User talk:Nine Tail Fox/Archive 1

Cricket

Hi. You commented on the move of the cricket portal to cricket. Having moved the whole affair back, I have made my own proposal. Could you come and comment, so that we can get consensus for the best version. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:59, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• I have made a proposal to create a WikiReader for cricket. Perhaps you could comment at User:Smoddy/WikiReader Cricket on my suggested content. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 16:21, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Federico García Lorca

You ask (somewhat rudely) in your edit summary for your recent edit to Federico García Lorca, 'What is this with people continually removing citations?'. If you look at the previous edit it was far from obvious that this link was a citation -- it was simply included in the middle of the page with the link text 'Democratic Development and Reckoning with the Past: The Case of Spain in Comparative Context'. That's why I removed it. Now that you've actually made it *look* like a citation instead of an external link in an inappropriate place I have no problem with it. --Ngb 08:09, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

• If you look at the editing sequence, the editor before you turned a perfectly good citation into the atrocity you deleted. I then restored the version of about 24 hours earlier. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:56, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

Los amantes del círculo polar

Hi. You recently moved the page Los amantes del círculo polar to Los Amantes del Círculo Polar. This is incorrect nomenclature as titles in Spanish are not capitalised on any letter other than the first (note that the IMDB, which may be your source, gets this wrong too). I thought as you were an administrator I would ask you first to move it back to Los amantes del círculo polar rather than listing it on Requested moves. --Ngb 16:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I've moved it back. Note that you could have undone the move yourself; being an administrator wasn't necessary. dbenbenn | talk 19:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Great, thanks! I thought I couldn't move a page to somewhere where another page existed already, even if it was only a redirect, but obviously I was wrong about that. :) --Ngb 21:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Playing Time (Cricket)

Your cut makes the section innaccurate, in which case we would be better not to say anything at all. Although this material possibly belongs in Test cricket anyhow. dramatic 09:02, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Dramatic's talk page. --Ngb 17:02, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

User:Ngb/List of cricket commentators

I hope you don't mind but I added a stub entry for Harsha Bhogle who really MUST be in this list. I also changed the 3rd column heading - feel free to revert if you wish. - Ian ≡ talk 02:03, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Ianbrown's talk page. --Ngb 08:28, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 18:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 18:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

RV

You just reverted the decency WikiProject. You will need to revert it back as you have just removed both comments and signatures, which is not allowed. ~~~~ ( ! | ? | * ) 11:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on -Ril-'s talk page. --Ngb 11:38, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Michael Vaughan pic

Actually this pic was already on the Vaughan Wikipedia page before I cropped and positionned it, only under a different name. Therefore I have no idea about its provenance, copyright, or whether it is fair use or not.

Rednaxela 22:06, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Besides, somebody's changed it for a fuzzy profile photo.

Rednaxela 22:14, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Full stop

elements cross-posted

I would strongly disagree that such usage is "standard"; the two forms are, if anything, reversely-so common in use. I am "Mr. James D. Forrester" (or "Mr. James D. Forrester, Esq." to Lloyd's), in short form. Reading "Dr." as "Drive" would be, well, uncommon, because roads called "so-and-so Drive" are fairly uncommon, notwithstanding my mother being born on one. :-)

It is, as you say, an issue of style, but one which I have always read as a bit of an uncouth modernism of not bothering to try to use the correct form. One wonders what Debrett's of yesteryear said (modern Debrett's being that awful concoction for the Merkin market, of course).

James F. (talk) 17:42, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Jdforrester's talk page. --Ngb 17:51, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

"Conventional" suggests that there ever was a single usage, the lack of which was my very point. I am very much aware of the differing styles for this, having read easily a dozen different style guides, each of which, essentially, disagrees with all of the others. It is most tiresome :-)

James F. (talk) 18:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Jdforrester's talk page. --Ngb 06:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Johnny Tyldesley

Could ypu please take look on this article? It was created by an user whose other edits were childish vandalism so this one strangely stands out. I looked for copyvio but didn't find anything. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 16:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Pavel Vozenilek's talk page. --Ngb 17:32, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Talk:August 2005 in sports

