User talk:AVM

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[edit] re: How to Wikify

I apologise that the information given to you seems a little scattered. The wikify warning indicates that the article needs to be edited so it follows our policies of writing style and formatting -- but it just gives you a link to Wikipedia:Guide to layout which is just a general summary of how to format a page. But basically we have our own Manual of Style on how a page should be edited. And instead of using basic HTML, we use a special "wiki markup" code to format the text on a Wikipedia page. This wiki markup code is listed on Wikipedia:How to edit a page. Feel free to ask more questions about that. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image policy, citing sources for images, and Image Copyright Tags

When you upload an image such as Image:Lauro.jpg, an image description page is automatically created. On this page, you should list a short description of the image and the source of image.

This image description page also requires an image copyright tag so we know its copyright status. For example, you can write {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use. All of the possible tags are listed on Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you.

Please see our image use policy for more information. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:45, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Arpallanera.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Arpallanera.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see User talk:Carnildo/images. 15:53, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:Lauro.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Lauro.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified 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.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, consider reading 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, consider checking 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) 13:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:Cuatro.jpg

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[edit] Regarding image tagging

AVM, very thank you for your so well response. Will you mention the source to the image after uploading, like, if you uploaded a particular image from a website, then please leave a url also. If you are so sure that the images are not copyrighted at all then use {{GFDL}}, {{PD-release}}. If you created a particular image and you want to release it in GFDL, use {{GFDL-self}}. If you want to release it in Public domain, use {{PD-self}}. Please atleast add sources for these three images as soon as possible, else I am afraid of deletion of these images. After adding the sources for these images, if you have any confusion to tag the images propely then please let me know. I may help you to tag them properly. Regards, Shyam (T/C) 18:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Voting Systems

AVM, thanks for the kind words about me edit of voting machines. Most of the technology and voting pages need some serious updates and were lagging pretty well behind. (check out Certification of voting machines, it was recently up for deletion and I think now a more complete and worthy article). Regarding your comment about voting machines vs. Voting systems, I agree with what you are saying. I think that Wikipedia in general may need some reorganization with the terminology relating to elections in general. It is difficult and think some discussion is warranted. With Electronic voting, Voting machine, DRE voting machine, Vote counting system, Voting system, ballot, voting.. it is hard to see just exactly where to draw the line on overlapping. I entirely believe that we need to retain articles like DRE Voting machines (and even plan to add one for Internet voting) rather than rolling them into Electronic voting or voting machines. The article for "voting systems" referres more to methods of elections, but, it is correctly titled according to industry use. Possibly in the future, we may consider Electronic voting as a sub-heading in voting machines. Overall I think maybe Vote counting system is the most out of place, though I did my best to format it and at least make it accurate for now. Also, we absolutely need an article on election recounts. Lastly, there are a bunch of lesser election topics that need to be added. marksense, overvote, undervote, voter intent. As far as any problems with user:Joebeone, I haven't had any yet and I would hope that the community could work together to decide what's best. Feedback is always great, thanks again. 68.50.103.212 18:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Copyright law

You may be interested to know that Lawrence Lessig, a well known law professor at Stanford, has produced a video describing the lawsuit against Google for it's book search project. The Association of American Publishers filed the suit in response to Google's scanning of thousands of books with the intent to make them searchable online.

The point I think you'd find most interesting is that 75% or so of all the works they wanted to scan were still in copyright, but did not have copyright holders that could be contacted! The video is quite a good overview of the suit and I'd encourage you to watch it (http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003292.shtml). This is all relevant to Wikipedia because the fair use clause is the only way Wikipedia can host copyrighted material without explicit permission.

The U.S. Copyright Office also released a Report on Orphaned Works recently regarding these works whose copyright holders have disappeared. The report is a good step forward, but there are a few small problems with it. Lawrence Lessig spoke at Rochester Institute of Technology and talked about this briefly at the end of his lecture. You can download it (legally) from http://kryptonite.rh.rit.edu:6969/ through BitTorrent, or stream it through RealPlayer from the links on the top of http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki/index.php/Lessig%40RIT. ~MDD4696 00:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Ooh good links, thanks! Mathiastck 21:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Venuzuela

Venuzuela is a party to the Berne Convention and as such does not need to formally register works for them to be copyrighted. If you want to know when works published in Venuzuela can be assumed to be public domain in the United States, this table, especially the section on "works published outside the US", is relatively straightforward. --Fastfission 00:53, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No original research and copyright

Hi AVM, thanks for the kind message on my talk page. Glad I could help a little. Copyright law is a complex and contentious beast. Especially when dealing with its application across national borders. I see that Fastfission noted the Berne convention above, which at least brings some uniform interpretation to international copyright but its still complex. I am not a lawyer but I have been involved in copyright issues in my professional life and I do know a little about Wikipedia policy. If there are any further questions I can answer, please feel free to ask me.

