User talk:Jaknouse

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Your expertise is our reading delight... --Ed Poor

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice additions to fern. Cheers! --maveric149

Opps! Looks like there is already a Flood plain article. I like your spelling better (and so does Google). --mav

Suggestion about taxoboxes: Find the closest taxon on the same level or one different that has a taxobox, and copy that. For instance, I copied the hornbill taxobox from bee-eater, since they are both Coraciiformes. -phma

Thanks -- I just keep a taxobox template on my desktop now and copy it out, and have installed it lotsa places. --John Knouse

Jaknouse, please see Talk:Mexico. --Brion 00:04 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)

Jaknouse, please see Talk:Mexico, and this time stop being deliberately stupid. --Brion 11:20 Sep 1, 2002 (PDT)
As I say, Brion, say what you mean. I actually did not know what you meant. I try to keep my language precise. And, in any case, if it bothered you on that page so much, you should have then created a blank page for each state and transferred the appropriate info. --user:jaknouse
Jaknouse, if it bothers you that much, please make that link and make those pages. If you don't, I'll get to them when I get to them, because like everybody else here I am a volunteer. If you don't like my freely provided work, try to take the high road and do a better job than me. --Brion 19:26 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)
You really just HAVE to have the last word, don't you? --user:jaknouse

Jaknouse, I have made an addition to talk:Pol Pot. I understand that you did not add the word again in the sentence of the main article being discussed, but I would welcome your opinion on whether it appears tendentious. If I am not misinterpreting you, you seem to be asserting continuous US support for the KR. If so it would be helpful if you could state the starting date. -- Alan Peakall 18:48 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)

Please check your user page -- the foto is interfering with some of the information, including your email address.

--jaknouse

Thanks, but there's no problem with it on my browser unless the text size is set too big for the screen-width, and then some of the text underwrites the picture. I don't consider the text as interesting as the picture anyhow, and the "E-mail this user" link at the bottom of the page will still get e-mail to me, so I'd rather live with the problem than fix it, altho I sincerely appreciate your telling me about it. BTW, when you signed your message to me, you used a pipe instead of a colon for the separator, so it linked to "User" instead of "User:Jaknouse" -- unless you meant to do that. -- isis 22:13 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)
Hello, jaknouse. From the above, I'm wondering if you have the same problem I used to have. No one was ever able to tell me how to fix it, and in the end I only got rid of it by changing the "skin" I was using. Have you tried that? --Deb Jan 12

You had some questions of gravitons, I hope to have answered them.

Hello again. Your "skin" is defined on your preference page, and there's a choice of three. Personally, I prefer the "Standard" one, but, like I say, I had to change to "Nostalgia" for a while to resolve the problem with images. I still don't understand what caused it. Deb 21:19 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)

I added the external link to try and avoid someone having to type out all the details of Apple singles, etc. Seems a bit of a waste of time to me when the information's freely available, complete with pics., etc. Have fun typing it all up!! User:PJT 02:51 Feb 27, 2003 GMT

In reply to:

I was strictly using the existing classificatory information in the individual articles. If you disagree with the classification used, then it's prior authors you want to argue with, not me. I was only inserting taxoboxes for clarity; these are used throughout biological pages on the wikipedia. I was not sure whether fungi used divisions or phyla; the use of divisions is an antiquated approach, actually, relying on the old, erroneous thinking that fungi are plants; we now know they're more closely related to animals.

Ok, sorry. I saw a bunch of articles get filled in really quickly, going past the layer which already existed, and I wasn't sure how far you were intending to go. The alternate classification schemes are indeed a matter for the article authors, so if you aren't going deeper that won't be a problem. One note: you may not want to link Domain, Kingdom, etc on the different taxoboxes. That's the way it's done in most cases, but that's because the ranks used to have independent articles. See WikiProject Tree of Life. My apologies for overreacting. Btw, divisions are still in use for Fungi. Their relationships are irrelevant to that - the whole division/phylum distinction is maintained only for traditional reasons to begin with.

--JG

Hi. Please don't change everything to US spellings. AFAIK, the US is the odd one out with "meter"; and Wikipedia uses both anyway. Also, if you want to change the name of a page, use the "move page" function rather than a copy & paste. - Tarquin 22:41 Mar 11, 2003 (UTC)

Actually, from my point of view, you're a British chauvinist. The fact of the matter is that meter is a much more logical and phonetic spelling than metre. It's time you Brits or wherever you're from caught up with a bit of logic. I'm sure that we could revert to all kinds of ridiculous archaic spellings, but it seems to me that Wikipedia is about objectivity, and meter is the more objective spelling. Not to mention that we should use one standard spelling style, and the precedent was set with American spelling, not British.

