User talk:Skier Dude/archive/archive Oct 08

Improper licence?

What do you mean? I don't think that constitutes an unwarned deletion, especially when {{hangon}} was inserted! — Supuhstar * § 22:06, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Lukas Rossi Article Image Deletion

I am quite confused but willing to locate and replace the old image with a more recent one. I must get the artist to indicate which he would prefer.

In order to avoid future battles with Wiki. I need a LOT of assistance evidently. A perusal of edits in Late Oct to Early November will reveal the Good Faith effort that the Photographer, Artist, and I all gave in the attempt to get an image posted.

Once we managed that process, the Image remained on the article with no dispute for almost one year.

When the warning was posted, I immediately read the updated instructions regarding the posting of an image that was not licensed but rather given to the artist for use. I forwarded all email discussion and permissions to the email address provided in that article to permissions-en@wikimedia.org . (see edit by MilborneOne and the instructions provided by same)

At this point I can't even retrieve the image as it appears to have been removed from Wikipedia completely.

Any assistance/advice that you can offer would be greatly appreciated as Mr Rossi is working with photographers who love his work, offer the photography work as a donation to his career, and do not carry a copyright/license on their images. fransi (talk) 12:47, 8 October 2008 (UTC)fransi kaye

Brother Marquis is notable under WikiPedia standards.

Brother Marquis is notable and you had no right to delete it== Brother Marquis has starred in 5 2 Live Crew albums and will be starring in 2 Live Crew's upcoming album. He also had made 2 solo albums. His real name is Mark Ross. You can find pictures of him all over the Internet. He is listed as an official member of 2 Live Crew on their website. He has been shown as a member on all their officially signed and released albums he has starred in. Parts of songs where he features in have been marked on many lyrics sites. He has performed live with them in concert. He's on the covers of all the 2 Live Crew album's he starred in for christ sake. There have been YouTube comments about him. Yes he is notable and you can't deny it and you won't stop me from making articles of official notable musicians to make WikiPedia better. Please explain your reasoning now how Brother Marquis is so calle "unnotible". Please don't just pertend like you don't see this. Respond with your reason the instant you see this. Peace.--AdrianPosse (talk) 01:15, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

To your comment on my page

Yeah, but that's like if you see an apple and you feel it and your going to write down on paper if it exists you must go around asking people if they believe the apple exists. It's very obvious. Brother Marquis is a famous member of 2 Live Crew and starred in tons of chart-topping albums and singles. If your really 40 you should know that because of all the controversy they caused in the late 80's and early 90's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AdrianPosse (talk • contribs) 01:25, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:My dear enemy poster.jpg

Can you take another look at this image? The original oversized version does not appear to have been deleted. Cheers! PC78 (talk) 11:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I thought it was simply a case of replacing an oversized image with a smaller one, regardles of whether or not the image is the same. I've had such images deleted in the past, anyway; what's important is that the original upload is too large to satisfy the necessary guidelines, which should be enough by itself to have it deleted. If it helps, no source was provided for the original JPG, either. PC78 (talk) 20:24, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:Moonrakerposter.jpg

Can you restire this. It is in the process of going for GA Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 18:34, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks bud. I think I'll add a few more details tomorrow after watching the DVD documentary and then post it for GA Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

The connections between actors and films in many cases really is quite funny. We're looking at Moonrakers's Blanche Ravalec, Jaws's girlfriend who now dubs the voice of Ugly Betty for France. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Uh no, please fix this

Tylerdotcom13 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) -- a 48 hour block on such a flagrantly abusive account is unacceptable. Would you please fix this to be indefinite. JBsupreme (talk) 07:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

See also this ANI thread, opened by JBsupreme. --Tikiwont (talk) 08:43, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Swimsuittrends

Hi there, I'd like to up the block length to indef per violation of the username policy being the name of a real-world organisation & has been used in the overt promotion of said company. Is this OK with you? Kind regards, Nancy ^talk 07:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Cool - I know the feeling, AIV moves so fast it's sometimes hard to see the wood for the trees. See you around, Nancy ^talk 07:25, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Images

Excuse me if I'm a little off here, but I noticed that you resurrected the main image for the Robert Lowell page, and since there's been a lot of disappearing photos I was hoping you could do the same for Hart Crane and T. S. Eliot? In both cases the prior photos, which just recently disappeared, should be well within public domain. Thanks!

--ful cleane (talk) 08:15, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Twenty-eight google search pages down and still no sign of a valid source on the Eliot photo. Will keep my eye out for possible new main photos for each article. --ful cleane (talk) 08:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

ANI discussion

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Tylerdotcom13_-_unacceptable_block - You might want to pop over there! Pedro :  Chat  08:47, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of StrategyWiki

Just compare:

• Galaxiki Alexa ranking: 565,443
• LyricWiki Alexa ranking: 15,060
• OpenWetWare Alexa ranking: 126,691

and

• StrategyWiki Alexa ranking: 12,273

If the alexa ranking cannot be a measure of notoriety from a website, what can be?

