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[edit] John Denver

John Denver had been asked to voluntarily surrender his medical certificate, which is not the same thing as flying on a suspended pilot license. Please do not add that information back to the article unless you can produce a source to back it up. Mexcellent 06:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Being 'medically disqualified' is the same thing as having your license suspended. According to the FAA and the NTSB accident report, he did not meet the medical standards prescribed in Part 67 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, and a determination was made that he was not qualified for any class of medical certificate at that time. Check-Six 17:47, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

No, it is not the same thing at all. Your medical certificate and pilot certificate are two separate certificates, you can lose one without losing the other. His pilot certificate was in no way suspended, surrendered, or revoked at the time of the accident, only his medical certificate was in question. Mexcellent 18:38, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

To use a cliche, it is two sides of the same coin! The fact is, according to the FAA, he should not have been flying due to his medicial condition (history of alcohol abuse). 'Suspended' may be too harsh a word, but it is a true statement nevertheless. Check-Six 18:49, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay, how about we use this in the article - "Prior to the accident, the FAA found that he did not meet the medical standards prescribed in Part 67 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, and a determination was made that he was not qualified for any class of medical at the time. At least a third-class medical was required to exercise the privileges of his pilot certificate" That statement is (mostly) taken from the NTSB report, and is accurate from any point of view. It leaves off mention of his pilot certificate, yet makes the point in the article that he should not have been PIC of an aircraft. What do you think? Mexcellent 19:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Works for me... It's probably the most accurate statement one could make. Check-Six 19:17, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Very good, it's been changed. Mexcellent 19:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User page

Hi, I've been looking at your edits. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia.

But someone has complained that your user page is more like an ad. It's okay to link to your site and state that you're involved with it, and describe that kinds of thing that are there, but using promotional language and including lots of detail isn't really suitable for a user page (or any other page on Wikipedia). Could you please edit it to make it more suitable? --Tony Sidaway 12:40, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I have refactored your userpage to remove the advertisement. A simple link to your business is kosher, advertising content is not. --Improv 17:35, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, earlier today I contacted you about your use of your userpage for the purpose of advertising. This is not allowed; Wikipedia is not a homepage provider. Please remove the advertising from your userpage. It's okay to put a link there but promotion is not permitted. If necessary your userpage may be protected from editing to stop it being used for advertising, and if you persist in using Wikipedia to promote your business you may be blocked from Wikipedia for a short time, or if you are very persistent you may even be banned for quite a long time.

But we don't want to get heavy, so I'm asking you to please remove the ad from your userpage. --Tony Sidaway 20:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I have protected your userpage to stop adding of commercial content. I intend to unprotect in 24 hours. Please stop adding commercial content. Also, please stop blanking your talk page, as it makes it very hard to talk with you. --Improv 06:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me, but according to [1], my revised userpage fell well within the perview of acceptence. The 'offending' language was removed and reworked, and I focused more on the group than the website. So the problem is what, exactly?! --Check-Six 07:05, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

• The problem is that your userpage was being used primarily to promote your business. That's not in line with the goals of Wikipedia. If you wish wider review of this (and if you do, let me know), I can put my actions up for review in the appropriate places, but I believe that my actions are consistent with policy. I am pleased to find that we are finally discussing the issue -- I wish we had started to converse on the matter before the page was protected though. Talk pages are not supposed to be blank. I will unprotect your userpage 24 hours after I protected it (or if we come to an understanding on what's kosher for userpages, right away). Commercial content on userpages is not something that in the end is acceptable here though. Take a look around at some other userpages -- most of them say something akin to "Hi, I'm Francis, I am interested in foo, I started these pages: blah blah. Here are some other thoughts on wikipedia, here is a link to my talkpage". Sometimes you'll see a sentence or two in there about where they work or where they live. Your userpage as it was looked like an advertisement that belonged in a magazine. --Improv 07:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I do not want to pick nit, and I understand your side of the matter. I was of the opinion my revised page read not like an advert (And I'll argee, a bit tacky), but more like an informative 'About me'. I'm willing to give it another go if you'll unprotect... --Check-Six 07:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I have lifted the protection. Please remember that the page is about you and your interests on wikipedia, and not about the Check-Six website. --Improv 08:11, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

