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George Hill

I left some info to your questions in the George Hill talk page. Hope it helps. NeuGye (talk) 16:46, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Note re: user name

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: it resembles a system command and could be misinterpreted.. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

• If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
• You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you.

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Hello Ckatz,
I reviewed the username policy and I have a few questions and comments which hopefully you can answer.

• I use my screenName ($user log) on a few other wikipedias: WikiCommons & WikiBooks.

Should I merge my accounts before changing my name? or what would you recommend?

Since those accounts only have a few edits, should I just abandon them and create new accounts?

• Will my subpages on this account be moved, or do I have to copy those over?
• In any case, I'll submit a namechange request shortly.

--$user log (talk) 21:29, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

To answer your questions, you should change your usernames before merging your accounts, as changing your name after merging to single-user login requires that your global account first be deleted. If you would prefer to simply abandon those accounts, you certainly can, but I would recommend simply requesting a new name instead. Finally, when you are renamed, your entire userspace is moved automatically. --jonny-mt 03:46, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Commons images

Hi, I'll put this on both my commons page and your Wikipedia one here as requested. I agree, on the Kobe one--the cropped does look better on that file. For the Vancouver one, I split the difference and cropped how you had it, but left it at the larger, richer size. On those wide panoramic shots (to me at least) the great value is seeing the skyline in rich detail, which the original resize took away. What do you think of the modified version here? Please reply back on commons, thanks! rootology (T) 06:19, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Adoption

I see you're looking to be adopted by an experienced user - may I offer my services? I'm an admin here, have been on Wikipedia for about a year and a half, and am happy to show you the ropes. If that sounds like a plan, were there any particular areas you were interested in learning more about? The content side of things? Or the project side of things? _GB^T/C 07:34, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your offer, hopefully I can learn a couple of things :). I haven't yet written or significantly expanded any articles and I would to get started doing that. I was hoping to start off with something simple like a basketball-profile before moving onto something more involved. I'm still somewhat confused by the procedures and maintenance aspects of Wikipedia. Lastly, are there any research sources you could recommend for writing articles. -- $user log (talk) 00:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries. So...an basketball profile, eh? Well, that's do-able. The first step is, as you've done, to copy an existing profile, and start it in a sub-page of your userspace - by the way, there's a good tag called {{underconstruction}} which you could put on it to mark it as being a work-in-progress.

Who is the player that you want to make your article about, then? First step is to get information on him (or her). Accurate, verifiable information from reliable sources. I see that you've got some of those up and running on the talk page - are you running out of ideas where to look?

What procedures and maintenance aspects are you confused by - any in particular that I can talk you through?

As for research sources, well, it's horses for courses, really. Depending on what it is that you're researching, you'll need to be looking in different areas. If you're writing an article about a basketball player, then you'll be looking in different places to someone writing about a 16th century philosopher. _GB^T/C 07:17, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Copyright

Thanks for the message - my gut feeling would be that since the book is so old, it's out of copyright now. Copyright only lasts for the life of the author plus a certain number of years thereafter - that's why works by Shakespeare, Dickens and the like can be freely published by anyone, since they're no longer under copyright. Having looked into it a bit, according to this page, anything published before about 1923 is considered in the public domain. The best thing to do would be, as someone has done, to tag the article as needing wikification (ie. improving!) - if you know anything about the subject area, you could always take up the challenge yourself! _GB^T/C 08:37, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of EditorsIndex

A tag has been placed on EditorsIndex requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 03:05, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

EditorsIndex

It seems you accidentally created this page in the main namespace. Should I move it to the Wikipedia or User namespace? Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 03:06, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I have moved the the document, it may now be found here. Vivio Testarossa^{Talk Who} 03:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Snail

I'm reverting your edit. The text doesn't run over the image, or vice versa - at least in IE. --Hordaland (talk) 09:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I left a response on your talk page. -- $user log ^(Talk) @ 09:51, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, that screen shot surely isn't pretty. Firefox should be able to handle it, I should think; perhaps you could ask somewhere and have someone check that out! A bug? Otherwise, I do not own that article at all, and you may do as you feel best. If in doubt, take it up on the article's talk page. (Someone may feel attached to that sexy picture.)

BTW, I have text between two images in the article Sleep (non-human) - (yes, I admit I do feel an ownership for that one!). Does Firefox play the same trick there, too? --Hordaland (talk) 10:03, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Dating maintenance tags

Hi. I see you have been adding dates to the maintenance tags. Were you aware that bots are set up to run regularly and add dates to the tags? You could put your effort into areas where a human being is needed, such as wikification. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 13:01, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

October 2008

Welcome, and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Template:X7 worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Friginator (talk) 06:29, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I will keep editing, X7, reply on your talk page. -- $user log ^(Talk) @ 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Re: X7

