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Hello, Retropunk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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1 New baseball article improvement drive
2 Care to join our WikiProject?
3 Your repeatitous taggings as invalid fair-use on the image of Media Control
4 {{template:pd-self}} tag
5 NBA WikiProject Newsletter
6 NBA WikiProject May Newsletter
7 WikiProject National Basketball Association June 2008 Newsletter

[edit] New baseball article improvement drive

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Greetings fellow WikiProject Baseball member! Just a quick note: there is now an article improvement drive just for baseball-related articles at WP:BBAID. Please take a look and vote on an article or add one of your own. Once an article has been agreed upon, feel free to stop by and lend a hand in getting it to featured article status. Hope you can participate! —Wknight94 (talk) 01:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Care to join our WikiProject?

Hello! As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Houston, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the University of Houston. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! Brianreading 20:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your repeatitous taggings as invalid fair-use on the image of Media Control

This is taken from Germany's wikipedia [1] and it is available in creative commons. I actually explained this in the discussion-page of Media Control, but seems like you have not come across that.--Harout72 (talk) 23:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

You still need to tag it properly. You currently have it tagged as a wikipedia screenshot, which it's not. If it's a creative commons image, you need to tag it as such. Retropunk (talk) 05:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{template:pd-self}} tag

Most or all of these are photographs that I have taken of sculpture and have both the tags {{template:Non-free 3D art}} and {{template:pd-self}} . I interprete this as {{template:Non-free 3D art}} applying to the sculpture and {{template:pd-self}} applying to my photograph. Wmpearl (talk) 02:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The problem is those images are considered as derivate works, and unless you're given authorization to make those copies, I'm not certain if you can even use {{template:pd-self}}. Retropunk (talk) 04:34, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NBA WikiProject Newsletter


The NBA WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 1 • April 9, 2008 • Written by: Basketball110
News Project and league news: As of April 8, the following teams have clinched a playoff berth: Boston, Detroit, Orlando, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto, New Orleans, San Antonio, Los Angeles (Lakers), Utah, Houston, and Phoenix. Heat coach Pat Riley, former Knicks center Patrick Ewing, former Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon, former Rookie of the Year Adrian Dantley, Pistons owner Bill Davidson, and college coach Dick Vitale were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.	Features Featured NBA articles of the week: National Basketball Association Boston Celtics Michael Jordan	Project Collaboration This feature isn't available yet. You will be notified when it is ready.
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[edit] NBA WikiProject May Newsletter


The NBA WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2 • May 5, 2008 • Written by: Noble Story
News On May 5, the first round of the NBA Playoffs were completed. In the East, Boston, will face Cleveland, and Detroit will face Orlando. In the West, the Los Angeles (Lakers) will face Utah, and New Orleans will face San Antonio. For more up-to-date information, visit the 2008 NBA Playoffs. The end-of-the-year awards are now being handed out. So far, Byron Scott has been awarded the Coach of the Year award, Kevin Garnett has been named the Defensive Player of the Year, Hedo Turkoglu has won the Most Improved Player award, and Kevin Durant has been named the Rookie of the Year.	Improved Content On April 9, Dirk Nowitzki was given Good Article status. On April 19, Yi Jianlian was promoted to Good Article status. On April 29, Yao Ming was given to Featured Article status. On May 4, the List of Houston Rockets first and second-round draft picks was promoted to Featured List status. Current Projects Update all the 2007-08 Playoff game logs that are located in Category:National Basketball Association game log templates As the playoffs continue, keep the 2008 NBA Playoffs article up-to-date.	Collaboration of the Month Magic Johnson has been chosen to be our very first Collaboration of the Month article. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. The goal is to improve this article by the end of May so that it can be nominated for Featured Article status. In particular, free-use images should be found for the article, all Manual of Style guidelines should be followed, and a neutral point of view should be maintained throughout the article. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out.
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[edit] WikiProject National Basketball Association June 2008 Newsletter

The Wikipedia:WikiProject NBA Newsletter
Volume I, Issue 3 - June 2008
Archives

Project News

List of Houston Rockets first and second-round draft picks (passed on 2008-05-04)
Memphis Grizzlies draft history (passed on 2008-05-21)
Pau Gasol (passed on 2008-05-28)
List of NBA champions (passed on 2008-05-30)

Member News

There are now 106 members of WikiProject NBA! Welcome to the 4 new members that joined during the month of May:

If you are interested in editing article related to the NBA, please add your name to the member list, if you have not already.

This Month in NBA History..

June 6, 1946 – In the Commodore Hotel of New York, the NBA is officially formed as the Basketball Association of America. Maurice Podoloff is named the first commissioner of the league.
June 7, 1990 – In Game 2 of the 1990 NBA Finals, Terry Porter of the Portland Trail Blazers sets an NBA record by making 15 free throws in a game without a miss.
June 9, 1985 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named the MVP for the 1985 NBA Finals, after the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celtics in six games. At 38, he becomes the oldest Finals MVP in NBA history.
June 16, 1996 – The Chicago Bulls' series-clinching win over the Seattle Supersonics in Game 6 of the 1996 NBA Finals draws a 18.8 Nielsen rating. The estimated 60 million viewers make the game the most-watched game in NBA history.
June 24, 1901 – Chuck Taylor is born in Brown County, Indiana. As an adult, he designed the iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars for Converse, which went on to sell millions of the shoes around the world.

Collaboration of the Month

Last month's Collaboration of the Month, Magic Johnson was a great success. A total of 560 edits were made to the article during the month of May, and the article was eventually nominated as a Featured Article Candidate. Although the article was not promoted, it was significantly improved through the work of many editors.

This month's Collaboration of the Month is Steve Nash. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. In particular, all prose should conform to Featured Article standards, all statements should be verified, and the text should be in a neutral point of view. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out.

Collaborator of the Month

The Collaborator of the Month is given to the editor with the most number of substantial, beneficial edits to the article chosen as the Collaboration of the Month.

This month's Collaborator of the Month award goes to Chensiyuan (talk · contribs). Although he had previously helped Magic Johnson to became a Good article, he made literally hundreds of edits during the month of May. For his contributions, he is rewarded with the NBA Collaborator of the Month Award.

However, all beneficial edits made by any editor was a help. Other members of the project that contributed to the article include:

Contributors to this Issue

Noble Story (Lead Editor)
Crzycheetah (Editor)
Diligent Terrier (Distributor)

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