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Name: Dan Geist (aka Daniel Geist / Daniel Charles Geist )
Location: New York City, New York, United States of America
Email: dancharlesgeist@hotmail.com
Wikipedia contributor since September 2005
[edit] Interests
[edit] Major articles (and related articles) extensively expanded and revised
[edit] Articles initiated
- block booking
- Film Booking Offices of America—replacing stub filled with errors from its very name to its final sentence
- Jean Grémillon
- Rhythmicon—created with my original text from the drum machine entry, boosted virtually verbatim
- string piano
[edit] Other important articles and items substantially expanded and revised
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Articles
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Categories, lists, and templates
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[edit] Major copyediting and/or caretaking
[edit] Useful things
A perfectly stated reminder:
Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. --Iamunknown 02:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image resources
for pre-1978 copyright records
for copyright records 1978 and after
[edit] Fair use policy/NFCC#8
Significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic.
[edit] Acceptable images
Some copyrighted images may be used on Wikipedia, providing they meet both the legal criteria for fair use, and Wikipedia's own guidelines for non-free content. Copyrighted images that reasonably can be replaced by free/libre images are not suitable for Wikipedia.
- Cover art: Cover art from various items, for identification only in the context of critical commentary of that item (not for identification without critical commentary).
- Team and corporate logos: For identification. See Wikipedia:Logos.
- Stamps and currency: For identification of the stamp or currency, not its subject.
- Other promotional material: Posters, programs, billboards, ads. For critical commentary.
- Film and television screen shots: For critical commentary and discussion of the cinema and television.
- Screenshots from software products: For critical commentary.
- Paintings and other works of visual art: For critical commentary, including images illustrative of a particular technique or school.
- Images with iconic status or historical importance: As subjects of commentary.
[edit] Unacceptable images
The use of non-free media in lists, galleries, discographies, and navigational and user-interface elements normally fails the test for significance (criterion #8), and is thus unacceptable.
Here are other images that if non-free would almost certainly not satisfy the policy.
- An album cover as part of a discography, as per the above.
- A rose, cropped from a record album, to illustrate an article on roses.
- A map, scanned or traced from an atlas, to illustrate the region depicted. Use may be appropriate if the map itself is a proper subject for commentary in the article: for example, a controversial map of a disputed territory, if the controversy is discussed in the article.
- An image whose subject happens to be a war, to illustrate an article on the war, unless the image has achieved iconic status as a representation of the war or is historically important in the context of the war (e.g. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima).
- An image to illustrate an article passage about the image, if the image has its own article (in which case the image may be described and a link provided to the article about the image)
- A photo from a press agency (e.g. AP), unless the photo itself is the subject of sourced commentary in the article. This applies mostly to contemporary press photos and not necessarily to historical archives of press photos.
- A Barry Bonds baseball card, to illustrate the article on Barry Bonds. The use may be appropriate to illustrate a passage on the card itself; see the Billy Ripken article.
- A magazine cover, to illustrate the article on the person whose photograph is on the cover. However, if the cover itself is the subject of sourced discussion in the article, and if the cover does not have its own article, it it may be appropriate; see the Demi Moore article.
- An image with an unknown or unverifiable origin.
- A chart or graph. These can almost always be recreated from the original data.
- A commercial photograph reproduced in high enough resolution to potentially undermine the ability of the copyright holder to profit from the work.
- Pictures of people still alive, groups still active, and buildings still standing; provided that taking a new free picture as a replacement (which is almost always considered possible) would serve the same encyclopedic purpose as the non-free image. However, for some retired or disbanded groups, or retired individuals whose notability rests in part on their earlier visual appearance, a new picture may not serve the same purpose as an image taken during their career.
Awarded for for having a great sense of humor.Frank van Mierlo 03:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
| Wow, amazing work on midnight movies. I'm a huge film geek and am super glad to see such a good article come out of the crap that used to be midnight movies.Andman8 20:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC) |
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| For all your hard work on Mutual Broadcasting System I award you this Barnstar. Keep up the good work. Harvey100 14:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of High Culture |
| I, Ceoil, don't normally go in for this kind of thing, but this in recognition of insightful, comprehensive, and overall excellent work in restoring Punk Rock to Featured Article status status. + Ceoil 00:43, 20 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The Purple Heart |
| I, Jeffpw, award this barnstar to DCGeist for enduring the tortures of Prometheus (lasting seemingly longer than the Punic Wars) while attempting to appease the dreaded FAR committee. Jeffpw 23:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Mini-Purple Heart |
| What he said. (Subject to retraction if by some off-chance your wiki-karma has attracted all that crap [by which I am not referring to that portion of the FAR commentary deemed constructive by a hypothetical consensus of users—as typified by Marskell. There, I've covered all my bases.]) –Outriggr § 04:16, 20 March 2007 (UTC)) |
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The Society Barnstar |
| A token of appreciation for the countless great improvements you have made to the United States article. Keep up the good work! -- Signaturebrendel 21:03, 20 June 2007 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For your continual efforts to improve the article Film Noir, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this barnstar. Keep up the awesome work. --Sharkface217 04:36, 21 August 2007 (UTC) |
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The Resilient Barnstar |
| For DCG's patient and exhaustive editing of Punk rock against all odds. Wwwhatsup (talk) 05:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
| I hereby award this barnstar for your stunning revision of Pulp Fiction, an article which is absolutely up to the film's standards! This diamond in the rough was a pleasant surprise as it has surpassed all other revisions in the past! —Erik (talk • contrib) - 14:40, 25 January 2008 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| For your attention to Dawson Creek, British Columbia on its Main Page date. I don't understand when you sleep, but thank you for your careful edits. maclean 00:43, 18 April 2008 (UTC) |
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The WikiProject Films Award |
I, Girolamo Savonarola (talk), hereby award DCGeist the WikiProject Films Award for his/her valued contibutions to WikiProject Films. For an uncommonly high level of attention, research, and quality given to the film articles which the project is lucky enough to see you edit.
- Awarded 04:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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Knights Templar
