User talk:Rdsmith4/Archive 3

17 Jan 2005 - 6 Mar 2005

WoW / Willy on Wheels

You're right. At the time I listed him, I think he was already blocked. Rick K 01:19, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

copyright tag

the user page of the submitter of the photo in question claims to dual license all contributions under by-sa. 68.237.137.57 03:52, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

yes, you are right, I knew that was sloppy when I submitted it and should not have hit save. I'm sorry. I don't think any other tags were questionable. 68.237.137.57 04:17, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Why did you revert my edits on other pages? With the one exception for which I already apologized, all were either createdby the submittor (and thus GFDL as per Wikipedia:Copyrights) or public domain due to age. I will re-add the tags to those pages. 68.237.137.57 20:33, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See Bridgeman Art Library Ltd. v. Corel Corporation. At least in the US, there is no copyright on replications of 2d art. Note that the site says "copyrighted as a database" - that does not mean the individual works are copyrighted. (Copyrighted as a database is false anyways, as copyright does not cover databases, although there was a failed piece of legislation that proposed to change this and I think the EU may have some form of database protection.) Moreover, "their legal owner," in this case, is noone. The image is a replication of art from 1536, and 1536<1923. End of story. 68.237.137.57 06:05, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fungo

I undeleted ([1]) Mycosis Fungoides—now Mycosis fungoides—because it was listed on WP:VFU, and it's a borderline case for speedy. This is me informing you of the undeletion, per VfU policy. Have a nice hump day. Good work on the Wodehouse stuff. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News 09:06, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)

British Royal Family template

Thanks for sorting out the bug in the template, that is why the |} was added in the articles, I am not used to writing the templates yet! RE:Harry of Wales, I removed one of the Newspaper images to make the page less cluttered. I think moving them back to left will be better. Regards Astrotrain 22:27, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for reverting it, but I'd prefer if you'd leave it alone unless it's obvious vandalism - in this case, you got to it before I could even read what had been written. Thanks! Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 03:07, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ok, sorry. I generally stay away from talk pages but when known vandals spout nonsense or worse I generally just blanket-revert. Your wishes are noted though, I'll avoid reverting your talk page in future. --fvw * 03:09, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

Tor proxies

Hi. I noticed you blocked a lot of IPs, calling them "Tor outproxies" - where do you get this information? I'd like it for future reference, since I'd guess these are at the root of the recent vandalism to Jesus, Judaism, Pantera et al. Thanks! Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 05:09, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

My current method is a little more ad hoc than I'd like, it involves finding a dirserver (which is a server that produces a list of available Tor nodes) which lists the host, and checking the ExitPolicy listed there. Luckily this isn't as much effort as it sounds as the dirservers serve up plain text and many are indexed by google. --fvw * 17:41, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)

Ok, this is getting to be a major pain, I'm going to preemptively block all the tor outproxies that do port 80 I can find. Please hold off any short-term blocks for the judaism vandals as they'll supercede the indefinite blocks I'm going to slap on them. --fvw * 20:10, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)

There, that should be the bulk of them, any new ones can be blocked as they start vandalising I think. The real solution is to have tor not allow POST requests by default I think, or some other form of opt-out for hosts it contacts. I'm drafting an email to the Tor mailinglist suggest doing some filtering on HTTP requests, but I don't have high hopes for it happen soon. --fvw * 21:32, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)

Спасибо

Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user talk page. I am much obliged. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 00:46, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

GameSpot

Heya, hope you don't mind me interrupting your game of whack-a-mole, but I think short-term protection was called for. --fvw * 02:08, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

Ollieplatt

Ollieplatt just violated his injunction; see: [2] — Davenbelle 03:37, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

He's testing his limits.... — Davenbelle 03:45, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

I'd already blocked him as soon as he made the edit. --fvw * 03:49, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

Dale Chihuly

Hi Dan,

I wouldn't think you need to remove your Dale Chihuly photos from the article on Chihuly. I would be pretty sure they qualify for fair-use on that page. The licensing is only a problem for the Featured Pictures page and I guess Commons. -- Solipsist 23:04, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You're right. I just got an e-mail from his studio refusing my request to license the images as cc-by-sa, so I've removed them from commons, scaled them down a lot, and I'm about to put them back into the articles as fair use. However, the e-mail looked very much like a form letter and I'm not sure if they understood the nature of this project, so I'm going to call them tomorrow and ask for special permission. Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 23:39, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That's a shame, but as you say - predictable. I'd forgotten the question of image sizes with fair-use images. Ordinarily a smaller size is needed by the copyright item is the photograph. In this case it is the subject that is copyright, so larger images might still be fair-use, in that a photograph of any size isn't likely to impact sales of the sculpture. I'm not sure. Does Dale Chihuly's studio sell photographs of his glass work? -- Solipsist 08:01, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Blocking user 70.181.8.15