Hi - as you are the main person adding domestic cricket results to current sports events, there may be some comments on that page which might interest you. It's the talk page of current sports events, yet it doesn't show up in the watchlist because it's left as a redirect Sam Vimes 17:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Sam Vimes's talk page. --Ngb 19:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Image: Jeff Rawle.jpg

I added the text "the photo is only being used for informational purposes, and it depicts the subject of the article." Do you think that's ok? Thanks. --TimPope 17:00, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on TimPope's talk page. --Ngb 07:31, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

WP:CP

Yes just load up the page cheak it against the article history and if it is a copyvio delete. If you are not sure just leave it and we'll find someone who really knows their stuff to sort it out.Geni 19:11, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Geni's talk page..

the answer two your first question is just to delete the section. The answer to your section question is to delete the whole article then undelete the ones which do not contian copy vio material. If you start at around aug the 4th you will find far fewer tricky cases.Geni 19:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Geni's talk page..

Customer premises

Can you delate that article? (preceding unsigned comment by 82.81.109.104 18:35, 30 August 2005)

Speedied as patent nonsense. --Ngb ^?!? 18:41, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Khemkaran

I saw that you have reinserted the article and removed copyvio sign. While I admit parts of it is not copyvio the later sections of the article are lifted directly from the said hyperlink i've mentioned in the notice. So, shouldn't the revert have been selective instead of a blanket reversal? I've modified the starting few paragraphs and wikified them, but the final 2 paras are cut and paste and you've not looked into them properly. Pl. have a second look. Idleguy 10:00, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Idleguy's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 10:14, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

List of sporting comebacks

You beat me by about a minute! I went to do a paste on the same match (India v Aust) and I got an edit conflict. Well done. Ian ≡ talk 07:50, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Ianbrown's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 08:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

BigDaddy777

Hi. I removed the test3 and test4 from BigDaddy's talk page. He seemed to be suffering from conservaburnout, and he did acknoledge that what he did was wrong over at the pump. I though giving him a clean slate and a welcome was the right thing to do - if you disagree, please repost whatever templates you want, and I apologize for wasting your time. Hipocrite 20:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Hipocrite's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 10:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Julián Carrillo

Hi. Thanks for helping me with the discussion on the article on Julián Carrillo Trujillo, and for ereasing Ernesto's and my email adress, I didn't know how to tell all the wikipedians that I had permission from him to use his information. Thanks a lot. Quillito 22:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Quillito's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 10:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Fritz Belleville

Nope, I never heard back about whether it really was GFDL or just "permission". Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Mindspillage's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 10:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Thirteenth Sound

Hello again, I do not know what made Mr. Solis change his mind, in his email he told me we could use all the information about Julián Carrillo that he had on his webpage, I assumed he ment everything except his personal info and pages, I will edit it as soon as I have time, I am a great grand child of Julián Carrillo, and I have a lot of info and pics, but in spanish, and I really hate translating, but work needs to be done, hope I can have the info and the images scaned for next week, thanks again for your help and info. Quillito 18:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Replied on Quillito's talk page. --Ngb ^?!? 13:23, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

Hi, your comment on the speedy deleting copyvio proposal (perhaps because we're all here arguing about this instead of clearing the copyvio backlog :-).) made me laugh as it was exactly what i was jus thinking.

But the problem is I want to help out there but i am a bit timid, what exactly should i do? for example it says "Page titles should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made." Yeah? and then what? who makes the decision? can i delete anything (I am an admin) that has been there for more than 7 days without any kind of claim that it isnt a copyvio?

As someone who seems to know their way around the WP:CP maybe you could clarify the instructions on what happens after 7 days.

p.s. the speedy proposal has been ammended since the one you appear to be referencing.

thanks Martin - The non-blue non-moose 15:15, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for such a detailed response, maybe we should put your answer either on the WP:CP or on Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Advice for admins, i bet that would stimulate more help as well because people like myself would be more willing to help if it is obvious what to do. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 15:42, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Nope, that looks great! thanks a lot Martin - The non-blue non-moose 16:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Jean Overton Fuller

I thought the name sounded very familiar when it popped back up on the list of articles requested for two or more years, and sure enough, looking at the Google cache for the page, it was deleted as a copyvio four days ago.

