User talk:Lmbstl
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Hi Lmbstl thanks for all of the edits you've made to the Washington University page. I think you have done a great job and put a lot of work into the page. I have made some reverts to your edits but I don't mean them out of spite. And if you have any disagreements with me you can just come to my talk page. Also I want to inform you a recent chill has come over the editors over the Washington University page, because a university administrator has been editing the page, so just be a little cautious when editing the page.Astuishin 04:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- Under fair use doctrine of a image, the image can only be used on the page in which it specialty concerns and since templates are used on multiple pages it violates WP fair use policy. Also concerning the WU administrators their are several problems, first an administrators job is the promote the university which is exactly what she was doing, and As you know WP is suppose to be objective source of information, not another opportunity for institutions to promote themselves. Read the talk page section titled Washington University Seal for more information if you have any more questionsAstuishin 06:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] WUSTL WikiProject invite
Thank you for your offer to join the WUSTL WikiProject. I'm going to respectfully decline, however, as I don't think I have much to contribute. I'm a St. Louis area native, so I grew up with a lot of admiration for Wash U. But, I did not attend Wash U (I went to Mizzou) and I don't have any special knowledge about it. I made the contribution about the campus location because I'm a geographer, so the unqualified statement of the campus being in the City of St. Louis stuck out like a sore thumb to me. But now I'm out of info to contribute. :) Thanks again for the invitation; I'm glad my contribution didn't go unnoticed. Good luck with your WikiProject.—Lazytiger 14:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Lmbstl, thanks for your note on my Talk Page. You asked whether I'd want to manage the To-Do list for the List of Washington University alumni page. I might be interested, but I'm not sure what managing the page entails. (I've never participated in a wikipedia "Project" before.) Also, I'm not on wikipedia every day, and I wonder whether the job requires checking in each day at least. Anyway, would be interested to hear more. As it is now, the list is in pretty good shape, but there are a few tasks that I think could improve it. Ultimately, the weakest part of the WUSTL series, I think, might be the absence of a good, extensive history -- and for that, someone's going to have to delve into the two books written on WUSTL's history (I added these to WUSTL "Further reading" awhile back, although I haven't looked them over), because in this particular case I don't think a decent narrative can be stitched together from bits and pieces on the web. Best, Ropcat 19:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks again for your latest note. I really appreciate your invitation, and your patient explanation of how this works! I went ahead and added some tasks that I thought needed doing, now listed in the "To-Do" box for the Alumni List article. I hope this will help move the article along over time. Good luck with the project. I'm in kind of a busy period right now but, after the next few months are over, I look forward to contributing more regularly on WUSTL-related topics. In the past, I've spent most of my WUSTL-related wikipedia time categorizing -- creating the current WUSTL categories and searching for pre-existing content to add to each cat and subcat -- rather than writing. But I will try to do more on the writing front during the spring. In the meantime, I'll serve as "manager" for the Alumni List article, as you invited me to do, by checking in every few days to see what's going on with it and posting any new suggestions that come to mind. (Fighting off persistent vandalism from multiple IP's on that page got pretty time-consuming for Astuishin and me, but I think we finally dealt with it for the time being.) I appreciate and admire your initiative in getting this project rolling. The whole series will be much better for it. Best, Ropcat 07:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WUSTL revert
Sorry, that was a mistake. Go ahead and change it back. RedRollerskate 15:37, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] My edits to the template
Hello. I hope that my edit summary shows that I meant no malice regarding the template (also that I made an additional constructive edit). At any rate, I just wanted to let you know that I have replied to your post on my talk page. --After Midnight 0001 13:27, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WUSTL WikiProject invitation
Hi, thank you for your invitation I would love to participate, but I am new here, and I can't spend much time here, so maybe I can't do much. I will try to make my contribution, although it might be small. Best Wishes! minbaili
[edit] Good job!
I see that my efforts were helpful in the creation of your project :) If you have any questions about things I've done I'll try to help you. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Response to your response at my talk page
Hello. Subst is a thing you can do on any template. It just substitutes the template tag with content of the template. If I write {{subst:UserWUSTL}} in a page it'll just replace the tag with the contents of the template. Then, i can remove the Category tags. I'll present an example (feel free to copy and paste it to any page):
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Washington University. |
Notice that i removed the category tag. However, this way, the subst has to be redone if you have updated the template. But it's just the same with images, so that's no problemo. --Ysangkok 07:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- You could also have a category parameter that selects whether or not to include the category when the template is transcluded. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 09:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- What? How? That would cascade any updates to transcluded templates, which is most certainly optimal! --Lmbstl 09:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- You'd use m:Parserfunctions. There's a steep learning curve, though. I use a few in my project template. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 15:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- What? How? That would cascade any updates to transcluded templates, which is most certainly optimal! --Lmbstl 09:23, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Olin School + other issues
You are probably correct concerning the logo Lmbstl, I actually was never convinced that the image was ever a official school logo however with all the other business schools having one I thought that the Olin school needed one as well. I failed to check the edit history of the page and assumed it was some type of vandalism when it was removed. Is the Washington U marketing logo allowed to be placed on other pages? I don't mean to be a strict interpreter of the copyright regulations on wp, however I wish to avoid any confrontations with the administration. I noticed it on the business school and Danforth campus pages. On the ongoing discussion concerning the Washington U. shield I have decided to stay clear of it for now; as I was the original perpetrator in the old seal fiasco I do not want to ruin the prospect of having a historical symbol of the University placed on wikipedia. - thank you Astuishin 14:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Yes I believe that your assumption is quite correct, I examined the website, which of course is all I can do, and found no logo. - thank you Astuishin 08:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I replied to your edits at {{Forms of government}}
Please refer to template talk page so we can discuss and arrive at an agreement to your recent edits. Kind regards, Lord Metroid 09:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your NWHI Template
I really like this new template, but I want to let you know I have tweaked it just a bit- see its talk page. SeanMD80talk | contribs 04:41, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Francis Field Chinese Translation
Hi, I finished a Chinese translation of Francis Field. Could you please leave me you email address so that I can send you the MS-WORD file of that? And there are still some details I need to discuss with you. Mine is minbaili"at"gmail(I suppose you can guess what it is ^_^). With Regards, MIN, Baili 04:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
