User talk:Lee Daniel Crocker

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can I use Java applets in Wiki? Similar to http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/MSet/MJintro.htm Evgeny

Is your jpg really smaller than my png? Ericd

Not by much, surprizingly, but enough that old modem users would still prefer it. It's almost always the case, though, that PNG is not efficient for photographic images--and wasn't intended to be. I'm the person who invented the adaptive-prefiltering compression technique that PNG uses, and it was optimized for iconic drawings (altough we tried to make sure it wasn't too bad for photos either). JPEG is almost always the best format for photographs.

My picture was 64 gray levels to optimize size I believed ther will be no reel difference.

That's why the saving wasn't as dramatic, then. But it still went from over 40k down to 16k, and that's not insignificant.

Lee - what do we do when people are obviously ignoring our image use policy and not responding to requests for copyright information? --mav

I haven't seen any major problems yet, but if you can't figure out any way to reach someone, deleting an image or two usually gets their attention. BTW, it's quite likely that unknown uploaders are Polish/German/French wikipedians (I found Aioneko at fr, for example) so that might be another place to look. Who are you worried about? -- Lee

user:Dwhitney just uploaded an image of a engine block with no copyright info that looks like it is a scan from a cars manual. user:Isis is uploading many images -- none of which seem to have copyright info (including videotape covers). I'm also wary about the overuse of fair use -- our previous image use policy was to only accept public domain images and those covered by an acceptable open content license. This allowed somebody to copy the text and the article by using similar licenses. Now we have sound clips. If anything we need to have a very clear statement that the text of Wikipedia is covered by the GNU FDL but any images or other files may be owned by others who have not placed their work under an open content license. We are probably OK because we are using this stuff for educational purposes -- but others copying our material and trying to abide by our license may want to sell this stuff. --mav

Dwhitney was only a few ours ago. I just contacted him (he has a valid e=mail address), so give him some time to respond. Isis is a special case. She has a valid e-mail address as well, and has been very cooperative when contacted (Jimbo and I have been talking to her about helping form the non-profit). She is also a lawyer with IP experience, so she knows what she's talking about. I agree that we would certainly prefer images in the PD or licensed under appropriate terms rather than ones used under "fair use"--as you say, it means that people copying Wikipedia articles won't necessarily be able to copy the images that accompany them unless they too follow fair use guidelines, whereas our text has no such restrictions. Most of Kay's stuff is old enough to have fallen out of copyright, but obviously the videotape covers and such haven't.
I think the "fair use" material is so valuable to some of the articles, though, that it would be a shame to get rid of it, so I think you're right that a stronger statement should be made on the copyright pages that only our text is covered by the GFDL, and images might have different terms. I just can't imagine any reasonable coverage of the white album, for example, without letting readers hear the amazing diversity of arrangements and subjects for themselves.
In a way, including such material actually helps our cause a bit: for example, we would like for other non-profit educational sites to use our material. They would have an equal fair use claim to us, so they could take our material in toto. But a for-profit site that we might not want to use our material might not qualify for the same fair use exception, and so could only use our text.
In any case, I think you're right that a more detailed statement is needed, probably both on wikipedia:copyrights and wikipedia:image use policy.
Maybe I'm just thick-headed, but how, legally, are images different from ASCII-encoded text as far as our license goes? --Brion 17:29 Aug 31, 2002 (PDT)

LDC - I really like your rewrite of the Social Darwinism article. It reads much better now, the flow of ideas is much more streamlined, and the differences with and confusion with sociobiology are well highlighted. Kudos! -- April

Odd question. Under the Berne Convention, anything is copyright once it's in a fixed medium. Under the DMCA, if you bypass encryption to access a copyrighted file, you break the law. I write you an email using GPG, you decrypt it, you violate the DMCA (the email is copyright me, unless I explicitly disclaim copyright--J.D. Salinger set a precedent on this one in re: personal letters he'd sent a friend, who gave them to an author who wanted to publish them in a book on Salinger). Therefore the DMCA explodes either itself or copyright--nothing copyright can be decrypted without violating the DMCA, or encryption itself is illegal (including for DVDs). I must be missing something. --KQ 03:37 Sep 20, 2002 (UTC)

Yes, the contents of mail is copyrighted by the sender, but the very act of mailing should be an obvious expression of intent that the recipient read it--that's the whole purpose. The DMCA only outlaws "bypassing access controls" for unintended accesses; it certainly doesn't apply to playing a legally-bought DVD on a legally-bought DVD player, or reading your own mail, both of which require decryption as the copyright holder intended. It would be illegal for me to read your mail, or even for me to sell a program that allowed some third party to read your mail.
Hm, I knew that seemed too easy. So if I understand it correctly, the DMCA just ... uh ... doesn't make much sense. You could be prosecuted for breaking rot13 on a message? --KQ

Lee, I and 128.whoever went back and forth on the vandalism in progress page also, but of us changing unattributed comments about 128's actions and motives (at the first bullet about him), so that may be what he's thinking of. At one point I removed the "he is otherwise rational" bit and the part about his comment to Brion, thinking that might calm him down. In retrospect I probably shouldn't have--it may not have been signed, but it was still someone else's comment. I've also reverted tarquin's comment at the second bullet after 128 changed it. --KQ 18:30 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)

Fair enough. I should have signed the comment, and maybe it was ruder than necessary. And removing a comment (or even editing one for grammar, putting *** over profanity, or other kinds of edits) is far, far, different from changing it to something else. --LDC

I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.

Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.

He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics and traits as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such provocative terms as 'Nazi' (which I hope is an example of his poor grasp of history) , out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it"). He writes of defending freedom of expression, yet cannot tolerate it from others when they give an opinion he does not like. So far three persons have been under fire by him, with the treatment of one of them especially deplorable.

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.

Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users (you banned an IP address a while ago, so I assume you're a wikipedia person), I thought it highly advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive ego.

Lee, could you kindly take a look at User talk:Isis? Also, did you ever get a reply from the CIA about using their original artwork for the flag images? Thanks. Scipius 22:22 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)

You seem like you're knowledgeable about such things. I understand video and book covers can be uploaded as fair use, does the same thing apply to album covers? It seems logical to me, but I thought I should ask you first. Tokerboy 23:04 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)

Album covers should indeed be no different under "fair use" doctrine than the video and book covers already here, but the RIAA is a lot nastier about threatening to sue over such things. But they haven't made any noise about our sound clips yet, so either we're still below their radar or else they realize how futile such a suit would be (my guess is the former--the latter would presume some intelligence on their part).

I can create text files, MySQL databases, excel spreadsheets, word documents, or whatever else you might need to add articles Wikipedia. It would also be grand if you had some way to change the wiki software to accomodate as discussed in the Village Pump. Whatever the case, just get back to me on what to do. I was discussing with Maverick various things on my talk page and you might find some of that interesting as well. I'm not going to run the bot at one article per minute at this point because it is too slow to be practical (see the discussion on my talk page). -- Ram-Man

Clicking on what links to United States Census Bureau? took 1 minute 20 seconds before any output, and was still rendering three minutes later when I killed it. This looks like a very expensive link to click. The Anome 08:35 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)

Other links that I expect to have similar behavior will be the corresponding ones for 2000, African American, Native American, km², and any other pages linked by thousands of Ram-Man's articles. This isn't Ram-Man's fault: the software should be able to cope better with this: perhaps some use of LIMIT in the SQL queries would be useful? The Anome

Yes, it takes a long time to render a page with a lot of links, so a "what links here" page with hundreds of entries will be expensive. You're probably right that it might be worth writing some special-case code for that. --LDC

I'm suspicious of the validity of adding work to Wikipedia that's not coverable by the GFDL (as described in Wikipedia:copyrights). Isn't this a basic problem? -The Cunctator

Text would definitely be a problem, and I think we're pretty clear that we don't want text that isn't free. But images really are a different case; I think "fair use" images are OK, because it's an easy distinction to make, the utility of Wikipedia would suffer greatly if we couldn't use such images, and using such images does not detract from the goal of creating our own text.

I don't know that it would suffer greatly; there are a bunch of public domain images out there, and Wikipedia is a great opportunity to encourage people to generate more. But I can see both sides of the argument.

On the other hand, I'm extremely uncomfortable about contaminating the Wikipedia feed with content that can't be used by downstream licensees. If we didn't use any GFDL content ourselves, then we wouldn't be limited by the GFDL conditions, but we do (or at least would like to be able to).

Whatever the case, it's certainly not in the spirit of the GFDL to include non-free (the RMS def.) images.

I certainly think that it's crazy to imagine a legal setup in which image use as we do would be forbidden, but we live in a crazy world, with DRM around the corner.

Finally, "fair use" is, unfortunately, a defense. If someone challenges the use of their images, we would have to prove "fair use" in court, after the injunction. The fair use defense is sadly weak. --The Cunctator

In practice, if the copyright holder of an image complained, we would have to remove the image rather than attempt to defend our fair use rights. Just as it would be a very bad idea to have non-free text, I think it would be a bad idea to have articles that depend on non-free images, and if you find such an article, it would be appropriate to call attention to that problem. An image that's just an illustration to an otherwise complete article (like the video and album covers, for example) shouldn't be a problem, although you're right that it could be a problem for downstream use (although most such downstream uses will have the same fair use rights we do).

