Darwinek
Thanks for your answer. I'll revert her article, then. However, I think I'll rewrite it even myself, starting from that bookrags bio. I quite agree with you that there are holes in Wikipedia, and this is one that should and can be filled. Lupo 19:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Photos on U.S. government sites
No, not all images on .gov or .mil sites are in the public ___domain, but most are. In general, U.S. government sites indicate (by giving a credit line) when an image is not U.S. government property and thus is copyrighted. Which ones were you thinking about? Lupo 14:51, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
US Govt images
Saw your message on Lupo's page... hope you don't mind if I chime in. AFAIK, most images on US Govt websites are held in the public ___domain. I understand they are not in the public ___domain if they are taken by a government worker who did not take it directly for work. However, you may still be able to use the image under fair use legal doctrine. My suggestion: have a look at one of my images on exploding whale to see how I justified fair use. (I used a checklist). Not sure if this helps answer your question, and also remember IANAL! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:52, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Images...
Re Gregory W. Meeks: you must state the source where you got that image from. (And likewise for other images: all images should have a source.) Without source it is impossible for a third party to evaluate whether the image is tagged correctly. This is especially important for images tagged as "fair use", but citing sources is good practice anyway and should always be done. I usually do it in the upload comment itself, where I typically state "Description; from [<URL>].<br>{{tag}}". "Description" is typically short (might be just "[[Gregory W. Meeks]]" in this case), and "tag" is the appropriate tag ("{{PD}}" in this example). In most cases, that's sufficient, and I have to go edit the image description page only if I want to add more information. Lupo 07:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- also.. regarding Theresa le pore.jpg .. the source shows it as a state of Florida web site. That is not US Federal government, you will need to research the State of Florida copyright laws on web sites to see if its legal to use it. That is why every image should have both source and copyright status so others can double check. All of this is for your own protection, you are personally legally liable for anything you upload to Wikipedia. Stbalbach 08:17, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- U.S. state governments can hold copyright. The thing about government works being in the public ___domain applies only to the U.S. federal government. Most state governments, including Florida, see e.g. [1], do indeed copyright their works, a noteable exception being California, where most published gvt works are in the public ___domain. Foreign governments (such as France, Germany, the UK, Canada) usually do hold a copyright on their works, and one needs to check their terms carefully. For Image:Theresa le pore.jpg, a fair use claim could probably be made, given that the image is of poor quality, has no commercial value, and is used for information purposes only. (I'm not a lawyer, though, and personally I try not to upload pictures useable only under the fair use doctrine.) Lupo 10:08, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi — thanks for your comment about my articles about New Zealand. It's nice to know that people are reading them and finding them interesting. -- Vardion 06:58, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Same goes for me, too. I'm glad they're appreciated! Grutness 10:42, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments about my articles, I appreciate your support. Adam 16:20, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC) (Cute photo, by the way)
Thanks! Wizzy 22:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
are .edu images in the public ___domain?
I'm a little bit confused by the context of your question. In any case, I can tell you that in general, images from .edu sites are definitely not in the public ___domain, unless specifically stated to be so. Even for the case of public (state-run) universities in the U.S., for example University of California, University of Illinois, Colorado State University, etc., the copyright rules for the federal goverment do not apply because thos institutions are owned by individual U.S. states. That's pretty much my understanding of things (IANAL). -- Decumanus 22:20, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
- My understanding is that it is possible in some cases to claim fair use for .edu site images. But I am by no means an authority on that, even casual. I stay away from all such images and only create my own. It is best to consult other people about fair use standards in Wikipedia. Off the top of my head, I think fair use tends to be allowed when images are released to the public for publicity purposes (don't take that with anything more than a grain of salt). I think it is an unresolved issue for Wikipedia at the present time. -- Decumanus 22:37, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)
I would caution you that not all .edu subdomains are for government institutions. Nonetheless, if you can justify fair use, then by all means go ahead and use the images. However I would also advise you to add the reasons why you think fair use applies in the image description page. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:04, 17 Nov 2004 (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 2000 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:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
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:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
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)
Drug stubs
Hi, Darwin. Are drugs supposed to be listed as med-stubs? If so, I'll start doing that from now on. Axl 10:50, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
1911EB scrubbing
Hey, I appreciate your scrubbing of the 1911EB lists! I have one little request; when I notice synonyms being listed together and break them into the semicolon-separated groups, could you not delink the one before the redir from other is created? I usually try to do it right away, but sometimes overlook, and it's more work to rediscover the redir opportunity without the blue link right there (Google searching of WP is terrible, tells me an article doesn't exist when I'm looking right at it). Stan 14:36, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thank you!
Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|hello? 
06:16, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Request for Admin
- I decided to test my strength. Do you want to nominate me for admin?
Okay - you seem like a good candidate for it. Your lack of involvement with some of the areas of Wikipedia may count against you a little, but I think that what you have shown so far is definitely worth you being considered. Grutness|hello? 00:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Done - now you need to go to Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Darwinek to formally accept nomination and answer a few questions... Grutness|hello?
- Sad to say it doesn't look like you succeeded - this time. It wasn't an outright rejection, but a "failure of consensus", with a few more supporting than opposing, but not a big enough majority (80%, IIRC). I think that - if you clear up those copyvio problems - you've got a very good chance of becoming an admin if you try again in two or three months time. Grutness|hello?
05:47, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
AID project
On this week's Article Improvement Drive voting, an article you supported was selected. This week we focus on improving Antigua and Barbuda and Criticisms of War on Terrorism to featured article status. Hope you can help. 119 01:02, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
User:Vaoverland - administrator
Thank you for supporting my appointment as an administrator. I appreciate the pat on the back this represents. It felt nice to read the comments during the voting. Please let me know if you see something I should be doing as admin, as I intend to be fairly passive unless it is clear I should do otherwise. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:06, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
Row yer boat
Thank you very much for the picture (image:Boat on the Euphrates) you added to the Euphrates article. It's very much appreciated. Gareth Hughes 11:30, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Howland Island
Thanks for putting up the NASA photo of Howland Island! Wyss 22:13, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Foo (Trinidad and Tobago) vs. Foo, Trinidad and Tobago
I got the impression from the naming convention that the former was preferable to the latter. Am I mistaken? (If so, I have a LOT of mis-named stubs). And thanks for adding "and towns" to List of cities in Trinidad and Tobago - I was always wondering what one does with a list that can't have more than two items. Guettarda 22:13, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the clarification. And I do plan to keep adding to the list. They're pretty much all stubs, so now I need to convert them to full-fledged articles. Guettarda 22:40, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Category removed from everything except Port-of-Spain and San Fernando. Guettarda 01:30, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Cameroon
Hi Darwinek - I suspect this is going to be a common problem with using regions rather than individual countries for geo-stubs, but technically Cameroon is west Africa, not central Africa (see the maps in the respective stub categories), so articles about towns in Cameroon should get "AfricaW-geo-stub". Good to see more articles being made and stubbed though! Grutness|hello? 01:35, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thank You!
