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[edit] Image:Taylor-Cooke Triplet.png

Hi just wanna drop you a note that I have created a vector format of this diagram (Image:Taylor-Cooke Triplet.svg). I personally want to nominate it for deletion since it is not needed anymore and I am here to ask for your consent/opinion. --antilived ^{T | C} 07:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:French-people.jpg

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[edit] Image Tagging Image:Cloitre--Cimiez.jpg

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[edit] The Bolivian communist party

My Watchlist says you made another coment a little while ago, but i cant find it. something about a reference to Sardino...? PJB 18:35, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Oooops... Sandino... Sandino... Sandinist... Ericd 18:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apartheid Era in South Africa FP nomination

Hi. I notice you opposed the Apartheid featured picture nomination, on the grounds that the photo was faked or enhanced. As several people disagree with you, could you please explain why you believe this to be the case? Thanks. Raven4x4x 05:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

• As the author of the photo, I can confirm that the photo was neither faked nor enhanced. In fact, most of what you say in the discussion of it is wrong. Please be careful, especially if English is not your first language, about using words like 'fake' to describe things people have made themselves and donated for free. Guinnog 16:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

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[edit] Film developing

I noted your comments about the quality of this and another article. It would perhaps be more helpful to edit them make them better rather than condem them. 62.6.249.131 20:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I think I've started the article, as well as other articles about photography. My previous comment (a few minutes earlier) gave my opinion on the merging of articles. My comment about article being very bad was not especially targeted about contributors to the article. Some articles, including this one IMO are very bad because of a bunch of out of topic contributions. For your information, I didn't edit the Film developping article but I've searched for related topics and made several edits on E-6 process. I don't believe it's offensive to express my opinion about the quality level of some article. I need more time to make a proposal about what shout be included in various articles about film processing or film developping. Ericd 21:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French F1 championship

Eric - someone added a ref to a French F1 championship onto the main F1 page a couple of days ago, noting it as being during the 1950s. I know that many non World Championship F1 races were held in France at that time, but haven't previously heard of a national championship. I know you've got an interest in this period - do you know anything about it? I've put a comment on the main F1 discussion page.

P.S. Good work on the history article! 4u1e 22:12, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, mate. That might explain why I couldn't google anything up on 'french F1 championship' (or even 'championnat français formule 1'). Don't suppose you've got a reference, have you? 4u1e 18:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Defroked

I wasn't sure what you meant when you said you'd froked the article section: defroked is a play on defrocked. All the best.--Shtove 23:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F1 portal featured article

Hi Eric. The F1 portal is intended to have a regular rotation of a 'featured article'. I've swapped a few in and out over the last couple of months, but I think it would be better if there were more of a community attempt at deciding this, proposals, votes, that kind of thing. So - why not pop over to Portal_talk:Formula_One#Suggestions_for_Featured_Article: and make a suggestion. Ta. 4u1e 00:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spaggiari/kay

salut! je vois sur ta user page que tu parles français, so.... tu as écrit bcp de choses sur la page Albert Spaggiari. Tu fais mention d'un certain Jean Kay qui aurait été dans son équipe lors du casse de nice; c'était il y a longtemps, mais peux tu me dire où tu as eu cette info stp? elle est présente telle quelle un peu partout sur le net; est ce parcequ'elle a été recopiée de la page wiki, ou l'as tu toi meme recopiée? merci de preciser, je prepare un article sur Jean Kay et je cherche des infos sur lui - Vegetarian75 19:32, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Désolé la référence à Jean Kay n'est pas de moi, et je ne sais pas grand chose à son sujet. Ericd 20:02, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
J'ai trouvé ça http://www.livrenpoche.com/livre/Les-fous-de-guerre/164043.html ca pourrait être le bon ? Ericd 20:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
A props de Spaggiari je me souvient d'un documentaire TV avec l'interview de l'organisateur de son évasion. Comme les faits étaient prescrits il donnait le nom de beaucoup de personnes. il faudrait peut être fouiller le site de l'INA. Ericd 08:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
http://spaggiari.blogspot.com/2004/10/les-complices-du-casse-de-nice.html Ericd 08:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

merci pour ta reponse, même si elle ne m'aide pas bcp! je connais bien ces sites, et c'est à ceux là que je faisais allusion ds mon message précédent. J'ai lus aussi tous les bouquins de Jean Kay. Si jamais tu as d'autres infos, penses à moi! merci - Vegetarian75 14:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

What a know-it-all. Keep you nose out of things you know NOTHING about!!