By the way, don't get too put off when other editors note that image you've uploaded need to be tagged. They really aren't trying to be confrontational, they're just trying to protect Wikipedia and you. I think you'll find the vast majority of people here are friendly and helpful, and will be more than willing to work with you to make sure you can contribute about Venezuela. I know I'd like to see better articles about your country's heritage here on Wikipedia. Best, Gwernol 22:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, AVM. Glad it was of some help. :-) SlimVirgin (talk) 11:59, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kylie Minogue

It is important to keep a cool head, especially when responding to comments against you or your edits. Personal attacks and disruptive comments only escalate a situation; please keep calm and remember that action can be taken against other parties if necessary. Attacking another user back can only satisfy trolls or anger contributors and leads to general bad feeling. Please try to remain civil with your comments. Thanks! -- getcrunkjuicecontribs 23:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

In response to your comment on my talk page (When I added the TWO words "world-famous" in the (Kylie Minogue article) introduction, what exactly did you not find agreeable? Do you assert that such statement is false? If not, why in your opinion did I divert from a NPOV for stating such a fact?), I removed "world-famous" from the introduction because it is your point of view. Others may disagree on whether she is actually world-famous or not ("she's not very popular in the United States"). I am a huge fan of hers (happy birthday Kylie!), but it's not WP's place to declare people "world-famous" or not. Secondly, your other addition to the page (began her first steps in the Australian TV at age 12, but first rose to prominence in 1986-1987) is not needed per WP:LEAD, because more details are available in the body of the article. Thirdly, in my opinion, the Carpenters is a very bad article, and I have no clue how someone added the featured article star and got away with it. It really needs cleaning, as you pointed out. I've added a tag to it. -- getcrunkjuicecontribs 13:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hola, AVM

Thanks so much for the long explanation of surnames in Latin America on Talk:List of Presidents of Venezuela. The explanation will be helpful to others who may not understand Hispanic surnames or the question, which I apparently didn't spell out clearly enough (I already understand my surnames :-) There are multiple lists and templates of Venezuelan presidents on Wiki. If you look at the template shown at the bottom of the List of Presidents of Venezuela, you'll see that Chávez Frías is listed only as Chávez, while Pérez Jiménez is listed with both surnames. Mixing styles in one template. If you look at the actual list on the main page there, you'll find Hugo Chávez Frías (both surnames) and Rafael Caldera (one surname), rather than Rafael Caldera Rodríguez (both surnames). This is not explained anywhere on the page to the reader unfamiliar with Hispanic surnames. So, again, my question is should we not use a standardized naming convention? That is, either use both surnames, or use only one surname, rather than a mix of style throughout the Presidential articles in Wiki (or at least within the same page or template? You and I understand Hispanic surnames, but others may be confused. Thanks for helping out ! (Did you know that User:Enano275 shares your interest in working on music articles?) Sandy 00:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saludos, compatriota

Soy super nuevo en este paquete de la Wikipedia, asi que si estoy cometiendo una burrada escribiendo una respuesta a tu mensaje aquí, perdonamela. Pues si, estoy escribiendo (no he terminado) la pagina de Rodrigo Riera. Gracias por tu comentario y buen trabajo con la pagina de Lauro. Sigamos en contacto. ElMosca 23:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

i did that with the Lauro page, because is a better format.


[edit] Soto

Thanks for the e-mail. It is a pity Soto got duplicated, but some useful contributions have been made. I am not sure about the technical side of what needs to be done, and I will look into this.

--Alan 14:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hola AVM

Muy bueno quedo el formato de la página de Antonio Lauro, sigamos trabajando en estos artículos relacionados con Venezuela, yo ya he agregado a un compositor que su biografía no se encontraba en internet y tuve que hacer una investigación completa, ese es Lorenzo Herrera, se puede trabajar en conjunto para futuros proyectos, como los géneros musicales de Venezuela, que ya van 13, y los presidentes de Venezuela, para que exista una uniformidad y relación entre los artículos, esto mismo es lo que estoy logrando con los músicos de Venezuela, bueno saludos.

