User talk:Curran919

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[edit] Image Copyright

I noticed you uploaded Image:Labrea tarpits.JPG.I wondered if you could elaborate on the source and copyright status of the of the image. You can contact me on my talk page. Cheers. Burgundavia 07:22, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the information. Do you know how to tag the image? Also you can sign your name with ~~~~ Burgundavia 23:13, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
    • Hey, no worries. Check out my first edit. If you father took the image, the best tag is probably {{gfdl}] which releases the image under the Gnu Free Documentation Licence, like the text of Wikipedia itself. Mention who took the picture as well, and then remove the other tags. I will make certain it gets cleaned off the other page. Burgundavia 23:36, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RuneScape quests

I don't know if you're watching the talk page, but I don't want you to start going to work on this until you read my response. Mainly, I have two reasons for disagreement. First, it doesn't follow the Manual of Style. Second, it ruins all the links that were previously links to the specific quests. Now, it simply links to start of the article. --Ricky81682 (talk) 07:33, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Toco Beach

As I mentioned on the Talk page, I am confused by your "Toco Beach" article. I can't figure out what beach you have described. The name Toco Beach is sometimes applied to Salibea beach, but I can't reconcile your description with what I know of the place. Are you referring to some other beach? If anything it sounds like Grande Riviere. Guettarda 16:11, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Correct me if im wrong, but i believe Grand Riviere is the actual area, not the beach. I had been there atleast on 5 seperate occasions and my assumption that the actual beach (w/ 2 hotels, names escape me; of importance? must i be more diligent, and a lagoon) was called Toco (and alternatively TOKO)
Grande Riviere is about 10 miles past Toco. Two small hotels on the beach (whose names I can't recall right now) and a few guest houses going up the hill. What is commonly called "Toco Beach" (strictly speaking, Salybia Beach) is near the light house - ~10 miles east of GR. Separate town, only lumped together because people tend to call everything past Matura "Toco". Guettarda 17:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
The hotels: Mount Plaisir Estate Hotel and Le Grande Almandier. Guettarda 17:55, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Then i guess you are probably right, ill go change that around if you havent already. Just to make sure however, this Salybia Beach, is the one RIGHT down the road from the clinic and about 2 miles off of shark river (may also be local name)?

No - Shark River is west of Grande Riviere. Toco/Salybia beach is near the lighthouse - about 1/2 an hour (to make a wild guess) before you get to GR. Best thing might be to rename the article Grande Riviere and expand it to cover both the town and the bay. Guettarda 20:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Okay, that sounds like a plan, i dont have much information on the town, and since it isnt the main focus i probably wont put much in, but I could research that and include something. I have some changes to make to another article first (i just cant get anything right...) and ill start on this. By the way, i see that there is a Trinidad article, and a Trinidad and Tobago article. Is this just because of redundancy or is the former supposed to be solely about THAT island (if so, it is horribly under-developed)? Curran919 20:55, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

The Trinidad article is supposed to be just about Trinidad. Until late last year it was just a paragraph, explaining that Trinidad is the larger island, etc. Unfortunately, someone foudn the page and expanded it into a larger article - probably under the assumption that there was no "Trinidad and Tobago" article. So what we have now is a terribly unbalanced article - but of ancient history, a rather unbalanced account of "now"...I have been hesitant to edit that page because I don't really know what to do with it. Most of what you could write about Trinidad should better fall into one of the appropriate "Trinidad and Tobago" articles. It's different with Tobago - there is lots of room for Tobago-only material...you could say a lot about Tobago that doesn't really apply to "Trinidad and Tobago", but no nearly as much about "Trinidad" that doesn't apply to "Trinidad and Tobago". Of course, you could cut the pre-1889 stuff out of History of Trinidad and Tobago and put it into the History of Trinidad, then have a separate History of Tobago and restrict the History of Trinidad and Tobago to that period where they were united. Unfortunately, the history of each island continued across the union...the political and economic developments span that time period (you wouldn't, for example, want to have one article on Indian immigration to Trinidad and another on Indian immigration to Trinidad and Tobago. As for enough info about the town - I have written over 30 short stubs about towns in Trinidad, have about 240 in List of cities in Trinidad and Tobago (which is a list of cities, towns and villages...long story). I will expand them as I get my hands on info, but there is nothing wrong with a stub as long as it has the potential to be expanded. (You might want to have a look at Category:Trinidad and Tobago and the subcategories (and sub-subcategories) to see what exists in terms of articles. Guettarda 21:30, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

There is a "Move" tab on all pages (up at the top). You can move a page as long as the destination is either blank or has a redirect. More than that and you need to get an admin to do the move. Of course, it's generally not good to move a page without talking to the other editors involved. So what is your connection to Trinidad? I realise from Burgundavia's page that you lived there - when and for how long? Just curious. Thanks. Guettarda

  • I lived there from 1997-2001, in Bayshore; went to ISPS (im 17 now). I find this whole wikipedia thing friggin awesome, so i am trying to apply what limited knowledge and resources I have (spending most my time on RuneScape articles). Whats your connection to T'dad? Curran919
I'm from Trinidad, although I have lived in Canada (1973-1979) and the US (1994-2001 and 2004- ). Lived in San Fernando, Marabella, South Oropouche, Gasparillo, Curepe and Chaguanas. I attended Naparima College and UWI, before doing my PhD at Michigan State University. I have mostly added TT related material here, although I have also done some in ecology-related articles. Been here since September, been addicted since about December. Guettarda 15:55, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


>>>> I'm an Environmental Science student from Trinidad as well, and to cast some clarification as to the "Toco Beach" that you're talking about, I believe that the name of it is Saline Bay. It's about 2 mins or less from the lighthouse, am I right?

[edit] Image copyright

You need to address the copyright issue of your image of the Pitch Lake at Wikipedia:Possibly_unfree_images#Phase_II_-_May_11 and on the image itself or it is likely to be deleted. Thanks. Guettarda 17:07, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

  • I left it up there, even though I could delete it. Can you confirm the licence that your father releases this under? If you need any help at all, contact me. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 03:02, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
    • Ive been reading through the copyright information on this site, and there is just too much information on it, im finding it very confusing in what i am supposed to be doing. I uploaded some screenshots today, and i used the same {{game-screenshot}} tag as i had seen in other images, but is what i am supposed to be doing something as simple as that? Curran919 06:23, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RuneScape quests

Curran, since you worked on a lot of the quests, I would like to hear your opinion at Talk:RuneScape quests regarding keeping the quest guides. -- Ricky81682 (talk) July 6, 2005 07:43 (UTC)

[edit] RuneScape

Do you play RuneScape? If so, tell me on my talk page. CrnaGora 04:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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