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[edit] Scouting

[edit] In the scouting's interest, would you care to respond to FAC for Baden-Powell House

Hi, as an active member of the Scouting wikiproject, would you care to respond to the wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Baden-Powell House. Any comment, either supportive or suggestions for improvement and similar feedback will be appreciated. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 16:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Boy Scout Memorial

Have you seen these? What do you think?

--South Philly 22:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks. I'll give it some thought. evrik 16:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Great job! --South Philly 00:29, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rating articles

  • I'm glad you're willing to help rate articles, but I've come across 5 today that you rating and the format was wrong on each. (your two new ones, two MB images, and one other). Please ask if you're not sure how to do it. If it's unassessed, just put the standard tag and the unassessed will show as default. If it's NA, you only put this after the regular part: |class=NA}}. Tks, Rlevse 21:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
    • That's what generated by the code. See Scouts d'Haïti, the page shows ??? but the talk page in edit mode doesn't have that manually entered. The ... are to show additional parameters are possible. Rlevse 22:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC) PS: I copied it from another project, I'll make it clearer. Rlevse 22:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Emmerich Teuber is a tiny stub, no where near B-class. I've changed it. Rlevse 22:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Epsilon Tau Pi is not B-class, it could even be argued it's a stub. Start is good for this one.Rlevse 22:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Don Potter is B-class either. I really shouldn't have to go check this stuff. Rlevse 22:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Please update the portal tags to the one with the scout logo when you rate articles, that way we kill two birds with one stone. Rlevse 22:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Unassessed is NOT part of the importance cat, the importance equiv is "Unknown-importance Scouting articles". I've already asked you to ask questions. Rlevse 22:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I've added much more detail on this on the Assessement page. Rlevse 00:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I thought you may like to see the more detailed guidlines I put on the Assessment page, like council camps, states, etc would usually be high, subcamps low, etc. Rlevse 23:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
See talk on André Harvey, no proof it's the same guy, article is mute. There's at least one other article like this, so keep an eye for it. I'd call André Harvey a stub, but it is a borderline Start. Rlevse 19:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Putnam County Cemeteries

I received your message concerning Putnam County cemeteries. I go through the area mostly during cold weather, not during the summer. I have taken photographs in Raymond Hill Cemetery and the cemetery where Sybil Ludington is buried. Putnam is a great place to take photographs. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anthony22 (talk • contribs).

  • We got a photo of the grave we needed. Thanks for your offer! --evrik 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boy Scout research info for you

Hey; found your link from WikiProject Vancouver, where I'd just put a comment on the Peace Arch Park COTM discussion re The Newspapering Murrays by Georgina Keddell. I don't know how verifiable/true it is (the Murrays are known for hyperbole) but according to Georgina's bio of her parents, George and "Ma" Murray, George was instrumental in the startup of the Boy Scouts of Canada; he'd been assigned to go find someone to fund and charter it because the then-G-G was a big Baden-Powell fan and was on his editor's ass about it (at the Ottawa Citizen). Somewhere in the early chapters of the book, which I don't have any more or would just quote for you here; but it's in most university and public libraries and well worth the read, far beyond th at chapter.Skookum1 20:34, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oldest Scout Groups

Brother, I love what you've done with Scouting memorials, hope my contributions have helped. What you found on the Oldest Scout Groups is really cool, how did you get that info? I think it also needs to be at the article above. Your brother in Scouting, really, Chris 19:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

  • It was all just research and a few phone calls! --evrik 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Resica Falls Scout Reservation

Brother, I appreciate your ferver, the point is, it's not a full article, and further, sub-council articles have been debated since we lost that bunch in February. We really need to keep the number down, and if that means longer articles, that's better than losing them to non-notability as we did. Every camp doesn't warrant its own article, much as we wish they did. If it's smaller than council level, it needs to be merged at least to Council level, when the Council article exists. Chris 17:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Did you see my comments on your page? --evrik 17:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where does this information go?

There was an international Polish Scout Jamboree in Maryland this last week. The Scouts I met were all from Canada and the U.S.

--evrik 17:42, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

I would put it in Scouting in Maryland (am doing so, take a look), perhaps if you can fit it in at Scouts-in-Exile, not sure where it would go on the ZHP article. Chris 00:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pennsylvania project merge debate

Thanks for letting me know about the proposal to merge those two articles associated with our project. I strongly agree with you that they merit stand-alone status, and I have registered this vote on the discussion page. Good luck with, and keep me posted. PAWiki 17:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

[edit] da Vinci Barnstar

Hi! My apologies for not getting a chance to comment on this proposal, as I've been awfully busy, but I really appreciate you notifying me and the work you've done on the proposals page. It was great to see it become an official barnstar. Thanks again for everything, and let me know if there's ever anything I can do to help you. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 20:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar!

For working at WP:BAP so well, I award you this Working Man's Barnstar.
For working at WP:BAP so well, I award you this Working Man's Barnstar.

Great work at keeping WP:BAP going... by the way, that's a great drawing on your userpage. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 14:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars for images

You already have a large collection of stars, but I just had to give you another when I saw that mosaic pattern for the Islamic Barnstar. Then, I saw your photographs and couldn't decide between a Photographer's Barnstar and a Graphic Designer's Barnstar. Here's my solution:

The Photographer's Barnstar
I give you this Photographer's Barnstar for your amazing photographic work... Gray Porpoise 13:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
...and this Graphic Designer's Barnstar for expertly making symbols and images for awards. Gray Porpoise 13:37, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting find

User:Herostratus/Service awards. How do we intergrate it into the current system? On a sidenot,e I like it :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus  talk  04:59, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar Proposals ready for archival

I noticed that you are good at archiving. Would you mind archiving Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals?? It's starting to get a little bit lengthy. Thanks.--Ed 21:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks a lot for the help. In recognition of all of your contributions to archiving, I award you a barnstar.
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This barnstar has been awarded to Evrik in recognition of his continuing contributions to the archives at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals.--Ed 22:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The liberty barnstars

