User talk:Jamesgibbon

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[edit] Welcome

Hello Jamesgibbon, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! You (Talk) 23:19, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Welcome. If you wish, you can also cast a vote here [[1]]. I recently added a link to the daughter article on the subject matter, but otherwise it remains as version 1 with a new link.--MONGO 07:37, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Qatar

Thanks for your answer at WP:RD about Qatar. I am grateful. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:46 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Semitism in Poland

Hello, James. I've reverted the article to a more NPOV version by Piotrus. Someone has been reverting it to a very POV verison so as to increase the number of delete votes. Feel free to take a second look. Thanks. HKT 22:17, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You are a sockpuppet

Of me.

According to Melissadolbeer. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Melissadolbeer where this accusation is made. ~~~~ 09:00, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Forgive me if this isn't the right place for this; I have no experience of this process. I have no wish to be involved in this dispute; I only wish to point out, that contrary to the suggestion above, I am certainly NOT a sockpuppet; I'm an individual Wikipedian living in Derby, England. I have a website at jamesgibbon.com. I can be contacted by telephone by an admin if necessary. I've added a similar comment to WP:RFAR. jamesgibbon 13:25, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
You should remove your comments or correct your RfC contribution by moving them up to the list of endorsing signatures under the outside view. You only sign the ouside view if you want to endose the comment by Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) where he notes that the RfC is improper and that it concerns an article in which no action has been taken to resolve a dispute. This is how you can help the RfC process: "If necessary, educate users by referring to the appropriate Wikipedia policies." --AI 10:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration

Melissadolbeer has opened a request for arbitration against you (at WP:RFAR). ~~~~ 09:27, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] consensus

The Authentic Matthew VFD has closed. The results were

  • Delete - 21 (58%)
  • Keep - 11 (31%)
  • Merge - 4 (11%)

This was declared to have been no consensus, and therefore a new VFD has been opened at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Authentic Matthew (consensus).


Would you be prepared to re-add your vote there? ~~~~ ( ! | ? | * ) 09:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Authentic Matthew the sequel

The POV that was in Authentic Matthew, an article you voted to delete, before it was NPOVed has been re-created at a new article - see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Original Gospel of Matthew. ~~~~ ( ! | ? | * ) 20:17, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gender roles in Islam

Regarding your suggestion, I have been trying to work with this, I mean compare what the opening paragraph was like when I began work on it. Note too how Lao Wai constantly removes my request for citations, and constantly includes the allusion that all women of Medina were all Ansari (Helpers of Muhamad) - That is obviously untrue, but he keeps adding it anyway. [2], [3], [4]. Note also how The Source he uses to justify his assertion "Obviously this is a vision of Heaven that is more likely to appeal to men. Eternally virgin dark-eyed Houris are unlikely to appeal to many women" says nothing of the sort, in fact is says almost the opposite ("The life of women in Jannah will be as pleasant and happy as the life of men. Allah is not partial to any gender. He created both of them and He will take care of both of them according to their needs and desires. Let us all work to achieve the Jannah and then, in sha’ Allah, we will find there what will satisfy all of us fully."). Anyway, besides that, anything of any merit is already dealt with in Women in Islam, a more stable and more Accurate and more NPOV piece.

[edit] Doire/Derry/Londonderry

James - if you look later in Talk:Derry, you will see that this one has been debated to death. There is no right solution. So the consensus reached, as being equally intolerable to both sides and favouring neither, is that the City is Derry and the County is Londonderry. See also Derry/Londonderry naming dispute. --Red King 23:56, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Through_The_Keyhole.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Through_The_Keyhole.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairusein|article name}} or {{fairuse}}. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by going to "Your contributions" from your user page and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thanks so much. --Adnghiem501 06:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Military hanging

Dear James,

I'm hoping to add a section on military hangings, but there's some sort of edit war going on at hanging, apparently related to Singapore's recent execution of Van Nguyen, and I thought I'd let it die down.

My understanding (not certain knowledge) is that hanging can't be used in the U.K. military any more. (I think Tony Blair got rid of the residual death penalty in 1999.) It certainly isn't in Australia. It is still available as a punishment in the U.S. military, where the reather unpleasant "standard-drop" method has traditionally been used (and I don't think they offer lethal injection).

On a side note, one of the more memorable literary/cinematographic hangings I remember is the WWII military hanging of a U.S. soldier in the U.K. in The Dirty Dozen. I seem to recall that they used the "long drop".

Regards,

Wulfilia 05:27, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Canarywharfview.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Canarywharfview.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam (T/C) 18:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

If you have created this image then add simply {{GFDL-self}} to the image page and remove no source tag. It will escape the image from further deletion tag provided you have created the image.
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