User talk:Mushroom/Archive 11

Thanks

Thanks for reverting vandalism on Alcohol consumption and health. It's getting a lot of vandalism / destruction from various people. Nunquam Dormio 13:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 13:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

adolfhitler.ws

why are you removing the http://www.adolfhitler.ws link, it has been here before you ever found wikipedia

That's not true: the link was added on January 5, 2004, and I started editing Wikipedia on December 13, 2003.

Tell how come other sites in your link section can use adolfhitler.ws as a source yet you remove adolfhitler.ws as a source ? Was the BBC and the History channel wrong in using material from this site ?

Have you got any proof that the BBC or History Channel used the site as a source? I can't see any.

The excuses used are lame, this is the second oldest link on this article and the site contains more info on Hitler than any other site on the Internet.

Have you read Wikipedia:Reliable sources? Self-published sources can't be used on Wikipedia.

Please give me a link to where the decision was made to remove this link and why. It seems you re not interested in historical research rather you are more interested in a agenda — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wilson44 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 25 July 2006

Here it is. If you want to add it back, please try to find a consensus on the article's talk page. Thanks. Mushroom (Talk) 14:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

SCOPE Alliance

I believe you have removed the article on SCOPE Alliance in error. There is no copy right violation on the part of SCOPE there are several articles out there including digitalmediaasia that copied our orriginal press release and "white papers" without attributing them to us. If need be I can provide the orriginal articles and their edit history that goes back to 2005. Please let me know what information you need in order to restore our article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hturko (talk • contribs) 16:29, 25 July 2006

I just sent you an email about that. It said:

Hi Henry,

If you want to keep that text in the article and you are the copyright holder, please follow the instructions here:

Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission

Basically, you have to:

1. Send an email to scope-alliance.org asking for permission to use the text under the GFDL license.
2. Forward both the email you sent and the answer you received to "permissions AT wikimedia DOT org"
3. Add the {{confirmation}} template to Talk:SCOPE Alliance. I can do this for you if needed.

Mushroom (Talk) 16:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

SCOPE Alliance

Hi Mushroom, I am the Marketing officer for SCOPE alliance and a member of the SCOPE Alliance Board of Directors should I just send a letter to the SCOPE Alliance BOD mailing reflector and ask for and receive official permission from the BOD to use the information in the article under GFDL?

Henry

Yes, then forward the two letters to "permissions AT wikimedia DOT org" so that the Wikimedia Foundation can keep it in its archives. After you have done that, contact me and I will restore the article. Mushroom (Talk) 16:54, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Vituperex' reply

Thanks for the "welcome" message, Mushroom!

I plan to create a page as an "add on" to an existing page (additional relevant information, but seperate). I plan to quote about a paragraph from a book, but my family published and holds the copyright to this book. I'm the webmaster and copyright holder of the content.

What supporting information will I need to include with the article?

Thanks again!

Vituperex 17:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Vituperex, you can read Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission to learn how the procedure works. Basically, you have to:

1. Send an email to the webmaster (that is, yourself) asking for permission to use the text under the GFDL license.
2. Forward both the email you sent and the answer you received to "permissions AT wikimedia DOT org"
3. Add the {{confirmation}} template to the article's talk page. I can do this for you if needed.

Mushroom (Talk) 17:16, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Italy, you say?

Thank you, Mushroom, for the welcome. Italy is the first country I want to visit after I win the lottery.

Best wishes!

ForDorothy 21:51, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

You can be my guest if you give me half the money ;) Mushroom (Talk) 23:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Good work on Category:Film actors

I would like to commend you for your effort in recategorising 300 articles. Samuel Wantman asserts the existance of a "consensus" for his view over and over again, but it was based on a few users in just one week and it has been criticised in various places then and since. I contend that no "consensus" exists. Certainly a "consensus" for something that affects so many high profile articles, yet contradicts usual practice, needs a lot more support than Mr Wantman has found. I am continuing the project you started and would be delighted if you could find some time to help out. Chicheley 21:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I agree with you and I have made a comment at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. I hope some other editors will weigh in and express their opinions. I'd prefer not to restart the categorization until the discussion ends and a clear policy (or guideline) is established: I don't want my edits to be reverted again :) Mushroom (Talk) 23:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much

thanks a lot for the warm welcome! I have a few questions, though. On this page, Zords in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue#Note, the section that gives the similarities of the zords in SPD and lightspeed rescue, i wuld like to make links from the hyperlinks in red to a seperate page, rather like that one. Can you help me? I really feel welcome here, and i hope i have made valuable contributions. Mihir — Preceding unsigned comment added by MihirT (talk • contribs) 00:07, 27 July 2006

