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[edit] Alignment

Yes. I'm in the latest Firefox. I don't remember if I checked it in IE too. It definitely looks different. I don't know why. I'll have to check the HTML code that it puts out. — BRIAN0918 • 2006-06-14 02:56

[edit] Thanks for the cats! {**purrrrrrr**}

Oh, it's so nice to see someone helping with (or even evidence of having looked at :-) the rather rudimentary new page I put up yesterday. It was made more difficult by the fact that I only had the Hebrew edition at hand, which meant I had to translate or transliterate everything, besides confirming names (people, institutions) for internal links. Still, it was worth it -- I'd just gotten so tired of seeing the Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust as a redlink every time I typed it in a reference or "further reading" citation. Next week at the library, I'll fill in what's missing.

Meanwhile, I really appreciate your adding categories. That's something with which I have, as yet, only limited familiarity. Something else for my "Wikipedia Editing 101" list... Thanks! -- Deborahjay 13:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New York towns

How do you suggest sorting out [1] and all the similar pages? --SPUI (T - C) 07:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Great job misrepresenting my position - I'm not saying we should "pretend the towns and villages are the same thing". I think the articles should start off "Foo is a town in New York, containing a village with the same name." There would be a section about the census stats, separated by town and village. There would be general information about the town and village, some talking about both and some about one or the other.

A possible alternate solution would be to move the village to the undisambiguated title, as it is typically the center of population of the town. Then we at least have a default to link to. But the current "solution" just doesn't work. --SPUI (T - C) 07:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

However, the village is a lot smaller in area and has a defined "town center". Is there a New York WikiProject? --SPUI (T - C) 08:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

New proposal: Wikipedia:Political subdivisions of New York --SPUI (T - C) 01:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Artrain USA image

thanks muchly for finding that image, it makes the article loads better. Much appreciated! ++Lar: t/c 04:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge of Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Lowell Tucker

Hey Pharos, just wanted to ask for your clarification on Talk:Kristian Menchaca. You said Yes, I see now reason they shouldn't be merged into Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Lowell Tucker. Did you mean "I see no reason"? "Now" instead of "no" seems to change the meaning of the sentence, so I wanted to be clear. Thanks! TomTheHand 13:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Hey Pharos, long time no type. It seems our paths have crossed again over at Talk:South Brooklyn. Just wanted to thank you for stepping in and helping me mediate. Take care. --Howrealisreal 14:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Unisphere-cc.jpg

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Kjetil_r 01:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I have tagged the following photos as no source:

Unless the artist has been dead for 70 years, one may not photograph a piece of art and use a free license. Please see Commons:Derivative works. Do you know the name (or the date of death) of the artist? Kjetil_r 02:08, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi again, I notice that you have removed the “no source” templates. You write that thay are “public monuments”, but AFAIK, the US copyright law only divides between architecture and art. Public architecture is ok to photograph, public art is not (there are many pieces of public art in the US up for deletion now at COM:DEL, see also User:Alx/Sandbox#USA). I can agree to that The Unisphere may be architecture and thus ok, but these four images can not IMO be called architecture.
You also write that “nothing created before 1923 in the US is copyrighted” - if so, you should anyway state the name of the artist and the year that the statue was created. Kjetil_r 13:04, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belt regions of the United States

Do you have sources for your rewrite of the intro, specifically the part saying that the usage was first for agrictulre (e.g., cotton belt) rather than sociological (e.g., Bible belt)? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just curious about what historian might have studied this. - DavidWBrooks 14:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Populist Party of Maryland.jpg)

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[edit] Giovanni da Verrazzzzzzano

The problem is that "Verrazano" is wrong, and sounds ridiculous to an Italian... and Verrazzano was Italian, isn't he? Shakespeare was called "Scespirio" in Italy some times ago, but nobody uses this forms today.... Probably the article must be moved to Giovanni da Verrazzano. Please don't remove the redirects I've done. Let me know and good work! --Attilios 09:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

