User talk:Rupertslander

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Hello Rupert, welcome to Wikipedia. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. For ideas of what to put on your user page, see Wikipedia:User page.

If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. Two useful tips are that you can sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) and you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :) Angela. 00:50, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Angela,

Many thanks for your comments.

Cheers, Rupert

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[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)


[edit] WikiProject A-League

Hi Rupertslander, I noticed you've contributed to pages related to the A-League competition - I started a WikiProject for it, and thought you might be interested in participating. Thanks! AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 05:44, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alberta Treasury Branches

I've listed it to be moved to ATB Financial. You can participate in the discussion at Talk:Alberta Treasury Branches. --Ardenn 00:21, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Super Dave edit?

Do you have a source on his 'often stating' that his jacket is Saskatchewan Seal skin? I recently watched the entire Super Dave (TV series) and I don't recall him ever using Saskatchewan Seal Skin about his jacket - only about safety straps and things (and that was usually Mike Walden saying it, not SDO). Are you referring to another of his shows that he said it on? TheHYPO 13:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I just provided context for a comedic statement that I thought was genuine (and was provided by another user) - I know he or someone uttered the phrase more than once but frankly I do not remember exactly what part of SDO's equipment they were referring to.

[edit] NFL in Toronto up for deletion

Hi. Did you notice that your new article is up for deletion? See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NFL in Toronto Canuckle 23:09, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Politics of Australia and Canada compared

An article that you have been involved in editing, Politics of Australia and Canada compared, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics of Australia and Canada compared. Thank you. AndrewRT(Talk) 00:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chrysler

I reverted your edit of Chrysler. it is a factual inaccuracy, Chrysler is a private company. They went back private when they were bought by Cerberus. Karrmann (talk) 23:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Cerberus is privately held and they control the company itself. Daimler AG is the remaints of DaimlerChrysler after they threw to the curb sold Chrysler. They do not control the company itself, they just left themselves a 19 percent share in the company so they can help with/oversee Chrysler's product development. Karrmann (talk) 00:13, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Privatization vs. privately-held companies

The best description for Brewers Retail Inc. I can think of is joint venture. BRI calls itself "private" on their website but they just mean they're privatized (i.e. not state-owned). Calling it "Private" in the infobox implies that BRI is a privately held company, which it isn't because the shareholders are not privately held. I have discussed this more on the BRI talk page.Rupertslander (talk) 03:08, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Rupertslander, sorting all subsidiaries, joint ventures, and other privately held companies into categories based on the legal status of their owners is a noble cause, but probably not a practical one. When a bank or an airline is the only asset of a publicly-traded holding company, the situation is simple and obvious. But what if a company is jointly owned by a family, a publicly traded company, and a unit investment trust? If the publicly traded company doesn't have a controlling interest in this corporation, the reporting requirements will be the same as every other privately held company.
What about utilities partly owned by a government-controlled entity? Are you going to trace the ownership chain for each of the oil drilling and mineral exploration partnerships to decide which ones are private, based on your definition? What percentage ownership will you use as the threshold point between private and non-private?
The definitions in Corporate, Tax, and Securities Law are clear cut, albeit not always informative. Your definitions may be more useful, but--in many cases--vague or ill-defined. If you do decide to take on this massive re-categorization project, please let me know so I can be involved in the discussion. Owen× ☎ 00:14, 28 December 2007 (UTC)