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Were you trying to add an image that you have not yet uploaded? Remember that an acceptable copyright must exist for the image to be acceptable for Wikipedia. I would love to see an image for the Scinde Dawk article. Check out. BTW are you an active philatelist? If so don't forget about the philately portal which I hope to update ever now and then. There is also a philately project that might interest you. Please ask me any questions on my talk page. ww2censor 18:55, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I saw that you had reorganised this article and removed proper referencing I had added. Referencing is important and need to be able to be followed up by other users, hence the reference section. We don't put external source links inline with text so check this out and see how it works for your future editing. While the text seems pretty good, I have copyedited it into a more encyclopaedic format with the proper referencing and introducing the topic correctly in the first sentence that you had buried in the middle. I hope you agree that this is now a better article as reorganised. Wikipedia is not just a list of bullet points. Cheers and thanks for the input. ww2censor 19:39, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello,

I sent a long response, and saved it. It seems to have disappeared.

In short, your editing and re-formatting make a big improvement! Thanks for bailing me out!

Sincerely,

Floyd Conaway

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[edit] License tagging for Image:Desai.jpg

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[edit] License tagging for Image:Red Scinde Dawk stamp.jpg

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I added a fair use tag and hope that is acceptable to admins. Also put image in article that you helped write. ww2censor 04:39, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
This is PD actually - not even a really exotic interpretation of copyright law could keep any 19th-century stamp out of the public domain. Stan 17:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scinde Dawk again

You cannot make a change to the content of the infobox because it is a template intended for use in all rare stamp articles. All chnage made to the template must be carefully though out as it affects the look of several other pages. As you found out only the information on the right can be changed but I have entered the info you wanted to add with a line break, so it looks fine. Check it out. Where did you get the figure of 100+ existing from? We really need to have a source for such info. BTW, I am not sure it is appropriate to use a rarity term, like very rare because it is so subjective and undefined. I think we should really have a discussion about that at the philately project. Keep up the good work. Cheers. ww2censor 13:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Reply is on my talk page. ww2censor 05:29, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Gerald Davis

I removed the link between Gerald Davis, painter and Gerald Davis, philatelist. They are not the same person. Fconaway 01:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To alphebetize into categories

Hello. To class in alphabetical order inside a category, you must add " |Name, First name " in the category. Example : [[Category:President of the United States|Bush, George]]. Sebjarod 12:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Edward B. Evans, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 11:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi!

Hi there.. Saw you making some nice contributions to India related articles. Nice job. Do let me know if any help required. Leaving some links for you — Lost(talk) 13:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] John_Maurice_Clark.jpg

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. Fconaway 00:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philatelic edits

