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Exams

Good luck. Come back soon. --Dweller 10:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

It will be a period of reduced activity as I will not be able resist the temptation to keep editing. Thanks. :) MER-C 13:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

RE:Fair use rationale for Image:Phages.jpg

Uh... I though what I put was pretty much good. I've uploaded some thirty images in the last few months and this is the first time anyone has complained. The licensing template says "It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such covers solely to illustrate the audio recording in question, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information." The image description clearly states that "it is a fair use image because it will illustrate the EP Phages", which it does nicely, as per WP:ALBUMS album infobox. Please let me know what i missed somewhere.--Entoaggie09 00:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I removed the no rationale tag from the image simply to make sure that it wasn't deleted before the issue is resolved. You may put it back if you feel necessary, but I would hope we can resolve the issue on our own.--Entoaggie09 00:54, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

I also added very extensive fair use rationale, although i really don't see why it is necessary, as there is nothing there now that wasn't already either there explicitly or implied on a very basic level.--Entoaggie09 01:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The rationale you added is fine, however it should be noted that all fair use images must have rationales as required by WP:NONFREE and the tag itself is not a fair use rationale. MER-C 09:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: fair use for Image:Soundsss.jpg

Hey, I noticed you tagged the Sounds of Animals Fighting image with no rationale, so I added as best a rationale as I could (not my forte but I'd like to try to save the image). Let me know if it's good or bad or ugly (which it probably is). Good luck with your exams! Amphy 03:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

See WP:FURG for guidance. This could be a case of {{replaceable fair use}}, so the rationale should be a bit more detailed. And thanks for the well wishes. MER-C 09:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Mike rosseter‎

Definitely more of a G10 than an A7 I think.... One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 12:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Fair use rationale for Image:Nrr1.jpg

Hi, I noticed that you tagged the image for deletion and I'd like to keep this image. I added its fair use the best I could.

Can you tell me what's wrong with it? Thanks in advance. --Tasco 0 22:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

It lacks a fair use rationale as required by our policy on fair use images. MER-C 09:38, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Why I was I with those editors

Well lets say I just welcome only 1 of them and they are starting asking me question about diffrent things and just commented on my poetry and I didn't talk to them in like 2 weeks and I only welcome them and told them to get to editing.Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 12:49, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

NOTE: Please check your links for the deletion,Regards-Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 13:13, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid edit counters don't lie - 65 edits to do the above doesn't seem plausible. MER-C 10:29, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Only about 30 were talks anyway it was a month ago someone told me about this before.Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 12:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering, after seeing your username plastered over the talk pages of those particular social networkers. And, yes, all the links at the MFD are correct. MER-C 13:22, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Really? So could you check this here Thank you--Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 14:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Comment required

Hi there, as a fellow contributor to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images I was wondering if you'd take the time to comment on the proposal I've made on the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Possibly unfree images#Proposal for an addition to the page introduction. Thanks. Madmedea 19:19, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Wiki.java and page watched

Hi,

thanks for your Wiki.java, I am using it for Wikipedia Cleaner and one user just reported a small problem with it: if a page was watched before, it's not after being updated. This is probably due to the value of the "wpWatchthis" input field not being read. --NicoV 21:21, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Implementing this requires crude and dirty hacks as there is no straightforward way to get all the elements in your watchlist or determine whether an item is on the watchlist. We can't just go...

private ArrayList watchlist; 

public void updateWatchlist()
{
    if (watchlist == null) // memory hack
       watchlist = new ArrayList(1000); // should be enough for most users
    else
       watchlist.clear();

    (insert boilerplate connection code to api.php here)
    while (more items in watchlist)
    {
        (find out title of item)
        watchlist.add(title);
    }
    watchlist.trim(); // memory hack
}

public boolean isWatched(String title)
{
    (convert the title so that it is not a talk namespace title)
    return (watchlist.indexOf(newtitle) != -1);
}

... as api.php does not allow us to do this. I'll have a think about this, after the exams. Bugzilla time, I guess. MER-C 06:33, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I was rather thinking of analyzing the following line when editing the page :

<input name="wpWatchthis" type="checkbox" value="1" checked="checked" tabindex="4" accesskey="w" id="wpWatchthis" />

