User talk:Leopold Samsonite
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[edit] Watford City
Hey there! I see that you and User:MatthewUND have done some work on the Watford City, North Dakota article and several related to it. As a Watford City native, I say thanks! I'd only suggest one thing, which is to find a way to explain that the Oilers are not (or at least to my knowledge still are not, unless things have changed recently) part of the school but rather a private undertaking outside of the school. Other than that, great work. I wish I had the time to devote to my home state's storied history, but fortunately others are hard at work. Thanks again! Ari 06:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC), a North Dakotan in Virginia for now
- I'll assume you have the right Dennis Johnson and go with 'yes.' Small world? Ari 23:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- So you know who I am, evidently. Who are you? :P Ari 06:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Problems with vandals
It can be pretty frustrating having to deal with vandals. I have a couple thousand articles on my watch list so I revert many acts of vandalism every day. When you notice someone causing vandalism, go to their talk page and add one of the warning templates found at Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. If you notice a persistent vandal, don't hesitate to leave a message at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Persistent vandals can be blocked for periods of time or indefinitly. --MatthewUND(talk) 20:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] North Dakota State Bison wrestling
Thank you for your work and creation of the North Dakota State Bison wrestling article. I noticed you hadn't been working on it lately and then realized I had eliminated your "head coach table" when I didn't really mean to. It's a nice table and connects the article to the other NDSU sports articles. I'd removed it once when I incorporated the info into the article and then did it again when it wasn't formatted right and I wasn't sure how to fix it. I didn't mean to keep removing your work and I don't want you to feel unwelcome editing since you do such a nice job on NDSU and North Dakota articles. Feel welcome to do any editing you'd like. The article could use your help. Johnn 7 16:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Uploading images
I know that uploading images can be very confusing. If you find it too daunting, don't hesitate to simply ask me to do it for you. I'm very willing to help out if you can just point me to an image's location on the web.
Remember, there are really very few images that can be legally uploaded to Wikipedia. The only images that you would really want to be uploading are either images you've created yourself or images that fall into a few narrow categories of acceptable images for Wikipedia articles (including logos and works of the US Federal Government).
To upload, simply click on "Upload file" in the toolbox on the left side of the screen. From there, you need to specify the "Source filename" and the "Destination filename". The image you want to upload should already be saved on your computer. Click on "Browse" and select the image on your computer that you want to upload. Then, come up with a "Destination filename". If it confuses you too much, you can simply skip over the "Summary" section for now. The last thing you have to do is select an appropriate "License". For the sports team logo you mentioned, you would want to scroll down and select "Logo" as the license. Then, just click "Upload file" and wait for a while (generally a few seconds to a minute) for the uploading to complete.
I hope this helps. I know this is a confusing process! --MatthewUND(talk) 07:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Senior Senator
Hey. I do not know you, but i see you are a member of North Dakota Wikiproject. Please, could you answer my question. I would like to point out that in 1992, Kent Conrad retired, and Byron Dorgan won. Dorgan is still in the Senate. And then Conrad ran and won a few years later. Wouldn't this make Dorgan senior senator from North Dakota??
Thanks,
Politics rule 23:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
P.S.- I also support the Republican Party!=)
- Thank you for responding to my question. I sent a lot of people this question, and not many redsponed. Thanks again! =)
Politics rule 01:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] North Dakota American League Baseball
Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on North Dakota American League Baseball, by MatthewUND, another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because North Dakota American League Baseball fits the criteria for speedy deletion for the following reason:
To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting North Dakota American League Baseball, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Please note, this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate North Dakota American League Baseball itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. --Android Mouse Bot 2 07:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] North Dakota State Bison men's basketball
I didn't make the move Leopold, but it sounds like a sensible move to me. All NDSU and UND athletic team articles should probably be split into two gender specific articles. --MatthewUND(talk) 20:23, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- The women's material was moved to the logical location, North Dakota State Bison women's basketball. Even if the material hadn't been moved into its own article by someone else, you could have looked at a previous version of the generic NDSU basketball article and found the women's material yourself. --MatthewUND(talk) 22:35, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
Hi, looks like you posted a cut-and-paste at this article. I tagged it for speedy deletion as a copyvio, but feel free to rewrite / repost it in your own words. Thanks! -- But|seriously|folks 18:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
- Here also. -- But|seriously|folks 18:44, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
- If what you're saying is you cut-and-paste, save, then rewrite in your own words, please don't do that. That results in a copyright violation in the page's history, which is still a copyright violation. Please either use preview only until the copyvio has been removed or compose in notepad.exe and move to WP when it's no longer a copyvio. Better still, write the article from scratch in your own words, so it won't end up as a paraphrase of someone else's work, as that might still be a copyvio. Thanks! -- But|seriously|folks 18:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Archive?
You don't have to, but I would suggest you archive some of your talk page. It is currently quite long and a little hard to navigate. If you need any help archiving it, don't hesitate to ask me. Also, it looks like all of the ND American Legion baseball articles have been speedily deleted. --MatthewUND(talk) 22:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
- I archived all comments from 2006 and put them into User talk:Leopold Samsonite/Archive1. A link to this archive also appears at the top of this talk page. I hope you don't think it too bossy of me to suggest archiving these messages. I just think it makes this page a lot easier to navigate and shows only the more timely messages. See you around! --MatthewUND(talk) 01:41, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your recent edits
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[edit] North Dakota State Bison baseball
Well, you might as well cast your vote in the proposed deletion. I just voted to keep the article. --MatthewUND(talk) 23:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
- The majority are voting to keep the article, and I just did.--milk the cows (Talk) 21:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- Leopold, you need to take more care in what you are saying in this AfD. I know you are angry at the editor who nominated this article for deletion, but you must refrain from making personal attacks against him. It looks incredibly petty and does absolutely nothing to help your case. --MatthewUND(talk) 00:12, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] California Winter League
I reverted the AFD tag you placed on it as it linked to the track AFD. See WP:POINT Jaranda wat's sup 00:37, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Article ownership
Good question, Leopold. Actually, no one really owns any of the textual content on Wikipedia. Check out Wikipedia:Copyrights. Text on Wikipedia falls under the GNU Free Documentation License. That articles states that: "[the license] gives readers the same rights to copy, redistribute and modify a work and requires all copies and derivatives to be available under the same license. Copies may also be sold commercially, but if produced in larger quantities (greater than 100) then the original document or source code must be made available to the work's recipient." In other words, when you add text to a Wikipedia article, it is basically being released in such a way that anybody can use it for any purpose they so desire. So...when you enter text on Wikipedia, you don't really own it. --MatthewUND(talk) 22:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- No, your contributions could not be removed simply because you no longer wish to contribute to Wikipedia. Building Wikipedia is about creating a free encylopedia for the world; it would be entirely against Wikipedia's nature to delete material simply because it had been contributed by someone who had decided to leave the project. --MatthewUND(talk) 22:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] North Dakota State Treasurers Category
I am writing to let you know about a "Categories for Discussion" vote that I initiated with respect to Category:North Dakota State Treasurers. I have proposed that the category should be renamed to Category:State treasurers of North Dakota in order to conform with the standard used in all other similarly-named categories. For examples of what I am talking about, see Category:State treasurers of the United States. The reason I contacted you about this matter is because you have previously edited an article within the aforementioned category. --TommyBoy (talk) 18:32, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Nevermind, the discussion on the matter is closed. --TommyBoy (talk) 02:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:VBL team
A tag has been placed on Template:VBL team requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).
Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Tom O'Leary Golf Course
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