Hi Darwinek,
I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)
- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Darwinek, I would like to add my own thanks for your support in my nomination. I look forward to helping out. - BanyanTree 04:16, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:35, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I also thank you for your vote of confidence. —wwoods 16:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the adminship nomination, it was kind of unexpected, but appreciated--nixie 01:23, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Template:Voteaboutmove violet/riga (t) 19:16, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
John Sloan image
Thanks for adding that great image to the John Sloan page! It looks great, and definitely adds to the value of the page. I am planning to add more content to this page over the weekend. -- Ethomsen 05:57, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
admin
Thanks for supporting my admin nomination; I promise to keep up the good work! Btw, quite an impressive list of articles you've started. Take care, Antandrus 05:27, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Urnes stave church
Hi Darwinek. Just thought I'd leave you a note saying that I've translated no:Urnes stavkyrkje into English as you requested, see Urnes stave church. Rje 13:48, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
Albert Gomes, categories
I noticed you fixed the categories on Albert Gomes - almost as soon as I created the article. Thanks for fixing them. I hadn't intended to leave both in - I entered them, previewed, and then forgot to fix it (cat's don't show up when you preview). The reason I put the TT category in there first had to do with the fact that Gomes was a national figure, so I was wondering about how that is usually handled. "People" is too broad a category. I suppose I could create a Trinidad and Tobago politicians (or is it, Politicians of Trinidad and Tobago? the convention on naming seems to keep changing). Anyway, thanks for catching my mistakes. Guettarda 16:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the offer. I didn't realise you weren't an admin yet - figured anyone who makes that many nominations for adminship probably is one already. As for me - right now is definitely not the time - I think there are several people who are at least a little unhappy with me. I would really like to meet jguk's threshold before I tried for adminship - ie, getting an article to featured article status. I think I can do it eventually with Eric Williams - it's an article that is important for me to NPOV because I strongly dislike the man and his legacy, so if I can write a good, NPOV article about him (it's not easy for me to be NPOV about him) I feel I can do NPOV. Regardless of whether I get it to FAC or not, working on it is a good way to learn humility - and it has actually helped me get a more balanced view of the man. Guettarda 17:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Culture of Africa
Great, beautiful picture. --Bhadani 10:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Dear Darwin, thanks for your message. I don't wish to be an Admin, but thanks for the thought. The photo is beautiful :) Adam 03:05, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Jubail satellite photo
I found the satellite image you uploaded for the Jubail article. Do you have similar images for Dhahran and Ras Tanura? Eagle 17:10, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you for supporting my RfA! I shall attempt to put the shiny new buttons to good use. (Also, that's a nifty user photo.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:54, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Emperors of Ethiopia
Thanks for taking the time to fix the category tags on these. When I wrote & posted these 40-odd articles, didn't realize that I selected the wrong category for them, & was wondering if I'd have to go back & fix them all myself. Be assured that the rest I am working on will be tagged correctly! -- llywrch 17:26, 3 May
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My RFA: Thanks
Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The Pitch Lake really isn't a lake - it looks like a badly maintained car-park. Not sure if the category is appropriate. There aren't any natural lakes in TT - just four dams/reservoirs. Guettarda 14:45, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I made a list of reservoirs so the Cat isn't empty. But not, no natural lakes. Natural lakes actually aren't terribly common in land that was not glaciated - they fill in over the course of a few tens of thousands of years. Guettarda 15:03, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
U.S. disambig
Hello. I reverted your move of the Cape Blanco (Oregon) article backs to the parentheses form. In North American geography articles, there is a general consensus to the parentheses when disambiguating geographical features such as rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. The reason is that in the U.S. and Canada, the comma form tends to be reserved for actual municipalities, of which some have the same name as geographic features (see Grand River for example, for an illustration of this). So Cape Blanco, Oregon would be the form used if there were a municipality named "Cape Blanco" in the state of Oregon. Of course, you're free to have a differnet opinion about how things should be, but it would go against the bulk of the articles and the general consensus that has emerged in this area for these North American articles. By the way, that's a nice satellite image. -- Decumanus 00:09, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
Image copyrights
Hi Darwin. What exactly did you ask them for when you asked permission? If they granted only permission to use the images in Wikipedia, then these are likely to be deleted since that is a non-free license. See Jimmy's mailing list post for details on this. Are you able to ask them to release the images under the terms of the GFDL or one of the free Creative Commons Licenses (not a non-commericial one)? Angela. 11:59, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Looking at the usage guidelines on their site, it seems the images are not free.
- "UN photographs are reproducible for editorial purposes only. They may not be used in advertising. All photos used must show the UN Photo credit line."
- "There is a charge of US $ 50.00, payable to the United Nations, for each UN photo used in publication. No payment is necessary for downloaded thumbnail images; payment should be made for downloaded larger images only when used in publication (see "Use of UN Photos" above). "
- Although they've said they don't charge for posting in websites, Wikipedia is allowed to be distributed offline, and people can and do publish it commercially, so I don't think these images can be used here unless they are willing to state that they are releasing them under a free license, with the understanding that this applies not only to this website, but to any re-use of Wikipedia's content, which may be commercial and may be offline. Angela. 15:34, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
- No. It's {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|credit is given and copyright is attributed}}. See Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags.