I think that the StrategyWiki website is sufficiently notorious to have a article about. But, please, reply.MRFraga (talk) 16:20, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:Blanche-de-Castilla.jpg in the public domain?

Rule: Source information must be provided so that the copyright status can be verified. De www.guide2womenleaders.com website is where the Blanche picture was ripped from. Is that website the copyright holder? There is nothing on that website to indicate so. For all we know, that website may be in copyright violation. So be it. However, Wikipedia needs the true author (painter) who authored the picture so that indeed we can ascertain that the author has been dead for more than 100 years and the picture is in the public domain. This being a potential copyright violation, I reversed your edit of Image:Blanche-de-Castilla.jpg. Cheers. -- Iterator12n ^Talk 01:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

the image which i posted was deleted

the image which i posted was deleted by you. but after the msg from Suntag i added the source of image to that file.what else needed.

actually all the photos which I posted was paper cutting from various leading Tamil news papers. for this type of photos what licenses need to select.Give me the suggestion. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bose1234 (talk • contribs) 06:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

list of 376 state leaders

what is rvv? Not plentifuls (talk) 00:40, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the help. everybody used to call my last account a vandal. so i want to say that i am not. Not plentifuls (talk) 00:47, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Live at the 9:30 Club (Virginia Coalition album)

I just wanted to check and see if this was a typo ("the9:30"). I checked around and it appeared to be so I moved it to Live at the 9:30 Club (Virginia Coalition album) due to there now being a Live at the 9:30 Club and turned Live At The 9:30 Club into a redirect to Live at the 9:30 Club (disambiguation). CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 04:09, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Just luck. Hitting random articles. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 04:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

licence

If the photo is mine, and i am publishing in it means what licence i should give. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bose1234 (talk • contribs) 05:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

French commune infoboxes

Hi Skier. We have a large back log of French commune articles to add the infoboxes from French wikipedia Status check. All that needs doing is copying the infobox directly from the French wikipedia equivalent. Please see Vulaines. All that needs doing for each article is cutting and pasting the infobox from French wiki into every article which must be bot compatible. So for Vulaines all it requires is pasting the infobox into it from here and pasting it into the english wiki article. COuld somebody please programme a bot or use some form of coding to help complete the task in hours rather than months? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 11:48, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I've actually done that already, I'm well acquainted with BAG. In my experience though few people ever respond or will take on the task. I;ve asked a few people about it but if you know somebody or something which would see it through please do it or leave a note after my note or something.Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 15:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you restore Azerbaijani films of the 1920s? Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 22:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it somewhat defeats the object of the prod doesn't it when you aren't prodded! Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:19, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Question from Newbiez

Hello SkierRMH. I have recently realizzed that a picture that I uploaded onto Wikipedia and put on my experimental H.P.A.W. page was deleted by you. I am sure that you had a good reason, but even so, I would appreciate it greatly if you could message me back and tell me why. Keep in mind that this page I was editting was a work-in-progress, and I was not ready to upload it to the main Wikipedia server.

Thanks Newbiez (talk) 18:58, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

GBU

Yes, Unbelievably somebody thought Image:GoodBadUgly Mexicanstandoff.gif showing the Mexican standoff in Good Bad Ugly wasn't suitable. Only like one of the most memorable scenes in film historyBlofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 23:47, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Perhaps I or someone should develop than article to FA someday. Its an FA on Italian FA. My favourite film. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk) 10:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Missing signature

I was wondering if you could fix your signature here. I would usually throw a signature template, but since it's a block, I just thought it would be better form for you to fix it. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:40, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Impetuous Fire / Forever and Ever AfD closing?

I'm not sure what went on there, and what the rationale for closing is. All the article creator did was move it from one realtively unknown name to another relatively unknown name. There was no merging of two separate articles, and this did nothing at all to address the notability guidelines set out by WP:NOTFILM. Tarc (talk) 13:21, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Richard Johns

Hi SkierRMH, I notice you deleted the page I created entitled Richard Johns (FILM). Could you please explain why you did this, as I am Richard Johns, film producer, who created the page in the first place. Thanks Richard Johns email richard@thinktankfilms.co.uk

RichardLJohns (talk) 16:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much...

...for putting an indefinite block on User:Cowabunga123 -- I reported him to AIV for his messaging on violence against racial and ethnic groups. Egad, what a sad person -- hopefully we will see the last of him here. Be well, and keep up the fine work! Ecoleetage (talk) 03:19, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Deletion of images on SEXAFS

Can you please clarify why did you delete the images?

