User talk:Mattl

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1 The Needles
2 King Of The Show
3 Fair use rationale for Image:Craigcrack.jpg
4 Template
5 BadVista logo
6 Fair use rationale for Image:Dangerous.png
7 Notability of Dangerous Records
8 Guy Blandford
9 Members of Sunshot
10 gNewSense introduction rewrite
11 Orphaned non-free media (Image:BBC Eliminate DRM.jpg)
12 Image copyright problem with Image:Benji.jpg
13 Speedy deletion of Guy Blandford
14 Doors

[edit] The Needles

Hi Mattl. Just moving "The Needles" to The Needles (chalk stacks) and changing it to a disambiguation page may have seemed a good idea. A better idea whould have been to create a page The Needles (disambiguation) (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation) which then referred, as it does now, to the band and the place, and then putting, as I am about to, a pointer at the top of The Needles to point other uses to the disambiguation page. The geographic feature is so well known globally that having people arrive at a disambiguation page instead of the location was not really appropriate. Hope you find this constructive. Fiddle Faddle 10:18, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King Of The Show

Hi, just letting you know I merged the King Of The Show page you created way back when. Pascal.Tesson 18:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

You're very welcome. No I never did see the show. Actually have no idea whatsoever what this show is! I just happened to stumble on King Of the Show because I'm working the categorization backlog. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 01:45, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Craigcrack.jpg

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[edit] Template

Hi there! You nominated a template for aspergian wikipedians for deletion, but no such template exists. Perhaps this was a typo? >Radiant< 08:29, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, Category:Aspergian_Wikipedians. Yes, that's a category; if you believe it should be deleted, WP:UCFD is the page to go to. >Radiant< 08:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BadVista logo

Hi! Do you happen to have a source supporting the GFDL status of Image:BadVista no littering.png you uploaded? I'd like to vectorize it, but I can't do it if I'm not sure of the license. Thanks! ›mysid (☎∆) 19:51, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dangerous.png

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[edit] Notability of Dangerous Records

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[edit] Guy Blandford

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[edit] Members of Sunshot

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[edit] gNewSense introduction rewrite

Hi,

I've reverted this change. Articles aren't written from the point of view of their subjects, and an objective appraisal of gNewSense at this point would be that it's an Ubuntu variant. Whether that makes it a "variant of the GNU operating system which uses the Linux kernel" or not, Wikipedia refers to such things as "Linux distributions" pretty consistently, and allowing projects to use their own terminology decreases Wikipedia's consistency and makes it more confusing to casual readers. Chris Cunningham (talk) 10:27, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, the circular logic again.

Matt, just in case you haven't seen this: The only reason Wikipedia currently mostly refers to GNU/Linux as "Linux" is because Chris here, alone, spent a lot of time last year replacing hundreds of mentions of "GNU/Linux" with "Linux". These are hard to find in his edit history because he mostly used the useless edit summary: "tidying". They were mostly in the summer months plus some up until October. After that he's just done maintenance work, reverting people who write "GNU/Linux".

So, he removes all mentions of "GNU/", and then points at the lack of mentions and says that adding any mentions of "GNU/" is not allowed now because that would spoil internal consistency. Pleas don't fall for it. There are plenty of people who argue that "GNU/Linux" is the correct terminology to be used in Wikipedia, and there are policies that can be cited to argue this too. --Gronky (talk) 21:36, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:BBC Eliminate DRM.jpg)

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

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Guy Blandford

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[edit] Doors

I am not afraid of doors. I am a little afraid of lamp stores but I'm not sure if that's encyclopedic. —mako ๛