That was a really stupid thing for me to do. Sorry about that. --Friginator (talk) 22:52, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks, but- Social interaction in MMORPGs

thanks:) , but I didn't do a lot, loads more could be done to the article, I just removed stuff more than anything. There have been some proper scholarly studies on it and that article could be made truly great- anyone who could add a fair bit more and more references would get a barnstar from me!:) I have never played a mmorpg, so I can't get sufficiently gripped by it to give it the treatment it deserves. Maybe theres a mmorpg wikiproject that could help. Sticky Parkin 02:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You shouldn't really have closed this AfD, per WP:NAC :( They should run for five days unless there are only keeps and lots of them, non-admins usually only close one after 5 days and if it's unanimous. Sticky Parkin 02:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry hun I was confused because you need to change your sig- I didn't realise you were the same person as $user.:) What I would do if I were you is keep the page open but strike through your nom like this with <strike>at one end and then at the other end</strike> and put at the end that you withdraw your nom. due to the improvements. But it's late here lol and I'm off to sleep, you're probably best to ask someone who's more awake:) Sticky Parkin 03:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Multiplayer-Map-01.jpg

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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 02:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Re:Confused about date

The tag may be wrong on the gordon dam image, I am not sure. It is however scheduled to appear as POTD on commons (not here) on december 14th. The month needs to say the same however there might be a different tag for future tense pictures of the day. I am not honestly sure. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Crysis Ice.png)

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Kraken Box

Hello! I replied here. Jdrrmk (talk) 09:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Drawings in Nassak Diamond

Hi GateKeeperx. I posted a reply at Drawings in Nassak Diamond. -- Suntag ☼ 16:02, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello, GateKeeper. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Illustration workshop.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Mononomic (talk) 04:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Maxcleavage

I noticed you tagged this article as copyvio. This may have been rude of me, but I went ahead and replaced that tag with {{db-copyvio}} for speedy deletion; given how obvious the cut-and-paste from the source was, the notability problems that you pointed out, and the COI of the article and sole contributor, I don't think there's any need for an administrator to investigate things and jump through the hoops when it can just be speedied. Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads-up. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 22:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Page image.

I intended to write a reason, but the revert auto-redirected before I could stop it, so I just left it as is. With due respect to your attempt, I felt the edit was inappopriate. The line of cutout was extremely sharp (especially in the hair), placed the subject an a completely artificial solid color background which seemed extremely distracting in the midst of the article (the bright blue draws way too much attention of the eye, in my opinion). Removing the dark background and placing a subject lit in that environment onto a light blue background really makes the subject look out of place and somewhat stupid (his hair looks extremely awkward because it is darkly lit in a vivid bright background). Finally, I saw absolutely no problem with how it looked before. The image is large enough in the article that it is clear where his shirt is and hair is, and it is always click-able for larger size.

If you feel that this really needs attending to, my suggestion would be to select the same outline of the subject you did before, but also include a feather of 2 or 3 pixels (basically the selection fades out 2 or 3 pixels from its edge, if you don't know what feather is); then select the inverse (the background), and increase brightness/decrease contrast (not too much) so that it is at least a bit more natural looking than sticking him on a blue-screen. However, I honestly don't believe it is necessary. TheHYPO (talk) 19:07, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

PS: Another reason I decided to revert it was for consistency. The photos of Robertson and Hearn are fairly similar in lighting (in fact, the Hearn photo was taking about ten minutes later, about ten feet away in the same room) and you didn't touch those. I felt it was inconsistant and distracting to have one band member on bluescreen and none of the others. TheHYPO (talk) 19:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I should have noticed that. I think it's because you took the 'talk' text out of your 'talk' page link. I just instinctively clicked on your username. Where have you seen users complain about the image? The talk pages for the image (wikipedia and on commons), BNL and Steven Page contain no such comments. I have never seen a complaint. I don't mind it as much on Page's page, as the image there is in the infobox, where it does not take undue attention from the rest of the article. I still believe the background distinction could be done more subtlely though.

Here's a quick pass at what I mean. It distinguishes him without introducing an artificial and unnatural background: spage2.jpg which thumbnails down to th_spage2.jpg TheHYPO (talk) 20:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I hope I am not too late

I hope I am not too late in thanking you for the help with thong pictures at the graphic workshop. I have posted further clarifications according to your questions. I am sure you must be busy in real life, but still I have no one else to turn to right now. Would you, please. check the issues? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 14:30, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Muchas gracias

Hola. Muchas gracias por la labor que estás haciendo de traducir el artículo que hice en la wikipedia en español sobre mi patrona, la Virgen de los Milagros. Si no te parece mal, iré corrigiendo aquellos pequeños detalles que se te puedan escapar. Un saludo. ErGamba (talk) 17:20, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

License tagging for File:2ndLifeNBAStore.jpg

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Graphic Lab

Hi GateKeeperX. I posted a reply to your comment at Drawings in Nassak Diamond. -- Suntag ☼ 21:28, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

NBA Store

Just a suggestion, but I think this article has potential to pass as a good article since it is very well written. Anyway, happy editing.—Chris! _ct 03:48, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to take another look at the article and make sure everything looks ready for a nomination. -- GateKeeper^(X) @ 16:09, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Everything looked good, so I went ahead and nominated it under "Economics and business". -- GateKeeper^(X) @ 04:35, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Speakers Corner & Xenu reverts

I tried to make it NPOV; obviously I failed. That doesn't change the fact that Bill Maher used Speakers Corner in Religulous to demonstrate how batty the Xenu story sounded ('twas his NPOV). Maybe you could reword it? --Piepie (talk) 22:24, 28 December 2008 (UTC)