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Note to those of you contacting me about legal issues affecting the Wikimedia Foundation: Please contact me by email - bpatrick at fowlerwhite.com rather than leaving stuff on this page. I prefer to keep this page related to my edits and repartee with Wikipedians about en:WP rather than current legal issues.

Thanks.

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spinone photo

Thanks so much for the photo, Image:Spinone italiano Daisy.JPG. Do you by any chance have a larger version of the photo? This one is a little smaller than would be ideal. If so, you can just upload it with the same name (go to that image page and you'll see the "upload a new version of this image" link). Elf | Talk 22:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, you're lying. I advised for a double license. And if you were playing the game right, this pic should be on Commons. Pffft. notafish }<';> 00:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Bizou, mon peashooter. I have corrected my evil ways!--BradPatrick 00:12, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Your message

I think that you're talking about a comment I left at W:AN/I. If so, I didn't doubt the existence of the lawyer (is it you?), only complained that referring to "a lawyer" who said something on a mailing list, without any further details, wasn't adequate reason to criticise my comments about out-of-process deletions. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 12:45, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

You found him. I haven't done a good enough job keeping my head down on Foundation-L.--BradPatrick 00:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Public domain

Howdy Brad,

this is a one-time attempt, and if you tell me that you don't want to get entangled in © issues here on-Wiki, I'll just let it drop silently. So far nobody has found serious errors on Misplaced Pages:Public domain, but then, no professional lawyer has ever looked over it, as far as I know. Interested to take a look and give feedback or improve it? A second, and really more current issue is to get {{PD-USSR}} right. See Template talk:PD-USSR for pointers about previous discussions. Input from a professional might be very helpful... Lupo 09:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

All right, I have asked him. Lupo 08:54, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Richard Arthur Norton's image uploads

Please look more carefully. I'm getting somewhat annoyed at having to explain this time and again. None of his image uploads are summarily deleted. They have been removed from the articles, but not deleted. They are being checked individually now. See also User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ), and also Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject New Jersey, and User talk:Carnildo, and, of course, WP:AN. As to his claimed desire for discussion (according to the OTRS mail you quoted): he misunderstands two things: first, his images are not being "punished", and second, he has, with his blatantly false licensing claims, damaged his credibility to the point that I don't see why I should trust his say-so on any image. If that means that we inadvertantly will get rid of a few images that we could have otherwise kept, then that's entirely his fault, not ours. Lupo 08:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

My point is that his say so isn't the criteria on some of the images. *Any* image of the 1850 census is non-copyvio. The baby/bathwater argument is aggressive, and based on your interpretation of his credibility. Demonstrable credibility or not, I was confirming (which you have) that these are being looked at individually and not bot-deleted en mass.--BradPatrick 14:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the census images are obvious PDs. Others are not. Some are very likely PD, some are mistagged, some are copyvios, etc. If you'd like to help checking them, there's an excellent tool that helps a great deal. But it's still slow going. Also, I'd like to know what our position is on verbatim copying of press releases. (See his talk page.) Lupo 15:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

And with some, I just don't know what to do. See Image:Ivermectin.gif. Lupo 16:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats

Congrats on your new position. Keep WP on the up and up, ya know? See you around. --LV 04:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, welcome aboard, and please don't worry about us talking behind your back ;-). NoSeptember 18:26, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Ral315 (talk) 22:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I am surprised that the wikipedia lawyer wasn't an admin already. Also, nice work on the Gospel of Judas picture, too bad NGS won't let us keep it for more than 90 days. --metta, The Sunborn 11:11, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi

With regard to Konigun Ninjutsu, why are you removing discussion of this subject? I'm going to assume as a lawyer that you have a particular reason, yet Misplaced Pages discusses many court cases before they are finished. Is Misplaced Pages involved in the court case? If so, and we need to abide by some injunction we should say so. If not, why should we stop reporting the facts in a neutral way? DJ Clayworth 17:55, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Okay, you caught me. I'm not an attorney, I'm a rodeo clown

Okay, you caught me. I'm not an attorney, I'm a rodeo clown. Hmmm. Do you report anonymous administrators who use Misplaced Pages "with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person" to the local U.S. Attorney's office (President Bush signed this new law on January 5, 2006), or does that portion of what you are "obligated to do" get lost in shuffle? I feel obligated to report you to the Florida bar. We rodeo clowns have a sense of proportion. Donna Nelson GeeGoo 17:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Keep it up. You're only going to make things harder for yourself.--BradPatrick 19:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a legal threat. Careful, you might get blocked. 62.118.249.75 21:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

eMail

Tossed you an eMail to your work account. Sherurcij 16:23, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Doppelganger

Brad:

I created User:Brad Patrick just a few minutes ago as a preemptive doppelganger; just thought you should know. Essjay (Talk • Connect) 19:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)