User talk:Rafti Institute

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Whosyourjudas (talk) 21:20, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I notice that some of your edits have been extremely constructive, such as your work at tattoo, BME and body piercing. I'm sure your efforts are very much appreciated, and hope you remain with the wikipedia community.

However, some of your edits seem have been inappropriate - for instance, your edits to Big Bang. Some of your edits have been "reverted" or removed. If you want to dispute this, you can add your comments to the article's talk page by clicking the 'discussion' link while viewing the page in question.

Also, the page William Rafti is likely to be eventually deleted as its content does not seem to be appropriate for an encyclopedia. However, you might want to add the information to your personal user page, here: User:Rafti Institute.

Bear in mind that material in your user page and talk pages can have practially any content (within reason) whereas material in the wikipedia namespace is expected to be of reasonably encyclopedic quality.

Don't get too worried about any of this, you're not in any trouble! It's just a friendly note. Again, welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope you stay. Best wishes, FirstPrinciples 12:22, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Universal Convective Pulse Theory S.pdf[edit]

Hello,

I've removed the links to your "Universal Convective Pulse Theory S.pdf" file that you inserted into two articles about cosmology.

If your Universal Convective Pulse Theory S becomes something that is relevant to the field of cosmology, then it would be an appropriate time to add the links to those Wikipedia articles. Until then, Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue to popularize theories that are unknown to anyone in the field. As you can imagine, if this were deemed appropriate, most Wikipedia articles about scientific topics would be filled with several thousand links to bizarre, unnoteworthy pet theories from everyone who has an opinion.

Regards - Tempshill 09:55, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:William Rafti Convective Sigmaphysics copy.jpg[edit]

Hi. You uploaded Image:William Rafti Convective Sigmaphysics copy.jpg but no articles use it and it's unclear what article could use it. It has been listed for deletion so if you want it to be kept please comment on that page. Thanks. RedWolf 20:03, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Image source[edit]

Thank you for uploading Image:Bear Flower Tattoo.jpg. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --Ellmist 05:06, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

PDFs nominated for deletion[edit]

Hi William. I've nominated some of the PDFs you uploaded (Image:Body Modification Code of Ethics.pdf, Image:Required Legal Forms And Aftercare Sheets.pdf, Image:Body Piercing Aftercare and Healing.pdf, and Image:Piercing Class Difficulty and Pricing.pdf for deletion at WP:IFD. I think the information in these files is unencyclopedic; please see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Furthermore, even if the information were encyclopedic, PDF would be the wrong format. Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 23:37, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I notice you upload lots of photographs. When you upload a photo, please state where you got it exactly. If you took it yourself, just say so. Also, specify the copyright status of the image. If you took it yourself, just put {{GFDL}} on there; see also Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for more information. Finally, please avoid putting text onto the images. That simply makes more work for others, who have to crop or fiddle with the image to remove the text, as I did with Image:Bear Flower Tattoo.jpg by cropping off the bottom. dbenbenn | talk 00:39, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Copyright tags[edit]

I noticed that you uploaded several (excellent) images, but all without copyright tags and without stating where these images came from. Furthermore, most (or all ?) of these images carry the text : RAFTI , which has to be removed by others, like me - see: Category:Images for cleanup. Before removing the text, I want to be sure that these images fall within the copyright restrictions of Wikipedia. JoJan 18:37, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

pic's tag and source[edit]

Please add the copyright tag and the source of picture on Image:Native American tobacco flower.jpg, thanks.--Fanghong 03:04, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Ear Spirals Glass small.jpg[edit]

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 08:52, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Rafti3.jpg[edit]

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Image:Body Piercing Jewelry.pdf listed for deletion[edit]

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Body Piercing Jewelry.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —MetsBot 19:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC) --SPUI (talk) 21:23, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"I agree that the accusation of plagarism is well founded, but I'm removing it from the above post anyway. You understand that I have proof that it is me that is biased, not BME. I have numerous letters that support my case, including letters confirming my insanity from the government, and in fact my work was copied from the BME encyclopedia- not the other way around. My work is what has been causing confusion in the body modification industry and Suffolk Couinty NY recently advised that I should be locked in the loony bin. My personal bias and delusions of grandeur are what made all this possible. I think you've been duped by people like me with malicious intent." -Author Did not Leave (his?) Name, but this supports my (William Rafti) proposition that the body modification industry tries to twist words around and put them into people's mouths (as first suggested to me by Kivaka). Mr. Rafti considers the person who posted the preceeding quote to be a vandal. In the past the body piercing section was repeatedly and cleverly vandalized to make Wikipedia a source of dangerous information, the person who did this knew what they were doing and placed the general public at risk (for example changing the words "Sodium Chloride" (salt) to Sodium Hydroxide (lye). Mr. Shannon Larratt of BME owes me my day in court- SUE ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Image Tagging for Image:Ruby_slippers_800.jpg[edit]

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Destroying angel[edit]

Hello Rafti,.. can i upload your pic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Destroying_Angel.jpg on it.wiki/Amanita virosa? :-)) cya!--DrugoNOT 23:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sry, i've mistake your license (permission is not needed :PP )... so now, i've already upload the pic on it.wiki! ;) ...(of sure by attribuite to you any credit). cya!! --DrugoNOT 19:18, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rainbow[edit]

Thanks for your message. I've now taken the opportunity to do a major cleanup of the images on Rainbow as the page was getting cluttered with various images. Neil Dodgson 14:40, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is blatant advertising.

Additionally, it seems to be used simply to slander Shannon Larratt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SpecialAgentRagnar (talk • contribs) 20:44, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Pink African Violet.jpg[edit]

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File source problem with File:Hypodermic needle bevels.jpg[edit]

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File source problem with File:Bear Flower Tattoo.jpg[edit]

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File:Rafti3.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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File:Honeysuckle.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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File:Princess Di Wax Figure.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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File:Ask the Shulgins PRINT.jpg listed for deletion[edit]

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File:Ultrasonic cleaner copy.jpg missing description details[edit]

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Commons[edit]

Hello. I marked your images for transfer to Commons, so can they can be used in Wikipedia all languages and other wiki proyects. I will pleased if you check i didn't miss one.--Hiperfelix (talk) 06:05, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

¡Un gatito para ti![edit]

Thanks for your images.

Hiperfelix (talk) 06:07, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scene Makers - Image Upload[edit]

Hello, I was wondering if you can provide a little more information about an image you uploaded;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chapbook.JPG

I have tried--with no success--to track down more information about this, but there appears to be absolutely no reference to it at all on the internet. This, as you can understand, is an insane proposition, and something I would like to fix. Could you assist me in perhaps adding additional information about it, or perhaps a complete copy given it appears to have an open license, on the image in question? Or contact the person who gave you rights to upload the image on behalf of the Wikipedia project at large, and ask him if he would be willing to perhaps create an article for the 'game' as it appears to be a great contemporary illustration of the use of chapbooks, and that alone (IMHO at least!) is a notable enough cause for article creation!

Thank you in advance, and I look forward to reading the rest of the chapbook at some point in the future, hopefully. It's been bothering me greatly, something not existing ANYWHERE on the internet in 2013 is just mind boggling! :P BaSH PR0MPT (talk) 13:08, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

November 2015[edit]

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