What is you say is reasonable. But I've found THE source that will definitively confirm my view... if you check Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find the navigator called exactly as Giovanni da Verrazzano, while the bridge is effectively cited as Verrazano. So probably the form by which he is best known is one, but the correct one is different also in English. Let me know. --Attilios 09:10, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
This Encyclopedia is written in English, but it is not the Encyclopedia of English-speaking people. That's a subtle difference... "Verazano" may be the most common variant for people of English mother tongue (but I doubt that is true only for US-Canada people who knows the famous bridge), but for ALL other users in the world using this encyclopedia as reference we must give them the "correct" version. --Attilios 10:04, 4 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] 2006 Long Island Sound Plane Crash

Help!, other useres are trying to delete my article but I objected saying that the plane crash is notable. Please vote keep on the vote page in order to save this article. Storm05 18:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Folk school

Hi. Thanks for your answer. As I did so you suggested --15:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC), could you please check out the text ; I'm aware of a en-3 only level about my fluency. I also tried a sentence there but I'm quite sure it's not properly written so I daren't publish it in that form. Yet, the idea is there (it is highlighted in bold caps).

Regards,

The Lilliputian.

[edit] re:DYK

Yes, but he did it in a rather... strange way, so I had to revert.  Grue  17:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Language template

Hi Pharos. Are you aware of Brian0918 and Raul's renewed attempt to cut languages from the Main Page language template? There is a discussion at Talk:Main Page that you might want to add your thoughts to. Best, Tfine80 15:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Pharos of Alexandria1.jpg

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[edit] Forgotten biographies bounty

I think that the recently promoted Theramenes qualifies for the George Psalmanazar Prize bounty that you offered. A German biography of the subject was published in 1949, but I believe that no other biographies have been written. Let me know if it meets the criteria. --RobthTalk 19:31, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] just a note

Hi Pharos, I've gotten re-involved in updating items on the Main Page recently and have been thinking "Doesn't Pharos normally do all this stuff?" So I come by to see why you've been slacking off so horribly and see that I am just out of the loop.  ;) I hope that you are enjoying your break and come back refreshed. - BanyanTree 16:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup

It was a pleasure to meet you, hopefully we will have a Brooklyn meetup one of these days! -Reagle 16:40, 11 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 04:21, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Club of New York

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

[edit] Adam Air Flight 574

See these two comments at WP:ITN/C. -- tariqabjotu 02:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stub articles on ITN

There is no criteria against stub articles on ITN. The article will grow quickly enough once it has been linked from the main page. Thue | talk 10:51, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles are required to have a substantial update. One sentence is not a substantial update. Believe me, if it's a major event, the article will grow on its own. We shouldn't show it off too early; the Main Page is not meant to be a sandbox.--Pharos 10:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I don't believe that. I have seen many worthy news items, such as natural disasters killing thousands in 3rd world countries, not having articles, or having only stub articles. I think using ITN to kickstart such articles is reasonable; WIkipedia is a work in progress, and IMO ITN can reflect that. Thue | talk 11:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Patriarchate copyrights

In the article about the Ecumenical Patriarch in the Greek wikipedia. These images can be used as long as u mention the source, as said here. The translation from Greeks is: The image is copurighted, but the copyright holder allows the usage of this image as long as the source is mentioned. Thus, I hope I have not violated any wikirule. I am not very much aware in uploading images. If there is something else u want to ask me to do about it, let me know. Regards Hectorian 22:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Last November, Pope met with the Patriarch in Istanbul. The Press Offices of Vatican and Ecumenical Patriarchate had created the site www.patriarchate.org with images, texts, sound and video from the historical meeting. The photos you mentioned have been copied from that site, which unfortunately is no longer on-line. I really do not know what happens with copyright in these cases. In any case, when these photos were uploaded, the specific web site allowed free use with attribution. Please let me know what can be done in this case...--Kostisl 00:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I am afraid the site is different from the one at the previous address (www.patriarchate.org). I can now only find a "public gallery" (http://www.ecupatriarchate.org/gallery/main.php), which nevertheless does not mention anything about copyright. --Kostisl 13:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FSC

Thanks, but I think Makemi is the one who deserves most of the credit. :)--§hanel 07:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll be be sure to congratulate her in an appropriately grand manner when she wins :)--Pharos 07:50, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Seconded, but thanks for the gramophone anyway! =) --YFB ¿ 02:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vote registration

