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NEI_Software_Stress_Plot_Ship.jpg

I guess I don't understand how to upload this image and license it properly. Our company created this image, and we would like to put it up in an appropriate place. How do we do this properly? --Lloydshanks (talk) 00:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lloydshanks (talk • contribs) 00:18, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yabashira Station

I originally tagged this for A1, but then the speedy tag was removed by a respected editor, so i added a PROD tag. But after talking with that user they decided it did meet A1, not gonna re-tag for obvious reasons (per my 1RR rule), but am going to ask that you delete it as A1. Thanks, Tiptoety ^talk 00:21, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Taken care of, thank you. Tiptoety ^talk 01:02, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

?

I crashed your deletion bot? -- penubag (talk) 05:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agh, I'm sorry. I've seen several soft redirects from articles to Wiktionary and thought that #REDIRECT [[]] was how to make them. I hope I didn't cause you any trouble. -- penubag (talk) 06:09, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh, thanks! I'll stash that somewhere for later usage. :) -- penubag (talk) 06:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/2008x12

Here's the story ... the three accounts in question were blanking material that used a newspaper-operated blog as a source. Such blogs are permitted as sources under WP:RS#News organizations. Therefore, as I saw it, there was no BLP violation there, and I considered it a case of blanking of cited material. The reasoning behind filing a sock case was that you had two users go right to that page as their only edit and blank the material. Blueboy 96 10:10, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I wouldn't have been inclined to jump on it if it didn't appear to be affiliated with a newspaper ... but I do agree with you on finding better sources--earlier in the day, I was able to track down actual links to White House press releases. Hopefully that helps ... and is there any way I can prove that I know what vandalism looks like? Blueboy 96 20:31, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, since you asked (sorta) ... here are some recent diffs from reverts I did:

Also have a look at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Borseter‎, where I caught a linkspammer using several sock accounts to insert spamlinks into articles. Hope this helps ... Blueboy 96 20:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted image

You deleted this. If I had known it was tagged for potential deletion, I'd have fixed it. Would you restore it and let me add a FUR? The team is defunct and it's a historical image for the baseball team. - ✰ALLSTAR✰ ^echo 14:19, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :] - ✰ALLSTAR✰ ^echo 20:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Omgwtfbbq (the article that is)

Hey, just wondering if you could subst {{longcomment}} into the Omgwtfbbq article for me. Ta! --Closedmouth (talk) 14:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, never mind, bad timing. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Picture deletion

Hey there...Im absolutely confused with how to upload images on here. I uploaded a picture of the former Westboro theatre but I find all the steps very confusing. I would also like to upload pictures of the former Aladdin Drive-In site and other Ottawa Theatre pictures that are my own work. my pic was deleted and I was wondering how I upload images simply.

thanks,

Andrew —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andreeew (talk • contribs) 23:34, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Review for Rocktronica

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Rocktronica. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 04:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not the requester, just procedurally listed for them on the correct logpage and in correct format. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 04:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion Review for Synth Rock

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Synth rock. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 04:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am not the requester, just procedurally listed for them on the correct logpage and in correct format. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 04:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Interact club

An article that you have an interest in, Interact club, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interact club. Thank you. — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 19:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Undeletion

So Maxim's script was faster than my clicker. I was FURing some images and it redlinks. Could you restore the images listed on this page? User:MBisanz/Logos. I'll re-delete any that I don't fix. Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 06:17, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think I got them all. But what is up with Image:Tina-image.jpg (when I was double checking the category). Seems like an error of some sort. MBisanz ^talk 07:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for unprotection of Kobe Bryant

Hey there, it appears that you protected this page back in December 2007. I don't know why it is still protected really. Quite frankly, I don't know why I'm not able to edit it myself, being a registered user here. Anyhow, I would simply like to edit on it here and there, and I notice it is quickly turning into a fan page instead of an objective encyclopedic entry. Thanks!A fine point (talk) 20:29, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited!

	New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 16th, Columbia University area Last: 1/13/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

Well also make preparations for our exciting Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

You're also invited to subscribe to the public Wikimedia New York City mailing list, which is a great way to receive timely updates.
This has been an automated delivery because you were on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 02:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why

did you delete the skate perception article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellashes (talk • contribs) 16:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

flag Nicaragua template

Instead of showing the flag and the country name, Template:flag for "Nicaragua" only shows the image name and the country name. This appears to be fine for most other countries.

Nicaragua

All of these templates appear to be protected against editing by mortals such as myself. I noticed that you amended the protection for Template:NIC, so you probably have the authority to fix this. –BozoTheScary (talk) 19:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RM

Your edit summary was misleading. But adding an image is a lot better than adding the article content you said you did; that article is currently protected precisely because of edit warring over coverage of the Jimbo incident. Please, lets not have admins edit warring over the article while protected. GRBerry 20:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

**miranda coughs Drama Llama. :-P miranda 23:17, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: ImageTaggingBot

There was a recent change in how MediaWiki handles non-existant pages in logs that prevents ImageTaggingBot from correctly identifying an image's uploader if that person doesn't have a userpage. The fix requires a complete re-write of the bot to use api.php rather than screen-scraping, and I haven't had time to do it. --Carnildo (talk) 21:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's an easy fix, but I'd be chasing a moving target. Looking at the bot's logs, I'd have had to have changed the bot's code at least twice in the past week, and each time it went wrong, it would have left 50-100 invalid talkpages before I could catch the failure. --Carnildo (talk) 05:04, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo deletion

I could see a Photo named Korapuzha river.jpg has been deleted by you. The photo was taken and uploaded by me and I had stated it on the upload note. Could you please tell me what should I add more to not get it deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kuniyil (talk • contribs)

Hi, Please free license it under GFDL. Many thanks for your help.--Kuniyil (talk) 09:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted fair-use image

I see that you have deleted File:Catalin Predoiu-1.JPG stating "CSD I7: Replaceable fair use and the uploader was notified more than 48 hours ago)". If it is replaceable, what image has it been replaced with ? The Goverment site also uses the same image (but with a poor quality). I would not say the image is replaceable, unless we will find another image. It is possible that in the future more images will appear, but they probably will also be copyrighted. Moreover, I (the uploader) was not notified at all about the deletion. The only notification was in that page, which said something like "if the image is found to be replaceable within 48 hours, it will be deleted". But how and when was it found to be replaceable ? Razvan Socol (talk) 06:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I seriously question the possibility of creating a similar free image. I mean, he is the Justice Minister, can someone just go to him and say "Please, wait a second, I want to take a picture of you for Wikipedia" ? I doubt it; only accredited press will be allowed to attend the press conferences and they will produce copyrighted images. I'm not saying it's impossible to create a free image, but it's unlikely. Razvan Socol (talk) 07:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I found other two non-free images of him, here and here, but both are copyrighted (and have a poor quality, anyway), so I doubt that we will find a free image of him. Razvan Socol (talk) 07:36, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deleted_photo

Can you please help? I uploaded a photo under: "Licensed as for non-commercial use only, non-derivative use or used with permission". The photo was deleted for the reason: "no assertion of fair use was provided". I though I had provided all information required. What do I have to do to have the photo accepted?