Thanks for this very interresting anonymous contribution. Ericd 13:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

dear anonymous, if you have any information, give it to us, to wikipedia, instead of writting things like this. Mais puisque tu comprends le français, tu pourrais répondre aussi en français et signer également ton message. Descend donc de ton bateau et vient discuter avec nous (peut etre même en dehors de wiki), il y a prescription maintenant... et n'abuse pas trop des pizzas et des pates! ciao bello!!  ;-) Vegetarian75 08:10, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] European Graduate School and advertising

Hello! Being quite suspicious about the EGS article, I've nominated it for deletion. To counter this, the EGS actually created its own user page and has acted in the Afd (see there) in such a way that it has confirmed my suspicions (there has been lot of internal spam linking on Wiki biographies). Furthermore, I've just seen that a critical comment had been deleted on the quite unfrequented talk page of the EGS article, which is yet another grounds for my suspicion. Maybe you would be interested at monitoring this almost certain (my first innocence toward the school slowly transformed itself in suspicions after some time-spending on Wikipedia, and has now became almost 100% positive) spamming (which also serves to boost Google result for the EGS website). Regards, Santa Sangre 07:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Excuse me for this late answer. But I've been a bit overbooked in June. In 2003 I reverted several anonymous edits. This was mostly biography of famous people like Jean Baudrillard, Peter Greenaway and Volker Schlöndorff. For instance see : [[1]]. At that time the decision process was not as complex as it is today. IMO those edit were spam or advertising and thus in violation of the NPOV policy. I don't think the EGS article should be removed, but it seems clear to me that the behaviour of the EGS is unfair. My proposal is to ban EGS account(s).

I can also tell that it's a pity that in such a prestigious academic institution there is nobody to write some excellent article about the brilliant artists and intellectuals that conduct Intensive Summer Seminars.

Ericd 20:16, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:43, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected articles on Portal:F1

Hello again.

I dropped notes round a while back to those who have listed themselves at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Formula_One to ask for suggestions for selected articles on portal:Formula One. There was a pretty good response, both in terms of how it might work and of articles suggested. Damon Hill came out with the most support and was brought up to Good Article standard after a lot of work by Skully Collins and others before going on as the F1 portal selected article a couple of weeks ago. It is now at Featured Article Candidates as a Featured Article candidate (why not drop by and see if you can help polish it further?).

Several people who responded to the original request suggested that a monthly or bi-weekly 'Selected Article' could act as a catalyst for an improvement drive to get more articles up to a higher standard. Although it wasn't quite what I had in mind when I started, this seemed to work pretty well for the Damon Hill article, so I've drafted up a process for doing this more regularly. See Portal_talk:Formula_One/Management_of_selected_articles for details. Essentially the suggestion is that we vote for an article to improve every couple of weeks and at the end of the improvement process the article goes on the portal as the new 'Selected Article'. I'd be grateful for any comments on how this might work - I'm sure some of you are more familiar with things 'Wiki' than me - as well as your votes for the next candidate (by 16 July).

You may also want to help with the article Gilles Villeneuve, which was the next most popular after Damon Hill. The idea is to try and get it up to GA standard by 16 July and then put it on the portal as the 'Selected Article'. I hope you can help! 4u1e 15:05, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talbot Tagora photograph

Hello Eric! I have noticed you have made and uploaded some really great photographs to Wikipedia, including lovely car photos :D I have also seen your edits of the Simca article, so I guess you might be more or less interested in the topic.