Could you please take a look at the last version I wrote, or Rich Farmbrough's version from 02 April, and tell me what, specifically, about those versions is a copyvio? I don't have any way of accessing them myself, and I would have liked to have seen what the problem was (the page was off my watchlist at the time it was nuked) before it disappeared. Thanks. —chris.lawson (talk) 01:37, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

On a Sensual Note deletion

Hi there. I noticed you deleted On a Sensual Note despite the lack of Vfd consensus. The copyvio tag was negated by the release of the text used on the group's website into the commons. Care to explain? --SparqMan 15:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

• I believe I (the older of the rights) posted it both to the talk page of the article and the copyvio listing. --SparqMan 18:37, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Perhaps I'm clicking on the wrong link you provided, but the old talk page has been deleted. The history is unavailable. Regardless, is there a way to reverse the deletion? --SparqMan 20:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Hott_Butter-Popcorn_Melody.PNG and WP:CP

Hi, you recently removed a lot of entries from WP:CP, including Image:Hott_Butter-Popcorn_Melody.PNG (diff here, and permalink (hope it works!) to version before your edit here.). As far as I had understood, it wasn't cleared at all, did you see any special reason to clear it off too or did it just get along with the rest of them?

I know it isn't a "clear case" as it clearly is still usable under fair use on en (but it isn't marked fair use, it's GFDL licensed and I doubt that marking is really correct as the author of the image didn't hold copyright on the song although I'm not sure). The image also still has markings with Template:Unknown, that should imho at the very least be removed if it really isn't a problem (I'd be glad to do it myself, if I'm just really sure the copyright info is correct).

Is there any info you know of, that I do not know, please let me know. I've just put a question on the Village Pump of Commons too, as I didn't really feel I got any response on my issues with the image here on en, and I am hoping some one there can give me a more exact answer. TERdON 21:19, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

I read your response on my talk page, great, I understand your point perfectly, just missed being informed about the reason. Maybe we'll get that answer from the Commons village pump (as I said, I put a question there), their copyright pages seems to be the best done IMHO among the WP projects, hopefully there is some one there who is a lawyer. :) TERdON 23:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Figured it was a smart thing to archive the discussion on Image talk:Hott_Butter-Popcorn_Melody.PNG, so I did that, both our conversation and the one from WP:CP. I figure that will give that knowledgable person more to work with. TERdON 08:21, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Nick

Thanks Nick,

• Necho Allen Pic

Scott 14:29:24, 2005-09-07 (UTC)

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Image:Cricket no pic.png

Hi - I've uploaded another version of your Image:Cricket no pic.png to change non copyrighted to freely licensed. I've done this because images under the GFDL are copyrighted, "copyleft" images are copyrighted. I hope this makes sense.. Secretlondon 19:26, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Bryan Singer

Hi, just noticed you reverted this page back to its pre-COPYVIO state. Any reason you didn't use the content at Bryan Singer/Temp? AlistairMcMillan 22:00, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

A Barnstar for responding to all those possible copyvios

		An Award
		I, JesseW, the juggling janitor, award you, User:Ngb, this Working Man's Barnstar for your great work investigating and following up items on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. We shall clear out the backlog, eventually!

A little gift for when you return. Hope you like it. JesseW, the juggling janitor 21:24, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

The charter is here. (Relating to Esperanza)

Hello Ngb, the Charter for Esperanza is up. Take a looksie :) Redwolf24 (talk) 02:54, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza made less bureaucratic

Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. Redwolf24 (talk) 00:26, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The last time I'm spamming you all with Esperanza stuff

Hello Ngb. As you may or may not know, there have been some troubles with Esperanza. So now, as a last ditch to save the community, please vote at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Reform on all neccisary polls. P.S. I'm very sorry for spamming you all with these messages, and this will be the last time. I recommend putting ESP on your watchlist. Cheers and please look at that, let's stop the civil war then. Redwolf24 (talk) 02:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Dante Balboa

