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diff on "Arnold Böcklin": Swiss-German shouldn't link to "Germany", possibly to "German language" or "Swiss German", etc. -- User:Docu

image tag question

Okay, I want to upload a logo from a website. I have permission from the website's admin to upload it. My question is, what image copyright tag would I use?--Kross ^Talk 22:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That depends on the specifics of the permission. Are they releasing it under GFDL? Or just granting permission just for Wikipedia (in which case, possibly only fair use may be applicable)? RedWolf 04:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure. He just said it could be used. I guess it would fall under fair use.--Kross ^Talk 07:04, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help with Image on N'Bushe Wright page

I found an image from yahoo movies. You help me before with Stephen Dorff page. I would like the same help in licensing N'Bushe Wright's image. Her page was considered to be a stub, so I did the best I could to change it. Please help. I would appreciate your help again. Thanks--Angel21 05:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)Angel21[reply]

quick page move request

Could you move Anti-Submarine Warfare to Anti-submarine warfare? I don't want to go through the Request Move system, since its just a simple renaming.--Kross ^Talk 11:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Peacockthrone small.jpg

You had written:

Thanks for uploading Image:Peacockthrone small.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Until a more informative tag is provided, it will be listed as {{no source}} or {{no license}}. Could you add a better tag to let us know its source and/or copyright status? If you made the image yourself, an easy way to deal with this is add {{GFDL}} if you're willing to release it under the GFDL. Alternatively, you could release all rights to it by adding {{NoRightsReserved}}. This would allow anyone to do whatever they wish with your image, without exceptions. However, if it isn't your own image, you need to specify what free license it was distributed under. You can find a list of the tags here. If it was not distributed under a free license, but you claim fair use, add {{fairuse}} but you need to substantiate your claim by explaining why you think it's fair use. If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images by posting to my talk page. If you do this, I can tag them for you. Thanks. --—Preceding unsigned comment added by RedWolf (talk • contribs)

I must mention that this image

is a modern painting. It is not historical.
the throne is not the peacock-throne (takht-e-taus) of Shah Jahan. Historical paintings of takht-e-taus with Shaha Jahan exist.
Person sitting on it does not resemble Shah Jahan.

I suggest that this image be deleted.

For the real peacock throne See: http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=11092&&idx=1&startid=31593

--Malaiya 20:16, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vfd: Category:Zoroastrian gods

Please review the Zoroastrian gods Vfd discussion. Thx - Fullstop 17:02, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chew Valley Lake FAC

Hi, I've resubmitted Chew Valley Lake as a featured article candidate, because it didn't receive enough support last time.

As you have edited this page in the past I wondered if you would be willing to visit and comment/support on the nomination? Rod 20:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Western Music

Hi there - just wanted to quiz you on an edit you made in January 2004: In Western Music you insterted the following statement: "Western music developed out of the creatively fertile framework of Western Philosophy developed in ancient Greece" ... and went on to explain about Pythagoras tinkering around with scales etc. While I don't doubt anything you say about what Pythagoras did - and suppose that might have had an influence on the academic/technical understanding of music, is it really true to say that Western Music, in its entirely, developed out of this? It seems highly implausible - wouldn't it have as much to do with the folk musical traditions of the celts, huns, gauls, norse, moors etc as well as the Greeks? I suspect to come up with his theory Pythagoras would have to have been analysing musical forms that already existed, wouldn't he?

I'm not trying to be a smart-arse, and I really don't know the answer - but wanted to see what you thought.

cheers ElectricRay 23:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall adding such text to this article. Are you sure you have the right contributor? RedWolf 03:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Mountain infobox

Template:Mountain infobox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. —Locke Cole • t • c 04:18, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your TFD comment: have you seen Template:Infobox Mountain? If there's something you think it should do or doesn't do correctly, let me know and I'll try and get it straightened out for you. =) —Locke Cole • t • c 08:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I happened to come across it. This was the original intent of the older template but I was not able to get it to work. Glad to see it finally works. RedWolf 03:01, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