I am a member of the WikiProject Automobiles, and the members of this WikiProject were recently informed that it might be questionable whether we can use car brochure and press photos as FA images in articles on cars. This made us start a small initiative consisting in trying to contact various car owners, enthusiasts and clubs to ask them whether they could release some photos of (selected) more exotic/historic vehicles to public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Of particular importance is getting a Talbot Tagora picture, as the article is currently as Featured Article Candidate and cannot pass without a proper free photo. I have tried to contact various UK-based Talbot/Simca/Chrysler enthusiasts and clubs, but as of now, to no avail (even though I got some really favorable responses and nice photos of other cars from other sources I contacted). So, I think another source of such photos could some French enthusiasts and clubs - alas, I don't speak French (and barely speak English, as you may see) and there are apparently no French-speaking WikiProject members.

As you are a native Francophone, would you be so kind and consider helping us with this project, whose importance I believe you can understand, and try to email the [Club 604 (which groups both Peugeot 604 and Tagora enthusiast) regarding this issue? This is the only such source came accross, but I guess you could find some more French-speaking associations and Tagora owners, which I would be most thankful for.

I hope you would consider helping me in my desperate mision. Excuse me for bothering you if you find this inappropriate. Best Regards, Bravada, talk - 14:56, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I will contact the Tagora enthusiasts in French. Sadly, there's few hope for me to shoot a Tagora in the street. Sales were so poor that I've seen the car only once ! Ericd 20:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup for that and for correcting my puny attempts at French :D I hope you will have a great time over the pond and make some superb photos! Bravada, talk - 20:57, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

PS. Concerning the V6 engine, I would be grateful if you could expand on that and provide some references, perhaps in French (as my French is close to non-existent, I relied on English sources for the most part). It might be also worth discussing how it compares to much higher sales of other PSA and non-PSA models equipped with the same engine - or perhaps were the sales of PRV-equipped models equally as poor?

I have no real source, I remember that the the PRV was always criticized by the (French) press as being less fuel efficient than BMW, Mercedes or Alfa engines. As far as I remember when the Tagora was introduced all the non-PRV powered direct competitor competitors were using fuel injection. My own experience with the PRV was my father's Renault 30 TX that used a more sophisticated version of the PRV with fuel injection. A good car but far from the quality of German production. Later a friend of mine buyed a second-hand R20 TX 2,2 L. Basically it was a R30 with a fuel injected aluminium OHC straigth-4. I drove this car in some occasion and the comparison was not really in favor of the R30 the high-end R20 was less powerfull but with the light engine it had much better handling. The 20 was much cheaper and fuel consumption was seriously cut down. Ericd 21:32, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I do believe that's some really valuable information, but I tried to make the Tagora article an example how a complete article can be correctly referenced, which is why I nominated it to FA. I am afraid as the FA is standing and we cannot afford to have unreferenced paragraphs in it, I will have to commentize it until a reference is found. I hope you won't take offence and I am sorry to have to do that given your spontaneous willingness to help with the project. Bravada, talk - 21:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I think it could be possible to find some reference about the standard fuel consumption of the Tagora and the fuel consumption of its main competitors. Ericd 21:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Two sources in French about the high fuel consumption of the original PRV :

http://www.motorlegend.com/12854-6/presentation/peugeot-604.html

http://nicosfly.free.fr/autres604.php

Ericd 21:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I guess I could even use the German car catalogue I used as the reference for the article. The problem is that we would have to find a source stating that this was the REASON why the Tagora sold so poorly. Anyway, I guess this refers just to the V6 version (which sold poorly in its own respect, I guess not only due to the thirsty Douvrin). Bravada, talk - 22:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