Offer
If the offer still stands, I'm interested. Guettarda 15:41, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks very much. Guettarda 17:38, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
lots of edits, not an admin
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. Since you've been previously nominated I added an '*' immediately before your name in this list. If for any reason you're NOT interested, my apologies and please remove the '*' (you could remove yourself also, if you'd like). I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:33, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Theo RFA
Thank you for supporting my nomination. I appreciate it. --Theo (Talk) 13:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
African American literature
Since you placed the request for expansion template on the African-American literature article, I was hoping that you would check out my recent additions to the article. I greatly expanded the history section of the article. As you probably know, this article covers a massive amount of territory. Even after my additions, I feel that the article needs more history on recent African American lit (1950s onward), more on the Harlem Renaissance, and an expanded criticism section. I'll try getting to these sections in the coming weeks but any help and feedback you can give is appreciated. --Alabamaboy 14:56, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks!
Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, part 2
Thanks for the nice comments about the African-American literature article. I've expanded more sections of the article since you read it and I now think it's a decent accounting of the subject. Thanks for the support on the subject. --Alabamaboy 02:01, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA (and for nominating me). Guettarda 23:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Cabral and Folklore
Hi Darwin, I'm new to this site, so hope netiquette is ok. Are you continuing to add to the Amilcar Cabral entry? I have some info to add too. Also, why the interest in American folkloristics? Are you a folklorist? And also the interest in African-American politicians, like the mayor of Newark? Eclectic interests for someone in Europe, if you don't mind my asking. (You can email me or reply, thanks!) Keep up the good work, Bruxism 23:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Adminship JoJan
Thanks for your support. JoJan 17:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Botkin
Hi Darwin, me again. Do you know how to change entry headings? Botkin's entry heading should more properly be Benjamin A. Botkin or B.A. Botkin (how he signed his books), not - as you point out - Ben. Also I've noticed other such mistakes in entry headings. I am new to this, so how can they be corrected? Also, what country are you in? Thanks, Bruxism 18:23, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, yes, I'm still new to this and new to learning about alphabetizing links, so thanks for the pointer. But how did you change the entry heading? (I am from the U.S., from New Jersey basically). Thanks for your support. Bruxism 23:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Darwin - I am learning. Now my next question: if you type "Botkin" in the search box and hit go, it redirects to one Sergei Botkin. I am wondering if it's possible (or if it's good netiquette) to undo the redirect page from Botkin to Sergei Botkin. When I go into "what links here" on the Sergei Botkin page, I see there are 3 entries that link to Botkin - would I need to go into each of those three pages and manually re-direct the links using the pipe | so that they say Sergei Botkin|Botkin? (I think I am getting the hang of this, in which case just tell me yes and I will do it.) I think this is important, because I hope to expand the Ben Botkin entry and also link some other entries to it, because in my field we believe he's a very important figure, with implications also for African American history. Also, his son is somewhat notable, and may merit an entry of his own someday. Bruxism 17:48, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Darwin, you're amazing. I will check this out more next week and fix the links, but today I am a little busy. No, Botkin was not African American himself by any means, but his edited volume from the ex-slave narratives, Lay My Burden Down, was the first book to treat oral testimony about slavery in the U.S. as historical evidence - and no other book would do so again for another 25 years after that. It was also the first edited volume on the ex-slave narratives marketed for a popular audience. Clearly I need to expand his entry, too. Thanks again! (Are you a student? What/where?) Bruxism 18:03, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Darwin: Now that I've added the entry on public folklore, I want to revert to the previous version of Benjamin Botkin - although I will add to this later on as well. How to revert? Thanks (btw, in answer to your question, no, I am no longer a student, well past that). Bruxism 01:29, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
Identifying plants
The first one is hard to identify looking at your picture. It could be a Prunus, but you should take a closer look at the leaves, the blossoms and, later in the year, at the type of fruit. Prunus armeniaca and Prunus cerifera are shrubs. But are there are a lot of hybrids and cultivars. This complicates the picture. As to the second picture, that is definitely a foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). JoJan 15:05, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Paeonia
This is definitely a Paeonia lactiflora cultivar, most probably 'President Roosevelt' JoJan 29 June 2005 14:55 (UTC)
Back
Good to see you back. Hope you had a good break. Any further thoughts on Adminiship? Guettarda 17:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
- Good to hear you had a good time. Unfortunately I taught summer classes, but I did manage to get away for a few days to a wedding, and I am off to a conference in 2 weeks, so I will call that a holiday too (thinking of re-visiting a town where I lived as a child). Living without internet would be too difficult though :) Next summer or the one after I plan to make it to Europe - my family in Germany, my wife's in England - I'd like to visit the Czech Republic too (have heard really good things from my parents). Guettarda 23:05, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Terrorism incidents
I wonder if creating by-year subcategories might have been a mistake. There are a couple problems:
- Some terrorist incidents are sorted by date and some are not. This is confusing.