I notice your philatelic activity, especially your philatelists edits, and would like to remind you about the philately project. We seem to be loosing some philatelic editors or they are reducing in number or edit frequency for whatever reason. Perhaps you would join us in actively improving some articles(there is no commitment). I made an area on the project where newly created articles can be added and have added your recent Philipp von Ferrary to it as it seems pretty finished. BTW I have a suggestion for you. I notice that you make numerous small edits to articles instead of one or two major ones and while this increases your edit total, I prefer to start a sandbox page in my user space when I know it will take some time to complete. When I feel ready I paste the whole thing into the main space and leave a deletion tag on the page if I don't need it anymore. Here is a link to my other pages and you can see all of a users pages by changing the user-name on this link. You will see that I am working on a few better articles that will take some time. Just a suggestion because as you know there is really no wrong way, just bad info. Cheers and keep up the good work. I think I might use some of the Philipp von Ferrary info for a Selected article page in the Philately Portal. ww2censor 00:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Of course I'll help with the philately project. Let me know how I can help.
I was supposing no one looked at the philatelic bios! I've put up a few of them, mostly people who've been in danger of neglact. Ferrary was an interesting fellow, especially his adopted Austrian identity, which seems to be a mystery.
I've not learned to use a sandbox, but certainly I should. I'm not looking to increase my number of edits; it's just that I work through extensive rewrites, which Wikipedia accomodatesFconaway 18:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC).
I see you have been working on the infobox for the Hawaiian Missionaries. The linebreak in those tables is normally set on the left and for some reason you spent some time moving it to the right. No idea why, just more work for you. IIRC I have seen some reversions done to infoboxes constructed as you have mad that one, maybe by a bot. Anyway good work including those images, though I am not really sure you can be entirely happy about the copyright because you took images someone else had made, likely without permission, but we shall see and hope. Age is of course not a problem with the images. I must ask someone else who knows better than I do. I modified the "RareStamp Infobox" template a little as it seemed slightly too narrow, but by creating a line break in the value you seem to have helped the layout too.
As to the copyright on these very rare stamps: I've relied on Stan's opinion from last October 10: "[referring to an image of a red Scinde Dawk, 1852] This is PD actually - not even a really exotic interpretation of copyright law could keep any 19th-century stamp out of the public domain. Stan 17:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC) Seems to me the owner of such a stamp might gain from the publicity. Let me know, please, if there's any problem here.Fconaway 22:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
While I tend to concur with Stan's opinion, I just feel that swiping other people's images may be the problem. It would certainly not be an issue if you actually owned the stamps in question, but I certainly can't afford any of them and I suppose neither can you, even if they were for sale. I would be prepared to stick my neck out but it would most likely be better to try and acquire these type of images from public places like the National Postal Museum or similar places wherever possible and not from private auction houses. It's just my opinion. Cheers ww2censor 01:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
The headings on the left column were breaking awkwardly, such as
     Place of
     production
I was trying to discover why that was happening; and eventually discovered that the values in the right column were simply too long if not broken (duh). I can revert it now.Fconaway 22:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I saw that, and assumed that was what you were doing, experimentation tends to teach us things here. I would not bother reverting it. If a bot does it then that's ok too. As I mentioned the line-break did most of the trick but I widened the infobox too. Thanks ww2censor 22:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Regarding your own sandbox, just type the new name like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fconaway/Sandbox where 'Sandbox' is the name of the page you want and you will get the option to make the name page in your User Space and just put something in there. Don't forget the name or put it on your Watchlist. While you are at it you might also want to tell us something about yourself, what you do, intend to do or have done on your own userpage. Cheers ww2censor 21:47, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to an old message

Hi, I missed your message of 24th Feb on my userpage. Please put the messages on the talk page as there is a notification and that is the page one checks for new messages. It is ok to add relevant information to a biography especially if that fact is notable to the person's biography. Else you can skip it. There is no specific policy about this. But we do have a policy about living persons. See WP:BLP — Lost(talk) 09:34, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] François Simiand

Hello, Fconaway. I notice that you've written a very nice article about this French sociologist. I do have a question about classifying him as a statistician, though. What theoretical contribution did he make to statistics? From reading the article it appears that he applied statistical techniques in his work, but I see no basis for categorizing him as a statistician. Comments? Thanks! DavidCBryant 14:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello, David, Thanks for your observation about Simiand vis a vis statistics. It's good to know that someone actually reads this stuff!

Simiand's theoretical contribution to statistics is under the radar, as he devoted himself to careful applied statistical work and the exposition of scientific methods. He was considered to be the resident statistical expert of l'Année Sociologique.

Both in his methodological work and in practice, Simiand emphasized the statistician's critique of data itself, as noticed in Lebaron's article:

Especially see p. p. 58.Fconaway 01:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for responding, Floyd. Unfortunately, the link to u-picardie doesn't work well for me. All I get is the first page, and my Adobe Reader doesn't load. The image of page 1 is so small I can barely read it, and there's no way to advance to page 2, let alone p. 58. I'll have to try opening it with another OS/browser and see what happens. Does the link work well for you? Is access to this publication restricted somehow?
Something was wrong with the .pdf version, as you discovered. It worked yesterday, but not today. For me, it gave only the last page! So I have replaced the URL to indicate the .html version, which is working. I hope it works for you now.
I thought a while before listing Simiand as a statistician, but data issues are too easily neglected. Recent business school graduates seem to have no inkling of this.Fconaway 12:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I never would have seen this particular article had you not added the Category:Statisticians tag. That caused it to come up on the list of "new" articles about mathematics. Your explanation about critical review of the data themselves (and also, I suppose, the data collection process) makes sense to me – I trust your judgment. Have a great day! DavidCBryant 13:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

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