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[edit] Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising

The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese Wikinews

Hi. Since you voted to support, you might be interested in this userbox. Dovi 08:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Districts of Ghana

This page, which you created on November 29, 2004, has been tagged as a copyvio in December 2005. See the discussion at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/Other. Do you still remember where you got the data from? Lupo 16:15, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

I have been away but am glad to see that it has been determined that it is not a copyvio. Lists based on publically available information are not copyrightable. Much of the information now, however, has been moved to more specific subpages. Thanks for informing me, Oldak Quill 14:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scientific peer review

Thanks for the notice; this is such a great idea! I'm busy with real life work right now, but once May rolls around I'll have some more time to contribute to this. Awesome. :) Semiconscious • talk 21:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Adam. I see you do not have e-mail specified in your preferences. Could you please e-mail me using the link in a userbox on my user page? There are some issues re the peer review I would like to take up with you privately. Thanks. --Bduke 09:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Shifting gears again...can you look at my proposal and give me your thoughts? Basically, we invite the principle 6 science WikiProjects (and I stumbled upon six without the idea of half the board, but that works out nicely) to send a few candidates, and give each of those six a slot on the board. We eiher vote amongst their candidates, or they work it out and send someone. The other six slots is for independant board members. On the other hand, we could just as easily invite the six WikiProjects to send delegates and not give them any head start (but they'd probably pass anyway considering there are 10 unclaimed spots). Seeing as you created this, I wondered if your vision had anything to say about this. I say keep it simple and just have a regular vote, but I prepared the other idea as a compomise with those who wanted something more...bureaucratic.--HereToHelp (talk • contribs) 23:13, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Moon.jpg

Hi, you uploaded the image Moon.jpg, which is marked public domain but lacks source information. Did you take this picture and release it into the public domain yourself? (I assume you did, but thought I should make sure) Junkyardprince 02:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I transferred it from Wikipedia. I don't believe it has any source info. Delete it. --Oldak Quill 14:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Book stubs

Greetings! I have been stub sorting and keep running across one-sentence entries created by you about Jorge Amado novels. Were you intending to ever expand those? Just wondering. Her Pegship 05:01, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia_talk:Censorship

A watered-down version of the proposed policy against censorship is now open for voting. Will you knidly review the policy and make your opinions known? Thank you very much. Loom91 10:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• I think many who would take our side against the menace of censorship do not know about this poll. If you have some time to spare, would you mind posting a short message on their talk page (like mine) to let them know of this poll and invite them to voice their opinions? By involving more people, a larger portion of the Wikipedia community can have their say, for or against the policy. Some places you can go for a list of users are Wikipedia_talk:Censorship#Support, Category:Wikipedians_against_censorship and Category:Wikipedians_opposed_to_censorship_of_the_human_body,. Please check that I've not already posted a message with the heading Wikipedia_talk:Censorship in their talk page to avoid double-postings. If you don't have the time, feel free to ignore this request. Thank you.Loom91 09:20, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:PavonazzetoMarbleSculpture.jpg

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[edit] Fresco of a Greek Symposium

On 21 June 2004 you posted a fresco of a Greek symposium from the south wall of the Tomb of the Diver that is listed as Public Domain. Can you tell me what the basis of the Public Domain categorization was? Was this released directly from the photographer of the image? Thanks!

[edit] Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 19:11, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Blaine

He did fail in his attempt, it was just live on abc. Please unlock it and add it. It was not vandalism and what that one person wrote (not me) is correct he failed at 7:08.

Kseferovic

This was added about 10 minutes ago. It is semiprotected due to the ammount of vandalism the article is receiving. --Oldak Quill 02:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Glabrousness

Adam, I had removed the image you readded for reasons I cited on the discusson page of the article. I note you readded the image w/o contributing to the discussion. I still think my reasons for removing the image are valid, but I don't want to get into a revert war w/o any discussion. I would be very interested in hearing your reasons for replacing the image on the discussion page of the article. --Lepeu1999 12:45, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. Although I checked the discussion page, I don't believe I saw a discussion concerning this image. If I had, I would have been more diplomatic about this. Thanks for the headsup. --Oldak Quill 14:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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I cannot seem to locate the source of the image. Please delete it. --Oldak Quill 09:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Carcharodon carcharias.jpg listed for deletion

