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Welcoming

Hello new user and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:

...everyone gets a standard welcome blurb. ed g2s • talk 17:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:CUNT.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:CUNT.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 its not being deleted. Thank you. —Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr.) 02:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Bar Product PDF

I found the guy's website (apparently he moved to another university), but I don't see the notes that I referenced there. In any event, I still have them. I can email them to you if you like. Jpkotta 01:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm always right

...and I can't be seen associating with common vandals such as yourself. ed g2s • talk 18:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming

Hello new user and welcome to Wikipedia. A few tips for you:

...everyone gets a standard welcome blurb. ed g2s • talk 17:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:CUNT.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:CUNT.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 its not being deleted. Thank you. —Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr.) 02:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Bar Product PDF

I found the guy's website (apparently he moved to another university), but I don't see the notes that I referenced there. In any event, I still have them. I can email them to you if you like. Jpkotta 01:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm always right

...and I can't be seen associating with common vandals such as yourself. ed g2s • talk 18:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


FYI

You can link to images by adding an extra colon [[:Image:like this.jpg]] -> Image:like this.jpg. ed g2s • talk 23:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Trouble

Speaking of trouble, we crashed a conference party and Ben managed to start a fight over pool with some Fellow's brother. Ray was going mental, silly little man. Also, "I'm slightly less knew"? ed g2s • talk 13:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Anonimity

Come September some smart-arse pupil's going to be trawling through your contributions... ed g2s • talk 14:08, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Depends if you're bothered - but once the search bots get a hold of it it'll start moving up Google search results for your name. ed g2s • talk 14:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Deal with it. ed g2s • talk 18:58, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Anything but write my dissertation. ed g2s • talk 19:03, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
DIV is you general purpose block (SPAN is the general purpose inline block). The style attribute is for sticking in CSS. Proper webdesign would have you do <div class="adamsPage"> and stick all that junk in a stylesheet file under .adamsPage{}. The Wikipedia software strips out a few things, such as the background-image property (style="background:url('image.jpg')") as this would let people drop in files from other sites. My userpage puts in an image, the puts some content underneath it with a negative top margin, moving the box over the image.

margin-top: -101px; font-weight: bold;

Acutally, my page uses relative positioning, but there are many ways to skin this cat.

The fun part is tweaking it to work in IE, Firefox, Opera, Konquerer.. which all have a different interpretation of the CSS2 standard. ed g2s • talk 19:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

The bot doesn't exist yet, but then just because the page isn't on the list, doesn't mean it shouldn't be on the list. The use on reserve team pages hasn't really been discussed. User pages, league pages, player pages etc. where it's used as an icon are the problem ones really. You haven't done anything wrong though, there should be a rationale for each use. ed g2s • talk 21:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Assume good faith?

Perhaps you were just in a hurry going through recent changes, but you issued a warning to 189.182.23.243 for vandalizing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, despite the fact that his edit appeared to have good intentions. Please review his edit, and insure that you wish to keep the vandalism warning posted on his page, and always remember to assume good faith. Ninja! 00:18, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps there is some in joke with harry potter that I'm just not getting, but this edit [1]

Does not seem like vandalism. If in fact, this is just some harry potter thing I'm not getting, and it is non-factual information, I apoligize.


Yes, if they are infact adding nonsense, then a warning is in order. Personally I would have used subst:error2 for deliberate factual errors, but uw-vandalism2 works OK too.Ninja! 00:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

There is a list of warning templates that can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace Ninja! 00:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

And the error2 template is just uw-error2 Ninja! 00:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

I can only do a short block initially, which I have, but I will watch him/her.--Anthony.bradbury 00:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I knew what you meant. Really, you cannot do anything else yourself at this time, but we all watch WP:AIV, and a user posted there, if they have vandalised after their fourth warning, will be dealt with very promptly. In the longer term, of course, you amass about 3,000 edits, evenly spread in mainspace, wikispace, projectspace and talk, and apply for adminship. You can do more then.--Anthony.bradbury 00:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: aiming for adminship, it is also a good idea to keep out of big fights. Most votes against on a request for adminship are from users holding a grudge. ed g2s • talk 16:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Considering that you are now challenging my every contribution, you seem to know something about grudges. Yakuman (数え役満) 23:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Melvyn Bragg

In the interest of good faith, I've removed the vandalism warning here, as i now believe adam was acting with good faith according to his reading of policy. I am unsure if one is allowed to revert such warnings. If I have acted improperly here, feel free to revert. Yakuman (数え役満) 03:28, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, ignore the above warning. See my comments on his talk page. It may help to point to specific policy in your edit summary (see mine), but most users don't react like this, nor should they. ed g2s • talk 16:31, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Fixed: it's Foundation:Resolution:Licensing policy. ed g2s • talk 21:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

LOEs

Yes, but too many people think not to make it worth the hassle at the moment. Eventually the policy will be clearer. ed g2s • talk 19:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

