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You say on your user page that you are here to "help out". Please do that. This is not a site where you wait for "things to be done" (as you said on the talk page for North Andover) -- this is a site where you do it yourself. If you see a problem with the "sites of interest" on a city page -- then take action.

Regarding the "marching band" issue. See my comments on Talk:North Andover, Massachusetts about how to correctly "fill out" the North Andover city page. --Shannonr 00:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

If you feel something is wrong, and want to know more, the best way to do that is to look at similar entries and see how it's being handled there. This place is very rewarding if you make the effort! :) --Shannonr 06:16, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Licorne

just FYI - he started his "I know the truth and nothing else matters" editing spree on Dec 28.

It took a month before people started giving up on advising him about manners, and another month before there was an actual arbitration case about him. See Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Licorne for where he's currently at. --Alvestrand 07:36, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

F.E.A.R. editing

Hi, just wanted to drop you a line to get some advice about some extra editing for the F.E.A.R. article. You can see at User:berserker79/b79sandbox a reworked "Trivia" paragraph and a "Director's Cut" paragraph I'd like to place in the article. If you'd like to fill in what's incomplete, provide corrections or feed-back anything of this would be appreciated. Thanks. Berserker79 10:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hey there Delta, I worked on a new "Story" section for F.E.A.R. and I'd like to hear your comments about it, to see if it can actually replace the current "Story" paragraph. You can read it, as well as edit it, at User:berserker79/b79sandbox. Let me know your opinion if you get the time to read that. Thanks. Berserker79 15:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: F.E.A.R. Story

You can leave any comments on my talk page or even better on the talk page of my sandbox here.

Re: Comments on F.E.A.R. Story

Thank you for your comments. Personally I decided to re-write the whole thing trying to make it look less "fanboyish and overly detalied" as requested, but since I felt I couldn't do it on the existing version I wrote a new one. I tried to keep details low in the new version, but it's still far from being a simple plot description. We need to decide whether we want a detailed storyline or simply a plot summary like Half-Life. Or maybe both, with a very, very, very short plot summary in the article intro and the full story in its own paragraph. What do you think about this? Berserker79 09:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I think we should bring the question up to the F.E.A.R. talk page and see how many are in favour of a detailed story and who likes best a brief summary. If we reach a consensus on either one we'll update the article appropriately. Berserker79 09:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Your Help Desk query (schools)

Hey, Delta.  :) Just letting you know that I've jotted down a quick answer to your question at the Help Desk. For the sake of convenience, I've copied what I wrote there onto this page. Please note that others may want to expand on what I wrote, however, and so you might want to check back at the Help Desk itself a couple times over the next day or two.

I think it would depend upon how the article is written. For more information on that, you might want to check out WikiProject Schools for discussion and guidelines. As far as stubs go, I don't believe they have an expiration date so long as they are providing useful information that another editor can expand upon to create a full article. Stubs details Misplaced Pages's Stub guideline. I hope this helps!

If you have more questions or I wasn't clear enough, please feel free to drop a note on my talk page. Happy editing! —PaperTruths 02:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: F.E.A.R. screenshots

Thanks for hunting down some screenshots, I spent about an hour yesterday trying to take some good pics with Frapps while playing, but none satisfied me in the end. I like the last picture in your list best, so I think I'll upload that to wiki and put it in the article. As for the other pictures I think you are right about the Holliday one: I guess it's that mentioned in the "characters page" where Holliday was clad in the F.E.A.R. suit. Thanks for the help. Berserker79 07:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: help

Sure, no problem! Here is what I do when I want to upload a screenshot/boxart/titlescreen picture of a computer game under "Fair Use":

1. For game screenshots and similar I seem to uderstand a limited resolution would be better (800x600 or 1024x768 or lower), also the PNG format seems to be reccomended. For the F.E.A.R. screenshots I also lowered the number of colors from 16M (24Bpp) to 256 (8Bpp), I don't think this is 100% necessary, but may help for that Fair Use thing.
2. Next the picture is to be uploaded with the "Upload file" function. Once you've selected the file to upload (Source filename) you can also change the name under which it will appear on wiki (Destination filename). In the "Summary" field I usually put a description (e.g. Screenshot of computer game), the source (e.g. or selfmade) and the FU rationale.
3. In the "Summary" field I also place the FU rationale. You can find here an example you can "copy&paste" into the summary field and then customize the single entries to suit your needs. I copied this from a Misplaced Pages policy page, so it should be quite safe. I seem to understand you must have a FU rationale for every article where your picture appears; e.g. if you'll use a screenshot both in the F.E.A.R. main article and the List of characters page you'll need a rationale for both articles on the picture page.
4. For the license you have the "Licensing" dropdown menu: you should find useful the "Video game cover" tag under the "Covers" section and the "Computer game or video game screenshot" under "Screenshot". Select the one that fits your picture.
5. Last I place this comment tag before the Image entry in the article: <!-- FAIR USE of IMAGENAME.jpg: see image description page at http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:IMAGENAME.jpg for rationale -->. Obviously you have to change IMAGENAME.jpg with the correct filename.

I think this is all. Up to now I've never received any warning this procedure is not correct, but I usually try not to exaggerate with uploading FU images... If you have still some doubt or have other questions feel free to leave a message and I'll try to get back to you asap. Bye, Berserker79 09:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Return

Hello Delta and welcome back! :)
Funny enough, I'm leaving today for a couple of weeks of vacation, so I will not be around on Wiki for a while... BTW, as you may have noticed we are going to lose one of the F.E.A.R. articles, sice the "Weapons" page has been undegoing a VfD: I've merged the "weapons" section in the main article, but kept it light since the ongoing "cvg peer review" for F.E.A.R. suggested to trim the weapons descriptions. If your computer and the external temperature are willing to collaborate, I'd like to ask you to keep an eye on the "peer review" page and see if any useful suggestion comes up. Thankw! See you in a couple of weeks, cheers! Berserker79 11:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

NORTH ANDOVER?

r u from N.Andover?Warfwar3 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Please help

Sorry to bother you, but as an things are getting desperate and I need to appeal to your for help. We are facing a situation where a deletionist admin is free to declare inclusionist arguments "absurd" and ignore them at will. If you don't agree with this situation, please share your opinion here. Kappa 02:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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