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Hi Solipsist: I'm not sure if this is at all the right place to put this, but you seem to be interested in the topic... rather than enforcing fully-free licenses for pictures on Wikipedia, would it not be possible use a CC NC-based license with a supplementary contract between the author and Wikipedia, granting Wikipedia commercial rights for the works in question as an exemption from the NC clause? I've been working with some lawyers on a similar contract for a system I'm developing, and it would appear this could solve everyone's problems. -- MrAndrews 19:09, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist, I was wondering how I could make my gallery in the same style as the FPC page - the current style takes too long to save edits to. -- Fir0002 01:19, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply -- Fir0002 06:52, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Solipsist Hope you can have a look at these. Thanks -- Fir0002 June 30, 2005 01:53 (UTC)
Hi
Just wanted to know more about the removal of the quotations book link. I'm not advertising it. You will notice quotationsbook.com has no advertising on it. I've spent 8 months painstakingly developing this resource, and it continues to grow. Not sure why it wasn't a good external link?
cheers Amit
Hi Solipsist
More about quotationsbook.com removals. As I did explain, the site has been built painstakingly over a while, using consultancy services. Your mass removal is not useful, since you removed external links to quotations where:
- no wikiquote information existed - no set of quotations existed
This essentially starves users of any further information but a biography. Examples where this is the situation, where you removed the link:
All of these were useful pointers to a site (quotationsbook.com) that continues to verify and improve their quotable words, where absolutely no quotes exist in wikipedia/wikiquote at all! This seems slightly unfair, since every reference resource which ends ".com" is then classed as "commercial". How then would any external links ever be justified?
The facts are simple - quotationsbook.com contains vast collections, which are very useful, often unique. The fact that it does not have the gravity of bartleby or other reference sites does not justify it being classed as a spam site. More information is being cross-linked on the site all the time, with better attributions and tagging (first of its kind) coming soon. Using the arguments presented here, it seems (logically) unreasonable to remove external links that are adding a lot of value in terms of quotes where no other sources exist, even on wikiquote. It's penalising all my work and research, since it took me many months to compile unique sets of quotations which are rare to find.
I can honestly say my intention was not to spam - otherwise I would not have been so detailed and selective adding information to these under-represented biographies in wikipedia (for which I have quotations). Let me know your thoughts about these special cases.
Please reply on this post since I have yet to create a Wikipedia account.
Kind Regards Amit
Thanks for supporting the image :) Your comment cheered up me and my wife. These were exactly our thoughts - the image might not be studio quality but the moment we caught was inherently interesting and illustrative. - Haukurth 1 July 2005 12:49 (UTC)
Hi Sparkit,
Can you take a look at the recent edits on Interactive art and to a lesser extent Kinetic art. It looks to me like a couple of anons are engaging in self-promotion and many of these changes relate to artist who aren't particularly notable. I've reverted a number of times before, but I would prefer a view from a different editor. -- Solipsist 4 July 2005 07:02 (UTC)
hallo Solipsist! Thank you very much for the award - I will carry it with pride - its a lot of fun working with you guys - best greetings to fine GB from Uwe Kils July 4, 2005 20:07 (UTC)
Thanks greatly for that Solipsist, its a nice early birthday present for me. I can't improve on the caption, except to mention we quicky ruined the peace and tranquility by kayaking very poorly on the lake!. cheers Wombat July 6, 2005 07:16 (UTC)
I'd like to to read and comment here →Raul654 July 7, 2005 03:33 (UTC)
Hi there! Thanks for the heads-up. Elle20's behavior is an almost exact match of that of User:Gabrichidze or however you spell that - i.e. persistent adding of copyvio images to unrelated articles. Even the same articles, and the same images. I've permablocked it as a sockpuppet. Those images are copyvio and should be deleted as such; the user has no other meaningful contribs. Yours, R adiant _>|< July 8, 2005 18:30 (UTC)
Thanks for working on cleaning those up. Could I ask a favour of you: If they don't have any prior history, could you tag them for speedy deletion instead of blanking them? Thanks. JYolkowski // talk 8 July 2005 20:49 (UTC)
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Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for
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Image:Summer Solstice Sunrise over Stonehenge 2005.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at
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-- Spangineer (háblame) July 9, 2005 14:04 (UTC)
Sorry, but these comments are out of place. I can't characterise User:DreamGuy's edits as vandalism. It seems more like you have a problem with their behaviour as an editor, so this really needs to taken up on Requests for Comment. See Wikipedia:Resolving disputes for more advice on how to resolve disputes with individual users. -- Solipsist 8 July 2005 19:35 (UTC)
You are truly a man of valor, and I beleive that you are certainly a great Wikipedian. I commend you for your efforts with me and my endeavors to stop rudeness on Wikipedia, and I give you an editor's barnstar. I was a little confused, but everything is fine now concerning what you had told me on my talk page. : - ) Take care, Horatii 22:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks yet again for the advice. I did as you have asked, and reported DreamGuy to JCarriker, and I'll hope that he'll help me.
