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[edit] British Rail logo

Just thought I'd let you know that I replaced your PNGed British Rail logo with a nice shiny new SVG version...

—Wereon 19:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mrmiscellanious Banned Me After Voting @ Wikinews.

Hi, I'm not sure where else to contact you since I'm now banned from making edits at Wikinews.

Mrmiscellanious banned me from wikinews in retribution for exercising my right to vote against a potential admin he supported here. As my history of edits will show, I made no other edits or comments on Wikinews since that vote at all. I just voted, then was banned by Mrmiscellanious shortly thereafter.

If there was already clear consensus of a dire problem with me existing on Wikinews, why did Mrmiscellanious wait until after I made that vote (he didn't agree with) to ban me? I signed up some time ago and Mrmiscellanious (and others) observed me in the Water Cooler back in early February, but no ban was made against me (by Mrmiscellanious or anyone else) until I made that vote.

The timing of this ban is about power and control, not truly enforcing policy, consensus and making Wikinews a better place. I also fear that this form of intimidation could adversely affect other Wikinews contributers and influence their votes when they see what happens to those who vote in ways that Mrmiscellanious doesn't like. If contributers perceive their votes may exact revenge upon themselves, I'm sure less contributers will vote and make their voices heard. That seems to be the opposite effect of what a Wiki is supposed to be all about.

Anyway, I'm sorry to waste your time with this and take away from more important things like contributions, etc. but I'm hoping you can fix this so I can make positive contributions to Wikinews when time allows.

I have no intention to talk (argue, etc.) with Mrmiscellanious about this once I'm able to edit and vote again (or even if I'm not). I'll will just drop it and moo-ve on. If he attacks or bans me for revenge again, I'll just contact you and hopefully you can get him to chill out and focus on important issues at Wikinews.

As can be observed here & elsewhere throughout Wikinews, Mrmiscellanious is embroiled in enough conflict with others right now -- and I have no desire to distract him from all those other conflicts in order to confront him with the issue of banning me. He seems to have enough conflict with others on his plate. I'll just be glad to move on, vote and contribute positively to more important, positive Wikinews tasks. Thank you for your time. Cowicide 03:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Responded on other users page. Bawolff 03:46, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Amgine has now blocked me from editing my talk page

Amgine moved in quickly and has now blocked me from editing my talk page on wikinews.

Be sure to check out the last few edits in the History. He was not letting me say I thought the Chinese govt. was fascist because it might offend some Chinese contributers. I changed the "bastard" part and he still wouldn't accept my edit and banned me.

Is is really against Wiki policy to say that you think the Chinese government is fascist on your own talk page? If so, things are getting very out of control at Wikinews. Check the last few edits and you'll see what I'm talking about. This is crazy. Cowicide 07:14, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

You're not allowed to put things in your user-space that offends people. Wikipedia has similiar policies. Bawolff 20:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Among other things, MrM says he doesn't agree with Homosexuality on his page... that will very well offend people. Shall we ban him if he doesn't remove the "offensive" text? For me to say that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist... that is my political opinion. I removed the "bastards" reference... therefore, it was only my political opinion beyond that point. Can you HONESTLY say that political opinion is NOT allowed on talk pages? If that's the case, you and Amgine had better start cleaning house and you both can start with MrM's talk page with his opinions that very clearly offend people somewhere.

I'm going to put the statement that I think the Chinese govt. is fascist on my talk page on Wikinews. Come after me if you TRULY think that political speech on individual talk pages are against the rules. Then please come after MrM for his opinion page thereafter.

