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Sumsum2010·T·C 04:09, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
You are tagging many PD images for deletion because they are a bit blurry. You also have tagged and image saying it was not encyclopedeotic when it was in use in an article! Please check before you tag - these images break no policy! Oddbodz (talk) 09:15, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Acather96, could you please provide an email for you because, as an IP address, Special:EmailUser is not useable by me and I have something sensitive to discus. 24.244.139.116 (talk) 19:36, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
24.244.139.116 (talk) 17:02, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I tried to create a post of a new Phrase. I was wandering why it was deleted? The post was Deaver Fever. CoachDeav (talk) 21:41, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
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For helping fix bad file names, a boring, repetitive task that almost no one will ever notice, I award you this barnstar. I noticed, and I appreciate the help. Sven Manguard Wha? 23:23, 7 June 2011 (UTC) |
Hello,
My name is Joshua Lutz. I am a Christian musician/artist in the heart of NYC. Having worked with Eric Clapton, Joss Stone, Michael Jackson, Maroon 5 and many more here in NYC, I am trying to build my name/brand out here and worked for many many hours on my wikipedia page only to have it completely deleted by you. I understand that artists cannot promote themselves by creating a page about them although I am not sure why, It isn't malicious or cumbersome to the internet but I digress. Clearly I know much less about creating a page than you so since you wiped me off the map, would you be so kind to help me re-establish my page appropriately? I think it's a great conduit for others to find me and my message to the world. I have some serious credits out here although I wouldn't consider it famous, I think that's the threshold to remain on Wiki. Thanks in advance. my email is info@jmldesigns.net. My web site is www.jmldesigns.net PLEASE HELP! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmldesigns (talk • contribs) 14:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
WP:FSC has gotten backed up due to limited feedback. Your feedback would be appreciated.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Acather - I've been trying to get to the right way to go about doing the below, but between all the different options and templates, i'm not sure which is the right one as I'm not 100% sure my analysis is correct. Basically, I think that the text on Deerfield (house) is taken from here. The very first edit to the paste is the same as the text on the website. However, could it be possible that it was pasted the other way around? (I wouldn't think so, but possible of course).
On a related note this website also mentions the bit exactly the same about "Winston Churchill taking delight... etc". So who is borrowing from who is unsure. But the American text might be freely licensed as it's government work? (or doesn't it work like that for textual work - I know from working on Commons that it works like that for images). But I think fact remains that the text here is pasted from the site mentioned above. It also seems that Chief Secretary's Lodge is a good article about the very same house.
I hope that makes sense, sorry for taking up your time. And thanks for any help you can give.
Deadstar (talk) 08:11, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
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About "File:DSC00614.JPG", which you've been trying to get a description for:
when I look at the uploader's deleted contributions, I see that it was "the tunnel of Pigman Road", illustrating a long-deleted article about what seems to be a hoax legend (if you'll pardon the awkward phrasing). As such, it's not really useful for anything, and I've deleted it. DS (talk) 13:30, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
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barton kay — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.241.57.90 (talk) 10:06, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your message concerning the image Embroidery.jpg which is a photograph of an embroidery of the coat of arms of the United States done by Edward C. Kuhn. I understand why you may doubt the self copyright claim, however, in this instance I assure you that it is authentic. Edward C. Kuhn is my great, grand-uncle and my father took that photograph a number of years ago when he was considering the donation of the embroidery to the Smithsonian or similar government agency. The embroidery is still in our possession, as it was willed to my father by his great aunt, Agnes Krull, who was Kuhn's sister-in-law. We would gladly send you a current photograph of us posing with the embroidery if that would alleviate your concerns. The mural photographs that you also marked for deletion, and the painting of St. Paul Lutheran Church can be deleted, as I removed them from the article quite awhile ago, although I did take those photographs myself as well. You can also view all these photos, the embroidery, church, and mural on my personal Picasa web album at http://picasaweb.google.com/robkrull We'd be glad to get out the embroidery, take a picture of us with it, and post it there for you to see if you prefer that to providing us with your personal email. Whatever works best for you!