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 00:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

If its ok with you, i need some help again. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MihirT (talk • contribs) 19:36, 27 July 2006

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 20:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks -- I think!

Hi Mushroom, you've just posted a welcome message on my talk page including some links to some guides and an instruction to sign posts with 4 tildes. May I ask what prompted this? Did I not sign something? Have I made a mistake somewhere? If so I'd appreciate a pointer to the specific mistake I've made. Thanks. Callum 13:20, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No mistakes at all. I just saw that the link to your talk page was red, so I gave you the standard welcome message. I didn't know that you had registered in August 2005! I should have checked your contributions first :) Mushroom (Talk) 13:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem, cheers. Callum 13:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Sri Lanka External Links

If you think that http://lakdiva.org/ -full of myths-, http://www. . /~egameren/SriLanka_Dec2002-Jan2003.html -an individual’s scribbling on the web and http://facets.wordpress.com/ - by a diamond seller- are worthy of being featured on a country’s external links section but not the Asian Human Rights Commission country profile or ICRC statements then you have serious issues and it is you who should be banned from Wikipedia and not me. --82.44.74.64 13:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 14:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Tatum Reed

Tatum Reed is more notable than many of the porn stars listed in Wikipedia, I will attach several articles in this note for you, if you do not agree many porn stars will need to be deleted the following:

• Lauren Phoenix
• Alisha Klass
• Kofi Anan

Tatum Reed interview called one of Luke Fords best. [1]

San Francisco Chronicle article

ebong.org — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truthseeker2008 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 27 July 2006

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 15:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting Barnstar

Greetings. There is a Barnstar for stub-sorting up for proposal here. If you'd like to participate in the discussion, we'd much appreciate it. Thanks, and have a great days. :) SynergeticMaggot 18:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I support the proposal. It's a good idea :) Mushroom (Talk) 19:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

excuse me

um can you protect my page? because i dont want people editing it when i'm gone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tailsdollcurse — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tailsdollcurse (talk • contribs) 20:00, 27 July 2006

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 20:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Image Resizing

Hiya, its me again, lol. I was just wondering, how do you resize images? all of mine are huge, particularly the one i added of Noel on his section i creatred in Tekkaman Blade. Thanks., Mihir — Preceding unsigned comment added by MihirT (talk • contribs) 21:08, 27 July 2006

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 22:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk page vandal

Thank you! :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 23:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome :) Mushroom (Talk) 23:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Editing images and Language preference

Hi mushroom. thanks for the welcome. like others im kinda ignorant as to wut all i needa do after i've edited a page. i figured i'd just jump in quickly, fix only wut im 100% sure of, then leave quietly. i didnt know someone was monitoring me, which is okay. actually its a good idea, to keep track of vandals. anyhow, i know i cant upload images and do other fancy things, cuz im not a member. so i imagine i cant edit images either. i just found an error (i 99.99% sure on this one) on the image "Mali Regions.png". timbuktu's region doesnt have a "t" in its french spelling. could u let someone know about this? also, im guessing this site is based in the UK or run by brits, cuz i see a lot of british english used. wut is preferred among monitors, 1) only british english to be used, 2) only american english to be used, 3) both are okay, 4) british-related articles left in british, american-related in american, and others in whichever? (id like this to apply to both spelling and punctuation, for consistency). i dont know if i should poke my fingers into articles written in brit, cuz im used to american, or if i should just leave it alone, cuz its correct for most of the world anyhow. lemme know.--4.230.171.20 00:20, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

• Regarding the image, I have contacted the original author and I hope he/she will fix it.
• Regarding the language, many UK or international users use British English, but the site is still based in the United States. Wikipedia's policy on national varieties of English is explained in this page of the Manual of Style. I can't explain it better than that :) Mushroom (Talk) 00:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about misunderstanding

Hi Mushroom,

Sorry that I misunderstood your intentions at the beginning.