Hardly no evidence of copyvio. A large chunk in particular - He has already tucked up a degree in Architecture ... during summer - comes straight off this page, and the justification here for use of the image looks very dubious. It certainly ought to be cleaned up for the unencyclopedic style. "Tucked up"? Jeez.Tearlach 02:26, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Atonic pupil after cataract surgery

I noticed this "lost" temp page: Atonic pupil after cataract surgery/Temp. Since you've deleted the original one as a copyvio you may know wether this should be deleted too or moved to become an article. Nabla 23:47, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. Nabla 01:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

hi

I'm a user of Catalan wikipedia. You say you are interested in Catalonia affaires, but if you jusr look at spanish and french versions, you'll loose the inner point of view. I can help you, I'm native in catalan and spanish and i can speak more or less both english and french. We could work together to bring here catalan articles. I'm barcelona there: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuari:Barcelona Please leave me a message! --62.175.92.90 16:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Followups on WP:CP

Hi there, Ngb. I see in the "poster claims permission" part of WP:CP, you've marked a few you followed up quite some time ago. Have they got back to you — they've had their 7 days. If not, the articles can be deleted, if I understand right. Also, there's quite a list needing followup at the moment. I'm not really willing to do it myself for pseudonymity reasons, and the lack of authority conveyed by setting up a Yahoo! address or whatever. -Splash^talk 18:50, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Be bold

Ngb wrote of the Bill Clinton article: "Be bold and fix it!" I did go to the talk page, pointed out the difficulty, and proposed a change which I will make. It'll be interesting to see what their response is. You might be surprised. The greater point I was making of course was that Zoe jumped down my throat almost instantaneously while no one has done a thing about the Clinton article for months if not years. I think you'd have to admit, that to the eyes of a relatively new Wikipedian, especially one who's been through what I have, that this double standard seems curious no matter how it may be justified. Take care, Big Daddy 09:50, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Playfair

NGB, I saw your comment elsewhere that you have Wisdens for the last 15 years. If you have any Playfair annuals from the turn of the 1990s, can you please check whether they mention the height of Ravi Shastri. Thanks, Tintin 21:33, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Landmark College

Hi. The author of Landmark College has worked hard to rewrite it, compared to its original brochure style. I agree the article is maybe still a little bit too, well, uncritical, but I can't figure out what advise to give to help the author get rid of the advert flag. They probably don't have any criticisms. Would you have time to visit the talk page and offer some specific advice on one or two phrases to get him or her started? Notinasnaid 08:32, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Stressed out?

Hi there, Ngb, hows it going? There is a rumour circulating that you are stressed (I am too) is it true? Anything Esperanza can do for you? I also see that you spent months in South Africa, where did you go by the way? Anyway, hope your stress goes down. Cheers Banes 17:28, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, its the same for me, I go on wikipedia to get away from exam stress. Thanks for the reply. Cheers Banes 05:15, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Simon Brown

Ngb, I hope you didn't mind me disambiguating Simon Brown on your user page. -- Ian ≡ talk 12:06, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

and ditto User:Ngb/List of Durham cricketers -- Ian ≡ talk 12:10, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Copyright problems question

Hi! Your user page says you're on wikibreak, but I see that you've been around lately. Maybe you can answer the question I put on Copyright problems/Advice for admins? (There's not been much activity there, so I'm afraid of just waiting for someone who can answer it to wander by.) Thanks! — Kbh3^rdtalk 04:34, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Vellore Institute of Technology

Hi! I will be removing the image Image:Vitlib.jpg. I would be uploading an older image from my personal collection. Thanks for marking the page to be a NPOV. I graduated from that school and obviously the page seems to be vanadalised. Yogi ^(talk) 03:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! - Yogi ^(talk) 21:03, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi! This article was toned down by Michael Snow. Any text without citation was also removed. Could we remove the NPOV tag? Thanks. - Yogi ^(talk) 12:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Nick! - Yogi ^(talk) 17:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:UNacceptable.gif

Found the original image here. The blog (and the one he moved to that's linked at the top of the page) has been dead for some months. Given the context, I doubt the creator would care if it was used, but I'll try to e-mail him to ask. Rogue 9 21:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

John Kay yadda blah blah

Why the restore on John Kay (economist)? It's a blatant copyvio, largely empty, and likely A7 anyway. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 16:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

