User talk:Mindspillage

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[edit] d'Amerval

Thanks! That "contemporary version" would be lots of fun, don't you think? But frankly it might be fun to party with Obrecht and Gesualdo ... Antandrus (talk) 01:39, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

It took me a minute, but yeah!!! hapens!!! LOL ... and btw, here's one that made me laugh recently: [1] Hope the summer's going well with you! Antandrus (talk) 05:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OrphanBot

I concur with this. In particular, it's in extremely bad taste to use the Nazi symbolism to "declare war" on another editor, and against Wikipedia policy to make such an offensive statement in reference to another editor; I have removed it. You may disagree with the actions of Carnildo and OrphanBot, but "declaring war" will do you no good. I suggest you attempt to have a civil discussion about the practices you disagree with instead. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:09, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Who cares? OrphanBot doesn't have feelings. So what does it matter? Micoolio101 09:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Micoolio101

OrphanBot might be a bot, but Carnildo is definately human. Besides, it's good to treat even the bots civilly, that way you stay in practice. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 21:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion at Village pump

Please have a look at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Resolving_content_disputes. Please help me to find the answer to my questions. Thanks.--AndriyK 13:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of arbitration on Sathya Sai Baba and user:Andries versus user:SSS108

You chose to accept the case of abritration, but what is the scope of this arbitration, only the article Sathya Sai Baba, or category:Sathya Sai Baba or category:Sathya Sai Baba plus user:Andries? I would like to know because I want to know what I should comment on. Thanks. Andries 11:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mailing list sanity...

Why thank you! What particular episode of non-foaming-at-the-mouth-ness prompted this, if you don't mind me asking? JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ray Hanina

As a arbiter in Wikipedia I hope you will read the words of the Palestinian writer Hanina here: [2]especially the part about History which is where Wikipedia takes part. Best Zeq 10:07, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi, I would like to express my gratitude for your participation at my recent RfA. The final vote was 68/21/3 and resulted in me becoming an admin!

For those of you who supported my RfA, I highly appreciate your kind words and your trust in me. For those who opposed - many of you expressed valid concerns regarding my activity here; I will make an effort in addressing them as time goes on while at the same time using my admin tools appropriately. So, salamat, gracias, merci, ありがとう, спасибо, धन्यवाद, 多謝, agyamanak unay, شكرًا, cảm ơn, 감사합니다, mahalo, ขอบคุณครับ, go raibh maith agat, dziękuję, ευχαριστώ, Danke, תודה, mulţumesc, გმადლობთ, etc.! If you need any help, feel free to contact me.

PS: I took the company car (pictured left) out for a spin, and well... it's not quite how I pictured it. --Chris S. 23:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Something I just noticed

I just took a glance at your user page for the first time. You might be interested to know my wife is a direct descendent of Gottfried Weber on her father's side. Unfortunately, she has no musical ability whatsoever. TruthCrusader 10:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I think your hot!

Well, :) I just wanted to say I love you. I love your wikipage and I would like to get to know you some more. I hope to talk to you in the future. Patrick --CyclePat 03:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

You think her hot... what? You think her hot jazz quartet is great? Her hot biscuits are delicious? Her hot chile is mind-blowing? What? I think something's missing here... —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Think Pink RfA Support Thanks!

Thanks for contributing to my successful RfA!
To the people who have supported my request: I appreciate the show of confidence in me and I hope I live up to your expectations!
To the people who opposed the request: I'm certainly not ignoring the constructive criticism and advice you've offered. I thank you as well!
♥! ~Kylu (u|t) 01:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll talk to you...well, right now, but it doesn't sound as good as "I'll talk to you later!" ~Kylu (u|t) 01:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration

Hello, please help with a case about alleged adminship abuse by JzG, which had been rejected by three arbitrators before an administrator warned the accused one and undid part of his actions. The conflict is going on and I do not know how to find a solution. The only arbitrator who has sinced voted on the case is one who in my eyes is in a conflict of interest as he did a very similar block on me in the past that I think was abusive and that was undone by Theresa as it lacked any evidence of wrongdoing by me. I had suggested a change to the blocking policy but the discussion about it has up to now been inconclusive due to a lack of participants. Socafan 02:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] irc

mango_juice is really me. Mangojuicetalk 04:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ED Closing

Thanks; that praise means a lot coming from you. Nandesuka 23:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] my RfA

Thanks for your support in my RfA! Unfortunately, the request did not pass, with a vote of (43/16/7). But your support was appreciated and I'll just keep right on doing what I do. Maybe I'll see ya around -- I'll be here!
Cheers! - CheNuevara 17:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My user |subpage

Hey, I put the subpage up for speedy deletion since I don't need it anymore. But if my user subpage was showing up on unrelated searches, then maybe you might want to change your prefernces to not search user pages by default. --Kurt 10:42, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm guessing that you might have also seen the link on the "what links here" on the image pages of U.S. currency. --Kurt 11:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] #wikipedia-en-admins

I wanted to join the #wikipedia-en-admins IRC channel. My username is Shreshth91 and my registered IRC nick is also Shreshth91. Thanks in advance :) --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 08:44, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Since you seem to be inactive, I'll aske James F. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| ŗ 3 $ |-| ţ |-|) 09:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] As if

So there. ++Lar: t/c 02:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You've got a Thank you card!

Open your card!

[edit] Hey!

On behalf of Cowman, Kylu, and the rest of the motley MedCabal cabalists, how's it going? At your convenience, I have a situation I'd like to get your input on. I know you're in Boston for the 'Mania, so when you get back, if you could manage to run into me on IRC, I'd appreciate it.

