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[edit] Furry convention
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For your impressively swift and thorough merging and redirecting of smaller convention articles to furry convention, and for building a well-sourced and well-written article around them, I award you this barnstar. Well done. Shimeru 08:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC) |
Yes, very well done. (And thanks for the note on my talk page.) John Broughton | Talk 13:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fur Affinity
An article about an art site called Fur Affinity is currently up for deletion. My instinct is that it might be noteworthy, but I lack sufficient experience to say definitively. You seem to know a bit about the subculture, so I thought you might like to offer an opinion. Shimeru 07:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have commented on the deletion. GreenReaper 10:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Furry convention at Did you know?
Hi there! You stated that the content of this article was moved from FurFright (deletion debate). In fact, I wrote it pretty much from scratch - there really wasn't much to merge. One line and one picture about Anthrocon 2006's media coverage was copied from Samuel Conway. GreenReaper 17:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks for fixing. It's on the current queue and is currently in line for the pictured slot, being the most comprehensive text, as well as offering a pic. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:05, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's excellent news. Thanks for the update. :-) GreenReaper 03:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Did you know?
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On 30 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Furry convention, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. |
--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 08:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- Congrats, and good work. Raul654 15:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dealers den
Hello, I saw you were helping Argox with his Spanish translation of the article furry convention. While reading (and correcting) the translation, I came across an ambiguous phrase which could be translated to Spanish in two ways with different meanings:
- (...) a Dealers Den where art and comic book distributors and other merchants can sell their wares for a fee
So, does it mean that the merchants have to pay a fee to be allowed to sell, or that (as is usually the case) it's the merchants who charge a fee to the buyers?
Thanks in advance for your help, --Fibonacci 11:31, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- You have found a phrase that could be explained better in the article. In fact, both meanings are implied here. The Dealers Den is a place where dealers (either professional artists with lots of prints or framed works, or dealers of other people's art/comics/books/T-shirts/plush toys/fashion accessories) may rent a table from the convention, for a price - at Anthrocon, anywhere from $75 for half a table (3 foot by 3 foot) to $525 for a square island (10 foot by 10 foot) [1]. They may then sell to the people who attend the convention.
- This contrasts with the Artists' Alley, which usually does not charge artists for space to sell - however, the space is much smaller (see the pictures in the article to compare), there is no guarantee that they will get it if there are too many people (some conventions are starting to sell small badges to get a good place for $10-$20), they must remain there most of the time to keep their place, and they must only sell their own work.
- Thank you for assisting Argox with the translation, and for your work against vandalism of the article. GreenReaper 23:28, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, since the second meaning is implied by default, I finally decided to translate only the first one to Spanish. Thank you for your help. --Fibonacci 18:43, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TfD nomination of Template:WikiFur
Template:WikiFur has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. - ∅ (∅), 03:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Heads up Template:WikiFur for deletion vote
re: Template up for deletion; You also need to consider actions to clarify your relationship to the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia:Sister projects with some entry or mentions.
Also, as has been 'picked on', the acceptable style for such links is well established. Use or {{Wiktionarycat1}} as style/size guideline and boilerplate guideline, also see category:Interwiki link templates. See also Category:Interwiki utility templates for a host of examples where some variation has be introduced in coloration, for examples see and technique, the sucked-in member templates. Those are currently experimentally equiped with two perameters to play with sizing and such. Best regards // FrankB 17:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your concern. Honestly, I am not too bothered whether or not the template is kept. As noted by another contributor, there are currently no articles which make use of it. There appears to be some confusion about its intended use - the template is intended for the talk page, as an indicator of the original source in compliance with the GFDL. It is not intended to go on the article page as an "advert" like the sister projects templates. While this might actually be a good idea in a few restricted cases (there was a similar one on the furry fandom article in the past) that is not the purpose of this template.
As for "our relationship" - WikiFur is a separate wiki hosted by Wikia. There is no official relationship, although many users contribute to both. I consider WikiFur and Wikipedia (and similar sites) as "friends" who can help one another out - WikiFur provides more detailed coverage of furry fandom topics that Wikipedia would like to avoid, while Wikipedia is great for us to link all those topics which are not relevant to the furry fandom. A good example of this on Wikipedia is furry convention, which directs users who are looking for more information which Wikipedia cannot provide (as it is non-verifiable) to the appropriate WikiFur articles. GreenReaper 17:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] oops
sorry I hope I didn't do that redlink -- I'll leave you to clean it up as I want to get back to dancing. JS Uralia 07:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- No worries, it was just a slow image upload and I got impatient. :-) GreenReaper 07:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Second Life screenshots
Screenshots of Second Life cannot be released as GFDL or Creative Commons; the copyright belongs to the creators of Second Life. Ral315 (talk) 01:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Conflict of interest?
