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"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." Proverbs 15:1 King James Version

Against voluntary dual-licensing
I am against voluntary dual-licensing of Misplaced Pages contributions.

Ms. Kelly

The album was originally titled Kelly Rowland: My Story and was recently renamed to Ms. Kelly. I posted an audio source for this information on the article a few days ago ... - Noboyo - November 18, 2006

Timing

Its all about timing. You are strong with the Force, young padawan. KillerChihuahua 18:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how I missed that RfA until so late. I thought I had checked there yesterday. Ah, well, I do get somehting right every once once in a while. -- Donald Albury 18:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

I was indignant enough over your nosing me out to offer WP:200 support, and now I learn that such nosing was essentially inadvertent? That's, I suppose, what I get for not quoting the Bible on my userpage. :) Good on ya in any event, Joe 03:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I had just discovered that Brad was up, so it was indeed pure luck. :-) -- Donald Albury 04:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Reverting Image tags

Dalbury -

Also, you are correct about the limited use but only in the sense that this was his typical response. But all along, I only "asked permission" as a courtesy to the artist. Since then, I am aware that since it was originally a promotional object, no permission was needed in the first place. Let's remember that this JPG file was only a small thumbnail pic of a large painting, (I've seen some of the artist's paintings at the Atlanta Airport. So my "solution" was simply to remove the "permission obtained" note and change the tag to promotional.

I thought that I was supposed to simply correct the tag on that Theodore Roosevelt image noting that it was from a promotional source and by so doing, I was SUPPOSED to remove the dispute notice. Sorry - I'm not entirely knowledgable about the processes. So after I correct the tag, at least, from my perspective, then what? Thanks. PS - Vandalism is NOT, in any way my intent here. SimonATL 20:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

You still don't understand. The default assumption is that everything is copyrighted. Under current copyright law, a copyright is automatically created in almost all circumstances when a work is created. There are three ways we can use a creative work in Misplaced Pages:

1. If it is in the public domain. This is the case for works that are old enough for copyright to have expired, or if it was created by a United States agency or one of its employees in the course of his or her duties. That does not apply in this case.

2. The work has been licensed in a way that allows anyone to reproduce it for any purpose. That requires something like the GFDL license or the CC-BY-SA license, for which there is no evidence in this case that the artist has so released his work.

3. The English Misplaced Pages allows limited "fair use" of copyrighted work, but the "fair use" must be justified. See the Misplaced Pages policy at Misplaced Pages:Fair use and Misplaced Pages:Fair use criteria for discussion of the restrictions on "fair use".

In other words, there is no "free pass" on "promotional" images, and "permissions" from artists that do not take the form of a truely free license are meaningless on Misplaced Pages. -- Donald Albury 21:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Longleaf pine scanned image

I added the info you requested about where the specimen pine was found. Does it need more info? Fortunately I got the specimen when I did as the tree it is now dying and will have to be cut down :-( Noles1984 14:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good! Thank you for fixing that. -- Donald Albury 14:24, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Gifford Arboretum

As much as I like plant lists, I don't see how this really helps. I'd say either stub it down and remove the list, or convert the list to an actual list (since as a paragraph its unreadable). And, of course, it would need a reference.

So what sounds better to you - remove the species, or make them look like a list? Guettarda 15:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA, which closed favorably this morning, as well as for your kind comments accompanying your !vote. I appreciate the confidence the community has placed in me and am looking forward to my new responsibilities. Please let me know if ever you have any comments or suggestions, especially as I am learning how to use the tools. Best regards, Newyorkbrad 20:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Leon H. Sullivan Summit

I noticed that you recently deleted the article Leon H. Sullivan Summit. I recently expanded the Leon Sullivan article and was wondering if you could undelete the Leon H. Sullivan Summit article as I would like to link to this, as well as expand it. Thanks, --Dovcamp 01:56, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I deleted Leon H. Sullivan Summit because it consisted solely of material copied from another source in violation of copyright. You are welcome to start a new article, but please remember that all material added to Misplaced Pages needs to supported by reliable published sources, but must not violate any copyright. -- Donald Albury 02:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Jgarbis

Hey, there -- wondering if you had any comment on this user's current unblock request? (Which is a nice way of saying "Gosh, I dunno what to do." :p) You blocked them, originally, so your input as to the believability of their latest message would be especially appreciated, I think. Thanks. Luna Santin 03:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

As it happens, I declined the request just a few minutes ago. They still just don't seem to get it. -- Donald Albury 03:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm! This indicates that I did respond, but I don't see it when I look at the user talk page. Puzzlement! -- Donald Albury 03:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Heh -- I've made the same mistake, a few times, not switching {{unblock}} to {{unblock reviewed}}. (Which is another reminder that I should consider merging the two templates). Fixed that for now. :) Luna Santin 03:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah! My first response to an unblock request. Now I know. -- Donald Albury 03:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

discussing 'Fexism'

Hello Dalbury, i am uncertain about your reccommendation for delete on this article, its just that i am at a college in Newcastle and our socology teacher told us about this theory, it seems that it has attracted some interest in the sociology under-world! She said that her friend in sunderland told her about it, she disagrees with it, but her friend who is male thought it was ok. i just thought i should let you know, because it may attract some interest..

Please confine comments about the article to the article's talk page, and comments about the AfD to the AfD's talk page. -- Donald Albury 22:01, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Talk:Possibly unfree images

Why did you de-archive the entire page, remove my question and not contact me? Your action was OTT as the 'active' discussion had not been posted to for 7 days... Please don't do that again as it is disruptive as archiving is a necessary aspect of talk page management (someone on a 56k modem would take ages downloading that talk page!)-Localzuk 17:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

You're right. I apologize. I was not at my best when I did that. -- Donald Albury 18:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Notable Dancer

It is not up to you to determine whether one is considered 'notable' or not. What makes a professional NBA dancer any less 'notable' than a NBA player... money?? or your blessings?? Both are 'notable' achievements, so please do not change. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Prentiss77 (talk • contribs) 08:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC).

Determination of notability of people for Misplaced Pages purposes is guided by Misplaced Pages:Notability (people). Note that notability can only be established by multiple, independent, published reliable sources. If you can establish the notability of a person using multiple, published, reliable sources, then create a Misplaced Pages article for that person. Once an article exists in Misplaced Pages (and doesn't get deleted for not meeting the criteria for an article), you can cite that person as 'notable' in other articles. -- Donald Albury 18:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)