So noted... --Check-Six 08:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Things are looking good now. The only slight thing I would note is that you misspelled "aimed". Take care. --Improv 08:23, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use images

Please note under WP:FUC wikipedia policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material being used in user or template space. You placed a copyrighted image being used under 'fair use' claims into Template:User Chewbacca. Please read the policy before using any more images. --Doc ^ask? 14:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox Barnstar Award

This user has been awarded the Userbox Star Award for creating a particularly notable userbox.

For creating the "User PETA-member" userbox, I award you this "I like your Userbox" Barnstar Award.Rosa 00:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Sir,as you have mentioned that you are a pilot,I have a doubt,it may seem stupid to you but can you please clarify it?After completion of my course and obtaining CPL(with Multi-Engine Rating),when i apply in airline do iactually have to pay a substantial initial fee,since i will actually be undergoing training in Jet aircraft?Also since i am from India are the rules different here?And one lasr one,do you know anything about the "American School of Aviation"?Prateek01 12:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank You Sir,your info has been of great help to me.One more thing,The School that you mention,does it have any special program for students for me who are not American.I have no connection whatsoever with America,and if this school does not have a special program i highly doubt if i will be able to get a visa and also the Indian Avaition authorities will recognise my course.Thanks anywaysPrateek01 13:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Chewbacca-sp-cp.jpg

I claim it under the "GNU Free Documentation License", as an original creation. :P Check-Six 20:59, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] I moved your "Coasties" category

Hi there. At nearly the exact time you were making your Coast Guard category, we switched all the category:Wikipedians by organization subcategories to "Wikipedians in (X)." I wanted to avoid a long debate on CfD about it, since I had a feeling that you wouldn't mind it named to match the rest. Let me know if I overstepped, and we'll put it back and list it on CfD.--Mike Selinker 15:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Nose art

I'm trying to rustle up support & info for a Nose Art page. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks. Trekphiler 17:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Southern Airways Flight 932

Do you have any photographs that you can share of an airliner that was used in the incident or any accident photographs that could be utilised to enhance the article? Thanks, Seicer (talk) (contribs) 18:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Aviation userboxes

I just want to make sure before I undo too much (more), are the aviation userboxes supposed to be funny in some way that I'm overlooking? Putting "born in an aircraft" in the "pilot" category seems a bit amiss, and someone else had the text of Template:User pro pilot describing the user as an "aviation enthusiast", which seems rather off the mark. So am I missing something, or did these need fixing? --John Owens | (talk) 21:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I did the 'Pilot-N' ("born in an aircraft") as the serious logical progression of th -1,-2,-3 'Babel' system of userboxes. It does has a touch of humor to it, thus its popular use, and I strongly feel it should remain. The other boxes to which you refer I have no affiliation with, and hence decline to speak on. Of course, I am an 'inclusionist'. Cheers! Check-Six 22:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll leave that one alone (other than fixing the category noinclude part). I was thinking there might actually be a category of "Wikipedians born on an aircraft", i.e. those whose mother went into labour while on a flight, but it would be a reasonable guess that that would be a null set, and no conflict with that template. --John Owens | (talk) 23:00, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Missing film lists

Hi! Could it be it's a typo and you are referring to the 1998 film Homegrown by Stephen Gyllenhaal? Hoverfish Talk 09:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Avro Arrow

Hi Mr. Check Six, I wonder if you could take a look at the Avro CF-105 Arrow discussion page. It seems to have degraded into a discussion over the relative merits of the decision to cancel the Arrow. However, there is an editor that has been compelled to take the discussion into a bizarre turn. He actually backs up his own opinion with comments from an unknown IP address that can be traced back to... him? I don't need anyone to intercede except for maybe an administrator but take a look and give me your opinion. Bzuk 04:39 4 March 2007 (UTC).

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