Hey, dude, I'm talking to 'ya. Howdy. How come you deleted the whole Philadelphia projects - liberty bell section out of the barnstar proposal page? Shannonduck talk 21:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Barnstars/Topical --evrik 21:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please come back

We have added two new TV/Radio Barnstar proposals at WP:BAP. Come along. -TrackerTV 19:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikiholidays

I saw that you reverted my changes on this page. I truly think that my edits are not nonsense, and if it makes you happy I will move it to a userpage: User:Kitia/Holidays --Kitia

[edit] Football barnstar

I am unable to make the coding work properly on my new barnstar template. Can you help? Please? It's at Template:Football (soccer) barnstar Thanks; maybe if you can't help you can suggest someone who can? --Guinnog 01:14, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It's ok, I've sussed it out now. Sorry to bother you. --Guinnog 01:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Okey dokey. --evrik 14:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Barnstar

I'm seeking your opinion on a newly proposed barnstar for Esperanza. Perhaps you have heard of this organization before. (I am a member). The proposed barnstar is located here. The discussion may seem small, but when you click here, you could see that Esperanza has already approved the star as their award. Would this count as a WikiProject award, or a PUA?--Ed 15:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic Barnstar

Is the barnstar supposed to be in PUA? I checked the debate and it said support as WikiProject award.--Ed 18:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I'm only 2 months into editing, so I'm kinda still new. But thanks for telling me.--Ed 18:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Support for the new image clearly reached a consensus. --JuanMuslim 1m 04:55, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Which was that? --evrik 18:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
The original Islamic Barnstar was introduced and designed by Irishpunktom. That version was clearly rejected. The new version was introduced and designed by me. Acceptance for the idea - the Islamic Barnstar Award - as well as the current design has been accepted. --JuanMuslim 1m 16:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I haven't been watching all of the barnstars I already archived for the past 2 days. But if you go to Archive 11 in the proposal page, all of the votes said "support". I don't even know why this discussion is being revisited.--Ed 16:30, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
    • new comment, see proposal page--Ed 18:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Islamic star

By mosaic, what do you mean? I can make an original barnstar green but what else did you want with it?

Also, a comment on the Barnstar stars looking the same: it was a very minor change, maybe too small to see for some with lower res screens. The center of the smaller star was black and not see through. We changed that. --WillMak050389 20:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

All right, I may be able to do that, but I don't know that I can do it now. Is it alright if I try tonight? (Not so many distractions and such) --WillMak050389 21:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
This was the best I could come up with. I couldn't get them configured in any other way. --WillMak050389 23:40, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Let me give it another shot ... --evrik 13:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic Wikiproject Award

Sure Evrik, I'll take a look and see what I can add to the conversation. --Deathphoenix ʕ 03:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Islamic Barnstar Award

Re: Archiving. Feel free to unarchive it. I archived a bunch of stuff yesterday. I was just trying to place the page where people could find it. --evrik 14:03, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

It shouldn't have been archived in the first place. I was just about to request more input within the next two weeks when it was archived. Why is it that you have the final say on what is approved or rejected on the images and proposals page? I'm also referring to other awards, such as the Medical Barnstar Award? Why is it that we have to involve so many people in the discussion over the Islamic Barnstar Award but only three votes were sufficient for selecting the Saint's Star Award, which is regarded as the Christian Wikiproject Award. Three people voted, and one was a vote of opposition.--JuanMuslim 1m 14:23, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Simply stated, because the image already existed (Image:SaintBarnstar.PNG was created in December 2005, and the creation of the WikiProject Award was simply a reuse of an existing image. --evrik 15:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
      • 3 days and 3 voters on the decision doesn't sound fair to me. --JuanMuslim 1m 20:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Once again, you have your facts wrong. The award existed well before it was listed, but what we were trying to do is expand it's defintion, and since each WikiProject is allowed to give an award - but unlike certain images that have never reached consensus - this one was already approved. Now please stop harassing me. --evrik 20:21, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I guess that logic only applies to barnstars you support.--JuanMuslim 1m 20:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • As a point in fact, the saint award is not a barnstar, and there have been images that I didn't like that have gained consensus. Now please stop harassing me. --evrik 20:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes, but that award is a wikiproject award, which is the same status as the Islamic Barnstar Award. No one is harassing you. --JuanMuslim 1m 20:33, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I have recused myself from any further discussion on that isuue. I have tried to answer your many questions (and accusations). Please stop harassing me. --evrik 20:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
But you have not really done so. You are still working toward influencing the decision. You refuse to acknowledge that the original Islamic Barnstar Award was selected. --JuanMuslim 1m 21:01, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Evrik just said he has "recused" himself. This means: Until such time as he chooses to re-enter the discussion, he's out of the discussion, period. I strongly suggest that you (Juan) leave him alone on this topic, until such time as he chooses to re-enter the discussion. He has asked you several times to "stop harrassing" him. The RfC that you (Juan) were previously "strongly opposed to" may happen on slightly different grounds, should either of you continue this. That, as far as I know, is the "next step" in dispute resolution. - jc37 21:14, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I cross posted this on User:JuanMuslim's talk page. As he just blanked it from that page, I presume he's read it. - jc37 21:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
He is still in the discussion in one way or another. The only thing in need is announcing that the Islamic Barnstar Award has achieved consensus. --JuanMuslim 1m 00:36, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

(moved from jc37's talk page)
Would you please comment?

  • I made a similar comment there as well. - jc37 16:08, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Medical barnstar

Hi,

you might remember this discussion. I was surprised no decision was taken, when looking closer I noticed you suggested to shelve this idea, was that the conclusion, that the barnstar was of poor quality and therefore will not be used? Or was this just archived without actually introducing the barnstar?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 11:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you remove the automobile barnstar?

Why did you remove the Automobile barnstar? I believe I followed all the instructions for creating such a thing. If I messed up, it can only be because the rules are pretty vague.