--jaknouse

With all due respect, I think that is an unnecessarily insulting response. People really tend to see comments starting with "you Brits" as provocative, just like when some hothead on this start of the Atlantic starts off with "you Yanks" - it never ever leads to peace, co-operation and harmony. There isn't really a "fact of the matter", just national spelling practice, and I am not sure, either, that such a thing as a "more objective spelling" really exists. The Manual of Style says Spelling style - For the English Wikipedia, either American or English spelling is acceptable. It is in no way a requirement, but it probably reads better to use American spellings in articles on American subjects and English spelling in articles on English subjects. - so if you wanted to change "metre" to "meter" the first thing you'd need to do would be to change that agreement, which I fear would cause many problems. If we all start changing spellings to suit our local preferences then it's going to get very difficult, and whilst you might want to start a campaign to standardize Wikipedia on US spellling only, I think you would find limited support for this. I honestly think it would have been wiser to not change the spelling in the first place, and to not come back with these rather strong comments in the second. If you are unreasonable and make these remarks you will find that it does bring out of the woodwork stupid British people who think they own the language, that America is inherently inferior because it is newer, etc, and all they contribute is trouble too, and then we have a transatlantic flame war, which is to be avoided at all costs. :) Nevilley 07:21 Mar 12, 2003 (UTC)
For the sake of completeness I should add in case it is not clear above that I would be just as disapproving of someone who gratuitously changes "color" to "colour" on the grounds that it is "right" or "better" - we just don't do that. Nevilley
That was meant to come across as tongue-in-cheek. Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor? You'll find that I HAVEN'T changed the spellings on most pages I've worked on, first of all, and when I changed the spellings on the meter page, there was actually a mix of spellings on the page, and there was no distinguishing between the two spellings. When I changed the spellings, I added (British spelling: metre), and the same for kilometer, which kind of distinguishing nobody had bothered to do earlier. I am, however, fairly serious about using logical spellings, and I frequently use lite and nite and such in my own correspondence rather than the ridiculously-archair light and night.
--jaknouse
thanks for that. There is a real problem with detecting irony online sometimes, and I couldn't see your tongue in your cheek! I do have a sense of humo[u]r (delete as optional) but lots of people on here are so - erm - direct at times that it is difficult to know when it is safe to deploy it. No hard feelings. Nevilley 17:07 Mar 12, 2003 (UTC)
Since I can't edit Tarquin's page since it's too large, I'll add another comment here. Yes, metre originated with the French, but, then, they pronounce it "metre". The English do not pronounce it "metre", but rather "meter". In consideration of this, then we should properly use the French pronunciation all the time, not the English pronunciation.
--jaknouse

Good job on trail. -Smack 04:37 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Maidenhair

Great work on maidenhair, both on the article and the picture. You may've noticed I jumped in there and formatted your picture with the new image markup, and moved it into the table. I hope that's alright with you. :) Hadal 04:36, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

No problem. Glad I could assist. :) Hadal 04:45, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] taxobox format

Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life and its talk for updates on how we're now doing taxoboxes. - UtherSRG 01:10, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Whisk fern

I look forward to seeing the article... When you get to it. WormRunner 06:32, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Table Formatting

Moved in from Talk:Marshman:

I have a lot of problem viewing tables. Some of them, seemingly at random, appear on the left, overlying the text, rather than the right. The element I deleted was an attempt to see if that would correct the problem. When I deleted it, I could see no difference whatsoever in the table in my browser. If you have any ideas, please let me know. jaknouse 17:53, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

The element you removed just spaces the table away from the text on the (in that case) left side. It does make the "table" slightly wider overall. I gather you are saying that did not solve the problem on your browser. Usually what you describe results from there not being enough space (pixel width) to accomodate the instructions the browser is getting to set up the page. That would depend upon your screen resolution settings. I should think a minimum would be 800 pixels across for most of the pages on Wikipedia. I have two monitors, one set at 800, so I can test pages to see if they "fit" . That page Flowering_plant seems fine (the photo is much wider than the table and still does not fill all the width). When I artificially squeeze it down by narrowing the window, the bee on asteraceae photo starts overlapping text at around 600 pixel width. - Marshman 18:03, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
If the above does not seem to pertain to your problem, consider next your browser: what is it? If an unusual one, it may be interpreting some poorly written HTML as it should, but causing formatting problems. Some browsers are more forgiving of bad HTML than are others - Marshman 18:26, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] UU orgs

Jack, the UUSC isn't an IA. Its tie is stronger than that; it's an Associate Member of the UUA. I've modified both the UU and UUA articles, and added the list of 3 UU AM orgs. Are you a UU too? :) - UtherSRG 20:02, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yup. For thirteen or so years. Thanks for your work on this.jaknouse 00:39, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cool! I've been a UU for nearly as long, just over a decade. Do you go to GA at all? I've been to 6 of them since '96 (Indianapolis), and I'll be at Long Beach! - UtherSRG 13:59, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Domestic water...