University template

There is information on Template talk:Infobox University. I've no problem changing "School type" to "University type" or even just "Type". Perhaps "Type of institution"? -- Netoholic @ 19:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Ha, neither did I. 42 that we know about is scary enough. I'll make the change to "type". -- Netoholic @ 19:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Football war

What's up withh the reverting of my edit as if it were vandalism? SqueakBox 19:47, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I got attracted to make an edit by the vandalism, as can happen. Cheers, SqueakBox 19:51, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Lorenzo Gabanizza

You put a cleanup tag on Lorenzo Gabanizza back in September; do you have a source for his notability? Web searches couldn't turn up much, and I'm tempted to AfD. --Mgreenbe 16:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

A search on google turned up very much instead. There's a lot of websites about him:

http://www.sonorika.com/site/info/indexsiti.php?Rif_Cat=19&Rif_Tipo=2

http://www.sartorio.it/detail.php?id=671

http://www.webalice.it/lorenzo.gabanizza/ (official website)

http://www.rockol.it/biografia.php?idbiografia=2268

http://www.regional-tv.com/a-hp/lorenzo/

http://www.goldenweb.it/dir/index.php?l=it&cat=64

http://www.lbha.org/Members.htm

http://www.missionecalcutta.it/interviste.htm (an article, written by him)

http://www.lbha.org/Sales/newsletters/news2005.htm (article published on newsletter june 2005)

And so on...

The Allies (band)

The Allies (band) does not meet any criteria for being notable and that is why it is listed for speedy deletion as a band. If you feel it meets one of the criteria, post the reason on the discussion page, but don't remove the speedy delete tag again. It's a valid candidate. Please don't change the slug again. --Walter Görlitz 20:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message and thanks for not reading the criteria being considered a notable band. I have again reverted using the db-band tag as is required for a non-ntable band. --Walter Görlitz 22:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I didn't ignorantly claim that you didn't know about the criteria for notability for a band. I saw from your actions that you simply didn't care to address the issue of notability. It's a big difference. This is no reason to assume ignorance, and certainly not a reason to make the claim. Liable is not appreciated. As someone else pointed out, this band has some small measure for being considerd notable. My entire claim was based on the criteria for speedy deletion based on the creiteria for the {{db-band}} slug. Nothing else. You never addressed the issues behind the insertion. No need to respond. --Walter Görlitz 23:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Once again your feelings are wrong and what you think is obvious is clearly not. I understand that speedy deleteion for band articles is "an article about a band that does not assert the importance or significance of the subject". So if they band had asserted their importance, they would would not require speedy deletion. They did not to my understanding assert their importance or significance and hence they were listed for speedy deletion. If you have a different understanding, please correct it. My understanding is correct. --Walter Görlitz 03:39, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

My understand is correct about the use of the speedy delete, but since I do not recognize PureVolume as a sign of notability since it is a website for rising bands. By stating that is for rising bands does not ascribe notability. However since a single member suggested that it should be considered that it should be used as a sign of notability I have relented.

I would like to point out two things: you changed your argument three times. First you said that lack of notability was not a criteria for speedy deletion. Then you said that it was, but gave no proof that the band had any sign of notability. Then you stated that PureVolume was a sign of notability. All the while you make personal attacks rather than discussing the issues. Please get your facts straight before you discuss and state them clearly, and learn how to discuss only the facts. --Walter Görlitz 16:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I stand corrected. Your argument never changed, you just never made your point clearly enough so that I could understand what the premise of your argument was. Lack of notability as described in the article is the primary reason for speedy deletion under the db-band slug.

Secondly if you don't think that saying that I "ignorantly" accuse you of something is not a personal attack: you accuse me of ignorance in my statements, then perhaps you have yet another definition of defamation. Thanks for your work on Wikipedia, but you can stop leaving messages on my talk page because I'm tired of your attitude. --Walter Görlitz 19:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I fully understand and if only you would take the time to read what I'm writing you would know that I understand and that we're saying the same thing but that we're coming at it from opposite sides of the same coin. You can go away now Nick. --Walter Görlitz 20:34, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

OK. You win. Please leave me alone now. --Walter Görlitz 01:52, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

*sigh* --Nick Boalch ^?!? 13:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Move page.

