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[edit] Boston, Massachusetts

I implemented your suggestions except the one concerning the sports table. Someone else added the table (and I have seen this table appear in several city articles, including Seattle, Washington), and from my perspective it better displays the teams that are based in the area. Nevertheless, I will try to remove the table, but could you suggest another reason why that might be the desired course of action? Thanks. Pentawing 20:47, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Some material was recently added to the history section by another user. I was wondering if this would pose any problems to the article's being featured from your point of view. Thanks. Pentawing 05:02, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I reverted the sports section to the version before the table existed (and hoping that the person who added the table isn't upset by its removal). As for the demographics section, I am leaning towards moving the passage concerning neighborhoods to a sub-article, since that information is easier to expand and update manually (which can't be said for the demographics information, which was added by Rambot. It would be better to keep the information in the Boston article so that it could be updated more easily by Rambot). Thanks for the supportive comment about the history section (I almost got into an edit war with LuMas over the material). Pentawing 22:10, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for the birthday greetings! :-) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:32, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image source/licensing for Image:Bombaycitydistricts.png

The image you uploaded, Image:Bombaycitydistricts.png, has no source information. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, ie in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Unless the copyright status is provided, the image will be marked for deletion on 24 October 2005.

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[edit] Lang Hancock at peer review

G'day Nichalp,

haven't seen you on IRC today, so leaving a message here. Thanks for your help with Lang Hancock; I've followed or replied to each of your points at the peer review page. Please let me know what you think, cheers, --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 15:33, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the day

Hi Nicholas,

Just to let you know that your map Image:Goamap.png is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the associated caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 18, 2005. -- Solipsist 19:49, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Its fine User:Nichalp/sg 20:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Image tagging

You wrote:

Hi. I'd uploaded Image:Bombaycitydistricts.png on 2005-02-23, and released it under GFDL. On 25 March, you changed the licence to {{unverified}} (Hist)) with the comment how is this GFDL?. Today, I received a message saying that it was going to be deleted. I consider it pretty rude that you changed the licence from GFDL to unverified without consulting me. Please do not repeat this in the future. Regards, User:Nichalp/sg 18:53, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

(a) Common Wikipedia practice does not require the initial author of a page to be explicitly notified for every change, primarily because (b) it is assumed that most people add pages they care about to their Watchlist and (c) the image would't be deleted without querying your talk page first, since (d) {{unverified}} is only a marker that sufficient source information was not given—and it is important to quickly tag questionable images even if someone (me) doesn't have time to immediately go and initiate a conversation with the uploader.

Indeed, this is the whole point of the robot that posted the notification on your Talk page—you were notified (eventually).

The problem with your initial GFDL license tag was that you did not specify that you were the author and copyright holder, and there was no way to infer this information...without source information, a "license" is next to meaningless. (You may think it obvious that you are the copyright holder, but you'd be surprised at the number of images off the Web that people post and innocently mark as GFDL.) You might want to go through other images you uploaded, and which you created yourself, and mark them as GFDL-self also.

Also, the map inherently looks questionable—unless you are a cartographer, you probably didn't create it from scratch, but rather started from some other map as a source. Please specify on Image:Bombaycitydistricts.png exactly how you created it, to make it clear how your map is not a derived work of some other copyrighted map to which we do not have rights. (Geographic information per se is not copyrightable, I think, so if you simply explain that you redrew the map by sketching over the boundaries from the map by so-and-so, that should be fine. Anyway, it is good to Wikipedia:Cite sources for your information.)

—Steven G. Johnson 19:38, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Objections to California hurricanes

I have done som edits to respond to your objections to California hurricanes becoming a featured list.

  • I fixed the references to use the style you suggested.
  • I added metric units to places where a specific measurement was given. Do you also want metric units for approximate amounts, as in "rain was about a foot"?
  • The purpose of the Modern Repeats section is to give readers an idea of what might happen should a repeat happen.
  • I need more info on your request for a map. Do you mean a location map? A political map of the state? By the way, using the US national atlas I have been able to plot the locations of the breakpoints, but I won't be able to get a non .bmp version of it before this coming Saturday (Oct 22).