There was 100% agreement about the need for such a thing - not one person objected (either on the barnstar page or on the automotive page) - the image we selected was the one we all wanted - again, we had almost 100% agreement. It doesn't appear to violate any guidelines. Your edit comment says to look in the discussion page - but there is no mention of the reason you removed it. Please respond or I shall assume you made a mistake and go ahead and reinstate it. SteveBaker 03:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC) I posted my reasons on the proposal page. --evrik 17:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I can't find it (possibly because you've moved all the pages around) - please give me a link. SteveBaker 14:09, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for creating the proposal for the India star. I didn't there know was this approval process. - Ganeshk (talk) 00:41, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good job

Good job with assisting with the Wikiproject. --JuanMuslim 1m 19:08, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Civil War

[edit] Article

I'll take a look at the article and see what I can do. I am out here in the desert and most of my research materials have been shipped back to the states. Another person to contact is Hal Jespersen who is very up on the civil war - (he also has an excellant writing guide.--Oldwildbill 06:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Cavalry article

Evrik, I took the liberty to expand a stub you had created for the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry. Take a look, and let me know if you want anything else added to this expanded article. Scott Mingus 15:28, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] 5th Indiana Volunteers (?)

I can't find the 5th Indiana Volunteers in other references to Indiana Civil War regiments. The name sounds like it might have been a cavalry regiment. There was a 5th Regiment Indiana Cavalry with the alternate designation 90th Regiment Indiana Infantry. There was also a 5th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Mexican War. Can you identify the unit in more detail? -- Cuppysfriend 23:34, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

  • This is the only reference to the unit that i know of: Mahlon Dickerson Manson. --evrik 04:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Okay! Check out the Manson article again. It was the 5th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry from the Mexican War!! Do you want to make the correction or shall I? -- Cuppysfriend 19:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] PA & Philadelphia

[edit] Stub-class articles vs. stubs

Please don't merge "stub-class articles" and "stub" categories, or replace one with the other; the latter is intended for use only on article pages, and the former only on talk pages. I realize they have extremely similar names, if not to say hugely overlapping scopes (which rather leads me to suspect that the whole terminology of "stub class" is deeply misconceived), but this isn't the way to deal with it. Alai 21:32, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Well, the work has already been done. I think that the differences are artificial, and instead of helping to organize, the two separate systems make more confusion. Why don’t you propose changing it back on the talk page? --evrik 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I've restored it to its earlier state: as I say, I agree about the essential duplication, but your "fix" is the worst of all possible worlds. If you want rid of the stub category, please bring it to WP:SFD; if you want rid of the "stub class articles" category, go to WP:CFD. Having a stub template feed into a non-stub category is most definitely not what's envisaged by the stub guidelines. Above all, don't make changes which add to the duplication by creating categories with both talk pages and articles, which just creates one big mess all 'round. (By the way, I thought your practice was to answer on others' talk page? Your notice to that effect should be removed, if you're not going to follow it, otherwise confusion levels will be raised all around.) Alai 18:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal

Thank you for your compliments about the Portal. I know its important to get interest in Philadelphia related topics, but I feel the portal linking has gone over the top. Imagine if all Portals did this. (I'm going to use Pretzel as an example again) Pretzel can link to Portal:Food, Portal:Germany, Portal:Philadelphia and if I really wanted to (and I don't) I can make arguments for some others. We were asked to simply cut back on this, but the request was refused outright which is why I got involved. Maybe we can go a middle way and impose are own restrictions? More lenient then the proposed portal one, but more strict then what is currently being done. Medvedenko 20:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I'll answer on the discussion page. --evrik 01:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philly Portal

Yes I know my name is there, I put it there. I plan on maintaining the article as long as I regularly contribute to Wikipedia. Medvedenko 01:15, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{inuse}}

It should be down by the end of the week at the latest. TexasDex and I plan on moving some things around (Following the pattern of other featured articles) and moving information from the main page into subpages (basically following the DU template). If you want to help though, feel free definitely. --ImmortalGoddezz 16:09, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm ... --evrik 16:19, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah I used that tag because I know it'll take a while to work on this, and I don't want to discourage anyone from working on it. Thanks for the start on the images on commons! --ImmortalGoddezz 16:46, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philadelphia project

Hi, Evrik. I put some more work into the "low-importance, needs-immediate-attention" Thomas Bond (physician) page that you tagged as part of the Fluffia project. I removed your wikify request tag, but you may want to add it back after you've had a look at it. (Feel free; I'll take no offense.) I've pretty much exhausted my resources on him.

By the way, I like your long/lat mapquest location thingie. How can I generate that sort of link for my own location?

Cheerio, KateH 16:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Penn Stuff

I curioius about your bot and tagging of the Penn articles. What was the motivation or impetus? --evrik 16:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

A request at User:MetsBot/Requests. —Mets501 (talk) 16:04, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pennsylvania status

Hi, noticed the tag added to the Pennsylvania article as part of the Wikiproject (of which I am also a member). Although the tag says it is, PA is no longer rated a Good Article (it was delisted). I am not sure how to change the tag, so I thought I would let you know. By the way, Larrys Creek is in PA and is GA if you want to add it to the list. Ruhrfisch 01:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message back - last I checked there were now two GA on the WikiP{roject Pennsylvania and I will add Larrys Creek next. I am slowly working on some State Park articles so when I get down near Philly I will keep your offer of collaboration in mind (or something sooner if it springs to mind). Thanks, Ruhrfisch 15:06, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PB

This is indeed the thoth from PB. Who might you be? -†

[edit] Images

[edit] Image:Mamie eisenhower.gif

Hallo Evrik, I think you are wrong. As this image is a piece of art, the artist was most probably selfemployed and was paid for this single work. I dont think that he was employed by the US-Government in the sense of the copyright (e.g. paid on a regular basis and that part of his duty was to take picture) --212.202.113.214 15:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your opinion anonymous user. evrik 16:33, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Jwebb.jpg