I definitely want to do things correctly, and appreciate any guidance at assigning the correct copyright statement to any images on the Edward C. Kuhn Wikipedia article. I may have inadvertently assigned the incorrect label to some images, but the picture of the embroidery is truly self-owned. So please don't delete that image until giving us a chance to prove it really belongs to us. If you have any questions or would like further confirmation, please don't hesitate to email or call either of us at the contact info below. My father is director of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. He owns original copies of the articles written about Uncle Eddie, and they have already been scanned into The Genealogy Center site maintained by the library http://www.genealogycenter.info/military/spanishamerican/search_edwardkuhn.php
Thanks for the work you do making Wikipedia the wonderful site it is. I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely, Robkrull (talk) 04:18, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Rob Krull
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Hope you get it
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I hope you become an admin— Preceding unsigned comment added by Grieve29 (talk • contribs) 21:57, 12 July 2011
For the support of my Abuse response nomination! Hope you like your cheeseburger! Damirgraffiti |☺Say Yo to Me!☺ 00:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC) |
Hi Acather96, I was wondering if you could advise me on whether this image is OK to upload i.e. complies with Wiki's copyright, file size etc. And if so, what copyright tag to use. I have had many images deleted in the past for not following the Wikipedia policy!
The image by Art Young I believe was first published in 1917 (do not have yet evidence of this) and reproduced on a 1953 US Government hearing as described here and shown here. The earliest evidence I have so far found is that it was published in the first issue of Economic Justice in November 1932.[1] I intend to use the image on the Christian anarchism article. --Nirvana2013 (talk) 13:14, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Just found evidence the artwork was used prior to 1917. In Ammon Hennacy's The Book of Ammon he says "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn gave us a framed picture by Art Young from the old Masses of a reward wanted for Christ..." (p. 410, 5th ed. 1970). The Masses ceased publication in 1917, confirming the artwork was first published prior to this time. He also published the full poster in his autobiography on p.332. I hope this helps. Nirvana2013 (talk) 17:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi. You nominated File:Head of Feronia (cropped).jpg for deletion. I've explained its source at the deletion nom, but since there's been no response I was wondering whether you could tell me what it is I need to do to make its source clearer. Or perhaps since you're diligent in these matters you could take the info I've provided there and fix the problem. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 06:13, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Because your good job how admin, I give you a little kitten ;-)
K-F.U.N 2 13:59, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
It's not a Mediawiki bug per se, but many UTF-8 fonts combined with Unicode characters in with many different browsers's rendering engines interpret it. So my advice to you is to strike that bugzilla. It's mostly ҉ a firefox nifty feature :) See, i just inserted a weird character... --Zalgo (talk) 20:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to create an article about a very important artist/author. I went through the help: how to create a new article, previewed it and added the references (such as homepage, publishers page, newspaper articles, etc.) Unfortunately came after I saved the page the message of the "false possitive report". What could have been the reason and how to avoid it in the future. I have to mention that just recently the same article which is in english, I put on to the german wikipedia and got the message wrong language. Could that be a reason for the false possitive issue ? Can I create again the page ? What is going to happen now with the article, will it be reviewed by an admin ? I would really need some help with this issue of creating this new article. I can send you the text that I had copied from the creating article box, which includes everything. I hope you can help me and thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kusum Bhagavat (talk • contribs) 07:39, 18 August 2011
Hi Acather96, thanks for the welcome message, i'm really new to editing on here but hopefully i'll get to grips with it, although I doubt I'll be as active as you – 25,000 edits in over a year is pretty good going.
I'm used to using HTML but this is a little different so will read-up on some guidelines and tutorials.