Following the initial upload, I tried to upload the same photo with a higher resolution, which resulted in a warning. It was due to this warning that I first learnt of the deletion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barry Kay Archive (talk • contribs) 12:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

guerilla talk radio

can u help me i cant edit my articleHenslee57 (talk) 03:02, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Hello Im locked out and cant edit can u PLEASE help Henslee57 (talk) 03:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your removal of the Twinkle access for Levine2112

You are right that Twinkle should not be used for edit warring. You are also right to block Quackguru and Levine2112. However, I think it is an overreaction to remove Levine2112s Twinkle access [6]. Levine2112 does use Twinkle a lot for productive purposes such as greeting newcomers and removing blatant vandalism. Let this access removal be a warning and restore it after a few days. MaxPont (talk) 08:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Levine2112 used Twinkle to vandalize an article twice in a row and I reverted him.[7][8] QuackGuru (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it a WP:COI when chiropractors engage in wikilawyering the talk page and POVing the main chiropractic article? I want the article to be a neutral presentation according to the WP:RS references.[9] Wikipedia does not enforce NPOV at this time. How can I achieve the NPOV standard when some editors do not want that to ever happen. Read the current protected version starting with the sentence: Spinal manipulation has generally regarded is a safe and effective procedure for the treatment of various mechanical low back pain syndromes. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Chiropractic#_ref-Hurwitz_0 The text is not verified by the references. After reading the sentence, read the references. There is a clear NPOV policy violation. According to WP:NPOV: Neutral point of view is a fundamental Wikipedia principle. NPOV is absolute and non-negotiable. It seems some editors are intent on POVing the article. How can the never ending NPOV problems be resolved? QuackGuru (talk) 22:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I notified an editor who edited articles under probation and now I am being accused of something dubious.[10] I disagree. For example, I'clast edited the Quackwatch article that is under probation. QuackGuru (talk) 22:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I NPOVed the Larry Sanger article and changed it from a poorly written article[11] into officially a Good article.[12] Not everybody is happy about my Larry Sanger editing.[13] QuackGuru (talk) 23:00, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Quackwatch article is under probation[14] and I'clast has edited the article when it is still under probation.[15][16][17]

These three comments at I'clast's talk page are highly disruptive and should be dealt with in a proper manner.[18][19][20] I have given plenty of evidence the probation has failed and I am unfairly being attacked. QuackGuru (talk) 23:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are abusing the the Hom warning tag, me, and perhaps the patience of most. Despite some past sharp differences, Addhoc and Fyslee are largley agreeing with my statement about your (ab)use of the tag. As for QW, despite my digging up academic reference after reference to try to instill some WP:V & NPOV, your assertions here exemplify the abuse of the Homeo- warning tag for my infrequent edits that are about QW, not homeopathy.--I'clast (talk) 00:48, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is another personal attack/disruptive comment/wikilawyering attempt by I'clast. I'clast edited the Quackwatch article under probation and received a proper notification. QuackGuru (talk) 01:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'clast is on the attack again. http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Violation_of_own_sign I'clast is involved in a WP:POINT violation. QuackGuru (talk) 01:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My talk page is not dispute resolution. east.718 at 04:09, March 7, 2008

Image:Triangle tv.jpg

I clearly remember posting copyright information along with a fair use rationale for this image. Undelete it please.--Sir Anon (talk) 10:46, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sammo Hung image

Hello, Just a couple of quick points / q's regarding File:SammoHung EasternCondors screenshot.jpg, which was deleted by East718 on 03 March 2008, and removed from the Sammo Hung article by ImageRemovalBot on the same day...

When I now go to File:SammoHung EasternCondors screenshot.jpg, it states: 02:54, 3 March 2008 East718 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:SammoHung EasternCondors screenshot.jpg" ‎ (CSD I7: Replaceable fair use and the uploader was notified more than 48 hours ago).

1) I'm sure I was the uploader of the image, but I definitely did not receive any notification that the image would be deleted, either on my talk page, or on the talk page of the article on which the image appeared. This obviously gives me zero chance to amend the article / image usage rationale before it's deleted. I'm not sure if the image page was in my watchlist, so I don't know whether or not you posted any sort of notification of impending deletion there either.

2) I understand possible reasons for the deletion of the image. However, it was tagged as a screenshot and had at least some sort of rationale. Should the image not have been tagged with a "di-disputed rationale" tag first? It could be argued that the image pertained more to the film it was from than to the actor depicted in the image. If the image had been disputed for this reason it could have been reallocated to a more appopriate location.

3) Finally, just a general moan: Even if I had recieved notice that the image was about to be deleted, who decided that 48 hours was a sufficient period of notice before deletion, anyway? I've been a member here for 2.5 years and made almost 8000 edits over that time. But that doesn't mean I have the opportunity to visit the site every 48 hours. I know you probably can't help with this, but it's a pain. Surely 7 days notice would be acceptable for non-offensive images...

