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Thanks for the inspiration!

Inspiration for real-life creativity award

Hey there! I saw your article, Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma, on DYK a while back. My goal this summer has been to write six short plays, and your article proved to be an intriguing basis for the first of six that I wrote, aptly titled Dead Women Crossing. It turned out to be an exciting mystery, and though I changed many of the details and, in fact, assigned the blame for the crime to someone other than the person to whom the article assigned it, it still proved a very solid and mysterious basis in fact. I just wanted to give you props for starting the article that inspired this one-act. Thanks so much, and keep it up! BobAmnertiopsis∴ChatMe! 03:11, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much for letting me know my work was useful for you! It is the best award any wikipedia contributor could get. Good luck with your work.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:16, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

You're so welcome. It was an intriguing article. BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 03:26, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Blocked

Per your email request today, I've indefinitely blocked you. Take care, Rd232 10:15, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Bluff erosion in Pacifica 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 26, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-07-26. howcheng {chat} 02:45, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations on getting today's feature picture on the main page. I'm also sorry to see that you've allowed the bullies push you into despair to leave the project. You are a valued editor and have contributed more in several days than they have since they registered. I understand that you are leaving the project because of trolls and administrators that are acting on their behalf. I'm hoping to see you back when you are ready. --Shuki (talk) 06:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for kind words, Shuki! Actually I was going to leave the project for quite some time because I am busy in real life, and not because of trolls and wikihounds. Leaving the project because of trolls and their pet administrators acting on their requests means allow them to win. It is not for me. But you are right about trolls taking over the project. In June of 2005 RickK, who I believe was an administrator had this to say: "There is a fatal flaw in the system. Vandals, trolls and malactors are given respect, whereas those who are here to actually create an encyclopedia, and to do meaningful work, are slapped in the face and not given the support needed to do the work they need to do." It is sad that now in July of 2011 (6 years after it was said) I could sign under each statement RickK made. I also could sign under this comment that definitely is true concerning quite a few administrators: "The way you dish out blocks is worse than any admin I've ever seen, but you cannot or will not accept that there is a problem. You lack the judgement, and the thickness of skin, to do the job properly; you lack the compassion, humanity and humility to admit it when you fuck up". OK, I guess I'd better stop here :-) Best wishes, and happy editing to you,Shuki.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for "compassion, humanity and humility"! I makes me sad to see the best leaving. Looks like I could have written my essay on "rejected" also for you, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for kind words,Gerda. I've just read some editor's contributions, and it made me sad seeing such interesting content contributor got so desperate that they decided to leave.It was very kind of you,Gerda, to be there for this person, when they needed some words of support. Best wishes, and happy editing.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:05, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Marvellous photos of natural optical phenomena

I just want to express my sincere gratitude to Mbz1 for making these fantastic photos of spectacular natural optical phenomena publicly available. I used her photos in two of my research papers published in professional scientific journals:

Mishchenko, M. I., 2009: Gustav Mie and the fundamental concept of electromagnetic scattering by particles: a perspective, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 110, 1210-1222

Mishchenko, M. I., and L. D. Travis, 2008: Gustav Mie and the evolving discipline of electromagnetic scattering by particles, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 89, 1853-1861

In both cases Mbz1's photos served as vivid illustrations of profound physical laws controlling the interaction of light with small cloud particles suspended in air. I hope Mbz1 will continue to make such photos and post them on the web -- this is a great service to both professional scientists, amateur researchers, and all admirers of nature.

Thank you for the kind words.Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 10:59, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Misplaced Pages:The best way to avoid ever being blocked

Come back!

Come back! We need you! Your contributions were invaluable!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:14, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words, but I am afraid that now after my blocking administrator has retired coming back for me would be quite impossible :-) On a more serious note I am busy in a real life. I might come back one day, but it will not be any time soon. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Tarc (talk) 19:24, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Mbz1, I've reblocked without talkpage access, as this breaches our informal email agreement on what sort of use of your talkpage while blocked is acceptable. Sorry, but there it is. On the bright side, you now have no excuse at all not to seek out greener pastures. Rd232 19:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