Hi! I need your help. Can you move the Dorset Premier League page to the Dorset Premier Football League page? The lattar page is now empty. In fact, before I could notice it, I deleted the Dorset Premier Football League page accidently, thinking that I would be able to move the page. You actually moved this page on the 23 July 2005. There were actually two pages all along! Thank You. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:IAR

Perfect, I like it in the second graph, that was a great idea. Let's try to keep it this simple and fight the instruction creep! --Wgfinley 19:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

An Esperanzial note

As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Celestianpower ^háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
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Image:Avila adobe.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Avila adobe.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

dbenbenn | talk 22:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Also Image:Moca.los angeles.jpg, Image:Olvera st los angeles.jpg. dbenbenn | talk 23:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

You took these pictures yourself, right? Please defend them as needed on the discussion page, and slap a {{PD-self}} or {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} on them so this can be over with! - Hbdragon88 03:17, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making the photos free! I notice that the photos at your web site, e.g. [1], are higher resolution. If you're willing to release the higher-resolution versions under free licenses, we'd love to have them! Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 06:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Miguel Pérez Alvarado

Thanks for translating. However, I'm not yet convinced about his notability. Can you share his bibliography or explain a bit about the poetry award? (Is it a national one, on for only La Palma, was it named after a famous poet?) - Mgm|^(talk) 21:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• Sounds like a notable prize. Please add something about the prize in the article. - Mgm|^(talk) 22:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Subtitle: Have I gone insane?

Last night A Day No Pigs Would Die contained masses of copyright information, the chapter by chapter synopses, word for word, from SparkNotes here. I contacted the user who'd placed them there and deleted them. Today I saw your note and looked -- and can see no evidence the offending edits were ever there. I'm willing to believe I didn't press submit on my edits -- it was late -- but I can't see any evidence in the article's history or User:Pkazazes's history that the edits were made in the first place (or in my contribution history of having made the revisions). I know administrators can do true reversions (can't they?) but was there a reason to, and is that what happened? Because otherwise I'm going to be convinced that (a) I'm insane and hallucinating, and (b) I'm hallucinating the word-for-word text of SparkNotes essays which I still see online and recognize from lst night. Thanks. Deborah-jl _Talk 15:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, thank goodness. I was up until 4:30 am editing wikipedia, and I was convinced I'd had some kind of sleep-deprived hallucination. Thanks for the update! Deborah-jl _Talk 04:03, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Revert war on List of countries and territories by area

Hi, there seems to be another revert war on the article List of countries and territories by area. First I tried to add back the EU to the list after someone removed it but someone else removed it again, then other people tried to add it, but the same user kept removing it. Then I changed the article name from List of countries by area to List of territories by area to match List of territories by population and the same user changed it to List of countries and territories by area. I think we need to find a consensus, but it's hard because I don't see collaboration on the other side. Can you help? --giandrea 21:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

heinous awful POV-pushing deletion of valuable content in my userspace

Not a problem. Thanks for letting me know. :-) Tomer^talk 01:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Ramon_del_valle_inclán.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Ramon_del_valle_inclán.jpg. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to indicate why we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies under Wikipedia's fair use guidelines, please read fair use, and then 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 want the image to be deleted, tag it as {{db-unksource}}.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion.

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you have any concerns, contact the bot's owner: Carnildo. 06:21, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Badger

Your doing, by any chance? --Bth 20:28, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Obviously you planted a meme, then. I'm well, thanks, currently applying to become a teacher and temping for Telewest in the meantime. (Their firewall doesn't block Wikipedia, thankfully.) How's life in Durham? --13:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia: Ignore All Rules

Hi there. Just wondering - how do my additions to WP:IAR count as instruction creep? Last I checked, instruction creep was when someone added more rules until people threw up their arms in disgust and stopped using the product in question due to it's overly complicated instructions. I hardly think this -

In short, the point is that if you aren't sure if you're breaking a rule or not and are hesitating to add to Wikipedia because of it, forget about the rules and post it anyway. If you meet resistance saying that your article is unacceptible or breaks one or more rules, then fine - change the article to be acceptible using the help and comments of other users, who will advise you of rules you may have missed. What we do here is Be Bold in editing, and THEN if you encounter resistance, take a step back, look at the consensus, consider the article, and rewrite it if neccessary. You won't be attacked for geniuinely trying to improve the encyclopedia.