I didn't understand what voter registration would achieve. But as I learned some more I now understand that at least in USA you become able to vote and so on in the party itself. I don't know if I missed it last time. But I didn't see the point of why one would register. In Sweden we join the party itself seperate from any official government intervention because the government shouldn't know my political thoughts which they could prosecute you by. Seems everything is explained in the article, dunno what I was thinking. Lord Metroid 09:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for your suggestion

near by rock painting
near by rock painting

about the animal sacrifice photo. I understand the objections to it staying where it is and really only began this tempest in a teapot because I'm sick and bored and feeling irritated. I am satisfied myself as to what I found. I think removing it would be wikipedia's loss, but that's okay too. Things come and things go. The woman with me at the time has had a fait amount of experience in the darker side of things and imediately knew/felt that it was a sacrifice scene. Perhaps you had to be there. Anyway, here is a picture of the rock painting that was looking down at all of us. Remember that this spot is . . .nowhere, on the way to nowhere. I discovered it because I was searching for petroglyphs and using line of sight navigation to reach the top of a nearby high hill. There are no paths out there. Anyway, nice to meet you, Pharos. Carptrash 15:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Neen.PNG)

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[edit] typo

Hi, I just wanted to point out a typo on this talk page. You have "Golden Age of / Hip Hop / Jan 15 - Feb 15 / 2005", but I reckon you mean, 2006. Ciao! Pinkville 04:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks; I really should add some more archives, huh? I just need a couple more decent Golden Age articles...--Pharos 05:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome. Well, there's Golden Age of Athens, Golden Age of India, Golden Age of Armenia, and of course Golden Age of Piracy. Right, you said "decent"... Golden Age of Athens it is. [At least until the others have been fleshed out a little.] ;~) Pinkville 05:34, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Buddhist art up for featured article review

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[edit] Recent moves re. Madagascar

Please revert your recent moves. There's been discussion on this, and your unilateral actions are against consensus. Especially re. Talk:2006 Madagascan coup d'état attempt, where there's been an agreement to use "Madagascan". – Chacor 01:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe so, but it's better to discuss first, especially since there's been prior discussion, don't you think? – Chacor 01:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] cylinders.library.ucsb.edu

Thank you for finding this collection. I'm currently writing a script to transfer the entire edison library to commons, with complete metadata.--Gmaxwell 15:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please Alphabetize Names

Hello -- you recently fixed the Ashkenazi-centric portriat collage on the Jew article. However, I am now wondering if you could please put the names in alphabetical order by last name. I've tried to figure out how I could do it myself, but I cannot figure out how to reorder to the photos. In the interest of fairness please do this. Thanks. --172.161.208.143 02:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that "aesthetics" or "visual balance" really matters much with such a low-resolution/grainy image. In this collage the women are still placed behind the men in the portrait; it's always best to alphabetize names in the interest of fairness and NPOV. --172.132.31.106 04:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested songs

Hello Pharos, I noticed that you requested some songs, and since I'm a singer, I thought I'd let you know I'm interested! If you can either send me pdf's of the songs you'd most like, or give me some more particulars so I can find them, I'd be happy to see if I can record some of them. Cheers, Mak (talk) 03:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

First installment: Image:Hunters of Kentucky.png Image:Hunters of Kentucky.ogg wikisource:Hunters of Kentucky. I leave it to you to put these where you see fit on Wikipedia. Cheers, Mak (talk) 00:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Library of Congress images

Any news on the reorganization of Category:Library of Congress images? Is it a candidate for speedy deletion based on CSD C1 or C3? --Iamunknown 07:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

What do you think about my edits to Image:3c22206t.gif and Image:21056r.jpg? I replaced Template:Library_of_Congress with Template:LOC-image + Template:Fairusein. The problem that I realized afterwards is that whatever category Template:LOC-image dumped to would need to have a _ NOGALLERY _ tag exactly because of those two images (or more, if we tagged more copyright images with LOC-image). It is frustrating. --Iamunknown 05:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advertising record

Your nomination for featured sound status, Image:Advertising Record.ogg, gained a consensus of support and has been promoted. Thank you for uploading and nominating it! --KFP (talk | contribs) 11:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured sounds

I have uploaded an edit of your Four Seasons nomination, you may want to check it out and give your opinion. Also, see the message I left further up your page, in case you missed it in the flurry of messages :) Cheers, Mak (talk) 19:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Four Seasons

