User talk:BartBenjamin

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[edit] Great Work!

I just wanted to thank you for the great job you did on the SS Morro Castle page. I was hoping someone knowledgeable would come along and give that page the attention it needed. Excellent work. I put together a page on the SS Noronic myself, but there are still a lot of maritime disasters that need attention, so I'm glad to know you're around. And hey, if you ever feel like starting a page on the SS Yarmouth Castle fire, go for it! I've been meaning to start that page myself, but just haven't found the time. Thanks again for your valuable contribution. -- Jagvar Apr 7, 2005

[edit] More good work

I want just wanted to thank you for getting the information about Titanic's rudder rewritten and corrected. It was the last part of the RMS Titanic aritcle that I felt was still questionable. Getting the technicalities down was beyond my ability. Thanks again and keep up the good work. MechBrowman 04:00, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Illinois community college system

Bart, I noticed that you work at Triton College and did the article on that college. Would you mind taking a look at my new article Illinois community college system and see if it sounds right to you? DS1953 06:35, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images related to Titanic

Hi BartBenjamin, could you put the copyright information for Image:Californian.jpg and Image:Carpathia.jpg?

Thanks MechBrowman July 7, 2005 15:31 (UTC)

[edit] Gettysburg Address

I made some "peer review" suggestions. Hope they're helpful. Kaisershatner 18:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC) Thanks for cleaning up this page and replacing my HTML with Wiki. It looks and reads much better with fewer line spaces. Bart 00:18, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC) You're welcome. It's good to keep articles in a roughly common style and using the Wiki markup instead of raw HTML helps to do that. Hal Jespersen 00:30, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I made some copyedits/structural changes. Hope you like them. Also, can you provide a source for the "Wills invited Lincoln as an afterthought" statement? That's fascinating and readers should know where that comes from. Kaisershatner 19:39, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

I reverted your spelling correction of "battle-field" because that is how Lincoln spelled it. I recall seeing this specifically referenced in a discussion of how the English language and spelling evolves over time. I, unfortunately, do not own an original manuscript of the Gettysburg Address to verify this, though the fact that it was originally transcribed with the hyphen would tend to back my sometimes faulty memory. The modern spelling is used in the text of the article, of course, but Lincoln's spelling should be used in the transcription of the document itself. Thanks. -- Kbh3rd 04:33, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I left a note at Talk:Gettysburg Address regarding how to archive old talk categories. No big deal, but just FYI. The article is looking better and better - we should aim for WP:FAC soon. Kaisershatner 16:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. The article is really getting better. We need to refer to WP:FAC and the guidelines for FA's. There are lots of details that count, like making sure the references are properly formatted. I would recommend looking at some of the current FA candidates to see what kind of vetting they go through and to see if we can head off some of the easy ones. I'll look for more sources we could potentially include to give some different viewpoints. I'm glad you drew my attention to this article - it's a great subject and you've done a nice job with it. Kaisershatner 19:38, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

OMG you're going to love what I just found in the public domain. Kaisershatner 19:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey - I saw your recent edit so I know you're around. I think it's time to resubmit to Peer review, and hopefully make a final push toward FA status. (see my notes at Talk:Gettysburg Address). You agree? Kaisershatner 19:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello - tomorrow will be 1 week of Peer review and there haven't been new comments since the references were fixed. As noted on Talk, I've already run it against WP:FAC and I think we look good. Want to do the honors of nominating it, or shall I? Kaisershatner 18:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Hooray, we're looking good, and happy holidays to you too. Re: your questions, I have to admit I've been wondering the same thing. I'll poke around the wikifaqs a bit, but basically the answer isn't clear to me either! FYI once we do get FA status, I have in mind as our next step to request to be the front page article on either Presidents' Day or Lincoln's Birthday or something coming up soon, rather than waiting around for next November. Best, Kaisershatner 18:07, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

CONGRATS, and happy new year. As of this edit:[1] GA was removed from FAC and Talk:Gettysburg Address now indicates it is a Featured Article! Update your user page. I'm going to see if we can get GA onto the Main Page, as I noted above. It was really fun working on this with you - I learned a tremendous amount about a fascinating subject - one of the major reasons I enjoy using the wikipedia. Hope to see you around - Kaisershatner 14:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your note! See our nomination at Wikipedia_talk:Tomorrow's_featured_article Kaisershatner 16:54, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:VtransitsJ.jpg

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[edit] Image Tagging Image:Occultation.jpg

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[edit] Re: Occultation.jpg

I have clarified the copyright information for this photograph, per your request. Please note that this is a shared image file from the Wikimedia Commons website.

