaroland about the speedy delete of the article above with the reason of missing notability. I have reverted the article Viscount St Davids, where the same User has tried to insert a link (see [2]). It seems now that he has created an article about the oldest son und heir of Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids (through this of course notable), but failed to pipe the redlink. So would you please revert the deletion (or let revert the deletion), if his try has any worth? Greetings ~~ Phoe _talk 16:07, 7 November 2006 (UTC) ~~

Ah sorry, I thought you were also responsible for the deleting. But before I ask an admin, is the article worth having anybody restore him or was it absolute rubbish? ~~ Phoe _talk 16:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC) ~~

Aye, then I will try it ... thanks ~~ Phoe _talk 16:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC) ~~

Article about Wikipedia Users

Hello,

I am a freelance writer working on an article about the wide array of people who make Wikipedia their life, their passion, their pastime. Wikipedia “addicts” if you will. I’m looking for people just willing to tell their story of how they got sucked into the intellectual whirlwind that is Wikipedia; how you got started editing, how the obsession grew, and what you spend your time focusing on these days? Do you write articles from scratch? Is your main push toward one particular type of article? Do you patrol for typos and errors, or spend your time diligently fixing vandalism? Do you take part in the “social aspects” of Wikipedia; engaging in animated discussions or decorating your user page with all sorts of internet memes? Have you ever forced yourself to take a “Wikipedia break”? If so, what’s your 20/20 hindsight on the obsession? Basically I’m just trying to get an idea of what it’s like for various Wikipedia “addicts.” If you are interested in participating, please email me at brianwrites@gmail.com

If anybody else, other than this user is interested in participating, feel free to email me as well. This article is intended to be a light informational piece, nothing too heavy or controversial, just merely introducing readers to a subculture that they likely had no idea existed. So please don’t email me with your conspiracy theories, or your grudge against the Wikipedia hierarchy… unless it directly applies to your overall experience with the site. This article is about the USERS, not about the pros and cons of the site itself.

Thanks,

Brian68.39.158.205 02:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Michaeljacksonm.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Michaeljacksonm.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 its not being deleted. Thank you. —Ashadeofgrey (talk • contribs) 18:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Christine Elise at Sundance.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Christine Elise at Sundance.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our fair use criteria. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that any fair use images which are replaceable by free-licensed alternatives will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --Oden 23:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Male/Female

No argument. Nuke away. --Vees 19:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Category:Poster (images)

Deleted. Next time apply {{db-author}} instead. - crz crztalk 16:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Zachary David Fisher

I userfied this to User:Prozach and as you tagged it for db-bio. FYI, it's now a userpage, so you may want to remove the tag (or not, it's really not a big deal). It had already been deleted once, so I thought that making it his userpage was a faster way to get rid of the nonsense. Cheers Dina 19:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Copying

I'm copying the french fr:WP:AG to wiki en. I have to do it fast otherwise I will not be able to do it on this wiki en :] Yug (talk) 19:31, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

You are right, I can't translate all this in 5 min, I will do this in 2 weeks. If you know some user able to help me : they are welcome :] Yug (talk) 19:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Your toolbox

Do you mind if I swipe your toolbox? -- DiegoTehMexican 19:42, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

The Fountain

The concerns presented in the course of the film article's GA nomination have been addressed. Can you please take another look? --Erik (^talk/_contrib) @ 18:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Much appreciated! I plan to make your suggested changes and hope to continue expanding it. --Erik (^talk/_contrib) @ 20:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

External links from non-religious articles to watchtower.org

Hi. As part of my volunteering with Wikiproject Spam, I recently spent time cleaning up spam from a number of African wildlife articles. I was surprised to keep seeing all these watchtower.org links. After checking, I saw you had added many of these. A quick search showed over 200 watchtower.org links, most of them very appropriately linked to Jehovah's Witnesses or theological articles:

• List of articles linked to watchtower.org

I don't think you should have added all these other links, however. It really starts to look like a linking campaign. Here's a sample; I'm not done cleaning up:

• 7 August 2006: Tinnitus [3]
• 7 August 2006: Hearing [4]
• 7 August 2006: Endangered species [5]
• 7 August 2006: Puma [6]
• 7 August 2006: Lynx [7]
• 7 August 2006: Lion [8]
• 7 August 2006: Olympic National Park [9]
• 7 August 2006: Słowiński National Park [10]
• 7 August 2006: Namib Desert [11]
• 2 August 2006: Latin American music [12]
• 5 July 2006: Maya peoples [13]
• 5 July 2006: Pygmy [14]
• 5 July 2006: Maasai [15]
• 5 July 2006: Oyo [16]
• 5 July 2006: Igala [17]
• 5 July 2006: Scarification [18]
• 5 July 2006: Namibia [19]
• 28 June 2006: Crane [20]
• 28 June 2006: Kangaroo [21]
• 28 June 2006: Ivory [22]
• 27 June 2006: Voluntary caregiver [23]
• 27 June 2006: Physician [24]
• 27 June 2006: Quetzal [25]
• 27 June 2006: Ngorongoro Conservation Area [26]
• 27 June 2006: Chocolate [27]
• 19 December 2005: Sexual assault [28]

Thanks for your consideration of this matter, --A. B. ^(talk) 07:13, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Well thank you.

Well thank you for changing link of buffalo. I have not been able to understand the advantage. We in India do not have the buffaloes which so much of hair as shown in picture. Anyway thanks. swadhyayee 15:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Understand but may be our buffaloes are like African buffaloes. swadhyayee 15:48, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Ref conv

Sorry for the downtime. References converter is now back up and running. About a week ago the hard drive in my server crashed. Luckily it stayed together long enough to allow me to pull all the data off onto a new hard drive, but I still had to go through the process of installing Linux on the new hard drive, installing all the necessary programs, and loading in all of the old data from the server. I got all of my essential services up within two days (CVS, Apache, Wiki), but I kind of forgot about web scripts, which I finally got around to fixing today. Everything should be fully functional again. If you see any bugs, just send me a message. You are receiving this message because you are on the spamlist. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, simply remove your name. --Cyde Weys 19:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Street press

Hi Esprit15d, I notice you've recently replaced the contents of the article street press with the contents of Steve Roach. I know this was probably an honest mistake, but please be more careful in the future. I have fixed up the page already. Thanks!

Lankiveil 11:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Canadian Football League

Please do not convert the references in the "Teams" section of Canadian Football League. The {{ref}}/{{note}} style is used there in order to maintain a separate series of notes for that section only. Additionally, please check your work when you do convert - the conversion was incomplete and created some broken references. heqs 22:53, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the help with my userpage! -sthomson 19:49, 21 December 2006 (UTC)