User talk:Christian Roess

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[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 0% for major edits and 0% for minor edits. (Based on the last 116 major and 0 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 04:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:George_oppen.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Michaelpalmer.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Goppen.jpg

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 13:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:CharlesOlson.jpg

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[edit] Pittsburgh sports lore

Regarding Pittsburgh sports lore: Please do not replace Wikipedia pages with blank content. It is considered vandalism. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:37, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Because you did not include an edit summary, your recent removal of content from Pittsburgh sports lore was misinterpreted as vandalism and therefore was reverted. Remember to please always briefly summarize your edits, especially when you are making subtle but important changes. Thank you. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:37, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
All of the wiki syntax markup are listed on Wikipedia:How to edit a page. The problem that you saw was that the paragraph started with a space, which therefore made it formatted exactly as typed, in a fixed-width font and lines that do not wrap. By the way, a colon indents a line or paragraph. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Also, Wikipedia:Sandbox is the page you can use to test and experiment with the wiki syntax markup. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anselm Berrigan

Can you please explain what you meant by this edit summary:

Revert to earlier version; look in the contributor's notes; the author himself seems to approve of this so-called "auto-biographical" version

Obviously someone would approve of their autobiography since...well...they wrote it. Please take a look at WP:AUTO to see why I had reverted it to the previous state. Writing about one's self in the manner that was done in that article is highly frowned upon on Wikipedia. Metros232 14:47, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Oppen & Mary Oppen

Hi there. I noticed you added a stub tag to both these articles. Tagging an article as a stub means that the article is very short, but both of these articles are long enough to not qualify as stubs. I have removed the tags. VegaDark 19:44, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Palmer reverted, vandal blocked

Pleasure :) Glen 16:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I hear you there! Anytime, just say the word :) Keep up the great work! Glen 02:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William Styron

Hello, first of all I apologise for the unsolicited nature of this message, but I noticed your name as a contributor to the above article. I was doing a bout of New Page patrolling today when I came across an interview article at William Styron - interview. At first, the copyright alarm bells were ringing (as they had been all day, to be honest), but after the author of the article asserted that he owns the copyright to the original article (being the interviewer himself), the next problem is whether this has any encyclopaedic worth to the Wikipedia project. Seeing as I know nothing of the subject, I assured the author of the article that I would try to gather some opinion on the matter. If you have any comment, could I ask you to leave it at the article talk page, please? I am still making enquiries as to the validity of the copyright claim and it may be that the article ends up on Articles for Deletion. However, I feel obliged to at least try first! Thank you for your time. Bubba hotep 19:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the input on this. I don't take speedy deletion tasks lightly and I knew this might have a place somewhere, as the author's enthusiasm would indicate. Credit where it is due, it was my "fountain of knowledge" Alf who lead me in the right direction (again). I will be sure to let you know what happens. Cheers. Bubba hotep 22:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Fernando Botero

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Christian Roess! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, and try to reinsert the link again. If your link was genuine spam, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 15:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

No, this was a legitimate offering of "good" links. I'm not trying to add spam. I'll have to read up on this to see why this may have detected spam.???? Christian Roess 15:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poets

Please don't add Category:Poets to articles that are already filed in national subcategories such as Category:American poets. This goes against Wikipedia's rules on duplicate categorization. Thanks. Bearcat 09:15, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:This 8.jpg)

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