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WikiProject Films January 2009 Newsletter

The January 2009 issue of the WikiProject Films newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you and happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 20:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

confused

Sorry.i really think there is a mistake,i only added a time line to the DOLLY(CLONED SHEP) article.Jamiebijania (talk) 08:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Responded at your talk. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 15:34, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes,you did explain to me and told me that i am not supposed to add information from other websites without changing the words and adding in unnecessary information,but i swear i have never edited the article(wrath of dolly) which you accused me of.Can you please email me a copy of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamiebijania (talk • contribs) 03:26, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I really did not do anything on the page!Can you tell me how to change password?Thanks.Jamiebijania (talk) 04:05, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you and i hope that you believe me now.Jamiebijania (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi,i would like to thank you for helping me get started to wikipedia again!Thanks!Jamiebijania (talk) 15:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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Pandemic (South Park)

Hi. Can you offer your opinion on the conflict described here? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:47, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

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Re Denis Wood bio'

Quick question(s): 1. How do I fix the problem on my wiki-bio of Denis Wood, the page I'm hoping we can subsitute for the current wiki? I thought I closed the code and can't see where my mistake is. 2. How do I upload a photo to accompany my version? 3. Can we get the origional bio' writer to agree to this substitution? How do I do that ... he's unnamed?

Thaks.

Tom Kcoh --Tomkoch (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Tom, I'm sorry for my poor responsiveness of late; I've been rather preoccupied with off-wiki matters and haven't been editing much lately. I'll try to answer your questions.

1. The mistake at User:Tomkoch/Denis Wood was that you had at least one <ref> statement that wasn't ended by a </ref>. To make things easier, you can just do the following in the future:
   1. Type the text you want to appear in the reference footnote where you want the footnote to appear
   2. Highlight the text you want in the footnote
   3. Click the button above the edit window, and you're set!
2. Go to Wikipedia:Upload and follow the instructions there. There are a couple important caveats however.
   1. Since it's an image for use in a biography, it's more or less an absolute requirement that the image be released under a "free license" (i.e., anyone can use the image for essentially any purpose, and at most they need to attribute the source). The upload information page I linked above explains this further.
   2. If you don't own the copyright to the image, you'd need get the copyright owner to e-mail the Wikimedia foundation giving an appropriate release (instructions are also on the page I linked above).
3. It's not necessary to obtain the original author's consent. Editors do not own their edits nor do they own the pages to which they contribute; while wholesale replacements of articles are uncommon (in most cases editors work together to improve instead of replace), you don't need anyone's permission to do so. That's not to say such a change would stand unopposed, but editors are generally encouraged to be bold in making edits (see WP:BOLD for an explanation of what that means). In the event that someone opposed your edits, and reverted to the prior version, the general strategy would be to discuss the substitution at the article's talk page (in this case, Talk:Denis Wood). In this case though, it's not necessary to obtain a consensus to edit- only if someone opposes your edits.

I hope this helps, and again I apologize for my slowness to respond to your questions. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 22:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Films February 2009 Newsletter

The February 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:17, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

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Handled. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 05:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

M17S issue

Just wanted to first say thanks for your help. I'm again at a standstill, and not sure where I should go next. Should I bring this up in the WikiProject Firearms to get some others' opinions on whether this should be included?

I'm finding it hard to deal with "let's discuss" which turns into "let me delete your changes over and over for different reasons each time". Lagaman (talk) 16:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, after a fourth try, the edit was again removed, so I posted him on the edit warring noticeboard. I don't see much other choice. Thanks again for trying to help. Lagaman (talk) 20:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Jeez. I'm sorry things got to this point. I'm writing a response at the talk page right now, which should hopefully draw a compromise. Also keep in mind that while Nukes has clearly violated WP:3RR, it can be argued that you violated it as well (since the rule covers "partial reverts"). I'd strongly suggest you at least temporarily refrain from editing the article itself (though feel free to continue responding at the talk page). I'm very sorry that you're getting the 3rd degree from editors more experienced than yourself- while you aren't exactly a newcomer, you clearly haven't made a lot of contributions and so Nukes really should be following WP:BITE. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 20:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I was in the process of putting something on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Firearms page asking for others to provide their input. I'd be happy to have a neutral party or parties sort out what's "right" at this point. I found the link and information helpful, so figured sharing it with others was a good idea. I certainly didn't want to engage in such a battle, and was thus trying to just go with what the third-party recommendations were directly. I'm still not quite sure what the objections are to the last revision I did based on the recommendations of User:CrispMuncher. Thanks again. Lagaman (talk) 21:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

It probably wouldn't be harmful to try and get more outside opinions from the people at WP:GUNS, and it's probably better to try and get outside involvement sooner rather than later, especially when there seem to be a deadlock.