I have no idea why this prolific user would be denied talk page access for saying "trolls" with a pair of cartoons, while this edit summary raised no eyebrows, even as that editor seemed involved with some odd argument about moving around comments on this userpage which doubtless had some role in provoking this response. I'm just glad that Mbz1 and his exceptional photography are still welcome on Commons, which still remembers that content should always be the highest priority. Wnt (talk) 21:03, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Wnt, it is actually much worse than that. Do you rememberthis AfD? In your vote you commented on the personal attacks made against the author of the article mbz1. You said " Especially I ask that the ad hominem arguments against the editor who started the article be ignored - I've been running into a glut of these arguments with santorum, Marcus Bachmann, even Bernard Lewinsky ... they are perverting the whole AfD process into a series of political trials, where articles are judged based on "whose side" they were created for and which side can get out the vote as needed. ". Then a few days later an absolutely innocent essays Mbz1 wrote was nominated on deletion. The same user that attacked Mbz1 on AfD now comes to MfD with more personal attacks. When that user is asked by another user to elaborate what she meant, she simply ignores the question. A few hours later yet another user comes up to the same MfD with more personal attacks and more false accusations against mbz1 "This is not reflective of anything other than the personal opinion of one of the worst battleground- mentality pov-warriors to grace the I-P topic area in recent memory. Repeatedly blocked and now indef'ed, this last finger-in-the-eye to the Misplaced Pages community should not be left to stand." What that user is voting about? Does this humors essay has anything at all to do with I/P conflict not to say that all accusations of that user are very, very far from the reality. The vast majority of Mbz1's articles have nothing to do with I/P conflict, and the ones that do, well, what POV Mbz1 pushed with Allah Made Me Funny or with Yoni Jesner and Ahmed Khatib or with The Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship or with Arab rescue efforts during the Holocaust? Should I go on with this list? What other editor wrote such articles about the opposite side of the conflict?

After Mbz1 is personally attacked a few times in the same MfD she responds to the attacks in the only place she was able to do it on her own talk page. One of the attackers takes her to AN, and bah her talk page access is removed without giving her an opportunity to say a single word in her defense. It is much worse than Kangaroo court. Now Mbz1's talk page access is removed and her attackers are not even warned. Way to go Misplaced Pages. Broccolo (talk) 16:34, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Mbz1 was blocked at her request, and as I said there was a private agreement not to use her talkpage while blocked for attacking other editors. Concurrently, it is very bad form to come to a blocked user's talkpage to attack them, so I hope there will be no more of that. But even concerned/interested comments like yours are not really necessary or helpful at this point. Those interested in talking to her can reach her at Commons, where her account is not blocked (though not currently active). Rd232 10:22, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Hmmmm... Well, as someone who's had many, many POV differences with Mbz1, frankly I'd suggest her talkpage access ought to be restored. It seems to me that talkpage access being restricted is a rather extreme, "bind and gag" measure, which ought to be reserved for grossly disruptive behavior. Mbz1 may a persistent I-P warrior and the source of constant consternation, but this strikes me as pretty far from grossly disruptive behavior.

Without trying to appear too critical of Rd232 - "private agreement"s are probably not the best way to operate, particularly in cases where the editor you're going into a "private agreement" with is often the source of wikilawyering. NickCT (talk) 13:18, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Mbz1's exit involved private issues, which required a private agreement to resolve. I've restored access now (before seeing your comment). Rd232 08:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok Rd232. I guess without having the details of the "private issues", one can only assume you acting properly and in good faith. Thanks for restoring the access. NickCT (talk) 13:42, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Mbz1, talkpage restored. Please be very careful not to use it make comments which may be construed as attacks on other editors, regardless of what other editors are saying here or elsewhere. Rd232 08:22, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Arabic Mein Kampf

On 4 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Arabic Mein Kampf, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf has been a bestseller in parts of the Middle East? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Panyd 00:13, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for an interesting article! It's now at Portal:Germany. I tell others editors: feel free to place DYK related to Germany there yourself. Feel free?! - I took your caring words above to my heart, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Please come back in your own time

I do hope you will come back at some stage, Mbz1. You can be exasperating and high maintenance, and I get really annoyed with how volatile you get and with some of your politics. You are also magnificently off field and deliciously creative. If Misplaced Pages can't accommodate you, that is a really serious indictment of Misplaced Pages, not of you. --Epipelagic (talk) 14:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Yes, that's right, and then Jimbo complains wikipedia is loosing contributors. Broccolo (talk) 19:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Request permission to use image

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing on behalf of Singapore's National Parks Board. My company is right now at pre-production stage of a multimedia presentation, for the project "Gardens by the Bay" located in Marina South, Singapore. Gardens by the the Bay is a city garden and is currently under construction. Some key features and activities of the garden include conservatories for cool climate plants, mass floral displays showcasing horticulture and floriculture.

