User talk:Meand

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At present I only log in occasionally, and thus if you post here, it is likely that I will not see it for some time. However, if you use "E-mail this user", I'll see your comments quickly, and I'm happy to move conversations onto my talk page if relevent. On the default Wikipedia layout, the link appears at the bottom of the menu on the right-hand side.


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… Thanks for the warning re proper way to handle vandal Hank Wilson. It's new to me how to deal with a vandal. He's so blatant. Scientistdoc 23:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)


I appreciate the additional information about Wiki use. Like you I'm too busy to do much with his vandalism. Scientistdoc 09:12, 16 June 2007 (UTC)


Meand: I just realized I responded to your message on my talk page by posting my response there, instead of here. So here's my response. Sorry about that:

Hi Meand. Having never had experience with images on Wikipedia I took the "easy way out" and probably violated every rule there is (plus my eyes were glazed over just trying to read and make sense of the huge amount of what's written on Wikipedia about images). In my zeal to try to dress up the article, I just kept searching and searching and found an obscure site with the bottles. But I noticed that the same images of the individual bottles are all over the web on what seem to be dozens of sites. So I opted to grab one and use it. I may have screwed up.

I agree with you about Leonardo's "Sphincter Muscles". Though an amazing drawing (as were all his sketches of the human body), it probably didn't belong in the poppers article. I placed it there in an effort to try to dress up the section as well as because I thought it related to the sphincter aspect of the physiological effects of inhalation of nitrites. (Actually, the way you've re-arragned the page is much more visually appealing.)

You're also right about the chemical Properties image. I'd downloaded the book on nitrites and it's a graphic in that book. I cut it from the PDF. I thought about asking for permission, but just didn't do it. (I opted for the instant gratification of trying to beautify the article instead).

The Amyl advert is on at least two sites, one of them a site that Hank Wilson is related to. I thought it might appease him, and also since it was an old advert from 25 years ago, that it might be permissible to use it just because of that.

I understand the need to be strict re copyright. I should have approached this is in a more measured way. I just wanted to dress up the article (I may be exactly the kind of person for whom Wikipedia has created all the rules to keep from violating copyrights!). If you want to remove any of the other images I'd have no objection to that. Thanks for 'keeping us honest'! Munatobe7 16:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Meand: I just realized that the nitrite book says that " Limited portions may be reproduced by news media or scientific journals with attribution." Do you think that allows us to use it on Wikipedia? Munatobe7 16:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Meand, did you see Peter Cohen's call, on the talk page of the poppers article, for a vote on whether the poppers article has yet achieved NPOV? I notice that you have not yet voted. Munatobe7 17:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)