Seeing as thats a protected page, I wonder how you'll go about doing that. Bawolff 02:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I find it sad that you two don't see the irony in removing my opinion on the Chinese govt. and its fascist censorship. Cowicide 02:13, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Its not that it may offend somebody somewhere, its that somebody complained. If you complained that mrm's opinions offend you than I could get him to kill thoose if you cared so much (and provided a good argument as to why you care). You can state the chinese thing in a way thats not offensive as well. (al la. I don't like the way the PRC is censoring the internet) and some people on wikinews do have similiar things written on their talk page. Its a little tiny thing. You shouldn't be so concerned. (or if you care that much you'll probally have better luck with a fork). Bawolff 02:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm just tired of the hypocrisy from Amgine and MrM. It's ruining Wikinews, period. If those 2 guys disappeared from Wikinews, quality contributions/participation would skyrocket. I don't understand the fear some of you seem to have of them, Amgine should lose his admin status and MrM should be "permabanned" instead of this too little, too late one month (now only 2 week) ban he just got for his outrageous behavior with Karen (A behavior Amgine has also exhibited with other contributers). You know very well this is NOT the first time MrM has used his admin power for revenge, ego and agenda instead of for the greater good of Wikinews. You also know very well it won't be the last time until MrM is completely banned. It's incredible that MrM still has admin status at this point. He has massively damaged the project and thwarted participation. MrM makes the environment at Wikinews absolutely nasty. For the sake of Wikinews, these guys need to go and/or lose admin privs. I'm just thankful MrM will be gone for a month so everyone can see how much the general civility & quality at Wikinews rises without him. Maybe then some more people will see the light and finally... finally... at least remove MrM's ridiculous admin status. Cowicide 18:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I understand your disagreements with mrm, (and to a point, agree with most of them), but fail to see your problem with Amgine. Sure s/he may have done some bad things, But the good things that s/he has done outways them vastly in my opinion. Bawolff 20:19, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Amgine certainly does good things, but does NOT have the interpersonal skills and tact to be an admin. While I somewhat commend Amgine's recent reprimands of MrM.... it's too little, too late... overall, in the past, Amgine has been an enabler for MrM and that has absolutely ruined the spirit at Wikinews. Amgine's demeanor towards new contributers has also been nasty similar to (but not quite as venomous as) MrM.

They both have created a hostile environment with rampant hypocrisy for all to see. Wikinews would be better off with MrM gone entirely and Amgine focusing on projects instead of ego-trip power struggles. Contributership has been very low. If Amgine backed off (which is unlikely because of ego) and MrM disappeared, we both know contributership would blossom as the general good spirit increased. If you still fail to see my problem with Amgine... go take a look at Amgine's demeanor with contributers and compare it with your own. Would YOU want to be treated like that? You exhibit some of the best qualities in an admin, while I think Amgine exhibits some of the worst. And, MrM is just poison to the project, period.

Like I said, Amgine should focus on projects and leave interpersonal administration up to people that have much higher aptitude for such things. Mark my words, the Wikinews contributership and quality would improve drastically if that happened. I'd like to see more balanced views (from the middle, right & left) on wikinews from MORE contributers from all walks of life... the current environment Amgine helps to create does NOT let that happen... it just repels far too many newbies who don't want to deal with a terse, insulting tone in their spare time. They just put up their arms and split. Cowicide 21:52, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thats certainly intreasting. Well I disagree with most of that, its intreasting to know what people think. I have never found Amgine to be rude or anything to any contributor, New or otherwise. I don't wish to comment on too much else as, I've already made alot of people mad at me, and wish to tread lightly.(people finnally stoped blocking eachother, but their certainly a little edgy) Bawolff 04:29, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I could send you examples of Amgine's behavior (with others), but if you need to "tread lightly" that's fine. Anyway, I think you are a great admin and wish you well. Hopefully, Wikinews will "self-heal" over time and become a less hostile place as MrM and some others become too beleaguered to be nasty to other people eventually. Take care. Cowicide 15:37, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, here's some ideas for articles on my userpage (Wikinews) on the latest from China and its censorship: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Cowicide It would be great if Wikinews covered this stuff more like the rest of the Western world is starting to. Wikinews IS part of the Western world, right? ;) Thanks again for lending an ear. Cowicide 16:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

They removed it AND edited the History data... - here instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cowicide
You know, I've heard that there might be some admins at Wikinews that may have some govt. affiliations. I didn't really think it was true before, but I'm very seriously beginning to wonder at this point... Cowicide 16:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I've only got two seconds right now, so I can't really look at the momment (sorry), but I will some time in the very near future (tommorow). Bawolff 00:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Hi!
Thanks for your comment, although I haven't had much luck on Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award tho :-(! But thanks anyway! --Fir0002 www 08:41, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Goober-peas