In my expert opinion, Cunctator's assumption that "we would have to prove 'fair use' in court, after the injunction" is mistaken: The three elements a movant has to show to get a preliminary injunction are probability of success on the merits, threat of irreparable harm, and equity (or the balancing of the harms) favors the movant. The movant bears the burden on all three elements and, before the court gets to them, bears the burden of showing there is no adequate remedy at law, or injunction will not lie. Since someone complaining of copyright infringement could not make any one of those showings (let alone all four of them), they're never going to get an injunction to start with. -- isis 07:25 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)

We should probably move this debate to another page... I think it's vital that "fair use" images are marked as such. For example, if we later produce a paper snapshot of Wikipedia (the idea cropped up on the mailing list a while ago), we'd need to know which images we must omit. -- Tarquin

I don't understand the concept of "'fair use' image," either by itself or in the context it's used in here. The images we use under what we call the "fair use" doctrine are not copyrighted. Here's what Black's Law Dictionary (4th ed.) says, and see if this makes what I'm saying clearer (italics added for emphasis & citation omitted):

FAIR USAGE. The doctrine of "fair usage" means that the matter which was under copyright was neither copied nor adopted, but that the uncopyrightable underlying idea was used, since a theme or idea is not copyrightable.

What I don't understand is what "which images we must omit" is about -- I can't think of any situation in which any image in the 'pedia should be "omitted." Would someone please enlighten me? -- isis 11:26 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)

I was thinking of album cover thumbnails & sound clips -- wouldn't a a CD or paper version of Wikipedia, even if sold at-cost, have to omit those? -- Tarquin

No, no way, never, huh-uh. -- isis 11:40 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)

The only possible time such an image might have to be omitted is in a commercially sold reproduction of Wikipedia (that weakens our "fair use" position but probably wouldn't destroy it), and since we don't plan on ever doing that, it shouldn't be a problem. If we made a paper reproduction distributed in accordance with our educational purposes, the same fair use rights would apply to that.

With all due respect, I must dissent from that opinion: Under Fed.R.Evid. 1001, for example, any copy of the 'pedia is interchangeable with any other (and/or the "original" -- whatever that means in this context), so whether we charge for our efforts in producing a particular copy or not is immaterial.

I've just realized what's been bothering some Users about the videotape covers: They don't understand what a copyright on the packaging means. I should have caught on sooner and told them the fact they were missing to ease their minds: A copyright on a videotape cover design prohibits anyone else's making a videotape cover/box/package with that same (or too much like it) design, but it does not prohibit anyone's taking a picture of it to show to anyone (commercially or not) when talking about the content of the tape in that box. If it did, the copyright laws would be unconstitutional, and those statutes are intended to further the 1st Amendment, not violate it. -- isis 20:20 Oct 30, 2002 (UTC)

Sounds like the matter is resolved (but Isis, note that we're dealing internationally here -- 1st amendment is a local thing ;-) Wikipedia:Copyright issues seems to be a good spot to move this conversation to -- but boy does that page need a clean-up! Anyone feel like picking the information out of that huge discussion? -- Tarquin

I'm copying this great discussion over to m:Wikipedia and copyright issues. --mav

I just want to give you rousing cheers for your arguments in the talk on Naming conventions (anglicization). Gritchka

Please take a peak at User talk:Dewlaylomo/ban. I think an administrator should take some action. MB 02:35 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Lee. Brion said you have a test server which you have been known to hand out accounts to. Can I have one? To find out why I'm asking, see User talk:Tim Starling. In brief, Eloquence is pushing me to do less talk and more action when it comes to PHP code. -- Tim Starling 06:07 25 May 2003 (UTC)

Could a developer check to see if User:Eddie is loging in using User:Michael's ip range (i.e. 152.163.25x.xxx)? He has been reverting articles of User:Michael's back to user Michael's content in a sneaky way. I just want to make sure it is or isn't User:Michael. If it is him, please ban the account. Thanks. MB 17:41 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

User:Fuck is Michael, please ban and delete the account, or whatever is nessesary.

Michael is back as User:Weezer/NOFX, attempts to reason with him to E-mail Jimbo have come to nothing, usual mind-games, alas, please ban the account. The Anome 15:10 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

user:My Green Dice is also Michael-- Green Dice, with spaces, not MyRedDice, without. Anyway, he's moving Hephaestos' page to different places; could you block him please? Thanks. Koyaanis Qatsi 01:53 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

SARS poker. heh. Koyaanis Qatsi 22:28 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Dear Lee, could you possibly add User:The Anomebot to the list of registered bots? It's well debugged and non-controversial, and has been working without causing any fuss on and off for a couple of days. If it is registered, I intend to speed it up to one hit per minute, with an extra safety back-off feature (measure transaction time, take min of a multiple of this and the programmed delay) that will stop it from being a nuisance when the server is heavily loaded. -- The Anome 22:13 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Lee - since I'm already both a developer and a root sysadmin on both boxes, do you mind making me a sysop as well? Thanks! -- Marumari 20:45 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks, Lee. -- Marumari 16:22 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Could you ban User:67.121.169.17 (Michael) ASAP? MB 23:25, Aug 5, 2003 (UTC)

When RK comes back I want to nominate him for sysop. I dont ask for much, but I ask that you support his nomination. Sincerely-戴&#30505sv 23:00, Aug 16, 2003 (UTC)


