Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Puerto Rico/Archives/2007/May

Medal or Barnstar?

While the graphic is like a medal, the star is obviously a barnstar, and the wikipedia tradition is about giving barnstars, not medals. Also "National Merit" sounds a bit militaristic. Could we rename? Discuss!--Cerejota 02:19, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Email to try an get an image

I wrote this email to Bill Wilk, Executive Director of the Roberto Clemente Sports City, to try and see if we can get an image that we cna publish. I know it was a bit long-winded, but I thought an introduction to our project and rules was needed.

Mr. Bill Wilk,

I write to you as one of the thousands of editors of the online free encyclopedia Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/ . I participate mostly in the English version of the encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/ . As you might know, we are a unique user-edited encyclopedia, that harnesses the power of its own users, and using consensus building, seek to build the world's largest encyclopedia, in as many languages as possible.

(If you wish, you can learn more about what we are - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About -)

I write to you because as part of my editing, I belong to group of diverse editors who volunteer with something called the "WikiProject Puerto Rico" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PUR -. In browsing our "To Do" list I realized there is an outstanding request for a picture of the great Roberto Clemente in his page at -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Clemente

As a responsible endeavour, we refrain from using photographs or text that cannot be republished under our GNU Free Documentation License. This includes the requirement that all images conform to a series of legal standards, among those that they fit the criteria for fair use under copyright laws or are public domain, or that explicit permission is given by the copyright owner to republish on wikipedia, wikimedia, and other related non-profit information projects.

This is why I take the liberty of writing to you: your website contains a series of images of Roberto Clemente. Since their copyright and ownership status is not clear, other editors have refrained form using them.

However I do humbly request permission to either republish one of the images already on the website, or that you provide some sort of assistance in helping us locate a suitable, legally-cleared, publishable image of Roberto Clemente for our article.

I appreciate you taking time from your busy schedule to read this email, as well as well as in the name of my fellow editors at Wikipedia.

Sincerely,

Cxxx xxx

cerejota@xxx

--Cerejota 03:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

My email bounced as "email full". Webform failed. :( I will try calling the office and see what's up.--Cerejota 03:24, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Issues concerning our "Municipios" pages

I was recently adding the project's template to some of these pages and noticed some mayor issues in some, for some reason most of the pages had the municipal flag and seal images dead, most of them needed cleanup and formating among many other things. I feel the need to create a Task Force within this project to focus on improving said pages, I post this here to know what fellow members of the project think and to know who might be interested in joining the Task Force, thanks for your time. -凶 16:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)