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Flag license

Hi Gordon. You tagged Image:Long Beach, New York flag large.png with {{PD-flag}}. According to the last sentence of that tag, your image isn't automatically public domain. Just to be clear, could you add the {{GFDL}} tag? Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 02:56, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Sure thing, David. It's done. Now to get the city to put it on their site.... GPHemsley→◊ 04:03, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

WCBS-FM

I noticed that on the WCBS-FM talk page, you questioned recent edits to WCBS-FM. The only extensive edits I've made on the page is to the possible reasons why the station, despite having decent ratings, decided to change formats. Previously, there was a user, whom I will admit I'm not a fan of, who claimed that the changes occured for the sake of cutting costs. Knowing that this was far from the truth, I set out to show more plausable reasons as to why the station did what it did. I've followed radio for quite some time, and I've followed this new format, as well as how this market came to other markets. Apparently, someone else took one of my reasons and ran with it. I'm sorry if the article ended up this way, but I felt that since this was such a shocking change, some explanations needed to be pointed out. ErikNY 02:32, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

And by the way, I got this message from the user that was responsible for many of the edits. Here's what he said:

• When I wrote my copy regarding the change to WCBS-FM I didn't notice in history that you already took down someone else's copy on the subject. However, before you consider this with mine, I think in the case of WCBS-FM it is different. I am not writing this as one of the 50 or 60 year olds who probably think (and they are not so wrong) that they were mugged for younger listeners, I am only an occasional listener (and mostly for their 70s and early 80s songs) and am much younger than that. The difference between this and the "flips" in other markets is that the station did not have bad ratings, and as I say in the article it was a historic "cultural icon" that even non-oldies fans recognized at events, etc. I do believe that the day may have come down the line for WCBS to change just like what happened to "Big Band" WNEW-AM a generation before, but I think given who the station was and what they represented, it should not have been done in this abrupt a manner, especially given who the station personnel were who were let go with 1 hours' notice. Nor should JACK FM be "dissing" the old station on the air as they are given who it was. So in that sense I do think it is relevant and hope you will let it stay.

It appears that the main edit that caused the content that I was referring to was made by neither you nor User:hairymon, but actually by User:63.13.249.88. That edit brought a lot of the POV into the article. [1] Your and hairymon's edits were fine. Let's continue this discussion over at Talk:WCBS-FM. GPHemsley→◊ 03:21, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Ring (diacritic)

For Ring (diacritic), I test ran it without saving the results. The only redir that would be done would be: hacek → háček, so you could just edit that by hand. Also it detects that carka is just a redirect to acute accent, so that could be edited to [[acute accent|čárka]] or better still just [[acute accent]]

If you wish, you can go ahead and make those changes.

For the Armenian punctuation, even if he insists on retaining numerical entities, I'm not sure why they need to be decimal. They could just as well be ՙ and ՚ for greater clarity.

-- Curps 19:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh, alright. I thought there were more than that. I created čárka to redirect to acute accent, like carka does. I'll just change the links like that. (Not all redirects are bad, you know.) I'm not really sure what I should do with the decimal entites, though. I really despise them, especially considering the official Unicode uses hex. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 19:14, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

There may very well be more than that. Currently, the bot just checks links of the form [[A|B]], where A and B are identical except B has diacritics and A doesn't. It doesn't check links of the form [[A]] to see if it's a redirect. To do that it would have to check every link on the page, which would slow it down. I might implement that at some point, though. The redirect-simplification functionality is very new and is still being worked on. -- Curps 20:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

No, you were right. There were less links on there than I thought. However, maybe you should run the bot (both parts) on some of the pages that link to hacek, such as diacritic and Latin alphabet, as they seem like they could use it. —Gordon P. Hemsley→✉ 20:11, September 2, 2005 (UTC)