Thanks for the starting paragraph. You are fast! Pfortuny 17:48, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tracheobionta

All right, what do you have against the domain and subkingdom -- especially subkingdom -- that you removed them from the fern page? The specific division into vascular plants is one that's been used for many years at differring levels. Now wait, you're doing this on all the pages. Are you trying to force the ranked system to be LESS useful so you can force its abandonment, or what? I very much disagree with your approach. jaknouse 00:21, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No, I like

ranked taxa. However, although the vascular plants are widely recognized, the subkingdom Tracheobionta is not. Many classification systems present alternates, one of which (subkingdom Embryophyta) seems to be about as common. I have always argued against giving such groups in the taxobox. It adds very little - anyone who knows what a vascular plant is will understand that roses belong simply because they are flowers, and anyone who doesn't wont care - at the expense of making them less reliable and more mutable, which for something copied in so many places can be serious. The same sort of comments apply to the domains, which are less certain than people seem to think, and contribute almost nothing to everything but the kingdom pages. Josh


[edit] Old Growth

You probably didn't notice, but I offered WikiMoney for anyone who started an article on old growth. So I paid ya in your WikiMoney account. All for fun! Elf | Talk 04:00, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Masturbation

I wanted to mention it here in case you don't check that talk page: Thank you for your recent work on masturbation. Your compromise passage is bigger than what came before it, but just right. You should be swollen with pride at being able to take different viewpoints and make them come together like that so quickly. It's hard to do. I hope you don't mind my effusive strokes. Moncrief 04:02, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Taxoboxes

Hard to follow that (no pun intended)! Not sure why you are removing links in the taxoboxes to the definitions of the taxa (as at Araceae)? I think it is more appropriate and easier to be consistent to keep those links there and not rely on the same terms appearing in the text where there are usually already plenty of other links to other things and only some of the classification is presented. In other words, the taxobox is perfect for linking to things like Kingdom (biology) and is one of the purposes that it serves - Marshman 22:08, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

J -

I just updated some taxoboxes you added, such as Water lilly. Please take a look at the diffs. - UtherSRG 17:39, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Garden maple

Hi John, just saw your improvements on this. I was a little concerned though at the final sentence on the page (not yours!) below the pics, it looked suspiciously like a clip out of a nursery catalog. On googling, sure enough it is, from http://www.dungevalley.co.uk/tr&shcat.htm, and therefore presumably copyvio. As it is only a small part of the article, I'm not sure best how to proceed. Any thoughts? - MPF 15:38, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Editing

Firstly, please do not edit user pages per Wikipedia:User page#What can I have on my user page?. Instead use 'Discuss this page' link to User talk, so You have new messages appears.
Secondly, thank you for informing me "All U.S. Cities are to be in the form city, state.jaknouse 04:20, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)". I am a newbie referring to Kirksville -- Encyclopædia Britannica and Kirksville on Encyclopedia.com. I was not familiar with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) nor Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names).
Lastly, it seems you cut and pasted Kirksville into Kirksville, Missouri, a function replaced by moving. Please see Talk:Kirksville, Missouri.
Thank You, Paedia | talk 15:34, 2004 Apr 15 (UTC)

[edit] Cowbird

You might try listing it on Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. That's the place for tests and obvious mistakes to get deleted quickly. On VfD, it has to stay listed for at least seven days, and more likely than not, people won't be able to reach a consensus to delete it. Bkonrad | Talk 16:11, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pickle

Thanks! I've been trolling some public domain image collections for good pictures of, well, anything. And they happened to have an advertizing-quality pickle. Quadell 18:09, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

No probs. You just tell me what state you want to do next. Danny 01:36, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sure, if you give me a hand. I always like to start at the end. Danny 01:58, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Beard

Hi. If you can link the specific page history that has a copyright violation in Beard Please add it to Wikipedia:Copyright problems under "Copyright violations in page history. Thanks - Tεxτurε 18:06, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

We are getting ready to do Tennessee next. Interested? Danny 03:21, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sounds great. Danny 23:31, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Finished. And I actually got to do the county where I was born ... Danny 00:53, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Danny: Your user page is too big. I can no longer add a message. Anyway, I'm going to work on NC next. Probably get it done sometimes tomorrow. jaknouse 01:02, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I started working on North Carolina, but it was very slow. I did a bunch of random ones, and will try again when I get home from work. Danny 11:09, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator?

