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Hello Bryan! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for signing up. Here are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Best of luck. Have fun! ---- ElectricEye 08:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome Bryan Tong Minh 08:58, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Bryan! Thank you for joining WikiProject Middle-earth and contributing to improve Tolkien-related articles. We are glad to have you join in the effort! Here're some good links and subpages related to our WikiProject.

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If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask on our talk page. Thank you for your contributions and have fun editing! —Mirlen 00:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

i dont think i removed any importnat info,all i did was reword some of it.mrs.sauron 14:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Easter—or whatever it is that you celebrate!

Just sending some Easter chocolate from one WP:ME (Middle-earth) member to another. :) —Mirlen 19:15, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Just sending some Easter chocolate from one WP:ME (Middle-earth) member to another. :) —Mirlen 19:15, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter, Bryan! But even if you don't really celebrate it (like me), here's some delicious chocolate to eat! —Mirlen 19:15, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Update

There is a poll/proposal concerning the renaming of our WikiProject. Please vote here to share your opinion! —Mirlen 19:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that you only voted for your top choice. I think it would be benifical if you placed your rankings for all 3 (in case there is a tie or something). Ted87 03:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Lord of the Rings Peer Review

I have make extensive changes to our Lord of the Rings article in an attempt to work it up to Featured Article status. In order to find more suggestions I have listed it under Wikipedia:Peer Review. Under the guidelines to nominations I am required to notify others of knowledge in the area to review it. I have decided that the best group for this would be our WikiProject. So I ask you all to look at the article and make any suggestions you can. Hopefully we will be voting this FA soon enough. SorryGuy 00:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Tolkien

Just letting you know that there's a new proposal of the syntax by Carcharoth here, so please share your opinion as a WP:ME participant. —Mirlen 22:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Thanks...

...but I'm still on wikibreak, especially since finals are coming up two weeks or so, and teachers are in a rush to get the curriculum done so they're loading tons of homework (Grr). I'll just be on now and then as my interest goes, as my message states. But thanks for your sweet, kind words. :) BTW, there's role call! —Mirlen 23:23, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] errrrrrrr......

i am NOT lordess of the ring,as i put on her talk page.i am wikipedia however,i was forced against my will to change it and was put in the cruciatus curse until i agredd to and very nearly ended up being like alice and frank longbottom....but anyway i am not her.SPOV 15:13, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanx for the explanation :) Bryan 09:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Selfnote

Selfnote:

  • watch users [1] [2] Bryan 19:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Masked Bandit

If i took off the mask i could be anyone, maybe even Bush or a Pikachu. But never the less, yes i am Leyasu, everyone knows it, and most people just dont care. The only ones who have a problem with me are ones who have been banned over and over again, dragged through abirrition, run sock farms, and generally far more a problem than me not using a proper handle.

Thats why virtually nobody cares. And thats also virtually why when left alone to get on with things i can actually do things that are helpfull instead of having to spend time dealing with constant abuse. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.153.143.33 (talk) 15:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Image deletion

Hello Bryan, the image which was deleted from commons is a google earth image. Google earth images could not be used as fair use because of copyright issues. So I do not seek any advantage to restore the image. Regards, Shyam (T/C) 19:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] commons:User:Bryan

I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Bryan Bryan 22:27, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kurdistan

Hi, and thank you for the message at my talk page.

It is indeed a relevant question which articles should be under the category. My immediate answer would be any entity and subcategory related to the region of Kurdistan. However, for now I find it very important to counter attempts to simply empty the category. The category has previously had some quite open opposition. One user listed the entire category for deletion, see the debate at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_March_3#Category:Kurdistan. When it seemed clear that there was a vast majority for keeping the category, the same user stated : This vote means little to me. It is inflated to begin with. No other category vote has this many votes. Also there is a pov infestation. I am not accusing anyone of anything but I find it odd that the majority of the keep votes came from Kurds and Greeks. So no I dont care about this vote at all. I have no reason to keep nonsense like this on wikipedia, I will eventualy get it deleted, watch me. --Cool CatTalk|@ 11:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC). Such explicit attempts to obstruct a decision taken after a debate must be countered, and I believe all Wikipedians do have a responsibility in implementing decisions.