Hi Dan! I'm a relatively new Wikipedian, and I just finished reverting some vandalism on today's feature article (on Mahatma Gandhi). The vandalism was from an anonymous user at IP 70.181.8.15, and I noticed that the user had been banned about a week ago for other vandalism. I guess the ban has worn off! Since your comments showed up on the user's talk page in relation to the ban, I thought I'd bring up the new vandalism and see if there's anything I should do about it. Thanks! fsufezzik 22:25, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

unencyclopedic tags en masse

Hi. Please do not add unencyclopedic tags en masse; rather, submit one or two of the relevant articles to WP:VFD, and let the consensus there determine the fate of the other similar articles.

Will do in the future. --151.204.6.44 02:36, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Autofellatio poll

Hi. There is a poll going on at Talk:Autofellatio. We'd appreciate your vote. —Cantus…☎ 04:21, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

WP:AN/Incidents

Two problems with doing it that way:

Clicking the edit link next to "Incidents", to add a new section, tries to edit the top-level page, so people will still have to go to the subpage to start a new section (and this probably also broke the "add a comment" link, I'll have to go check it).
It makes the top-level page larger, and slower to render (a la VfD, and VP, both of which I refuse to visit any more because the load/render time is ridiculous); there are also the usual caching bugs when you transclude a page that changes rapidly.

In short, I'm not a big fan of this change, but I'll wait and see what other people say. Noel (talk) 22:15, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

?

What are you doing? Don't revert non-vandalism without explanation. There has been a request for Wikipedia:Intro, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers & Wikipedia:Tutorial to be merged for sometime. Reverting me for doing so is not only unhelpful, its kida bizarre. Talk, don't revert. Sam Spade (talk · contribs) 14:20, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Protected page

Just a little reminder. If a page is protected, it might be listed at Wikipedia:Protected page. Make sure to unlist the page when you unprotect it. Thanks. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:38, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Logo redirect, still an issue?

I saw the redirect page logo discussion, I'm new at wiki, but you can use this: example redirect If u are still interested, I can give you a gif file, vector image and png, whatever Good luck

Kosse

Gbambino

Gbambino may turn into a problem, or maybe an enthusiastic newbie and Canadian monarchist. Can we try to see if he'll be an asset before blocking him? Kind regards, jguk 20:20, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Whatever happened to "don't bite the newcomers"? I'd far rather use a carrot than a stick to people like Gbambino - he may or may not be a good user in the future, using a quick block means we never know:( Kind regards, jguk 20:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. A kind, but forceful message may or may not work, but I feel it's worth a try. All the best, jguk 20:34, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

FYI, he is up to the same antics at the Canada page, insisting that Canada is a "kingdom", even though that term is never, ever used here. (Okay, there was some discussion about it in 1866-67, but the Colonial Office thought we were getting too big for our britches, and told us not to use it.) Kevintoronto 20:36, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have no idea what his email to you was, but it's good to see he's on the talk pages. Hopefully a guiding hand in Wikiquette will help and we'll see if he becomes a useful contributor in due course. Kind regards, jguk 22:04, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Paniq

Hello Dan— I and several other members of the Wikipedia community have significantly improved the article for paniq which was recently listed on vfd. It is my opinion that anything that could be construed as self promotion has been removed and as a result of group editing it is now a much better and more informative article, while at the same time establishing a strong case for notability. If you would, please reconsider your nomination or cast a firm vote of your choice in light of the recent changes. Thank you... —R

Wikipedia:Introduction

Hello. I understand that the page is meant to be changed by anyone in any way, as if it's another Wikipedia:Sandbox. However, when a newbie posts a line like

How can we be sure the information987 is accurate? Well, how can we ever be sure anything is accurate? look below-> ....

the credibility of the encyclopedia is in question, and IMHO, things have gone a tad too far. Hence my restoration to an old version that looks clean. I think that periodic cleaning would be a good idea. So is the appearance that admins are doing their job. Right ? :-) The next time I come in for janitorial work, I'll make sure I keep the "... Feel free to change the text below this line. No profanities, please." line in there. -- PFHLai 14:36, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

User:Humblefool

Just one word: Thanks. humblefool ® 02:07, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image... how...