Are you an administrator? If not, I want to nominate you for adminship, because you have a lot of experiences here. --Lst27 00:09, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Karl Koch (botanist)

Howdy, John. Is is possible that this Koch could be the one who is cited as the taxonomy authority for the Red Spider Mite? Lupo 14:58, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

No, I think that's another Koch, maybe Robert Koch. jaknouse 22:20, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
Of course not Robert Koch, he worked on bacteria, and way after 1836. It was Carl Ludwig Koch, and it took me quite some googeling to find [1]. andy 16:34, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting RoscoeX's nonsense. Good to see it wasn't just me who thought it was out of place. Marnanel 18:55, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Administrator??

Are you an administrator? If you are not, I would like to nominate you for adminship. If you accept the nomination, please leave me a message here. --Lst27 21:08, 12 May 2004 (UTC)


[edit] ToL and Categories

Please weigh in: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#MW_1.3_categories

[edit] Cycle paths

True, but the problem was that there was already an article at cycle path as well as bike path. Since the cycle version had more material, I decided to go with that usage. Best wishes, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 01:21, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No problem. I'm actually from the U.S. myself (my thought was "What the hell? Cycle paths?"), so I got a kick out of your note. Best and keep contributing, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 15:25, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)

[edit] Buckeye

Hello, please see the note at Talk:Buckeye, thanks. Saintswithin 15:09, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:CA Coastal Highway.jpg

Please see Image:CA Coastal Highway.jpg. Thanks! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 21:35, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Oregon Trail ruts.jpg

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Oregon Trail ruts.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 02:10, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

I would like to request the same for Image:Americanholly.jpg. — David Remahl 09:51, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I would like to request the same for Image:Sugarmaple1.jpg. — Duk 04:25, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Image:Golden Gate Bridge and fog.jpg too.Zeimusu 13:34, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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OR

Option 2
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Image Tag Needed

Hi. Your image Image:Whiteoakchampion.jpg needs an image tag. Evil Monkey → Talk 06:41, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC) PS please help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged Images

And Image:Cave swallow nest.jpg. --[[User:Whosyourjudas|Whosyourjudas\talk]] 03:52, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
And for Image:Adiantumpedatum.jpg. --Ricky81682 (talk) 08:19, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
And Image:CA Costal Highway.jpg and Image:Huperzia lucidula.jpg thanks! BrokenSegue 14:27, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I've been to the foto pages, and see no way whatsoever to add a tag. How the hell do I do it? jaknouse 17:10, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Just go see which copyright tag seems appropriate. Add that on the image page. If you're still having problems, just tell me where you got the images from and we'll see what works best. --Ricky81682 (talk) 05:41, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)
All images uploaded by me were uploaded directly from my computer, and were taken by me. I have uploaded no other images. jaknouse 19:22, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sustainability category/project/series

Hi. I noticed you started the Sustainability page. There has been, as you might expect, a little heat recently at the Hubbert Peak page, and some of us are discussing ways we might better organize the information about energy sources and developments. Articles/subjects that we are discussing the organization/hierarchy of include Hubbert Peak, Energy development, Sustainability, Future energy development, Alternatives to oil. It occurred to me that you might have some fresh ideas about how to go about organizing a rational hierarchy, whether it be a project, a system of categories, a series, or simply an informal vision. Please give your input at the bottom of Talk:Hubbert Peak. Tom - Talk 17:27, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image:CA Coastal Highway.jpg

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:19, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

For God's sake, EVERY IMAGE I UPLOADED WAS TAKEN BY ME PERSONALLY. Why the hell would you think someone else took this photo? It's not like it was difficult to take. Now I can't find it anyway. Go to Hell. jaknouse 16:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. It looks like you've left, but if you come back and are at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. I've marked you on this list as "inactve". Feel free to update this as well. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) July 3, 2005 17:55 (UTC)

[edit] Paper mulberry

Please look there Talk:Mulberry.  :]~~ Yug 5 July 2005 16:52 (UTC)

[edit] Dates in battle page names

Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Battles#Dates in battle page names. Regards Philip Baird Shearer 20:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clubmoss, Firmoss

Hi Jaknouse - I've added some more details to both, including some segregate genera, from Flora North America - could you check it over please? - MPF 23:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source/licensing for Image:Buchtelsprings.jpg

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For God's sake, the description of the foto says I took it. Can't you look?

