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hey mr!

hey there, this is purley about getting in contact with u. who am i? email\msn me - gorant87@msn.com

wanna actually see who i am.. www.myspace.com/babyash87

what im after..your email :) im voting for u. goodluck. x

Restore city_plaza.jpg

Please restore city_plaza.jpg, it is a fair use image as stated at the source web site www.cityplaza.ca: "Photographs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License. Photographs may not be distributed or used in any form unless this source is cited and the copyright holders BITNETS Inc. and the URL of this document http://www.cityplaza.ca receive appropriate attribution."

Why...

Hi Demon

I am atrades from the UK and just recently started getting invloved with wikipedia but been spending loads of time on AboutUs,org I have just recently been viewing your nomination for the board and I was intrested in your views, hope you dont mind.

I have just fought for the keeping of John Smeaton Baggage handler and I was wondering what your thoughts are on this.

Atrades

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Recent deletion of Category:Wikipedians who scuba dive

I have undone this recent deletion by your bot ^demon. I ask you to discuss this deletion at the category talk page.

Image:L 011bec8fd12af8295eb93cb84205d342.jpg

You deleted this image on June 12th I believe. Can you please restore it as it is for a page of a band who i am aquainted with. i dont believe it has any copyright. thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by A Pink Blue Thing (talk • contribs).

Wrongful Deletion of the File:Henry O. Studley Tool Chest Open.jpg

I have been away from wikipedia for a while, and I just noticed that the image for the Henry O Studley article that I uploaded was deleted by you. I was enquiring as to why it was deleted, as it was properly documented with the source and the licensing info, as it is a fair use image. I am fairly sure I complied with all the wikipedia rules regarding images.

If it can be restored by you please do so. If not please send me a message on my talk page explaining what I failed to do to make the image an acceptable wikipedia image. It is my understanding that all works done by the federal government fall under the fair use license.

Thanks for any reply. CoolMike 21:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Just thought I'd include a link to the article for your reference. I realize it was probably a while ago that the image got deleted.

Henry O Studley

Thanks

Sorry about my somewhat angry tone earlyer... I have since discovered that the issue is a little thornier than I had thought. The image was from the smithsonian institution, which is funded by the US federal government. They have a long copywrite notice here: copywright notice The image that I want to re-upload is here: . Maybee you can help me make sence of this. According to the SI web site I should be able to use it as wikipedia is a non-profit, educational web site. I gather that there is some conflicting policies from the Smithsonian Institution about this sort of thing. Check out that wikilink for info. It seems to me like the image is good to be used in wikipedia, but I figured I'd ask your opinion and read up on the wikipedia policies a little more before uploading any more images from the smithsonian. CoolMike 00:17, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

The only issue is that our downstream mirrors (such as Answers.com) do not necessarily support the "non-profit" model, which means this image cannot necessarily be distributed to them. ^demon 00:36, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

There seems to be some contradictions on the wikipedia policy regarding the use of "Fair Use" images. See wikipedia:Reusing Misplaced Pages content (towards the end of the page) and wikipedia:non-free content (the section entitled "Down stream content". In my opinion the article in question warrents the use of a fair-use image becuase there is no other easily available public domain image. I have looked around pretty extensively for a picture of Henry O. Studley, or his tool chest that is public domain, and I was unable to find any. The tool chest is currently in the possession of a private and annonymous collector, and so it is unlikely that a free use image is going to turn up any time soon. Henry O. Studley him is deceased. This leads to a quandry, as there are only fair use images for the article. These images would add a great deal to the article. Also they are not expressely forbidden by the wikipedia policies. Is there any due process for appealing a speedy deletion? The more I read about wikipedia policy the more dissatisfied I become with the contradictory and ambiguous nature of the policies. A simple vote or something would be much more satisfying to me than trolling through some of these really porely worded guideline pages. Thanks for your feedback by the way CoolMike 01:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Please respond CoolMike 21:51, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Restored. ^demon 15:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch. Is there anything I can do / should do to make the copyright/licensing notices more complete? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. It appears the old template for licensing from the smithsonian institution has been removed. CoolMike 16:03, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Your image deletion

Hi ^demon, can you explain why you deleted File:NASTARKidRacing2.JPG despite the fact that the deletion was contested, and without responding to the specific points I raised on its page? You said "Speedy deleted per (CSD i7), was an image with an invalid fair use rationale and the uploader was notified more than 48 hours ago", yet you made no attempts to engage in discussion regarding its status. 12:46, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

You say the image is easy to replace. I spent a long time looking and wasn't able to find a single one. I wrote the organization, and they were kind enough to send me this one. All their images are copyrighted, and they have to be released by the competitor. This is a promotional image released by the organization, and FU has a specific provision for promotional images. If you can suggest a way to get a free replacement, please do. Otherwise, please undelete, and please engage in discussion on the image's talk page, instead of just deleting. Crum375 13:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Obsolete NC images for deletion

Obsolete NC images without rationales such as Image:Captain norton.png, Image:Norton_commander.png and Image:Norton_Commander_5.0.png are not needed in article, because modern NC 5.51 for DOS image with rationale already added and modern NC 2.01 for Windows image with rationale already added are enough to illustrate Norton Commander in DOS and Windows versions. Wikinger 16:05, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Jackie Robinson's Retired Number

I found this in the deletion log of an image I uploaded.