Your edits on the Sri Lanka page were excellent. You removed the unreliable links and categorised the relevant human rights links.

However, I noticed that all your hard work has been deleted and links to internet travel agents such as lastminute.lk have now been added.

I am a novice to wikipeida and am not sure how to revert the page back to how you left it.

I would much appreciate it, if you could have a look at the Sri Lanka page and return it to the way you left it yesterday. --82.44.74.64 08:36, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I have reverted it to the last good version. Mushroom (Talk) 11:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

hello to you too

Nice to meet you! Epafus 11:25, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice to meet you too :) Mushroom (Talk) 11:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

One mroe help

Thank you for your edits at the Sri Lanka country page.

Can you please have a look at

Sri Lankan Army Sri Lankan Navy and Sri Lankan Air Force

pages.

The entire articles are copied word for word from the respective websites, army.lk, navy.lk and airforce.lk.

I am sure it is copy ight breach, and also it is turning wikipedia into as recruitment website for the respective forces.

I do not want to delete the enitre pages as I might anger a lot of people.

Could you please deal with the issue.

Thanks --Lankaupdate 11:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I have blanked the articles and reported the violations at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. In seven days, an administrator will examine the articles and delete them if necessary. In the meantime, new articles should be started at these temporary subpages:

• Talk:Sri Lankan Army/Temp
• Talk:Sri Lankan Navy/Temp
• Talk:Sri Lanka Air Force/Temp

Mushroom (Talk) 12:39, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Jorge Chavez Intl Airport in Lima-Peru Photo Gallery

Ciao MushRoom; I always enjoy of Wikipedia excellent information for a wide range of topics and matters. I want to add a nice and helpful Photo Gallery of the Jorge Chavez Intl Airport here in Lima-Peru (South America). I just want to be of some help for travelers planning to come and visit my dear country: I shot the digital pictures by myself and I'm going to add a video clip of the facilities very soon too! I work for the Tourist Information Office here in Lima and my only aim is to be of some help: Many of the travelers F.A.Q. are if the waiting area for international arrivals is safe or where could they find their tour conductor or chauffer, if the ATM's are safely located. They also need to know where the "Check In" counters are or how safe it's to exchange money!

Most of the international flights arrive late midnight and the Photo Gallery I designed and prepared with much dedication and caring portrays how the Jorge Chavez Intl Airport actually looks! I'm aware you removed my link because you think it's a commercial site or a spam.....however the different airline sites listed in the same page are actually big bussiness websites selling flight tickets! I also find the same kind of bussiness external links when I'm looking for some information about my favorite *anime* (Japanese animation) and I'm redirect to a publishing company selling DVDs and comics of the title I was interested! I do not sell anything: Just provide travel information about Peru and these pictures and information are going to be greatly appreciated by Wikipedia users planning to come and visit South America! Looking forward to hear back from you very soon with a positive solution please. Tanti Grazie Bravo!

Cesar Dominguez A Peruvian Youngman of Honor! Lima, Peru E-mails: cesards@hotmail.com, cesards@yahoo.com Jorge Chavez Intl Airport Photo Gallery: http://es.geocities.com/peruairport

I have answered on your talk page. Mushroom (Talk) 22:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

copyright

hi this is jacob you recently deleated my agsem article and as i had said it was not coppyrighted in any way! also i am kinda newbie so here is a link to my page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jacobl

Even if there is no copyright notice, the text can't be used without permission. Please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requests for permission if you want the article to be undeleted. Mushroom (Talk) 22:45, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Another copyright question

Hey Mushroom. First of all thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia a few days ago.

