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- Poli ( talk • contribs) 22:14, 2005 July 25 (UTC)
Draeco, thank you for your effort in uploading images and providing their sources. However, most of the images you have posted are copyright violations because Wikipedia does not have a license to use the image. See Wikipedia:Copyrights. Because of this, I am listing the images on Wikipedia:Copyright Problems and they will probably be deleted.
Also, there are several images you have uploaded that do not have an appropriate copyright license tag. Please provide information on the sources and licenses of these images:
Thanks. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 19:44, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Kentucky wisteria.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. |
Thanks for translating Coat of Arms of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. -- Revolución ( talk) 20:36, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Good work on the cleanup. I think it's always better if separate people do the translation and the English-ifying. | Klaw ¡digame! 02:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
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Schyler awards WikiThanks to Draeco for all his help with starting on Wikipedia. |
How do you make templates like the language ones where it's colored and boxed in. When I try to, all it is is text. schyler 21:14, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again but I can't figure out how to fix my user page. schyler 23:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Right now I have a "released into public domain" thing up on my page. I was wanting to post some of my "quickwrites" I have done in english class because some of them are kind of funny. I haven't yet because I don't want anyone to use my work for themselves. I obviously don't have a copyright on these though. Is it just not appropriate for Wikipedia to have stuff up I don't want others to copy, or is there a thing I can put up that says don't use my stuff. schyler 02:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I have links to pages i have made a considerable addition to, but I don't want to link someone viewing my page to the whole article, I want to link them to that section I added. Like on Madness Combat, I added the section amatuer madness. I want someone linked directly there. How do I do this? schyler 02:58, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to introduce myself and say hello. I apologize for my typos. I feel that the Hip-Hop History section of Wikipedia has left out a lot of significant material, and have worked endlessly on it. If you see any grammatical or spelling typos, by all means, please feel free to correct them! Thanks
Hello, You helped me a while ago, and I was wondering if there's any sort of bias check for editors. I found an article that i believe is noteworthy enough to keep on wikipedia but it's AfD page appears to have many votes by editors who are strongly biased just because it is on the subject of Star Trek and is borderline notable ( Timothy W. Lynch), it recieves comments such as "...the content is so embarassing that I can't figure out what the fellow was thinking when he wrote it. Anyway, AfD will do him a favour and send it to the trash before he Galloways himself further" when the article was not vanity, while the editor who nominated it for deletion did so without even mentioning any of the facts and dismissed the whole thing as vandalism based on ONE act of vandalism by some unregistered clown taking off the questionable notability sign as vandalism. Do you have any thought on it? You have been really fair in judgement before, and have helped me, and seem like a very experienced user. Flypanam 02:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your honest opinion on the Timothy W. Lynch article. It seems as though some editors on here can be quite biased and even outright malicious at times. I think I'm mostly getting the hang of this site now :] Flypanam 03:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
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I added Bosnian War to your desk at User:Draeco/Desk, just so it is official. Thank you for volunteering. You already had Algebraic syntax on your desk. Have made any progress or would you like to pass it to another member of the task force?
Your desk is missing the standard heading about your interests (areas of expertise) and max number of assignments you would like. Would you like me to find the template for you? RJFJR 22:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Draeco. Thanks for your welcome. I am trying to track down a page with a list of templates for saying things like, "This is a stub," "This article needs clean-up," "This writer needs help with his/her English," etc. I'm sure I found one once, because I've used a couple of these in my anonymous days, but haven't managed to find it again. Is there something glaringly obvious I've missed (that happens to me quite often), or do Wiki need to make the path a little more user-friendly? Cheers— Copey 2 02:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
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Recently found an article called S.P.A.A.R.T.I.. I suspect it's orginal research or someone's orginal creation that is not notable or canon in any series. Did a Google search, and discovered that Star Wars uses the term Spaarti as well, but does not match the information in the article.
What should I do about this article? I put up a request for source verification, but that's it. -- Eldarone 05:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Rise of Sweden as a Great Power has been added to your desk. Please look at or pass it on. RJFJR 14:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. I will try to nominate some of the articles I have done, which are usually quite localist and have no english equivalent. Cheers, -- Ecelan 21:32, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Oh and also a thanks for the welcome from me :) You said if I needed help I could ask you so here is my problem. I tried making a redirect for the RF Generation page but I can't seem to get it to work the way other redirects do. I can't figure out what I could possibly be doing wrong either. It is only 1 line of text after all. In anycase this is the page I was trying to redirect from RFGeneration. Thanks in advance, Izret101 23:15 12, March 2006 (UTC)
Strange... I am not experianceing the problem anymore... for some reason it originally brought me to the page stating it was a redirect page. Oh well at least I can be reassured that I didn't mess up one short line of simple coding. Izret101 23:18 12, March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for taking time to explain how things work here. In particular, your comments and suggestions about my submission were very helpful, written in plain enough language for me to figure out. I must confess that I understand little of the overall Wiki philosophy and protocol. So I'll spend some time looking and reading before I try to post again. Thanks again for your help. Sduplessie 14:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to track user contributions of another user?