Lee,

I'm working on a project based on the wikipedia MediaWiki engine to create a set of annotations on Neal Stephenson's upcoming book Quicksilver. It's going to be a public site. I've seeded some of the entries with text from the Wikipedia for our internal release, and I wanted to invite you to participate and also ask you whether it's OK to use some of the Wikipedia content for our public release (I realize the license is GFDL, but I still wanted to make sure we don't launch without asking). Send me email and I can give you the URL and password for the internal site. patrick@appliedminds.net --Zippy 21:32, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi there, you have been listed as "inactive" on Wikipedia:Administrators. Please remove the notice when it is out of date. Cheers, Cyan 01:36, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)


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[edit] WikiProject Philosophy

Hi Lee! The articles to which you contributed on philosophy are fantastic -- I particularly liked Karl Popper. I'm trying to create a meeting-spot for philosophically-inclined pedians over on WikiProject Philosophy, so that we can work on articles together, and I'd like to invite you to join us. If you're interested, drop on in -- no obligation, of course. — Adam Conover † 21:03, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I could not find this issue covered in the FAQ's and would suspect it could only be fixed by a Wikitech doing a DB query directly; so I'm asking for your wisdom on this. Short version: can the update "14:07, 12 Apr 2004 . . 211.29.136.11" of Anti-globalization_movement be corrected to my user:Daeron identity?

By time I've hit the "Save Page" button, I've been logged out resulting in the change becoming anonymous. In this case as it's an article which is under a neutrality dispute notice, I would wish any concerns about my input to be addressed; as well as taking responsibility for my own input :-)

[edit] Public Domain

Since you've released your changes into the public domain, you can add {{MultiLicensePD}} to your user page to let everyone know using the template, if you prefer that. -- Ram-Man 02:22, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

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 GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 22:42, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also Image:Vo Nguyen Giap.jpg

[edit] Image:Clupeiformis.jpg

Greetings! I was wondering about the source for Image:Clupeiformis.jpg, which you uploaded. I can't find the image in the NOAA image library, and I'd like to get hold of the original scan. Can you tell me where you found it? (I've searched under "whitefish", "clupeiformis", "clupeaformis", "cisco", and "coregonus"—all the terms I can think of.) Thanks! —Tkinias 22:37, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

What should I do if I find a page which is been constatly vandalized? The page: Olavo de Carvalho is under severe atack. Some people are putting untrue and profanation, ofensive information and using bad language. I have fixed the page twice but I think it is not enough. Also I have added a protected template (I dont know if I did it right or not, If I did something wrong excuse me). I would appreciate if you could help me with this. -- Thank you very much. Carlosar 02:23, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page update problem

Hi Lee. There seems to be a problem when pages are updated: you do a whole load of edits and the page updates fine. But the next day, say, when you look at the page again the updates have not been effective and the page version many edits before is displayed. When you go to the history page all the edits are there and the 'last' version of the page is updated OK. This has just happend on the transistor page after edits yesterday. This fault has happend a couple of times before on this page. Is it something I am doing (Wikipedia rookie) or is there a system problem or is it my browser (MS IE)? I just had another look at the transistor page and it is OK now. Regards -- CPES 14:53, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Benjamindavis sm.jpg

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--Ellmist 18:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's no longer necessary to keep separate small images around, since the software now does server-side image rescaling, so this should be deleted. LDC 23:32, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mediawiki error on wikipedia

Hello Lee,

I saw your name in the FAQ so I thought it was probabely best to report this problem to you: When trying to visit this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

I get this error:

Warning: mysql_query(): Unable to save result set in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.4/includes/Database.php on line 324
Unable to free MySQL result 
Backtrace:

Database.php line 469 calls wfdebugdiebacktrace() 
User.php line 464 calls databasemysql::freeresult() 
SkinTemplate.php line 254 calls user::getnewtalk() 
OutputPage.php line 417 calls skinmonobook::outputpage() 
OutputPage.php line 614 calls outputpage::output() 
Database.php line 360 calls outputpage::databaseerror() 
Database.php line 309 calls databasemysql::reportqueryerror() 
Parser.php line 3005 calls databasemysql::query() 
Parser.php line 195 calls parser::replacelinkholders() 
OutputPage.php line 243 calls parser::parse() 
Article.php line 795 calls outputpage::addprimarywikitext() 
index.php line 127 calls article::view()

Any idea what's going on? Sander Marechal 15:28, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back

Welcome back :) I hope you find Wikipedia has changed for the good. - Mark 06:55, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Acrobat web capture

I habitually use Acrobat web capture to save web pages of interest because it preserves links and lets me save additional pages that are linked from the initial pages. This doesn't seem to work with Wikipedia. I've looked in the robot.txt file and FAQ's and didn't see any mention of Acrobat Web Capture as being some that is discouraged or blocked. Is it a local setting on my machine or the application or is there a policy on this that I failed to find, maybe my search technique was inadequate? Is this question common enough to be worthy of mention in the FAQ's?