Why did you revert me on Image:Jwebb.jpg? The category Category:Fair use images of art is only for those art images that are fair use. It is typically populated by the tag {{art}}. A free image should NOT be in a category that consists soley of non-free images. BigDT 14:06, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Never mind ... I see now ... somehow, I accidentally removed more than just the fair use category. It's fixed now. BigDT 14:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stamps

Unfortunately, similar to Wikipedia:Fair use#Counterexamples, using a stamp to illustrate the person is not allowable under fair use. -- Avi 20:44, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

If it is only going to be used to illustrate the stamp in question, then here it is: Image:Irish Stamp John Barry.jpg. It cannot go on the John Barry page to illustrate Barry. It may go there if you have a section about the stamp itself. Thanks -- Avi 20:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Catholicism and Saints

[edit] Wikiproject Catholicism Assessment

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[edit] Nuns cats

Every monk and nun cat thus far has been for the names of individuals, so you will forgive me for wondering why you have added other things to the cat. This just clutters it (some of the monks cats have well over 100 entries), and there are better cats for articles about individual orders. Your claim that "cats are what we make of them" could be interpreted to mean we should just categorise anything anywhere, which surely rather defeats the point. -- Necrothesp 22:00, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nuns

Sorry, I don't understand your reply. -- Necrothesp 09:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Only start?

Only start class? I think it is a bit better than that. THE MILJAKINATOR 23:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Padre Pio

Dear Evrik, Thanks for clearing up the title at the Padre Pio Infobox and rating the article. I'm still new to Wikipedia and I don't think I did a very good job of my contributions to that article. It was I who put in all the three titles since I was not sure whether to include all of them or not, as I said here. Thank you very much for your help. By the way, I'm completely bowled over by the amount of your contributions. WOW! Your last 500 contributions start from the 21st of this month! If it would not be a bother to you, I would very much indebted to you if you could take a look at my contributions to that article and tell me if I have done anything wrong. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, Savio mit electronics 08:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need your help for new portal about the Book of Mormon

I created the Latter-day Saints portal. You can find it here, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Latter-day_Saints Now I want to create a Book of Mormon portal. But I need good pictures of the Book of Mormon storys on this portal and I have found only one good picture on wikipedia. I tried to upload pictures on this wikipedia but I have problems with it because I´m not a citizen of the USA and English is not my native language. The copyright rights are also complicated on wikipedia. Please upload you the pictures on wikipedia. I have choosen the following pictures but you can choose every pictures which you want, of course.

http://tony.maro.net/mod/userpage/images/nephi.jpg

http://www.lds.org/pa/multimedia/files/book/70301_BoM_Lehi_c0_0001304_st.jpg

http://plainbookofmormon.com/images/sam_lam.jpg

http://www.josephsmith.com/images/moroni.jpg

and all pictures on this website. Look at http://www.meridianmagazine.com/radio/041202paintings.html DAde 19:14, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] St. Francis

Thanks for your help with the St. Francis article. Think it's ready to be moved out of the sandbox? Guess we could flag it as a stub. On a related issue; What churches do you think are most notable in Philly? What articles should I write first? I've already started photographing some of them, but need to write pages for the images to live on. Waarmstr 13:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just noticed prayer removal (it was done months ago, but I do not know what's up)

I don't want to start WWIII on Wikipedia (especially not if the matter is already settled), but I just noticed on the history tab of Benedict of Nursia that the prayer was removed. I checked the user out, and he had removed a large number of prayers from many of the saint pages Ian Spackman's edits. Should someone readd them, or has it been decided to omit them? It appears standard template policy to add them on the WikiSaints Project. Please let me know on my talk page. JBogdan 02:26, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the head's up. --evrik 19:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move Roman Catholic Church to Catholic Church

There is a vote at Talk:Roman Catholic Church: A Vote on the Title of this Article on moving Roman Catholic Church to Catholic Church. You are invited to review it. --WikiCats 03:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latino

[edit] Monserrat

Sorry for stepping on yours. I guess that wording is ok.--SarekOfVulcan 20:37, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

  • i'm not very happy about the whole thing ... --evrik 20:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicano Etymology

Just wanted to clear up that "Chicamo" is not nonsense, and Manuel Gamio says "Chicamo" not "Chicano"..ChicanoJ 03:56, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

  • I answered here Talk:Chicano#Chicamo --evrik 13:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
    • alright, i'm not trying to keep changing it, but i sent a message to Rockero, the original person who posted the Manuel Gamio piece.ChicanoJ 14:13, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I'll answer on your page. --evrik 01:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicano

Hey Evrik, have you seen my sandbox? I think it may be time for an upgrade soon, and I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.--Rockero 05:20, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

  • ohhh my head. I think that your version is fine, but it will get heavily edited. Why not tackle the current article paragraph by paragraph and see if the changes hold? --evrik 14:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
That's what I ended up doing. There is a dangling reference at the bottom, and I'm not sure what it was for. I also didn't use the ref system that was already present, so more modifications need to be made in that regard. As for Cosmic race, there was already an article La Raza Cósmica, so I have tagged them for merging. I should have realized it and made the redirect last night to save you the trouble, but it was late. 8)
On indigenista/Americanista: these were actually two distinct literary movements in 19th century Latin America, each of which should probably have its own article. They do not refer to the work of Mexican American writers. Maybe we can move the content of the article you created to Chicano literature, which is a needed article, and then rewrite your new article and split it in two?--Rockero 15:23, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I just realized that you piped the link. I guess we are safe for now...--Rockero 15:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Feel free to flesh them out. I just wanted to get them 'on the board."-evrik 15:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

[edit] Reconocimiento

This long-overdue Huelga barnstar is hereby awarded to Evrik for his creation of several articles relating to Chicano rock and punk. Presented by Rockero on this anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, 2006.
This long-overdue Huelga barnstar is hereby awarded to Evrik for his creation of several articles relating to Chicano rock and punk. Presented by Rockero on this anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, 2006.

