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Happy editing, Isomorphic 04:10, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Pardon if my tone on the revert of 'Replicators' was a bit harsh. Misplaced Pages has a standard for dealing with disambiguation which I was following - it's detailed at Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation. I gave the 'Star Trek' article for 'Replicators' the primary position. In these cases, the secondary article generally is allowed a brief line at the top of the article to define an alternative link. It is also customary to describe very briefly the primary article as part of this line, even if it is obvious from the first paragraph.

If the secondary article is placed at the bottom, it will often not be seen.

There is an alternative resolution: we can create a disambiguation page that treats both articles as equal, offering a 'Star Trek' branch and a 'Stargate-SG1' branch. I see no need for this if the standard disambiguation format is followed.

Welcome to Misplaced Pages!

Brian Rock 23:32, 2004 Mar 8 (UTC)

Lyrics

I think that posting complete sets of lyrics to songs written within the last few decades, as you've done with Rock The Roll, I Know You Will, Where You Gonna Run To, etc. is almost certainly a copyright violation. Why you think these can be released under the GFDL? You certainly didn't write it yourself, and I don't believe they could have been copied from a public domain resource. Have you read the notice about this under every edit box? Have you discussed this with knowledgeable people on Misplaced Pages? Dpbsmith 01:59, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of this! Dpbsmith 13:59, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Tables

Hello, thanks for the note on my talk. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with tables to know what's happening there. You might want to take a look at m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables or ask at Misplaced Pages:Help desk if that doesn't answer your question. Sorry I wasn't able to help further.  – Jrdioko (Talk) 15:05, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Empty Friends plots

I think I put stub notes on those pages, are these not sufficient? The incomplete pages are definately works in progress. Would it be safer just to disable the links until I am ready to totally complete the article?

Very odd, I swear I did the tilde thing before. Anyway, I removed the links and I'm going to fill in those plots as fast as I can (I'm a bit of a perfectionist so halfdone pages bug me more than empty pages. I know, weird). So if those orphan pages get found somehow (by bloodhounds) and get deleted, no big deal for me to create more complete ones.

On another side note, thank you for your help so far. I've been very impressed by the level of consideration and professionalism that I've seen from this project so far. Mimsie 00:57, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Tabula Rasa (Buffy episode)

It really needs to be "(Buffy episode)". The reason is because of episodes named Angel and The Initiative, which would be hopelessly ambiguous if qualified with "(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". To avoid this, the episode names need to have their own separate namespace. -- Curps 13:00, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I contacted Wolf Deunan about it before doing it. I went over all the articles to make sure I fixed up all the links. Hopefully I didn't miss any.

Angel has the same problem: there's an episode named Darla. -- Curps 13:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Warp

I noticed you uploaded Image:Warp.jpg, is this image protected by any copyright? --H. CHENEY 03:51, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I believe that image is copyrighted, and is probably not covered by fair use. Please read Misplaced Pages:Image use policy for more information

Table edits on Michael Phelps

Hi,

I wanted to let you know that I reverted your color changes and centering to the table for a few reasons:

• there is no "bronze" color available (at least not on most browsers - that's why we use "#c96"), and those sections were showing up as white
• centering the table centers all data in the table, including times (which then makes the WR notation cause the times to not line up)
• most tables dealing with medal counts/results on Misplaced Pages are not centered on the page, and the footnote describing Phelps' withdrawal should not be centered (especially since the footnote normally will go over 2 lines)
• and in a totally subjective thing, I just think the WR footnotes should be flush with the table if they take up more horizontal space than the table itself.

If you want to discuss any of this with me, feel free to respond on Talk:Michael Phelps, here, or on my talk page. Thanks, Mike J. 01:13, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Okay, apparently the "#c96" thing is causing problems with other browsers as well. I suspect the problem's just IE not respecting "#abc" as opposed to "#aabbcc" codes - I only use the former because I'm lazy and am used to them after working w/ CSS.

How does this look in your browser?

If the above block comes out black-on-bronze for you, then that code would be fine. If not, perhaps we could work on trying to find something that would be more portable than what we've come up with? -- Mike J. 02:02, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Alright, I think it's all fixed on the page now. Thanks for your help. -- Mike J. 02:19, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image:Transporter.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Transporter.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell ] 21:08, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Done. Redux 23:21, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Now how about Image:Trophys.jpg?

