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[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:14, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Thanks for adding the Image:Gran Colombia.PNG map. Please label images you upload with one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags as appropriate. (For example, this map looks like it might be old enough to be public domain, but with no information on the source it's hard to tell.) See Wikipedia:Images for more information about image use policy. Feel free to ask if you have any questions I might help with. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 01:06, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moving an article

Please note that the article James Bond 21 should have been moved to Casino Royale (2006 film) and not copied and pasted. By copying and pasting you removed the credit of the original authors of the article and you left behind the talk page. Just FYI for future reference. The move function can be found next to the edit and history tabs at the top of the page. K1Bond007 23:39, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Secondary sex characteristic

Hi Binadot, I see you made some rather major additions to Secondary sex characteristic, which were afterward tagged as a possible copyright violation. Now to know whether or not we can keep your edits, it would be good to know the source of the information and whether it may have been copied from a website or book by you unaware of the copyright policy. Thanks.--Pharos 06:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Glvbox.JPG

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Glvbox.JPG. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:26, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Helen keller in jokes

This article was deleted thanks to very strong consensus (see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Helen keller in jokes) and recreating it is not acceptable. —Stormie 20:57, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

p.s. I have unblocked you (I would not have blocked you without a warning if I'd realised you were a genuine contributor here), but please do not recreate this article again. —Stormie 20:59, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
Oh man, I'm really sorry, I can see what happened now: (1) anon recreates article, (2) you hit edit on it to put a delete tag on, (3) Ahoerstemeier hits delete, (4) having added your delete tag, you hit save. Result: the article is recreated. And then I, not looking closely, just saw that you'd "created" it, didn't look to see what content was in there, and got mad. It's too early in the morning for me to be shouting at people without carefully looking at what actually happened - please accept my humble apologies. —Stormie 21:16, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] <eth><thorn>..

Hi, you've caused havok on the page Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Google test by doing one or more of the following: converting Þ to <THORN> or þ to <thorn>, Ð to <ETH> or ð to <eth>. Presumably this is happening automatically with your browser, which presumably is Microsoft Internet Explorer on Mac OS 9 since that's the only browser/OS that seems to have a problem with those letters in this way (if you know this to be incorrect please inform wikitech-l at wikimedia.org).

To fix this, you can do one of the following:

  • Use another browser such as Netscape Navigator.
  • Install another operating system such as Debian GNU/Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD (or Mac OS X which works on some computers that Mac OS 9 works on).
  • Refrain from editing these pages or suggest changes on the talk page since your edits have some very undesired side-effects.
This should no longer be an issue due to a workaround now in place Plugwash 22:19, 30 July 2005 (UTC) —{{User:Ævar Arnfjör<eth> Bjarmason/Sig}} 16:19, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
See the diff, you changed Arnfjör<eth> to Arnfjör<eth>. —{{User:Ævar Arnfjör<eth> Bjarmason/Sig}} 21:20, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

Information on what operating system you were running at the time, what locale it was configured etc. would be helpful. —{{User:Ævar Arnfjör<eth> Bjarmason/Sig}} 21:28, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

[edit] Borgman

Well, the whole Eric Bruno Borgman story is much longer and more complicated than it needs to be. Basically a bunch of articles were brought up on VfD: his, and a bunch of people and things connected to him, including family members and aquaintances. Some of these were obviously vanity, while others, Borgman's included, seemed like they might be somewhat legit. On further inspection, it was clear that they were all extreme vanity articles created by him and his friends. Borgman presented himself as a minor celebrity, when basically he had been an extra in quite a few films. His only real accomplishment of any note was making a silent film that was played at I think 2 festivals to no real acclaim. The article in Vagrant's userspace was his article in wikipedia, which went unchallenged for a long time. It was a blatant attempt to promote himself and his movie. On top of that his name was included in every conceivable article that it could be in. He had what seems to be a couple lines in an episode of Spenser: For Hire, and the article on that show was created just to point out that fact (check the page's history). The List of people from Massachusetts was created as another page to mention him. That he is allegedly something like the 7th cousin of Jeff Foxworthy (meaning they shared a single great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather) was mentioned in the Foxworthy article. He was also on every list page he could conceivably qualify for: screenwriters, directors, actors, christians, teetotalers, etc. The article on his home town mentioned him as well. Some efforts to promote him by anons were basically vandalism, such as replacing the name Barbra Streisand with Eric Bruno Borgman in an article, I think on directors. It was way out of hand. This happened with a few people who were connected with him too. User:Pitchka, who I'm pretty sure has some personal connection to him, fought the deletion of him and his friends tooth and nail. I'm pretty sure that User:ebbpeg is Borgman, though he/she claims not to be. Anyway, I really dislike the abuse of wikipedia as a method of self promotion, so I made a point of seeing those articles were deleted. Pitchka fought this, and the talk page on Fever Pitch that you deleted was one of the results. I actually thought that attack was funny, and I even linked to it from my userpage, so if you deleted it on my account there was really no reason to, but if it was just a striek against personal attacks in general then that's fine. Anyway, I hope I cleared some things up. User:Vagrant and User:.0 (who is either Vagrant, Borgman, both, or someone else connected to them) moved many of the deleted pages to their userspaces, which soem regard as against policy. I'm too involved inthe fiasco to bring them to VfD, so I pointed them out to others who basically thought they deserved deletion, but no one has acted on them. So that's the story. I could give you more details and evidence if you like, but there's no point unless you really care. -R. fiend 05:21, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well, it's been decided through VfD that he isn't notable enough for a wikipedia entry. People have different standards, but the roles in the films he mentioned were all (or almost all) non-speaking roles. He was a guy in a crowd in Mystic River, for example. His IMDb page looks impressive at first, until you see how nearly all the roles are "non-credited", which means he's an extra with no lines. I made the point in his VfD that I've done that in a film and would never expect an encyclopedia article based on it. And bear in mind IMDb does not have any policies against using the site to promote a person or movie. Wikipedia does. The movie he made, The Deserter, was made by him, and has not been distributed. I'm quite certain only a single film print of it exists. It's above the rank of a home movie, but it is not an "independent film" they way, say, Reservoir Dogs or anything is. He's an aspiring actor/director, and until he's more the issue will probably not be revisited. -R. fiend 05:40, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
No bother at all, glad I could help out. -R. fiend 07:10, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Club Roast

I have the best intentions for Wikipedia. Being banned would be a bad thing for me. I know some articles that I made have a VfD on the, but despite of that, I still have good intentions for Wikipedia.

This thing about Chevy Chase's Club Roast show is that I thought the name for his show was a funny one, and I thought it would be worth making an article about; I feel bad for you proposing to ban me from Wikipedia on the VfD page for that article I made. Just because pages I make have VfD dosen't mean that I am intentionally making bogus contributions to Wikipedia.

One reason why I make some articles is because my mind runs out of ones that would have enough significance to be kept; but having contributions with VfDs shouldn't spark any suspicion on me! --TheSamurai 00:51, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Change in username:

I changed my nickname "GoofyGuy" to "TheSamurai" since I read about some opposition in the VfD pages. Just gratify me for this.

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