Ah well, I appreciate any responses you can provide. Gram123 (talk) 15:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Bruce Firestone

I was not made aware of the Firestone image being deleted. I uploaded it. It was from his promotional material. Not ok? Did I mess up the uploading? Alaney2k (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Username

How do you managed to get a lower case "e" in your username, as it appears at the top of your user/talk pages? Swirlface (talk) 00:50, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Broaden and Build

I see that you deleted broaden and build as a "redirect to nonexistent page," but on my talk page I was told by User:Milk's favorite cookie that it was speedy-deleted for copyright violation. Could you clarify what happened? There used to be material there, and if there was a violation of copyright I'd like to be able to look at the history and get it back to an acceptable state. Thanks much. Inhumandecency (talk) 00:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for straightening that out. Inhumandecency (talk) 04:13, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sophisticated vandal

Hey how's it going EAst. There's a guy who's been creating all these biased articles on some obscure kickboxers, all of them relate to the guy named, Sherman Bergman. On Bergman's article, he lists tons of references, all impossible to check, which is probably what keeps it from deletion. There used to be a fighter named Sherman Bergman who was supposedly knocked out by Jean Claude van Damme back in 1976, if you google his name, pretty much all you can find is what is been created here on wikipedia by this guy. [21], [22]

I believe its the same guy with different user names like Special:Contributions/DavidToma, Special:Contributions/Royalfleming, Special:Contributions/Eugenejerome, Special:Contributions/TimBaker1941, Special:Contributions/PainlessPeterPotter, Special:Contributions/LeifSchumeucker, Special:Contributions/BusRiley1965, Special:Contributions/CliffHarper, Special:Contributions/RenoDavis1967, Special:Contributions/Lennybaker, and probably more

List of articles he's created: Hank Bergman, Walter (Von) McGee, Morsak Muangsu, Alejandro DasCola, Gilberto (Gil) Diaz, Carlos Andino, Christopher Allen, Wilver (Rio) Johnson, Bernardo Jua, Frank(Happening)MaHarris, Cornelious Drane.

i've never came up against anything like this but i believe the whole Sherman Bergman article is bogus. Look at the dates and weights on his "fight record", the whole thing doesn't make any sense. Have you ever heard of anyone having a pro record of 53 wins all by KO's, no decisions and half of them in less than 30 seconds all in round one??? there's no birth date on the guy, but it says he was an amateur in 1973, ok he was born some time in '50s then, according to his "record" he fought in 2000 at 202lbs, and then for whatever reason dropped down to 149 lbs in 2004 as a 50+ year old fighting 3 Argentinian guys all in one day....Brother whenever you have time if you don't mind to check it out. (Marty Rockatansky (talk) 07:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

This guy is demented, he's been doing this since 2005, creating all kinda bs misinformation. Man, i wasted 4 hours tonight just to find out that all these articles are complete bullshit. Everything you're trying to find out on those guys Hank Bergman and Sherman Bergman on www leads back to wikipedia. Have you ever heard of "Sling-shot punch"? there was actually a thread created in sherdog about this, after people reading about it here. (Marty Rockatansky (talk) 11:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

He had a long laugh, creating all this. We might need some kinda protection on List of male kickboxers, thats how i found it, going thru all the names. thx. (Marty Rockatansky (talk) 20:51, 7 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

He's not creating the guy up, I knew there's used to be a kickboxer by that name back in '70s who fought van Damme but the whole cult status thing, a sling-shot punch and the unbelievable fight record lost it for me as a credible evidence. It could be the Big Train self-glorifying and having fun, like i said i don't know what to do with it, how can you prove he's not notable or notable enough? (Marty Rockatansky (talk)) —Preceding comment was added at 05:29, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A favour...

Hello... a favour to ask. You do a lot of work on deletions, so I was wondering if you could give me some feedback on my deletion of several articles. The oldest two (Tour Generación RBD and Tour Generación 2006) were AfD'ed last year, then recreated; Tour Celestial 2007 was speedy-deleted and recreated several times, and the most recent (Empezar desde Cero Tour) has been speedied four times by three different admins as advertising. (I'm pretty confident about what I've done, but being relatively new with the "tools" I'd like to get some input. Would it be better to group them all in an AfD?) Thanks in advance. --Ckatz^chat _spy 08:23, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

William Rayborn

Could you explain what you mean 'is not a web host'? I would just like to have a current page about Mr. Rayborn available. The original remove code referenced bad links. If you can restore the page I can correct the links. Could you explain why the page was removed and what I would need to do to get it restored? 08:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)08:27, 7 March 2008 (UTC)~Chris Paschen, Paschen Communications

Hi, Chris. Sorry for the terse response earlier, I've been very inactive for some time now. The article on William H. Rayborn was deleted by another administrator because it didn't have enough sources to establish notability. I've restored it for now so you can fix it up, but I'll drop by in a week or so and see if it's still worth keeping around. east.718 at 09:20, March 7, 2008

OK, thanks. I've cleaned up some of the bad (dead) links. I'm going to now start working with the source issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.98.139.148 (talk) 18:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image deletion

You deleted File:Reid Paley.jpg, with the comment "CSD I7: Replaceable fair use and the uploader was notified more than 48 hours ago". I was not notified before you deleted this image. Why was it deleted, what is it replaceable with, and how can I get it undeleted? Thank you. YrPolishUncle (talk) 11:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Proposal

Sure thing. Rudget (?) 19:03, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Homeopathy

Sure, I'll check it out. I've been a bit MIA from Wikipedia this week, but I have plenty of free time this weekend. I'll look over the proposal and offer any comments I may have. Gromlakh (talk) 19:29, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK

OK I'll make a new one, but can I put my nickname?

Beatlesnicole (talk) 00:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HI

Hmmm... since you delete it, I'm thinking of making a new design...

Beatlesnicole (talk) 00:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

YouCastr Deletion

I saw you deleted it.

It was initially flagged for notability, I wrote a note in the talk page about the notability (new startup in competitive space, with significant outside press coverage including TechCrunch and the Boston Globe), and the speedy deletion tag was removed. I thought it was fine at that point, not sure why it was deleted again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Updiaz (talk • contribs) 02:38, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. I sent a note to User:jmlk17 Updiaz (talk) 04:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The YouCastr page was undeleted by User:jmlk17, can you undelete the redirect, which was just a case redirect, Youcastr > YouCastr? Updiaz (talk) 06:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image Deletion (?)

Hmmm, you deleted EZ_Solve_Screenshot_01.jpg , but I had explained the problem in the image's talk page! This image was not redundant, but was rather an updated version of another image (Example01.JPG). The Example01.JPG image had a generic title, and no fair use rationale. Since I could not change its title, I uploaded an image with a specific, descriptive title.... Worcester Squire (talk) 22:02, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the speedy response, however I have a question.

Is this not enough:

"Summary

An example of EZ-Solve 1.0 running on Windows XP, attempting to solve a series of linear equations."

I thought that it was enough because a similar page for MATLAB ( http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Image:Matlab7.4.png ) has the following justification:

"Summary

This is a screenshot showing MATLAB 7.4 running in windows XP pro 64 bit with a QR decomposition" ?