In between I have searched here and there on web the Tagora had Weber carbs while the the original 604 had (probably smaller) Solex carbs. The 604 and the R30 were alvailable with the fuel injected PRV, more powerful and consuming less. And, you know what ? The PRV with the Webers was more powerful than the fuel injected PRV ! In fact the Tagora V6 was the most powerful French car at that time. In fact they sacrified consumption for power. A huge mistake on the French market. There was no hope to beat the BMWs or (on the cheap side) the high end versions of the Opel Commodore at this game. Ericd 22:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Now this is some interesting fact! Perhaps you might add that to the reference section with with references! I guess the V6 Tagora was doomed anyway, first of all most people looked at German and perhaps British brands in the executive class anyway (I mean Europewide), and then even if they considered a French car, the Tagora was at the end of the pecking order. Bravada, talk - 22:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Eric! As you might have seen, I have moved the information you provided on the PRV engine to the engine section, as I have found a reference for that. I haven't found any sound data on earlier (Solex-fitted) PRVs, so I did not comment on that. As concerns the evaluation of the PRV, please see the articles talk page for explanation. Thanks again for your input!

I was wondering whether you have managed to contact any Tagora enthusiasts about the photo - is there any hope we could obtain one? Bravada, talk - 11:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for you reply! I am sorry to hear what happened to you :( In the meantime I have managed to get some photos from another source, but I would like to thank you for your help! Regards, Bravada, talk - 18:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Work and Holidays

Sorry for answering late on my talk page. Don't expect me to be very responsive until September. I'll be a bit busy in July while in August I sould be rolling from New York to San Francisco with a good friend and an old Leica in a Pontiac Grand Prix. Ericd 20:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks bot this is OK now ! Ericd 22:22, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] f-number

Eric, take a look at how the template f/ works, and use it appropriately in your edits to fast lenses. The notation 50mm/1.0 is often used as a shorthand, too. If you must change it, change it to the correct f-number notation.

As to the film speeds, see my comments in the f-number talk page. Dicklyon 21:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the f/ template is now OK. Before I edited the list it was un-ordered and notation were varying from one line to another.

[edit] Hairpin turn

Your photo Image:Col de Braus-small.jpg is wonderful. You should add this image and mention this route on Hairpin turn. Maybe also a picture of the hair pin that it's named for: Bobby pin. Dicklyon 00:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks but I'm not really happy with this one, there is to much grain IMO. I know whe I made the shot that it was underexposed by a full stop. Ericd 00:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renault

Eric, you raised a question at Talk:Renault F1. I've responded there. Regards Mark83 23:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture on the Homelessness article

Hi Eric. You switched the main image on the Homelessness article to yours from Nice. Well, it might have merited some discussion, but it seems reasonably okay to do. The other image was from a well-known photographer. However, in international spirit, I guess we should leave yours for now until such time as the quintessential homeless person image is found. Thanks and Best Regards. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 16:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

"it might have merited some discussion" . Well it might, I think it would be fair to have a discussion of the talk page to select pictures. The photo of the man with the American flag is excellent indeed. However I think the American flag is a bit to much.

I think my picture has some qualities :

- It shows a women while we mostly see photo of male homeless,

- It shows someone sleeping in the street,

- The race of the person is undefined.

Ericd 16:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Eric. Thanks for your kind response. Yes, your picture is broader than just America and what you pointed out is true. One interesting part of the other photograph was the juxtaposition of the flag and the homeless person. We will leave it for now, with yours, n'est pas ? Best and Thanks. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 17:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I see your point yes much of the strength of the picture is in the juxtaposition of the flag and the homeless person. My point is not that the US flag is too "American". My point is that it's a strong message, maybe a bit to much considering NPOV policy.

To be honest I'm not pleased with the colors of my photo, I think they are a bit "nauseating". I've made some attempt to tweak the color or to turn this to B & W, and well I don't like the result. Considering the subject I think the picture works "as is" and it's not a good idea to try to make a pretty picture. Ericd 22:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Eric. Your photo is fine as it is. Best Regards. --- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 12:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FPC

Can you please update your Featured pic cantidate page: Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Bentley_S1_Continental_Fastback_Coupe_Mulliner to follow the template in the instructions found here: Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Nomination_Procedure? The nomination needs your reasons and where the pic appears. -Ravedave 03:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I see you are making edits but still no update...-Ravedave 05:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

What's wrong now ? Ericd 07:13, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Explanation of edit.