Scott 7-18-2005

If your problem is links dissapearing then it probablly means acrobat web capture is using the print stylesheet. Otherwise no idea. Plugwash 21:09, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Interlacing

Adam7 algorithm claims that adam7 was based on an earlier very similar 5 pass algorithm by you. Was your algorithm simply

1 4 2 4
5 5 5 5
3 4 3 4
5 5 5 5

or was there some other subtule differance between your algorithm and adam7? Plugwash 21:09, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Sulfates category

Hello, I don't know if you are the appropriate person to help with this, but I ask anyway. Plase take a look to the sulfates category, it shows a lot of fluorides, compounds that do not belong to that category. The problem is that none of the fluoride articles indicates that it belongs to the sulfate categories; in other words there are no links within those articles (as fas as I can see) to the sulfate category. Neither there is any link in the sulfate category page to any of those fluorides. How can we fix that, is it a bug in Wikipedia? Sorry, but I'm still not familiar with categories. Best regards, I appreciate your help. --Paiconos 15:51, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weird history problem

I've got a semi-non-cache problem. I reloaded my history page ( 68.110.171.226 ), and got new entries - but not all of them...

23:13, 3 October 2005 (hist) (diff) Freeze distillation (~ender - fix s) (top) 23:12, 3 October 2005 (hist) (diff) Freeze distillation (~ender - add fusel alcohols) 22:57, 3 October 2005 (hist) (diff) Eddy-Current Testing (~ender - creation: some random

But it's missing (at least) this one from Talk:Freeze_distillation:

23:10, 3 October 2005 68.110.171.226 (~ender - thx for the lead, but I still like to know more...)

So, I think it's not a problem on my end, but not sure where to track it down.

~ender 2005-10-04 01:02:MST

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[edit] Image:Cb queenside.png has been listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Cb knight move.png has been listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Cb kingside.png has been listed for deletion

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[edit] Ignore All Rules

Mr. Crocker, you are the oldest listed editor of the Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules article. I believe the IAR is getting so convoluted that it needs clarification, particularly in the philosophical area of "What is the purpose of rules?" If you would add your thoughts to discussion, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for any insight you can give. --Zephram Stark 13:55, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Intellectual Property

Lee, the Intellectual Property page is a mess - I think it has been pulled this way and that by various POV-oriented editors. On the Talk page, I've proposed a lead paragraph that puts the fact of controversy into the definition of the term. With the controversy on the table, perhaps the various contestants can describe the varying views accurately instead of vying for space. But honestly, most of the article is nonsense -- I think it's the worst article I've encountered in Wikipedia. I would appreciate your looking at my suggestion and I'd very much like to hear from you. And thanks for creating such super software! Bryan 03:28, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Crocker's Rules

You might want to take a look at the article and AfD discussion of Crocker's rules. Do you have a good description of what they are, what they mean, how one uses them? Dpbsmith (talk) 22:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

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The above three images are all orphans -Nv8200p talk 21:03, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:DavidCary

Ah, how embarrassing. I've forgotten my wikipedia password. This is the first time I've tried the "e-mail new password" thingy. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. (I don't remember if I ever entered my email address in ... or perhaps I did but mis-typed it).

I suppose I could just make up a new user account ... but that seems so wasteful.

Are you one of the people that Help:Logging_in#What_if_I_forget_the_password? suggests might, possibly, be able to help me? -- DavidCary http://david.carybros.com/

p.s.: I was using the same password for Wikibooks:User:DavidCary -- would you reset that one as well? --70.189.75.148 17:36, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help Please

I'm sorry to bother you Mr. Crocker, but the help page said you might be able to help me. I recently created a new page titled 'Big Five (Yugioh)', and upon saving the page, the top of the page listed a message saying it could not save my edit (which is itself is strange, since the page was right there), and if the problem persisted, to log out and log back in. Now when I go to my contributions page, not only am I not listed as having created such a page, but Searching turns up nothing. Do I need to rewrite the page entirely, or is there another problem? User: Drake Clawfang, April 19, 2006. 12:31 AM EST.

[edit] Düsseldorf Coat-of-Arms

On 29 July 2002, you said about the image at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dusseldo.jpg “This is a really awful image...if you can find a better one in some other format or size, I'll trim it down to useful size and right format (PNG)” There is a better one at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/3/3a/Wappen_Duesseldorf.jpg Bejnar 18:09, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shuffling

The "unsourced" sentence you removed from Shuffle is mine. It is based on my 15+ years of personal experience as a professional poker player and dealer. --LDC