- Sorting by date is not extremely useful, and it prevents getting an overview of terrorist incidents. Weighing in favor of lumping everything together is the fact that the category is not excessively large.
Perhaps sorting by region would be more useful? Mirror Vax 16:46, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi! You modified the image Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg, which I originally created. I realized that I never put a GFDL tag on that image, even though my intention was to dual-license it as GFDL and cc-by-sa. I'm going to put a GFDL tag on it now. If you have any problem with it (since you've created a modified version of it), please remove the tag and let me know. :) kmccoy (talk) 21:33, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
African American Literature
I posted the African American literature article a while back on the Wikipedia talk:Tomorrow's featured article page so it had a chance to be seen on the front page. After two weeks, it seems that this is not going to happen. Could you go there and voice your support for the article? I think it would be great for a lit article to be seen on the front page. Thanks. --Alabamaboy 12:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
Admin
Yeah, 'spose so :) Head over to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Darwinek (2) and answer the questions. Grutness...wha? 01:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Volcanoes
Hi Darwinek... I'm not sure why you think I know about Indonesian volcanoes (or Ecuadorean ones, for that matter). I really have no information that could help on that proposed page move. Grutness...wha? 13:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah but... thanks for the compliment, but the geography articles I've edited have either been to change stub categories or about places I know about (mainly New Zealand and the U.K.) I know very little about Indonesia - certainly not enough to be able to comment on local spellings. Grutness...wha? 13:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
BaronLarf's RFA
Darwinek — Thanks for your "absolute" support on my recent RFA, and good luck on yours. Please let me know if I can help with any particular administrative responsibilities, or if you have any problems with the way I use the admin tools. Cheers. --BaronLarf 12:37, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations
Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "aojt9085yu8;3ou BOB IS GAY"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.
Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!— Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 01:27, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
- Looks like congratulations are in order... there's a mop with your name on it in the janitor's store-cupboard :) Grutness...wha? 01:38, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Fernando Rizo's RfA
Darwinek, thank you for your support vote on my RfA. I was promoted last night, and I will do my best to be a good admin. Thanks, again. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
DYK
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Track and field
Thanks for making articles about track and field athletes. Punkmorten 11:35, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
New Portals
Hi Darwin. I appreciate your efforts in participating to develop Moroccan as well as related articles. I am informimg you that both portals, Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Morocco, Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Algeria and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Spain have been created recently and need some help. Your help will be surely appreciated. Cheers from Svest 22:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC) - Wiki me up™
- Great job. It was an immeadiate response. Cheers mate. Svest 22:45, August 23, 2005 (UTC) Svest 22:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC) - Wiki me up™
Jtkiefer's RFA
Thanks for your support on my RFA. Jtkiefer T | @ | C ----- 05:13, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
Japan-geo-stub
well....ok, but it's a very heavily-used template (we really need someone who knows Japanese geography to work out how to split the category). You sure about this? Grutness...wha? 14:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
DYK
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My bad. You should probably put the actual link to the information at the bottom of the article instead of the generic NASA link, since it may cause the same reaction as mine.
The KoG | Talk 23:29, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support
Hi Darwinek, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
Question about stubs
Hi Darwinek - you wrote: Do you plan to include Tibet to your Geo-stub tallying page?