Please respond when you have the time. And thank you for your suggestions. Miss Michelle | Talk to Michelle 00:39, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eigenvalues and Belgium

Dear Nicholas, Thank you very much for copyediting Eigenvalue. I think some of your changes were really improvements and others not so but that's doesn't matter. All in all you contributed greatly to the article. Thank you once again. Thank you also for reviewing Belgium. It seems from your comments that now the overall structure and length of the article is OK and that the copyedit work has to be done. Am I right? Vb 08:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Goa Picture

Talking to you after several weeks. Goa picture is really nice. --Bhadani 16:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

WikiThanks!

Hi Nichalp. Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 03:53, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Asian XI ODI cricketers

Hi Nicholas

You never expressed an explicit support (or indeed oppose) to this FLC. It looks like I'm going to lose the other two, this one is one support vote away from making the grade. Of course, if you don't think it's there yet, that's fair enough, but I'd hate to archive it for want of one vote, jguk 22:07, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article help

Hi, You don't seem to much active nowawadays. :-( I created this on a whim and even put it up at peer review. Do you think it can get a shot at FA (not in its current state but in terms of potential) and will you help me with it? I have sent some requests for the related image, but so far, had no luck. --Pamri • Talk 06:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I will upload the images from Hindustan Times. I have already sent a request, but I have not heard from them. I have modelled the infobox on the lines of Roe v. Wade and hence used the emblem, since I believe the supreme court doesn't have any seal of its own. Do you suggest anything else or should I just yank the image? --Pamri • Talk 13:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Freestylefrappe admin nom

I would like to know how you counted votes for this nominee's adminship. If you count votes only before deadline on closing, it's 38-11. If you include all, it's 38-14 (counting Kewp's oppose which was struck due to impression voting was over). 38-11 is 77.5%. 38-14 is 73%. Gray area. Comments? --Durin 14:48, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Kewp crossed out his "oppose" vote not because it came in late, but based on a change of mind...he/she ultimately cast no vote. See: [1] --MONGO 20:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for pointing that out Mongo. I just saw the edit summary, and didn't see Kewp's commentary elsewhere. 38-13 is 74.5%. --Durin 21:50, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding the RFAs. Well, I had removed the RFAs from the page, but wikipedia chose the most inopportune moment to go offline. I hadn't promoted any of the candidates, nor had I used the rfap/f tags. I kept trying for the next hour before finally giving up. I then emailed Taxman so that he could notify another bureaucrat about this since I would gain net access only 15 hrs later. I don't Taxman checked his mail though, but Pakaran noticed that the users weren't promoted and clarified this from me via email

[edit] using images from non-English WP articles

Hi Nicholas I want to 'borrow' several images from the German WP article on JS Bach. Can't seem to get them to show in the English article through the usual means. Do I need to ask the permission of the contributors to the German article? Can I just download the images and upload them separately? Click here to leave me a message. Tony 05:54, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Belgium

Dear Nicholas,

I think now all your remarks have been taken into account. Some editors have copyedited it and I believe one could remove the copyedit flag.

Vb 13:18, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] images

Thx, Nicholas. I'm looking forward to Bhutan on the main page, within hours! Tony 14:33, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Detecting sockpuppets

Hi, can you, as a Bureaucrat, see the IP's associated with users? I have strong reason to believe that StephenCox (talk · contribs) and JusticeLaw (talk · contribs) are sockpuppets of the same user, who has been engaged in a meaningless edit war in Urdu. The user continues to revert any classification based on Ethnologue, which almost everyone else have agreed upon. Anyway, could you please check the users I mentioned, their edit pattern, comments and other behavior look almost identical, and the only thing they have done is to revert changes to the Urdu article. I smell a sockpuppet. Thanks. --Ragib 06:06, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] E-mail

Hi, you made a good point and I have set my e-mail. It had been set earlier (SlimVirgin had e-mailed me) not sure what happened. In any case it's fixed, thanks for pointing that out. gren グレン 12:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] E-mail setup

I put my email address in my preferences. Is that enabling it or do I need to do something else?

Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde 16:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Birthday message

Thank you for the message on my birthday. It was appreciated. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 02:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] images

Thx 4 that, Nicholas. Hmmm, didn't expect such aggressive comments on Bhutan ... Tony 02:39, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CambridgeBayWeather Rfa

That was my vote all right - wiki seems to log me out randomly. I've re-signed it now. Thanks for the note. Dlyons493 Talk 08:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)