Thanks! Worcester Squire (talk) 22:11, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is because I was making the page. Still working on it!99.251.83.153 (talk) 02:01, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I wanna be the guy

You have no right to delete this page, it took me an age to make, was on for over a month and had enough references to remain. I shall repost it and you can go to Slough. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Qrimmer (talk • contribs) 22:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of Dolaucothi diagram

Why have you deleted this diagram? I drew this as my contribution to research at the site in 1968-70and I am now the sole copyright holder. I want to make it available for everyone, which is why I have out it into the public domain! Please undo your deletion or explain your action. Peterlewis (talk) 10:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I don't know how I blanked the image, but I may replace it with a better quality diagram. Thanks for replacing the picture. I also have some more diagrams to add because I found a new archive of my drawings earlier this morning. Peterlewis (talk) 10:11, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rudget/monobook.js

East718, I made a typo in the end date for the wikibreak enforcer, it was meant to write 14 in stead of 17, so I'll miss three days that I didn't mean to. Thank you. GK . 14:23, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

furd

Just a quick question: Why is your bot removing the furd template without deleting the higher-res image? There's probably a good reason for it, but the edit summaries do not go into any detail about it... tiZom_(2¢) 15:59, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I just looked through your bot's edits, and it seems actually seems to be working fine... the edit that caused me to write the above comment was this one. What happened here? tiZom_(2¢) 16:08, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Jamesenx.jpg

Hello, you deleted the image above because it was redundant to another image you say. The image in question in Image:Poop.jpg, I believe you should have left Image:Jamesenx.jpg but deleted Image:Poop.jpg. While there appears to be no policy against uploading images of persons named under the filename Poop, I don't see how this is helpful, and will never help the reader understand the subject better, and might be a loophole in the policy. Jackaranga (talk) 19:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore image

You deleted the image Image:Cityrailsign.png which I made, without asking me or even notifying me. Can you please restore it? I and some others who were working on the file are unable to edit SVG files so a PNG alternative would be good. Thank you. JRG (talk) 04:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks heaps. Sorry for blaming you for deleting this - I've since found out that someone else initiated this, not you - so please accept my apologies. JRG (talk) 04:26, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bother you again, but someone deleted the image again. Can you please restore it? JRG (talk) 23:42, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore a deleted image

Hi, wondering if you could please restore this image [23]? I'm positive I put a fair use rationale there once, so maybe it was either mis-titled or deleted by a vandal or something... I can easily re-add it. Hope you can help. Nevermind, it was a different logo that someone else just added. Nobody of Consequence (talk) 17:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

deletion of earthsync page

I put up the EarthSync page, and changed the text to a very objective one after it got tagged. I'm new to this, so help instead of deletion would be appreciated —Preceding unsigned comment added by Life4music (talk • contribs) 09:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put up the EarthSync page, and changed the text to be objective after it got tagged. I'm new to this, so help instead of deletion would be appreciated --Life4music (talk) 09:39, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

for this. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 20:07, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. AgnosticPreachersKid (talk) 01:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Panchero's

Can you re-add this page. I will put in the needed info Burrito123 (talk) 23:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shahbazi.jpg image deleted

hi, I have uploaded an image called "Shahbazi.jpg" to Parviz Shahbazi's article and it was deleted for (no source, no license) reason. I have got that image and the accept to be published on Wikipedia from the author. Can you please tell me how can I upload it to the article, so that it would be ok and stay there?

thank you, Loredana Nanu —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loredanananu (talk • contribs) 09:36, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shahbazi.jpg

No, I have not taken myself the picture. It was a gift for me and I have asked and got the permission to use it on Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loredanananu (talk • contribs) 09:43, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shahbazi.jpg

thank you :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loredanananu (talk • contribs) 09:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creative Commons

Hey East, i found this japanese site with a tons of mma pics listed under Creative Commons - are these ok to upload here? [24]

Shahbazi.jpg

I am sorry for delay. About license, I will choose which one you think is better. GFDL sound ok to me. Loredanananu (talk) 10:58, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your image deletions

Hey. It seems that around 13 hours ago you speedy deleted a bunch of images with the summary 'Deleted because "either no source, no license or csd i8.' Looking at the deleted revisions, these images have two things in common; the description and licensing had been blanked by a vandal and the images were not tagged in any way. Examples:

Image:Muhammad blake.jpg - PD-art image uploaded by admin Tariqabjotu, blanked by a vandal on March 11. This was quickly re-uploaded by someone else.
Image:Lincoln univ seal.jpg - fair use image with rationale, blanked by a vandal on February 26.
Image:Interior-of-City-Hall-2.jpg - PD-self, blanked by a vandal on January 16.

So, what is going on here? Prolog (talk) 14:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...

Wow. Looks like you're doing great, getting flamed about all your uncalled-for deletions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.160.52.250 (talk) 18:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Pedophile topic mentorship

Thank you for offering to act as a mentor to pedophilia related articles. Please see the above link for the mentors noticeboard where users involved in disputes on the topic pages can act for input from the mentors. I would appreciate help in forming this so changes to the page would be very welcomed and also ideas of how to link the page so it is well seen. Ryan Postlethwaite 00:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Confused by blocked IP

Hey, could you look into this: [25] I can't find an autoblock OR a direct block, and the IP claims to be blocked. Can you check this out, since it seems you may have been the blocking admin. Thanks! --Jayron32.talk.contribs 03:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unprotection of user talk page

Hi there. All outstanding issues have now been resolved, and I have decided to return to the project. Is there any chance you could now unprotect my user talk page from creation? Many thanks for your help; it's appreciated. All the best, Steve ^{T • C} 15:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, sorry for bothering you with this; you've already done more than enough to help me. Thanks, Steve ^{T • C} 15:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Richboro Port railway station

Hi, you deleted this as a redirect to a non-existant page. The article was originally titled Richboro Port railway station, (correct title) and got moved to Richborough Port railway station (incorrect title}, then got moved back to Richboro Port railway station. I was trying to sort it out when another editor interfered and we ended up with a double redirect which I couldn't work out how to fix. I tagged the incorrect redirect as db-causing double redirect. The deletion of that should have cured the problem as there would be nowhere to redirect to, and entering / clicking on the correct title should have got to the article.