[edit] Thank you

Many thanks for the shiny Liberty Barnstar. I shall display it with pride. --CComMack (t•c) 22:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Danke

I award this Liberty Star to Evrik for his great efforts in organizing the Wikiproject Philly, and for all his edits. --South Philly
I award this Liberty Star to Evrik for his great efforts in organizing the Wikiproject Philly, and for all his edits. --South Philly

00:39, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thankyou

Thankyou for the Liberty Star. I shall endeavour to learn more about your city now, and hopefully visit one day. I've been to Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., but not as far east in the USA as Philadelphia. I also watch Cold Case on TV. Thanks again. I appreciate that someone not involved was watching that episode and supported my position. --Scott Davis Talk 15:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liberty barnstar thanks

Thanks for the Liberty Star, but I don't know why I deserve it. All I did was comment on Philly media-related AfDs and alerted about a major change over a redirect. I'm from Brooklyn, New York City. I've visited Philly and the South Jersey area a few times, but I'm not an expert on it. I do believe it is a fine city, and I hope one day I can visit it again. Tinlinkin 20:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the barnstar

Thank you for the barnstar! I appreciate your contributions, as well. --Gray Porpoise 23:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me as well, brother! Yours in Scouting, and in Philly, Chris 23:28, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you also, I like to think my work is helpful and being appreciated. I love the hard work you are putting into Barnstar proposals, almost every time I check my watchlist you're there. --WillMak050389 23:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
And an additional note, if you would like a green version of the original barnstar for the picture, I can give it to you, it looks like the one you are using is from the oddball barnstar, and looks different for some reason. --WillMak050389 23:45, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I would also like to thank you for the barnstar, I'm glad to be part of the effort to improve Philadelphia Medvedenko 04:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! What could I add to this? --Edcolins 06:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Gracias, amigo. Thanks for the barnstar, it made my wiki-day! Looking forward to working with you on the projects we're on together! Murcielago 21:45, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Yay, my first one! Thank you! But really, not all that well-earned. As far as I'm concerned, the hard part was already done by the person who made up the infobox in the first place. It greatly simplified the making of the template. TCC (talk) (contribs) 21:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thx

Thanks for the welcome, man! Belly Flop Patrol 19:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!


Thanks again for your support and comments - Larrys Creek made featured article today!
Take care, Ruhrfisch 03:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
  • My pleasure! --evrik 14:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pentagram

Regards your suggestion to check my dictionary, I just checked it: "a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon". I hope that's clear.

We don't want to fill up the pentagram article with references to every symbol containing a five-pointed star, or the article will lose the plot entirely. You realise how common a five-pointed star is?

Now that I've gone to the bother of looking in my dictionary ([1]), what I want to know is what dictionary did you look in? Thanks, Fuzzypeg☻ 06:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Nice feature! I didn't know google did that. Worth remembering that this is a google search and not a dictionary search, though; note that the dictionary entries that come up from this search specify internal lines. Thanks, anyway, that's a nice trick to know. Cheers, Fuzzypeg☻ 02:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • is that debate going anwhere? --South Philly 00:29, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Doesn't seem to be going anywhere, showever someone told me to be bold and create the appropriate stub article, which I have done (find at Star (symbol)). I noticed you reverted someone's messing up of a tag at Pentagram, but you reverted too far, back to a revision by SouthPhilly which still contained the non-pentagram five-point star material. I'm assuming (hoping) this was a mistake. If not, could we please have a proper discussion? You gather together your evidence and present it at Talk:Pentagram and I'll do the same. I'm finding it difficult keeping track of this discussion that has now spread across two article talk pages, a request for deletion page and two users' talk pages. Please, if you're going to revert some edit of mine, make it really clear what your disagreement with me is, and what your supporting evidence is. I'll try to do the same. Thanks, Fuzzypeg☻ 00:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Peanut Arms

In regards to your edit summary here Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Jkelly 18:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

  • oh pulleze. --evrik 01:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation

Hi, you've been listed as an editor here: Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-07-25 Pentagram vs. Five-Point Star. If you'd like to participate, you are more than welcome. SynergeticMaggot 05:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 15 August 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Natural Lands Trust, 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.

--—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Petaholmes (talk • contribs).

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 16 August 2006, a fact from the article Resica Falls Scout Reservation, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Esperanza

[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List
The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential!
What's New?
In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs.
To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
  1. In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed!
  2. The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
  3. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created.
  4. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter.
  5. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
  6. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign.
Signed...
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05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade
Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors!
What's New?
September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves!
Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there!
The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
  1. The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  2. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
  3. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
  4. The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
  5. TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
Signed...
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04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Bot Stuff

[edit] Bot does it

The bot makes this chart every night, changing it yourself won't do any good. Rlevse 20:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I think we need to reformat it ... --evrik 18:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
    • How can we reformat it? --evrik 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Bot suggestion

If you can point me out a list of all the Scouting-related articles, I'd be happy to try to do it myself. fetofs Hello! 20:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

OK. I'm just fixing some bugs and I should start soon after I'm done. fetofs Hello! 13:50, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
All articles that linked to the template are done. fetofs Hello! 17:18, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks! --evrik 17:10, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Second request

I believe it's done. Thanks for the barnstar! fetofs Hello! 16:26, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Third request

I'm not sure if I can do that. Walking through user pages and subst'ing userboxes with lots of code can be annoying to the user. fetofs Hello! 22:49, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index

The number at the top of this, which you changed to 58, is generated by the bot every night, there's no need to manually change it.Rlevse 17:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

  • R: What would I do without your nitpicking. --evrik 17:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:mathbot rocks

Thanks. :) I also wrote a question to you on my talk page, if you have time to answer. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I answered on your page. --evrik 04:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MetsBot

OK, MetsBot has finished tagging the talk pages of all articles in Category:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the first-level subcategories thereof, except for Category:People from Philadelphia. I will not be doing that category, as most people have no relationship to Philadelphia except being born there. Also, second-level subcategories, third-level subcategories, etc. will not be done as it starts to get more unrelated to Philadelphia. If there is a specific sub-subcategory that you would like me to do, let me know. —Mets501 (talk) 18:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

About Philadelphia ... I went through all these cat's. I pretty confident that all the articles in these cat's, and down though the various levels could use the WikiProject tag. Would you consider doing these as well? It would save a lot of hand-tagging.