I realize that the problems around DreamGuy should be resolved, but I believe that the trio filing a new RFC is not going to help (especially given the large amount of people that signed Carnildo's view on the events). Also, the reason given for the second RFC was to get enough votes to block DreamGuy, and that is entirely not the purpose of RFCs. Therefore, I've done this. Hope that helps! R adiant _>|< 14:49, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
I came to your pages following the conversation with Radiant! about the deleted RfC. When I saw your userpage, I was amused to realize that I could copy your Declaration of POV and paste it straight to my page without changing a word. Everything there is true of me. Joyous (talk) 16:14, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
By your and Joyous's request, I've restored the RFC. I hope it will be fruitful. R adiant _>|< 21:44, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Solipsist. Thanks for asking my opinion. I will have to ponder it a bit to try to figure out exactly what I don't like about it, and of course how it could be changed. You are right of course that the standard can't just be lowered. To tell the truth, I am not certain precisely what I don't like about the process. On the face of it, it looks pretty good. On the other hand, I can't help but notice that I've stopped going out of my way to take pictures for Wikipedia, even stopped uploading the ones I already took. I'll think about it and let you know if I figure out anything. Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
in reply: - I guess i'll leave it on for now. judging by the immediate feedback i was getting, it will most loss. i hope the picture Image:American Robin nest.JPG is accepted better.
by the way, which simpsons episode are you refering too. (i'm a big simpsons fan) -- ZeWrestler 14:11, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
by the way, i've been meaning to ask how one goes about earning barn stars? -- ZeWrestler 14:13, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
I'll put my barnstar in a format so you can add it to your user page. Thanks for all your concern, I'm glad to tell you that I am back at Wikipedia. — Horatii/Dbraceyrules 00:53, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. I understand your concerns about my remarks on the pic. Putting this pic forward for Featured Pic annoyed me so I said what I thought but I did then temper it with Better luck next time. So I half accept what you say. Perhaps I'm wrong and everyone else will love it! - 82.33.101.120 13:23, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
That is a great welding image, though it isn't gas metal arc welding&mdashit's either gas tungsten arc welding or plasma arc welding. Once GMAW is featured, I'll probably take on gas tungsten arc welding next, so I think I will try to contact them and ask if they would be willing to relicense the image. Thanks for pointing it out to me! -- Spangineer (háblame) 11:01, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for information about competition. - PioM EN DE PL 20:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for drawing me attention to it Solipsist, much appreciated. -- Fir0002 10:01, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Ah, I posted to the mailing list, but never thought to write to the village pump, for some reason. It's because HowStuffWorks listed wing warping as its example for their "How Wikis Work" article, which you can find here. It would be nice if the authors of these pieces could warn Wikipedia before they do this, but that's life, I guess. Most of the anons are pretty good-faith (not surprising, given HowStuffWorks' usual readership), but yeah, that article's attracted a lot of other edits too. It would be nice if they would actually link to the Sandbox article instead. -- Death phoenix 14:05, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
elements cross-posted
Heya,
We're organising another London meetup, for Sunday the 11th of September; specifics still to work out, but it will probably be fun as ever, and involve a few drinks and a nice chat in a pub. We'd love to see you there...
James F. (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Sparkit,
Can you take a look at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/July 24, 2005 to check over the caption. Normally I wouldn't ask, but since this will be up at the weekend, there is a good chance that it will be featured on the Main Page and I don't want to mess up too much.