12:53, 23 July 2007 ^demon (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Jackie Robinson Retired Cut.PNG" (Speedy deleted per (CSD i7), was an image with an invalid fair use rationale and the uploader was notified more than 48 hours ago.)

Now, I did not recieve any kind of warning. I'd like to know what just happened behind my back while people claim that I was informed when I wasn't. -- Silent Wind of Doom 17:53, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry you weren't notified. The bots always notify, so I've gotten in the habit of not even checking behind anymore. ^demon 23:53, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Garykarr.jpg

could you point me to the nomination for this image for speedy delete? --emerson7 | Talk 14:17, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

There is no nomination page, it was nominated directly on its image page. ^demon 14:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion

I'm not sure if you saw my last post - it was archived without comment, so I'll repeat it here. I'm a little confused about why you deleted Image:53logo.JPG under CSD I5 (orphaned fair-use image) when it was being actively used in an article (Fifth Third Field (Toledo)), in accordance with WP:LOGO, and was not orphaned. I'm not sure if I've misunderstood the situation - I don't know much about images, and I know fair use is complicated - or if this was an error. I won't undelete it without your consent, as I'm not confident in my knowledge of image use policy. Walton 16:44, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Re:Signpost Report

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll put it into next week's edition. I'll just use the online edition because even if you sent me the scan, I can't link to it! Thanks. enochlau (talk) 00:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion

Can you please undelete the images mentioned here so that I can add some fair use rationale? -- Prod-You 00:54, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Arbcom

You have been added as a party to the arbcom for violating the Foundations non-discrimination policy. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 15:42, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Your signature

Hi ^demon, I was wondering how you applied formatting to the timestamp portion of your signature. Please reply on my talk page, thanks! east.718 20:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I figured out how to do it. east.718 at 21:50, July 25, 2007

Misplaced Pages:Requests for mediation/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Is anything progressing with this mediation? A user has placed a request on WP:RPP to have the protection removed from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but as it was protected with the statement "until med case is solved" I am hesitant to remove protection. If, however, nothing is to come from the mediation, I would like to remove protection from this article (it has been two months). Since you're listed as the one heading this case, I figured you'd know. - auburnpilot talk 23:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

To be perfectly honest, I haven't thought about the case in days. If I wasn't up to my ears in this whole ArbCom mess, I'd go look at it now. Perhaps you can ping User:Daniel to see if it can get reassigned and/or closed. I'm just not focused on it right now, sorry. ^demon 23:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, ^demon. I left Daniel a note. - auburnpilot talk 00:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of Image:Iran1980s.jpg

Thank you for providing administrative services to Misplaced Pages. The image you deleted, Image:Iran1980s.jpg was being worked on by the graphics lab in an effort to produce an image which conforms to wikipedia policy. We realize that Image:Iran1980s.jpg did not conform to policy, but nonetheless it was one of the source images for this effort, and it may have been vital to our success. We ask that you check in the future if an image is linked to by the graphics lab, or if it has the {{glhangon}} tag before deleting it. Thanks, --BsayUSD 16:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I did read your red notice at the top of your talk page, we at the graphics lab are not claiming fair use, only that we were "in use" of the image for our project. As soon as an alternative was finished, the image in question was to be proposed for deletion, and the {{glhangon}} (if used) would have been removed as well as the link from the graphics lab. Thanks, --BsayUSD 16:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

newspaper reporter seeking info

Chad,

  I'm a freelance writer doing on a feature article for the Washington Post Sunday Magazine related to Misplaced Pages and the mediation of posted content. Would like to reach you by phone. Can you forward a reach number? I can be contacted at teamsport15@aol.com. Will forward my phone number is you prefer. Just give me a private email address to send it to.

Thanks, Tom D.

DRV notification

Category:Psuedoreligionist Wikipedians

As you may already be aware, Category:Psuedoreligionist Wikipedians and its subcategories, Category:Discordian Wikipedians, Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians, Category:SubGenius Wikipedians, and others, have been deleted. That deletion is now up for review. If you have anything you'd like to say on the subject, now is the time. If you know of any other editors who might have something to say on the subject, pass the word. If, on the other hand, you are not interested in the slightest, feel free to delete this.   — The Storm Surfer 01:04, 27 July 2007 (UTC)