Thanks again for being so welcoming.--Richard Slade 21:31, 22 August 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard a slade (talk • contribs)
Vandalism?! Accuse me of vandalism?! I resent that accusation. I've contacted the bot's owner, but he hasn't got back to me. The image is not an orphan, it is used on this page. As I've said the bot's owner hasn't got back to me, and if I don't remove the tag, the image will be deleted. --Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 11:10, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
or do you have any ideas to improve the description even more? mabdul 12:22, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Click here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Canihuan300 (talk • contribs) 15:10, 29 July 2011
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Hi... the photo File:NYFB.jpg was taken in 1975 at North Allerton fire station. to be honest I'm not sure how to amend the details, last time I tried I messed it up ! If you would care to do it, I would be most grateful, thanks Phil.... aka Geotek (talk) 14:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
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Please to see you moving DSC files. May I suggest that if the licence is appropriate, it would be even better if you were to use the Commons helper to transfer them straight away. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:53, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello,I was wondering if you could help.I am new at Wikipedia and I found an article that was abusive at some part and i remove contents.Then someone sent me a message saying that my edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted because he didn't like it.Can you tell me what can I do to correct the article?Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natal12 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much!You are great!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Natal12 (talk • contribs) 17:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible for me to edit Samlaptop's Abuse Response page anymore. Previously, after User:Jamesofur had completed his investigation of the case in December 2009, he had written me a note giving me permission to continue to edit the report (see this discussion). I continued to add new sockpuppet accounts keeping track of Samlaptop's activities that violated of Wikipedia's blocking policy until February 2011 when you closed and archived the report. Currently, the report states "The following page is an archived Abuse Response case. Please do not modify it." As such, I have held back from adding new sockpuppet accounts. Most of Sam's sockpuppets since February have been one-time uses that weren't vandalistic per se. None of them were banned. Yesterday the sockpuppet account 92.5.198.12 was blocked and today he's started using a new sockpuppet account to vandalize. I'd like to add these details to the report. Would that be OK to do? -Thibbs (talk) 03:34, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Message for Acather96 and Thibbs This is Sam's mother. Sam has made be aware of his previous so called vandalism at a time when he was new to Wikipedia and did not realise the consequence of his actions. Now he is older he is using it responsibly and only commenting on articles that he has knowledge about. I do not appreciate the threat made to Sam about contacting his schools and ISP as this is causing Sam a great deal of anxiety and could be classed as bullying! I would appreciate hearing your comments regarding this matter so that we can sort it out.--Judey Jude (talk) 09:36, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for getting back to me. I have spoken to Sam and he has agreed not to try to edit anymore. I have told him that if he can not be responsible about it then the block should remain in place for the foreseeable future. Sam is autistic and on some occasions I think he genuinely thought he was contributing to the content. Apologies, I hope that will be the end of the matter.--Judey Jude (talk) 14:48, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
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I reviewed your file of the audio recording of Undercover Cops, and i have a few suggestions that could boost it up to an overall high quality recording.
I assume this recording was all done in one take and seems to not be majorly edited. I'd suggest before uploading it to go over it with a simple sound editing software (I use the free software Audacity). Remove sections where you paused mid sentence or for a long time (probably to read a head bit). Also the parts where you stop and started over again at certain words due to mispronunciation.
Your pace throughout the entire recording is outstanding. Your breathing is also relatively good considering it wasn't edited. To improve the technical quality I'd suggest going into more detail with your editing by removing the pauses where you can hear your mouth, tongue or teeth clicking, I think dues to swallowing or trying to make your breathing quieter.
I also do recorded articles and found when it comes to breathing if you just edit out every time you take a breath it can, actually, it always will mess up your pacing. The best solution i have for that is to try to do separate recordings for each section then mash them together when our editing anyway. Look ahead and get a general idea of how may sentences you can take in one breath and the general pattern of your breathing. If you can plan out when to breath you can plan out how the editing will work. Simple - every time you take a breath pause (be completely silent!) for around the same amount of time that it took you to take your breath. That way when you edit out your breathing (if you choose to do so) there is still space that once effect your pacing.
Sorry this was so long, but i hop it helps. Betsi-HaP (talk) 00:50, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
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