- I hadn't intended to, no. Tibet-stub is for things specifically Tibetan about the culture, and can be added without stepping off that line of trying on to offend anyone. Making a separate Tibet-geo-stub, though, is likely to cause offence to someone somewhere. The China geo-stub category's not so big that it needs splitting yet, anyway. Maybe sometime, but it's not a high priority - for now Tibetan stubs can quite happily stay in there. In any case, I have enough of a job keeping up with other geo-stub splits! Grutness...wha? 00:53, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
More athletics
Out of curiosity; what are your favorite events in athletics? Mine are the jumping events, I am a jumper myself. Punkmorten 23:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
- When it comes to football, I have the same views as you. I've tried to make footybio(stub)s for some African and Asian players, which I regard as countering systemic bias. Punkmorten 08:16, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
- Just wanted to notify you of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by interest in sport. You can add yourself if you want. Punkmorten 10:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
Athletes formerly representing Kenya
Hi. I thought maybe we could make a category with athletes formerly representing Kenya (people who would go in that category include Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, Wilson Kipketer, Saif Saeed Shaheen, Bernard Lagat, Musa Amer Obaid, Belal Mansoor Ali and Youssef Saad Kamel). Or do you think that's a bad idea? And what should we call it? "Former Kenyan athletes" doesn't sound right. If you don't like the idea of a category, maybe we could listify? Punkmorten 13:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- I like the idea of a list. I may not be the one to suggest names as English is not my first language. However, I've seen IAAF refer to the phenomenon as "transfers of allegiance". Maybe we can base the list title on that? For instance List of allegiance transfers in athletics? Because, you see, I think we shouldn't involve nationality in this. Punkmorten 16:20, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Nationality change
Hi again. What is the difference between "nationality transfer" and "allegiance transfer"? Punkmorten 17:11, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying the issue. But how would you suggest that we implement such a distinction? Labelling Saeef Said Shaheen and others as "allegiance transfers" may create POV issues, seeing as Shaheen denies that money is substantially involved. Maybe we can add a small note for each athlete about the reason for the switch? Or maybe that would be problematic as well?
- Here is a sketch I made for a list:
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Kipketer |  Kenya
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 Denmark
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Travelled to Denmark as a foreign exchange student in 1990 |
| Maryam Yusuf Jamal |  Ethiopia
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 Bahrain
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Political refugee |
Or, alternatively, without specific reasons (this might be more neutral):
| Name of athlete | From nation | To nation |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson Kipketer | Kenya
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Denmark
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| Maryam Yusuf Jamal | Ethiopia
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Bahrain
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Do you think it's wrong to list athletes like in the latter alternative? Punkmorten 17:50, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- The list is now located at List of nationality transfers in athletics. Feel free to ad, update, discuss or even move the page to a better title if you want. Punkmorten 19:32, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
My RFA
Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0(scribble) 21:57, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
Pole vaulters
I think such a list would be fine. It could improve the somewhat thin coverage of pole vault on Wikipedia. We should maybe include a list of women who have reached 5 metres; alas it's only one person :) Punkmorten 11:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- The name is okay, and I think it looks better with "m". Punkmorten 11:54, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- Hi, I was watching Morten's talk page so I found out about the pole vaulter list and took the liberty to complete it. This list got me thinking, too. Is there an article (or a category of several articles) on "dream limits" in athletics and other sports, that is, results that are or have been conceived as important landmarks to beat, most often for no other reason than the figures looking neat in one measure system or another? The four-minute mile and the six-metre pole vault are certainly not alone. I don't doubt that 10 seconds in the 100 metres, 20 seconds in the 200 metres, 8 minutes in the steeplechase etc. are marks that have influenced the sports, as was 8 feet (2.44 m) in high jump. I'm also sure that whoever beats 9 metres in long jump will get much bolder headlines than had he "only" reached 8.99. Not to speak of the first person to complete a marathon in 2 hours. We could add 100 metres in javelin, of course, only that event has seen so many rule changes that we hardly even know what the world record is anymore :) In other sports, there's things like the maximum 600 in 10 m Air Rifle, which was broken not long ago by Tevarit Majchacheeap, that's certainly a landmark, too. Well, just an idea. I guess there are lots and lots of examples, and it could be worthy of a nice little article. The hard thing might be to keep it NPOV and referenced, but it should be possible. What do you say? -- Jao 13:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks awfully
