Thanks for supporting my RFA, I really appreciate it! -- Canderson 7 16:56, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
The reply is at my talk page. Thanks, Redwolf24 17:00, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
...for your support in my adminship. I really appreciate it and your comment was hilarious! Best, Lucky 6.9 02:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
How is it vandalism? I'm halfway through writing a complaint about the article and sending it to the Wiki powers that be. It's already been listed. What else do you need? --anonymous user from Bush page —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.150.36.30 ( talk • contribs) 23:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Man, I hated how she killed Frodo too.
Redwolf24
01:56, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello Android79. My name is Googie Man and one of my passions in life is baseball. Another passion is taking pictures of baseball players and putting them on Wikipedia. This is an issue I've done much research about, and the conclusion that I've reached is that the most effective way for Wikpedia to have pictures of baseball players that are 100% guaranteed not to have copyright issues is for us to upload picturs taken by *fans*. It's purely speculation that the image you used of Johan Santana is "fair use". I've spoken personally with various representatives of Major League Baseball, and they were not exactly receptive to Wikpedia using their images. So as I've said, the safest route is for us to use images taken by *fans*. I am an avid baseball fan. I spent a lot of time, effort and personal resources to take these pictures to contribute to Wikpedia. So, when you take down the images I've personally taken and uploaded, you're undoing a lot of time and effort for what is in the best interest of this encyclopedia. Therefore, I am reverting your the Jonah Santana page to what it was before your edits, and will continue to do so in the best interests of Wikpedia. Googie Man
Greetings. You are receiving this boilerplate notice because you have a task on your Cleanup Taskforce desk that has not been updated for over 30 days. If you do not wish to complete this task please assign it to another Cleanup Taskforce member who has space on their desk. If you do not wish to receive cleanup requests on your desk any more, you may remove yourself from the membership list. If you or someone else has completed the task, you can close it by adding {{cleanup taskforce closed|ARTICLE NAME HERE}} to the article's talk page and removing it from Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce. If you have a status update (e.g. you intend to work on it in the future) or need help, you can update the collaboration page (which is linked from your desk). Also feel free to reply to the person who left you this message. -- Beland 04:17, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 21:02, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
As a fan of the book and D.Adams in general I would recommend seeing the film. Visually, its a feast for the eyes, of course it compresses the time frame somewhat. Pretty well acted too. Incidentally I met Adams a few years before he left us for the restaurant at the end of the universe, a very gracious man. He signed my copy of "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish". For free. Too bad hes gone, I miss him. See you 'round the wiki! Hamster Sandwich 05:09, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
why spread lies? this diff is a lie http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Gabrielsimon&curid=2279777&diff=20614985&oldid=20497678 read my tlak page. i am this users sole active account, thereafore not a sock puppet, please remove the added data sited in the diff. Gavin the Chosen 12:32, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
there is no charade, this user is not a sock puppet, the other account got abandoneed. erwemove the information cited in the diff above, please. Gavin the Chosen 12:40, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
you could be either a little more supportive orat least a little nicer. Gavin the Chosen 12:48, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Like any other purported fair use of copyrighted materials, this must be weighed according to the traditional (now statutory) fair use factors:
In this case, I assert that 3 of the 4 factors swing heavily in the direction of this being a fair use:
The only factor that would swing against you is the third one, but I would not take that too seriously. First, it is impossible to use substantially less than the entire picture to show what the players look like. Are the pictures cropped, or displayed in a smaller size than you would find them on the website from which they have been copied?
Finally, on a more pratical note, no one is likely to go to the time and expense to sue you (or anyone else) over this use of these photos. It is to the MLB's benefit to have consistent representations of its players on the internet, which ultimately serves to promote their business. Furthermore, you're just a screen-name on the internet, and it would be a pain in the ass for them to track you down to bother with a lawsuit in which they would stand to reap only nominal damages (since you have a good faith fair use defense, they could not revcover anything but their actual demonstrable losses incurred due to the infringement).
-- BD2412 talk 03:11, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
Are you going to finish expaning the haunter that you were given by the PAC on June 1? If not, please say so on the PAC page and it will be re-assigned. Thank you. -- Celestianpower talk 21:03, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello Android79, Googie Man, here again. Thanks so much for your very thought provoking response. You raise a number of interesting issues, all of which I'd like to address in some form or another. First off, about the info. box, and the Santana picture. What you propose sounds great to me, and is a perfect example of what's great about Wikipedia. Through discussions like this, we put our minds and resources together to ultimately make it a better site. Frankly, I liked your info. box better in terms of presentation. However, I do feel like it lacked some vital information that is of interest to most baseball fans. With the info. box you've used, could you put in some additional information, such as how the player was originally selected, their age, and the usual things you can find on various baseball sites?