Nice black hat, by the way :-) Cheers, regards, salutations, and all that jazz, CQJ 04:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Mindspillage, I have been helping new Wikipedians for some time now and am interested in becoming a volunteer for the info-en OTRS queue. I would be grateful if you could consider me as a new member. Thank you, Tangotango 03:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Amazing

You are truly one of the most amazing editors. You have your priorities straight, you are an administrator, on the ArbCom (which, in my eyes, is the most prestigious group!) and are just plain amazing. As I type this message, you are at Wikimania, another sign of your devotion. You are a kind editor, and almost over respected. I will stop babbling and cut to the chase. I want to you to go for bureacratship. You are more than qualified. The only reason I did not nominate you myself is Bur. is generally done by self-nom. You really ought to consider it. I know you are busy on other projects, but you should really consider. If you have made an editor like myself sit here for five minutes telling you how great you are, you must be pretty good... Consider it. Viva La Vie Boheme

PS - While I'm here saying how great you are, take this Barnstar. ;)
The Original Barnstar
For being so great! Viva La Vie Boheme 01:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and by the way, bassoons are awesome! I don't play, but they rock ;) Viva La Vie Boheme
And you started the article on my favorite classical marimba player, Keiko Abe. I am a percussion person myself. (Am I annoying yet?) Viva La Vie Boheme

[edit] Uncyclopedia POV vandal at it again

He's still about. Just thought I'd let you know, so I don't get into a stupid edit war with this guy. Cheers. --Codeine 19:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nicole Scherzinger

Maybe you could help out in the edit war. I'm not sure what to do. Thanks. --Design 14:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on User talk:Nlu

Please take a look at User talk:Nlu. If you believe, too, that my actions were unjustified, I will take User:Mindspillage off my watch list and no longer monitor edits on it. If you believe that my actions were appropriate, please state so. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 20:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Private arbcom stuff

I have an idea for lowering the temperature on the "admins open to recall" and other "divine right of admins" stuff. It's a proposal for ArbCom, however, and ArbCom alone, rather than the general site, as what I have in mind is a new procedure for AC action. Any way I can outline it and get it to AC consideration? Would it be best to work it up and then e-mail it, or work it up in user space and then drop a link to you and others? (My point being that the wider public would probably misunderstand what I'm proposing, not that it would be disagreeable to them.) Geogre 18:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, to heck with privacy and secrecy. Why would I start being that way now? I'm no good at it. Here it is. [3]. Geogre 18:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

You know, if you post stuff with topics like that, all SORTS of riffraf turn up... Nice start, do you want help? ++Lar: t/c 00:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Basically, I'm advocating a new category of action and, I hope, a change of attitude and philosophy so that actions can be more fluid, less traumatic, and more satisfying to the aggrieved. Granted, it's a palliative, but we need one. Kat, if you're out there, let me know what you think. Geogre 22:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Admin help needed when you have a minute

Let me introduce to Uucp, a friend I went to school with, who apparently needs an admin. I told him to come to you for any help. *hugs* notafish }<';> 21:32, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hello Kat! I hear that OTRS has been receiving a lot of messages lately, so I'd like to help out. As you may know, I am an admin on Wikinews and Wikiversity, so it has been demonstrated that I'm trustworthy. Is there anything else I should know? —this is messedrocker (talk) 09:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Board of Trustees elections

Hello! This is just a friendly reminder that responses to the "interview" questions for the Wikipedia Signpost are due soon. The important message and questions were left on your meta talk page. If you have not already done so, please kindly take a look at them, and we would appreciate your reply as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:59, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Yup! Thanks again! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bassoonist stubs

I've added stubs for Leonard Sharrow and Sherman Walt, which I know will make you happy...or at least I hope so. --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 18:25, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Mason

Saw in your Signpost interview that you go to George Mason. Do you by any chance know Nelson Lund? He teaches constitutional law, but maybe you've met him anyway. Λυδαcιτγ 17:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

He's a college friend of my dad's, and his son is a friend of mine.
Are you a weak or strong agnostic? Λυδαcιτγ 20:12, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] For you:

Michael has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!

[edit] election

Hi Kathleen! Just got back from the polling booth - voted for you:-) You probably don't know me, but I've seen you around in places where I've lurked. While I don't necessarily endorse every detail of your philosophy, I admire your attitude - which I'd like to see more of in high placed. Hope you make it:-) David Cannon 01:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grace period?

Hi Mindspillage - I have a question about image deletions which I hope you can help me with. Do you know whether there a grace period of 3 hours before such images can be speedily deleted? --HappyCamper 12:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Actually, I've seen you make some pretty smart decisions regarding images, so I sort of use your judgement as a good example! :-) --HappyCamper 22:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A new userbox?

I was going to try to design a bassoon userbox but my skills are so limited that I'll just drop the idea in your virtual lap and hope for the best. It was going to include one of the pictures in the main article and some sensible phrase about playing (or in my case, used to play). Ciao! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 15:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I know, the couple I have done have all been essentially lifted from other boxes and tinkered with, but for some reason this one defeated me. Yours looks just right, and I love what Zappa says, though I may tinker with the phrase for long-term use. We'll see. My brothers tried for years to get me interested in his records, mostly fruitlessly, but now that I'm a middle-aged old codger maybe I'll try again. But his taste in music is awesome; anyone who honors Varèse is OK in my book.
In any case, merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For all you have done for Wikipedia, I award you, Mindspillage, the Original Barnstar. Michael 20:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
You're welcome. Michael 19:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] is this your cup of tea?

clicking around wikipedia, I found a sonnet you wrote on geogre's page. it was pretty good, so I wondered if oedilf.com was something you'd be interested in. sort of like wikipedia in a way. and there's poetry involved. but i don't know if you have the time to get a new hobby. but you might find it worth a look.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.205.100.251 (talk • contribs).

(responding here as I'm not sure if you'll check your talk page) My cup of tea? Oh, gosh, perhaps too much so... as though I need more things to fill my free time. ;-) Thanks for the link! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:52, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
yw. glad you like it.

[edit] Polls:

Hi. I'm just sending out a message for a new study I will be undertaking soon. It will involve surveys & polls to gather information & trends of editors on Wikipedia & other subjects. The data gathering will involve yourself recieving a questionaire on your talk page for you to fill out. I will then collect your questionaire & combine it with data from other editors. If you would like to be a part of this experiment, or know of someone who does, place a "Yes" or "No" below this message. Remember, it's only for fun & you can choose not to fill out all or parts of your questionaire once they arrive. Have a nice day... }} -- Spawn Man 06:13, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, sure. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 13:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam Blacklist

Recently you added a domain to the spam black list. [4] At the time this prevented its addition to wikipedia pages. However, a recent experiment shows that it can now be added without being flagged.[5] Has there been a change or is this normal? Sorry for my ignorance in this area.