I appreciate that, and I respect your personal experience in the area, but remember Wikipedia's policy of No Original Research. I would feel far more confident about including the information in the article if there were a reliable third party source which could be cited as an origin for the claim. It is by no means common knowledge that people are good enough with cards to do that many shuffles in so brief a time, so it might be best if we were able to find a source for it. Thank you, however, for your attention to the article. --Kuzaar-T-C- 08:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I can't help but assume from your userpage and history that you're operating in good faith here, so instead of removing it pending a source I've just tagged the statement with a {{citeneeded}} template. I'll try my hand at looking for a resource for dealer speeds, but won't be disappointed if you find and add it before me. Thank you, --Kuzaar-T-C- 12:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reply. I've a passing interest in several card games, and I suppose I've just never been lucky enough to see a professional dealer do his thing. Like I said before, when I get a chance I'll see if I can't find any resources about this. Sorry if I came off as pedantic, but my (limited, certainly) personal experience would put a feat of doing that many shuffles that quickly into the category of legend and myth, haha. :) Happy editing, --Kuzaar-T-C- 19:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link

You may want to know that the link to "your personal wiki" is broken (I got 404'd). You may want to fix/remove/change it. MichaelBillington 09:56, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Virus from Wikipedia?

Hi, is it possible to get a virus from viewing the Wikipedia?

Not with any version of the software I released, but I haven't been actively involved in software development here for a while, so it's possible that some security leaks have sneaked in that I'm unaware of. But doubt it--Brion Vibber, who leads most of the development now, is a sharp guy and I'd be surprized if he made that kind of mistake.

[edit] Early admins

Thank you for your comments on my early admin page. I replied there, feel free to visit it anytime you think of some tidbit about that period :). NoSeptember 20:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Help Please (underlined links)

Hi, it said on the 'contact us' page that you can help with lots of problems. Occaisionally, wikilinks start underlining, instead of just showing in blue. I can't find an option in 'preferences' for this, and I find it very hard to read the underlined text - especially in link-heavy articles. I've tried refresshing, but that doesn't seem to help. What should I do? DuncanHill 12:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Duncan, I don't think this is the right place for this type of question, I would try the village pump next time. That said, underlining hyperlinks on web pages is controlled by the web browser. So I would check your web browsers preference settings first and see if that makes a difference. --Paul E. Ester 14:47, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Paul, perhaps you'd tell whoever runs the Wikipedia 'contact us' pages to stop telling people to ask lee Daniel Crocker. Anyway, I had tried the Village Pump before coming here, didn't get any response. I've since found that the underlinings disappear after I edit a page, and as I haven't changed any browser settings, it all seems a little bizarre! DuncanHill 20:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] double suited

Hi, I noticed you removed my definition of 'double suited' from the List of slang names for poker hands page. I just thought it belonged in an article somewhere, since its a common omaha term and it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere on wikipedia. But it isn't really 'slang', I'll give you that. Do you think it should be included somewhere else, or do you think its meaning is self-evident? —Kymacpherson 03:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Seems pretty self-evident to me, but my judgment shouldn't be the only one--if you really think it needs to be somewhere, I'd put it into the glossary article (along with "suited"). --LDC 18:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:C Question

The September 25, 2002 version of WP:C show that you had made a statement "It is not the job of rank-and-file Wikipedians to police content for possible copyright infringement, but if you suspect one, you should at the very least bring up the issue on that page's talk page." What was your intent in that statement, and are you aware that it is now gone? --Hackajar 05:24, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

That was probably a more appropriate statement back in the days when we were still experimenting with just what Wikipedia policy was going to be, and our major focus was recriuiting content creators, not editors. I'm sure that since then we've reached a more detailed consensus about such policies, and good editors are more valued than content creators, so my statement isn't really relevant anymore.
Good to know, thank you Hackajar 04:55, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What do you think of links to www.youtube.com in wikipedia

Answers?RoddyYoung 11:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nostalgia time...

Hi LDC, great to get updated on your life. I'm still around, and I even hear from JHK occasionally.

Now...I was browsing nostalgia.wikipedia.org, and checking the history logs. Apparently I get the credit for the creation of Scientific Method (!) Much as I'd love this to be true, my memory suggest that this was one of yours originally.

Conversely, I get no credit for Paul Erdos, which annoys me as I worked awfully hard on that one (you even put me on brilliant prose as a result - here's your comment on my user page).).

Now putting my fragile ego aside (an effort, to be sure), this discovery appears to suggest that the history logs at Nostalgia are somewhat unreliable. As I found some people trawling around looking for "History of Wikipedia" info, I felt the need to warn them about taking the history logs as gospel.

Is there any way of correcting the history logs? Or have they been lost to time... anyway, all the best :) Manning 03:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, sone of the very earliest history of Wikipedia is lost, because Clifford's software didn't keep article histories indefinitely. We also didn't do a complete job converting article histories when we updated. In fact, the earliest record for the Poker article shows an edit by Larry Sanger, which clearly wasn't his area of expertise :-) It's possible that the some of the history records that survived Clifford's software but that weren't converted in transition may still exist on a backup tape somewhere, waiting to be converted. You might ask Brion or Tim about that. --LDC 01:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] extropy-chat misses you

Lee,

Do you remember Me, Brent Allsop from the Extropy chat list?

