User talk:Fuhghettaboutit/Archive 10
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[edit] atheism wikiproject
HI Fuhghettaboutit, I nabbed this nifty info box from the Digimon wikiproject, we could turn it into a good tool. Right now it has digimon stuff on it, but that can give us ideas, and help us out. Heres the template: [[1]]. If you could tell as many people as possible, that would be great. Perhaps we could replace the existing one at some point. Somerset219 08:09, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Since this would go in place of {{Wpa}} and that template appears to be transcluded everywhere, once it's finished all you would need to do is replace the code of that template with this one, and you wouldn't need to replace it on each article's talk page. I'm not sure what you mean about telling "as many people as possible." Tell who what? You already gave everyone at the project the message above so I don't know who you could mean.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- perhaps anyone you know that would be interested in designing a template or interested in organizing articles, thats not necessarily apart of the wikiproject, sorry for the confusion. I thought of maybe re-making the to-do list also, so it includes all the article projects and scopes; simular to this one. So everything is right there in front of you, so its less of a hassel to search for stuff to do. what do you think? Wanna help... pretty please... Somerset219 02:09, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] rhodes info - user existentia
hi Fuhghettaboutit! sorry for not following the rules. the thing is that i didn't intend to put any advertising or private web-site. actually i don't have any relationsships with those web-sites. i thought this info would be useful. but if it is against the rules i will not use it in future. Should i delete external links that i've added to rhodes & prasonisi? regards, Existentia 16 August 2006
- Hi Stella. Thanks for the note. It is a bit jarring in an article on the history of Rhodes to suddenly have a section on windsurfing. Not really in keeping with the rest of the text. Also, though you may not be associated with the windsurfing location, it certainly seemed to be spam, as you referred to the links in the text, and the links were to commercial sites. For instance http://www.windsurfingrodos.com is a commercial site with pricing, etc. Generally (but not always) links to specific commercial sites are innappropriate in encyclopedia articles. See WP:SPAM and WP:EL. I already removed the links and text in Rhodes. I'm not sure about Prasoni. I have no familiarity with it. Commercial links could be appropriate there if windsurfing truly dominates the island's activities. Please read the guidelines/policy links I provided and make a decision:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 12:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- ok. Existentia 17 August 2006, 1126 UTC
[edit] Help needed
Thanks for the warm welcome. Im new and I need to know where to start, please reply on my talk page, thanks Gingerdog 19:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, just noticed you've already replied. Anyway, thanks Gingerdog 19:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Anytime. If you have any further questions about anything, do not hesitate to drop me a message.--Fuhghettaboutit 19:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Help
Hello. I'm not sure if this is the right way to leave a comment, so if I'm severely messing something up I apologize. I've written a short article on a British actress called Bryony Afferson, more as a bit of an experiment than anything else, and would like to include a picture, but given that uploading an image seems like a bit of a minefield, as it actually worth it? If you can't use copyrighted images, where do most people get their pictures of famous people from? Thanks in advance. Conrad1on 19 August 2006, 11:59 (BST)
- You left the comment in exactly the right way and signed your post, which many newcomers take some time to figure out. You're right that uploading images can be daunting because of the copyright restrictions and criteria necessary for fair use/freelicensing. Unfortunately, though I have some experience with image uploads, it is not an area I concentrate on so I am no expert. That being said, my understanding is that the best way to obtain a proper image for an actress is to look for promotional material such as a publicity photo, which can then be uploaded using the tag {{Promotional}}. Note that there are many articles, even on quite famous people, for which no good image has been found. I looked up Bryony Afferson on Google but didn't find a likely promotional photo candidate. There are other editors who concentrate on images and may have far more trenchant advice. For that reason you might have some luck asking at the help desk. Feel free to call on me again. Hopefully I can speak with more authority next time.--Fuhghettaboutit 11:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Your AfD nominations of ongoing uncontested proposed deletion articles
Regarding my AfD nominations of your PROD's - Wikipedia:Proposed deletion says:
- If you feel that the article should be deleted, but not without discussion, you may nominate the article for an Articles for deletion debate.
So it's still not clear to me that I was in violation of policy. In any case, your comments were a bit harsh; certainly, no offense was intended. Dsreyn 14:56, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- Okay time to eat some humble pie, and own up to that I was annoyed and was harsher than I should have been. I don't withdraw the thrust of what I was saying, but the tone should have been moderated. You did not flout policy—just a few conventions which you might not have been fully aware of. --Fuhghettaboutit
[edit] Thanks for your contrabutions to UndoTV
Hello. I just wanted to thank you for your contributions and responses to the UndoTV article. As you probably noticed, it was my first page and I am still getting use to all the procedures. I have moved the information to the TechTV page so that it had its own header and information. Thanks again. --TechJar 03:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- That really is a wonderful response. Many new users simply get angry when their first article is proposed for deletion, redirected or otherwise deprecated (as happens with many first articles), taking it as a personal attack. We need new contributors, and I was hoping this wouldn't sour you on the site in general, despite that I felt the action was proper. I hope you stick around and please, if you have any problems, technical difficulties, etc. (there is a huge learning curve here), do not hesitate to drop by my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit 03:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Destination Doo-Wop Posts
I am the owner of Destination Doo-Wop (www.destinationdoowop.com). I have obtained permission from the permissions people at Wikipedia to post material from my web site concerning several doo-wop groups. This was cleared in an email that I can supply. Therefore, there is no copyright problem. Please clear the Lanes and Native Boys pages. Thanks. Yukon Jack
[edit] Your warning to User:Rossoneri3
The {{blank}} warning you left on the above users' page was done in error. The only two edits this user has ever made to the article you cited as the reason for the warnings are adding helpful links and a minor categorisation fix. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 10:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Actually the user did indeed blank the article, there was no error, see this diff [2]. What happened here was that two articles were existing simultaneously, Luke Glavas and Luka Glavas. Two days after I reverted the blanking, Rossoneri3 redirected the former article to the latter. When you checked the article for the blanking you didn't notice you had been redirected and only saw the history of the other article. By the by, the warning functioned perfectly. The reason for the blanking is now obvious; that user saw the existence of both articles, was likely unaware of redirects, so blanked the article (without an edit summary). The {{blanking-n}} template, you'll note, properly predicts that the reason for blanking may be because an article exists under a better name and gives instructions on redirects. Lo and behold, the user then took the proper action of making a redirect. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 12:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] End?
Look, I apologised for making an error - can we please just drop this? I admitted I was wrong, and then I must apologise for inflaming the situation further by some erogenerous word choices. So, please, lets just move on, as we're supposed to be building an encyclopædia, not create a giant forum for conflict. I also apologise for the "warning" - I wasn't 100% aware that you were were privvy to the fact that you (accidentally) posted it in the wrong spot. So please, lets just move on, as I have a bunch of articles to wikify, and looking at your recent contribs, I think you have a lot more good work to continue on with. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 07:43, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutely with no hard feelings and if we cross paths in the future, a new start, and let us to the task of building an encyclopedia!--Fuhghettaboutit 08:27, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Sigh. I thought we had an end and now I see the above comes after more inappropriate behavior. You removed my comments from your talk page—and exactly as I predicted in those comments, chastized me for editing your archive in the edit summary when you had archived immediately. Now you're still pointing the above comment to an page where you removed my post. This is less than honest and uncivil in the extreme. The diff is here [3]. Yes, this is quite enough. Backhanded apologies while taking such actions are not sincere. I'll now archive this (immediately). I expect you to follow your own brand of logic and not edit this since its archived.
