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Contents 1 AfD 2 Barnstar Award! 3 Image copyright? 4 COTW Project 5 Nashville, Tennessee 6 merging 7 English language map 8 Image Tagging for Image:TPAC.jpg 9 AID 10 Andromaque 11 Wikipedia_talk:Censorship 12 Why do u support dictator Lukashenko? 12.1 Iamvered's response 13 Unspecified source for Image:TPAC.jpg 14 James Robertson 15 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Sq-thekiss-take2-wi.jpg) 16 Image:TPAC.jpg

[edit] AfD

Either complete the AfD's for Soul Train episodes or delete them from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 January 24. At present they are just a red mess at the end of the AfD log page. -- RHaworth 23:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

• You've asked me to "complete the AfD's for Soul Train episodes or delete them from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2006 January 24." Can you tell me how to complete these AfD requests? I thought I had done what I was supposed to. Iamvered 23:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

The instructions are here. You have already done Stage III. It is a bit longwinded but there is no easier way, especially considering the volume of AfDs that there is. -- RHaworth 23:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar Award!

The article on Athena Parthenos is excellent and your additions to the Parthenon and Centennial Park articles are great. Keep up the good work! If you ever need help with anything, let me know. Kaldari 04:02, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I went to UC Berkeley too, BTW :) Kaldari 07:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, you're going to think this is really weird, but I'm also a vegetarian nashville-native DDR-playing programmer who uses MacOS X :) Kaldari 07:46, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, yeah I thought that was just a little too weird. There aren't that many UC Berkeley alumni in Nashville, much less ones that have all the same interests as me. BTW, have you been to Lipstick Lounge? They have great karaoke :) Kaldari 08:00, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Whoa, that's awesome! I don't think I know you, but I've probably seen you around if you work at Lipstick. I live down the street from there. If you ever see a guy with a pink mohawk come in, that's me :) Kaldari 08:08, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that article is 100% improved! I did a little bit of work on it back in 2004, but that was back when it was only four paragraphs :) It had certinaly become a mess since then. Now it's actually a coherent article. Nice map, BTW! Kaldari 01:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright?

You uploaded Image:Franklinwcounties.gif and placed a public domain tag on the image. However there is a clearly visible copyright notice on the image. These two points seem to be at odds with each other. Can you elaborate? older ≠ wiser 22:23, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Male and Female, this week's Collaborations of the week. Please come and help them become featured-standard articles. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 23:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nashville, Tennessee

Nice work on the Nashville history section! Two suggestions: cite your sources (otherwise your edits may be deleted) and don't link years unless they are especially important to the subject (i.e. birth year, death year, year of founding, etc.) or part of a full date that is linked for formatting purposes. Kaldari 23:19, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea to me, I was just repeating what the guidelines say: "What should not be linked: Months, years, decades or centuries, unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic." You may want to discuss the issue on the WP:CONTEXT talk page and see what they think about it. Cheers. Kaldari 00:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] merging

G'day Iamvered,

User:Freakofnurture and I were working on something the other night, actually, when we discovered the existing Wikipedia:Proposed mergers. I don't know how much it's frequented by people who know how to merge, or how useful it is, but it seems that "Requests for merging" already sort of exists. I for one had never heard of this page before then!

If that doesn't work out for you, feel free to leave me a message on my talkpage at any time. I'll respond anywhere from ten minutes later to after a couple of days, depends on the time of the week. Cheers, fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 13:20, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English language map

Hiya, what source did you use to determine which countries to color in Image:Anglospeak.png? It seems to be missing the Philippines, where English is an official language. Coffee 15:32, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Oops! I missed them. I have corrected. Good catch!

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:TPAC.jpg

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[edit] AID

[edit] Andromaque

Hi, thanks for translating this article from the French. As regards the list on the project page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr), what we're doing is actually removing the entries as they get done rather than striking them out, so the list gets shorter over time. (I've now deleted the entry you struck out.) Regards, --BillC 08:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia_talk:Censorship

A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you kindly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 12:52, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why do u support dictator Lukashenko?