I met you at the Extro-5 conference back in 2001. And we've had various talks on the Extropy e-mail list about qualia and such. We had a conversation back in 1999 about working on the extropy.org web site for Max More (we had e-mail problems to start with). I seem to be having e-mail problems again and many varied attempts to send you e-mail have failed. I asked about you on the exi-chat list. Spike said he had recently similarly tried to contact you in vain, and asked me to tell you that he and others miss you on that list if I get a hold of you. BillK suggested I try contacting you here, so I hope that is OK that I do.

I particularly remembered the paper (I thought was brilliant) you presented at extro-5 entitled: "Fighting for Less Privacy: The Transparency Option" (Is that paper available anywhere? I can't seem to find it online, and the extropy.com site's search seems broken.)

I’m thinking of creating a wiki system that I think will better handle POV information in a structured debate kind of way. If you’ve got a chance I’d love to chat about it. Or if you're not interested just let me know and I’ll stop trying to bother you.


allsop at extropy dot org


Thanks!

Brent Allsop 03:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Topic in Disambiguation

Hi,

I noticed that you wrote the original naming convention guidelines in WP:D regarding the situation when one entry is a primary meaning. I wanted to get your opinion on how you determine whether one meaning is the primary meaning relative to other meanings? For example, if there is a topic XYZ and multiple meanings for XYZ, but one stands out as the primary meaning to me, what necessary and sufficient evidence would you require to be convinced of that, if it's not obvious? Thanks in advance for you consideration of this issue. --Hamsacharya dan 20:10, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I think salience is an inherently subjective, culturally-dependent, and dynamic thing, so I don't think one can--or should--make a fixed set of criteria for it. I can say, though, that's it's important to keep the goal in mind: imagine a typical user typing the term into a search box; which meaning is he or she most likely looking for? Making judgments like this is part of the process or witing a good article.

Thank you very much for the input. --Hamsacharya dan 21:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I am the same user as commons:User:Lee Daniel Crocker.

[edit] Spelling: Jewellery VS. Jewelry

Dear Lee Daniel Crocker: I am emailing about the Jewellery category. I believe your might be the original author of the category and I would like your feedback. I have posted the issue on WPO" Pump as well as manual of style. I am wondering if you would be willing to consider the use of the American spelling. I personally have no issue with the fact that we have 2 different spelllings on WP - both English and American - as I am aware there are 2 different spellings and for me, it is not a problem. However, I do feel we are having a siginifcant issue here on WP about the English VS. American spelling and I feel I have a good case to revert to the American Spelling. So - here it is. I am a graduate student at Bard here in US. I have read and researched literally hundreds of published titles on this topic. To that aim, I am endeavoring to beef up this category and help WP. However, in the act of reading many titles over many years, I have come to conclude that the American spelling is more dominent in published works on this topic. I don't have a reasoning behind why, I just know that it is so. Because of this, I feel it is neccesary to switch back to the American spelling. Even though in OED, it is jewellery, in every major book on this topic with the exception a few published in UK, it is spelled jewelry. For example - see what is known as "the bible on jewelry," the title is: Jewelry Concepts & Technology by Oppi Untracht. The spelling used is jewelry. Another example: On Amazon, you type in both. For jewelry there are 83,868 Results, for Jewellery, there are 61,300,000 Results - that is a significant difference in published works. I am more than happy to provide a complete bibliography if need be, but in the interest of being user friendly, I ask that you consider this and let me know what you think. Thanks, Archie, archimartinArchiemartin

I was not involved in the creation of the jewelry articles, but I was involved in the creation of our usage standards and the articles about British and American English. In general, it is acceptable here for any article to use either British or American spelling and grammar, so long as they aren't mixed in a single article. I don't believe we explicitly dealt with the issue of a category name itself or a collection of related articles. I don't doubt that American usages generally predominate the world of published works, and not only in this category, because of the larger publishing industry here, larger Internet presence, and our cultural imperialism in general. But I'm not sure that's really sufficient to justify changing well-written articles that happen to use the other dialect. I don't think book titles are helpful either: the color articles are pretty consistent with that spelling, even though there are standard works like Hunt's "Reproduction of Colour..." Do you have some reason to believe that use of British English in this case hampers quality of the articles, say by making searches less useful of something? If not, I don't see a clear reason to change any particular article's usage. One thing that would justify changing an article is if someone who makes significant changes to it is not comfortable editing in the other dialect, and so changes the whole article to be consistent. --LDC 17:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Daniel, Thanks for your kind reply. I appreciate the response. I agree that it is not all that important in general as one surfs along to have the two different spellings. However, my concern is twofold. One concern is that I myself as I go along working in this category am writing in American English will encounter problems and hostility, (I already have) with other editors who don't like me inserting the American version. The other is that I don't think it looks good for WP, plain and simple. When I began here, I had a very difficult time finding things in this category because of the two spellings. I have noticed that now there is a redirect which helps but the areas are not conjoined and there is not alot of integration. To remedy some of this, I just started writing and editing my own things using that spelling, but I did get a few nasty reactions as I did so. I just think at the end of the day, choosing one in this instance will make sense long term because unlike words like color/colour - jewelry/jewellery is a noun. It is quite problematic. Let me know what you think. Archie, archiemartinArchiemartin