What is the easiest way around this? Rewrite article again (only a stub, so not a problem) or could it be resurrected by an admin? Mjroots (talk) 20:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, all is OK now. Neddyseagoon sorted out the problems he created and I've added additional references re the spelling of the name to the article since. Thanks anyway. Mjroots (talk) 17:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

scooley image

East718,

why do you keep deleting my scooley image? I have authorization to use it.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Politico2345 (talk • contribs) 20:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of "Berbers" image

I must object to your deletion of the :

21:53, 8 March 2008 East718 (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Berbers.jpg" ‎ (copyright violation)

Whereas the image was altogether alike to any number of other composite images used articles on ethnic groups, to show some representatives, your deletion of it and the rationale you give do not seem to make much sense. Several of the sub-images used were, I believe, too old for copyright issues even to arise, and the use of more recent images in this way seems to be accepted as "fair use". If there really was a copyright problem with one of the sub-images, then only that image should have been taken out, not the whole composite image deleted. Moreover, so far as I can tell, you just came along and deleted the image, with no discussion. Please restore the image, and any particular troubles with it surely can be set aright with relative ease. -- Lonewolf BC (talk) 02:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Montages are not allowed to have non-free images in them. Just create another one using free images. east.718 at 17:05, March 14, 2008

Please just restore the image, and deal specifically with any sub-image that actually presents a problem. It is not reasonable to expect someone to go through the trouble of re-making the image. Myself, I don't even know how. I think you may be mistaken; either that or there are a great many ethic-group composite images with the same problem. But even if so, the right solution is to rid them of the troublesome sub-image or sub-images, not to delete the whole composite. Please do not be so peremptory. -- Lonewolf BC (talk) 19:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problematic subimages have already been dealt with - they've all been deleted by other admins as copyright violations, which would make this composite image inherit any violations. However, I can empathize with you not wanting to do work on the image again, so I uploaded the two copies in the deleted history offsite. [26] [27] Also, if you spot any other composite images of this nature, please let me know and I will either rework the image or delete the offending parts. Yours, east.718 at 05:22, March 15, 2008

User:Breathtaker

Ever since hisblock experierd it has been a whirlwind of edits and reverts topages like Gothic Rock, Electronic Body Music etc. He also likes to blank out the sockpuppet warnings on his IP sock pages. Even after User:Bradeos Graphon blocked several of his IPs earlier today he still went in and made this edit. He just won't quit! I can provide further evidence of this if you like. Shouldn't we consider a new, longer block of the 87.122 node. Perhaps a month this time.--Dr who1975 (talk) 03:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

still active--Dr who1975 (talk) 13:14, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jaakobou

It might interest you to know that User:Jaakobou has restored the disparaging notices that you recently removed. Gatoclass (talk) 19:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On "Wikipedia:Registered Vandals"

I do not have a problem with you deleting Wikipedia:Registered Vandals, but your edit summary is MOCKING me. You said te following "what there should be is a law that forbids stuff like this in wikispace". I am going to let you off with a warning. STOP MOCKING OTHER USERS

This is your first warning of mocking other users. Keep it up, and eventually, you'll get blocked.

Nothing 444 01:13, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leave Britney alone!!!! dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 05:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is close to the best one-liner I have ever seen. I did very well not to literally wake people up when I read that. Daniel (talk) 15:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude. Britney is the best one-liner I've ever seen. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 07:04, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was a joke :)

I am a trusted editor on wikipedia with over 1,000 edits. We wikipedia editors rarely have time to make jokes, so I decided, they have an ambox for vandalism, I'll just parody that by making one for mocking users. The short answer is, yes, it was a joke, and I hoped you enjoyed it. Signed, Nothing 444 13:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, if it wasn't a joke, and I'm supposed to get a thicker skin, I guess I better use the Monobook skin lol. Nothing444 21:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wika Hurrah!

File:Dainsyng.gif

WOW! These should be used more often, look how god damn effective they are! Just start using these when I post on ANI, no one will dare disagree with me then. :P Tiptoety ^talk 17:12, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

File:Dainsyng.gif

Too bad it has already been done. Tiptoety ^talk 01:16, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

editcount.js

Just so you know, there's something on your editcount.js page making it show up in CAT:CSD. Might want to look into that. —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Belle Vue3.jpg

Hello. Apologies but I didn't log in between this image being noted as possible for replacement and being deleted. The reason I had added the image was that the building has now been demolished, as is noted in the article, thus it is impossible to obtain free images of the stadium. Could this image please be restored? Regards Chappy^T_C 20:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Colby O'Donis Image

Please show me where you notified me about the deletion status of the Colby O'Donis image. I do not show any record of a notification on my talk page. Not only that, but the image was more than acceptable for use. Thanks. --InDeBiz1 (talk) 23:00, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't template the regulars

It works so well... :) - Milk's Favorite Cookie 02:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your deletions

Are you running a script or something? If so, where can I find it! Rudget . 19:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He's just that fast. East has welded the delete button to his right index finger. He's hardcore. :P *cough*twinkledoesittoo*cough* --slakr^\ talk / 19:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:David,larry.JPG

Since you deleted it, can you do something about the scores of red links that once led to File:David,larry.JPG. Can't find the image on the commons myself. Regards, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 22:35, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That btw is a very regrettable deletion, as it was on my RfA thank you template. Argh. Regards, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 22:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kickboxing AfD

Please have a gander at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hank Bergman (2nd nomination) when you have a spare moment. Thanks! Mrprada911 (talk) 09:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:David,larry.JPG

Hey...just out of interest, where on Commons is this? Because it's not showing up with the same name when the image is used. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 10:21, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ta. Chin up for below. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 09:35, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AN/I Review

