User talk:Loadmaster/Archive 3

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Fair use rationale for Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Qrsys Cstrp 08:36, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Additional information was added to Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg, using Template:Non-free media rationale. — Loadmaster 20:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

The image was deleted 2007-08-07 and replaced with Image:William Powell and Myrna Loy in Another Thin Man trailer.jpg.

Unspecified source for Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 08:53, 22 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Qrsys Cstrp 09:01, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Additional information was added to Image:NickAndNoraCharles2c.jpg. — Loadmaster 20:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

The image was deleted 2007-08-07 and replaced with Image:William Powell and Myrna Loy in Another Thin Man trailer.jpg.

re: How I can add a notable USNEt Personality to the page?

Hi Mr. Trimble: I'm new to Wikipedia and read through some of the information on creating articles. I have developed some sound source information for an Edmond Wollmann, Kook of the Millennium on the USNET notable personality page. He doesn't exist there yet. I was wondering if you can help direct me to how I might be able to add him in the content below. I have good sources to back up the information. I feel strongly, as do many of Wollmann's victims, that he deserves notariety for his activities that he often tries to cover-up with threats of lawsuits. I would apprecaite any help as to how I can get him entered rightfully into the Notable USNET personalities page or any other relevant you believe it would belong. Thank you - C. Merrill (Brainchannels 2007-07-30)

• Edmond Wollmann — Usnet personality who since the late 90's has an infamous well documented reputation for spamming, ID theft, mail bomb threats, and harassment of people in their real lives and careers outside of the forum. Wollmann, who proclaims himself to be an astrologer with a self-published book, often forms sock puppet ID's to create the appearance of momentum during his victims' smears. As a result of these activities, Wollmann has received 44 Usnet Kook Awards since 1998, including its top award Kook of the Millennium. Wollmann also has two recent criminal convictions and is potentially dangerous to his victims 1) Concealed Unlicensed Firearm 2) Public Nuisance (County of San Diego 2002, 2003). Wollmann is documented as having also promoted the idea of rape as human growth in his determining young girls in the Congo brought rape onto themselves to work out their personal problems.

Reply posted at User Talk:Brainchannels. — Loadmaster 22:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

"USNET People" Category Appears Locked without an Article Doorway

Thanks for the info about Edmond Wollmann. There are names under "USNET People" category in their own article. I would like to put him there if possible. I just can't find any gate to get the article into that group. Is it locked for some reason?

Reply posted at User Talk:Brainchannels. — Loadmaster 16:47, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Why Did Someone Suddenly Lock this Page?

Hi Loadmaster:

Do you know why when you type in the name Edmond Wollmann and it goes to a redirect, the page has now had a lock placed on it under Eccentric USNET personalities? It is locked from new users adding content. It wasn't like that a few weeks ago.

I still can't figure out where the add article page is, it seems this is a very difficult process to add an article and that a lot of control and censorship is happening even in the editing process in spite of the slick advertising material suggesting it is something else.

I think Wikipedia has used a lot of people's free time and contributions to make its site popular. At this juncture, it is changing the nature of its site to one of heavy censorship in which there are simply too many gatekeepers. It is clear it doesn't want articles written, otherwise it would make the process more user friendly. At this point it is practically brain surgery to find out how to add an article. — BrainChannels (2007-08-08)

Reply posted at User Talk:Brainchannels. — Loadmaster 18:27, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Hypernumber as disambig only

Hello - I've just reverted a minor edit to the Hypernumber disambiguation page. There is a flood of number systems beyond the reals, a (limited) overview is currently sketched in Hypercomplex number. You may want to consider updating the latter article to represent numbers such as the hyperreal, superreal, and others more adequatly? Thanks, Jens Koeplinger 18:02, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Archimedes Plutonium

Archimedes Plutonium, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Archimedes Plutonium satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archimedes Plutonium (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Archimedes Plutonium during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. P4k 20:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

The proper link is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Archimedes Plutonium (4th nomination). ANd for the record, I created that article only as a redirect page to Notable Usenet personalities. — Loadmaster 22:22, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I know. TWINKLE automatically notified you, sorry. Somebody moved the AfD after I created it, and evidently someone else deleted the redirect.P4k 22:34, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Messin' with my User page

Thanks for splitting a too-long list into two columns. That had been on my agenda for a while, but I really didn't know how to do it, so it had a pretty low priority. Live long and prosper, Loadmaster! Lou Sander 19:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Code Pages

I saw your work on character set tables in Code Page 437 and EBCDIC - I'm trying to start an effort to standardize what these tables look like, would you like to participate? —Random832 21:22, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I would. Thanks. — Loadmaster (talk) 23:36, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry I haven't had the time to get back to you until today; see User:Random832/Code tables for a listing of the current (as of a month and a half ago) situation. Basically first we need to figure out what the code tables need to look like. —Random832 19:55, 15 December 2007 (UTC)