What I wanted to know was, well I noticed you marked the Sri Lankan Army, Navy and Air Force pages as copyright violations. I've really got no clue how copyright laws apply to articles on Wikipedia, but I was under the impression that official publications of governments were not subject to copyright protection. So since those pages were from the official government websites and it was explicitly stated on top of each article that the only source of the article was the official website, were they still in violation of copyright laws? Can you clear that up please cos like i said I got no idea how these thing work. --snowolfd4 08:58, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Mushroom

You havent looked at the license terms of SL Army Web Site. Read carefully

Copyright © 2006 Sri Lanka Army | All Rights Reserved

Contents of this site are the sole property of Sri Lanka Army and any duplication in any media is liable for prosecution.Reproduction of these465 stories/data is possible provided its source is given its recognition.Ruchiraw 12:23, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh yeah, I just saw that. Thanks Ruchiraw. --snowolfD4 14:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that license is compatible with Wikipedia. As you can see at Wikipedia:Copyrights, all text on Wikipedia is released under the GFDL license. This license specifically allows copy, redistribution, modification and commercial use, while the Army's license doesn't seem to allow modification and it's unclear about commercial use. Regarding the Navy and Air Force, their sites' terms say "all rights reserved" and nothing else, so their text can't be copied without permission. The easiest way to know if they would allow the text to be used on Wikipedia is to contact them and request permission. Mushroom (Talk) 15:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Like I said, I really aren't too sure how copyright issues work here so thanks for that explanation. But what I meant was I thought under U.S. copyright laws material of foreign governments was not subject to copyright protection. Or am I wrong agian here? --snowolfD4 22:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, you're wrong: material of foreign governments is subject to copyright protection in the United States, just like anything else that is not public domain. Maybe that text could be used if it was released to the public domain by the Sri Lankan government itself, but even in this case it would not necessarily be PD in the U.S., because they have not adopted the rule of the shorter term of the Berne convention. As you can see at Wikipedia:Copyrights, on Wikipedia you can use only text that has been explicitly released to the public domain, or under the GFDL license, or under another compatible free license (except for short quotes, useable under fair use). Mushroom (Talk) 23:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

OK Mushroom. Got it. Thanks for the detailed explanation:) --snowolfD4 06:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Redirection Question

Hi there Mushroom, many thanks for welcoming me! Wondered if I may ask a quick noobie question please?

I've just created a stub on Neo & Farina. My question is about search terms. If someone searches for "Neo & Farina", the article comes up... great. However if they search for "Neo and Farina", as I'm sure most would do, the article isn't listed due to the discrepancy between "and" and "&".

I couldn't find anything on Wiki policy about the uses of "and" and "&" and how to get around the problem. Is there any way I can set up a redirect page for the "and" version? Many thanks in advance!! DavidLaurenson 14:46, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

I have created a redirect for you at Neo and Farina. You can read Wikipedia:Redirect to learn how to make one yourself. :) Mushroom (Talk) 15:35, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much! :D DavidLaurenson 18:18, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Uncertainty About an Article's Viability for AfD Nomination

I know Wikipedia has a policy of having users be bold when updating pages, however I am not quite sure if that translates over to AfD nominations. The reason I am asking is because this article appears to be about one topic (Heroes and Comics, a website) and then it suddenly shifts into describing 'Renaud Bédard', who according to the article, created said site.

Now, I am pretty sure that the two should have their own pages, assuming that the two items meet the notability requirements (not quite sure how to determine if they are, although to me, it does not seem to be notable), rather than sharing one main namespace article.

Any assistance in determining the status of the article (IE, if it could be AfD'able) would be appreciated. Kyra 08:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Any article can be AfDed, if you think it should be deleted. After the nomination, the editors will discuss and vote, and five days will pass before the deletion. Regarding this particular article, the website doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability requirements for websites (WP:WEB) and Renaud doesn't meet those for people (WP:BIO). Furthermore, the article seems to have been created by Renaud himself (User:RenaudMan), and this is a violation of WP:AUTO. This means that the article should be nominated for deletion, so feel free to do it :) Mushroom (Talk) 14:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Vituperex again

Got a couple of questions for you on my Talk page. Thanks!

