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{{Welcome}} -gadfium 21:03, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Grapes

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--Spangineer (háblame) July 9, 2005 14:03 (UTC)

The photo was the September 13 Picture of the Day.

SoCal WikiProject

I've made a list of the children of Category:California

Just to let you know, I've created a list of the child categories of Category:California, at: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject California/categories. Let me know what you think of it. JesseW 00:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

About rotating the photo of the New Otani...

Hello:

Rotating the photo is fine. I wish I had a higher quality original but unfortunately, my digital camera at the time was a real piece of junk (I have a better one now, as you may have noticed from my recent uploads). --Coolcaesar 17:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Template:PD-CAGov

Sourcing is not the issue, but licensing is, which is why I redirected to {{no license}} (instead of {{no source}}). But the real point is that this issue cannot be satisfactorily resolved on TfD at all. There is an underlying legal queation that can perhaps only be resolved through research and/or by consulting legal experts. I've sent a request to the Juriwiki-l mailing list, because this sort of issue has come up before and will come up again, and we don't have a good way of resolving it. Debating the license templates on TfD doesn't really address the fundamental problem, and in fact no amount of debate will, since the issue is not internal to Misplaced Pages.

I don't know whether SPUI's argument is ultimately convincing. However, it casts enough doubt on the PD claim that it should prompt us to investigate the situation and adopt a cautious attitude while it is being resolved. The redirect is intended as a temporary compromise: it signals that we're aware of the issue, and if it's confirmed that the template was indeed essentially correct, it can be easily reverted.

In general TfD isn't the right venue for this sort of discussion. I don't know if there currently is a proper place for a focussed discussion of licensing and copyright issues, but it's clear that TfD is not it. We may need to find/create another forum where these things can be discussed at a general level. In this case, someone needs to do the work of a lawyer or paralegal to find out details about the California situation. If a determination is made, perhaps even by the Foundation and/or Jimbo, that certain images cannot be used, then obviously the license templates can be deleted without going through TfD. In any case, what is needed is more research, expert advice, etc., not more debate on TfD. Until we have a good way of doing this properly, we have to be cautious, hence the present solution. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 07:42, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

• I was just leaving and this caught my eye. Do you guys know user:BDAbrahamson ? I just confered with him on a copyright issue as he's a FL. based lawyer/admin that does a lot of legal work for the foundation. Right now he want's email posts, but he got back to me promptly, and also dropped in on the RFC below. May help! Can't hurt. FrankB 05:36, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Southern California WikiProject

It is interesting that one of the side-effects of MetsBot's tagging of all the California articles with the {{WikiProject California}} template has been an increase in membership in the California WikiProject.

I was wondering if you could do the same thing for the Southern California WikiProject. It'd be a little more complicated than just tagging every article that has a category that has category:California as a parent. The only way that I can see doing it would be to go to Category:California counties, and go to each of the subcategories for the counties in Southern California (which are listed at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Southern California#Scope).

Question: Is MetsBot intelligent enough to copy over any of the imporatance ratings in any existing California Wikiproject template with ratings (e.g. {{WikiProject California|class=B|importance=High}}) to the {{WikiProject Southern California}} template? 11:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi BlankVerse. Unfortunately, MetsBot no longer does WikiProject tagging due to the huge controversy surrounding the issue and many complications that have arisen. BetacommandBot does do WikiProject tagging though, so you can try contacting its owner, Betacommand. Sorry —Mets501 (talk) 12:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:California-related lists

Thanks for the tip! Schmiteye 17:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I finally started looking at categories and realized they are abused and misunderstood. So I don't mind poking around especially since they usually fall in the same section as "External links", another area that needs lots of help. Schmiteye 17:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Topics in LAHCM (city)

Hi. Inspired by User:Jengod/Topics in LAAZ, I created a page Topics in LAHCM (city). Hope you find it valuable. -- Jreferee 13:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)