User talk:Mirv

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Leave comments below. I refactor this page as the voices in my head command. Anything written here may be moved to an entirely inappropriate location, summarized in a misleading and self-serving fashion, translated into multiple dead languages, archived where no-one will ever find it again, deleted without explanation, encrypted, or graven in stone tablets and sealed in a vault.

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[edit] the annals

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What chapter in the Annuls of Tacitus does he make mention or refers to the cruxifiction of Jesus Christ?

Crucifixion? Nowhere. For what he does mention, see Tacitus on Jesus. —Charles P._(Mirv) 22:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pope Pius XII

Hi. Based on your comments here, you seem relatively knoweldgeable about the current Wikipedia consensus on how to display POV images in a NPOV manner. I was hoping that you could weigh in on a similar discussion at Talk:Pope_Pius_XII#Hirschberger_image. As you can tell from that page, I have already voiced my opinion on the matter, but I would appreciate your input whether you agree with me or not in this instance. As an added benefit, it seems like you have a history of contributing to catholicism-related articles. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 07:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Economy of Africa

Hi, you were a contributor to this article, which is on the verge of being delisted as a FA. Can you return to help? Urgently requires inline citations and enhanced information in a few places. It's been copy-edited nicely by Peirigill. Tony 04:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attila the Hun

For over a year this article has contained a section on Attila's youth (last 3 paras of "Background and beginnings") which appears to be based entirely on recent historical fiction... no sources are cited. I would have just deleted it but the article is listed as a core biography etc with you named as contact. So please either delete or cite a source if you know of one. 82.6.76.13 11:08, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stormfront (website)

Mirv, since you just looked over this article and request a cite, could you care to comment on an edit war we're having? We have an editor who's removing all citations from the article that link to the Stormfront website, on the grounds that it violates wikipedia policy to link to a hate site. The concern is that to reference such a site by linking to it will only increase the Google Pagerank of the hatesite-- something no one wants, except perhaps for the few neo-nazis who come to Wikipedia. The argument is made that nothing is lost, since the references are in the history (or else hidden in comments inside the wikicode).

I'm certainly no fan of neo-nazis and racists, but I'm loathe to start prohibiting links to sites based on their political content. Can you imagine the debate to decide what is and what isn't a hate site? Sure, the Neo-Nazis and the KKK are easy calls, but how about the Nation of Islam? the Jewish Defense League? or the Westboro Baptist Church (the "God Hates Fags" people)? Ugh-- what a nightmare.

The editor doesn't cite any policy to support the idea of hiding citations, I've never heard of just doing such a thing, but I'm hesistant to just edit war against it, as that doesn't really solve anything. Do you have an opinion on the matter or how it could be resolved? --Alecmconroy 03:12, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just war

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Just war, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Just war. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.

Since you worked on this article, just letting you know... Armon 00:35, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jacuzzi

moved to talk:Jacuzzi

[edit] Image:Andrew Archibald Macdonald.jpg

Hello Mirv, you uploaded this image long time back and tagged it with {{PD}} which is an obsolete tag. Could you provide some copyright information, so that a suitable tag could be put on. Regards, Shyam ^(T/C) 16:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

{{PD}} is copyright information. I got the image from the website of the national archives of Canada; they clearly state that it is public domain, though not precisely why, and I have no reason to doubt them. I'm not sure what else is necessary. —Charles P._(Mirv) 19:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for providing information. It is now available on commons with {{PD-Canada}}. Thanks for the quick response. Shyam ^(T/C) 21:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mirv! Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake! Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lovelaughterlife♥talk? 18:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

Hi I am message you because you contributed a section to Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars

• Help other wikipedians enjoy Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars even more

Thanks, Travb (talk) 12:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

The article Arabs and antisemitism, to which you have helped contribute, has been flagged as requiring cleanup. If possible, we would appreciate your assistance in cleaning up this article to bring it up to Wikipedia's quality standards. If you are unsure what the nature of the problem is, please discuss this on the article's talk page. If you do not want to receive bot-generated messages on your talk page, please consider using the nobots template on your user talk page

[edit] Latin translation?

If I am following the thread correctly, you can translate Latin, and know a few other editors who can as well. Is this correct? If so, would you consider taking a stab at Versus de scachis? You can find the source here: [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maury Markowitz (talk • contribs) 23:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 03:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Linkimage

Template:Linkimage has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 22:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg

Hello,

I have been contacted directly concerning this post: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg&oldid=6520084

My permission was never granted for the useage of that image, nor was this image purchased from me for use in this manner. For the short time this image was available on SXC, about 3 years ago, ALL of my images (including this particular image) had strict copyright restrictions attached to them. Not a single image was available for commercial re-distribution or use, and none of the image in my portfolio ever had any copyrights released for public domain. My permission was never sought, nor was it givien for this image to be used in this fashion.

I know that there are many amateur photographers who openly release their images with Creative COmmons licensing or give up their rights all together. I, however, have never given up one single copyright to any image and retain all rights to all of my images. While SXC is a great resource for free image material on the net, be sure that you read the license agreement that goes under every image on the site, to avoid mistakes like this from happening in the future.

I have asked for the image submission to be removed.

Thank you, Kelly Cline —The preceding incompletely signed comment was added by Kclinephoto (talk • contribs) 07:49, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg

A tag has been placed on Image:Pecorino-romano.jpg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet very basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{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, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 21:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

It was deleted by Garion96 (Talk | contribs) as a "copyright violation" at 00:21 on 19 March 2007 (UTC) per this log entry. Thank you for your understanding.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 00:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

hey buddy, stop deleting my thing of A.C.M.