We are creating a video (comprising of various photos as well as stock footage of different events and happenings that are a result of climate change and global warming) aims to educate the public on global issues related to climate change. While researching online, I found a picture on this site (http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Glaciers_and_Icebergs_at_Cape_York.jpg) that is perfect for our purpose as we are looking at real untouched pics, documentary-like visuals. Thus I am writing you this email to seek your permission to use the picture.

This exhibition will be completed in June - Year 2012 and we hope you will have the opportunity to visit the site in the near future.

Hope to receive a reply from you soon : )

Jayne Multimedia People Pte Ltd Singapore — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.75.202.48 (talk) 02:53, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Great Photos!

I am a professor at the University of Montana Western in Dillon, and I am co-authoring the second edition of the Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone Country with Dr. William J. Fritz. I was searching the web for a photo of Grand Prismatic and found your pictures. The book we are publishing is through Mountain Press, and we do not have budget for purchasing photos. However, we appropriately credit all photos. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a few of your photos from Yellowstone in the book? Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Cordially, Dr. Robert C. Thomas Professor of Geology The University of Montana Western

Well, it is time to say goodby

Why I asked to be blocked

There was a record in my block log that became a constant torture to me. So I asked to be blocked in order to remove this record, but later on, after I was blocked, I realized that it was not the record itself that tortured me, but rather it was my own behavior, when I cowardly agreed on humiliating and unwarranted unblock conditions, and in this I have nobody to blame but myself. Of course it is only a website, but I suddenly thought: what if in a real life I would agree to say something that is going against my principles as easy as I did here,on wikipedia, and it was this thought that tortured me. Now, when I am blocked, I feel better. I am trying to think about this as that I turned the clock back, that I have never agreed to be unblocked by betraying myself.Of course it is not exactly honest approach, the clock cannot be turned back,but it was the best I could have done. That's why I no longer care about my block log's record, if somebody wants to bring back the record in question, please do.It is not the redaction of my block log's record that is important to me, but the block itself, and that's why I've decided to follow tarc's wish, and to add template indefinitely blocked user to my talk page (would appreciate somebody adds the same template to my user page as well.)

I'd also like to say very clear: I will never sock. As I explained above this self-requested block was requested to come to terms not with wikipedia, but with myself. That's why I am going to respect this block, and I will never violate it. It is also why I cannot appeal the block. If back in December, I've chosen to stay blocked and appealed it to ArbCom, it would have been the right thing to do. Now appealing self-requested block would be a very silly thing to do. So no appeal is possible for me in my situation, which means I will never (what a scary word "never") come back.

I know that probably most of you would have difficulties in understanding the meaning of what I said above. Well, it is because I came from a different culture, and because of my English, but I tried to explain my feeling the best I could.

Rd232

I'd like to thank Rd232 for being kind and brave. The redaction that he did in my block log was a courageous thing to do. A few days ago Rd232 removed my talk page access. He was right to do it. I promised to him in a private email do not use my talk page to attack other users even, if I am attacked myself. I broken my promise, and my talk page access was removed. I was very hurt, when it happened, but now I am glad that I was proven that my block is for real because of the reasons I stated above. The more real my block is the better I feel.

I'd like to apologize to Rd232 for letting him down.

I am very sorry that Rd232 decided to retire because he is one of a very few administrators who were making difference in dispute resolution process.

HJ Mitchell

I will never be able to express how thankful I am to HJ Mitchell who on two occasions kindly reverted grave dancing posts from my talk page.

I'd also like to ask everybody to be kinder to each other, most of all to people who are down, who cannot respond. We all, including me, should remember "Do not do to others that which you do not want them to do to you".

