Howdybob

Reston

Greetings! I replaced the pictures on the Reston article. The one you reverted to is marked as a copyvio and up for deletion. Additionally, the new pictures are much better (look at the full-size version; the older one is a just a web-resolution picture, probably because it was yanked from the web); it doesn't appear too dark on my monitor, either. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 13:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I turned my monitor up all the way, uncomfortably so, and there is indeed some detail, but it is much darker than the other pictures on the page. I'll leave it if there's nothing else but it's not good. I'm copying these two comments from my talk page onto the Reston, VA talk page. --Howdybob 18:45, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

apology for "biting" tone

On behalf of all Wikipedians, I apologize for the "biting" responses to your question on the Talk:United States page. Such responses are contrary to Wikipedia's "please do not bite the newcomers" guideline. Though the responses were correct to point you in the direction of the FAQ page, please don't let their tone discourage you from further involvement in Wikipedia. Thanks. JonathanFreed 04:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Gato.jpg

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Re:Public or fair-use images from websites of 3rd parties

In referrence to what you said on the image talk page, work of the U.S. government is in the public domain (since it's paid for with our tax dollars!). Since what you mentioned is a navy photo, just add this tag {{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}} to the image's description. In regards to fair use on videogame screenshots, that information is found on the use page. If you have trouble finding the correct image tags in the future, try searching for articles that will have similar images (in this case, aircraft carrier or grand theft auto) to see what tags they used. Hope that helps.--Daveswagon 08:47, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Just a note that I have also responded to your question on Wikipedia talk:Images... more or less in line with Daveswagon, except that we seem to have rather different interpretations of your second question. Cheers, -- Visviva 18:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

HyperSonic_Sound

I've tried to de-advertise it a bit. Perhaps you'd like to try improving it too? AKAF 07:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Mystery links

Howdy. ;) Just wanted to tell you, those mystery links are sometimes known as easter eggs (see Wikipedia:Piped link#Easter eggs). I hate them too. --Galaxiaad 17:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I didn't know that was mentioned in any of the Wikipedia articles. I discussed it here: MOS link discussion. My other pet peeve is multiple adjacent links which also make it impossible to read with an article with just the eyes and not the mouse. I talked about that here. --Howdybob 17:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Sunrise Valley Elementary School

I have proposed this article for deletion via the articles for deletion process; please use the link at the top of the article if you would like to join the discussion. Brianyoumans 05:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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