Another issue is regard to a note i saw on the athletics (track and field) page. As of 14th August I saw an edit that identified the following site www.alltime-athletics.com as SPAM. Why is this page considered SPAM? Is there a link to discussion relating to this? David D. (Talk) 22:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I'll track down the admin the added it to the list and discuss it with them. Thanks David D. (Talk) 14:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nightline

Nice earrings!  :-) Overall it was good to see; they were skeptical, and I wanted a little more than they were able to cram into the segment. And -- hobbies? Heck, who needs hobbies?  ;-) Antandrus (talk) 06:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I voted for you

I just wanted to let you know that I voted for you. Why aren't you announcing your candidacy better? Vote here --JuanMuslim 1m 16:25, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I'm not announcing widely because I don't think it's the sort of thing one ought to campaign for; I expect everyone who is interested will see who is running when they go to vote. As for the election itself it is advertised prominently in the sitenotice... though I may make it more clear on my userpage that I am running! Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:56, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Ya, I would hope so. Some people are into it full force, and perhaps you are the best qualified.--JuanMuslim 1m 18:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Board Election Questions

Why the interest?--JuanMuslim 1m 18:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abrasive comments

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your having noted my efforts to improve. I admit that my edit summaries and comments are sometimes abrasive, but is abrasiveness truly a crime? It formerly took me enormous efforts and emotional strain to daily check my 3,000-entry watchlist for POV edits and trolling. I have recently been persuaded that my character and temperament are perhaps not suited for administrating such a large segment of WP. Since my watchlist is full of entries written by myself and not duplicated in the watchlists of other wikipedians, if ever I see a serious POV problem, I try to inform more forbearing editors that they ought to deal with it. Hopefully this strategy will help me to concentrate on writing articles. Regards, Ghirla -трёп- 15:54, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'm leaving WP for awhile because of recent events

Hi Kat. I've decided to leave the encyclopedia for awhile. As one of the editors I count as friend, and one whom I most respect please share any thoughts you might have on my talk page. Thanks, Paul August ☎ 18:23, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VIE

While that's definitely true for the origin of VIE, the problem nowadays is that many newer users tend to ignore pages in Wikispace unless they're marked as "official" somehow (this is probably a result of the fact that Wikispace is rather messy and byzantine) - and if VIE is just a perceived-as-ignorable essay, they happily keep on asking for votes on e.g. merging, random proposals, etc. I don't particularly like this fact but I can't think of a good way of changing it so far, so imho the least we can do towards educating people is marking clearly which pages are and aren't consensual. $.2 >Radiant< 18:45, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I once was confused, but now am...

I dunno, soemthing. I just discovered that I must have registered here twice. There's my current userinformation, and then there's a "Bill Spencer" registration for someone who did edits in Hindemith & Grünewald (which you noted on that user talk page back in February). That sounds an awful lot like something I would have done; hard for me to imagine there would be a second person with my name hanging out in the same obscure corners. Oh well. Is there any way to consolidate that old username with the current one? Not that it's that important at all at all, but still... Merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 12:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Past AfD nomination of Intercounty Baseball League

Mindspillage, just noticed this past AfD and I fully support the decision to keep this article. Anyone familiar with Canadian baseball knows that the IBL is a serious men's baseball league with a long history (since 1919) that has produced several members of Major League Baseball, AAA baseball, AA baseball and A baseball, while also featuring former MLB players and former Negro Leagues players of the past. To delete it would have been a travesty. Additionally, several former IBL players have been inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in St. Marys, Ontario. Barry Wells 16:50, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Further to the above AfD nomination, I'd like to add that the IBL has had numerous former MLB players in the league, including Fergie Jenkins (who's the only player to have been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame), Frank Colman, Denny McLain, Dave Rozema, Paul Spoljaric, Rob Butler, Oscar Judd, Tim Burgess, Mike Kilkenny and several outstanding former Negro Leagues players.
Additionally, many many players have been paid to play (albeit under the table), the league has many corporate sponsors, fans, competent, paid umpires, an official media guy, statistician, record books, commissioner and local TV contracts. It is serious baseball, with most parks (all but one, I believe) charging admission. The 1948 London Majors not only won the Intercounty title, but also the Ontario title, the Canadian title and the Can-Am title. Drinking beer while playing is not permitted, as one user frivously suggested. Many former IBL players have also gone on to baseball scholarships at U.S. universities, pro careers with MLB organizations or AAA ball, AA ball or A ball. The London Majors play at Labatt Park, the undisputed (to date) world's oldest baseball grounds in continuous use since 1877 (a heritage site under the Ontario Heritage Act) -- a park which won the prestigious Beam Clay Award as the best natural grass baseball park in North America in 1989-90. Barry Wells 19:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom Status

Please note that you are currently listed as "inactive" on WP:AC due to the fact that you haven't voted on a proposed decision page in several weeks. Scobell302 22:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop

Hrm. This is heading rapidly off the rails. Here's the breakdown of edits to date:

Aaron Brenneman 24
Tony Sidaway    23
Fred Bauder     18
Kirill Lokshin  3
Dmcdevit        1
MacGyverMagic   1
Grand Total     70

I've asked for input here but perhaps you could wave some magic wand and help Tony and I channel ourselves productivly?

brenneman {L} 06:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Giano - recused

Since you recused in this case, would you mind altering the number of recused arbitrators and especially the required number of votes for proposals to pass? I'm not sure how a recusal affects the number. - Mgm|(talk) 07:52, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leonard Sharrow article

I added some information that I found in his obituary; I stuck the link into the talk page but do not know how to do the actual citation in the article. Where shuold I look for that? The Cite Sources stuff in the help pages seemed way too complex for someone of my advanced age and quickly failing powers of something or other (turned 50 {8-[} on Friday). Merci! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P.S.