I am conducting a survey on Wikipedia and would like to invite you to participate in the study. I've posted a message on wikien-l, but here is the link again in case you are not subscribed to that list-serv. Thanks a lot for your time! --Mermes 01:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not using a site that doesn't even recognize Firefox having JavaScript enabled. RedWolf 02:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Puerto Rico Education Category

I turned it into a subcategory of the Category:United States education by state - Yes, I know PR isn't a state. But it's still a major insular area, so I decided to list it as such. WhisperToMe 23:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Umm, ok. But why are you telling me this? RedWolf 01:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Snow Dome disambig

Hi. You recently disambiguated Snow Dome but you copied/pasted the original text to create Snow Dome (Canada) rather than doing a page move which is the standard approach. By using the copy/paste, we have "lost" (technically not) the correct page history for Snow Dome (Canada), which was the original text of Snow Dome. You also did not enter a comment for the edit summary when you created the article, which adds to the history confusion. I don't have time at the moment, but I will probably delete your creation of Snow Dome (Canada) and do the page move so the correct page history can be preserved. RedWolf 19:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC) User page Discussion

Hi RedWolf, it was a mistake, I did realize it later, but I couldn't figure out how to revert it quickly and fix it. Sorry for the trouble :) I see that it's been fixed now. Waqas.usman 04:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you identify these peaks?

Please take a look at these unidentified peaks at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_Karakoram_peaks. If you recognize any of these, please update their description and category and notify me. Thanks! Waqas.usman 23:18, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Took a look but I cannot help with identication of these peaks. Never been to the region so pretty difficult for me to hazard any educatad guess. RedWolf 05:40, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bug in Canis Rufus / Caldera openlinux

Figured I'd show this one since I'm not sure the method its using for picking which Java. It had made the following change [1] which I had to change back. [2]. You may want to check settings for how its making this choice since Java was pointing to the disambiguation page at the time. Reply to my talk (with reverse link) since I'm not going to bother to watch as you are on extended break. jbolden1517 ^Talk 00:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a bug. Disambiguation is not fully automated. I'm the one who manually chooses the article for disambiguation. I only use Java programming language when the context is referring directly to the language itself, otherwise I use Java platform. In this case, I still feel platform is appropriate. RedWolf 15:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Avoid Redirect edits

I am sure you have good reasons for making these edits, but could you possibly summarise these? Viewfinder 22:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if you tell me which ones you are referring to, I'm might have an idea of what you are talking about. RedWolf 21:08, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am referring to the very many "avoid redirect" edits you made to mountain pages on June 22 that can be found on your user contributions page. (Are you sure you had no idea that I was talking about these?!) Viewfinder 01:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A simple diff comparision suffices. I doubt you will find anyone (except maybe you) that would document in great detail such trivial changes. Besides, "avoid redirect" seems sufficient to me. RedWolf 15:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A diff comparison will reveal what edits you are making, but not why you are making them. I am not asking you to go into great detail about every edit. I am just asking for a brief one-off summary, here on this page, of the reasons for these edits, and why they are necessary to "avoid redirect". I am not implying any criticism whatsoever. I am merely trying to improve the standard of my own mountain article edits. Viewfinder 17:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you an Icon maker?

I need a new User Box

Due to the fact I was looking at the history of the Wikipedia "Icon (computer)"-article page today, I clicked onto your User Page. I thought I'd contact you because I'd like to find someone to make a new User Box.[3] Personally, I have no experience or expertise/knowledge for attempting to make one myself (not an artist at all).

I'd like to see a User Box for: "user who enjoys Cross-Country Skiing" As you may know, this is a pastime that some of us in the North enjoy. I believe there would be others with User Pages who also enjoy this recreation/sport [4] and might put the Box on their page.