Not as an attack or criticism, but I've opened a section at WP:AN/I regarding your block of Majorly in order to get wider discussion about the infinite block of a long-term contributor. Avruch^T 02:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please note this edit and other posts at User talk:Majorly. I urge you to consider posting an apology or expression of regret to Majorly for blocking without much or any warning, even if there were circumstances that called for such action. I would hate to see a longstanding editor lost to the project over a confluence of circumstances like this. --Coppertwig (talk) 03:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Just as a followup to all this, let me just say that blocking Majorly as you did, without warning and without due process was not the way it should have been handled. As he says himself, he'd have stopped straight away had he been warned. I know you meant well here, but your block was actually done out of process and I subsequently undid Majorly's pretty quickly. Please remember that especially in the case of an established editor who was making what he felt were good-faith edits, dialogue and explanation is vital first. I'm not sure that Majorly even knew who the banned editor actually was before he was blocked. Either way, I think a note on Majorly's talk page is warranted here, at least to let him know where exactly you were coming from on this one - Alison ^❤ 05:48, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply on my talk page, East718. I know very little about this whole situation and have no intention of criticizing you. However, there do appear to be differences of opinion as to whether due process was followed. Regardless of who is actually right or wrong about that, in the interests of defusing the current situation I encourage you to consider apologizing for not giving the specific warnings that some people would have expected, even if you consider such warnings to have been unnecessary. On a consensus-based wiki spanning a variety of cultures, different people may have different expectations. Someone might realize that something is disapproved of, yet still expect an official warning, and might not realize that certain things were already considered by others to have constituted that warning. --Coppertwig (talk) 12:39, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, you said he "couldn't have expected anything else in return." I think that's not true: I think he did actually expect something different (see his post that I link to above). --Coppertwig (talk) 15:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not here to pile on. I see from your user page you already know there are issues. I am just here to say that everyone makes mistakes, don't take it too hard. But on the other hand, blocking an established editor is not a matter to do hastily, so do think about the matter. In fact please give it considerable thought. I don't support the block now, didn't then but that's not the main point, because you already knew that. I just hope you think a lot more carefully in future. We don't want to lose anyone, you, Majorly, anyone else, ok? ++Lar: t/c 17:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Majorly was aware that this particular banned editor represents a very real threat to several contributors in real life" I'm curious, could you indicate to me when and where he was made aware? --Golbez (talk) 00:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He knew exactly who the editor in question was [28], yet ignored three different warnings to stop. Instead, he just said that he'd ignore the warnings, and chose to put back very problematic edits such as this over and over. [29] [30]

Thanks. --Golbez (talk) 15:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious, as someone whoes trying to edit to make Wikipedia better, what was problematic about this ? By all appearences, you went and banned the one fixing the vandalism boyo, rules sure have changed on wikipedia since I stopped having a real name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 06:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image: The Wire - Season 5

Hi East, you deleted the above image. I understand that its useage by the supposed wikiproject for The Wire was gratuitous but as the uploader I felt my useage on the season 5 wire article was appropriate. Can you restore it but remove its useage by the "Creamy Army"?--Opark 77 (talk) 19:43, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for restoring the image. I'm doing well thank you and hope you are too.--Opark 77 (talk) 07:55, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rescaling

I saw your bot does something with removing notices from rescaled images that have had prior large versions deleted. Is this an automatic run from a category or is it only images you rescale? We are working on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ImageResizeBot and would need the category intact to repair the FUR Low Res variable by hand,s o I wanted to check for auto-editing conflicts. MBisanz ^talk 08:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Wire

Hello, East718/Archive 11 and thank you for your contributions on articles related to the groundbreaking HBO series, The Wire. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject The Wire, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of The Wire and related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Creamy3 (talk) 20:14, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Farias and Malloy.jpg

That was a very fast removal of the Farias_and_Malloy.jpg picture - I didn't even get time to add a "fair use" tag to the picture! I've been given permission by Michelle (who took the picture) to put the picture up on Wikipedia - if you could bring back the picture, I would appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthony040 (talk • contribs) 22:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Added a Attribution tag to the picture. Hopefully, there won't be any trouble with the picture now. --Anthony040 (talk) 22:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just incase you would want to know...

This is not really relevant to Wikipedia or anything, or you may not even care. But, I'd want to people to tell me if something I created was used outside Wikipedia...(Image:Kdice.jpg) someone's personal avatar...weird. -- penubag (talk) 03:39, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Great work on Lost (TV series). How did you do it? --Bongwarrior (talk) 08:28, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Magic. If I told somebody how, I'd lose what little usefulness I have. :D east.718 at 08:29, March 21, 2008

Argh, that's fine, I guess. At least now I know who to run to the next time something big gets deleted. Thanks again. --Bongwarrior (talk) 08:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Images

Hi dude! Look, since i joined Wikipedia, i never understood the whole image-uploading polices thing! I'm only here to improve stuff, and i have no intention of breaking any polices or laws! So you deleted 3 of my images and i cant see why PLUS you said i was notified 48 hours ago?! i was never notified of such a thing!! :S:S check my talk page and its history... there's nothing about those 3 images. so what's the solution now?! Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 18:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You know what man, i still dont understand those polices. so i will try to find other stuff to use! and my friend let me put the picture in the article. Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 21:35, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, seriously, you have to be kidding me!! you are removing all my pics... how the hell can people illustrate stuff if you keep removing those pictures?!! by the way 90% of the pictures i come across are from websites and i'm pretty sure they are all copywrited! Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 22:06, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So should i just say "self made" like most users do and not state a source?! Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 22:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No offence, but the only reply i can come up with is "ya, right!" The only reason i dont want to provide examples is because i dont want those images deleted... Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 13:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dude, i'm not being stubborn coz there's nothing to be stubborn about. But as you said i'm just pissed off! You offered to help me and yet somehow the File:Hany Badry .jpg got deleted although it is truly SELF MADE!!! by the way, i'm not hiding anything. These images are out there for adminstrators to delete. Search for them yourself. :) Maged M. Mahfouz (talk) 20:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you understand this?

An image you deleted Image:Kratovil.jpg, appears to have come back to life - deletion tags and all and with no licensing information whatsoever. I was going to delete it but just couldn't understand the history/log. If I'm looking at it right, it appears to be a strange form of G4. Maybe you should handle it.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 04:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stay the HECK away from my own personal sandbox page

I'm trying not to use all the real words I wish to express, but too many are explicit... Stay the crap away from my own personal sandbox page, I can do whatever I want there. Stop delete my work. It says on every single page when you edit "For testing, please use the sandbox instead." I am 100% allowed to test crap and do whatever I want on my own page. So STAY OFF!! You're the reason why the co-founder of wikipedia said wikipedia is broken beyond repair. --Eckre (talk) 00:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have a reference why don'tcha?

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/04/11/wikipedia-broken-beyond-repair-co-founder-says

Do all you do all day is delete other work?

I say again, YES I had a picture on my sandbox and YOU (If you are East718) deleted it. Will you stay off my sandbox, yes or no? I thought the WHOLE purpose of a sandbox is to experienment, is it not? Do try stuff out, fine tune stuff, upload stuff, see how to integrate it into stuff, play with mediawiki format, etc.