Today is Shostakovich's 100th. Dust off your copy of the 4th or 9th Symphony to celebrate! --Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

9th? Boo! Try the First...or one of the ballet or jazz suites... Kurt Weber 14:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC), Shostakovich Fan 4-eva!

[edit] ArbCom question

I saw your edit to /Proposed Decision in the Giano et al. case, changing the required vote numbers because you have decided to recuse yourself in the case, but I assume that Jdforrester being a party is also recused and that should be reflected as well. I can't fix it myself because only the Arbitrators are supposed to edit /Proposed Decision. Thanks, Newyorkbrad 00:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CheckUser on Commons

Hi Mindspillage,

Per the CheckUser Policy, I have been granted the checkuser permission on Commons. Thankyou for supporting this request. Requests for checkuser can be made at the Commons:Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your excellent essay

Hi! You probably haven't seen much of me around at Wikipedia, but I've been quite impressed by what you had to say at User:Mindspillage/admin. It's formed the basis of a number of editor reviews that I've given, and has proven very useful for explaining to recent change patrollers how best to approach the activity.

However, it addresses only one of a number of things that I believe should be explained better to new and inexperienced users, many of whom receive exactly the same advice when they request a review. So, I've started to write an essay of my own to address those other issues, drawing on yours as reinforcement. So, I'd just like to ask you two quick questions. :)

  1. Do you believe there are any changes that should be made to the content of that essay, so far? If I've screwed anything up, neglected any particular points or said something you utterly disagree with, I'd be really grateful to hear about it. Even a quick glance would be very helpful. :)
  2. Secondly, assuming you approve of the content and the sentiment, would you be happy for me to quote your essay (as I already have) in my own? The section that I reproduced is really nicely written, and I think it does a lot to explain the reasoning behind treating vandals as human beings.

Anything you have to say (up to, and including, "your page made my eyes bleed") would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Daveydweeb (chat/patch) 11:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism-only account

I'd appreciate it if you'd block the vandalism-only account Curtis Clark's Mom. It was evidently created by User:Lufthmark because I called him to task for some copyvios. My user page and user talk page have also been vandalized by a couple of Cal Poly Pomona IP addresses. I'm appreciative that other Wikipedians are willing to help me revert all this, but we all have better things to do. Thanks for your help.--Curtis Clark 13:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe User:CurtisClark is a sockpuppet of User:Curtis Clark's Mom and I am even more convinced that they are both sockpuppets of User:Lufthmark. I would like User:CurtisClark to change its name because of this; IMO the user is trying to create intentional confusion.--Curtis Clark 03:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS Request

Hey Mindspillage. After thinking it over for a few days, I'd like to express my interest in participating in the work that goes on with the english OTRS queue. I am an administrator here on en.wp and I have experience doing this type of work (although I'm sure Wikimedia is a whole different ballgame) for the Mozilla Foundation in processing incoming bug reports for their products for over two years now. If my help would be appreciated, I welcome a reply on your medium of choice, be it user talk page, email, IRC, or even Facebook. :-P Thanks. ZsinjTalk 14:52, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Low Saxon OTRS queue

I would like to get set up an OTRS queue under info-nds@wikimedia.org for the Low Saxon Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikisource [to be set up in the near future]). We need an own queue to handle questions and requests, that can't be handled in the public. And no, we don't want to use the general queue under info@wikimedia.org, cause this will unnecessarily slow down the answering of requests in Low Saxon. So, can you help me? And if the answer will be "I'm too busy at the moment" then please also say,

  • what exactly has to be done to set up a queue
  • what amount of time do these steps need
  • and whom could I ask instead (I already asked Elian [no time], Frieda [no time and not able to create queues {although meta:OTRS states the opposite}] and UninvitedCompany [said, he won't set up queues for dead languages. after I explained the language is not dead, he came up with a "won't set up queues for low-traffic languages" policy, but was not able to point to the text of this "policy" or willing to explain the rationale behind the "policy" or the circumstances {how much traffic is "no large amounts of traffic", how do you measure traffic, when traffic is dependant on the creation of the queue?}])

You see me frustrated of the inability of our Wiki (the word means quick!) community to set up a little queue. It is a one-time-job, it's only the setup. I'm running from one wiki to the next and everywhere I get no real answer (or no answer at all). If there is a no-setup-policy with a comprehensible rationale behind it, then point me to it. I hope your answer will be more satisfying than the others before. --::Slomox:: >< 16:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Love to volunteer for the OTRS. Auroranorth 12:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

Feeling better now? :) Scobell302 07:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS donation queue

Hi-- I'm a member of the meta:Fundraising Committee, and Mav suggested it would be useful if I could help deal with the flow on the OTRS donation queue. Though (I think) I might not have as much background as other OTRS volunteers, could you sign me up to help? Thanks, Jeremy Tobacman 18:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Can you also see the message I left on your meta page about the same subject? Thanks.Alex756 03:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What do you think

Can you tell me if you think that the indefinetly blocking of my users account is excessive and maybe able to be overturned. I was about to create an informative article on the classic Macintosh Extended Keyboard and who knew I was blocked. I thought me and Starblind were good friends, but his recent actions have left me confused. Any response will be appreciated. He has also left no message. -- Bpazolli

[edit] Reply to WikEN-l: An observation

Perhaps most women are simply smart enough to avoid putting themselves up for a crappy job. ;-)

Sadly, not all of us are that bright. ~Kylu (u|t) 02:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About disputed POVs on articles related to post-communist Eastern Europe

Hi,

I’m writting this message to you, and to User:BradPatrick and User:Joy, because I still don’t have a full knowledge of how to proceed about Wikipedia administration/mediation/arbitration.

Well, I see there’s a kind of probelm regarding the creation (by myself on november 8) of the article 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, which I’ve redirected to NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. There’s an edit war going: pro-Serbian users are trying to delete my redirect, and even when people (including myself) manifested against the deletion, the user which requested the deletion made the request again.

Please if you can help me to solve this question.