May I suggest a more general discussion at Category_talk:Kurdistan, and in the meantime keeping an eye on the related articles. Cheers. Bertilvidet 13:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Tambora - the caldera.jpg

Too bad, there's no replies back from the administrator. The images are really important for the FA Mount Tambora article. Without them, it is just useless. However, I have asked the administrator (I still have his email), but I didn't explicitly ask about free usage other than Wikipedia. What do you think? If you think those images are not appropriate in Commons and to be deleted, then I will re-uploaded some of them as fair-use images in Wikipedia. — Indon (reply) — 09:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I will wait until the images are deleted, then re-uploaded in Wikipedia with the same names. — Indon (reply) — 10:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture of the Year 2006

I assert to have voted for 1 in the Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition. Bryan 19:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

  • I assert to have voted for 5 in the Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition. Tony the Marine 19:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Within Temptation - Mother Earth.jpg

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[edit] Image:Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything (2007).JPG

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[edit] Image:Within Temptation - The Silent Force.jpg

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[edit] Image:WT - Enter albumcover.jpg

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[edit] Image:Wt-memories.jpg

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[edit] Image:WT - The Dance albumcover.jpg

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[edit] Fuck!

Omg, wtf fuck! Bryan 18:27, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Yo Bryan,wassssssssssssssssuuuppp ;);)--NAHID 06:17, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Commons thing

Don't worry about it I got it sorted.

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Mortallove promo.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Lunatica.jpg)

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[edit] Heavy duty SQL query request

I have a computationally expensive SQL query request. I'd like to have a list of english Wikipedia users by number of articles they have started. Someone "started" an article if they make the first non-redirect edit to the article. Since you did my last one, can you do this one, or point me to someone who can? Raul654 15:55, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

You can request queries at jira - you'll need an account, but just hit "Create new issue" and select "Database queries" as the project. --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs 18:31, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Created DBQ-3 for you. Further updates will be posted there (and I'll probably let you know on your talk page if I do not forget). -- [[User:Bryan|Bryan (<small>[[User talk:Bryan|talk]]|[[:commons:User:Bryan|commons]]</small>)]] 13:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA

I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated Bryan. Thanks & regards --Herby talk thyme 12:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Userpage

Hey! Thanks :) You asked to see what your suggested book title would appear on, and I forgot to show you when it was done - it's the brown book with the gold title, the one sub-titled "My Contribs" in English below. Thanks again for helping with that! -- Editor at Large • talk 02:16, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PanchoHardy

Thanks for your aid, however I just felt that it needs noting he has a fir few legitamite uploads that are transwiki'd from the en wikipedia to commons are they are in fact true free use images. The copyvios are (effectively) all the images just labelled "self-made" with "PanchoHardy" as the author. Although there are several that are probably not copyios and may in fact be real free use images ([3], [4] and [5]) they will probably have to be deleted as well considering the sheer magnitude of copyvios this user has uploaded. –– Lid(Talk) 22:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question

Hello Bryan. Can you move List of users by pages created to mainspace (like WP:WBE) so that people who care will automatically update it every once in a while? Please reply on my talk page. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 03:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I will talk with User:Chubbles about it. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 10:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BryanBot

Hi there. I noticed that BryanBot (talk · contribs) was running but I couldn't find its bot approval request. Keep in mind that unapproved bots may be blocked on sight. Cheers =) --slakr\ talk / 15:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah okay. It didn't look like it was doing anything horribly controversial, editing too fast, or uploading actively copyrighted stuff, so I figured it was fine to let it go anyway. :P Cheers =) --slakr\ talk / 15:42, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Free Music