Can you please explain why you made this edit: [[2]]. thanks. --WikipedianProlific^(Talk) 21:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Because the signature was the result of a rought cut and paste, see [[3]]. Ericd 21:15, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

thanks, no problem =)

[edit] Autobianchi pictures

Hello again! You have been very kind to help with the Talbot Tagora photographs and I guess I will be trying to abuse your kindness even further, as a similar problem ensued with Autobianchi. There are few pictures of their cars in the Commons, and some models are really rare. To add to that, most of them have not been sold in the UK (not to mention USA), so there are almost no potential English-speaking source ;) for them. There is, however, the Club Autobianchi in France [4], which seems to be very well organized and has a great website! So, perhaps you could contact them and ask whether they could inform their members that articles on their favorite cars are being developed on Wikipedia and photos are needed?

I also cordially invite you to participate in the editing of Autobianchi articles whenever you would find time! Regards, Bravada, talk - 16:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sois Jeune et Tais Toi

Where did you find the [Sois Jeune et Tais Toi] image? I find it very striking. Can you possibly send me or direct me to a higher resolution version? Thanks. --Andy M. 11:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Brabham

Hi Eric - long time no collaborate!

If you have the time, I'd be grateful for your views on the current version of the Brabham Racing Organisation article. It's currently GA, but I'm thinking of putting it up for FA shortly and need others' views to catch my no doubt numerous errors.

Cheers. 4u1e 13:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like you've been busy! Hope you enjoyed your trip to the States - seems like a long time ago now!

Regarding the Murray interview - I'd love to have a scan of the item, not that I don't trust you, but as I say, I'm interested in the topic anyway. I'll try and enable the e-mail link on my account. My French should still be up to the task of reading the original document. It would be great for now if you had the time to write or summarise the relevant bits on talk:Brabham Racing Organisation, in English or French. We're supposed to use English language sources for the English Wikipedia, but in the absence of another source giving this point of view in detail, I'm happy to use a French language one.

OK Iwill scan it ! Ericd 18:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Interesting about the Lotus - it's funny how there's always someone who introduced the technology a little earlier than the recognised 'title holder'. McLaren had carbon fibre in 1981 (Lotus at same time, which I didn't know - thanks!), Brabham had been using it since late 1970s, to strengthen their aluminium tubs. Hill used it in in 1975 for rear wing mounts - and we know what happened to them in Spain!

If you consider composite materials and car racing broadly the first was Chapparal with its epoxy chassis. Despite the obvious gain in strenght nobody copied probably because unlike Jim Hall they didn't have any contact with the NASA enginneer that knew of to build such things. Ericd 18:22, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I added a bit to Brabham on the accusations of cheating, by the way, as you suggested.

I for one hope that you decide you would prefer to continue on Wikipedia. Yes, it's frustrating (I had to get the Carlos Reutemann article retrieved by an admin the other day (see user_talk:Robth#Carlos_Reutemann) but the more 'good guys' we have here, the better! 17:07, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Of course this is related to the fact that I have bunch of interresting things to do outside cyberspace. But also my feeling is that Wikipedia is less and less democratic. As of today 0,4% of registred users are admins and a lot of decision making is made by a few people strictly applying guidelines. When you look to these guidelines they are written by one or two dozen of people and never went into a vote. See Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep and Iron law of oligarchy. Ericd 18:22, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dirtrucks

A tag has been placed on Dirtrucks, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please write {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, articles #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —Keakealani 00:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

This use of speedy deletion is just unacceptable to me. It's time to leave Wikipedia. Ericd 14:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please Dont Leave

Hi Ericd,

You are obviously interested in contributing to Wikipedia, and it would be a shame to lose you. Notability is a difficult issue in Wikipedia, with people complaining that unimportant sports personalities and actors are listed when important members of the scientific or arts world are not. This is due to popular culture giving more weight to these people. But still you have to have notability guidelines. You cant just have any band having an entry - otherwise we go from a encyclopaedia to just a web directory of all bands (I hope you can see why this is not Wikipedia's job).