PS: Above all these problems, I don’t know about you, but I think sometimes there’s a kind of “Serbian Volunteer Guard Cabal” of users here in Wikipedia that try to make Wikipedian articles related to Serbia, Kosovo and Yugoslav Wars appear clearly pro-Greater Serbian/pro-Milosevic POV, making these articles to show an interpretation of facts very different from most of the press and academic sources around the world. A similar thing is happening now on Transnistria article, that show a clear pro-Transnistrian government POV, with a long war of arguments going on the discussion page of the article. Well, I don’t know what you can (or can’t) do about all of this, but if you have some answers pplease write to me. Best regards, --MaGioZal 13:50, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute over Quote from Newspaper and NPOV on Shepard Smith page

I saw you intervened in a dispute on the Jane Skinner page. I hope you can help out on the Shepard Smith page. There is section called Controversies where there is info about a Battery charge against Smith. A newspaper article was cited with information about the charges being dropped. The quote from the article was "dropped after a confidential payoff". The dispute is over the word "payoff" and that it implies a bribe and is a slam by the author of the article and pushes a point of view. Do quotes from articles have to follow NPOV? I can't find anything that says a quote has to be NPOV. Do you have time to weigh in on this? Thanks Misstory 00:35, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible new CSD

I'm floating around this proposal I've written for a new CSD regarding unsourced articles: User:Dmcdevit/CSD addition. There's quite a bit of explanatory fluff there that I think explains my thinking on the matter. Right now, I'm soliciting input from people before deciding how to go about implementing it. Any thoughts on the talk page would be greatly appreciated. :-) Dmcdevit·t 05:31, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You may be interested in...

this Wikinews interview. Doldrums 11:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Saw you were disappointed in missing the Philly Meetup. If you're willing to come another 90 minutes north, we have a meetup scheduled for december 9th in NYC. see Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC —ExplorerCDT 01:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

'Spillage! I'll be there! We can do soprano-bassoon duets! Mak (talk) 01:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Kat, I am a regular at the help desk and would like to volunteer for OTRS. I have also sent you an email in this regard. -- Lost(talk) 03:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urgent motion in Hkelkar case

As one of the ArbCom partaking in this case, your input/co-operation into this temporary injunction would be greatly appreciated. I wouldn't have sent you a message, but given the nature of what has occured, and the potential to stall this ArbCom case, everyone involved needs a speedy resolution or else I suspect the case will break down. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 00:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hkelkar has been unblocked; BhaiSaab admitted to attempting to contact him in real life. There may be other important issues here but I have removed the motion for emergency unblock as moot. Thatcher131 01:42, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom elections

I appreciate the vote of confidence. Nevertheless, I'm still not in a position to devote an appropriate amount of time to the job. (I'm a graduate student, and I'm hoping to crank out a couple of papers in the next six months or so. Things are going to be crazy, and the last thing I need is an excuse not to be writing.) In any case, I haven't even been able to stay on top of the article work I've been hoping to do. If all goes well over the next year, I'll probably be willing and able to stand come next December. Cheers! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

I would like to join the OTRS team. I am fluent in Russian, and have a decent amount of French, if that helps. Thx - crz crztalk 18:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Hello I am User:SuperDeng and have been indef blocked by an admin

To make a long story short

The admin who has a personal grudge against me, had made up some very nice stories about me and has continuously blocked for me 6 months. And a few months ago one of blocks ended and I made a grand total of 0 edits, but then a new char whos ip was not possbile to check appeared started makeing similar edits to mine so he was accussed of beeing a sockpuppet and I got blocked again. Now this can not be a sock puppet since I Superdeng did not do any edits and even if we were the same person then that dosent matter since superdeng was makeing zero edits the new account was created one week after my block was lifted. Bahh this is not a short story it is long. Anyway all I want is a fair trial on the arb com board where I have a chans of defending myself and not where everyone of the imaginasions of the admin is percieved as fact.

So what ever policy i violated has been served in full after 6 months.

[edit] OTRS

Hello, I would like to help with OTRS in Slovak language. I filed a request on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/volunteering but it doesn't seem to have any approvals since it was created on November 15. So I was asking at #wikimedia-otrs who's responsible for creating queues, but there seems to be some confusion in the process, they kept on redirecting me from one person to another until I was finally said that you are. So I hope this is finally the right place. I'm a bit frustrated that I want to help and can't get any helpful advice what to do.

On Slovak Wikipedia, we decided to outsource permissions-handling to OTRS in order to have an "official" and provable way of archiving them. Therefore we understand, that editors who understand Slovak are neded for that and with Mz decided to join. If I understand correctly how it works, we don't want info-sk queue (we can handle info inquiries on wiki), but we want permissions-sk, which would be also an email where our help pages could direct people to send their permissions. I hope I got it right and you can do that. Thank you. ~~helix84 21:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Love it!

Wikipedia:Follow_all_rules. Good to see you around once in a while! :) Antandrus (talk) 02:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you catching silly error! [6] It's good to know that someone's at these things once while. :- Antandrus (talk) 16:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Witty, witty. Wisdom makes the Wikipedian grow fonder. --HappyCamper 19:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

What do I do if a Arbcom is violating:

The party who is the subject of the Arbcom has not even responded yet, as he is away on business for a week, and has told me that he got an okay from the Arbcom about this. The case was just opened on 23:03, 28 November 2006.

In addition, how do you force an arbcom to recuse themselves if they refuse to recuse themselves?

Thanks a lot. I posted this message on Raul654 page too.

I will watch your page, if you would like to respond here or via my email. Travb (talk) 03:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration#How_can_I_get_an_Arbcom_to_recuse_himself_if_he_refuses.3F Sorry to waste your valuable time, the question has now been answered. Travb (talk) 06:27, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Kat,

I'd like to volunteer in helping out on the English queue. Been here for more than two years, I can speak English and Chinese languages (both native), and do pop around Commons. Let me know if there's anything further I need to do. - Best regards, Mailer Diablo 09:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiCast...