Article - freedom for Bielorussia is a part oh history now - two days ago dictator Lukashenko accused Lithuania in destabilisation of situation in Bielorussia

Please join Freedom for Belorussia movement on internet - use forum tut.by to support oposition and struggle for human rights. Thanks and sorry - we improved article about organisation activities only now. We hope this one fits to the (political) history.

[edit] Iamvered's response

First, please sign your contributions to my page. Any unsigned contributions henceforth will be deleted, and I will not respond.

I am advising deletion of this article for several reasons:

1. It is not the place of Wikipedia to support or give creedence to political causes. This article should be deleted because it is the wrong forum for such polemics. Lukashenko may be a dictator, Freedom for Belorussia may be a legitimate movement, and the human rights struggle anywhere within the world may be important, but it is necessary that such battles not be brought to Wikipedia, which maintains a neutral point of view. If an objective article about the organization can be written, I would support its inclusion.
2. Its primary purpose seems to be advertising, which is also not a part of the Wikipedia mission.
3. This is the English-language Wikipedia, and the grammar and syntax need to be improved. In English, the preferred name of what was formerly the Bielorussian SSR is now Belarus, so the title of the article is incorrect: the movement should be known in English (as best I can tell from a Google search) as Freedom for Belarus.
4. The article is poorly written: there is no history of the movement, no persons listed who head the organization, no structure.

Until these concerns are addressed, I will continue to campaign for the article's deletion. Please address any further comments to the Freedom for Belorussia discussion page. That is where they belong.

(CONTENT DELETED) -- There will be no unsigned information on my talk page. Iamvered 16:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:TPAC.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:TPAC.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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[edit] James Robertson

Here's a pretty good start(please exuse the wording in some of this article i.e."savages" not my words but those of the author of this article), I have much more if you want it but I'm not real sure what y'all would consider pertinent. Also James Robertson's nephew(Sterling Clack Robertson) was a man of note,I have a bunch on him as well if y'all would be interested. I hope this helps,I'll check back in a coupla days to see if you're interested in the other info I have. -Matty :-)

