User talk:Antoshi

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[edit] Your article

Your article appears to be about yourself. This is known as "vanity" and is not permitted on Wikipedia. I've undeleted your article so that you can move it to your userpage if you'd like (that's permitted), but I'm afraid that autobiographies are frowned upon. — Dan | Talk 20:37, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I copied the content of the article to User:Antoshi (if you don't want it there, of course, feel free to replace it with whatever you'd like). I hope you'll continue to contribute to Wikipedia, but please read Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Your first article to ensure that your content isn't deleted. — Dan | Talk 20:42, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
I did read the whole article about Autobiographies before I posted the article, and what I have seems to be permissible. It's not really "vanity", and more about what I have a personal involvement in. Wikipedia:What wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a propaganda machine states, "you are free to write about yourself or projects you have a strong personal involvement in." --Antoshi 20:44, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
This means that, if you're particularly interested in programming or Scouting or cars, you should write articles on C plus plus, Philmont Scout Ranch, and Scuderia Ferrari. Your article appears to be about yourself only; that's the purpose of your userpage. If you're interested in Pokemon, please feel free to edit and write articles on Pokemon, but you should only write about the game, and not about yourself or a character you created. — Dan | Talk 20:55, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, that doesn't seem fair. Why is it that a character I created not applicable to something I have a personal involvement in? --Antoshi 20:59, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Deletion

Hi, I deleted the page Antoshi (which was a redirect to your user page) because redirects between namespaces (from an article to a user page, for example) shouldn't generally be done on Wikipedia. If you've seen other users do that, you should have listed them for deletion as per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion. - ulayiti (talk) 07:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unprotection

Page is now unprotected. Thanks. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 03:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] MapleStory

I didn't intend to revert the changes to the Game Issues section - I didn't see that in the diff as it was further down the page. For section titles, the WP:MOS suggests that it should be in lower case unless it is a proper noun. So, I've reverted my changes to MapleStory World and Cash Shop, but left Character classes with a lower case c. Hope this makes sense, and thanks for cleaning it up - it's such a messy article. enochlau (talk) 00:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop creating new userboxes

There is currently on moratorium on the creation of new userboxes pending final policy decision on what is the best way to delete all of them. So please stop creating new ones. In addition, the ones you are creating were simply duplications of extant userboxes and thus entirely unnecessary. --Cyde Weys 02:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the point of Wikipedia is to write an encyclopedia. There's certainly nothing about the point of Wikipedia that has anything to do with creativity or userboxes. (Actually, creativity, at least in article space, is discouraged). You can have userboxes ... if you really want, but they shouldn't be in Template: namespace, which the ones you were creating were. A better solution though is to just use prose. I.e. type something on your user page, "I'm a fan of professional wrestling", or whatever. --Cyde Weys 02:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

But, really, there's no point in saying "the point of Wikipedia is to write an encyclopedia", otherwise Userboxes never would've been created, and we would have never even had user pages. Yes, Wikipedia is about creativity, what's wrong with you? Wikipedia was created off of one man's creativity, to make an encyclopedia that everyone can update. So, please stop passing it off as something bland and boring where everyone is supposed to do things the same, and remember the point of being bold. --Antoshi 02:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
You can create your own userboxes if you really want to, just don't create a new page in Template: to do so; simply put the code directly onto your userpage. And in regards to this whole userbox thing, you might want to read up on "that one man" himself actually says about these things; see here. --Cyde Weys 03:03, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio deletion of BabeRuthSox.jpeg

Hi Antoshi, this image was deleted after a listing at WP:CP. I've also deleted the replacement that you uploaded.

Copyright protection depends not only when the image was created, but when it was published. Since this image wasn't pulbished until 1989 it's still under copyright protection. from [1]:

Works in existence but not published or copyrighted on January 1, 1978: Works that had been created before the current law came into effect but had neither been published nor registered for copyright before January 1, 1978, automatically are given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for new works: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. However, all works in this category are guaranteed at least 25 years of statutory protection. The law specifies that in no case will copyright in a work of this sort expire before December 31, 2002, and if the work is published before that date the term will extend another 45 years, through the end of 2047.

Please don't upload it again unless you can show an earlier publishing date. --Duk 06:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: NPOV on Griefer

Are you aware that when you add an NPOV tag to an article, you are expected to state your reasons in a section on that article's talk page? Please state the reasons why you feel Griefer violates NPOV on that article's talk page, or I will remove the NPOV tag. Thanks, Kasreyn 06:14, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adam Copeland

I removed the paragraph in question because phrases like "nearly suffered a career-ending bump", "Luckily, he did not" and "The extent of his injury is unknown" are, respectively, speculation, opinion and redundancy. The paragraph had no place in a neutral encyclopedia based upon confirmed facts. McPhail 09:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Your view that the bump was nearly "career-ending" is an opinion, nothing more, and thus has no place on Wikipedia. "The extent of his injury is unknown" is redundant in that the extent of the injury would presumably be mentioned in the paragraph were it known; the absence of such a divulgence indicates that the details are unknown. McPhail 16:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:696109312 m.jpg)

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[edit] Re: Hello!

That customized skin was actually the Windows Vista Transformation Pack. The screenshot was taken back when I still had XP and wanted to make it look like Vista. Recently, I upgraded to the real thing.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Gunz0148gp2.JPG

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Sneaselcard.gif)

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[edit] WP:CVU status

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 15:44, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image source problem with Image:AcclaimBots.gif

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Kittyloaf.gif)

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[edit] Spoo!

Ahoy! Re: Your message... Fantastic! To your questions, G'kar is pronounced Juh-karr or Jeh-karr... both times the J is hard, like in the word judge, with the accent on karr. Straczynski is pronounced Struh-zinn-ski, with the accent on zinn (and a silent c). If you have any other questions at all, feel free to let me know. Thanks! --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:03, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GunZ

Don't know if there's an applicable WP:MOS guideline for it, but I simply don't like seeing interwiki links in an article. External, non-Wikimedia project information should always be in the external links section, not in the article itself. I know StrategyWiki is important (I can't imagine why because I tried using it for Pokemon R/S and it was horribly incomplete) so that's why I didn't remove both links. Yeah yeah, I know, I know. hbdragon88 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Gunz0148gp2.JPG)

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