I was just wondering what value should be sent for the wpWatchthis argument when the page is watched. --NicoV 11:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Just to let you know that analyzing the input field "wpWatchthis" seems to be working correctly. Something like

  boolean watchThisRetrieved = false;
  while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
    if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpAutoSummary\"") != -1) {
      int x = line.indexOf("value=\"") + 7;
      wpAutoSummary = line.substring(x, line.indexOf('\"', x));
      summaryRetrieved = true;
    } else if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpEditToken\"") != -1) {
      ...
    } else if (line.indexOf("name=\"wpWatchthis\"") != -1) {
      int x = line.indexOf("checked=\"");
      if (x > 0) {
        wpWatchThis = true;
      }
      watchThisRetrieved = true;
    } else if (editRetrieved &&
               summaryRetrieved &&
               startRetrieved &&
               timeRetrieved &&
               revisionIdRetrieved &&
               watchThisRetrieved) {
      break;
    }
  }

and

  if (wpWatchThis) {
    out.print("&wpWatchthis=1");
  }

--NicoV 15:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Fixed and updated, I think. Added some other stuff as well. MER-C 09:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Argh, users reported problems with this way of working. If they have choosen in their preferences that pages they modify are watched, then all pages modified this way will be watched. Will try to find an other way... --NicoV 13:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Finally, I am looking for "ca-watch" or "ca-unwatch" (the button at the top of the page) rather than the checkbox. --NicoV 20:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks (again) for reverting vandalism to my page. --Nlu (talk) 04:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

BusinessDelegate prod removed

Just to let you know that the original author removed the prod from BusinessDelegate. If you want to take this to AfD, I'll vote to delete. Realkyhick 06:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

SPAM

MER-C

I work for the National Film and Sound Archive (a division of the Australian Film Commission) and have been updating various Wikipedia entries about history (e.g. WWI) and audiovisual materials (e.g. Australian films) external links sections to point people to our digital holdings - all of which have been copyright cleared for display on the internet (we are a govt body with a no-risk attitude to copyright infringement). The NFSA holds a wealth of material not generally available elsewhere, particularly early examples of audiovisual culture.

I am a little puzzled if this is inappropriate as I got the idea to add the external links from reviewing other pages which pointed to cultural institutions such as the Powerhouse Museum, govt. agencies such as the Australian Mint and commercial sites such as IMDB.com.

In all instances, I have added a note to the edits I have made explaining that the link was to point users to holdings within the National Collection of the National Film and Sound Archive.

Could you please let me know if the NFSA's activities have breached Wikipedia guidelines in light of the fact that all data being linked is copyright cleared and posted on the internet by a govt. agency.

Yours sincerely UpdArch 02:01, 8 June 2007 (UTC)UpdArch

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:UpdArch"

Is it true that government media archives constitute linkspam? Rklawton 05:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Financial access initiative

I saw, from WP:COIN, that you deleted this article. Ouch, harsh. I was just pointing out the WP:COI, not asking for it to be deleted. Oh well. :-) Bearian 15:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Eep^2 and his commentary - request for opinion

Been keeping up on User talk:Eep² a bit, and I noted a few things about this that he's responded with during his ban. One comment is about his lack of desire to continue trying to "fix" dab pages (and I'm really struggling to resist responding to this in a trollish fashion), and another is some of the commentary in the Unblock Request area.

My opinion is that he seems to think we are a democracy, and as has been demonstrated, this editor simply refuses to listen. You noted as much on his RFC.

But here's my thought: insofar as that he seems to think he's going to be the catalyst to a revolution (see [1], last comment), he seems to fail to understand that WP is not a democracy. I'm inclined to tell him to create his own wiki with his own rules. Your thoughts?

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Fair use rationale for Image:Giga_omorashi.jpg

I have added the standard rationale for screenshots from copyrighted films. Thank you for your notice. Fsecret 13:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

check out

the bottom of this userpage. --Fredrick day 17:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Talk header

I borrowed the style of your talk header for my own talk page. Hope you don't mind. :) -Wafulz 01:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Orion Solar and Juice Wireless COI

Good tags. See also my comments to Danthony21: User talk:Danthony21#Clear COI – Dicklyon 03:29, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Wiki.java and Wikipedia 1.11 alpha

Hi,

With version 1.11 alpha, Wiki.java is probably not working any more for updating pages due to a "+" sign added to the wpEditToken value. Using URLEncoder.encode() when outputting wpEditToken seems to fix the problem.

--NicoV 17:16, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut

May I have permission to tag, and therefore characterize, your comments at the straw poll as "Keep" or "weak keep"? As the section you referenced is (no longer?) a footnote, your existing comments are somewhat mystifying, but seem to be largely supportive of the section's inclusion. Jouster  (whisper) 20:49, 30 June 2007 (UTC)