ROBERTSON, James, pioneer, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, 28 , June, 1742 ; died in the Chickasaw country, Tennessee, 1 September, 1814. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and his father, a farmer, removed to Wake county, North Carolina, about 1750, where the son worked on a farm, receiving no education. In 1759 he accompanied Daniel Boone on his third expedition beyond the Alleghanies. He discovered a valley, watered by the Watauga river, which he explored while Boone went to Kentucky, planted corn, and then returned to North Carolina, after losing his way and being saved from death by hunters. In the following spring Robertson led sixteen families to the west. The settlers were upon the hunting grounds of one hundred thousand savages, but they planted and harvested their corn in peace for fully four years. The emigrants supposed they were within the limits of the province of Virginia, but when the line was run in the year 1772 it was found to be thirty miles to the northward, and they were therefore on the land of the Cherokees. A lease was concluded with the Indians, but in the midst of the festivities that followed a warrior was murdered by a white man, and the savages left the ground with threatening gestures. Hostilities were averted by Robertson, who went alone to pacify the savages, and they continued to be friends with the whites until 1776. In July of that year Oconostota (q.v.) invested a fort that John Sevier had built at Watauga; but Sevier and Robertson, with 40 men, withstood a siege of twenty days, and beat him off with a heavy loss in killed and wounded. After the Cherokees were subjugated the governor of North Carolina appointed Robertson to reside at the Indian capital to hold Oconostota in check and to thwart the designs of the British. In the spring of 1779 he explored the Cumberland region, and afterward emigrated there with others, mostly from the Watauga settlement, of which he left Sevier in charge. One division of the settlers founded Nashville, Tennessee, on 25 December, 1779, and after several months they were joined by the other division, and organized themselves into a civil and military body with Robertson at their head. The handful of pioneers had a long conflict with four savage nations, outnumbering them more than one hundred to one. Of 256 men, 39 fell within 60 days before the tomahawk of the Cherokee, and in a very few months 67 had perished. The crops were destroyed by a freshet and starvation was before them. Settlers began to leave, and of the original 250 persons only 134 remained. These tried to induce their leader to abandon his post, but he replied : "Each one should do what seems to him his duty. As for myself, my station is here, and here I shall stay if every man of you deserts me." With his eldest son, Isaac Bledsoe, and a faithful negro, he made his way to Daniel Boone, at Boonesborough, Kentucky, who gave him powder and shot. On 2 April, 1781, the fort of Nashville was besieged by 1,000 Indians, and Robertson's life was saved by the heroism of his wife. At the close of the Revolutionary war he was able to bring into the field about 500 men experienced in Indian warfare, and by his diplomacy he had made friends with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, severed their alliance with Great Britain, and effected peace with the Cherokees. The half-breed Creek chief, Alexander McGillivray (q. v.) concluded a treaty with the governor of Louisiana to exterminate the Americans west of the Alleghanies, and made war against Robertson in 1784, continuing at intervals for twelve years. Robertson constantly performed heroic deeds and beat him back with small numbers. Robertson was continually offered by the Spanish governor peace and the free navigation of the Mississippi if he would but cut loose from the Union and establish, with Watauga and Kentucky, an independent government. In 1790 he was appointed a brigadier-general by Washington, and his military services did not end till 1796. He shared with Sevier the honor and affection of the Tennesseeans, and held the post of Indian commissioner until his death. See "The Life and Times of General James Robertson," by Albigence W. Putnam (Nashville, 1859), and " The Rear-Guard of the Revolution," by James R. Gilmore (New York, 1886).--His wife, Charlotte Reeves, pioneer, born in Virginia, 2 January, 1751; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 11 June, 1843, married Robertson in 1767, and accompanied him to Watauga on its first settlement. She was one of the number that made the perilous journey down the Holston and Tennessee in 1780, and was in the fort of Nashville when it was attacked by 1,000 Cherokees, some of whom, in their attempt to capture the horses of the whites, made a gap in their ranks, through which the settlers fled. Robertson's wife, mounted on the lookout, rifle in hand, seeing the stampede of the horses and the break in the Indian line, ordered the sentry to "open the gates and set the dogs upon them." The dogs flew at the savages, who drew tomahawks upon them, and thus the whites were enabled to escape. She is reported to have said to her husband: " Thanks be to God, who gave to the Indians a dread of dogs and a love for horses." She shared all of her husband's perils, and was much esteemed for her noble qualities.--His grandson, Edward White, lawyer, born near Nashville, Tennessee, 13 June, 1823; died in Washington, D. C., 2 August, 1887. His parents removed to Iberville parish, Louisiana, in 1825, and he was educated at Nashville university, but not graduated. He began to study law in 1845, but served in the war with Mexico in 1846 as orderly sergeant of the 2d Louisiana volunteers, a six-months regiment. In 1847-'9 he was a member of the legislature, and after his graduation at the law department of the University of Louisiana in 1850 he practised in Iberville parish, served in the legislature, and was state auditor of public accounts in 1857-'62. He entered the Confederate service in March, 1862, as captain, and participated in the engagements around Vicksburg and the siege of that place, after which his regiment was not in active service. After the war he resumed practice in Baton Rouge, and was elected to congress as a Conservative Democrat, serving from 15 October, 1877, till 4 March, 1883. In 1886 he was chosen again, serving until the day of his death. --Edward White's son, Samuel Matthews, lawyer, born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, 1 January, 1852, was graduated at the University of Louisiana in 1874, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and served in the legislature. In 1880 he was made a member of the faculty of the State university and agricultural and mechanical college, where he served as professor of natural history and commandant of cadets until he was elected to the 50th congress as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father.

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[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Sq-thekiss-take2-wi.jpg)

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How did you determine that this image is fair use in Bisexual chic because I don't think it is (in fact I'm pretty sure it's not). Arniep 01:02, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

According to Wikipedia's fair use page, it is allowed: "Film and television screen shots. For critical commentary and discussion of the cinema and television." It also documents a historical event. We are discussing the societal impact of bisexual chic on/by popular culture, and this is certainly an iconic (another FU criterion) moment in the history of bi chic. It would not be possible to recreate this image with any equivalent illustration, as MTV owns all the copyrights to anything taken during this event. But the event itself is historical, and newsworthy, and thus constitutes fair use... as best I can see it. Iamvered 01:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Please see comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fair_use#Madonna-Britney_image. Arniep 01:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:TPAC.jpg

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