Thanks! --evrik 03:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Doing now. No problem. 587 articles remaining to be tagged :-) I'm leaving now, be back in about 9 hours, but the bot should be fine. —Mets501 (talk) 03:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Admin Stuff

[edit] No probs

No probs man. Hope the dispute sorts out, and let me know if I can help. -- Samir धर्म 03:30, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What's going on here?

This started with a disagreement over the merger discussed here, Talk:Minsi_Trails_Council. I did some reverting, because I had asked others to give their opinion. Stopped after the third change. Asked the other editor to please stop, then said that 3RR was being approached. The other user was trying to force an edit war and had recently requested a checkuser against me.

  • Trolling
As I said here:
I was mistakenly reported as having vandalized a page. I did not vandalize any pages. I mistakenly blanked a page because of an edit conflict. While I have commented on the actions of User talk:Kintetsubuffalo, I have not attacked him personally. I am going to remove your warning, again, because it is not justified. If you want to see personal attacks, look here. --evrik 03:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Civility
Please show me where I was incivil. I wasn't. In fact, Ryulong said that it was mistaken identity here.
  • Removing Warnings
Also, where in this policy Wikipedia:Blocking policy does it say that removing a warning (especially an unjustified one) is cause for block? I think both the warnings and the blocks were unjustified.

--evrik 03:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the block message from your talk page. As many people agree that my block was an over-reaction. I left the NPA notice here as I still think you deserved it. I have put a similar NPA notice on the User_talk:Kintetsubuffalo as well. Please leave the messages there for awhile. I will remove them myself in a few days if you conflict would not escalate abakharev 06:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Try to edit again. I thought it maybe an autoblock from my block yesterday, but the system tells that it is not the case. Please provide an exact message (you could use E-mail if you want). abakharev 06:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Got your message

I'll speak to Alex. In general, even if you disagree with an admin's warnings, better to ask them to remove the warnings than remove them yourself. -- Samir धर्म 04:16, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Evrik, I have posted your case here. - Ganeshk (talk) 04:17, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Thank you both. --evrik 04:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I have unblocked you. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Like Samir said above, please do not remove admin warnings. It may be taken as incivility. - Ganeshk (talk) 05:14, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

Hi
You are one of 16 editors who I decided to infrom about my request for adminship, which is now in its second day.
Why 16? I don't know, I just like the number. Though it was tough only selecting 16. : )
Why you? Well, you are someone who I feel might offer a thoughtful/insightful opinion, based on what I have witnessed of you previously.
I place no expectation on your response.
Thank you in advance for any effort involved (such as going through my contribution list, and even just taking the time to read and post).
In any case: Have a great day! : ) - jc37 13:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mediation Case

See here. As I've said there, there is little to mediate especially when another administrator has agreed with the other party. Moreover, the other party is on leave until December. My question is, do you know what exactly the role of a mediator is, what powers they have, and what the main differences there are between the roles of a 'normal' mediator, an advocate, an administrator and an ArbCom member? Jsw663 08:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

  • I know what the roles are, and when I filed the mediation the admin in question wasn't on leave. To me, this was a simple disagreement because the decision made was arbitrary - and I wanted to avoid raising this discussion to something higher. As a matter of fact, the admin in question has been editing today--evrik 22:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
    • If so, then please ask another administrator to review your case, and request that that administrator be recused due to personal involvment with that article. I'm sure another administrator will hear your side. I only asked the other questions above because this is more of an admin matter than one which can be truly mediated, esp as the other part(y/ies) is/are on leave / under a conflict of interest. Jsw663 19:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Threats

If someone is getting threatening email from another user, where should they report it? --evrik 13:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry but you cannot report it on Wikipedia. The best option is to ignore his mails, by blocking his email address. Alternatively, if things don't work out you can report it to one of the admins listed on WP:DIFFICULT, by the way of email. Use the {{helpme}} template again, if you need more help. Regards, --Nearly Headless Nick 13:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks. --evrik 13:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gummarus

Nominating an apparently qualified page for a speedy delete is not a WP:AGF violation. I have no way of knowing what you're planning on doing with that page. You have contested, and that's fine. I hope you have great things to talk about there and it becomes a great addition. You may want to think about how you may have just violated the policy you mentioned yourself. Erechtheus 18:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  • ummm... next time you could wait more than three minutes. --evrik 18:29, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
    • If I were an admin, I would wait to delete the page a few more minutes. I'm not an admin, and I know that there will be a several minute delay before any action is taken. The risk of somebody improving an article that appears to be pointless is less substantial than the risk of it getting lost in the shuffle and existing for a year before somebody stumbles on it as a random page that links to nothing. That's my rationale. Again, good luck with your pages, and good luck with your election. Erechtheus 18:34, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

Do you mind explaining why you deleted the article on Gummarus when it had been tagged as {{inuse}}. I lost a lot of work because my browser was open the data disappeared because of the edit conflict. --evrik 21:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure. It met WP:CSD A1. Don't create a brand new article that contains nothing but an inuse tag, that'll be deleted. Reviewing your talk history, I see that you've had disagreements with other admins regarding speedy delete tagging of new articles that are essentially empty, so I won't go into detail and bore you with stuff you already know. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 22:51, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
  • When you say, "Reviewing your talk history, I see that you've had disagreements with other admins regarding speedy delete tagging of new articles that are essentially empty, so I won't go into detail and bore you with stuff you already know." You cited WP:CSD#Articles #1 saying he article was short. You mind telling me which disagreements you're talking about, and what do past disagreements have to do with the fact that you ignored the {{inuse}} tag and deleted the article? --evrik 02:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
    Nah. Anyhow, don't start an article with {{inuse}}, start it with an actual article. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 03:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit conflicts