As to Nukes' objection to your last version, I don't quite get it either. His/her edit summary suggested that the objection was at least partially on grammatical grounds, but I don't see that as reason to do a partial revert (which is exactly what happened, and the reason Nukes got blocked). According to Nukes' user talk, he/she also claimed that earlier versions constituted a copyright violation in some sense (I disagree), but your last edit to the page was a completely new wording.

While I'm free to go ahead and edit the article and reinclude information, I'm going to refrain from doing so for now, because I don't think it'd be helpful. I will however go to the talk page in a bit and come up with an alternate wording that'll hopefully satisfy everyone. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 21:45, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually, that might not be necessary at this point. Looks like CrispMuncher has taken the initiative to re-add the information. I think the wording is pretty satisfactory so I'm not going to say anything else for now. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 21:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree. It looks fine to me now as-is. Lagaman (talk) 21:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

TOV letter

Thanks for pointing me to that. I've been winging it each time. I'll definitely bookmark that. You may be interested in User:Toddst1/infobox/tovauthorities that I created a while ago. There are remarkably few of us who will bother to pick up the phone or send an email about TOVs. Cheers. Toddst1 (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Picture

If this was true, then why is there a cut-out drawing on the Vagina page? Please explain.

-Axmann8 (Talk) 22:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Because there's apparently a consensus at vagina to have the first image be an anatomical diagram. By the way, not to be rude, but it would have been far more appropriate for you to ask this at Talk:Penis than my own talk page. It surely would have been answered sooner, and all the conversation would have been in one place. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Low-res images

Hi, I replied on my talk page. Cheers -- SF007 (talk) 20:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: That message on my talk page

I'm currently engaged in something off wiki that requires my clipboard, so I can't copy/paste his username. Either way, I have nothing more to say to him, so I've left the talk page alone since that last revert.— Dædαlus ^Contribs 08:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Probably wise; he's clearly not responding in a reasonable fashion, and it's pointless to try reasoning with the unreasonable. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 19:08, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

ENI Article

Hi Mendaliv, I saw your question on the ENI talk page. ENI's stock is listed in a number of places as you should use the one for the Milan Stock Exchange as that is its primary listing. You can find financial information on ENI's investor relations page[1] or on the website of the Milan stock exchange[2]

hope that helps! Cesariano (talk) 15:09, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 19:07, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

well

if you check Nukes4Tots' talk page, and the page of the admin who blocked him [[3]], you'll see he was actually supposed to be blocked a second time, and the admin claimed that he did block him, except forgot to actually perform the technical procedure of the block. So that's why i said he was blocked twice. for all intents and purposes, he was blocked. his edits were reverted by the admin when he realized he forgot to actually do the block after telling him he was blocked. if you still think that doesn't count as a block, I can modify the message. I just thought it'd be a lot to explain Theserialcomma (talk) 07:27, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Right, I noticed this about a minute after posting to your talk page. Sorry for the trouble. :-) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Archival

Thanks for fixing my botch. Thanks for also telling me how to do it correctly for the future.— Dædαlus ^Contribs 21:12, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Noinclude/Includeonly

Ya, heh, I tried it with include only tags, and found that it made any text he put there hidden, except for in the transclusion.— Dædαlus ^Contribs 00:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Pretty weird. I guess it doesn't work like normal template stuff. :-\ —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 00:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

I just wanted to thank you for this post - it's well written and polite (and definitely not arrogant!), whilst still getting the important points across. Having read that forum thread, I have my reservations as to whether it will do any good, but it's a good start. Thank you! _TalkIslander 09:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help. I know things like these that seem small and everyday to us can really upset other communities. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 18:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Ban Time

I'm not going to revert you, but instead bring it up here. Duvora, as far as I could tell, made it clear his ban was indefinite, but if he wanted to appeal, he should wait six months until doing so, so... could you please remove that time thing?— Dædαlus ^Contribs 06:27, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Eh, sure. :-) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 06:29, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Films March 2009 Newsletter

The March 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 00:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Denis Wood bio'

I have replaced an egregiously bad, and possibly libelous, bio' of Wood with the one, late last year, we discussed.

