User talk:Weejee

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Redwolf24 9 July 2005 08:48 (UTC)

P.S. I like messages :-P

Hello Weejee!

Why do we disagree about everything?

I was going to say you can have your old contributions assigned to your new name, but I guess they don't do that anymore. Lame.

Welcome to Wikipedia! We hope you decide to stay! ;-) - Omegatron July 9, 2005 13:43 (UTC)

Here's the secret: I actually agree with you, mostly. I just don't like when people are really certain of things, and play the devil's advocate to help them reassess their beliefs.

Also I kind of agree with the sentiment at the end of the article:

"Those who are skeptical about the impending mass extinction argue that even if the current rate of extinction is higher than the rate during a great mass extinction event, as long as the current rate does not last more than a few thousand years, the overall effect will be small." - Omegatron 13:55, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

i don't blame you-- i think i also tend to want to play the devil's advocate when i talk to someone who is too sure they are right about something... but sometimes people actually are right, in which case it is myself who needs to reassess my beliefs. btw, i hope that supposition ("the overall effect will be small") turns out to be true. Weejee 02:23, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Images

Yeah, images have to be under a license that permits making copies, etc. For instance, if you click on the bison image above, you can see that it is public domain because it's such an old picture.

For another instance, I took Image:Capacitors electrolytic.jpg myself, and released it under copyleft licenses so anyone can use it for almost any purpose, but can't relicense it under something restrictive. Similarly, Image:US3386883 - fusor.png is from a patent, and is therefore public domain, etc. etc. you get the idea.

Here's the list of Public domain image resources. For instance, I can go to Public_domain_image_resources#Insects, visit the second link, and find three pages [1] [2] [3] with mole cricket pictures available for non-commercial use! :-) Hooray! - Omegatron 14:40, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

hey, wow! thanks!!! i appreciate all the helpful info! Weejee 02:18, 11 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

GRRR! Unfortunately it looks like those images aren't free after all. :-( Sorry to mislead you. Apparently "educational use only" images aren't allowed because people are free to use our content for commercial purposes, and that link has been removed from the public domain image resources page. - Omegatron 16:18, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

articles vs. stubs

Question: I've been working on that Mole cricket article, and even though there's 3-4 times more information than there was originally, it is still described as a "stub" --whereas this article on Dolichotinae has considerably less information but doesn't contain the description "stub" anywhere on it. Could you help me understand this?

Thanks so much!

So mark it as a stub. :-) Just type {{stub}} after the article text. There are also (an inordinate number of) specialized stub messages so that people who are interested in, say, animals, can go through and fill in stubs about animals. If you just mark it as {{stub}}, someone will come along and specialize it for you eventually. If you want, you can find one of the specialized ones on Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types. Probably {{Animal-stub}} or hey, let's get even more detailed and say {{Mammal-stub}}

You should sign your name with ~~~~. - Omegatron 16:18, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Image:@W Indian.jpg

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Image Tagging Image:Kera l.jpg

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