First I would like to thank you for your excellent contributions to Wikipedia... Thanks. I've came across your photo: Image:A-Bomb Dome.jpg... and the captions says:

Citizens of Hiroshima walk past the A-Bomb Dome, the nearest building to have survived the city's atomic bombing in 1945, on their way to a memorial ceremony on August 6, 2004

I know I am being picky, but is it possible to mention have far it was from the intial blast... I'm thinking it may place it in context a better context... did it survive as the first building 2 miles out or 20 meters? Thanks, PEACE ~ RoboAction 02:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

sig

Hello, just curious about how you get your signature to be just {{User:Rdsmith4/Sig}}. Do you do that in your preferences so it is inserted by typing ~~~~? Or do you just transclude the sig file and then add ~~~~~ for the date after it? older≠wiser 21:54, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, never mind. I think I figured it out. I had tried messing with it several months ago and couldn't get it to work properly, but now it seems fine. Sorry to bother you. older≠wiser 22:01, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Aha, I never noticed that "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" checkbox before. I still didn't have it quite right until that. Thanks. older≠wiser 22:08, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Please do not do this. While I'm sure you think it convenient to have an auto-updating signature, it is an avoidable drain on the server and database resources. First of all, the database must maintain a list of linked pages wherever you have signed (see here). That will grow very fast over time. Second, whenever you do update your sig, the webservers have to process all those pages and links again, because the caches are out of date. Thirdly, your signature page is also a vandalism target. Please stick with a simple, static text signature. -- Netoholic @ 15:43, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)

LaRouche template

Hi, I'm wondering why you've put the LaRouche talk template up for deletion. We need that for a number of reasons. First, the arbcom is currently looking at this issue and the template is part of my evidence. Secondly, we need it to determine which talk pages are LaRouche-related, as the LaRouche editors are going to be banned from editing them, and the template is a shortcut way for everyone to see which pages that refers to. Third, we found it useful to place on some LaRouche talk pages, so that people could quickly refer to previous discussions. Did you have a reason for wanting to get rid of it? SlimVirgin 03:23, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand how its appearance makes any difference to you. I'm curious to know why you're involving yourself. This list is part of my evidence to the arbitration committee, and the case is ongoing. In connection with that case, it is linked to on the following pages: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Proposed decision, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Evidence, Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche 2/Proposed decision, User:SlimVirgin/Talk pages disrupted by LaRouche POV, User:Willmcw/sandbox2 (and note that the reference to the SlimVirgin and Willmcw talk pages are that the arbitration committee is being referred there for further evidence, which includes the Template); and it may continue to be linked to, as the case is not over. It has also been very useful on the current LaRouche talk pages. Given all this, it is odd to delete it simply on aesthetic grounds. Would you please reconsider? SlimVirgin 03:40, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, that's much appreciated. SlimVirgin 04:07, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:02, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Jewish ethnocentrism logs

It may interest you to view this: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Jewish_ethnocentrism/Logs as your name appeared in the log. -- AllyUnion (talk) 16:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah....

Ah, you're right, I'm wrong. I was misled by the piping...sorry about that. - Nunh-huh 23:25, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Timo Glock

I updated a bit your text on Timo Glock. You had his birthdate backwards; you had it as 3 October, and it's 10 March (10-3), in standard time is day-month. Anyway, no problem. I also added a bit more on his career. Hope you like it. Diego440 10:23, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your pics

Hi Dan,

thanks for your pics on wikimedia commons. We (the youth organisation of the german green party) now use one of them on our site: http://www.gruene-jugend.de/themen/umwelt/65418.htm?pic=2

Best regards

Sebastian, webredakteur AT gruene-jugend.de

more F1

I've also done a few biographies on other F1 drivers. I'm going in alphabetical order, and am still on the A. I also plan (everything's a plan) to extend the biographies on the rest of the drivers, cars and teams... a loooong way to go, though. Diego440 13:59, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

sorry for posting so much... I've noticed that you (and now me too) are the only person to post on the F1 board this year; so I guess you'd be the perfect person to whom I should ask this: I modified the former driver template, but not in the board. Actually, I did a modification and have it posted as a message in the board. Now, before I go and apply that modification, I'd like someone (that's where you come in) to approve it, deny it or just give some feedback, so I can start asap, since I have lots of free time right now. As soon as you can. Thanks. Diego440 21:48, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

er... the template is giving me problems. I can display the nationality and teams (both new features), but neither the points, or highest finishing position nor highest qualifying position show (they're also new features). I'm not an expert at templates, but I've tried everything I can think of. Do you think you could play around a bit with it? Or should I just erase those new ones? Diego440 00:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I erased them, simplified it. Maybe I'll get to improving it later, but I just wanted to get it over with. Still, update is in effect :)Diego440 01:03, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hunter S. Thompson

Why the hell did you revert my vandalism fix? Everyking 05:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I want a reply. I am very, very angry. Everyking 05:12, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

...Oh. I don't understand what happened. I'm sorry. I should probably take a break. I feel very bad. I'm sorry. Everyking 05:24, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Vfd template

I appreciate the change in text size, but I really found the yellow color appropriate. Can you tell me where, if anywhere, this change was discussed? Mgm|^(talk) 09:47, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

I am the author of Execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks. I did not violate any copyright laws. I have distributed earlier versions of this article on various sites including many message boards and discussion forums such as "www.politicalforum.com" and "www.itsallpolitics.com" and I believe this is the reason you removed Execution of the September 11, 2001 attacks from Wikipedia. However I assure you that I am the author. If you require proof I can leave you a message where you discovered the article. (Ghost of Jefferson | talk)

Annapolis, Maryland picture

Hey thanks for fixing the <br> thing i had to put in, i have been wondering how do to fix that for the longest time, and I'll have to keep that in mind.--User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:57, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please help!

