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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

Hello Rockford1963! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! ≈ jossi ≈ t • @
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≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 15:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seer stones

The first paragraph of any article is an introduction. The apolegetic material that you've twice entered there is better suited to the body.--John Foxe 22:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Your recent reversion to Seer stones and the Latter Day Saint movement have been partly useful, correcting some errors on my part. However your comment on my talk page about apologetics is interesting, and one that contrasts with an obvious ideological/sectarian bent in your editing.Rockford1963 01:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Men of good will can usually find a way around conflicting points of view when they work with material that's provable.--John Foxe 11:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Your statement on good will sounds fine, but 'provable' is problematic with articles on religion. Well crafted paragraphs with copious references and notes may seem neutral yet be spun in an 'anti-something' way; but proving such instances can be most difficult. In any case I will look for the references regarding descriptions of LDS seer stones, and accounts of the appearance of the LDS U&T, which information should be an interesting addition to the article.
Sounds fine to me. All the best,John Foxe 14:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Picher_Crest.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Picher_Crest.png. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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[edit] Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 05:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with your Flickr uploads

Hi, I'm afraid you appear to have misread the license status if the images you have copied here from Flickr. The "This image is public" bit is not a license statement, it just means that the image can be seen by everyone, not just the logged in user. The actual license is located furter up the page and usualy says "All rights reserved", or in the case of Creative Commons licenses "Some rights reserved" with a link to the actual license text. Unfortunately it seems all the images you uploaded have the former "All rights reserved" mark. So I'm afraid none of those images can be used on Wikipedia, I have tagged them all for deletion for lacking a license we can use. When searching for images on Flickr please use the advanced search option, and be sure to check of the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos", "Find content to use commercially" and "Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon" options (all of them). That will prevent non-free licensed images from showing up in the search result.

If you wish to ask the copyright holder(s) of the images I marked for deletion to release them under a free license that would make them usable on Wikipedia please read though WP:COPYREQ first to make sure you follow the proper procedure. For the record, the images in question are: Image:Carthage courthouse.jpg, Image:Christus Statue.jpg, Image:US Embassy Berlin on Pariser Platz.jpg, Image:Preston Temple.jpg, Image:1970 T-Bird.jpg, Image:US Berlin Chancery Entrance.jpg, Image:US Mitte Chancery.jpg, Image:American Embassy Seoul.jpg and Image:US Embassy Seoul.jpg. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 19:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the use of the {{public domain}} template

Please don't add this to all the images you upload. First of all that template is not a image copyright tag, it's indented for use on userpages. If you want to release your own images to the public domain use {{PD-self}}, for other sources see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Public domain. Secondly the images I've seen you use this on is not actualy in the public domain so having it there just confuses things. Other than that keep up the good work. I see you found some cc-by licensed images to replace at least one of the ones mentioned above. Very good :)

Oh and one final tip: Do a search on Commons before going to Flickr. A lot of the free licensed images from Flick already exist on Commons and the images on Commons can be used directly in Wikipedia articles (and all other Wikimedia projects), no special syntax is required, just a normal [[Image:.. ]] link (provided there is no a "local" image on this Wiki by the same name). Also consider uploading free licensed images you find in the future directly to Commons rater than to Wikipedia only, that way all the other projects can benefit from the image too :) --Sherool (talk) 18:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rockford, Illinois

I see that you do a lot of work in and around the Rockford, Illinois area. As a member of the Illinois wiki project and a person who lives very near to Rockford, I would highly encourage you to structure the cities after a FA such as Detroit, Michigan. Eventually (we are working on Peoria right now), we are going to make our way to Rockford to work on it, but if you want to get a jump start on things I would be more than willing to assist. Let me know what you think.--Kranar drogin 03:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign Service Brat

Cool... I love that you started the article... it's one that I wanted to start a while ago, but I don't know much about the subject. You might want to check out Eakin's work (see TCK references) it's a fairly long piece on TCKs bu particularly diplomatic brats.Balloonman 04:24, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] May 2007 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Amerika_Haus.jpg

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:1970 T-Bird.jpg

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[edit] New User Box

You might wish to use this new user box created yesterday {{User_DoS}} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_DoS Mikebar 10:45, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Addition

Great addition to the article United States Foreign Service. I know this article can be better and you're in the forefront there. Mikebar 05:12, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Silly Rename Proposed

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_1&section=20#Ambassadors for a discussion on renaming the ambassadors categories. They obviously have never been around diplomatic institutions. Mikebar 19:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC) PS APP article is great.

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Hinky Dinky.jpg

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[edit] March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

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