Please just leave me alone. I'm not doing any damage. And don't sick all your other little adminstrator buddies on me, as I already got threats from them when I asked you to stay off my sandbox. I'm pretty sure the whole point of my sandbox is to experiement and do things non-publiclly.

Oh, and YES I would like to see your résumé. I write professionally, for a living (in real life) about 500 pages a month. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eckre (talk • contribs) 23:40, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cat interesections

If I had two lists of say 30 categories each, could you intersect all the images in the cats on list A and all the images in the cats on list B and drop them into a page list? Basically, I want to see how many images have a Free copyright tag and a Non-free copyright tag. MBisanz ^talk 08:18, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your sig

Hi. A long long time ago you said I could use your style of sig. But every time I do ~~~~, it comes out like

ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 09:11, 23 March, 2008 09:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(I've been typing {{SUBST:User:Matthewedwards/sig}} in my preferences' sig box.) How do I make it so it doesn't date stamp it? -- Matthew 09:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

~~~~ automatically produces a sig followed by a timestamp. If you use ~~~, then the time should not show up. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What Od Mishehu said. You might also want to opt out of Sinebot, otherwise it'll follow you around and date your posts twice. east.718 at 18:55, March 23, 2008

Cool. Thanks, guys! -- Matthew 23:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Protection of Lost (TV series)

Whta need is there for semi-protection for editing Lost (TV series)? As far as I can tell, there has been no vandalism there, other than that of autoconfirmed sockpuppets of Grawp, and semi-protecting doesn't help there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that was restoring the previous protection... but it appears that I suck at reading timestamps at 4:30 in the morning. :/ I've bumped it back down to move-prot only. east.718 at 18:56, March 23, 2008

"Broaden and Build Model" article

I just discovered that there was an article entitled "Broaden and Build Model", which you deleted. I'm guessing that it included no information that is not now included in the "Broaden and Build" article, but the merge proposal is still on that page, so some loose ends are not tied up. Would you please create a sub-page of my user-page that has the contents of the article you deleted so I can see if there's any valuable information I can use for the "Broaden and Build" article? This important topic is in my field and I think I can be of service. Thank you. -Do c t orW 06:28, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Max Branning

rocks man, [31]. 81.129.31.164 (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Different idea

I'm wondering if I might have found an easier/different way to intersect categories. Would it be possible to intersect all images that appear in one of these Cats Category:Fair use images but are not in Category:All non-free media? And then intersect all images in both Category:All non-free media and any of the sub-Cats starting at Category:Free images? That would give two lists. One of non-free images that for some reason aren't in the master category (corrupt license, etc) and a second list of all images with conflicting free and non-free licenses. MBisanz ^talk 17:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well what I'm thinking with [32] is that some licenses may have been transcluded/edited by the uploader, and aren't therefore aren't compliant. Is there a way to run the script slowly over several hours on my computer? If so, I'll take it and just let it run for like a day. Sorry I managed to crash the toolserver. MBisanz ^talk 18:36, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I got your email and think I understand the talk page instructions (its all simple installs and what not). I'm going on a business trip for 2 days, so that'll be the perfect time to run it. Thanks again, I did a random sampling and I suspect there will be a large number of images with conflicting tags, which of course, need to be fixed for NFCC. MBisanz ^talk 03:12, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, so I installde Python, then TwistedNoDoc, then I unzipped pywikiparser, and then I unzippd the file you linked me to, both to the Python directory C:\Python25 on my machine. But I'm not seeing login.py, I clicked imagebot.py, and it started a dos screen that closed itself without doing anything. Where might I find that file? Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 03:38, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uninstalled all programs. Reinstalled and unzipped. Found 2 files named login in pywikipedia subdirectory of python folder. Clicked them, nothing happened. Clicked the other py file you linked me to, nothing happened. I have McAfee antivirus, would it block this program? MBisanz ^talk 03:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That worked. Running now. I'm still on the As so I can se why this is a long process. Thanks for the code. MBisanz ^talk 04:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My oh my, I can see why this would cause a remote connection to time out. But thankfully no load issues on my laptop. I'm also surprised at the number of images using non-standard characters in their titles. About 1 in 100 to 1 in 250. Maybe down the road, once we figure out how to rename images (without the complexities of a bot move, etc), that will be a task to tackle. Thanks again for the code. MBisanz ^talk 05:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll probably kill that line when I do a second run once I clear out the list generated by this run. Really doesn't matter if it tells me what its doing or not, I still would have no idea what its doing. MBisanz ^talk 20:22, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick question on Policy

Had a bit of an issue with a report at AIV, where a user was accused of socking with an IP that was accused of vandalism for tagging articles with {{expand}}, {{Unreferenced}}, and similar tags. The report was declined, but I noticed the accused user's talk page, which mentioned your name. So, I thought I'd ask a question about our personal attack policy - What's our policy on Idiot lists? Thanks, UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 02:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I stand mute on the "Enemies" section, which would probably be the greater violation if I could actually read it. Thanks for the sanity check. UltraExactZZ ^Claims~ Evidence 02:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lon S. Safko

On January 19th you deleted my entry on Lon S. Safko , (wich also had other contributors). The Smithsonian Institution encouraged me to create the article to support the 18 inventions they now have part of their permanent collection that the content of that article referred to. It mentions the "First Computer To Save A Human Life", the "developer of the first voice recognition", the "first environmental control", the "first graphic Operating System", the "first computer system for the physically disabled", the founder of the Assistive Technology Industry, the "first software users guides", inventor of "ToolTips" op-up windows, etc. Even The Computer History Museum has 14 additional inventions in their collection. We think these are significant achievements enough to be listed.

Instead of deleting the article due to "style", how can I work with you to satisfy your requirements while allowing that information to be available.

Thank You!

Lon —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lonsafko (talk • contribs) 21:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo deletions.

You deleted 3 photos of mine that I uploaded. From reading the policies of your comment, you linked to 2 pages. They are.

CSD#I7 - Invalid fair-use claim. Non-free images or media that are used in at least one article

That, right there, my photos did not meet the requirements, as I did not use any of them in a Wikipedia article, nor did I have any future intentions of, either.

NFC#Images_2 - The use of non-free

They were not non-free images, so they were free. So my photos did not meet those requirements either.

If there were other policies the photos you deleted met, please let me know. Neal (talk) 00:40, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Looking at your logs, it seems you did quite a lot. The images were Ryoung122.jpg, Plyjacks.jpg, and Bart_Versieck.jpg. Neal (talk) 00:43, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Re: Did you manage to obtain a release for those images to upload them under the GFDL?