Hi since your were the last person to edit the page prior to me I though I'd bother you with it. I tried to edit DEPENDENCY THEORY to include what I feel to be a necessary (in the interest of accuracy) but reletively minor qulaification ('necessarily': in bold in the quotation from the page below), but have somehow managed to include the original text as well as my version (and then when trying to correct this, the original text and my version x2!)

In the help pages on editing I note that I should be able to see the original text when opening the edit view: I could not, for some reason it only showed me the reference to the external link...this my explain something...

I'm sure that what ever has happened it is my fault! Could you tell me how to fix this?

First world nations actively, but not necessarily consciously, perpetuate a state of dependency through various policies and initiatives.

Thanks in advance,

Laurie Ray (talk | contribs)

Cheers: that sounds stupid enough for me! LaurieRay

Re: change to Japanese tea ceremony

I removed the photo you placed on this page. Please see the image talk page for details. Exploding Boy 23:51, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and alert

Thanks for reverting the deletion of my personal info on my talk page. Matter of fact, that was done by a non-logged in me. I hadn't even noticed I hadn't logged in. My interests and such constituted a toe in the water away from anonymity and I impulsively decided to withdraw my toe. Maybe I'll un-revert it. Oh well.

Glad to see you're a Wodehouse fan. Huge one myself.

By the way your talk pages renders horribly somehow on my computer. Specifically all the text buches up on the right side of the screen, as if the left margin were slid over a huge amount. Sorry, not using Firefox, but at least my browser is Netscape 7, so there's a Mozilla connection there. (7.2 for OSX 2, specifically). LeoO3 06:06, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I twice attempted to catch the message above before it was submitted so I could correct and add some stuff but apparently it went through. Thus two other instances of this message were posted. I still have to learn. Also, the text being to the right only happens for a little while; by the time the little index box for these remarks comes up it looks OK. LeoO3 06:13, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I use Netscape 7.2 for Linux on FreeBSD. I see something like you describe. I think it's CSS weirdness in what MediaWiki serves up. Purging my local cache (shift-reload) usually gets things back in order - David Gerard 00:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Vandals

I seem to have become a target because of the vandal-hunting I've done recently, but I'll be away for most of the day. Could you keep an eye on my talk page or put it on temp protection for the day? Mgm|^(talk) 08:59, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Must've been sleeping when I wrote this. I meant my userpage, but it doesn't seem necessary any more. Thanks for replying! Mgm|^(talk) 11:55, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Deleting material from someone else's talk page

I'm curious as to why you deleted someone else's message from my talk page. Yes their message was a bit spammy but it still seems strange for someone else to come along and remove it without an explanation. --Lee Hunter 03:15, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I still don't see why you appointed yourself as maintainer of my talk page. It seems the proper way to handle this would be to inform the person who posted the original message that it was against the rules. To me the original message was benign, just another person with a passionate interest in some aspect of WP that I didn't happen to share, but your action was offensive. Next time you delete from someone's talk page, you should, at the very least, leave behind a reasonable explanation. --Lee Hunter 13:47, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I too would like to know what the hell you think you're doing deleting another editor's message from my talk page.--Centauri 03:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Drawing people's attention to matters that are of obvious interest to them, and which they might not otherwise be aware is not "trolling" - it is responsible editing. It is your action in unilaterally deleting content from my page on spurious grounds, without explanation (ie vandalising my talk page content), that is significantly more troubling.--Centauri 06:36, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to assume good faith, but I don't believe your action was done out of concern for my freedom from spam. Given that someone has voted in a certain way on a topic, it's entirely reasonable that they might want to know about similar topics coming up. Kappa 07:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Irrelevant of whether you agree or disagree with the material someone posted on my talk page, I don't see why you should delete information from there. I'm quite capable of choosing myself which comments I want on there. It's totally valid to bring to somebody's attention something that they may be interested in. You're only harming your cause, you realise. Drw25 11:34, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please refrain from deleting messages to me on my user talk page. If someone leaves a user a message, it should be up to that user to decide whether or not to delete it. Thank you.--BaronLarf 16:58, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Do not delete messages from my talk page! It is NOT your perogative to monitor anyone's talk page but your own.LukeSurl 23:31, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)