GJRFMorelligu


[edit] Angostura bitters

Hey Venezuela! You are probably right about the drink.. A hotel/bar owner told me about 1992 ..when i was employee.. Probably a jokey exaggeration. --maxrspct in the mud 16:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gracias por las contribuciones

Nuevamente quiero agradecerte por la valiosa contribución a la página de Rodrigo Riera. He estado aplicando pulitura, porque tiene algunos detalles de formato. Como averiguaste toda esa información sobre el catálogo de Don Rodrigo? Estudiaste con él? Saludos, ElMosca 19:44, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: hit counter

iirc, there has been much talk about adding hit counters to each articles, but nothing has been implemented yet. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crypto restrictions in Venezuela

Hey -- I really don't know any specifics about it, but here is the specific page I got the info from. It includes Venezuela on the toughest list, but doesn't explain how. [1]. Mangojuicetalk 00:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re:Bot Edits

I don't usually comment on what was wrong with the article, but I can comment on what my bot did. My bot only sorts articles for cleanup that have already been flagged by another user. In this edit, an IP address flags the article for cleanup. The next day, my bot changes the tag to the updated version here. You can watch it all transpire in the article history here. I'm fully convinced that there is nothing wrong with my bot's operation. Feel free to contact me with any further questions. Alphachimp talk 01:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Question

Thanks for letting me know. I had not received an answer, but I think I can do what I want to do. Ianthegecko 22:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Hungarian name for Hungarian...

... is "magyar". In turn, "magyarul" means "in Hungarian". (Alas, agglutinating languages play weird tricks on people unused to them.:)) I've therefore reverted your edit over at Hungarian language, and I think it would be best if you reverted the talkpage too. Thanks for trying to be helpful, though! KissL 15:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Corporation articles

On the English Wikipedia at least, Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations) suggests that not all corporations necessarily warrant having articles about them simply by virtue of being a corporation. Comparing to Microsoft or other famous corporations is not particularly useful. Articles are less likely to be deleted if they establish something uniquely significant about the topic. I have no idea whether the article you're complaining about did so, and if it did perhaps the deletion should not have occurred. However, the fact that you wrote the article as a favor to a friend already indicates a slight ulterior motive and makes it easier to doubt whether the article was needed. I don't know what policies and practices the Spanish Wikipedia specifically has about this, and some degree of flexibility is allowed between the projects. You're welcome to pursue whatever processes are available there to have the action reviewed by other administrators, if you wish. --Michael Snow 16:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikify

Note to Ultimus:

WOW! Please, gimme a break!

Hello. You probably broke all of Wikipedia's records: you took just one minute to discover my newly-added article on Raul Borges, and to tag it as needing Wikification. If you read the article's History, you will notice that I already remarked that it needs wikifying. So, you added nothing that was not known already. But it's Friday, it's late, I'm very tired, and I prefer to work on it later, if you grant me the permission.

Regards, --AVM 03:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

HIS RESPONSE:
If you knew it needed wikifying, why didn't you tag it yourself? If the reason is that you'd rather wikify on your own, then why didn't you tag it with {{inuse}}? I really don't know. But let's not turn this into an argument. We're both tired. (|-- UlTiMuS 03:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fredy Reyna is in da house

Hermano, están muy buenos los arreglos al artículo de Fredy Reyna. Yo tengo el libro de su biografía, escrito por Alejandro Bruzual en una caja, en Octubre tendré nuevamente acceso a esa caja y podré expandir el artículo. No he visto aún lo que escribiste acerca de Raúl Borges, así que "Güi Güil com bac". ElMosca 18:04, 13 September 2006 (UTC) ---Ya llegué!!! Tengo el libro y estoy trabajando la pagina del maestro Fredy, ElMosca 23:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Cuban revolution

I saw your recent edits on the Cuban revolution page. What I did was cut and pasted them into a new section at the bottom of the article that can be a place to explore the influence of the Cuban revolution - as you pointed out, there were guerrilla movements modeled after it. -- takethemud 04:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Wine Discussion (by Agne) : Input Requested

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There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Wine#Vintage_Infos_.28part_II.29 that has become

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a wine guide

Please add your comments/input to the talk page Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_is_not_a_wine_guide.

Thanks! Regards -- Steve.Moulding 20:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Ensamble Gurrufío

An article that you created, Ensamble Gurrufío, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ensamble Gurrufío Thank you. SkierRMH 05:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Carmenere

  • Hello. I have been working on the Carmenere article. I saw your comment in the page (Carmenère do you still have the wine labels for Carmenere? I was thinking that we could do a scrolling image box.Charleenmerced Talk 20:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
  • My name is c_merced@hotmail.com. Thank you so much for your help. We also really need a a picture of the Carmenere grapes. Know where we can get one? Also, how do you get the labels off? I am steam them but they often (very often) break. Also, I just started a Concha y Toro Winery article. Really, just started about 15 minutes ago. If you have any info, please add it. I will add the picture I have of the Casillero del Diablo but I only have a picture of the label in the bottle. Do you have one of the label (or can get one? Also, I can only find Casillero del Diablo and Santa Rita Carmenere where I live. (Connecticut) Do you know any other Carmeneres I should try (so I can special order them)? THanks for your help!Charleenmerced Talk 02:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced

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[edit] Image:Wendy Carlos - Secrets of Synthesis.jpg

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