The people that have suggested Dirttrucks for deletion have done so, not because they are vindictive, but because they are trying to maintain a certain level of standard. None of them would argue with a Dirttrucks article if it could be shown that they have had important US/European tours, or have sold plenty of records either here or in Japan. Unfortunately it is difficult to find this info on-line and verify. Until there is information from other sources (e.g. cd sellers or critics) then they will not be seen a notable...

This is how Wikipedia works - and the good thing is, that if tomorrow they suddenly sell loads of their EP or have critical review by a major critic then anyone can remake their article - Wikipedia is very flexible.

I hope you stay and help contribute and enjoy the experience. I remember making only my 2nd article, only for someone to propose its deletion. I was livid, but when I talked to the person that had proposed the deletion it was all very friendly and it got sorted it out. I hope you can see in this case that no one has been unfriendly - the worse maybe that they are applying guidelines that they could have explained to you better.

Anyway, cheers. If you have ever any problems or questions just leave a message on my talk page :):)

Lethaniol 16:44, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks,

First let me tell you that I'm here since 2002. While Wikipedia is growing it going less and less democratic I was one first to support a strict copyright policy at thta time you were considered as "facist" when you asked to someone what was the exact copyright status of the image he uploaded. Now an admin can delete article without warning any of the contributor on the ground that the article is about something that is not notable. You will tell me that there is a guideline but I often surprised by the few number of people that wrote this guideline and as far as I know there's no vote to adopt a guideline. See Wikipedia:Avoid instruction creep and Iron law of oligarchy.

I also think that the idea that Wikipedia will get stronger by epuration is wrong (and remember me of Joseph Stalin). Why do people contribute to Wikipedia for free ? Because they have show interest for this subject. I don't see why writing an article on an obscure subject will weaken Wikipedia. Good articles on any subject are good for Wikipedia.

Of course there's is some limit, at some point it will be a joke for instance I write an article about my neigthbor John Smith that is an excellent singer in his bathroom. But that wasn't the case, there's enougth on the web to verify that Dirtrucks exists has recorded an EP and LP and made an US tour and an European tour. That is not that common for a J-rock girls band. Even if Dirtrucks will not change the face of music or have a major hit, they're definitely more than a band playing in a garage and giving one concert per year for Chritsmas. (I wonder to what extend my photo has played a role in suggesting that it was my girlfriend playing in my garage or that I contributed to the article only to promote myself as a photographer).

I don't see why there's a notability guideline for musicians when Wikipedia is including articles about any porn starlet. Seriously this led no more serious moral issues than an article about an obscure band. Less seriously I'm waiting for a notability guideline for porn actress, will DP or anal be mandatory ?

I think its time to think the future of Wikipedia a lot of people write that Wikipedia is competing with Britannica. Well I've never seen things like that, I think Wikipedia is different and I think its a good thing that Wikipedia is different. It seems to me that the current trend is to make Wikipedia less different and I'm not sure it's a good idea. If writing for Wikipedia become as boring as writing an academic article, I know what I have to do, there's more benefit for me in doing something else.

Cheers. Ericd 21:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Murray

Great - thanks! You should be able to see an 'e-mail this user' tab somewhere on my user page now. I'm on broadband so size of the file shouldn't be a problem for me, if it's OK for you. Cheers. 4u1e 19:00, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henri Chrétien

Hi, I posted a comment on Talk:Henri Chrétien about a change in that article you made some years ago. Please comment on it. :) Kricke 13:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject France

Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 14:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

And I thought you'd make a good addition to WikiProject Africa. Care to consider this invitation as well? — Emiellaiendiay 04:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit Summaries

Hi, Eric. Thanks a lot for your recent contributions to film stuff (120 film, 135 film, etc.) Please don't forget to provide an edit summary beyond the default—it makes it a lot easier to review your edits, especially when there are a bunch in rapid succession. Thanks. jhawkinson 21:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)