User talk:Garth M

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Have you been asked by of the user known as Mr Lefty who owns Boltwatch to edit for his cause? Xtra 10:12, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

No. Have you been asked by the user known as "niceperson" to edit for his? Garth M 10:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Peter Blunden 2 Orphaned fair use image (Image:1988-IshCDBackCover236.JPG) 3 Commercial use of Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg 4 Commercial use of Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg 5 Commercial use of Image:Dave warren and orange black box.jpg 6 Commercial use of Image:Mirfield 1958 recorder.jpg 7 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg 8 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg 9 Possibly unfree Image:07-10-19 starcraft boardgame 005.jpg 10 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg 11 hi 12 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg 13 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg 14 Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg

[edit] Peter Blunden

The article you created at Peter Blunden violated our core policy of the neutral point of view. It was also judged to violate our policy on biographies of living individuals. Please do not use Wikipedia as a soapbox. Further edits of this character may lead to your being blocked from editign Wikipedia. Guy 11:39, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

No, it didn't. It lacked biographical details, certainly, because I couldn't find them. And it referred to one recent exchange of Blunden's which was recently reported on Media Watch.

But why is that not relevant? And Blunden, as editor of the Herald Sun, is certainly deserving of a Wikipedia entry. Why'd you delete the entire entry? Garth M 12:00, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:1988-IshCDBackCover236.JPG)

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[edit] Commercial use of Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:07-10-19 starcraft boardgame 005.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fraser 1962 playback station.jpg

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[edit] hi

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg

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Absolute rubbish. The image qualifies. I'm a lawyer, and I'll argue it happily with another lawyer or someone else who KNOWS WHAT THE FREAK THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. I won't keep having this freaking conversation with a haywire bot, though. Garth M (talk) 04:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Sear and boswell 1962 black box.jpg

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FOR GOD SAKE STOP DOING THIS! The bot is haywire. The image DOES qualify, you're a stupid bot and do not understand what you're doing. Either go get a human or GO AWAY! Garth M (talk) 00:52, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Probably, but you fail to correctly state that on the image page. Please check all requirements, and repair, otherwise the image will be deleted in the process. Thanks. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk Beetstra^{T C} on public computers) 14:13, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

What does that MEAN? I HAVE checked the requirements, and the tag is perfectly correct and sufficient. If there's something missing, then fricking well tell me what.

Seriously, this is INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. I have added an historically-significant image and this stupid thing keeps deleting it! If I weren't so bloody-minded, I'd have just said "to hell with this" and Wikipedia would be the poorer.

Revise your damn bot. Garth M (talk) 14:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

It is not my bot. There is something wrong, which is probably easily repaired. You have to state on which page the image is used, at the moment the list of pages where it is used (bottom of the page) is not the same as the one the rationale is specified for. It may be just a matter of changing that (but you as the uploader are probably the best to verify that). Thanks, and please assume good faith, and take care not to turn this into a personal attack. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk Beetstra^{T C} on public computers) 14:18, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, the bot does not delete, deletions are performed by administrators, who probably will also have a look before actually pressing the delete button. --Beetstra (public) (Dirk Beetstra^{T C} on public computers) 14:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

What a stupid, user-unfriendly, badly-designed bot! If that's what it is, then instead of blandly and repeatedly plastering "INVALID" all over the page, it could have noted the missing content and it could have been fixed straight away.

And I wouldn't trust the administrators too much - you'll see they've already deleted a similar photograph for the same entry which actually showed the person who invented the black box. Garth M (talk) 14:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh, thanks for the trust (I am myself one of them ..). But the bot can only see that there is something wrong, if it could see exactly what is wrong, it would also be able to correct that (and although inserting the correct wikilink is often the right thing, it may be wrong, which would do the project more harm). It is therefore leaving a designed template on the image page, and a remark pointing to the manual on your talkpage. The problem is policy, which is quite strict in this case, and we may face the fact that images where there is something wrong are simply deleted, this bot is trying to notify the uploaders so we can actually save the images. So if the bot reports, then there is something wrong that has to be repaired, and I think in this case it would have been better to ask for some assistance to actually help you find what was wrong, i.s.o. blaming the bot. Happy editing! --Beetstra (public) (Dirk Beetstra^{T C} on public computers) 14:27, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

You're assuming the bot's now going to leave it alone; I wouldn't put money on it. And you know why we don't know? Because the bot's so badly designed that IT DOESN'T TELL YOU WHAT IS MISSING. In addition to leaving the tag, it should note the field it had a problem with. At the very least.

To simply say "go re-read the convoluted wikipedia copyright policy again" is beyond ridiculous.Garth M (talk) 14:35, 5 February 2008 (UTC)