User talk:Sir Paul

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Hello Paul, welcome to Wikipedia!

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Would you please advise the full details as to the photo you uploaded into David Pearce. Thank you. ChuckM 02:42 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Ignore the above question, it's just someone being silly. Feel free to ask me if you want a fuller explanation. Evercat 02:47 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

While ChuckM is just being silly, it is true that we request that people add a little bit of info to the relevant image description page regarding source, etc. I'd certainly appreciate it if you would do so. Thanks :) Martin 18:01 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I have updated the information, as requested.

Re: Unger - Seriously? :-) If he's not a utilitarian then what is he? His position, both on self-sacrifice, and on doing harm to promote good, seems precisely to be utilitarianism... Evercat 03:11, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Seriously. :-| See the Amazon.com review I wrote, where I quote some relevant passages by Unger. In that article he says that his views differ with utilitarian ones in two respects. First, in that unlike utilitarianism, he thinks one's duties towards one's relatives differ from one's duties towards foreigners. Second, in that unlike utilitarianism, he does not think it would be right to demand a serious violation of someone's rights, even if that made the net outcome better. I don't have the reference, so my depiction of his views might be inaccurate, but I think those were basically his points.

Hi, could you have a quick look at Talk:Felicific calculus. Thanks. - snoyes 02:04, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi, please look at Talk:Jorge Luis Borges. I'm trying to avoid an edit war with you. -- Jmabel 23:52, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright tag missing

Hello, we're working hard to add image copyright tags to every image so that the copyright status is not ambiguous. I'd appreciate it if you could add the appropriate copyright tag to these images:

Image:UniversityofOxford2.jpg

Jeff 08:59, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Iamblichus

Hi, I've done a lot of work on the Iamblichus (philosopher) article you started and am fishing for a little peer review. If you are interested, look it over and any comment would be appreciated. Otherwise, thanks --DanielCD 15:32, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:IgnacyJanPaderewski.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 21:25, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

By all means, follow your intuition and tag accordingly. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 03:36, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Likewise, please take a look at these and tag appropriately. Thanks, Kbh3rd 01:00, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Image:Makingpottery.jpg

seems to be working fine for me. Are you sure it wasn't a temporary problem? Or maybe just at your end?

Seemingly a temporary problem. Sorry. Sir Paul 14:43, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Regional notice board

You are wellcome to join the Argentine regional notice board. -Mariano 17:29, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Project!

I am kindly inviting you to join our new project page!

--Sebastian Kessel ^Talk 17:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source/licensing for Image:Bunge.jpg

The image you uploaded, Image:Bunge.jpg, has no source information. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, ie in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Unless the copyright status is provided, the image will be marked for deletion on 24 October 2005.

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Hey, Sir Paul, always nice to hear from someone who seems to agree with you completely! ;) At least, on one little topic... Yeah, MichaelSirks has done a good job of doggedly hanging in there, and dodging the three-revert rule, all to support that stupid DCSD timeline and HAN quote. The Lomborg article is a mess... One gambit that might shake things up a bit is to start a HAN article. I was gonna do that a while back, but...didn't have time. Too hard. But if it got going, MS might have to divide his energies between two fronts... Wear him down. I dunno, it's all pretty odd and silly, but that's the way of Wikipedia. You gotta love it... Later on. --Tsavage 01:05, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dershowitz

The number of plagarized citations has changed for the third time. Can you please cite the source? Lotsofissues 06:41, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:JoseOrtegayGasset.jpg

Looks like someone is about to delete Image:JoseOrtegayGasset.jpg for lack of copyright info. You uploaded it, so I figure there is a fair chance you'll be able to remedy this. -- Jmabel | Talk 10:22, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] USA to Argentina

¡Saludos, compañero de Wikipedia! I'm coming to Argentina soon and wanted to see if any of my fellow Wikipedians were interested in meeting up, etc...I'm flying into BsAs on Jan. 25th and I don't know many people there, so if you'd be into talking/getting together, let me know. (BTW, cool user name, wish I thought of it myself.) Feel free to leave a message on my user page...seeya around - Paul 22:22, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Too bad you're not in BsAs...although Toronto is a pretty awesome place. Ciao Paul 01:22, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is "extraordinarily uninhibited" POV?