I am not particularly pleased that a) you deleted the picture the same day that you issued a warning thereby giving me virtually no time to address the issue, b) a copyright notice "self|cc-by-sa-2.5" had existed on that page since December 13th, so I don't understand why "the copyright status was unclear," and c) it should have also been clear from reading my caption that this photograph taken by the same person who posted it -- namely me, User:BartBenjamin.

I am still rather new to Wikipedia and therefore do not always know the best designation that various images should carry. Perhaps the following designation that I have changed it to will more meet with your approval than the previous designation. Bart 01:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.

What happened is a bit complicated: It looks like the image existed on both Wikipedia and Commons. The Wikipedia version didn't have any source information, and was tagged as such. The Commons version was tagged as {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}}, and indicated the source. Because of the way the Wikipedia software works, the image shown was the copy from the English Wikipedia, while the description was a combination of the two, indicating that the image was unsourced, but under the cc-by-sa license (not that unusual, people often upload images and indicate a free license, but don't give enough information to verify it).

At this point, OrphanBot, a program I wrote to try to clean up the mess of unsourced images, came along and spotted the {{nosource}} tag on the Wikipedia copy of the image. Since it thought the image had no source information, it removed it from Occultation. Shortly afterwards, User:Nv8200p deleted the Wikipedia copy of the image, since it had been tagged as {{nosource}} for over a week. The copy of the image on Commons appears to be just fine. --Carnildo 05:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Awards received\Barnstars

I added a new section to your userpage which I found missing, Awards Received, so I could give you the 2 barnstars I thought you deserved for your work on the Gettysburg Address article, please, do re-edit it to fit your page scheme. Once again gratz on your great work :) --Chaos Reaver 01:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You're very much so welcome :)

About the barnstars, you're welcome :) It's my duty as wikipedian to recgnize those who do particularly fine works to the community, and yours was one of the best I have seen of late. Keep up the good work! Two thumbs up :) --Chaos Reaver 01:19, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page

Yes, I saw it too! I'm delighted. Great work on that article & all the best. Kaisershatner 20:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A new project for us?

Bart, hope all's well. Trolling WP:FAC I noticed the (atrocious) United States Bill of Rights, and have launched into a major rewrite. Given the similarity of the subject to our previously successful collaboration, I thought you might want to take a look, and would welcome your contributions. Obviously, it's going to be much broader than the good old GA was, but that means more help will be required. All the best, Kaisershatner 16:08, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bart, I'm trying to get this one over the goal line: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates#United States Bill of Rights. I'm just asking that in the event the article meets criteria you would vote to support - if you don't think it's ready, then vote against, I won't take it personally. Regards, Kaisershatner 16:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Morro Castle 1.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Venus transit BB.jpg

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[edit] Hello

I just stopped by to say hello. Have a nice day Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 22:25, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sheryl Crow image

Do you know what the original picture of Crow that was deemed inappropriate was? Hyacinth 19:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: warning anons about vandalism

Hello there, I was looking at the Recent Changes page and noticed your alert on the Admin. page on vandalism.

While I'm not an admin, I did want to let you know that if you do encounter an anonymous user who is vandalising articles, but who lacks a talk page, you are welcome to start a talk page for that user by clicking on the "discussion" tab and typing out your warning. I hope this helps. --Tachikoma 02:25, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Century of Progress

Hi! It seems that on 17 April 2005 you added an external link to said article about the controversy between Germans and Americans over the Zeppelin and German Politics. Unfortunately the link has become broken. If you can find the page again please let me know, as I'm interested in all things Zeppelin, and also in all things "Bucky/dymaxion". --BjKa 13:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Morro Castle 2.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Morro Castle 1.jpg)

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[edit] Gettysburg Address FAR

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