The bio' replaced has egregious erors and its unfounded statement 

about the sexual history of Wood's partner is potentially libelous. Nor is this bio' about the writer's work--the necessary focus of a bio'--but more about his sexual and legal history.

The one that replaces it does not ignore the legal history but 
focuses on the issue of the writer, his work.
If you can, please take a look and let me know if I've acted
appropriately.
--Tomkoch (talk) 17:57, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry to say, Tom, that it appears someone has objected to your out-and-out replacement of the current article and reverted your changes. I'm sorry that I haven't had time to help out with this issue; I've been rather busy trying to find a job. I've put a listing up at WP:EAR to ask for outside help in working on combining the information in your version with the version already at Denis Wood. Sorry to back out at this point, but it's getting harder to find free time for Wikipedia these days. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 10:58, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry if I did anything wrong. I have seen other users redact comments based on NPA, and I thought it was OK to do so. Apologies. Arbiteroftruth ^{Plead Your Case} 18:48, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Removing Twinkle

Thank you for your input into the wikipedia notice baord for adminsitartors the case that invlved me using twinkle i just want to get off the rador if you know what i mean i want to get rid of twinkle because it casuing problems... .can u help me undo twinkle?Rockiesfan19 (talk) 07:03, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Of course- simply blank this page: User:Rockiesfan19/monobook.js. After you're done press CTRL+F5 and you should be fine. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 07:05, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Olive oil - skin care - use for shaving

I do not understand why you decided to delete my entry about the use of olive oil for shaving. Olive oil has been used for shaving for hundreds of years. I personally have use this oil for shaving for many years. Because my entry is not within the sphere of your personal experience is not a reason for deletion. Remedya (talk) 12:47, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! I've left a message on your user talk page which should explain why the information you mention was removed. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 13:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

your help would be appreciated

Can you please put in your input about the twinkle misuse that was reported on administartors blog thing. Thanks i feel like we are on the same page of what happened i made a mistake and people are acting like i did things worseRockiesfan19 (talk) 01:45, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

You may believe you're helping out the Wikipedia community, but I promise you, if you continue to use automated tools like Twinkle in the way you have been, you'll be swiftly blocked. The Wikipedia community has very high expectations of behavior for editors who use such tools. I strongly, strongly suggest you follow my advice above and remove Twinkle from your monobook.js page and then try to edit without it for awhile so you can properly learn the ropes here. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 02:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:EAR

Hey, just wanted to drop by and say thanks for making edits like [4]; they make things so much simpler. Thanks for being taking the time for simple stuff like this that helps everybody dealing with a request! Cheers! Fleetflame 13:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help- it always bugs me to have to go and find a link every time with those sorts of cases. :-) —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 13:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

BTW, am I the only one noticing that Tennis expert always seems to be in the middle of some editing dispute? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think I've seen a lot of him lately, esp. on noticeboards and talk page disputes. Fleetflame 13:57, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

I haven't noticed before the last few days, but I think it's quite an astute observation. I'm especially disappointed to see that this most recent EAR thread just degenerated into a continuation of the argument from the original talk page. I genuinely hope that, if someone brings Tennis expert to WQA, these user interaction issues can be resolved. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 15:29, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

RfA Thankspam

Thanks to everyone who took the time and trouble to take part in my RfA whether support, oppose or neutral. All comments are valued and will be considered carefully in the coming weeks. Feel free to add more advice on my talk page if you think I need it. SpinningSpark 23:43, 16 April 2009 (UTC) In case you're wondering, the image is a smiley, just a little more aesthetic, but not as serious as the Mona Lisa