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Re: Non-free rationale for File:STBoughBreaks.jpg

I uploaded that image years ago along with a bunch of others for various Star Trek episodes, and since then others have deleted and/or replaced my images because they think theirs were better and what not - I really don't care, but for this image I had a good rationale written for it that seemed satisfactory until someone else decided to change it on me. So again, I replaced the rationale with my original text - if it's not good enough then do whatever with it because I'm sick of babysitting things around when someone suddenly thinks it's not good enough. Cyberia23 (talk) 17:33, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia

Hello Future, and a happy New Year! Sorry to trouble you, but you'll probably notice it soon enough. There's an edit war in Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia and proposals for move of the article. This is a result of the appearance of a new account, Mr. Seafall (talk · contribs), but if he is not a sockpuppet I will eat my hat: article creation with proper referencing on the fifth edit, and a proper move proposal on the tenth? Something stinks...Constantine ✍ 13:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Re: File:MIT ESG lizard mural with red lizard.jpg

What's the unambiguous copyright violation? This is a mural in a public space at MIT, and students in the ESG program consider these lizards to be their unofficial symbol. It was painted by a group of anonymous students as a group project at ESG some years back, so the creator is not available to ask for permission. I will try to get the ESG administrator's permission if you would find that satisfactory, but in any case, the photo we took represents only a small portion of the entire mural, and should therefore OK under "fair use."

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for helping me in understanding fair use rights :) I have removed the use of the image that I had uploaded in Mysore Airport, when an image of the same building can be freely created. Raghav vs (talk) 01:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Rename discussion

It has been nearly two years since the last discussion, the least you could do is avoid chiming in with some administrative nonsense until someone else has actually weighed in on the matter. You may have just successfully derailed the process before it even got started.--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 21:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Seen this article?

Here. Do you think it may be considered NPOV editing? Have a good year (355 days left. :-) --E4024 (talk) 23:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I prefer you archive my talk if not interested. I know that this is a voluntary work. Thanks all the same. --E4024 (talk) 19:11, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Your log on ARBR&I

Hi Future Perfect at Sunrise. Cla68 removed the log of the warning you issued to Mors Martell from WP:ARBR&I. Since he made the edit without any discussion anywhere on wikipedia, reversing an administrative decision, his edit appeared to me to be vandalism and I reverted it at such. If he wishes to challenge the arbcom motion concerning restoring edits of Echigo mole, he can do so, but he cannot stage a protest by vandalising arbcom pages. Mathsci (talk) 05:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

@Mathsci: You are making it very difficult for people to continue providing support in this area. On the topic of R&I, and in regard to trolling from banned users, you are correct in principle, but evidence is mounting that you have no idea how to protect yourself or the community from abuse. Your behavior is indistinguishable from that of a person who thrives on conflict—what possible good could come from reverting an established editor (particularly on an arbitration page, and with a blatantly incorrect edit summary of "rvv"—see WP:VAND). If you won't implement WP:DENY, the community may have to do it for you. Johnuniq (talk) 06:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

The way of dealing with trolling in this case was simple. Firstly a report at wikiproject Open proxies. After one further edit from the proxy, the proxy was blocked for 2 years by Kuru. I then filed an SPI report "for the record". Reaper Eternal confirmed that the sockmaster was Echigo mole. Is that what you're objecting to? Mathsci (talk) 07:42, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I reverted that edit, leaving the matter up to arbitrators or administrators. Mathsci (talk) 07:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

• A small correction also. The instruction to me logged on WP:ARBR&I reads. "Mathsci is instructed to refrain from posting further enforcement requests regarding the interaction bans listed here on-wiki without prior private consultation and agreement from an uninvolved adminstrator familiar with the case." That evidently did not apply in this particular case. Nevertheless I still agree with your advice that, given the logged warning to Mors Martell (now back in place), there was no need in this case for an AE report. Mathsci (talk) 10:37, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

peacock tag on Olav Zipser

Greetings, with regards the peacock tag on Olav Zipser I assume this adds the comment - This article may contain wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. (January 2013) -

Please can you clarify and advise as to how best update the article so as to satisfy this peacock tag. Are there specific sections that I should put into separate articles, what is your advice?

User:QuadtrippleaQuadtripplea (talk) 08:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

File:Accuracy International AWM 338.jpg

Someone may be uploading the same image that was deleted a while ago. --George Ho (talk) 12:50, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

It is the same person, me. I was asked to re-submit it with the correct ratioanle which I then did, however you have now deleted it, which means I have to submit it it for a THIRD time. Twobells (talk) 13:31, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't know who told you that, but I'm afraid it won't work – sorry about the confusion if indeed you were given that advice. As the thread on Misplaced Pages:Non-free content review has confirmed, these images could be replaced with free ones (which can in principle be created, even if none may exist now.) Per WP:NFCC#1, that really kills it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:46, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

WP:AE#Maurice07

• Maurice07 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

An editor who you have previously warned under WP:ARBMAC is now up for discussion at WP:AE#Maurice07. The complaint is one of nationalistic edit warring on topics related to Greece and Turkey. See also a report at AN/EW that was closed by forwarding it to AE. There was also a previous ANI from September 2012 in which he was blocked for revert warring about the placement of Turkey in Europe in a series of articles about diplomatic missions. Your ARBMAC warnings to him were in April 2012 and December 2012 though I don't believe they were logged. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 18:07, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, saw it (and had seen it coming), thanks. I'd certainly say sanctions are appropriate and necessary here. He is the kind of editor that just jumps from one petty POV issue to the next all the time. I don't think I should be taking admin action there though. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:06, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

AN notice

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Arvaniten

Es wurden früher nur die Albaner in Griechenland Arvaniten gennant, sonst nirgendwo anders. Aber nach dem Kritirien des Sprachgebrauches leben heute nur 200.000 Arvaniten. Liebe Grüße--Albanianp (talk) 13:17, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, nicht ganz klar, was du da zu sagen versuchst (ist da ein "nie" zuviel?) Aber wenn du das meinst, was ich vermute, dann irrst du dich. In der Quelle, die du zitierst, wird "Arvaniten" nicht spezifisch für die Albaner in Griechenland verwendet, sondern als das griechische Wort für Albaner allgemein. Fut.Perf. ☼ 13:29, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

File upload procedure

According to Masem , the new prompted inputs at WP:File Upload Wizard that then automatically craft meaningful NFC rationales are down to you, so here's

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		for inventing and building something that is a huge step in the right direction, and hugely impressive Jheald (talk) 18:33, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, I appreciate this coming from you. Yes, WP:FUW was mostly written by me, about a year ago. It was quite a bit of work too, because I had to learn quite a lot of new Javascript in the process. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:45, 13 January 2013 (UTC)