Your nomination for featured sound status, Image:01 - Vivaldi Spring mvt 1 Allegro - John Harrison violin.ogg, gained a consensus of support and has been promoted. Thank you for nominating it! --KFP (talk | contribs) 20:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Campaign song

Image:Tip and Ty first.ogg, just the first verse, Image:Tip and Ty full.ogg all twelve verses. I'm not sure the second one came out as well as I'd like, I think maybe my position wrt the microphone changed too much or something. I might try again later, but if I do I'll just upload it over the old one, or you could just add the short one to whichever article. Cheers, Mak (talk) 06:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

It's a variation of the same song/tune. What's in the link you gave me was just the introduction, though, I haven't been able to find an image of the actual verses, although that would make a good illustration. The accompaniment I did was just chords based on the chords given in the version you sent me. I think I'll try another version this afternoon, but if I don't upload it by tonight (EST) go ahead and do DYK. Cheers, Mak (talk) 18:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Andrew Jackson

I placed a Request for Protection regarding the Andrew Jackson page in the appropriate forum. I'd ask that you take another look, and reconsider your very recent unprotect, as it's quite apparent that the vandals were simply "waiting in the weeds" for this article to be unprotected. The most recent vandalism was done in stages, and was rather complicated to undo. It would be simpler just to leave the protection on the article, as it would allow us to identify the vandals, and would probably decrease vandalism to almost nil on the article.K. Scott Bailey 00:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:250px-Colonialhongkongarms.png

Thanks for the support. I felt strongly that I was correct but frankly do not know enough about copyrights and did not want to get into an edit war over the speedy deletion tag. The image already got deleted..that was quick. Also, this is rather a silly question: do you have any suggestions for me so that I may become more knowledgeable about copyrights? I'd really appreciate any advice. Again, thanks much. --Iamunknown 04:29, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Hi Pharos. On March 7, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tippecanoe and Tyler too, which you created. Thanks for writing it! If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Picaroon 23:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Congrats :) It's quite a good article. Mak (talk) 23:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#United states, a nation of swindlers

Hi. Cool, concise, and correct. And including any "yes, but"s I may have had. If there was one, the 'I wish I had written that' barnstar to you! --Shirt58 11:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

University library database access, for, mmm, reasons. As per your recommendation, will have a look-see! --Shirt58 10:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MP Fair Use

I've started a discussion on removing FU exemption status from MP templates, if you have a moment please check in at Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use_exemptions#Removing_exception_in_policy_for_.22Main_Page.22. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 12:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Signpost: Features and admins

Hello, Thank you for adding the two sounds to the F&A section of this weeks Signpost. It's my third week doing this and I am getting around to making it 100% correct every week. Once again, thanks and have a great day. Extranet (Talk | Contribs) 05:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:NotQuiteEvil665

Howdy, I didn't see any warnings or anything for NotQuiteEvil665 before you blocked him/her, what's up? It's considered standard practice. Regards, - CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

See warnings at User talk:63.215.28.130 and User talk:NotQuiteEvil555.--Pharos 23:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah, gotcha. Request for the future, please consider linking to that info on the other pages so folks like me don't get too confused when we're trying to figure stuff out.  :D Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 23:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE

That image is legally because I caught it on Blogeko.. blogeko has our licence...:-) Do you speak italian? I'm not a vandal but an exul from it.wiki... Flavio/Tigre Reietta 12:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HELP HELP

HELP ME my dear Pharos... help me!!! I'm very unhappy... all my hard work may be delayed... please... save my images... They have been capured from fishbase... but could they are legaly? Do you put them legaly..Insomma potresti renderle legali? Ti chiedo umilmente aiuto... My dear Pharos...I want only to adorne wikipedia... I love our enciclopedy... please... Usa il Fair use Flavio/Tigre Reietta 19:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old Lighthouse?

I'm familiar with the ancient Library of Alexandria, but I'm not sure how Pharos refers to The Statue of Liberty, as noted on your User Page. Would you mind enlightening me? Even a short reference would be appreciated. I am curious. Thank you! Valaqil 16:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Conflict and change in Iraq

Template:Conflict and change in Iraq 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. -- LeCourT:C 06:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Since you are the author and contributions by others have been pretty minor I'd say tagging it for speedy deletion using {{db-author}} would be appropriate. -- LeCourT:C 06:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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