User talk:Edward

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[edit] Little Brick House

But until they do how is that not fair use? A mcmurray 06:24, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Astrosociobiology

Would you mind glancing at the astrosociobiology article and helping me figure out whether or not the proposal for deletion is spurious? I'm pretty sure this is just vandalism but I'd like someone else's opinion and it's on your watchlist. Moonsword 05:47, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Edward 06:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zelenograd‎ & Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology

THX for images, but there is the problem. These images are property of Zelenograd historical museum, and not old (under 50 year). thrudhame is not the author of these works. --Alex Spade 14:05, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes. Whoops. Nevermind. Delete them. Edward 17:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leclanché cell

Someone recently made a redirect to an article you deleted Leclanché cell. This gets 33,600 hits on Google and doesn't sound like the kind of page made just to say "You bastard Wikpedia". Can you look over at the history of the page and see if there's any genuine content? Thanks, --WikiSlasher 11:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Well the article was recreated by him while I was typing, but can you check the revisions before the deletion anyway? Thanks, --WikiSlasher 11:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
There wasn't any genuine content in the history. Edward 11:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
OK thanks for the quick response. --WikiSlasher 12:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Transfair-produktauswahl.jpg

Hello,

About the "fair use" issue with the Image:Transfair-produktauswahl.jpg image... maybe I used the wrong tag - we have secured the authorization from the copyright holder, Transfair Germany, to release rights to the picture. This was done by a German Wikipedia user - although I could do it again easily, as I work for another sister Fairtrade organization.

I chose the copyright tag because the image is used "to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit" (reason why they chose to release it in the public domain in the first plage).

Please let me know - I'd like to fix this asap. THanks, Vincentl 21:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfC

Hi... if you're busy, don't worry about it, but if you have a few minutes I would appreciate your input at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Chowbok (whatever view you choose to endorse). —Chowbok ☠ 03:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Allegheny Service Area.jpg

I'm not going to argue. Go ahead and delete it. The Punk 06:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, ok great! Thanks. The Punk 04:43, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:USA-satellite.jpg

Hello Edward. I reverted your edit because there was no image present with the same name on commons. Because the image was deleted on commons. Please check out before responding. Please upload the image with proper information on commons. You could use CommosHelper. Regards, Shyam (T/C) 10:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] mod_sphere.jpg

Somehow I failed to understand the reason why image was deleted.

Can you be more explanatory, to help me avoid any mistakes in the future? Makrisj 17:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Mod_sphere.jpg It was a diagram that could be redrawn using a vector graphics editor like Inkscape. Edward 17:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Since I am neither an artist nor I can afford a vector graphics editor, I would leave to someone with the skills the chance to redraw it. Thanks anyway. Makrisj 16:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chernobyl photo

Hi Edward.

What are the weird plants(?) near the orange flowers in this photo from Chernobyl? Shermozle 06:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I had the luck to see the orange things in person. They are not flowers but some ceramic "art" whose sole purpose seems to be there and look ugly. --Shaddack 05:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Boxes

Hey, Edward. Why don't you have any user boxes on your user page? it makes it more interesting, and not as boing to look at. I LOVE WIKIGNOMES!

Cactus Guru 05:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] London meet is TUESDAY 9th, not Wednesday 10th!

Update: Jimbo got his days of the week confused. This is now happening TUESDAY 9th, same place. You may care to sign up again or not - David Gerard 10:45, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Dated templates

Just to let you know the -date templates are on their way out, as the standard ones now take MONTH YEAR default parameters: cleanup-date => Cleanup, wikify-date => Wikify, linkless-date => Orphan, unacat-date => Uncategorized. Rich Farmbrough, 21:04 10 January 2007 (GMT).

[edit] Deep Fried Pizza

Hi! I agree that Deep Fried Pizza is funny, but I didn't think Comedy Junk Food was really the right category for it as I got the impression that some of the other objects there were things that people have cooked for a laugh, whereas the Pizza was someone's idea of a meal and was a staple of children's lunches in Glasgow 20/30 years ago. Tragic Junk Food perhaps? By all means put it back if you want though. Stx 13:24, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ask why

Why did you make this a redirect to Ladysmith? Themindset 19:13, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt

From my user talk page: Hi, can you explain why you deleted the Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt article? What is the BLP issue you refer to? Edward 02:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello Edward, thank you for inquiring. The article was not sourced and contained many negative statements. Although the subject is not alive, the way it was written reflects poorly on the living descendants named in the article. These statements need to be sourced and the article rewritten in a more balanced manner before it is returned to the main space. There was also a question about whether the article claims notability. The content of the article might be better placed in other related articles rather than its own article. Take care, FloNight 13:18, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copmanthorpe rail crash.