Ta for supporting my RfA, much appreciated. I'll endeavour to contribute more to those necessary tasks and hope to bring the benefit of years of experience of tactfully sorting out recalcitrant contractors to bear in the gentler arena of wikipedia..You may want to look at the current state of the Charles Darwin article where my attempt at FaC has got rather bogged down but worthy improvements have resulted ..dave souza 00:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
Split of Australian geo-stubs
Maybe - by state, at least. There should be enough from NSW, Queensland and Victoria, at least. Sigh... more to count up. Japan desperately needs a split, too, but I don't know enough about Japanese geography to know how to go about that one. Grutness...wha? 01:27, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
Thank you
I thank you for your support for my RfA, We shall surely interact more. I am certain that our association shall grow. --Bhadani 09:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
DYK
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- And I thought I'd drop by to say, this is quite a nice article, and the sort of off-beat thing I wish I saw more often in the DYK! Kudos... --Dvyost 22:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
Vandalism
Some troll has been vandalising Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics as well as other articles. Is it possible for you to ban the vandal? And revert the changes ;)
Punkmorten 16:56, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
Soldier photo
I think you may be asking for trouble with your use of the photo of a Marine on the Soldier page. Most Marines take offense to being called "soldiers", and chances are there are a few on Wikipedia that will revert it, vandalize it, start an argument about it, or some such thing.
If you're going for a US military photo, I'd recommend using one of an Army soldier. There are tons of them out there.
I'm going to see if I can find some more pics this weekend that would be more representative of the history of soldiering, but I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the faux pas. Have a good one. Kafziel 17:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
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Thank you for your support
Thank you for your kind support of my recent nomination on RfA. Best regards, RobertG ♬ talk 08:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
RoyBoy RfA
Wanted to thank you for the support and your love of film. - RoyBoy 800 22:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Milinkiewicz
Dzięki serdeczne. Przy okazji okazało się, że mój artykuł został skopiowany przez anonima w kilku różnych miejscach w niezmienionej formie, więc i tak tekst będzie podpisany jego cyferkami, a nie moim nickiem, ale nic to. Dzięki za pomoc.
A co do adminowania - jakoś się nie złożyło. Sam siebie nominował nie będę, a dla innych najwyraźniej jestem zbyt konfliktowy... Dlatego ilekroć mam podobne problemy - muszę prosić kogoś dorosłego o pomoc. :) Halibutt 14:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- Dzięki, ale nie wiem czy moja nominacja jest najlepszym pomysłem. Wielu ludzi na wikipedii ma o mnie dziwne mniemanie, a do tego, jak zauważył kiedyś Piotrus, rzadko udzielam się na VfD czy innych stronach technicznych. Oczywiście prawa administratora mogą być wygodne, więc na pewno się nie obrażę :)
- A tak przy okazji: gdzie teraz studiujesz? Halibutt 15:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake
Thanks for being at 2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake -pradeepsomani
hurricane categorization
I noticed you've been categorizing hurricanes according to regional history. This is...a very good thing.
- Could you add guidelines for regional categorization to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_Cyclones?
- Are you adding them to all hurricane articles? If so, how do you find a list of hurricane articles? All of the hurricane categories include disambiguations as well (in fact Category:Pacific hurricanes is mostly disambiguations). But "what links here" for Template:Infobox_hurricane and Template:Infobox_hurricane_needed should give a list I guess.
- How do you know when to use history (Category:History of Puerto Rico) versus non-history (Category:Guadeloupe) categories?
Jdorje 16:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- Sounds good. I'll add a bit to the wikiproject page. Jdorje 18:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
In that article there is a section called 2004/Results. We should split it (cut and paste the results) into a separate article, what about 2004 IAAF Golden League? Punkmorten 17:00, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Nepal geo stubs
hello Darwin, thanks for the message. I do so many silly things at times and just forgot to add 'square' before the km. Now, I will have to update everything. Anyway. I will also update the capital 'd' of the word district. However, there is a snag here. I found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian districts uses small ‘d’ like Mysore district and I followed that convention for districts of Nepal also. Nevertheless, I think I will have to do something about capitalizing ‘d’ in the district.