Having said this, I personally became much stronger over the last few days, and I no longer ask you to be kind to me. Everybody, and I mean everybody, is welcome to this talk page, and is welcome to say whatever he/she wishes to say about me, if it makes him/her feel better.

Goodby

I'd like to thank everybody who stopped by in the last few days. I wish you a happy editing, and... well... it is a time to say goodby.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:42, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Image request

Dear Mila,

We are in the course of producing a series of two comprehension books for secondary students and would like to reproduce your picture 'Two silhouette profile or a white vase' http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Two_silhouette_profile_or_a_white_vase.jpg in one of our books.

Details of our publication: Title: EnglishWise: Comprehension 1 and 2 Territory: Singapore Format: print (paperback) First print run: 3,000 copies Publication date: November 2011

Due acknowledgements will be provided. Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Regards Louisa Mew Publishing Manager Learners Publishing Pte Ltd Address: 222 Tagore Lane #03-01 TG Building Singapore 787603 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.1.106 (talk) 02:10, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh I am sorry you are gone

Hello Mila, If you read this, I am very sorry that you are not here anymore even a little. I very much enjoyed working with you on so many fascinating articles such as Fata Morgana, Earth's shadow and so on. Your photography is truly world-class and you seem to be interested in just about everything! I will miss you a lot. I am grateful to have known you a little bit. Feel free to email me if you ever want to. Invertzoo (talk) 22:33, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Me too. I've just come back from a wikibreak and I'm sorry to hear you've gone. Thanks for the many magnificent photos you've given us. I'm glad that retiring has made you feel better about your block log record, at least. Au revoir, Avenue (talk) 00:24, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Susan, I will always be grateful for your help on many articles we wrote together!

Thank you, Avenue! --Mbz1 (talk) 15:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

New book

Dear Mila, I'd like to let you know that the book I used your image for is now announced at Springer:

The book is now at the designer and scheduled for release late October/November. Springer decided not to include the CD with the book as in the Norwegian version - but rather include the CD content on a dedicated webpage for download - what they call: Springer Extra's website. The content includes a lot of animations as well as a PPT version of the book contents. Very useful for lectures.

Read more here:
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/extraterrestrial+physics%2C+space+sciences/book/978-1-4614-0570-2

Book flyer:

http://filer.romsenter.no/Clients/paal/flyer_the_sun.pdf

It will also be available from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Explosive-Sun-Visual-Source/dp/146140570X/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312879357&sr=1-1

Sincerely, Pål Brekke Seniorrådgiver // Senior Advisor Norsk Romsenter // Norwegian Space Centre Drammensvn 165, N-0212 Oslo, Norway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.105.231 (talk) 16:11, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Just a little appreciation for your lovely work, and wish you luck in your life...

~ AdvertAdam 19:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, they are so cute, and just what I need now :-)--Mbz1 (talk) 15:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Swimming Green Turtle

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Green turtle swimming over coral reefs in Kona.jpg, was nominated on Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Makeemlighter (talk) 22:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Puffer_Fish_DSC01257.JPG

Hi Mila

I am assisting Cheryll Williams with her book
Medicinal Plants in Australia Vol3
and she would like to use your image of a Puffer Fish at

http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Puffer_Fish_DSC01257.JPG

in the volume
If you agree please advise of the attribution that you require should the publisher use the image.
We are a non-profit group supporting Daintree Wildlife Rescue in the Daintree Rainforest in North Queensland, Australia
(daintreewildliferescue.webs.com)
rgds

Ringpicker (talk) 00:38, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

use of an image of a solar glory in a textbook

Hi Mila,

I contacted you last month about using a solar glory image for a textbook being published by Pearson Science and I am working also on the newest edition of that book (the previous book was a reprint) and the author would like to use another photo of yours of a solar glory found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Solar_glory_at_the_steam_from_hot_spring.jpg

It says in the Creative Commons license that it is ok to make use of it as commercial work, but I just wanted to verify that.

This is the book info:

Atmosphere 12e Lutgens/Tarbuck ISBN: 0321756312 c. 2012

Thanks!