Hi Bawolff,
Thank you very much for informing me of the user Goober-peas. I would prefer it if s/he did actually remove his statement. I don't know why s/he seems to hate me; I have never heard of the user before. I am actually slightly worried about him/her beacuse I have actually been receiving e-mails about my password being reset. Thank you once again for alerting me about this. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 20:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay. Bawolff 00:37, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
You might not know who he is because based on his page, it doesn't look like he has an account. Proably some anon who vandalised something that you reverted. Bawolff 00:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Impersonation account

That's fascinating, too, I thought I had an account at n: but I could be wrong; also, despite the notice that the person is not me, they've replicated my sig. Can someone reset the pw and send it to my fastmail addy so I can (re)claim this account? Thanks :) RadioKirk talk to me 23:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crisis on Bae Yong Joon

Of late, there has been a spam of newly registered users and annoyomous users trying to remove certain data from the article. While most article cites general personal data on personalities in wikipedia on a neutral basis, these editors have been removing certain data without cause to suit their taste (see Wikipedia:NPOV). Such acts have been rampant since March 2006 (check the article's history), and such behaviour can be reflected as Wikipedia:Vandalism, and this article needs Semi-protection status against such crisis. I need your help in solving this problem. Thanks. Mr Tan 17:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm proably not the best person to ask, but i'll see what I can do. Bawolff 01:58, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not hurt my feelings Dragon Emperor 05:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More template talk...

...here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Could you reply to that last comment? I really think that template needs tweaking... Look for example at Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad#Election_and_profile : we have a lot of articles related to him now, wouldn't a search function be an easy way of not having to update that link on every new article?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Klingon

Hi! I would like to inform you that the former Klingon section of Wikipedia (tlh) has moved to wikicities and will now be continued as Klingon Encyclopedia.
I would be glad to hear/read from you there again.

Please acceppt my apologies if this looks like spam to you; I just saw you name on the users list of the klingon wikipedia.

Greetings, Lieven.

Glad to hear it. I always thought it'd be cool if that project succeded, Unfourtantly I can't speak klingon, but registered an account because of how cool it is to have an encyclopedia in klingon. Bawolff 00:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Dungeonscape merge

Yeh, i didn't see the template on the Dungeons & Dragons page before i requested it to be merged. {{split-apart}}. If i had, wouldn't have suggested merge. Ur right in sayin that it requires a article of its own, but i would suggest it should have more of a reference to it on the Dungeons & Dragons article, it has only been mentioned once. --[|.K.Z|][|.Z.K|] 05:19, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, glad we agree. Bawolff 05:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome! BuddingJournalist 06:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement! BuddingJournalist 01:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Your welcome. Bawolff 03:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] duplicates?

You have exchanged the pictures in the HIV article on deWP. In fact the two graphics 800px-HIV Viron.png and HIV Viron.png are not identical concerning their legends. Did you realize that? Tx --87.169.108.48 08:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry my apoligies. I should have been more careful. Bawolff 08:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pirates, pirates

You say: In regards to this edit, Why do you say he was a pirate?, The article doesn't say anywhere else in it that he is a pirate. Bawolff 02:49, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


I said because he was. He attacked my island, and stole the church, the st. francis monastery and the council house. He was a pirate with the royal consent, like many others british admirals. This is not a revenge or something like that, it is just the historic truth. I'm talking about San Miguel de La Palma, Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, Spanish Kingdom. Maybe I'm in a mistake, but I learned it at school. Very sorry if I have offende anyone and please excuse my horrible english grammar. I am Joe Satana in the spanish wikipedia, congratulations for this wonderfull work. bye

Thankyou for the response. Don't worry about bad english grammar. My Spanish would be much much worse then your english image:smile.png. Bawolff 03:39, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I'm here just to say hello and to sign, because now I'm in this wikipedia too.bye,--Joe Satana 02:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion function more user friendly

tell me what you think please,disscussions more user friendly, hovru 68.122.82.13 06:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image - commons:Image:20070219 1118236758001.jpg

hi, i updated the image source to clarify.--Gerash77 20:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] pong