LOEs

I'd urge you to read Wikipedia:Fair use/Fair use images in lists, Wikipedia:Fair use criteria/Amendment 2 and Wikipedia talk:Fair use#Screenshots (2) (and lots of other discussions.. all over the place). I'd advise you not to remove screen captures which are perfectly valid as per the FUC with consensus in agreement without an explicit consensus to do so. It's disruption. Matthew 22:56, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Nobody is saying you're not allowed an opinion - but the consensus does not agree with you, and thus you should not attempt in removal of these images against the consensus of the community; it can be construed as malice. I understand you'd side with your friend, but please: discuss, don't edit war. At the end of the day it'll work better for all of us without getting hot-headed, cheers. Matthew 23:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, you've misunderstood me. I was not saying anybody was getting hot head or revert warring I was trying to say we should not edit war/get hot headed, because it is better. Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines states: "While we strive to build consensus, Wikipedia is not a democracy, and its governance can be inconsistent. Hence there is disagreement between those who believe rules should be explicitly stated and those who feel that written rules are inherently inadequate to cover every possible variation of problematic or disruptive behavior. In either case, a user who acts against the spirit of our written policies may be reprimanded, even if technically no rule has been violated." -- in this case consensus is not overriding policy, it is the opinion of a minority of users that usage of images within LOEs violates policy, the consensus disagrees however. Matthew 23:35, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

(bad?) Vandalism Warning

Hi I'm not sure how WP:TW works... but I think it might have malfunctioned when you gave User talk:Nateiscool his 3rd warning here. If you notice you used the 1st vandalism warning when he has already been warned twice beforehand... so shouldn't he have been given the 3rd level warning? Just checking. 21:36, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

No problem, just wanted to make sure it wasn't malfunctioning and wanted to point it out otherwise. MrMacMan Talk 21:44, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

BookShorts

Despite the conflict of interest there, the version of BookShorts currently there isn't a G11 candidate because it's not as blatant an ad as the previous one. Try AFD. --Coredesat 01:55, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't notice that it was an A7, but yeah, {{db-corp}} would've been better. Either way, it's been deleted, so it's not a big deal. --Coredesat 22:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Userpage Vandalism

Just to let you know that I reverted some vandalism on your userpage. Sorry if you'd rather I hadn't. ...adam... (talk • contributions) 00:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I appreciate it! :) Literacola 15:10, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Boosh.jpg

The surest way would be to have the author/copyright holder e-mail the Wikimedia foundation (permissions-en[at]wikimedia[dot]org), confirming that and under what license (such as GFDL, or Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike) he intends to release it (or that he releases it into public domain for unrestricted use). For a list of available licenses, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags.

By the way, the image has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Click on "description page there" to go to Commons, and then correct the link and provide its copyright status. Regards, Mike Rosoft 16:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

I have just discovered what the problem was and corrected it; however, the Flickr user states that he retains copyright to the image ("© All rights reserved"); unless he releases it under a free license (permission for Wikipedia only, for non-commercial use, or one that prohibits derivative works is not sufficient), it'll have to be deleted. - Mike Rosoft 16:39, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
This doesn't seem official enough; "I hereby release image such-and-such which I have made into public domain" should probably do the trick. - Mike Rosoft 16:52, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Autoboosh.the.list.cover.jpg

It seems that both conditions should be met; see our fair use policies and guidelines. - Mike Rosoft 16:09, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Flikr Permission

Hey, I asked the person who owns this if he would release the copyright to it and he agreed, but I don't know how to do that so could you tell me? The guy has said that he's happy to do whatever he needs to to release the copyright. Cheers mate. ...adam... (talk • contributions) 15:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

The Flickr page seem to have vanished. Flickr has options to release images under Creative Commons licenses. He'd have to choose cc-by or cc-by-sa (if he uses nc (non-commercial) and/or nd (non-derivs) we can't use it). Any evidence of him saying he wants the images available under some specific free license will do, but emailing permissions at wikimedia is the best way. Also make sure it is a DVD screencap... ed g2s • talk 16:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
The Flickr page is alive and well; the problem was with the description template ("photographer_login" serves for the user's code; "photographer" for his name or nickname). If he intends to release it for unrestricted third-party use, it should be marked with {{PD-release}}. - Mike Rosoft 16:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Aha! {{PD-release}} is different on Commons and here; on Commons, it redirects to {{PD-self}}. The correct tag was {{PD-author}} - fixed now. - Mike Rosoft 17:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Also all of these: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=boosh&l=commderiv are ours for the taking (provided they are not photos of posters/TVs/screencaps). If you stick &l=commderiv in a flickr search you get stuff that we can use. ed g2s • talk 16:41, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Or install this: http://edcam.dnsalias.com/flickr.html. ed g2s • talk 16:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[[:en:Some page on en]] as opposed to [[en:Some page]] which creates an "interwiki" link in the left menu to represent that page's equivalent page on en.

Looking at the collection of the pictures, they are from multiple angles, professional quality, are all widescreen and low resolution. Almost certain still frames from the DVD. This guy does not own the copyright, so has no control over their use or license. ed g2s • talk 17:16, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

To distinguish between a [[Some page]] (on Commons) and [[en:Some Page]] (on en.wiki). You have to pipe the link if you don't want the en: to show, bit annoying... ed g2s • talk 18:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikibreak

In javascript (and most languages) // means single-line comment, so

var month = 2 // 4

set month to 2, 4. You may want to fix your wikibreak accordingly. ed g2s • talk 21:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, ...adam...! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 17:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Davesmith33

Reported to AIV for persistant removal of warnings and disruption but I am not sure what they will think there. GDonato (talk) 15:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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