Actually, I created that image myself. I have added a note to the image's page on that regard. Redux 02:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Help with a troublemaker

Let me know if this is still looking like trouble in a couple of days, and no one else seems to be helping; if it is, I'll add it to my watchlist. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:06, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

• I've already added it to my watchlist. Try to engage him in discussion first, if he still reverts without replying, he can be blocked for violation of policy. ] 21:43, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
• You say it may take an admin to deal with him. Remember that admins can only enforce community decisions not make them. You might want to start a "Request for comment" to start gathering evidence of his inappropriate behavior so someonecan act. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:20, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:Dedo_de_Deus.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. ] 03:53, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Source of the image is, despite my research, unknown. I've added a comment to that effect in the image's page, and kept the tag that was already there, of course. I should mention, however, that copyright of images used on the Serra dos Órgãos article was the object of a long discussion between myself and Jorge Stolfi, which resulted in the removal of 2/3 of the images I had originally posted there. Stolfi said he made a research on the images, and that one was the only one he didn't flag as copyrighted – hence it being the only one to remain. Regards, Redux 05:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ALSO:

• Image:Armas.jpg
• Image:Claret Jug.jpg
• Image:Petropolis Imperial Museum.jpg
• Image:Niteroi division.jpg and Image:Niteroi regions.jpg RedWolf 23:23, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
• Image:Niterói Itacoatiara Beach.jpg
• Image:Charitas.jpg

and

• Image:Camboinhas.jpg

About Polyvios Kossivas

Hello, I just added the Greek forms of Mr Kossivas' wife's and daughter's names. About the T-shirt inscription, I don't think it's a good idea to translate it back to Greek from the English - it would almost surely produce something different from the actual inscription (translation is a lossy process!). I couldn't find the inscription in Greek with a quick search so...

BTW, note that I had enterd Mr Kossivas' surname spelled incorrectly and it was fixed by Etz Haim - I took the name from a newspaper, which had misspelled it! The current version should be correct, since it gets some Google hits, while my version didn't get any.

I just added Mr Diamantopoulos' name in Greek, too. Adia 16:41, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

Obiwan1.jpg

Heyas, I loved the view of earth from above. Impressive. Anyway, what I wanted to ask for is if you might have licensure data for the image on the right. It currently has no data and it says you're the uploader. I added this to my user page (I'm SocratesJedi so it kind of fits) but I wanted to make sure the license is legal before I continue using it for any length of time. Thanks and take care. -SocratesJedi 19:48, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for updating that image page. I really appreciate it! You get a thank you sunflower! -SocratesJedi 09:39, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Real

Ultimately it does not matter how things are arranged, but what makes you put the Brazilian currency on top of everything else? Just curious. Also, I did not understand your mention of the sock puppet. Cheers. Oleg Alexandrov 05:02, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

First about the sock pupet, you are right. I had one account at the beginning, but then I did not like how it sounded, and made another one. I never use the old one anymore.

About the Real page. You have a point again. My explanation was poor, and I did not do a "usage analysis" to see what should come on top. I don't think an usage analysis can be done, and neither does it make much sense.

However, I think most people coming to that page will not look for the Brazilian currency, but rather for something else. I would suggest that the first item in the list be "Real" in the sense of reality. Second could be "Real number", because that's used a lot in the sciences. What's below that probably does not matter too much.

I will not do the change myself, and I agree with you that it does not matter as much. But I would challenge you to think about it. Oleg Alexandrov 18:48, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Can you email me?

Can you email me with a translation of the points in the Veja piece to which you think I should respond? --Jimbo Wales 04:32, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Veda article

Thanks for letting me know about the story in Veja. I'd also be interested in a copy of the article if you have one. Angela. 00:49, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Voleyball gold.jpg

Thanks for uploading Volleyball gold.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Woohookitty 08:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar Banner

Your quite welcome. I notice there are other awards people discussed, so I will see what I can do. I gif images for Flags of the World website, so if you wish to get advice on images, let me know. Zscout370 23:11, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)