Hm, no, how do I go about doing that? Thanks. Neal (talk) 15:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Re: Just ask the copyright holder

Um, and what if they are not copyrighted? Neal (talk) 20:17, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Okay, is the copyright holder the website, or the photographer, etc. I doubt I can get permission from MySpace as a company. Neal (talk) 20:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Okay thanks, GFDL it fails. Neal (talk) 20:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Television templates

hiya. i was wondering if you'd be able to un-delete the television templates Template:Aruba TV, Template:La Romana, Dom Rep TV, and Template:Guatemala City TV. They are notable for being media markets of television stations. thank ya! :D RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 21:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I-3 deletion

Hey, I just noticed your deletion of Image:Laos new.gif, because I had just reviewed it myself. I don't think I3 was applicable. The image was properly tagged for delayed deletion on April 5 due to no fair use tag but there were no non-commercial use or other licenses involved that I saw. I think it's a problem that these show up on the category for candidates for speedy before their time has run. Maybe I'm wrong but I passed on this for that reason.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 17:03, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, maybe I read the log wrong, maybe you were undeleting it.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 17:04, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now I get it, this guy has been re-adding this image for some time. You deleted it based on one tag, it's now tagged with a different tag. No idea why it was missing when I went to look at it though, it looked like you deleted it after I had checked it out. Doesn't matter, ignore all this. I'll take a closer look and see if it's a G4 and warn or if we should let it sit around 5 days now.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 17:39, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Dowd photo

I got explicit permission from the photographer for use of her photo of Johnny Dowd, forwarded the email of the permission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org per Wikipedia's instructions . . . and it was deleted anyway (within seconds). So even with written permission, no one can upload images? What gives? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filterking (talk • contribs) 00:43, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

- Hey I got your message, thanks kindly for all the useful info. I've just contacted the photographer per your suggestion about making the photo license free use. Got my fingers crossed. Again, thanks for explaining your reasons for deletion so clearly and helpfully. -- Filterking —Preceding comment was added at 01:08, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please restore

Can you please restore Image:ExtensionOptionsMap.jpg. This image is not available on the web any more and it's completely unreasonable to allow only weeks to replace it. JRG (talk) 03:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - the above isn't clear. I mean for the restoration only to be a temporary thing. JRG (talk) 03:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I now have a copy of both the writing and image- you're free to delete it again as it is a copyvio (Even though it was released for public comment and not for commercial use). JRG (talk) 03:26, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New issue

Friday my internet connection blipped and I got disconnected. When I restarted and tried to reconnect, it won't let me. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and now I get a "Errno socket error 10061 Connection refused." Any idea how I can reset the connection? MBisanz ^talk 05:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, entered that string. Result was Pining ... [208.edited] with 32 bytes of data

PING: transmit failed, error code 65

MBisanz ^talk 07:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Now I have the same beginning and four

Request timed out MBisanz ^talk 07:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, tried python. Looks like its working. Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 07:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still dropping my wired connection more than usual. If I was say operating at a university with a common gateway access, would this look like a high traffic server transmission coming out of my machine? I probably should've asked earlier, what sort of bandwidth would I use running this prog? MBisanz ^talk 07:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yea, 25kbs is nothing. And even over such a long period of time, I can't imagine it making a difference (what with 7,000 of us using it, there must be a couple youtube junkies here). O well, worst case I end up heading home for a weekend to run it. I'm guessing its coded only for my account (I saw some sysop thing in the login file with my name, and the imagebot obviously is private to some degree), so I'll maintain the control integrity if I do take it home. MBisanz ^talk 08:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Kabul University logo.gif

On 26 March 2008 you deleted this image as orphaned, but it was in use on the Kabul University article. --Bejnar (talk) 01:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!

Boy I'm glad I have Rollback rights. O_o That sock is silly; I revert one complaint of his on someone's talk page over a year ago and here we are today. Just out of morbid curiosity do you know what the heck was in those 50,000+ kb edits? The same comments repeated over and over I assume? And also, after reading your comment on Jeepday's page, did he segmentation fault my page? What's that. D: -WarthogDemon 03:09, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow . . . I'm actually interested to see what that looks like for real. I'm gonna try that (albiet only paste it once or twice) in my sandbox. :P Thanks again and perhaps you should semi-protect my userpage and talk page for a while? I don't want to give you people too much work. :) -WarthogDemon 03:32, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm good point, since I'm trying to improve on my CSD-tagging, protecting the talk page would probably be a bad idea. :) Thanks. -WarthogDemon 03:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Restore Image:Dogcow.png?

You deleted this image on the 28th as an I5. It was not in use, but that was the result of some overeager search/replace (or maybe vandalism, I can't tell). Could you restore it? Thanks. Zetawoof_(ζ) 05:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll try to keep a closer eye on the page in the future. Zetawoof_(ζ) 20:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

request unprotection of the page PayPay

Please unblock the page PayPay to other users that they can write the article in a better way than i did. Thank you --AndreYoung (talk) 13:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A favour request

Hi,

Thank you for deleting Image:Chester Old College.jpg, as I had copied it to Commons, obsoleting the original image.

As your user page suggests that you are very willing to help, I would like to ask you a related favour. I have also copied another one of my images, Image:Derby Midland Station Departures Board.jpg, to Commons; could you please delete the now-unneeded Wikipedia version of the image?

Also, both the images I transferred to Commons have a tag (added by the tool I used to upload it) saying that they need to be reviewed. I don't really understand what this means, but is it something you are able to do?

Thank you muchly! - Green Tentacle (talk) 16:26, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the local image. The reason why the bot tags the images so is because people can upload non-free images or copyright violations to the Commons; also, the bot isn't smart enough to properly categorize them. Normally a "trusted user" on Commons needs to review the image, but since these two are properly categorized and obviously have licenses that check out, you can go ahead and remove the tag. east.718 at 19:59, March 31, 2008

Cool; I've done that. Thanks! - Green Tentacle (talk) 20:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

48 hours

Well I'm 48 hours into the run so far, no more connection glitches, and I haven't been tackled by campus security or the devs, so everything seems to be running ok. The naming error issue is actually turned out to be helpful I think. Its a sort of speed limiter with its 5 second wait. Thanks again. MBisanz ^talk 17:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]