GreenReaper, what's your position as an employee of Stardock? I'm concerned about a potential conflict of interest. I'm not very concerned, because a perusal of your talk page indicates you are making good contributions, but I'd still like some details. You can reply here.--Kchase T 09:11, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- I have been a software developer involved in R&D for Stardock for one and a half years. Prior to that, I was heavily involved in the Stardock newsgroups and IRC networks for around four and a half years, helping people with WindowBlinds and the like. Certainly, there is the potential for a conflict of interest, but hopefully my contributions show that I'm trying to do the same as everyone else here - write informative and interesting articles, rather than advertising or promotional material. That kind of stuff is better suited for Stardock's front page (and for our marketing staff).
- If you have more specific concerns about a particular article, now or in the future, I would be glad to address them. GreenReaper 04:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, I happened upon your work after declining a spam tag at Multiplicity (software). My concern with that and, by extension, other articles is just that they are written NPOV and written on notable products. That wasn't as clear when I happened upon the Multiplicity article, but you just added sources that establish notability pretty strongly. The relevant guidelines here are WP:CORP's section on products and WP:SOFTWARE (only proposed, but still cited sometimes). In any case, your strong contributions make it pretty clear that this is a good place to make an exception to WP:COI (which discourages but doesn't prohibit what you're doing anyway). Thanks for your great contributions to this and other wikis. I hope you keep up the good work.--Kchase T 05:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks. I had a feeling it was about that, and decided to act to stem off any confusion about notability. Multiplicity is one of our key products - I don't develop it myself, but I've taken time off other work to help ensure that it works and debug problems (and I'm not normally paid to do quality assurance :-). GreenReaper 05:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Windows DreamScene, was selected for DYK!
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On January 18, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Windows DreamScene, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. |
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 02:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/T.H.E. Fox
What are the San Bernardino County Sun, TC-128 and Carousel News & Trader? Can any of these be cited as sources in the article? -- Dragonfiend 06:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- The first and last seem to still be around. TC-128 may well not be - it appears to have been a magazine of some kind. Unfortunately few specific references were given in the interview (from which I am getting these), just the fact that the characters had appeared in or on those publications (for the Sun, in "opinion cartoons"). I have uploaded copies of the orange juice (Sun), carousel gag (Carousel) and (I think) the szechwan (Pern) images mentioned - the last two reflect the severe limitations of the medium at the time. He also mentions the numbering scheme, so it can be determined that the carousel gag was published in the fifth week (29th, 30th or 31st) of July 1988, while the szechwan pepper gag (which "appeared in a fan magazine dedicated to the Pern series") was on the forth week of April 1989, if I have the right strip. I have around 200 strips published in the period September 1987 - January 1990. Given the timing mentioned, I believe that to be about half the complete output, though it's possible I'm way out. GreenReaper 09:33, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Samurai Cat
Hi. I've been referred to you by NeoFreak. I'm new to editing Wikipedia. As practice, I'm trying to document the notability of Mark E. Rogers' Samurai Cat series. I'm having trouble finding much either way. NeoFreak said you might be interested and able to help. Relevant stuff: User:RichM90071#Samurai Cat, User talk:NeoFreak#Mark E. Rogers and Samurai Cat. Thanks, RichM90071 00:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Natural Desktop
The article is currently on VfD. Since you had created most of the Stardock related texts your opinion would be useful to hear.
(IMHO all the articles (including Stardock) should be deleted as they are hard to impossible to maintain over long time, their notability is disputable and they form a precedent to include every software product here.) Pavel Vozenilek 15:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Sure. I happen to believe that all software products should be included here, so I will have to disagree with you on that point. :-) Stardock itself is a leader in desktop customization, and an award-winning turn-based strategy game company, so I highly doubt that the article about it will be deleted. GreenReaper 15:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] TfD nomination of Template:WikiFur
Template:WikiFur has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — K@ngiemeep! 05:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Done (a while back, thought I should note so here as well). Looks like it'll be kept, in an updated form. GreenReaper 19:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