Kristin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wanderlustphotos (talk • contribs) 14:14, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

SONNET: WHEN BULLIED TO HUMILIATE YOURSELF written by Proofreader77 for Mbz1

We are the ones who're "trapped inside the door" and for you, Mila, who's locked outside the door here is a little bird of freedom File:Animalibrí.gif

Thank you, freedom is good :-)--Mbz1 (talk) 15:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

September 11

Her dreams, they are as broken wing,
The song that she is not to sing,
Doorbell that never is to ring,
The winter in the middle of spring,

The child whom she would never hold,
The kiss that would be snowy cold,
The story that would stay untold,
The stars that she’s not to behold,

The flower that’s not to bloom,
The dance that’s never to resume,
The empty bed in empty room,
The never worn or smelled perfume,

The creek that’s not to reach the sea,
The sadness of root out tree,
The bird that never would fly free
From night that’s crying as banshee,

She could have put on bridal gown,
To marry guy who lives next door,
If only she would've made it down
From the one hundred second floor.

She’s gone, and now only pain
Pours rain as tears and tears as rain.

--Mbz1 (talk) 15:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Dead trees at Mammoth Hot Springs.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 15, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-09-15. howcheng {chat} 15:55, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Beautiful! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Development of Green Flash.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 10, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-10-10. howcheng {chat} 17:28, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Mila,

I recently stumbled across one of your photos attached to the Misplaced Pages article on Parallax. I was entranced. I must have stared at this work for at least ten minutes before I found myself clicking every link I could find to see if there were more. You ma'am, have a great talent. Thank you so much for doing what you do and allowing Misplaced Pages so share it so freely. It's folks like you that I'm grateful for in the world.

A twenty-minute old fan, Christina — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.5.138.215 (talk) 01:51, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Um... sorry... I think you've come to the wrong place. Mila just doesn't belong here... she's finally realized that and gone. We block inconvenient people like Mila and hound them til they leave. But if you yourself have no talent, take yourself tremendously seriously, and most profoundly detest anything that might be fun, creative or sparkling, then welcome, welcome, welcome, you have come home. --Epipelagic (talk) 03:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, Epipelagic, you're correct. Mila is gone, bullied away by people with motives that are anything but pure, but she's still taking pictures and writing interesting and informative articles. Only now she's doing it in a much friendlier and more congenial environment. And there's one more difference. One now has to pay to read Mila's articles. Sad loss for Misplaced Pages. Sad loss for knowledge.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 18:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Image Request for Mila

Dear Mila,

I am a Producer on a programme for the National Geographic Channel about the sinking of the Titanic. We are currently trying to get hold of images of superior mirages and looming. I was very interested in one your photos, see below:

http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz168.htm.

Is there any chance that I could get hold of this image for our programme? The Director would like to use it for filming this week if possible?

I very much look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Karen Kirk Bedlam Productions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.143.254.50 (talk) 17:45, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Mila, you are everywhere. First BBC requested your image and now National Geographic Chanel did!

Agree with Jiujitsuguy and Epipelagic, there's something wrong with Misplaced Pages community that bullied away such unique contributor as Mbz1.

Please come back. Broccolo (talk) 21:19, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Mauna Loa from the air.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 13, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-10-13. howcheng {chat} 17:49, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:2010 mavericks competition.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 20, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-10-20. howcheng {chat} 16:35, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Carpilius convexus is consuming Heterocentrotus trigonarius in Hawaii.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 25, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-10-25. howcheng {chat} 17:52, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Commercial use of a photograph of yours

Dear Ms. Zinkova:

I am about to publicize a website containing a photograph of yours, obtained through Wikimedia Commons. The end result is the following:

http://sites.google.com/site/aldoloup/home/not-all-that-glitters-is-ufo

The same page in Spanish, Portuguese and maybe other languages will follow. A printed version is envisioned too.

I want to be sure that you have no complaint about this use of your work. I really don't want to have problems over copyright issues down the road.

I want to thank for the opportunity to use your work in commercial ventures.

If you have any issue with this use of your work, please let me know immediately.

I am acting in good faith, in the firm belief that the license for commercial use that appears in the Wikimedia Commons page of your photograph is completely valid, accurate and current.

Thank you very much.

Aldo Loup.

aldoloup@hotmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.16.8.119 (talk) 19:49, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Miss you

I hope you are doing well. I miss you. Invertzoo (talk) 18:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Susan, thank you for this post! It is very kind of you to miss me after all extra boring copy-editing work I was asking you to do, when I was around :-)

I do miss you too.