--Vituperex (Talk) 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Please help

In the Freddy Mercury article there are a group of people who keep pushing their pov which ahs lead to an edit war. I was wondering if you could take a look at it and see if you can bring some peace to that article. Recently they have been using the prodigy telecom proxy IP (?) to edit the article, which is actually where I ended up finding you. Klymen 04:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you Mushroom for your welcome. Having just tried to find my way around google adwords I'm now faced with another challenge. Your welcome was appreciated. I have a heap I want to say on, can I say, Old New Age thought. I do have a source for this information, is that all I need to go ahead? No one else is writing in this vein. --Ginajr 05:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)I'm sure your wikibreak is well deserved.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ginajr" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ginajr (talk • contribs) 08:02, 5 August 2006

Duisburg Dude a sockpuppet of multiple hardbanned user Ted Wilkes?

There is something going on that looks very suspicious to me. A new user named Duisburg Dude has now appeared on the scene and most of his contributions to the Elvis Presley article are mass deletions. See [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. It seems as if this is a user account only created to harass me. Significantly, this new user calls Elvis an American icon (see [12]) and emphasizes that Elvis's funeral was a national media event. See [13]. One of his contributions to the article is that, according to the "Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation" the photo of President Nixon meeting Elvis Presley in the Oval Office is the most requested image in the history of the U.S. Government. See [14]. All this suggests that Elvis is the personal icon of this user and that he is pushing an agenda. Significantly, most parts of the relationships section and all references to Elvis's male friendships which were well sourced have now been removed. Nonsensical fan stuff such as the section on "Elvis lives" is still in the article. What the hell is going on there? Could it be that this is another sockpuppet of multiple hardbanned User:Ted Wilkes, who is an Elvis fan and frequently harassed me in the past? This user has been blocked for one year. This would explain why he is creating new user identities. Interestingly, new user Duisburg Dude is also contributing to the Suzanne Finstad, the Elvis and Me, the Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley and the Priscilla Presley articles, as Ted Wilkes did before he was blocked. See [15], [16], [17], [18]. I think it is not acceptable what is going on there. Perhaps you can help? Onefortyone 02:23, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a few additional words about User:Lochdale who has also contributed under the IPs 83.71.77.27 and 63.85.72.242. To my mind, this user identity also seems to have been created in order to remove my contributions (see [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46] etc. etc.) or to attack and debase me and my edits on the Talk:Elvis Presley page (see [47], [48], [49], [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72]). If you look at the contribution history of this user (see [73]), he is frequently "dropping in" and either involved in deleting my contributions or constantly repeating the same accusations over and over again, namely, claiming that my sources are not reliable, that my quotations are out of context, that over 2000 books on Elvis do not mention what I have written (how should he know this, as he has not yet quoted from a single book on Elvis), etc. etc., though I have cited dozens of independent books and articles, among them publications by reputable Elvis biographers and university studies, in order to support my edits. This is also very similar to the strategies my old opponent, multiple hardbanned User:Ted Wilkes used in the past. It should be noted that some months ago User:Ted Wilkes created different sockpuppets in order to push his agenda and to delete my contributions (see [74] and [75])? It should further be noted that another alias of Ted Wilkes, user DW, created many more sockpuppets in the past, reappearing time and again after being blocked (see [76]). Interestingly, one of these sockpuppets was Nightcrawler, a name borrowed from an obscure Marvel comic book superhero (see [77]). Significantly, user Lochdale is also interested in the same comics, as, apart from deleting material from the Elvis Presley article, he also contributing to Thor (Marvel Comics) (and Talk:Thor (Marvel Comics)) which deals with another fictional superhero published by Marvel Comics. What a coincidence! I recommend that some administrators should keep a watchful eye on the activities of these two users. Onefortyone 02:48, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Please restore SCOPE Alliance article

Mushroom please restore SCOPE Alliance article since I met all the requirements (posted on the SCOPE Alliance "this pages talk page") including permission from the Board of Directors and evidence (http://www.scope-alliance.org/pr20060118.html) that the material in the other publication (digitalmediaasia) is a derivative of the SCOPE alliance press release. At this point I am at aloss; what else I need to do to have the article restored. hturko August 9, 2006

HELP! Now the article is totally gone

I just received an email the the SCOPE alliance article has been restored. For a short while all was OK but now the article is nowhere to be found not even a history. Please help me restore it. Does this help? RE: [Ticket#2006080110013593] [scope-board] RE: Permission to use SCOPE Alliance material [...] Thanks, hturko August 10, 2006,