Hi, In connection with WikiCast I was wondering if you could take a look and comment? ShakespeareFan00 23:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

OK Got your message, It wasn't urgent. Even something simple like some

recordings of bassoon peices out of (C) under CC-BY-SA would be useful,that or poetry readings :-) ShakespeareFan00 15:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dispute resolution and location

User:Grace Note has objected to my bid for ArbCom appointee, noting that I've yet to overcome the issues between myself and Giano, who apparently has an ongoing grievance. I've replied to Grace Note and find some complications in the issue, considering that I'm currently a Mediation Cabal coordinator and have worked to bring the Mediation Committee back to life: Would either of the mediation options be inherently skewed in favor of either of us, thereby eliminating them as sources of dispute resolution? Would it be more fair if, for instance, I stepped down as coordinator first?

I've also considered RfC, but considering that we both have our circles of friends, I'm unsure of how inherently neutral RfC might be in this situation: Obviously my friends will say he's at fault, his friends will find me at fault. I'm afraid both would flood true independent opinions and ideas from reaching us. I'd rather use an alternative form of dispute resolution than arbitration (unless Giano refuses a preliminary step) if possible.

Any opinion on the matter would be greatly appreciated. ~Kylu (u|t) 04:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New board role

Congrats but will you be staying on on arbcom?Geni 13:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Answering on my own page since I suppose you won't be the only one to wonder; no, I am not. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 13:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Do you mean that you will be stepping down now or after your current term expires? Scobell302 20:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I am stepping down now... I don't think it's appropriate to hold both positions, not to mention that I wouldn't have any time to do it! Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 02:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Just dropping by to say hi, and congratulations on your appointment to the Board of Directors! Huzzah! It's too bad you'll be spending less time here on en, but hopefully that won't extend beyond your Arbcom role (stepping down from which can't really be described as a loss for you personally...). Looking forward to seeing you and Gmaxwell at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC (we missed you at Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 2).

Best wishes in your new job, —CComMack (t–c) 18:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I thought of saying "congratulations" then I thought of saying "sympathies" as I know the job will be a lot of work and possibly stress, then I realized the correct word is "thanks!" for being willing to take on this new role of serving the encyclopedia and the people who volunteer here. Best wishes in your new role, and please don't hesitate to let me know if I can ever be of any assistance. KillerChihuahua?!? 18:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this news is received with mixed feelings. We will miss you as you move out of some of your jobs here but look forward to seeing you in this new one. Take care, --FloNight 18:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I wish I could come up with something a little bit more personal, but sadly, we haven't interacted much... but anyways, congratulations to the board's newest member. I'm pretty sure you will carry the interests of the Wikimedia Foundation at heart. Titoxd(?!?) 23:36, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, Mindspillage; your work will always be appreciated, and I'm sure your great dedication will continue in this new capacity. Best of luck. Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Mixed feelings sum it up. What ArbCom loses, the board gains. Congrats indeed and best wishes for every success... ++Lar: t/c 01:49, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template vandalism?

What was the deal with that Wikimedia Foundation rv rv? And what is template vandalism? I saw its effect, but was not sure how it was being accomplished or how to deal with it. Robert K S 01:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I think I understand what was going on. It was in a template being used on the page... Robert K S 01:41, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Thank you, guest of honor, for attending the meetup! ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't really scheduled or anything, it was simply a matter of you being the most important guest and then I said so. ★MESSEDROCKER★ 02:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup NYC

Hey, just wanted to say hi and thank you for coming to the WikiMeetup in NYC this past weekend. —ExplorerCDT 04:10, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] <grrmble>

So, are exams through? I have about 15 minutes to harrass you... <wink> then I will be released from purgatory and can go home and use a real computer. - Amgine 04:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit]

Happy Holidays

Tony the Marine
Tony the Marine

O.K., so maybe you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones a "Happy Holidays" and all of the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 23:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

(PS: I haven't forgotten you, you are one of the best people I've gotten to know here.)

[edit] Wikipedia Club of New York

Come see: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Club of New York. —ExplorerCDT 14:20, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Congrats

Thank you! (Of course former members count... ;-) ) Flcelloguy (A note?) 20:28, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia and U.S. Federal funds?

Quick question: Does Wikipedia receive any U.S. federal grant or other federal monies? Not sure where else to ask this. CyberAnth 22:59, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MK

Yes, we were highly tight in Stuy. Less tight now due to wildly diverging life paths, but still very friendly. We spoke about you last week. - crz crztalk 03:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, when are you going to notice my little request to join the OTRS brigade way above? - crz crztalk 16:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Finals, baby. Secuirites regulation. Ew - crz crztalk 17:45, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Funny

I saw this note about a picture copyright info and then I was all what the... Kate Walsh (singer). Anomo 04:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requested recordings

Kat! We already have a recording request that maybe you could fill! Moreschi has requested the opening bassoon solo for Rite of Spring (ok, I know it's hard, but I heard enough people practicing it to know it's one of those required orchestral thingies). Maybe there should be a separate section for requests that are in the midst of being fulfilled or something? Anyway, think about it :) Cheers, and don't let certain people get you down. Mak (talk) 17:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Questions???

I read your commentary at User_talk:Badagnani with interest, in addition to your link to the Foundation's financial statements. As a board member, I hope you'll elighten me as to the following:

  1. Am I correct in understanding the WikiMedia Foundation structure [7] that Jimmy Wales essentially has veto/total power over any decision or area he chooses to become involved in, and that ArbCom, which is otherwise the body of last resort, as well as the Board of Directors, is in fact below Jimmy Wales in the foundation's heirarchy?
  2. Do you support the idea that as Wikipedia becomes more powerful, that it should be able to demand GFDL images of whomever that wishes to have an image on Wikipedia?
  3. I believe I have an understanding of the rationale of free information and photos, etc., which you took the time to outline in your view at the above User talk page, as well as from reading hundreds of other commentaries on the subject. Do you see any inherent contradiction in the "pillar" of quality when no GFDL images are, or are likely to be available for years to come of artists who do not keep a high public profile? Do you find it "quality" when the page of Cindy Crawford has no image, or that of Woody Allen has a bronze bust photo?
  4. Are you aware that there are people, especially fans and acquaintances of a particular artist or celebrity, that do not want CC licensed fan images on Flickr "nabbed" and used as substitutes for better quality images of same persons? And do not wish to provide any images under a GFDL or CC license for use on Wikipedia without consent from the person who's image it is?
  5. Why is an image of a deceased person seen as generally useful under Fair Use and Quality criteria, but images of living persons, unless released under a GFDL, not?
  6. What, if any, potential liability exists to the Foundation in using legitimate press and promo photos on Wikipedia, the same photos that are used by nearly every other media outlet on the planet? I have seen a lot of language tossed around about potential liability, but have seen no legal rationale that would show an additional liability that exists for Wikipedia that doesn't for other publications and media outlets.
  7. I read the recent materials on the current fund drive as approved by the board, but have not found the list of matching donors committed to at least $60,000 per day, as mentioned in the materials advising the need for said fund drive. Can you provide said list?

Thank you in advance, and I look forward to your reply. Tvccs 18:19, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit]

Happy New Year

(Feliz Año Nuevo)


Happy New Year from Tony the Marine 02:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year from Tony the Marine 02:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world this coming year.

[edit] Me running

Hey, I am running to be an admin just like you wanna learn about me and try to vote for the better please?Zach111493 20:15, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Yes you can send the reply to me.

[edit] Question

Hi Mindspillage, I have a question...do you know who responds to the e-mails written on this page? --HappyCamper 17:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup

Would you be interested in still trying to organize a DC Meetup sometime in Febuary? ^demon[omg plz] 01:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Calli Cox Page

Any chance this can be restored again? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Humanoid Typhoon (talk • contribs) 12:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] awareness-global.com

I'm not sure all the domains got into the blacklist.[8] Some did not include the phrase "global warming awareness". Here's what I had copied from Globalwarming awareness2007 to User:A. B./Sandbox10 before the article was deleted:

  • awareness-global.com
  • seocontest-globalwarming-awareness2007.com
  • globalwarming-awareness2007-contest.info
  • global-pink-hat-warming.org.uk
  • msnblockchecker.net/globalwarmi...reness2007.html
  • reddog-marketing.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=36
  • globalwarming-awareness2k7.info
  • network-globalwarming-awareness.com
  • nescoo.com
  • ecolo-techno.com
  • matriochka-globalwarming.info
  • big-globalwarming-awareness2007.com
  • globalwarming--awareness2007.net
  • globalwarming-awareness2007.biz
  • swc-2007.com
  • pink-globalwarming-awareness2007.com
  • awareness2007globalwarming.com
  • stork-games.com
  • spoonylife.com
  • globalwarming-awareness2007-seocontest.com
  • global-warming-awareness2007.org
  • championcheap.com
  • seophane.com/globalwarming-awareness2007
  • e-globalwarming-awareness2007.com
  • infos-jeux.com/globalwarming-awareness2007
  • globalwarming-awareness2007.promo-web.org
  • globalwarming-awareness2007.cybernetik.org

--A. B. (talk) 14:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite,toolbox

Go ahead and list yourself on my "Favorite Admins" list and make yourself a copy of my toolbox. Martial Law 04:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

I saw a comment you left on jurisdiction in rem and I wanted to see if it was a fellow legal minded person. I looked over your page. I have no idea how you can juggle law school and being on the Board of Trustees! That seems like quite a large amount of stuff to handle. good luck in school. Butnotthehippo 02:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michel

There are a lot of circuit court judges that do not have articles, we have been quite slow in creating them. NoSeptember 04:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I've finished creating at least stubs for all the former judges of the First Circuit and pretty close on the Second Circuit, which are the two I know best, as well as some reasonably detailed articles on some Circuit and District Judges (my favorite at the moment is Samuel Mandelbaum). Lots more work to be done, of course. I don't know if you are familiar with the Federal Judicial Directory resource which gives basic information on each U.S. judge. Newyorkbrad 18:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Biographies of employees of all the branches of the US Federal government should be among the easiest to create, given the lack of copyvio issues when cribbing from US government websites ;). NoSeptember 19:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Copyrights

Any ideas on resolving the contradiction? The edit-warring on Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Fair use criteria over the last couple of days was not a lot of fun. Doing it again at Wikipedia:Copyrights is just going to aggravate everyone again. Jkelly 05:23, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hey, Kat. Yeah, I saw your name mentioned and checked out your user page a while back--sorry I didn't leave a message then. I'm not at all surprised to see you active with Wikipedia! I'm afraid I'm an on-again, off-again editor, but you do what you can, right? --(Mike Dresser) 16:20, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Talk:Concert band

I see at Talk:Concert band that "a major rewrite is in progress" and that you moved parts of the article to the talk page. In reading those parts, I heartily agree with your decision to remove them from the article - not only are they factually inaccurate (who says clarinets can't play in sharp keys!) but they are not germane to the subject of the article.

I am confused by the "major rewrite in progress" comment though. If I'm reading the page's history correctly, you made that comment in 2004? Probably best to leave that type of comment out altogether, or if it must be used, then to remove it within a day or two. Best —SaxTeacher (talk) 16:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Color

Hey, I have to do something to add color to Signpost stories, too. --Michael Snow 04:44, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How much documentation for used with permission?

If someone says that they are using with permission material from a website how much documentation of the permission is needed? RJFJR 17:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer. RJFJR 02:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philadelphia Meetup 3

FYI ... Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 3 --evrik (talk) 00:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your e-mail

Hi Kat, I was wondering if you cared to weigh in at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Kat Walsh's statement. There's a fair amount of exegesis going on about what you did and did not mean exactly in your recent statement about fair-use images. Thanks! —Angr 23:38, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OMG

[9] Click it quick, before someone with an alphabetical name before yours gets promoted! Milto LOL pia 22:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] OTRS

Hi Mindspillage: I know you probably get a lot of these requests, but I'd love to help out with the OTRS queue. I speak English natively and an intermediate level of Spanish, but probably not enough to help out with the Spanish queue. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do/any other questions that need answering. (Oh yeah, I've been here just over a year and have been an admin now for several months.) —METS501 (talk) 15:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sk OTRS queue

Hallo. Your name is listed among the contact persons at meta:OTRS as a contact person. We would like to start the queues info-sk and permissions-sk for the Slovak Wikimedia projects. I have been trying to get in touch with one of the contact person for a while, but I have not received a response. Could you please help? Thank you! (w:sk:User:AtonX / w:sk:User talk:AtonX). --AtonX 09:33, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ...and people wonder...