Hey Evrik. I was on User talk:Chairboy about a similar issue and noticed your problem with the 'Gummarus' article getting deleted. Sorry you lost your work on that. In the future if you get an 'edit conflict' because the article has changed while you were working on it you may be able to recover your work. When that happens I can usually hit the browser 'back' button to return to the screen where I was typing in the new text and then copy and paste that to a text editor... then reload the page from scratch and re-enter it. Obviously far from ideal, but might help if the problem comes up again. You can also usually avoid it by not creating the page at all until you're ready... recent changes patrollers may delete things which just have 'inuse' tags on them (though they didn't used to) but if the page doesn't exist yet they won't even know you are working on it. The 'inuse' template is better for when you only have a short initial page that you are expanding than just the template by itself. Just some info on 'cultural stuff' here at enWp. See ya around. --CBD 20:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Board Election Questions

[edit] Questions for Board candidates

Hello; I've left an important message regarding "interview" questions for Board candidates for the Wikipedia Signpost on your meta talk page. Please take a look at it immediately. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 00:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Thanks! --evrik 01:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions from Dijxtra

Hello, these are generic questions I decided to submit to every candidate. If you already answered the question in your application, skip it. If you consider any question to be to private for you to answer, feel free to state that and accept my apology for being to intrusive. I also ask you to pardon my English since spellcheckers don't check grammar :-) Here are the questions:

1. Privacy policy of Wikimedia Foundation projects states that: "It is the policy of Wikimedia that personally identifiable data collected in the server logs, or through records in the database via the CheckUser feature, may be released by the system administrators or users with CheckUser access, in the following situations: 1. In response to a valid subpoena or other compulsory request from law enforcement" If such subpoena occurs, would you agree that Wikimedia Foundation complies ASAP or would you request Foundation to dispute that subpoena in court, like Google did in January this year? Let me remind you that the second option requires money to be spent.

  • I think that we should abide by our stated policies. I think that there is a clear difference between those who edit wikipedia and those that use google as a search tool. --evrik 20:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

2. What is your opinion of WP:OFFICE? Do you think that:

  • It is very good solution to bureaucratisation of Wikipedia, allowing a swift action in cases which need such action. We should widen the circle of people who have the power to use WP:OFFICE.
  • It is very good solution to bureaucratisation of Wikipedia, allowing a swift action in cases which need such action. (And only Danny should use WP:OFFICE privilege)
  • I don't like the thing, but we need it so we don't get sued.
  • Community is above any user and we should think of WP:OFFICE as temporary measure until we find a way for the whole community to act swiftly in cases of libel accusations.
  • We should move our servers to jurisdiction which makes it hard for people to sue us for libel.
  • I think that WP:OFFICE should be a temporary and emergency action when swift action is necessary. --evrik 20:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

3. Have you ever been on a paylist of anybody/any organization/any firm connected to any current member of the board? Please understand this question in the broadest sense possible.

  • No --evrik 20:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your time, Dijxtra 20:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About Spanish wikipedia

Hi, I'm a user of the Spanish wikipedia. Even though I don't know the policies at the S.W. I think is not worthy linking to the English wikipedia most of the articles, since we are trying to build our own version translated (hopfully improved :-p), not trying to build a link-page to the English version. I know most (maybe all) of the articles you link aren't in the Spanish version, but many people create them whenever they see them empty. Salutations and good luck for the elections. Aloriel.

  • Thanks for your comments. If there is a wiki that wants to start a new article and it already exists in another language, then having better inter language coordination would be helpful. Also, I know from first hand knowledge, that there are differences between some articles in different languages that aren't just linguistic. Better coordination between languages could help lessen those differences and improve the NPOV.
Finally, about English articles, I don't think that every English page needs to be translated into other languages. I think that it is important for the projects with more articles to be available to be translated easily into other languages. Why should people have to reinvent the wheel? I think our goal is the diffusion of knowledge --evrik 01:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocks

How would you respond to concerns that you have been blocked multiple times on en including what the blocking admin described in one case as "egregious violation of 3RR as well as lack of civility"? In particular do you think this history reflects negatively on your ability to work within the rules of the various projects and to work with the other board members? Thanks. JoshuaZ 20:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

  • There is no really good way to answer that question because most of what I would want to say would sound defensive or as if I was making an excuse. Having said that, having been blocked is not a disqualifier, but I think you do bring up a valid question, so here goes … by the way, I am going to be vague in an effort not to use other people’s names, but I left the historical record in the archives so that anyone could research it if they wanted to.
The incident in question, and I refer to it as one incident, all involved one user who kept reverting my edits. Most of these reverts occurred in one subject area, but at one point, the other user was following me around to some fairly obscure areas that I was editing in and I felt harassed. I felt like I was being picked upon – so I took a stand. I like this quote from your page, "Leaving a page because of a contentious editor is not a good thing to do. If people do that on a regular basis the contentious POV editors will have the run of Wikipedia."
The first time I was blocked was from my ignorance of the 3RR rule, and the second or third time I thought the blocks were excessive or not called for – but they all related to the one subject area – and the one specific user. I tried mediation, and a couple of other ways of settling the dispute – but was rebuffed. In the end things calmed down when the other user had an RFA filed against them by a third user and was eventually put on probation.
As for the comments made by the admins … anyone can write anything. Whether it’s true or not is another matter. My egregious violation of civility was saying the other user was "rabid." Was this my finest moment? No? Could I have handled it differently? Maybe. In the end though, the edits you’re talking about account for less than 1% of all my edits, and this all ended more than six months ago. I feel that I have been a constructive and productive editor. I have had a couple of major disagreements with people – but generally have worked to be consultative and collaborative.
One of the reasons I am running is because I learned a lot from that experience – both good and bad. I don’t think that the edit war in question is representative of my ability to work with others, within the rules or with the board. Hope that explains it. --evrik 05:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Can you elaborate further? Because even the worst Wikipedians are never blocked.--JuanMuslim 1m 16:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
    • Juan, I have answered this and your other post here. --evrik 22:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
      • I have responded to your comments here.--JuanMuslim 1m 13:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9/11 Wikipedia

Hi, Evrik. In light of the four discussions listed below, what course of action would you take with regard to the 9/11 Wikipedia if you were elected to the board?