Hi Bryan. User:Raul654 suggested I drop you a note, inviting you to join a discussion at the Wikimedia Village Pump. Some technical stuff is being suggested there, and perhaps you can offer some advice as to feasability. Thanks.Ferrylodge (talk) 16:38, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Bryan. Thanks very much for making a new music tool for us! A couple comments.... Currently there's 50 search results per page, max. How about 500? Also, the ability to output in wikitext would be useful. Additionally, I put "CC-BY-SA-3.0" into the "not in category" box, but the first hit was in that category. Maybe it's not working yet?Ferrylodge (talk) 17:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the message; had some capitalization problems. Fixed now. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 18:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Limit is now 100. The database queries are quite extensive, I need to look into optimization first before I can enable larger limits. Alternative output may follow later. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 18:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for boosting the limit. There still seems to be a glitch, though. When I put "CC-BY-SA-3.0" into the "not in category" box, the first of the twenty hits is not in that category, but then when I ask for 100 hits the first one is CC-BY-SA-3.0.
Also, Raul would like to know: "How do we enter multiple terms in the In category / Not in category fields? Specifically, I was trying to find oggs with 'Beethoven' in the title which are not in any of the following categories: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven."Ferrylodge (talk) 18:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
You can't ask multiple categories yet. I will add support for more in-categories probably tomorrow. The not-in-category stuff needs more debugging and performance optimization first. But maybe I can make a in-subcategories something. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 19:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
As for the not-in category thingy, I think it is a problem with caching, because I can't reproduce the problem. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 19:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
That's odd. The first of the 100 results I get is (Ne)mrtav_čovek_(Elektrolasta).ogg which is in the category CC-BY-SA-3.0. I refresh and still get this same problem. Must be gremlins.  :)Ferrylodge (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

(undent)Hi Bryan. Regarding your excellent new ogg search tool, a couple people have asked whether it might be possible to get only oggs that have been uploaded after a particular date, or to organize the search results by upload date. Would you be able to add this feature to the new ogg search tool, please?Ferrylodge (talk) 17:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Filtering by upload date should certainly be possible. I'll look into it tonight or tomorrow. Ordering by upload date is too much a performance hit I think. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 21:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Works now. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 09:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you. :-)Ferrylodge (talk) 15:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I tried the category exclusion feature out for the first time - SPLAT! Raul654 (talk) 17:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Curious though... I wonder which browser you use? Your browser added a line ending to the category field... -- Bryan (talk|commons) 21:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I have one more request where the ogg search is concerned - would it be possible to exclude results appearing on a particular page? In particular, it would make my job substantially easier if I could automatically exclude from the results any files already appearing on wikipedia:sound/list Raul654 (talk) 05:01, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Also: I've started doing my first real experimentation with the ogg search tool. I used this search, specifying a minimum of 30 seconds per file. However, this 1 second file was included in the results. Therefore, I suspect there is a bug somewhere. Raul654 (talk) 05:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

It did not understand that you did not fill in anything in the minutes field. I fixed it. -- Bryan (talk|commons) 20:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mediationbot

Sorry about that, Bryan. It was foolish of me. CBM has fixed it. SlimVirgin (talk)(contribs) 21:39, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stream of Passion's logo

Hi, I see you removed the Stream of Passion logo I've uploaded and added to the article of the band. It would be great if you could provide me a more detailed reason for doing that. Please answer me in less than seven days, because otherwise the file is going to be deleted. Thank you. Victao lopes (talk) 21:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I see your point. I didn't find a free image, but you can do it if you can. Well, but you don't believe we need the image, so I think you won't do it. Actually, many logos are being removed from articles of bands. I think that's a pitty, considering that they don't really make such a big difference on the articles, they simply illustrate it. I'm going to request the image's deletion soon, then. Thank you, Victao lopes (talk) 23:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
In my opinion, a logo is very different from an image with band members, but it's OK...since there seems to be no way of requesting my image's deletion, I'll just wait until March 13 for it to be deleted. Thank you, Victao lopes (talk) 14:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)