User talk:Boffin

Hello Boffin, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have a lot of fun here. There are lots of resources around to help guide you. be sure to check out:

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Dear Boffin, why did you remove the Queens reference in President of Malta? Sounds to me like valuable information. Cheers, Muriel Gottrop 12:20, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Howdy. From the history list of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, it looks like you first put in the flag image, and then took it out again. I'm guessing you took it out because it didn't look right (it seem to float in an unfortunate place in the middle of the screen). If you want, I think I can put it back with markup that won't make it appear in such an bad place - I'd do it myself, but I wanted to check with you first. Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter 17:13, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ah, I see you put it back in (doing just what I was going to). It looks good. THanks. -- Finlay McWalter 17:59, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Boffin. You're doing some good work on South African topics. Are you South African by any chance? Greenman 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Boffin. Some recent useful work on Vauxhall Motors and related articles, but please can you take more care to avoid deleting large sections of the article? I presume this was by mistake. Currently the entire list of models and the related articles - in fact everything from your last edited paragraph downwards - has disappeared. Unfortunately quickly reinserting all of this is quite difficult since I don't have sysop status and hence a "revert" button. Doing is all by hand is about half an hours work. Also, I added a comment about the Opel/Vauxhall models in the 70s, while closesly related I don't think they are the same car. Only in the 80s did the cars become directly identical with the same engines, body styles, etc. I think the article should correct this. GRAHAMUK 02:28, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hello. Do you know that you're using too many capital letters in article titles? I moved three of your new articles, including Place Names in Irish. In Wikipedia article titles, one does not normally use capitals except with proper names or other particular reasons for capitalization. The first letter is case-insensitive in links and always appears as capital on the article's page; the others are case-sensitive. Michael Hardy 01:54, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Also, any chance you could annotate your edits? It only takes a sec and helps others to track what's changed far more easily. I notice that you almost never annotate any edits (see your contribution list - they are 99% unannotated). GRAHAMUK 05:52, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Modern literature in Irish

Hi Boffin, that's a very interesting article. I have put in a link to the general Irish literature page, which Bmills and I have been trying to knock into shape this last week. Any chance you could pick up the need for new main articles on Irish theatre and Irish fiction, to match the excellent one on Irish poetry that Bmills has put together? seglea 06:51, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Metropolitan counties

Hi. I'm reverting your change to Subdivions of England, as the abolition of a county council is not the same thing as the abolition of the county. Only the former step was taken, and in law, Merseyside exists, as does Berkshire (but in contrast to Humberside, which was indeed abolished). If you like, I can find you legislation referring to them as current entities, for example, areas have been transferred between Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire after South Yorkshire was supposedly abolished... Morwen 19:50, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

License

Hi, could you tell me the license of Image:Zambian Coat of Arms.png ? Thanks in advance. Tipiac 13:25, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

And also Image:Zimbabwe Coat of Arms.png Tipiac 00:34, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sweden1967

Hello. I love – everybody does – Image:Sweden1967.jpg. Do you have access to a better resolution file or an original image? --Valmi 04:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Some images

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Lexcenvn.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you please add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 03:23, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. Oh, and Image:Sweden1967.jpg too.

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Isle_of_Man_Arms_Small.png

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 04:55, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also Image:Citroenc8.jpg RedWolf 19:27, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Image:EASedan.jpg

Image deletion warning

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 08:46, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image:EAWagon.jpg

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 08:46, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright

I noticed you uploaded these images and they don't have copyright tags. I wondered if you could correct that. Cheers. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 10:17, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Blueensign.png has been listed for deletion

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Image:UK Royal Coat of Arms.png

The Image"UK Royal Coat of Arms.png", which you uploaded, has no license. I know you don't need licenses in the English Wikipedia (fair use, whatever that is, is allowed) but for other Wikipedia, e.g. the German, it is neccesary (we're only allowed there to upload images in the public domain, under Creative Commons License, where commercial use is allowed, or, the best of all, GNU-FDL). It would be really nice of you to add your license. Otherwise we'll have to delete the same image in the German Wikipedia (see here) and an image of the Canadian Coat of arms, made of your image (see here). --Hun2 13:32, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia in Tetum

Help building a Wikipedia in Tetum, the national language of East Timor. Give your contribution to the improvement of its test page -- Regards, 195.23.53.121 11:41, 15 February 2006 (UTC) Manuel de Sousa[reply]

Image:RedensignSA.png listed for deletion

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Unspecified source for Image:UK Royal Coat of Arms.png

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Image:UK Royal Coat of Arms.png

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Image copyright problem with Image:Guernsey_Coat_of_Arms.png

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Image source problem with Image:Governor General Union of SA 1910 Flag.png

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Boffin! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 711 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Dom Mintoff - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Proposed deletion of List of Irish words used in the English language

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