Looking forward to your response. Thanks. Andreyi 17:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

  • I don't know if I think that it fits in with this policy, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, but I think that moving In Memoriam to Memory Archive seems like a reasonable action. I also think that people should be free to add the content into wikipedia where appropriate. --evrik 01:24, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Misc

[edit] Maps

Saw you were working on some maps. I left a link I thought could help. I saw you've been tagging some of the Philly articles. Thanks. It feels like a lost cause. South Philly 02:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

Pls have a look at my discussion. --jergen 08:06, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oath of Office: United States

you reverted the text back to: "The oath may be sworn or affirmed. Although not present in the text of the Constitution, it has been conventional for Presidents to add "so help me God" at the end of the oath. George Washington did this at his inauguration in 1789."

However, this is false. GW did not append shmG in either his 1st or 2nd inauguration, nor did John Adams, and there is reason to believe no president did until Chester Arthur. See http://www.nonbeliever.org/commentary/shmG.html

Please retain the edit to avoid spreading misinformation. Thank you.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.216.11.5 (talk • contribs).}

  • I heart unsigned users. --evrik 21:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I understand, but the policy regarding anonymous users is set by the Wikipedia Administrators, not by you. The accuracy of Wikipedia takes precedence over your hatred. The claim that GW appended shmG contradicts the only known eyewitness account of the wording of oath as actually recited and thus is unsubstantiated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.249.87.10 (talk • contribs).}

The link I showed you cites a first hand account of George Wsahington reciting the oath of office exactly as it is specified in the constitution without appending "So help me God". It also quotes several historians who are experts on George Washington confirming that there is no first hand account of George Washington appending "So help me God". You show us a first hand account of George Washington's oath recitation claiming he appended "So help me God" and I will not dispute your placing that claim in Wikipedia. However, absent such evidence, there is insufficient justification for claiming that George Washington did append "So help me God" and thus no grounds for you to keep insisting that Wikipedia say he did. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 06 4.249.93.176 (talk • contribs).

  • A definitive reference has been added to the article. Now shoo anonymous editor, and don't come back until you have the cojones to create and account.

--evrik 01:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess you found the Architect of the Capital reference from the first link in the first paragraph of the article I cited. You would think that the Architect of the Captial provides a "definitive" reference. However, what is needed is a first hand account and the Architect of the Capital does not have one. We know that they don't because we wrote to them and asked them and they, like everyone else we have asked, have failed to cite a first hand acount. It is even worse than that. We have one first hand account for each of George Washington's inaugurations and for John Adams inauguration that quote the oath as recited and there is no "so help me God". Several people collectively have done at least a hundred hours of research, visiting libraries, looking at contemporary newspaper articles, government documents, and biographies and corresponding with historians and we have confirmed that there is no reliable evidence to support the "so help me God" claims. The GW appended "so help me God" to his oath of office claim was first made many decades later by an unreliable author Reverand Rufus Wilmot Griswold. See http://www.poeforward.com/griswoldpulpit/griswold/griswold.htm

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.72.28.236 (talk • contribs).
  • I heart unsigned users. Take it to the talk page and stop harassing me here. --evrik 17:39, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question about locator dots on maps

Hi - Have you noticed the question I posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Locator dots? I'd really like to hear from some of the map "regulars" about this. And if you have any ideas for other ways I might solicit responses, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:06, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

  • I'm not a regular contributor to that ... sorry. --evrik 15:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] helpme

Please do not use the {{helpme}} tag anywhere but here your user talk page, it has no magical effect posting it on other pages, if you need to ask a user a question on their talk page, just post the question. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eagle 101 (talk • contribs).

  • I wanted to draw attention to a pager that disapeared. Do you have a better suggestion? --evrik 18:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
    Yes put the helpme on this your page and ask your question. The page was deleted as it had no content, it was just links elsewhere. --pgk(talk) 19:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
    You can see this in the deletion log, I've looked at the deleted revision and it was pretty sparse. I've no problem undeleting it if you wanted to expand it and give it some context. --pgk(talk) 19:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I can't see what the page looked like. If you restore it. I'll make sure it gets some content. --evrik 19:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
    OK done, please add some context. It doesn't need to be a major work but enough so people know what it is. --pgk(talk) 19:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User page

I was getting around to it, maybe I'll make it look nice one day. Medvedenko 20:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted Wikisource text

Hello Evrik. Please note that I have deleted Kay Coles James on Wikisource in accordance with the Deletion policy per criteria for speedy deletion A2 ("...not significantly peer-reviewed or previously published in a significant edition or forum"). If you would like to reopen discussion, you may appeal a deletion as described by the Deletion policy ("Deletion appeal"). Thank you for your interest in our project, and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 15:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC) I answered on your page. __evrik 04:13, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Castle District, Buda

I think you meant to redirect this page, but if that wasn't your intention, you can revert my edit. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.138.131.212 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Illegal

Hi. The reason that I redirected illegal to Law is that it was found on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. Since the vast majority of the links linking to illegal were intended for law, I made illegal a redirect to law and put the {{redirect|Illegal}} tag on Law. The disambiguation info is still available at Illegal (disambiguation) --דניאל ~ Danielrocks123 talk contribs Email 19:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] US government portraits

Greetings. Back in May, you commented at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/US government portraits. The issue has lain dormant for over two months, and is still unresolved. I have attempted to summarize the findings of fact, in the hopes of resolving this debate. Your comments here would be welcome. All the best, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 17:04, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

Updated DYK query On 30 August 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maria Echaveste, 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.

Congratulations on behalf of User:Blnguyen --Bravada, talk - 03:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

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