[edit] Comparative method

Hi! Thanks for your feedback on the Comparative method FAC. We've added citaitons as you suggested, and attempted to tidy up the prose (though if you can bring any other pieces that you think need rewriting to our attention then please do so), so please do take a look and let us know what you think - any other suggestions on how to further improve the article are, of course, more than welcome. Cheers, sjcollier 21:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BSA membership controversies

Hi! Thanks for the feedback you gave us some feedback on FAC: Boy Scouts of America membership controversies. We made some changes to move some parts of the discussion to earlier in the article. I'm curious what you meant about the support and opposition section being based on issue-- do you think we should we should split those sections up into "support & opposition for the 'duty to god' policy" and "support & opposition for the 'morally straight' policy"? Thanks for helping us out. --Alecmconroy 02:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:Donate.swf listed for deletion

Delete it. Uploaded as community joke, no longer used. --Oldak Quill 13:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image on ITN

Since you just posted to ITN, could take a look at the new message I left on the template's talk page? Thanks in advance. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 12:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Oldak Quill 13:12, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oceanic whitetip shark fo FA.

Hi! We are trying to try to get Oceanic whitetip shark to FA status, since you have made significat contributions, please review and update. Thanks! Stefan 03:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. --Oldak Quill 03:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem, any help is apreciated, I should have done it long time ago, anyway, not sure how interested you are in sharks, I am trying to start up a project shakrs, if you are interested, please visits its temporary home until we get enought memebers at User:Stefan/Project_sharks.-- Stefan 03:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty busy working on a couple of articles at the moment, but I hope to give this article some time this weekend. Sharks are interesting creatures, I'll check out your project and consider joining, but my interest is more generally biological. Good luck with it though. --Oldak Quill 03:20, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Clarke

Sure, feel free to. The PR-dumping that happens during election campaigns is inevitable it seems :( --Kewpid 14:51, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Railer 232

[response to comment on Jaranda's talk page]

Railer 232 is an known sock of the communism vandal, see User:Railer 590, User:Railer 896, among many others, all with similar names. I just blocked User:Railer 238 right now. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 02:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[response left on user's talk page] --Oldak Quill 02:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FAR nom clash

I wrote my nom awhile ago but for some reason I hadn't posted it. When you put up the notice on the talk page I remembered and decided to tease you a bit by throwing mine in before yours :) Yours is more precice and probably better. Haukur 13:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, no problem at all. Hopefully two noms will double our chances of delisting this article ;). I'm not going to be able to access Wikipedia much for the next two weeks so it'd be great if you could monitor this nomination... --Oldak Quill 13:18, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

We'll see, I'll keep an eye on it. I think this is a bit of an eye-sore at the moment, especially since it's at the top of the list of featured articles. But maybe someone will come along and fix the problems. Haukur 13:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Blenheim

Hello Oldak Quill. I have rewritten the article. It is now a much better and clearer and is now also fully sourced. If you the time and/or inclination, I would be interested to see if you think it has improved, is less Anglo-centric, and deserving of FA status. Thanks. Raymond Palmer 22:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC) Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Blenheim

[edit] Organism article rewrite

Are you still involved in this? Contact me if you want me to read something and get some feedback. I also left a comment on organism discussion page. --Azaroonus 13:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] atheism wikiproject

HI OldakQuill/Archive, I nabbed this nifty info box from the Digimon wikiproject, we could turn it into a good tool. Right now it has digimon stuff on it, but that can give us ideas, and help us out. Heres the template: [[1]]. If you could tell as many people as possible, that would be great. Perhaps we could replace the existing one at some point. Somerset219 08:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caffeine

The section upon which you based your opposition to the FA candidacy of caffeine has had several references added to it. If you have a minute, would you mind taking a look at it and letting us know if it meets with your approval? Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 20:08, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. --Oldak Quill 08:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject Newsletter!