Thanks
When users "revert to previous version made by blahblah123" is there an easier way to do that other than looking through both versions and editing out the false info? Code E 22:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
You could always use a hand-coded version on your own userpage, like this. — Mar. 28, '06 [13:06] < freakofnurxture | talk>
On the one hand, I would like to thank you for your copyedits [1] on my usertalk page. "Soem" and "suspecious" were simple misspellings that the authors obviously didn't intend.
On the other hand, I think some of your other edits [2] [3] were less beneficial. I always respect others' word choice on my talk page, even though I could easily alter their text to suit my tastes. In fact, this extends to the point that I won't even change spelling erros, as you saw. I'd like you to extend the same courtesy, and I've reverted the "english-ifying" and "who/whom" edits (I'd be glad to explain my reasoning behind keeping "who" as an object pronoun). I'm sure you had the best of intentions; thanks for the copyedit work. - Draeco 19:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Draeco. Thanks for the welcome. I do have a question for you. On the page Mohali, In the last 3 days, I updated the page from about 15 lines to the current article seen. In the absence of an official seal/coat of arms/motto for the city of Mohali, I created one I thought to be accurate in introducing the city. It is quite simple. The name of the city flanked the Indian flag and India's national animal, the maneless tiger. It can be seen in the page history, or at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mohali&oldid=46344238. Another user has removed it, stating that if he threw a logo of Beefeater, the word London, and a red bus, and put it on the London city page, it would get removed. I responded with the fact that London has an official seal, and if they didn't, a banner with the word London, an English flag, and a Lion/Unicorn would be entirely appropriate. What is your take on this? I am really reluctant to take the banner down, as I take great pride in my city, and have gone to great lengths to make what I thought was an accurate portrayal of a Mohali seal. Jaskaramdeep 22:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Draeco, I'm not sure on the usual course of action in these cases as I am fairly new to all this! The majority of the links are for postgraduate, but I have come accross several for Oxbridge and Scotland. If the current disambiguation page were to be redirected, I think the header would need to be clearer on the postgrad page as people may assume a MA is a postgraduate degree and not update links, possibly with:
This does seem quite long, and I think for clarity it may be best leaving it as it is. Do other people have any thoughts? Mattbr30 19:30, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
I've been really busy with schoolwork, and recently I haven't been as active on Wikipedia as I would like to be. I just noticed today that Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau was promoted to translation of the week without having the topic template updated. I updated the topic template to reflect the new translation of the week. Maybe clearer directions should be added to the page, so people who update the translation of the week know which templates to update and how it is important to contact Wikipedians who are interested in participating — J3ff 03:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for welcome message you left on my talk page, and for the copious information linked to from it. Kind of intimidating, but I'll be (gradually) taking a look through it all. Lapicero 16:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
I was told that an editor may not edit an article about a subject that they were "personally involved in". In other words, if you work for a company or attend a particular school you may not edit an article on such a school or company.
Could you show me where this particular rule may be found.
Thank you Piercetp 01:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for updating my discussion page. However I have a question:
I opened another account/alias by mistake thinking it was the French Wikipedia while it was the English one. How do you delete an account that you opened by mistake?
Let me know-- Jpierreg ( talk 23:45, 03 May 2006 (GMT)
Thank you very much for showing me in my user page -- Jpierreg ( talk 21:30, 14 May 2006 (GMT)
I am also from Kentucky, (Newport). I am working on Spanish too. I plan to go live in Antigua, Guatemala in a few years, I been there 13 times already. Mucho Gusto! Tomas417 02:31, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi--I tried my hand at editing my first Wiki article "Keith Olbermann" yesterday. I chose to remove an external link to a fan forum/message board. The owner of the site got quite nasty with me although later, others agreed that the site should be removed. I asked for a Cabal ruling on this, and the person who was assigned the case agreed that the site should remained as he did not believe there were that many possible discussion forums for such an "obscure" personality and saw nothing wrong with listing such a fan forum on the external links. There are actually at least four more such sites, and at least two of these sites have far more posts and members who site has been added back in as an external link. I have pointed out that links to similar news organizations and news personalities have no such message board/fan forums links. But in the interest of fairness, have now edited the page to include listings to ALL five of these message boards. I guess I still have my doubts about whether a message board of any kind should be allowed to post or how decisions should be made for which sites should be included and which should not. Or is it all or none? Any insight on this would be greately appreciated! JeffBerg
Thank you so much for clarification on my discussion page. I very much appreciate it!
But now, yet another Wiki user has stepped in, saying that it should be NO links whatsoever so they removed all the links I had added. I think the policy is pretty clear too and I agree with their edit but I was trying to work a compromise out here. I posted your interpretation of the rules in the discussion page but it seems that everyone has a different interpretation of those rules.