Just thought you would want to know that this has been put up for deletion by prodding. Simply south 12:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD: Ctime

FYI, I've nominated ctime for deletion. — Loadmaster 15:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] new category/userbox

Hi, i thought you might like add the following category to your user page.

Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: University of East Anglia

also i have created a user box for uea students/alumni. You may like to add it to your user page.

The code is {{User uea}}


what actually constitutes a "fair use" image then? the crest appears on the uea page thus i deemed it would also be acceptable in a userbox. --Jamesmh2006 10:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] That image you taged (the Neon Turbo)

Go ahead and delete it - it was only a placeholder until First actaully started revinyling --Enotayokel 18:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commonscat

What does "commonscat" (surrounded by braces) mean/do on Circumnavigation. I was almost going to delete, but you seem like a serious person. Please answer me here. Bellagio99 14:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bellagio99, I should put more detail in my change summary. It adds the box that says 'Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Circumnavigation'. See commons:Category:Circumnavigation. Edward 14:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Edward. If I can presume with a follow-up questions: I'm a wordsmith, and a newbie picture monger. How do I get a picture into the (picture) Commons and/or into an article. I know the legal principles, but I need to know about how to do it, including asserting that it is clear of copyright. For example, a pix of my College Bowl 1962 team for the College Bowl article. Bellagio99 14:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
BTW, "commonscat" reads as "common animal crap" at first reading, which is what aroused my suspicion. Bellagio99 14:59, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beach House photo

Hi Edward. Have tagged the photo as you suggested. Many thanks PeteBrant 13:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Very good. Edward 13:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vinegar syndrome

I noticed your photo request and just was curious what sort of photo you had in mind to illustrate a phenomenon that exists mainly as a smell. Girolamo Savonarola 14:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Width of streets in Manhattan

Thanks for correcting and expanding my sentence about the width of streets and blocks in Manhattan. Edward 22:19, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

  • It was one of the scores of statements that had to be verified in the Manhattan article, so I set about doing the research. I had known for decades that Manhattan blocks were twenty per mile, and I was baffled as to why I couldn't find a source that says that. As I reworded in the article, the 200-foot blocks plus 60-foot streets are almost exactly 20 per mile, but off by a bit. There are an average of about two 100-foot streets every twenty blocks, so twenty per mile is often accurate. But this seems to be a coincidence rather than deliberate design. Thanks again for the note. Alansohn 01:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Barnstar!

The Minor Barnstar
I hereby award you with the Minor Barnstar, for the great start you made to the article 2007 Dean Farrar Street collapse! Congratulations, well done, and keep up the great work :) Michaelkeefe 15:41, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect of Potato chip sandwich

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[edit] Competition deaths

Hello! I was a bit confused about was meant by articles in Category:Competition deaths. Maybe an intro on the category page would help, instead of going through some of the articles within the cat to find out how they are linked. Cheers! Lugnuts 19:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moving Branston Pickle

Appreciate that moving is preferable, forgot temporarily. However, had to revert now, because you can't move a page over a pre-existing page (even a blank one, and Branston Pickle is just misleading for the brand now. If you know how to move it properly to this new page, could you either let me know, or effect the change. Thanks Owain.davies 16:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bread machine

Hi! Two and a half years ago (!), you wrote:

"Using a bread maker is a convenient way to avoid the hydrogenated vegetable oil that supermarkets add to their bread to make it bake quicker."

Do you have a reliable source for that? As far as I know, it's not even legal to use hydrogenated vegetable oils in human food in many countries. Would you mind if were to remove that sentence? --Wasell(D) 16:42, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gary Wolf

Hey Edward. You added Gary Wolf to the Category 'Wired magazine people', but there is no mention of Wired in Gary's Wikipedia article. What is it that connects Gary Wolf to Wired magazine? Wiredcoach 06:11, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Virgin America photo

I noticed you placed a {{reqphoto}} tag on Virgin America a while back. There's a photo of one of their aircraft on the article now, so I'm removing the tag. If you think a photo is needed of something else, feel free to replace it. You may want to add a note to the talk page with specifics about what you think is needed. -- Hawaiian717 23:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image of HMV Oxford Street store

About a year ago, I tagged the discussion page of an image of an HMV store on Oxford Street in London, asking whether it was the 150 Oxford Street store or the 360 Oxford Street store. (I live in Arkansas, United States so I don't know; the best I could do is guess it was NOT the one inside Selfridges at 400 Oxford.) I was still fairly new to Wikipedia, so I didn't find your page to tell you personally. Over the ensuing year, the only "response" I got was another user seeming to "vandalize" my own user page; though I first thought he was accusing me of working for HMV at 150 Oxford, I now believe he may have been trying to tell me that the store in the image is in fact 150 Oxford.

