User talk:SimonLyall
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[edit] Re - Photo Gallery Links
Hi Simon, I thought the links I placed were to galleries that were not overtly commercial, unlike many of the remaining links on the same pages. Additionally they were to galleries that give a far better idea of places (i.e. over 1000 images of Dunedin) compared to the very mediocre photo galleries that you have let remain on virtually every article.
I certainly think the articles benefit a lot more by the links I provided compared to some of the remaining ones (whose pictures have either no captions at all, or totally irrelevant ones that add nothing). I realise there are a large number of photo sites on the internet, but 99.9% of them have little of relevance to to articles I linked to. Take Getty for example (the worlds most dominant photo library) and check their Dunedin selection. Every link I placed was to a gallery that had a large coverage of the topic - including aerial overviews of every region linked to.
Surely if you are going to remove links to photo galleries, you should not just remove the ones that have high quality, accurately captioned images, with an in depth coverage of the topic - you should also remove the ones that are poorly captioned, with low quality images, with little coverage of the subject. Did you even check them against the existing links at all?
I don't know of any commercial photo buyers who would ever go to wikipedia to look for images. However our website is used all the time by schools and students as one of the best resources of images of the areas we cover. We put a lot of effort into accurately captioning and keywording our images - more time than we do taking them.
So I beleive the few links I added would have benefited the articles and added to the total sum of knowledge - far more than virtually every one of the photo gallery links on the very same pages that you didn't remove. Cheers, David
[edit] Re: New NZ related articles
Whoops, sorry about that. I did wonder if there was a running list of new articles somewhere. Anyway, I've added the stubbs I've created to the list and stuck the page on my watch list :) Thanks, Malathos 18:02, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ivan Mauger
Thanks for adding more info to his page. --Pontsticill 17:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Meetup
Any objection to my inviting former user Konstable to the meetup, once the details are finalised? I have his email address. He's an active user at Citizendium. I feel that Citizendium editors have enough in common with Wikipedia editors that the meetup should include both. It is not my intention that the meetup discuss the circumstances of his leaving Wikipedia.-gadfium 04:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Should be no problem and provide some interest. We might also get some of the people from The Maori Wikipedia to come especially in light of things like this which looks interesting. I'll see if I can post an invite there once we are finalised - SimonLyall 04:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Language on front page
—Dear Simon, I think your information is really useful, but I have an 11 year old using the site and your quote has offensive language. Could that be changed/fixed? Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.177.11.199 (talk • contribs).
- Hi. Had a think about this one and I've decided to keep the material as is. See WP:NOT#CENSOR for some explanation behind this. If you are worried about you 11yo seeing sear words you should not let them read wikipedia. A large part of the impact of the quote is because Russ is normally very formal and nice. - SimonLyall 08:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] All Blacks article
Hi, was wondering if you could take a look at All Blacks and give some feedback on the article, particularly the lead section. Thanks. - Shudda talk 05:11, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jubilee Locos
Simon. Point taken. I have deleted the entries. Peter I. Vardy 13:01, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links
Hi, the links you provided me on my Wikinews talk page are invalid. Nzgabriel 09:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Oops, they looked like they would work. Fixed. - SimonLyall 09:28, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, they are working now. Unfortunately I will not be able to make it, sorry but good luck with your meeting. Nzgabriel 09:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] meetup
I might not make the meetup, I would have just got back from Wellington after been on a 5 day Spirit of Adventure voyage, depends if I can be bothered in driving up to Auckland :) Brian | (Talk) 09:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- wow, we don't have an article on the Spirit of Adventure, I'm surprised, will start on in the morning... Brian | (Talk) 09:56, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
- No problem, I wasn't sure where you lived so I guessed a little, trying to only notify people in the upper North Island. The Spirit of Adventure/NZ articles sounds a good idea. - SimonLyall 10:12, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Meetup2
Hello Simon - see you started notifying people (I had been putting it off for now). Any left to contact? Any part I could do? Cheers, MadMaxDog 05:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- I've left messages for all the ones I could see that appeared to be in Auckland or say Hamilton and had made edits in the last few weeks. IF you can find any others then please go ahead and inform them or if you can think or another place to post the note then please go ahead. - SimonLyall 08:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Replying to your question on my talk page - as the most active contributors to Wikipedia Maori (notably User:Kahuroa) are also active here, I wouldn't try to make separate contact. Robin Patterson 19:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Kia ora Simon, thanks for your messages about the Meetup, much appreciated. Doesn't look like I'll be able to make it this time - was thinking it might be possible, hence the delay in replying. Cheers Kahuroa 23:11, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- Fair enough, if you know someone else in mi who can make it I'm sure others at the meeting will be interested in an update - SimonLyall 18:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry for adding to this, but cheers for the invite. I will try my best to get time off work to be there, otherwise I'll just have to make it the next time! Cheers, Hauser 11:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- okay - SimonLyall 18:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lake Alice
G'day Why you are rather quick there with the little copyrights maybe I could use my own pictures then...
If your phoning Wrightson's ask for Grant if you feel it's such a issue : ) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ashhurst (talk • contribs) 12:06, 1 April 2007 (UTC).
- It is important because if another organisation owns the rights to the pictures then they could sue wikipedia for using them. Take for example the Big copyright logo in the google image you just uploaded. - SimonLyall 12:26, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
