Kevin Saff

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 21:20, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I am here. -- Kevin Saff 20:40, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

144

Please elaborate why Bilbo's 144th birthday is important. Fanatic deletionists point to items like this in their mad quest to destroy all number articles. Look at the remark's on Lincoln's speech at eighty-seven as an example for elaborating landmark anniversaries. Let's hope no deletionist looks at your article before you get a chance to elaborate the Bilbo birthday. PrimeFan 18:46, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Well it isn't quite so important as Lincoln's speech. I was just using another number as a template and it was the only 144 I immediately thought of. Kevin Saff 19:34, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You can help set the template for all the number articles by joining the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers. The problem with the articles on three and five is that they have a lot of bulleted lists, and bulleted lists are a pet peeve of the fanatic deletionists. We need to avoid bulleted lists, and any other thing that gives the fanatic deletionists ammo for their argument that all number articles should be deleted. PrimeFan 20:30, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Copyright Vio:

Hi there. Thanks for checking over the entrees that I entered the other day. I went back and rewrote Einstein's puzzle from scratch and did as you said i.e. entering the new info in a /Temp page. for the article on calculating the day of the week, I had emailed Guy Rimmer the person who hosts the site "http://www.terra.es/personal2/grimmer/". He gave me the go ahead to put a copy of his algorithm up on Wikipedia. As for the SAT words and definitions. I got them from a site (http://www.freevocabulary.com/), which claims they are free for individual and classroom use. I found them also in the same form on numerous other sites including Texas Instruments, which has a downloadable pdf version. I assumed this was public ___domain information for this very reason. User: 147.252.229.65, 13:59, Apr 29, 2004.

Reps from District of Columbia

Latest comment: 21 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Do you think US Congress Representatives from District of Columbia and Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia are both needed? I ran across the one you started today, and wonder whether these overlap too much.

US Congress Representatives from District of Columbia is an incorrect term. The people sent to Congress from DC are Delegates, not Representatives. The Representatives article should be deleted or made into a redirect to the Delegates article. RickK 20:30, 8 May 2004 (UTC)Reply

Photo William D. Phillips

Hi Kevin, I'm just editing the German version of William D. Phillips. Research for a PD photo took me to the english article, where you uploaded the photo as "Public ___domain". A quick look at the source website [1] says: "Free use of these photos is restricted to materials that describe NIST programs directly. Copyright is owned by the photographer." Is this to be understood as PD? Maybe I do not understand it properly, but PD should be "free of any rights", shouldn't it? As my German colleages are quite strict with copyright questions (we do not have fair use, for example), it would be nice to hear from you if you could confirm the PD status of the photo. You could leave a message on my german User talk page. Thanks a lot! --elya 10:29, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, this was really a kind of message in a bottle :-) thanks a lot for the verification. I copied the pic with all its information to commons so it can be used in alle wps. Best wishes, --elya 06:10, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public ___domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public ___domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Unverified images

You kindly uploaded these images (among other):

Did you make those? I see on your user page that you intend to put your own creations into the public ___domain. If you didn't make them, do you know where they came from? Their copyright/license status needs to be properly tagged so that they can continue to be used in Wikipedia. Could you edit their description pages and add the appropriate tag? Or let me know, and I'll tag them. This is important. Thanks! Kbh3rd 03:32, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Chicken Kiev

I don't doubt that the information was true, but it hardly merits being more than half of the article. Rick K 22:40, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)