The issue with Major League Baseball is rather involved, but I'll try to keep it brief. I spoke with the press departments of 3 teams to be named later, asking if I could get a press pass to their Spring Training games so I could take pictures for Wikipedia. Not only were they uniformly dismissive of this idea, they were also not particularly enthusiastic about Wikipedia having articles about baseball in the first place. One in particular said something to the effect that we should read very carefully the rules of using images of Major League players, especially copyrighted images. The tone of the conversations were not particularly positive, needless to say. I don't think that Major League Baseball is going to sue the Foundation, however you never know about what a freelance photographer may or may not do. Furthermore, I think there is another issue at hand here as well. Using fan images is a great way to encourage Wikipedians to contribute their work in a way that's much more rewarding than using someone else's work entirely. It's a way for fans to express their love for the game in a creative way, and Wikipedia offers a unique forum for this expression of creativity. My ultimate hope is that baseball fans across the country will be going to games, taking photos, then uploading them on Wikipedia. And the best part is that fan pictures for non-commercial use is completely legal. Again, I'd really like to hear what your opinions are about this as well.
As for the baseball players project, you can count me in on this! I completely understand about how baseball (and sports in general) are a greatly neglected topic on Wikipedia, and I've been trying to find, without much success, other Wikipedians who share my enthusiasm for baseball. I think we should make a concerted effort to communicate with each other about ideas, ways to standardize the various baseball pages, etcetera, so we can eventually make baseball as detailed and encyclopedic as other subjects are on Wikipedia. My email address is terry@wikia.com. Googie Man 23:07 UTC
Hi, I've undone your merge at Movies 333 - now at True Movies, as it is entirely unconnected to the article you merged it with beyond having an entry on their EPG. If it was being merged, Chart Show TV would be the suitable target, but the channel is about as notable as the other 1000+ articles for small TV channels on the Wikipedia. -- Kiand 03:16, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Good editor with a level head. (Figuratively, of course..... Hehe, I'm just glad my head is in the right place, literally. :) Thank you for supporting my RfA. :)
Please never hesitate to let me know if you have concerns with any administrative action I may make.
Func( t, c, e, ) 03:45, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
I saw the list of things you wanted to do on your user page. Thought since I had a few minutes I would do some checking for you. I googled, and came up with a few web pages that would show this Seattle hip hop crew as meeting at least two articles of WP:Music. You can look here [1] at an nicely illustrated adobe doc. They toured, opened for notable acts and released an album (that wasn't a CDR)etc etc. I thought the WP article was pretty good, if a little short. I don't know anything about hip-hop. I'll leave that in your good hands. See you! Hamster Sandwich 05:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Just a quick note to say thanks for supporting my adminship nomination. In answer to your query, well I am slack in getting any sort of task completed, on- or off-wiki, it just seems that there's always something to distract me with around here. I also liked the juxtaposition of the Latin with something a little less pretentious :). But anyway, thanks for your vote of confidence, and I'll be sure to try to live up to it. Cheers, Slac speak up! 22:05, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Just incase you missed it this article needs to have it's VFD closed and a redirect placed up as well. Gateman1997 22:47, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Android - thanks for your response. I'd say that the new info. box *looks* great, but is somewhat lacking in information. Have a look at some of these links and the info. box I've used. It looks like we've had parallel info. box projects going on - Albert Pujols, Rafael Palmeiro, Johnny Damon. How about you expand your version of the info. to include things like draft information, salary, etc? Also, I know you're a Twins fan, but could you put my Jacque Jones picture back? Take care Adroid. Googie Man, 00:26, August 12, 2005 UTC
See this diff where a user took out the claim from ed that his new proposal already has the consensus of many editors. Just one example of what I mean re ed trying to force the standardization through the tenuous claims of consensus without true support. 152.163.100.10 04:54, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
You have voted for the suggestive title Infobox standardisation on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Infobox standardisation even though your comment indicates that you are actually against standardization creep or at least do not support it unconditionally. VfD for these cases offers the option to vote move to NPOV title. Comment on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Infobox standardisation if you want the page to be moved, for instance to Wikipedia:Should we have instructions to standardize infoboxes?. -- Fenice 08:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
You deleted the info i added about Spider-Man eXXXposed and called it vandalism? I'm sorry if you have not heard of this important film regarding the hardships of peter parker, but it is fairly well known in underground film circles. i feel the added info about it would help fellow spider-man fans to learn more about him. Butt 20:20, 15 August 2005 (UTC)