[edit] WP:DAB

Hi LDC, one more question for you about disambiguation. I have a situation in which there is call for a "dual" disambiguation: Kriya Yoga. Can you take a quick look at the disambiguation structure and let me know if you feel that this is appropriate or inappropriate? I feel that this structure is most instructive to the reader as it directs them with more clarity and specificity. Thanks. --Hamsacharya dan 20:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid making the right choices here would require an in-depth knowledge of the subject that I just don't have.

[edit] Sample Space

Dear Lee,

Could you please clarify something in regard to your Sample Space page? I agree that a sample space can be described in different ways, but I don't believe your example says what you want. What you are really giving two different experiments: 1) drawing a card and observing the suit vs. 2) drawing a card and observing the rank. The different sample spaces should really be with respect to the same experiment, such as flipping two coins and observing the outcomes. We could then describe the sample space as either:

{ hh, ht, th, tt } or { two heads, two tails, a head and a tail }

All possible outcomes are still covered, and the sum of the probabilities still add up to one. I hear you now - a head and a tail is really not one outcome, but two! I hear you, but from what I've seen in the literature, this appears to be generally accepted. What do you think?

Thanks,

Markysdad 18:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Beatles_into_my_life.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_enddrumsolo.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_eleanor_rigby.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_eight_days.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_drive_my_car.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_dont_bother_me.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_secret.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_day_life.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_cant_buy_me_love.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_blackbird.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_and_i_love_her.ogg

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[edit] Image:Beatles_allyouneedislove.ogg

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[edit] Removing missing rationale tags

Do not remove missing rationale tags unless you actually provide them. Please note that the tag "non-free audio sample" is not a rationale, just a biolerplate template, and thus does not quailfy per fair use. — Κaiba 23:39, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I used to think the same thing. I thought the template provided the rationale perfectly, but now standard practice is that we have to create them like on Wikipedia:Fair use rationale examples. I honestly don't know the point of those templates anymore, but I guess it's just to make sure the text "...under United States copyright law when used on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation..." is listed on every non-free image. — Κaiba 01:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
And sorry if I came on a little strong with the first message. — Κaiba 01:19, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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The articles about the song contain someone else's sample, which is fine. --LDC

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[edit] More audio files

There are some more audio files that need rationales Lee:

I'll bring more by if I see any. Cheers! — Κaiba 23:20, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

List of more:

Image:Jk beatles ringo.jpg
— Κaiba 01:48, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki

How come you don't do development stuff anymore or have an SVN account? Just curious. Voice-of-All 05:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Duplicate Image:Tetraodon-hispidus-thumbnail.jpg

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[edit] Article you created

I believe you also created the article on Lee Harvey Oswald. You can add that to your repertoire. Chuffable 08:45, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Entry deleted

Hello! I saw you delete the entry Broadway from the List of poker terms. Yes it´s maybe slang but as long as there is a redirect to from the "poker slang" entry to the "list of poker terms" in my opinion it should be there. Elconejo 16:38, 18. Sept. 2007 (UTC-6) —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 22:39, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of slang names for poker hands

per your comments on Elconejo talkpage, I just thought I would clear things up on what happen to the article List_of_slang_names_for_poker_hands.

List_of_slang_names_for_poker_hands was deleted and then redirected to Glossary of poker terms, [1] see: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_slang_names_for_poker_hands_(2nd_nomination) for debate, it was closed as no consensus by the closing admin, a DRV then came up here (see debate), then move to wiktionary and deleted afterwards, I saw that there is a b:Poker section on wikibooks don't know if they allow slang terms or not, hope this helps ▪◦▪≡ЅiREX≡Talk 03:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

thx, I will have a look there --Elconejo 15:37, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Sg book2.ogg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Sg wm3a.ogg)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Beatles loser.ogg

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[edit] Franz Josef Strauß

Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at Franz Josef Strauß? Yes, it is an ancient topic (the use of ß on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. Unschool (talk) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Beatles day life.ogg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Beatles lucy sky.ogg)

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[edit] Award

The I Edited Jimbo Wales' Userpage Barnstar
Lee Daniel Crocker has edited the userpage of Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, without vandalizing it. To do so, just fix a typo or something right here.

I would like to present to you the I Edited Jimbo Wales' Userpage Barnstar! — ComputerGuy890100Talk to meWhat I've done to help Wikipedia 23:12, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


Pretty silly thing to get an award for. You'd think something like, oh, writing the software that runs the site would be worth some kudos, but I guess I'll take what I can get. :-) --LDC (talk) 07:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)