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[edit] Welcome! to Wikipedia!

Hello LX, this is Exir Kamalabadi, and I hope that you are having fun with Wikipedia. First of all, welcome to Wikipedia! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, then fix it. Don't be afraid. Be bold! If you do something wrong, there is always someone who will clean up the mess.

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Finally, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page when you need help!

Exir KamalabadiJoin Esperanza! 01:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] T'rima kasih

Thank you for adding id:Allah Anak to God the Son.

Tuhan memberkati Alastair Haines (talk) 11:02, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Perth population density source

I'm fairly sure that I refered to the Perth Statistical District of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. You'll find it in the AusStats section of the ABS website.--cj | talk 10:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Newspaper scan

Discussion moved back to User talk:Chaldean#Unspecified_source_for_Image:Assyrianareaasnewseek.png. Please continue discussions where they started.
Discussion moved back to User talk:Chaldean#Unspecified_source_for_Image:Assyrianareaasnewseek.png again. Please continue discussions where they started.

[edit] Re:

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[edit] defaultsort is your friend!

Hello! I noticed your edit to Mikael Odenberg, so I thought I should drop by and tell you about the wonders of {{DEFAULTSORT}}.

A sortkey is an alternative term the article should be sorted by when listed in a category. For example to add an article called Albert Einstein to the category "people" and have the article sorted by "Einstein, Albert". You would type "[[Category:People|Einstein, Albert]]". This kind of sortkey you successfully added to Mikael Odenberg in your edit.

But, I reverted most of your edit! Why? Because there is a feature called "Default sort key", which changes the default sort key used by categories from the name of the article to the one specified with the magic word {{DEFAULTSORT}}. Instead of adding |Odenberg, Mikael you simply add {{DEFAULTSORT:Odenberg, Mikael}} above the categories, which I had already done in this case.

Thank you for your otherwise very valuable contribution! Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 11:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Ooh, neat. I didn't see that. Apparently, this is a new function in MediaWiki 1.10. That's really handy knowledge for the other Wikimedia projects that I'm involved in as well. Thanks for letting me know! —LX (talk, contribs) 11:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Yellowwarbler06.jpg

I thought USFWS images were public domain as US federal gov agencies. If that's no longer the case, go ahead and delete (I've fixed the typo in the upload comment so that it at least makes sense when it's chopped). A pity, because USFWS has some good bird images. jimfbleak 15:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

You're probably right about that, but you'll also have to provide more specific source information (such as a URL or an ISBN) so that it's possible to verify that the image actually came from USFWS. (Sorry for the delay in the response; I'm away from my personal computer, having started a new job in a new town and trying to find a place to live, so I lack both the means and the time to work on the wikis at the moment.) —LX (talk, contribs) 21:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Muslim_Association_of_Sweden

Hi, there's debate as to whether the association put forward demands or suggestions. Here's the original in Swedish. The words translated as demand(s) are "krav" and "kraven" respectively. The words are used 13 times. --tickle me 01:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Krav unquestionably means "demand" (kraven is plural). It could not reasonably be translated as "suggestion." However, the letter proclaims to put forth krav och önskningar, "demands and wishes." Also, some of the uses of the word "krav" are not in reference to the authors' own demands. —LX (talk, contribs) 22:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thx. --tickle me 07:56, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Sergio640.jpg

You tagged this image as a replacable fair use, but finding a replacement would be tricky since he was killed in Iraq. JACOPLANE • 2007-06-10 22:19


[edit] LX but Commons

This discussion has been moved back to commons:User talk:Abril Novo#Please_do_not_recreate_deleted_images. Please respect my request to keep discussions where they started. Don't continue discussions from elsewhere on this page, as this makes discussions harder to follow. Thank you.

[edit] Image:Boolos.gif

I believe you removed this image believing it did not have sufficient permissioning under the GNU license guidelines. Please clarify what is needed, because a previous administrator had told me that it was adequately permissioned. Also, I was not notified of any problems with the license, which I understand is customary policy, as a courtesy to contributors. Please advise how the image can be restored and what permissioning specifically (eg, what language specifically) is required. Thanks, Roberterubin (talk) 11:01, 26 December 2007 (UTC)roberterubin

I deleted the image because that was the consensus of the deletion discussion, which you were indeed notified of. I strongly doubt any administrator would have told you that a Wikipedia-only permission was sufficient to upload the image to Wikimedia Commons.
Please read Commons' licensing policy for information about the licensing requirements, Commons:Email templates for how to obtain an appropriate permission statement and Commons:OTRS for information about how to archive it.
In the future, please discuss Commons-related issues on Commons. If you would like to request undeletion, please use Commons:Undeletion requests. There is no need to e-mail me privately. —LX (talk, contribs) 08:52, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the response. If you look at the log of information for the original posting of Boolos.gif, you will see that I was asked for the same information you refer to in 2006. I provided it to the administrator listed there. Also, here is the text of the message provided to MIT:
"I would like to post this photograph of Professor Boolos on a Wikipedia article about him I have contributed to. However, the photograph will actually be posted to Wikipedia Commons, which requires a free use GNU license. May I have your permission?"
As you can see, when permission was granted, it was not just for Wikipedia.
As for my being notified, I flagged the Boolos.gif entry to alert me to any changes, and no alert was ever generated.
I am happy to repeat the entire process, but your assumptions above are in error.
I would respectfully ask you to double-check your facts before acting in the future.
I emailed you because there was no response to my posting, but I certainly will not email you in the future. I think, given the above information, you might understand that trashing someone's work in the way you did (although I imagine you acted with good intentions) is not appreciated.
Thank you.
24.9.141.199 (talk) 20:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)roberterubin
You really do need to get them to respond with the declaration provided at Commons:Email templates to show that they have understood the licence they are choosing (not least because there is no such thing as "the GNU license"), otherwise we don't have a legal leg to stand on if they change their minds or suddenly realise that you what you asked them was to give everyone the right to use the image in original or modified form for noncommercial or commercial purposes.
None of the Commons administrators enjoy deleting files. It's tedious volunteer work and tends to get people angry at us. We do it because we have to delete images with missing legal information to protect the integrity of Commons and the many fine, free images there. If you obtain an unambiguous permission statement, your file will be undeleted and will be one of the millions of images we try to protect.
Sorry for the delay in the response. I had gone to bed by the time you posted to my user talk page here. —LX (talk, contribs) 21:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, I will follow your advice, and I appreciate your help. 24.9.141.199 (talk) 19:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)roberterubin