It is interesting that I saw your post today, when I logged in for the first time since September 11, and I did it to communicate with you, Susan.

I would like to ask you for a favor please. It is about this article.

I was asked to read an article about mirages that is going to be published in a serious journal,and provide my expert :-) opinion on some images and so on. One of the images used in the article is this image.

I have no idea what I was thinking of, when I provided the description for it as "Superior mirage of the boats". This image does not depict a realistic phenomena or as Dr. Andy Young put it: "It does not realistically depict actual phenomena -- except maybe psychological ones".

The first problem is that the mirage of the right yacht is much longer than the real yacht herself is. Mirages never change the length of the objects. The distortion always occurs only in a vertical direction.

The second problem is that both mirages depicted too high above the horizon. It is never like this in a real life. The mirages are seen only in a narrow strip (duct) just above the horizon.

So to make a long story short, it was an unforgivable error I made, when I put such description as I did for this image. I should have known better.

The only thing that makes me feel better is that even some scientists sometimes get it wrong.I've been doing lot's of reading about mirages lately, and came upon this article published by Cambridge University Press. As you see it claims that mermen and mermaids described by 13 century navigators in the King's Mirror are nothing else but superior mirages of orcas, walrus or even boulders. It is definitely an interesting suggestion that might even have some grounds, except one cannot see a superior mirage of an orca, maybe an inferior mirage, but not a superior one. A breaching orca is still way too small to see him from the distance required for seeing a superior mirage.

So, Susan, could you please fix the description of the image itself, and maybe in the article too to make it very clear for everybody that it is not a realistic superior mirage.

Thank you and best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 04:51, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh, Hi Mila, sorry it took me weeks to get back to you, I only just now saw that you had replied to me! I went ahead and changed both the description and the caption in the article. I hope that what I wrote seems OK to you now. All very best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 14:29, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Per your request

By your email request I reviewed this post and I would agree that Daedalus's posting to Gwen's talk page could be taken as campaigning because it wasn't neutral (i.e. actively asking for a block). It would have been better for Daedalus to post to the ANI discussion that was happening at that time (which would be the case in all such situations). Given that, it may not have been the best decision for Gwen to block you; that decision may have better been left to another admin for transparency. Thanks, Black Kite (t) 01:40, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your honest review and for being not afraid to say it publicly, Black Kite!

Mbz1 (talk) 03:45, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Mercury transit 2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 7, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-11-07. howcheng {chat} 19:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

POTD notification

Hi Mila,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Kohala coast at the Big Island of Hawaii from the air levels.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 11, 2011. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2011-11-11. howcheng {chat} 01:19, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Use Request

I work with Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit that supports the work of the National Park Service at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Among other activities, we produce park-related products and publications. We're now working on products for the new Lands End Lookout, a visitor center at Merrie Way, near the Cliff House.

One of the products, which will also appear as part of a Visitor Center exhibit, is a set of "fortunetelling" cards: on one side of each card will be an illustration and on the other is a photo of an individual Lands End attraction, along with a short fortune.

We'd like to use your photo of Ocean Beach and the Cliff House (posted on Misplaced Pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Cliff_House_from_Ocean_Beach.jpg) on one of the cards. The cards are vertical, so we'd need to crop it somewhat.

I see that you've allowed the photo's use under the Creative Commons license, but thought it would be a good idea to check in with you directly as well. We will, of course, credit you on the card.

May we proceed?

Susan Tasaki — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.226.227.200 (talk) 21:07, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Your Photo

Dear Ms. Zinkova,

I am a production assistant at Singularity, LLC. We are producing a documentary film about the end of the Mayan Calendar on 12/21/2012. You can our trailer on You Tube at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlI86ukGmM

We would like to use your image from the link below in our film. We believe that you have copyright to this image. If you do not, could you possibly reference us to its source? If you do hold copyright, could we have your permission to use it in our film? If so please reply indicating we can use the image, and as well, please let us know how we should attribute the credits. Thanks in advance.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/File:Dry_lake_bed_in_Death_Valley.JPG

Sincerely, -Emma Paul — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.15.219 (talk) 21:54, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Image use

Hello Mila,

We'd like to use your images of solar glories and fogbows for a slide show on Scientific American's web site. I hope you do not mind. Please let me know if you need any further information.

