User talk:HonestTom

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[edit] Minor Characters (The Railway Series)

Hi, I notice you have flagged the above page as requiring clean-up. What do you think needs doing to it? I am happy to do some more work to it, but am not sure what is required. Either reply on my talk page, or post on the WP Thomas page. Thanks Mdcollins1984 20:32, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:THOMAS fair-use image crisis

Hi there, long time no hear...

You may be aware of the current push towards the effective elimination of non-free images within WP, especially from pages using multiple images. This has a potentially huge impact on the 'Thomas' pages, considering almost all the pictures are 'fair use'. So far, only List of Railway Series Books has been de-imaged (see its talk page for important initial discussions), but the bots are roaming about and delete-warning messages concerning screenshot images are already appearing on talk pages.

As I feel rather on my own at present, Project-wise, I have posted this here hoping for some moral(e) support (initially) and editing help (in the near future). I have posted a (probably too-) lengthy cry for help at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#WikiProject Thomas and use of non-free images asking for guidance, since there are only three likely outcomes:

  1. Non-free images are not allowed on 'list' pages: Current pages remain as they are, but without images. (only tidying required)
  2. Non-free images ARE allowed on 'list' pages, but only in limited numbers: current character pages sub-divided into a greater number of smaller pages (lots of work, especially with redirects -- time for a bot!!)
  3. Non-free screenshots/book covers ARE allowed, but only one-per-page: character pages to be split up as per main characters (humungous amount of work)

It is a sad state of affairs, but I think that the first of these is the only really likely outcome, since to retain the existing set of images also requires the application of individual 'fair use rationales' to all of the images. There's too much work for even two people, and I'm feeling pretty dis-spirited now.

I am going to drop a copy of this message on the talk pages for all the Project founders, and also drop a note on the Project talk page, where we should probably continue the discussion.

Regards -- EdJogg 12:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Family Guy invitation

Thanks for your recent edits to articles on Family Guy. If you are interested, the Family Guy WikiProject could use the help of a few sensible editors. / edg ☺ ★ 04:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)