Yeesh. And people wonder why you don't hang out here and chat more. I have a nice story about cz:wikisource, incidentally. Good folks over there. Jkelly 18:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Thanks for sending Fred Marion from the Palm Beach Post my way. The interview went great, and a week later I did one for the FSU newspaper. I noticed you're a law student at George Mason. I just got accepted to American University law school, and I'm waiting to hear back from GW, Georgetown, and George Mason law schools. So I'll soon be another florida person up your way. Anyway, just dropping by. ⇒ SWATJester On Belay! 00:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

You're invited to the
Philadelphia-area Wikipedia Meetup

Sunday March 4, 2007
5pm
Independence Brew Pub

RSVP


[edit] Happy Spread-the-funny and-slighty-random-love day!

:) pschemp (talk) 00:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
:) pschemp (talk) 00:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Creative Commons 3.0

Earlier I asked Eloquence if there was any discussion, decision, or Wikimedia position as to whether the Creative Commons 3.0 licenses (BY and BY-SA) are considered free licenses for the purposes of Wikimedia sites. He mentioned that you had some concerns about the moral rights clause in the CC 3.0 Unported license. I was wondering if these concerns have been resolved, or if discussion regarding CC 3.0 is still on going. That is, do you know if it is now OK for CC 3.0 content (images or text) to appear on the various Wikimedia sites? —RP88 06:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wall of Honor

Mindspillage, I was looking for a lame excuse to drop you a line and say "HI", so here I found one (smile)

Mindspillage, I have inducted you into my "Wall of Honor". Now, how's that for an excuse to say "Hi" and to ask you "How you been?" Tony the Marine 15:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


Wall of HonorMindspillage
Wall of Honor

Mindspillage

[edit] A flower...

A flower for the 8th of March, from User:Zocky
A flower for the 8th of March, from User:Zocky

[edit] Image:Iron_Man_riff.mp3

Seeing as I no longer have the images or the program which I used to create them, and no capability to turn them into OGG files even if I did, that sucks. Hyacinth 06:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you'all have any consideration for the amount of sound files you have gotten rid of? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hyacinth (talk • contribs) 20:33, 2 April 2007 (UTC).
Um. [10] 5? Or are you talking about something else? You could have easily converted the files to a format we accept, since Ogg/Vorbis encoders are freely available on all normal platforms and there are many people who would have been glad to help you. MP3 has been an explicitly forbidden format for many years, Wikimedia is not licensed to distribute MP3, nor would we accept a proprietary format in any case. --Gmaxwell 21:07, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dear Mindspillage

Hi, my name in commons is Cme, I have the licences from ESA / NASA but I have problems with Anna, Can you help me?

This is the lars`s response from ESA: The right link is: [11] The credit is also on the page. Cheers Lars

I have the licences while his e-mails.

We can speak in Spanish. Mejor si hablamos en español, soy español nativo. --Pediaknowledge 13:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] *poke*

Hey, just poking ya. I kind of miss our chats on Wikinews. Good to see you're busy with positive things. Here's to more time spent for the benefit of world knowledge. ;) Ironiridis 22:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

No, I hadn't seen the drama. It being Wikinews, I'm not surprised. I keep trying to come back, editing anonymously, you know. But I just can't stay away from the political nonsense. I figure, I have to stop tempting myself. Anything worth weighing in on? Ironiridis 03:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I think I understand. No, image policy doesn't appeal to me that much; I've always been much more excited about warring over UK/US spelling. Heh. Sorry to hear of your troubles there. Hey, wanna start a new wiki? ;) Ironiridis 13:42, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Wikialogo.png)

Thanks for uploading Image:Wikialogo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

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[edit] Images

The image looks like a placeholder. It looks like we're still waiting to upload an image. It makes us look shoddy. A non-free image looks bad only to the most die-hard of Wikipedians who are aware of the issue. The main page is more about image than anything else. Solutions that make the main page look sloppy are unacceptable. Furthermore, we, by longstanding tradition, give great leeway to Raul on these matters. Raul put the image back, and has offered very good reasons why we cannot put this rule into place. That counts for enough to make swapping it immediately a bad proposition. By my count, the page had about an hour of life left when you made the edit. Absolutely no reason to make it look sloppy and bad for a point hardly anyone was going to notice. Phil Sandifer 23:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Your distaste for Raul's management of the main page seems largely immaterial, as he does remain in charge. We wouldnt put an article on the main page that was waiting for an image. We shouldn't have a placeholder. Far more people will notice what looks like a missing image than will even think about the copyright issues. That's the long and short of it: you made a destructive edit to the main page - something that made us look bad to anybody who loaded the main page during any of the 15 minutes your edit was standing. That is demonstrably worse than something that made us look bad to a handful of people as obsessed with free knowledge as the most die-hard of Wikipedians. That you decided to edit war the main page is even worse - and has been a blockable offense in the past. Phil Sandifer 00:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
Phil, this being a free encyclopedia is at the core of our mission. The main page should reflect that, and the idea has gained strong and widespread support. Raul is not, in fact, king of the main page. Kat edited the main page appropriately according to the Foundation's recent comments, the goals of this organisation, and a strongly supported poll, including many strong arguments against the use of Fair Use on the main page. Mak (talk) 02:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Downtown Music

Hi Kat - Can I ask your advice? The Downtown Music article [12] I vastly expanded got tagged for original research and unattributed claims. So I added ten footnotes, all to my own books and web articles, since I'm the only person who's ever written about this. Will that satisfy them? Kylegann 10:21, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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