Sincerely, Monica Bradley Photo Editor Scientific American — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.199.186.2 (talk) 22:41, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Impressive, how real magazines ask for your photos, girl!

And to think I got you to take a geeky science one also!

Hey, could you start a WR thread on a presentation I wrote? Put it in the Annex so that meanie Glassbead does not shit on it. (should they put the whole forum in the annex...like some Klein bottle?) But am interested in what more quantitative ones like Peter Damian and Kohs and the like think. Also, there is a lot of institutional memory there, so if this was all done years ago...they will know. I don't have an account there and they seem really harsh with all the outing and stuff. Sorry, no hot pictures for Horsey.

See here: PowerPoint: Misplaced Pages's poor treatment of its most important articles

69.255.27.249 (talk) 15:57, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for commenting on my images.

I believe WR thread was started by someone else. Sorry I check on my talk page here only once in a while now.

Good luck with your struggle.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:22, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates/Cliff House from Ocean Beach

An image created by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, File:Cliff House from Ocean Beach.jpg, was nominated on Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! Jujutacular  01:55, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

For Mila

Just saying thanks for all the pretty pictures. If I had photos of that quality, I'd never have the selflessness to upload them for Misplaced Pages. Nightw 13:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Night w!

But me uploading images on wikipedia has nothing to do with selflessness. To me the best award for my images is an ability to share them with as many people as possible. I love taking pictures, and most of the time quality is of a little importance to me. For example one of my favorite subjects are mirages. It is hard to take a good image of a superior mirage because it always located far away, and in my city it is almost always against the sun. These images will not pass FPC, but, if some people learned something new from my images, and maybe became enthusiastic about looking for an amazing display themselves, it means that the time I spent on wikipedia was not wasted.

I am still taking images, but now without ability to edit wikipedia, I am looking for a different venues to share them. A few weeks ago I observed an interesting mirage, and I submitted my image to EPOD.

Thank you once again for your kind words!

Happy editing!--Mbz1 (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Wow I just realised, I've seen your mirage work before on the Fata Morgana article! But I was more referring to the kind of work seen on your userpage. Do you have a Flickr account? It's one of the main hunting grounds for contributions to photography and natural science publications... Nightw 04:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. As a matter of fact user:Invertzoo and me were the ones who completely re-wrote the article. From many images that are used in the article I believe this one is one of the most interesting. I saw this kind of display only two times, two days in a row. I was surprised to find out that This effect was first described in the medieval King's Mirror like this "hafgerdingar look as if all the storm-waves of the sea were gathered together in three continuous combers; the three wavecrests surround the whole sea in such a way that there is no escape (opening) ; they are higher than big mountains and as steep as precipices, so that in but few cases have people escaped from the sea when this has occurred." It is amazing that medieval explorers saw and described it. I assume it looked really scary to them.

I have Flickr account, but I forgot, when I used it the last time.

Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

So here it is

• 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
  'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
  'I don't much care where —' said Alice.
  'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat

• 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
  'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
  'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
  'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
  

Request image use

Mila,

I work for a company that designs and fabricates natural history museum exhibits. We are currently working on an exhibit that will illustrate biodiversity. It will require a large photo mural of a tide pool. I happened upon your image http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Tide_pools_in_santa_cruz.jpg via a web search .

Our mural will be about 28 ft. wide x 9 ft. high.

1) What usage fee would you charge to have your tide pool image reproduced at that size as part of a museum exhibit? 2) In what format does the image exist (4x5 transparency, high-resolution digital image...)?

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for your time.

Allan Burch — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aburch11 (talk • contribs) 01:23, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Wow! 28 ft. wide x 9 ft. high! It is definitely going to be the biggest image of mine ever get printed.

Alan, thank you for your request. Please use my image for the museum for free. No fees are required.

Cheers.--Mbz1 (talk) 01:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your time, Mila, and for the generous use of your beautiful image. I'm sure it will be educational and very well-received by audiences around the world.

Thanks, again.