Thanks for considering my request. Joel Russ 19:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I am far from being a graphics designer so I would not be able to make a userbox icon for x-county skiing. RedWolf 23:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Tyndall

Thanks for the box - I was very belatedly trying to get help from someone to actually create a 'west coast mountain box' as all the entries linked to West Coast Range are quite irregular and inconsistent (I have crerated them over time and have more to go) - So thanks. I hope to get back to this in a month or so, as I have over - spread myself in the article department :) SatuSuro 01:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I am currently going through all the articles using the old templates and converting them to use {{Infobox Mountain}}. It's a slow process doing them by hand but eventually I (and a few others) will get there. There is no need to create a specialized version of this infobox for that particular range as the existing infobox works just fine for this case. RedWolf 15:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to a descendant for your WikiProject

I'm interested in creating a proposal for a WikiProject devoted to volcanoes, which can be a descendant to your WikiProject. I'm not sure if I can propose it, though because I'm what you Wikipedians call anons. Also, I might need someone from this WikiProject to create the initial page for my proposed WikiProject, since I might be restricted from creating a WikiProject, so can I propose a Volcano WikiProject even though I'm an anonymous user? 74.225.117.237 17:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What would you do differently in this subproject that WikiProject Mountains does not already perform? Your proposal would gain more support if you registered. RedWolf 15:16, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Diran Pic

Thanks for adding the pic to commons, I uploaded this pic long ago when I didn't know about commons (or commons wasn't set up the way it is now, pics had to be emailed to someone for them to add to commons). I've added the date, I didn't have to look back at my hard drive, because this was from an Olympus camera, a file named P805XXXX means taken on August 5th :) User:Waqas.usman (Talk) 17:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I uploaded several of my images to the English Wiki before Commons came into being and have since copied them to Commons. Your photos are a very welcome addition. RedWolf 15:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for "To do"

RedWolf--thanks for the "To Do" section at the start of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mountains and the convenient links to pages that still need Infobox Mountain. I'll try to do a fair number of these. -- Spireguy 22:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. No problem with adding the section. Any help with the conversion is much appreciated. I try to do at least a few a day but it's a bit tedious. Have fun! RedWolf 23:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Mtnbox start

So I just finished converting the articles that used the deprecated [[Template:Mtnbox start]]. I found out that you are the "admin superior" for the WikiProject Mountains. I was thinking it might be a good idea to fix it so no one is likely to use it if that is possible (deleted it?). It still appears on some user pages and some Wikipedia: type pages. I did not think I should take the liberty to edit user pages and I don't see how I can edit the Wikipedia: type pages without altering the meaning of the discussion. --Droll 08:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great job on basically completing the conversion of that template. I'll take a look at the pages you are referring to in the next day or two. It's only the pages that actually transclude the template rather than simply referring to it that would need to be dealt with, likely converting them to the Infobox Mountain template. RedWolf 06:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information

RedWolf, Thanks for the tips regarding the Mount Rae page and wikipedia useage in general. I've attempted to follow your suggestion regarding uploading photos to the commons. I uploaded one Arethusa-Storm-Mist-Highwood-aerial.JPG. Was it done correctly? I also used that photo in a new entry Mount_Arethusa. I thought the Mountains_of_Alberta lacked an entry for Mt. Arethusa but it seems to be there now. Did you created it or was that somehow automatic? Does the Mt. Arethusa page have correct formatting and such? Also I disagree with your statement in the Mt Rae page that the col is connected to Mt. Arethusa. I believe the peaks on both sides of the col are part of Mt Rae and the other ridge connects to Mt Arethusa. Have a look at the photo I uploaded as reference. I have aerial photos of lots of the mountains in K-country and the Bow valley. If you think they would be of any value I'll upload and create an entry for each or edit the existing entries to include one for any mountian I have. I can also take requests for aerial photos of mountains in range of my plane... Thanks again for the help. Kevin lenz 23:25, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mount Arethusa did not have an article until you created it. The photo you uploaded to Commons looks good although you might want to consider using the Information template to standardize the layout of the image description page but that is not required. Thanks for pointing out the erroneous statement concerning the col. I scrambled Mount Rae many years ago and went strictly from memory when trying to remember where Arethesa was. For some reason I thought that col connected to Arethusa. I double checked with a topo map and agree with your correction. I re-worded the paragraph to remove the error. BTW, you have some very nice aerial photos. RedWolf 17:59, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing Mtnbox remainders