Those images were taken from published journal publications. Can you let me know the correct way to go about this?

Thanks Sumit Ashtekar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumitash (talk • contribs) 04:43, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

stub templates

Hi Skier - any reason why you moved the stub templates further up the page here? They're meant to go after the categories. Not a biggie, just wondering... Grutness...wha? 08:23, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Try Wikipedia:Stub#How to mark an article as a stub (first paragraph). They're meant to go after the categories so that the stub categories appear at the end of the list. As I said, it's not a big deal, but some of editors get annoyed with them appearing before the navigation categories. Grutness...wha? 08:32, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Tweak template?

Hi. I'm a bit confused. How does this constitute tweaking a template? Isn't it just a case of removing a valid speedy delete tag?? Regards, Pince Nez (talk) 13:32, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protections

Hey SkierRMH, I noticed that when you semi-protect articles, you tend to add the full protection template instead of the semi-protection template [1][2]. Just thought I'd point this out to you. Regards. DiverseMentality^(Boo!) 04:08, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

bug in citation

I fear your changes to {{citation}} have introduced a bug where there is a book with two editors. See here. Please undo ASAP. Many thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 06:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Impetuous Fire / Forever and Ever AfD closing?

I'm not sure what went on there, and what the rationale for closing is. All the article creator did was move it from one relatively unknown name to another relatively unknown name. There was no merging of two separate articles, and this did nothing at all to address the notability guidelines set out by WP:NOTFILM. Tarc (talk) 12:45, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

myDocs

Why did you delete those images? I had nSynergy's permission for using it.

Deletion of Sitashma Chand

Can u plz make sitashma's page back because she was the winner of Miss Nepal 2007 and also the Contestants of Miss World 2007. Not only that Miss World 2007 Contestants has there page too so can u bring back sitashma's page thanx.(NepaliBoy7 (talk) 16:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)).

Leaf morphology disposition.png

Could I ask you why you deleted the original version of Image:Leaf morphology disposition.png? The only reason I scaled it down in the first place was to work around a technical limitation of MediaWiki's image thumbnailing feature. The original version remains the one anyone wishing to create derivative versions or to use the image outside Wikipedia would want to use, and I deliberately referenced it in my upload summary. Not to mention that, should the 12.5 megapixel thumbnailing limit ever be increased or removed entirely, the image should be reverted to the full-size original.

I've gone ahead and restored the original version. If you did have a specific reason to believe that that version should not be kept available to the public (not that I can think of any), feel free to re-delete it and please accept my apologies in advance. Anyway, sorry to take your time with this, and have a nice day. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:13, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

(Copied from my talk page:)

In my current browser (Mozilla Firefox 3.0.something) the thumbnail came up with the 'grey warning screen' that it was not able to be rendered due to technical problems. I don't have any problems with the reset- as long as it's rendering correctly! SkierRMH (talk) 15:59, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's what MediaWiki does with images that are so big (over 12.5 megapixels) that it refuses to generate thumbnails for them. Ugly, but that's the way it's currently implemented. Clicking on the date link next to the gray box still gives you the full-size image, which your browser should display just fine. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 19:30, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: Protection for Negima!?

Can you put Negima!? on a longer block? That article is really a big hot bed for vandalism for months after its last semi-protection. And I don't think three days of protection will cut it. You can check out its history, especially its protection log to see what I mean. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 08:30, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

File:Paramacharya1.jpg

I observe that you have deleted File:Paramacharya1.jpg. I was the uploader of the image and you could very well have messaged me before deleting it. The image was published in 1933 and according to Indian Copyright Law all images published before 1-1-1948 are in public domain. I had uploaded around 10-15 images that day and it seems that I had forgotten to add the source information for this one. Anyway, see you. Bye-Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 12:04, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Oops!!!! I'm extremely sorry :-) I just checked it out. My picture is still there. Sorry for the inconvenience. -Ravichandar_{My coffee shop} 17:07, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Carmine Goglia Article

Hi Skier Dude,

I am new to putting articles into Wikipedia, in fact this is my first one. So, please let me know what you think needs to change within the article in order to remove or mitigate the issues that are now listed for this article.

Sincerely,

4icnivad (talk) 15:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)4icnivad

Skier Dude,

I like the Wikification things you did to the article to make it look better. Very cool, Thanks.

I added a citation reference to www.thefreelibrary.com, but not sure how to make the reference itself be visible in the reference section like the NY Times & Gift of Fame references. I also added the Johnny Grant reference. I have a photo of Carmine Goglia and Johnny Grant that I want to upload in the near future to solidify the reference & document the connection within the article. Cheers, 4icnivad (talk) 20:33, 1 November 2008 (UTC)