Its also a bit of a shame that there is no content at 1898 in art, otherwise I could improve the date link. -- Solipsist 18:48, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
What kind of program do I need to use the plugin on? I think I can dig up a microphone to use... - Mgm| (talk) 13:34, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
I've got the program up, but it doesn't see any input channels. I've got an ancient mic that's labelled "MDE Uni-directional Dynamic Mic Impedence 600 Ohm DM - 202". Do you know of any drivers for the thing, or is it too old to be computer compatible. (No I don't have any manuals for the thing anymore). Thanks for the help so far! :) (Once we're done, please copy this to my discussions archive page ( User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions), or leave it for a while so I can do it). - Mgm| (talk) 20:15, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
You appear to have someone mimicing you - [2], User:SoIipsist. Shimgray 21:26, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
Then what should I do if DYK is updated multiple times a day? DYK is already archived in Wikipedia:Recent additions. I don't think it's useful to duplicate that. -- Mgm| (talk) 13:26, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Solipsist. Thanks for the picture of the red fox! I've thought about adding that one to my user page before, but it seemed a bit redundant with the Firefox logo. :) Unfortunately, it was too cute, and now, it has a nice, cozy spot on my user page. Thanks again, Sango 123 15:34, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
Gzuckier added to (→Cars with unusual handling problems). I am questioning his being so hard on the Porche 911. Maybe he will tone it down a little. Otherwise his contributions seem valuable. -- David R. Ingham 19:31, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip on making references to changes. I didn't mainly originally mean to compete with Consumer Repots but, on the contrary, to show that a wheel lifting is not always catastrophic. Yes, maybe it will eventually develop into its own page. I think more to the point is the DOT link by type. Discussing individual cases quickly looses sight of the fact that it is safer (as well as causing less global warming) to have a small car to drive when one is not carrying enough to fill up the SUV or pickup. -- David R. Ingham 21:03, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I have already put a link to car handling in the car safety article. It mentioned only electronic stability control! An FMC engineer working on the Bradley military vehicle told me that if they make the driver's seat too comfortable, he will trash the vehicle. I do think it is reasonable for cars to have weight on the order of the passenger load. Even the Messerschmitt KR200 was heavier than the driver, but that was 1950s technology. If the car weighed as much as the pedestrian, the initial impact force would be only half as hard as if it were heavy and the driver's weight wouldn't hit the pedestrian until he was stopped by the restraining device. A Mercedes killed 80 people once at Le Mans. If it had been a Deutsch-Bonnet, it would have been many less. -- David R. Ingham 21:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Solipsist. Thanks for supporting my RfA! I am honored to have your endoresment and hope to make good use of the mop. Sango 123 01:41, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
no, that users edits are mosly rather weak, and had i the time earlier today i would have fixed them , which is why i kept putting them back in, i felt they were salvagable... sigh, but i didnt getthe chance to fix it up, because whenever i tried, i either had to put it back , or was called away for money making stuff...
Gabrielsimon 07:06, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thanks -- my aim was to disentangle Akkadian Lilitu, Hebrew Lilith, and medieval Christian stuff. The article is not finished, of course, but I think the present structure makes more sense. Most of all, we need more information about the Talmud stuff.
dab
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14:34, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I saw your note on user:John Fader's talk page. He hasn't made any edits since May 21, so is either on an extended wikibreak or has simply gone missing. His account has email turned off, so I'm not sure there's a reasonable way to tell which of these is going on. Just thought I'd let you know you might not be getting a response soon (or perhaps ever :( ). -- Rick Block ( talk) 22:51, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
In response to the comment you left on my talk page:
You're absolutely correct. I have no idea what the heck that was. It certainly did not look like that when I finished my edit. Very strange indeed. -- ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 03:39, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for not keeping up with things. I've been out of town and I have only intermitent acess to the internet. [Well I have acess, but I have many other things to do.] I'll be returning home in a few days and will try to help then. This link is Broken 20:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
Thanks for your help regarding account creation.
I have uploaded the first photo of BCE place:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:BCE_Place_Galleria_Toronto_Panorama_2002.jpg
The other one will come later as it's on a different computer.
Not sure what you mean by replacing an older image. There was no image before in the Molotov cocktail page. I dont see any other image also in the history of the Image:Molotov_cocktail.jpg page. Please advise. -- DuKot 15:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
Things look better between DreamGuy and myself. (I even voted to close the RfC) Hopefully we can get past the whole thing. I am thinking about changing my username again to make sure they stay behind. Take care, Dbraceyrules 21:55, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the flower and the kind words. It's fairly easy to write and photograph your job, especially when you enjoy your work. I notice that you live in the town that my town is named after. CambridgeBayWeather 05:30, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
Hey there, good to hear from you again. Popular these days, nearly time for an archive here ;-) You were right in that the wee lad was nothing to do with the IRA so it would have needed a lengthy caption to contextualise it (imho), I also saw the BBC mural, it would be great to go through the articles here with the amount of pics those guys have to choose from! For me there is a funny thing about that Bogside mural though. I'd seen it for years in books and after when they did the mural. I always thought it was such a strong poignent image - particularly the photograph. One of these days I'll get round to starting a Battle of the Bogside article. Don't fancy it at the minute though, I know it would be vandalisised to hell. Anyways, I'd just started with my driving instructor in Derry years back, and at that time the young lad, now grown up, was same said driving instructor. You talk about a juxtaposition of images! He'd decided to go public with the big revelation that he was the young boy. Thing was, he was starting his own business and reckoned he could use a bit of publicity... Now that I'm here, I have a bit of a question. I have uploaded a reasonable amount of images to wikipedia but I guess really they should go into commons. My own shots are all GFDL and the ones I found were mostly PD, with a couple of ESA and fair use ones. Anyway it seems like such a chore to do it all. Are there any tools to help automate the task? Admin or otherwise? Seems crazy to have to upload them all again individually... Cheers, SeanMack 14:33, 2 August 2005 (UTC)