I can easily fix pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains/General by using substitution rather than transclusion. Take a look at User:Droll\test for an example. I would be happy to do this for the "Wikipedia:" type pages but I don't think I should mess with User pages. Please delete User:Droll\test once you've had a chance to look at it. Thanks. --Droll 01:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead an implemented my idea. There are still a few references to the Mtnbox templates put if they are deleted the tables will not be broken as they are now code as tables and do not use templates. I blanked the page User:Droll\test but please deleted it anyway as the name is badly formed. Thanks. --Droll 06:36, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion wanted on Lassen Peak

Hi---could you check out Talk:Mt. Lassen and give your take on the issue of what name to use for the article? I'd like to see it discussed more fully. Thanks -- Spireguy 02:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox (M)ountain redirect

RedWolf---sorry about making you fix all of those template redirects. I had thought based on looking at the Mountain Project page that it had a lowercase "m"; obviously I didn't look hard enough. I hope you had an automated process to make all of those changes! Also, thanks for the input on Lassen Peak. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spireguy (talk • contribs) 01:49, October 5, 2006 (UTC)

Well, I attempted to use my bot but ran into a problem with the framework I use for it. There wasn't a whole lot so I did them by hand. It's possible that the project page had used the lowercase m version at the time. RedWolf 20:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Album-stub

Could you remove the comment-out marks () from Image:Nuvola devices cdaudio unmount.png? It is similar to the image used in related templates (ie. {{hiphop-album-stub}}, {{jazz-album-stub}}, {{rock-album-stub}}, etc.), and I dont see why it can't be placed on this one as well. -- Reaper X 17:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -- Reaper X 19:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I had meant to take a look at this sooner but kept getting sidetracked I guess. The image was there in the template all along, just commented out (by me in Nov 2005). RedWolf 20:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Austro Daimler

Hi, dear wikipedian. I have done some fixes on the Austro Daimler article. I would like that you may tell me your opinion. Anytime. --AndresArce 19:32, 21 October 2006 (UTC)AndresArce[reply]

Re: User:MartinBotII/WPStability

Hi - thanks for your question! At the moment, the bot marks all wikiprojects in the table as "Unstable" if they have been edited for 90 days - as suggested to me by User:Badbilltucker on my talk page (diff). This is liable to change (as is the length of the list(!)), as this task of the bots is only currently in beta testing stages. Thanks -- M a rtinp23 18:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator

I wanna be an administrator too.. Make me one plz.. --Mikey Mousey 06:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:DAfonsoHenriques.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:DAfonsoHenriques.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.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may 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. Shyam ^(T/C) 09:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is NOT my image. Please verify the uploader on the description page before posting such a warning. RedWolf 15:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ohh sorry, I put wrong message to your talk page. As I do not seek any activity from the uploader. I thought you might have some communications from user to tag {{PD}} to the image. If you have some source or any other information about the image why is it in public domain, then please provide to the image. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 15:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did not have any communications with the uploader as I can recall. I did assume good faith when the uploader stated that the image was released into the PD. If the uploader is not available now to verify this, I guess it should be deleted. I see that the image is now on Commons but also has been tagged with the same no source issue. RedWolf 16:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cerro de la Silla

I hate arguing over silly things, but I'm confused as to why you keep changing the units in Cerro de la silla to British spelling. It was American English from when I started it until [here, then you changed it here, then I inadvertantly changed it back here when I was making the units match up with WP:MOS guidelines (spell it out first, then abbreviate in parentheses). Then you switched it back here and here. If you strongly feel that this should be British English for some reason, I'd be willing to concede the point, but if anything I think a mountain in a city highly influenced by the US would be done in US English. Sorry to sweat the small stuff... --Spangineer^ws (háblame) 23:47, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Mountains guidelines is to use metre for non-USA articles and the American spelling for USA articles. While the USA may have a certain amount of influence on Mexico, it's still not the USA. metre is the international spelling and not a British vs American spelling issue in this context (at least as far as I'm concerned). I'm only trying to provide this consistency between mountain based articles. RedWolf 03:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas

Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. - Darwinek 20:07, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]