John Knouse

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[edit] The Cranberry Glades photo

Was that photo taken from the boardwalk? Youngamerican 18:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it was.

John Knouse

[edit] West Virginia Candidate for US Collaboration of the Week

Hey Jaknouse! I've added West Virginia's main article to the list of candidates for US Collaboration of the Week. It's in much need of reorganization and lacks a lot of information. I was hoping that with some extra exposure and some wiki teamwork we can get the article up to par with other U.S. state articles. Please voice your comments and vote at the US Collaboration page. Thanks! --Caponer 18:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

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[edit] Clonal Colonies

I noticed that you were the creator of Clonal colony. Would you be interested in adding a section about the debate over whether a Clonal Colony counts as a single organism or not? I am not an expert in the field, but I have heard about the debate... Heavy Metal Cellist talkcontribs

[edit] Talk:Virginia Abernethy

Hi John Long long time no talk to. I was wondering if you could act as 'moderater' on a topic I was trying to expand. Also of course what happened when I did.
Lee Wells 10:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC) Louisville, Kentucky

Talk:Virginia Abernethy

[edit] Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I, Banes, am honoured to award Jaknouse the Original Barnstar for all of his many efforts and new contributions to the encyclopedia. -- Banes 14:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I, Banes, am honoured to award Jaknouse the Original Barnstar for all of his many efforts and new contributions to the encyclopedia. -- Banes 14:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Waterfall or Waterfalls?

Hi, from Brisbane, Australia.
I noticed that, as far as I can tell, you started the article waterfall. A sentence in the article Triple Border currently reads "The Triple Frontier (Spanish: Hito Tres Fronteras, English: Three Borders Landmark, Portuguese: Tríplice Fronteira) is the tri-border area along the junction of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil near the cities of Ciudad del Este, Alto Paraná; Puerto Iguazú, Misiones and Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná respectively and is the location of the Iguazu Falls, largest waterfalls in the world, and the Itaipu, the largest hydroelectric plant in the world."
The second-last clause doesn't make sense to me - see: Talk:Triple_Frontier.
I'd really appreciate your assistance senior wikipedian help with this! --Shirt58 12:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] North of Here

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article North of Here, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Fram 11:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your photo

Hi, if you want to keep your photo (Image:JohnKnouse.jpg), you need to license it under a free license, like {{GFDL-self}}. Thank you, Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

That's asinine. It's a foto of me. Do I need to copyright/patent myself? Don't I own myself? This is just going too far. jaknouse

[edit] License tagging for Image:Knouse john.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 00:09, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Even if, as you say, you own the rights to the image, you need to include a license tag so that other users know how they can use it. Look at the ones under Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and pick the most appropriate one. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you've got any questions. -- SteinbDJ · talk · contributions 19:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Ancient forest

Hi, a while ago you contributed to the "Old growth" article. It was moved last year to Old growth forest and has done some evolving. I'm proposing to redirect the current article to Ancient forest. If you have an opinion on the matter would stop by at Talk:Old growth forest, thanks. - Steve3849 talk 03:12, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Wild_cherry_bark.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Wild_cherry_bark.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. MER-C 05:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image deletions

If you feel that an admin is deleting images inappropriately, you may want to take a look at the different steps available under Wikipedia:Resolving disputes, including asking that the offending admin be blocked. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 01:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

Thanks for uploading Image:Lake Hope State Park.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:Lake hope state park.jpg. The copy called Image:Lake hope state park.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action.

This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot 18:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ohio University edits

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Ohio University. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. Metros 00:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to Ohio University. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. One letter to the editor does not constitute a criticism or count as valid sourcing for an entire list of controversies. Metros 00:43, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to User:Metros, you will be blocked from editing. Metros 00:48, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I did not make disruptive edits. I made edits that were soundly based on factual information. I don't know who you are, Metros, since you choose to conceal your identity, but I don't approve of people determined to make articles such as this one total puff pieces. Ohio University is not god-like, despite what YOU want the article to say. Frankly, Metros, I think that YOU should be censured.

[edit] AfD nomination of Electrical wiring (United States)

An editor has nominated Electrical wiring (United States), an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electrical wiring (United States) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

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