Would you please update the image page on Commons, as well as its use in both the HMV and HMV Group plc articles, to indicate which of the two Oxford Street stores it is? --RBBrittain 20:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lord's Cricket Ground Media Centre.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lord's Cricket Ground Media Centre.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 21:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Martial law in fiction

Hi Edward -- I posted the category you just created (Category:Martial law in fiction) on WP:CFD for deletion. I have nothing against the topic, which would make an interesting (referenced) article; however, it doesn't work well as a category. Please do participate in the CFD, and if you want more information about categories and the thinking behind categorization, WP:CAT , WP:CLS, and WP:OVERCAT are all helpful. --lquilter 03:22, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Carson

Hi I was wondering what about the article Michael Carson led you to give it a cleanup notice? Just curious.:)Merkinsmum 01:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:War on something

Category:War on something, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. – (and please forgive my gentle humor, Edward!) Cgingold (talk) 11:40, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge of Category:Dot-com magazines

Hi Edward, this is to let you know I suggested a merger of Category:Dot-com magazines into Category:Webzines, since these appear to be the same thing. I'm letting you know since you created the first category. Feel free to comment either way. Thanks, Plinkit (talk) 16:23, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok, is that true of the articles in the category? Plinkit (talk) 16:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
It might be fine if I just removed Salon.com. I'm not sure about the others. Plinkit (talk) 16:58, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kneel chairs

You made some contribution to Kneel Chair, and I was wondering if you could recommend a specific brand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed Price (talk • contribs) 21:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Great Western Bridge over the River Kelvin.jpg

I know this is probably a random comment but i just found this image and am impressed with it. The top part is a bit dark though. And have a happy new year. Simply south (talk) 19:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Christian companies

Hi Edward - You created the category Category:Christian companies, but over time it's gotten a bit vague. Another user pointed out that it needed refinement in scope (on Category talk:Christian companies) and so I proposed a rename to make that explicit. Your comments and suggestions on the CFD (1/8) would be welcome. --Lquilter (talk) 01:50, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 01:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of British Airways Flight BA38

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[edit] 2002 European floods

Hi! I noticed that you were the one to tag the 2002 European floods article as unsourced in December. I've removed the tag after doing significant work on the article and was curious if you thought there was something to be added. I'm not sure how much you'd worked on the project before, or whether you just saw it was lacking. Thanks! Travellingcari (talk) 18:11, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. Just thought I'd check in to see in case there was anything else you were looking for. Have a nice day. Travellingcari (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] UK railway station images

Well done for your trojan work in uploading images for countless stations. User:Otolemur crassicaudatus has inexplicably begun reverting some of your changes and I am taking him to task. Ravenseft (talk) 21:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Films about torture

Category:Films about torture, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. –--CyberGhostface (talk) 22:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] London Meetup - Sunday May 11th

We're hoping to have regular meetups for wikipedia enthusiasts in London. The next one is this Sunday lunchtime (May 11th) see Wikipedia:Meetup/London 9. in Holborn. Come along! -- Harry Wood (talk) 15:11, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikicookie

I am awarding you this WikiCookie for your constructive edits on Wikipedia--LAAFan 17:23, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
I am awarding you this WikiCookie for your constructive edits on Wikipedia--LAAFan 17:23, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Geograph railway station images

Hi there, I notice you've been finding numerous station images from the Geograph project, uploading them to Commons and adding them to the appropriate article here on Wikipedia. This is great but I am not sure it is appropriate in the number of cases which I've seen where you've replaced a much more up to date image in the infobox with an image from decades ago. I'd suggest that the most modern image should take priority since in many cases the station will have changed significantly so I'd ask that you move the older images out of the infobox where a more up to date image is available. Regards. Adambro (talk) 14:03, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Non-fiction novels

Category:Non-fiction novels, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Cgingold (talk) 02:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)