Allan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aburch11 (talk • contribs) 01:51, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Hand-made Star of David.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Hand-made Star of David.jpg, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:25, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Green Turtle photo

Dear Mila

Just wanted to let you know we've used your beautiful photo of the Green Turtle from Misplaced Pages Commons as one of our Photos of the Day (you can see it here: http://vanishingspecies.org/2011/12/21/photo-of-the-day-green-turtle/

We're a group of friends who run a non-commercial blog about wildlife and conservation - you can see our front page here: http://vanishingspecies.org/

I do hope you're happy with how we've used your photo (and please let me know if not).

And thank you for sharing such a beautiful photograph under the Creative Commons licence - we would never have access to such wonderful images otherwise.

Kind regards Kate Booker Vanishing Species — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.35.116.144 (talk) 15:56, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Giant Marbles - Joshua Tree

Hi Mila,

I came across your photo of the Giant Marbles at Joshua Tree National Park and I'd like to use it in a guidebook to the national parks I've been putting together. It's a self-publishing attempt ... if you'd like to know more about the project, feel free to have a click around www.stoneroadpress.com.

Anyway, if you're interested, how would you like to be attributed? I'll gladly pass along electronic versions (EPUB and PDF) to you when it's finished.

Thank you,

Michael Oswald — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoneroadpress (talk • contribs) 18:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi Mila, I'd like to amend my previous request ...

I was looking through a few more of your pictures, and your work is spectacular.

I would also like to use (for print and electronic w/ DRM versions) the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/File:P%C4%81hoehoe_and_Aa_flows_at_Hawaii.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/File:P%C4%81hoehoe_lava_meets_Pacific.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Grand_prismatic_no_noise_reduction.jpg

Thanks again, and keep up the magnificent work!

Michael Oswald — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stoneroadpress (talk • contribs) 20:59, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello Mila,

My name is Mark Walsh and I’m writing you from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

I’ve spent the last three years here observing weather, and have intermittently written a blog called the Frozen Toe that describes some of my experiences about life on the ice.

In one of my previous posts titled The Magnesium Night Light, I used one of your photos without permission or citation, and would like to apologize for doing so.

As you will notice, I have not updated the blog in over a year. I have some stories that I will be posting soon, but before I do, want to fix these existing permission/citation problems, and ensure that these proper habits continue throughout my future posts.

The reason I am contacting you is to ask if I may continue to use your photo, but only with the addition of a proper citation and link back to your blog/site. I completely understand if you are not comfortable doing so, and I will immediately replace the picture at your request.

Thank you for taking such wonderful pictures, and again, I apologize for not asking sooner for your permission.

I hope you have a great 2012, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you very much! Mark Walsh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.132.98.222 (talk) 16:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

minerals and stuff

hey man im interested in what most of these are: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Different_minerals.jpg if you could email me a list of every one of those from left to right thatd b tits my email is jwoo224@yahoo.com a rsponse would be greatly appreciated — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.88.214.252 (talk) 08:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Reblocked

I have reblocked your account with the usual flags enabled. This is no longer a "by request" block but one "for cause," specifically continued harassment of User:Gwen Gale across other WMF projects and off-site. This block has been placed in my capacity as a member of the Arbitration Committee and should be appealed to that body by emailing arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org. Hersfold 02:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, thank you very much for the note and for the block! I mean it.

I am very,very happy with this block. I could not forgive myself for giving in to bullying. Now, when I am really blocked for fighting bullying maybe I will be able to forgive myself, and it is very important for me.

I'd also like to thank you because it is one of the most complete responses I've got from arbcom.

This block is also one of the most unusual blocks that I hope will be written with golden letters in the history of wikipedia. Why? Well, because I was blocked on English wikipedia for "harassing" Gwen Gale on meta. Before today my last contribution to English wikipedia was made to my talk more than a month ago.

Am I blocked because Gwen Gale is "a protected admin"?

I'd like to ask you two questions please:

1. In accordance with this policy how exactly I "harassed" Gwen Gale? I am asking because in my request for comments I supported each and every statement I made with the differences.
2. You said "I have reblocked your account with the usual flags enabled." Does this mean that the reblock was your own decision or it was decided by arbcom, and, if it was decided by arbcom, could you please fix the message?--Mbz1 (talk) 06:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)