- is instruction creep. It elaborates on the article. Isn't this paragraph what the page is trying to say? If you aren't sure if you're breaking a rule or not and are hesitating to add to Wikipedia because of it, forget about it and post it anyway. Doesn't this say what -

If the rules directly discourage you from participating in the Wiki, then ignore them and go about your business.

- says, only more elaborated? Please get back to me on this, as I am quite confused by your revert. -Jetman123 00:10, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

George M. Leader article

Hey... You seem to have been around a little longer, so maybe you can help me with something.

I know the article on George M. Leader was tagged for violating copyright rules some time ago. You left a message on the talk page about this.

I've edited the Leader article quite a bit. I didn't realize it until today, but it seems to be in violation of copyright rules again. In particular, most of the article seems to have been, once again, lifted directly from http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/governors/leader.asp?secid=31

I tried figuring out what to do on my own, but, honestly, the instructions here on copyright violations are rather overwhelming. And I fear I'm not exactly the brightest bulb on the tree.

So, I thought maybe if I contacted you, you'd know what to do.

Thanks.

WayneNight 04:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar, OTR & PUA Review

FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Russian True Orthodox Church

As I suspected from the outset, the copy vio was a misunderstanding. I suggest that you now remove the copy vio on the page. I'm afraid of annoying you yet again. --Walter Görlitz 05:46, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Nick:

1) You're still not a lawyer. Do not comment on this any further on my talk page until you pass the bar. Feel free to offer your non-legal opinions on the copyright dispute page or on the page's talk page, but leave me out of it.

2) There is no way that We authorize ... “Wikipedia” (http://www.wikipedia.org) to use this material through the WEB site under GFDL, GNU Free Documentation License as well as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. could be construed as not being a full and complete release for use under the terms of copyleft that is used on Wikipedia. I can't imagine why you are being so stubborn. --Walter Görlitz 14:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Nick it appears that you just don't get it. The group wants to give their material over to the GFDL and GNU Free Documentation License as their legal sheild. They have made every attempt to please you as no one else is in opposition to this. I see not other moderators or editors currently arguing against the page's inclusion. It's all about you and not admitting that you may actually be wrong.

Since it appears that you have so much sway over the page's author, why not just come out and use your power to tell the author of that page exactly what you want it to say? They have already bowed to your will twice in changing the copyright notice to keep you happy. So just tell the author.

You also don't get that I do not wish to carry this discussion on my page.

If I recall we had a discussion about keeping discussion about pages off user pages over another page. It took me threatening you to get you to stop then. I don't want to do that so let me spell this out for you unequivocally

DO NOT POST ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION RELATED TO RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH ON MY USER TALK PAGE.

Thanks.--Walter Görlitz 16:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

User:82.46.10.9

I am not AndyZ however, I did leave the blatant vandal tag on the users page too. Could you please read the changes again, as I would consider it to not only be blatant vandalism but an attack on a named person who is reported as being a member of the Rangers Supporters trust? [2] where the anon vandal has written: "RST member Sandy J Mackinnon admitted "We never really wanted the player but as part of the charade of "inclusivity", we thought...well if we can have a taig, we can have a silver-back. No ?""

--Roy Biv ( talk • contribs )17:15, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

As a side issue what is the policy on offensive usernames such as User:Have_you_seen_a_Handsome_Hun? --Roy Biv ( talk • contribs ) 17:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

A sectarian song? Which the theme is that all Protestants are ugly, I would imagine would be quite insulting to lots of people and is deliberately divisive. --Roy Biv ( talk • contribs ) 17:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't mean to leave the blatant vandal tag there; I noticed that Roy Biv left the bv template on the user page accidentally for the IP, and moved it to the user talk page instead. However, I then forgot to leave a note saying that the message was from Roy Biv before I deleted the user page. Thanks, AndyZ _t 22:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)