User talk:8thstar

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Welcome!

Hello, 8thstar, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!  -- Kusma (討論) 06:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Germany

Welcome, 8thstar, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it.
  • We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

Here are some tasks you can do:

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! -- Kusma (討論) 06:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Waffenfarbe

An editor has nominated this article for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waffenfarbe. Perhaps you want to comment in that debate. To save the article from deletion, a good idea would be to cite reliable sources so the content can be attributed. You should probably make it clear that the term is used in English-language literature about the German army. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 10:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 05:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Toamasina div.png

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[edit] May 2007 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
Issue I - May 2007
From the editor

This is the first issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts.
Other areas where you can help
  • Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page.
  • More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics:
    • Transportation in Germany
    • German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
    • German Democratic Republic

Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it).

  • Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news
  • Criteria for B-Class status: The assessment criteria for B-Class have been changed. {{WikiProject Germany}} template now has 5 switches, B-Class-1 through B-Class-5 that correspond to 5 easily checked criteria that an article should meet to be assessed as B-Class. The advantage of this system is that now there is a clear boundary between Start-Class and B-Class articles. Authors of articles that were assessed as Start-Class now get more direct feedback what they should improve to attain a B-Class rating.

All of our B-Class, Start-Class and Stub-Class articles now need to be checked whether they meet any of the B-Class criteria. This is a major effort, and we need your help! If you want to help, but don't know how, please post at the project talkpage.

  • Cities and municipalities task force

A task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities has been started and is looking for help.

This newsletter was delivered by Kusma using AWB to all members of WikiProject Germany. If you do not want to receive this newsletter in the future, please leave a note at the talk page of the Outreach department so we can come up with a better spamlist solution. Thank you, Kusma 11:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image uploading

I noticed that you recently questioned Pd_THOR about why he reverted your beautiful image of a blue eye back to the original image of a blue eye. I do not believe there is a rule against it, but it is a general practice to upload a new image under a unique name (and thereby not over-writing another user's image). Then after you've uploaded it, place your image in the article(s) that you feel it is needed in and remove the other image from the article(s). Your blue eye image is a very nice. Thank you for uploading it. Jecowa 04:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)



[edit] Maps of Madagascar

Hi,
I've seen you uploaded many maps of subdivisions of Madagascar under GFDL.
I would like to encourage you to upload this very valuable work to Commons:, so that other Wikipedias would enjoy them (e.g. mg: has not yet any map-making community).
Many thanks for this great job and I hope you'll be interested in helping us a bit further :)
Best regards from France,
-- AlNo (talk) 16:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Dead Marxist.png

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Dead Marxist.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- lucasbfr talk 15:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

This is related to the above nomination, where an editor expressed concerns that the images might be in fact unfree. Can you please clear that up? Thanks a lot! -- lucasbfr talk 15:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Better Dead Than Red"

Hi ! Someone deleted your userbox called "Better Dead Than Red" ! :

User:8thstar/ubx/Dead Marxist

Can you remake it again ? Thank you.

--Krzyzowiec (talk) 19:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

The deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#User:8thstar/ubx/Dead Marxist concluded with a delete. Jon513 (talk) 22:21, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Have you ever had somebody insult you because you support President Bush.Alex1996Ne (talk) 02:46, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Better Dead Than Red

They still delete it, bro. Smash the reds !

--Krzyzowiec (talk) 04:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dead Marxist.png

Hey, I know you're trying to make a point, but this image is still a derivative work of a copyrighted image. That means that it is not a free image, and thus cannot be in your userspace. Natalie (talk) 18:00, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Both images of which your image is a derivative work are copyrighted, and both (Image:Cheicon.jpg and Image:CheHigh.jpg) can be freely used to "propagate the memory of Che Guevara". Somehow I doubt this is what they had in mind. The image on your userpage is currently being discussed as a possibly unfree image - a link can be found on the image page. Natalie (talk) 21:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Uh, that same quote says "I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che." I think a picture of his face with a big "no" sign through it would count as denigrating the man's memory. And the context of his statement about social justice makes it quite clear that he means the sort of social justice to which Che subscribed. Natalie (talk) 22:28, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, 8thstar! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 12:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] McCain

Hi, 8thstar. I noticed that you changed the image at the top of the John McCain article. However, there was no edit summary, so I'm not sure why. Anyway, there's been discussion at the talk page for that article, regarding which image would be best. The image that you inserted is not the best, because its at least four years old. There's a photo from last month that many of us prefer. Would this one be okay with you?

Ferrylodge (talk) 03:10, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] hey

I don't know if you noticed, but I used your McCain userbox for a few months. :D Thanks Enigma msg! 18:32, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

At "242px" your userboxes pile on top of each other, unreadable. It took about "780px" to unpile them on my screen. Andyvphil (talk) 03:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - March 2008
From the editor

This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk
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    • Transportation in Germany
    • German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
    • German Democratic Republic

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  • Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
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  • Cities and municipalities task force

The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here

  • Article Assessment:

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[edit] Sultana image

I uploaded a version to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sultana (steamboat) that is just below the 1000px threshold if you'd like to comment again. MrPrada (talk) 23:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] McCain userbox

Hi 8thstar. How would you feel about substituting this image into the McCain userbox? I made it myself from the image you're currently using. I think the blue background looks a lot better.Ferrylodge (talk) 16:26, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. Do you think that the image with the light green background is an improvement at the top of the John McCain article, compared to the image with the black background?Ferrylodge (talk) 23:14, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Glad to hear it. I felt the same way.Ferrylodge (talk) 23:32, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FP image

I'd bet that's because of a move to Commons, where the WP FP tag probably doesn't exist. In any case, it should be fixed now. Thegreenj 23:29, 18 May 2008 (UTC)