I saw it, I didn't respond immediately because I was attempting to communicate with the person (User:Gurch) who requested the deletion. He said he'll contact you, and I told him to refer you back to me if you still need undeletion. In any case, I apologize for not running a check on the images before deleting them. --Golbez 19:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

He contacted me, thank you. Happy editing. Bawolff 21:18, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: User_talk:Waggers#location_maps

Hi, I'd be glad to. Do I need to take any further action (eg. adding additional tags) or is this message sufficient? Waggers 08:31, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Same here. Wouldn't GFDL suffice for you to copy the templates over to Wikinews? All contributions here are automatically licensed under GFDL. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Thankyou, This message is sufficent for permission. GFDL does not suffice as we (the wikinewsies) do not consider it really free for for news articles. Wikinews is not under the gfdl. Bawolff

[edit] Re: Location maps

Hi, I would willingly put these maps under cc-by-sa-2.5, however the location maps that I have produced are derived from content on the OpenStreetMaps website. They licence under cc-by-sa-2.0--because of the share-alike clause, I'm not sure then whether I can release these maps under any other licence. Is 2.5 backwards compatible? —Jeremy (talk) 01:06, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't understand, what should I do to let you use these maps? Change the license? Don Alessandro 10:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

As Jeremy said above, as some of my data was from OpenStreetMap, all derived works must be released under cc-by-sa (it says cc-by-sa-2.0, but I imagine simliar cc-by-sa ones would be fine). As far as I can tell, I could not release it under cc-by-2.5. Richard B 11:54, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
OK. note: I'm not 100% sure the copyright can apply to data like that, I'm just asking to be on the safe side. However I'd like to point out the cc-by-sa-2.0 is not compatible with the gfdl. Bawolff 21:53, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ezhiki

Certainly. I hope this does work retroactively?—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:18, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

It works however you say it works. You own the copyright, you can release those rights in whatever form you chose. (but you can't change your mind once released, well for the cc licenses you can't). Bawolff 21:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Markussep

You can use the location maps I worked on for wikinews, as far as I'm entitled to say so. I think the only map image I actually created was an edit of a map image by User:Morwen (Greek prefectures). Markussep Talk 18:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. Markussep Talk 21:31, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Hi Bawolff

I'm not sure if this is the place to answer your query about hypersudoku, but  the four extra
squares in hyper sudoku have to also have numbers 1-9 in them. As they overlap the squares
underneath this makes it a little trickier. The algorithm for working out the numbers is many
many times more complicated. As for the image, it is the work of Chris McCusker, that's me,

and I have no problem with it being distributed or reused. The site that runs the hypersudoku hypersudoku.com [1] makes no profit from people playing the game. It's all free, go and play a game if you like. Thanks, cmccus01.

Thanks for your response. In future, for stuff relating to wikinews, I would prefer if you used n:user talk:Bawolff (Just so i could keep track of everything better). The image should be okay with that information in mind, however the article sounds spammy, and probably needs to be written in a less promotional sounding manner. Also, (I'm assuming you're the one who wrote the article), since you own the site, there is a conflict of interest with you writing a news article on it for wikinews, so I don't think the article can be published unfortunatly. Bawolff 02:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Location maps licensing

No problem. I replied here]. Sorry oir the delay, but I have been away for a fortnight. —Ian Spackman 19:52, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

And I similarly, here. Sorry for the delay, I was absent for a while. Kaveh 19:53, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] commons:image:Trophy.jpg

Do you remember anything about the copyright of that specific image? Its currently on dr at commons - see commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Trophy.jpg, and I was hoping you might remember something about its source. Bawolff 22:06, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes - it was actually a press release snapshot photograph from an NIH function. It appears that NIH has deleted the source ohot from its site. The award was part of an otherwise very busy picture, but the shot was head-on so I could cut out all the extraneous people, etc. To cover some of the jagged lines from the edit, I added a drop shadow - which looks as if it has been badly cropped by some other Wiki editor. - Davodd 16:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)