Hi. You removed a link from the article on Brian Leiter which I had labelled as a "sample of Leiter's 'no bullshit' blogging featuring extraordinarily uninhibited attacks on Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin" with the comment "removing POV link". I was aware when I wrote that label that "extraordinary" was likely to be controversial, but thought that "extraordinarly uninhibited" was more accurate and informative than "uninhibited", particularly for that particular posting. Clearly you disagree. I'm still trying to get a feel for the boundaries here, so I wonder if you would have accepted just "uninhibited"? Is English-style ironic understatement like that appropriate? I'd value your response.

Anyway, I have reinstated the link with quotes from it in place of words about it. Hope you approve. Chris Chittleborough 03:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. --TJive 21:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Kamm worked with the party for years and is still broadly supportive. If you have evidence of him quitting, I would like to hear it. In the meantime, I reworded the section to reflect your assertion, which you could have done rather than delete large chunks of sourced material. --TJive 22:06, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Kamm has regularly described his activities with Labour. If you are seriously contesting this I am sure I can find ample references in his blog. In any case, I can only assume you are familiar with revert policy and do not intend to break it. Given that you are being completely uncivil, I will not hesitate to report a violation. I'd encourage you reevaluate your behavior in this regard. Thanks. --TJive 22:12, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator. I'm saying I will report you to administrators if you break revert policy. I did not see any other warnings on your page, so I gave you one. If you were wise, you would comment on the subject of the matter, and do it on the relevant talk page, rather than continue personal insinuations. Also, "hit piece" was a comment on the material and its tone, not on you. I didn't particularly care who started putting those assertions in; they aren't appropriate. --TJive 22:23, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Collateral damage

I didn't block you as such, but you must have been hit by another IP block. My block log doesn't have any recent IP blocks (ie. the last few days), and you've edited other entries since the message to my talk, so I guess it's OK now. Thanks. Harr o5 22:18, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

That should be fine now. Harr o5 22:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User notice: temporary 3RR block

[edit] Regarding reversions[1] made on July 3, 2006 (UTC) to Oliver Kamm

You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future.

The duration of the block is 3 hours. William M. Connolley 07:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Visitors interested in this controversy can click here for some background. Sir Paul 06:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] source, author and permission for uploaded image

Dear Sir Paul, a while ago you uploaded la:Imago:Sir Paul.jpg. Could you please specify the author of the image (probably a friend of yours), the source (probably self-made) and the permission (e. g. PD, GFDL, etc.)? Thanks! -- la:Usor:UV 22:49, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Left-libertarianism

Do you subscribe to the philosophy, or are you just interested in the topic? Jessesamuel 14:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Hume.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Hume.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kevin_b_er 00:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, sorry. I had created the new subpage for this image, but did not include the subpage on the main page. At this time, however, its been included and you can see it on that page. Kevin_b_er 23:11, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Popper.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Popper.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --85.160.27.169 13:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Libertarian socialism

I think my personal philosophy is largely in line with left-libertarianism, with the emphasis on left. I don't know the intellectual background very well, but I'm reading Paine's Common Sense as a starting place. Are you politically active? E-mail me if you prefer a different forum to discuss this topic - jschris gmail Jessesamuel 20:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Boston Tea Party

Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [2]. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ralph Henry Carless Davis

Hi. Can I ask why you removed 'Professor' from in front of the subject's name? Are you following some convention I don't know of? No reason was given in the edit comment. AWhiteC 00:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Dictionary of Biography

Hi, Sir Paul - you seem to like editing articles about famous Australians from the past. I wonder if you would like to take a look the project page Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board/Complete to-do/Australian Dictionary of Biography (Shortcut: WP:ADB) and see if you could help out to edit or create new articles. Thanks. - Diverman 02:39, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Hastings Sibley

Hello Sir Paul, would you upload the picture HenryHastingsSibley.jpg into commons please? That would be very nice. --89.59.209.79 21:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. Sir Paul 19:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you --89.59.195.29 19:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World Transhumanist Association

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article World Transhumanist Association, 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 "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. RJASE1 ^Talk 02:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. You seem to have removed the deletion tag, though. What's going on? Sir Paul 02:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry - I hadn't realized it had been through an AfD before. It's up for AfD again for lack of sources or notability claim. Sorry for the mistaken prod notice... RJASE1 ^Talk 02:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Journal of Evolution and Technology

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Journal of Evolution and Technology, 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 "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. RJASE1 ^Talk 03:00, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

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