Quick spanish question: in the following passage what does presas refer to? I think it must be idiomatic:
Is it "three small successive man-made coves"? Thanks in advance for any help.-- Fuhghettaboutit 22:29, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for welcoming me! I have one question. You know those things that people put on the side of their user pages: "This user does not believe in global waming" and "This user identifies as gay". Etc. How do I do that? Can I do it since I'm not an administrator? Eirra 23:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC) Eirra
Thanks so much for showing me how to do it! Eirra 03:01, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me about how to have an account deleted. I’ve got another question: how do you upload a picture into an article? I did use the picture button but I am not given the option to upload a file when I use the button
Jpierreg 01:25, 19 May 2006 (GMT) Jpierreg
Go ahead and nominate one or two of the articles we've discussed at Wikipedia talk:Spanish Translation of the Week#New SPATRAs. Those articles are all excellent and others should select them quickly. - Draeco 23:29, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you mind if I add all four articles I mentioned to the "Candidates for next week"? They are all worthy, and I think we should let the SPATRA community vote on them. - Draeco 17:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I'd just like to thank you for welcoming me and what not, I'm very excited to work on SPATRAs, and your welcome helped me feel like I was becoming part of the wiki community. I'll be assailing you with questions before too long, thanks again! Sjerickson07 03:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the positive feedback. There doesn't seem to be a "squashed" problem anymore. It's just that when I first changed the image, it came out in my browser as if it were squashed into a space that was half as tall as the image appears now. It looks OK now though. Thanks for the offer of help anyway. -- GringoInChile 20:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
hey, thanks for the welcome. I could use some help- added an image to a page (just search 'cinco,' should yield cinco ranch high school- only image on the page). Could use some help bringing the image fully in line with wikipedia policy (or dumping it if it is impossible to do so). Thanks a bunch!! - User:Tmbrtmbr
Yeah, got to be quick indeed!!! When I hover, I pounce if I think it appropriate, so I hope you are translating the Tlatilco page into English. Cheers ww2censor 17:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Draeco, Thanks for the note. Your translations in the Conversation section look good to me. Regards, Rodney Boyd 23:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Will you be my wikifriend? -- The Great Cornholio 06:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your welcome. Kineticman 06:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for letting me know of your withdrawl. RJFJR 15:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hola, su buena merced disculpará, pero mi inglés es del nabo (muy malo), así que le escribo en cristiano. Soy Yavidaxiu, redactor de ese artículo en la wikipedia en español. En los próximos días estaré por completar es:Oasisamérica, por si le interesa traducirlo en la wiki inglesa, que tal como está, le falta la referencia sobre los pueblos mogollones, patayanes y la cultura Freemont.... en otras palabras, está a la mitad. Yavidaxiu.
Hello Draeco, and thanks for voting in my recent RfA, which passed with a tally of (68/19/3). I appreciated your comments, which I hope to take on board in order to gain your respect in my work as an administrator. Best of luck in your continued editing of the encyclopedia! Sam Vimes 19:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Draeco, thanks for the note. I too will be going on vacation, but not for another two weeks. I'll be gone for three weeks (July 2-29), but will have computer access for some of that time so I may still be active on WP. Have a great time in Thailand. Regards, Rodney Boyd 21:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry if it's late, but thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia. Have anything to discuss, I'll be very happy to share my thoughts! -- AzulAokawa 11:01, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Draeco, thanks for welcoming me and the open invitation to ask questions. Here's one for you: I've been making contributions, and changes, to some local community pages (Darien, Norwalk, Stamford and other municipalities in Connecticut), and I've been told by another contributor that I shouldn't change the order of the categories (especially keeping "Demographics" up top). The only reason sited is "Wikipedia style." He says that other contributors told him that when he first started contributing.
I've looked around as best I can, and I can't find any official Wikipedia style for that kind of thing. I believe Rambot generated all the Demographics information for communities (I think actually creating most of those sites in the process), but I see nothing on his page about protecting the order, so I don't think it harms any updating process.
I see no harm in moving "Demographics" down farther on the page to make way for more interesting sections, and I strongly suspect that the only reason it's up high is because no one dared change the order before. What would be the best way for me to (a) research this; (b) avoid stepping on others' toes in as reasonable a way as possible; and (c) move "Demographics" down the way I want ti (if I still want to after learning more)? Thanks again. (sorry, can't find tildes on this keyboard) Noroton (Well, it's the next morning, and I just found the tilde key, so here you are.) Noroton 16:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Gah! Why won't the picture on my first article, TreasureTrooper, scale? Also once that's been solved, can I create a discussion page for it? Allot has been happening with that and I'm curuous about it which is why I started the article. Great, and now I can't even find the article again in a search. Help? Please? The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Dagibit
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Thanks for taking time to give your opinion on my RfA. I can work on all of the constructive criticism given before I consider RfA again. I hope to see you around Wikipedia. Thanks! Abcdefghijklm 21:03, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
You've got an answer there :-) andy 16:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)