[edit] This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article

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[edit] Frederick Eugene Ives

Hi OldakQuill, you started this article in June 2004 and wrote Frederic wit a k at the end. User ChristophDemmer from de: started a German article on Frederic Eugene Ives at de: but spelled him without the k in his first name. His source is

The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed, 1994 

Do you remember what was your source in 2004 when you started this article? THanks for any help, -- Hey Teacher 06:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it came from this collection. The spelling given by Britannica (assuming "The New Encyclopedia Britannica" == "Encyclopædia Britannica") should definately be used. --Oldak Quill 12:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've just checked the Encyclopædia Britannica and they do indeed spell his name 'Frederic Eugene Ives'. I'll move our article now. --Oldak Quill 12:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, I will have the German article moved, too. -- Hey Teacher 06:35, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject Votes

The Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject has recently opened two surveys that will help to decide the direction of the project. First, nominations are currently being accepted for the position of coordinator of the project. Second, votes and additional suggestions for the official title of that position are also being taken. As a member of the project, we hope that you'll drop by and voice your opinion. – ClockworkSoul 03:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Turquoise

Turquoise is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 20:30, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Topsy

I've proposed a fairly drastic move for Topsy the Elephant - drastic in that the article would cease to be about an elephant, and instead be about the film, Electrocuting an Elephant. I'd appreciate your input. TheMadBaron 20:56, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. --Oldak Quill 17:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article

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• The image does specify copyright status and the page does contain quite a long section discussing it. It seems that since I uploaded the image, the copyright status has changed from public domain to not public domain. I'll leave the image for the seven day period and assume it will be deleted. --Oldak Quill 08:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] One more vote for the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject

Since two of the three editors nominated for Coordinator of the MCB Wikiproject declined their nominations, one more vote has been posted: should the remaining nominee, ClockworkSoul, be named as the coordinator, or should nominations be reopened? Every opinion counts, so please vote! – ClockworkSoul 17:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Isurus oxyrinchus.jpg

Greetings. Sorry to bother you with this, but it appears Image:Isurus oxyrinchus.jpg doesn't pass our first fair use criterion. I've tagged it as such. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 17:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I uploaded it as a US government PD work. It turns out I was wrong on this since it was a state government and the rules are very different. I did not tag it fair use and am not sure it can be justified as fair use, how about deletion? --Oldak Quill 15:59, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject Newsletter

[edit] This month's winner is proteasome!

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[edit] Bath, Somerset

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A tag has been placed on Alexander von Wacker, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please write {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, articles #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Diez2 19:42, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This month's winner is RNA interference!

– ClockworkSoul 14:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Quill.jpg

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I did not upload this image under fair use. I uploaded it when there was a belief that the stock image website from which it came had free licensing. The image should be deleted. --Oldak Quill 22:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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There was a copyright notice on it, but someone had simply removed it. I have added Template:Logo. --Oldak Quill 11:44, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DRV

The Anal Stretching article went through DRV in December, and was recreated and deleted twice during the review which is why it is now salted. I believe the user who requested the review is now working on the article before attempting to resubmit it to mainspace. archive Yomangani^talk 18:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:SLBY

On the template SLBY talk page you detailed a problem with cataloging years chronologically. Esp with years before 1000 BCE.

I have added a header to Category:Lists of state leaders by year, if you can change the Template:SLBY to include the switch from my example User:Γνώθι Σεαυτόν/15 Hundreds, then synchronise the lists in the category. Then (I hope) the Category will magically be listed chronologically.

An example of where this works good is Category:Lists of religious leaders by year.

The solution is not perfect as I need to sort out how years BC can be included into a template. Maybe you have some ideas?

I am thinking that I should revert soon if a simple soltion canot be found. (Maybe we could make it an additional field into the template eg. BCE/BC)

How do I proceed?

Γνώθι Σεαυτόν 10:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anal stretching

Surely you can create an article under some medical name. Try "Lord's procedure".--R613vlu 12:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] London meet is TUESDAY 9th, not Wednesday 10th!

Update: Jimbo got his days of the week confused. This is now happening TUESDAY 9th, same place. You may care to sign up again or not - David Gerard 10:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Horace Howard Furness Jr.

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[edit] This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!

– ClockworkSoul 18:56, 14 January 2007 (UTC)