User talk:Sugarfish

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Hi Sugarfish, I appreciate the work you are doing rewriting the copyvios, but are you aware of the issues involved with this? By replacing the content you are keeping a possible copyvio in the page history, which could potentially cause problems if others then take this out of the history and try and use it. It might be best to wait until the page is deleted and then create a new page so the copyvio part is not kept. You could create a temp page like Talk:Gene flow/Temp and write the new one there. Then when the original is deleted, your version can be moved to the proper place. Angela 03:36, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Nice rewrite, though. -- Cyan 03:40, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Being a sysop wouldn't help though as they still need to be listed there for a week. Do you think the temp page idea is any good? I might add it to the boilerplate text to encourage others to rewrite there as well. Angela 03:44, Sep 26, 2003 (UTC)
That's true. I suppose if someone wants a temp page, it is easy enough for them to make one so it probably isn't worth changing the text to include it. Angela

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[edit] Sysop promotion

You're now a sysop. I predict you will now feel the weight of responsibility falling heavily upon your shoulders. But you will also experience an upwelling of strength to carry that burden! --Uncle Ed 23:30, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Nylon

Hello, I noticed you added a paragraph on the trademark status of nylon. I've been trying to ascertain whether nylon was once trademarked as part of the Genericized trademark article. All the references I looked at suggests it was never trademarked. Do you have a reference for Nylon being once trademarked? Thanks. Samw 17:55, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I've removed the assertion that nylon was once a trademark. See the talk page of nylon for references and I guess we should move the discussion to there. Samw 22:19, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

On SAMW's page, you wrote:

Hi. Regarding Nylon and its alleged trademark status: In "Made in America" I seem to remember Bill Bryson talking about products that had lost their trademark status due to their names' becoming generic terms. Nylon may have been one of them. However, I attempted to search for a trademark, dead or alive, and only found derivative trademarks ("C Nylon"). I might have to search for something more in-depth at the library to resolve the issue. -- sugarfish 05:47, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I reply:

Aspirin, Escalator and Cellophane are three words that lost trademark status in the U.S. due to use as if generic. The trademark owners failed to police properly. I suspect nylon is the generic name for spun glass fiber. -- Paul Rfc1394 15:07, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)


[edit] Video Recordings Act

Hi, Good work on rescuing the Video Recordings Act 1984 article. Pete 09:47, 5 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hey there, Image:Hawk100 small.jpg has been listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements. Cheers, Cyan 03:25, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Family-name-first Names

I noticed you've removed the pipe from Haruomi Hosono's entry on List of people by name: Har. I don't pretend to know whether that is a helpful change (since it presents what he almost certainly uses most often) or a troublesome one (since it is possible that most of his English-as-first-language fans are not used to seeing the names in that order). I'm not doing well at this moment at finding the extended disussions i've seen of conventions for names that have the family name first in their birth-place settings, tho i'll find them if you ask. But i'm interested in this area, partly bcz of experience dealing with a large list of names where formats sometimes get confusing. If you've got a personal list of WP pages where the issues are being discussed, i'll get my own together and trade with you.

--Jerzy 16:02, 2003 Nov 14 (UTC)

Ah, i guess i was speaking on the basis of even more ignorance than i realized; i looked only at the diffs of yr 3rd edit on the Har- page & thot you had decided that someone else's idea of parallelling the English Smith, John with a Japanese Smithune, Johniro was a bad idea. It caught my attention

  • bcz all the other modern commoners i've noticed have pipes, and
  • bcz it strikes me as a good goal to find a way to mark up names (separate from the question of how to display them) that works for at least the worlds two most obvious approaches. (I'm referring to "the normal way" and "the backwards way", as Americans tend to call them, and as i like to imagine East and Southeast Asian calling them except with the roles reversed.) So i thot maybe i wasn't the only one thinking of a markup somewhat along the lines of
<Fam. Name>, <Given Name> -- <Both names in normal order per person's primary culture>
And i guess i at least wanted to know how widespread the WP feeling was, against what looked like a similar scheme!

Sorry. --Jerzy 06:52, 2003 Nov 15 (UTC)

[edit] Your Heading Here

[edit] please see

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Inactive1

[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] Image:Babylonian_numerals.jpg

Hello! Thanks for uploading Image:Babylonian_numerals.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks! Schissel 11:34, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image tag

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

  • Image:Ed_mcmahon.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you wish to release your own work under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use of someone else's work, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. (And if you know exactly what this means and are really tired of the constant reminders, please excuse me. They will stop once the tagging project is complete.) Thanks so much. Denni☯ 03:47, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

And also the Adrian Edmondson one. Pcb21| Pete 21:16, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Niles Eldredge

Hi! I'm glad to see an article on this fellow. I was wondering about the biographical sketch, though—the text seems quite similar to some existing web sites. Will there be a question about copyrights here? --TenOfAllTrades 21:30, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Forensic Ballistics

Thanks for your help in Forensic ballistics. I'm not going to pretend to know as much as you do ;-) Segekihei 21:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

See? You're still smarter than me :-) Segekihei 02:18, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BAE Systems always capitalised???

Below is guidance from BAE's Identity Guidelines website regarding the capitalisation (or otherwise) of the name:

The name should never be abbreviated. When writing the name in any title or header, BAE SYSTEMS’ in capitals should be used. However, it can now be referred to as ‘BAE Systems’ (upper and lower case) in body copy.

With all due respect perhaps you could be sure of your ground before writing an apparently angry (or at least irritated) edit summary. Cheers Mark 20:54, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Just a gentle word of advice for anyone wishing to redirect this article to BAe Systems or similar"...
It wasn't the above I was referring to, it was the edit summary "'BAE SYSTEMS' is always capitalized!!!". Though in hindsight I think you're probably right, in 99/2000 BAE SYSTEMS was a more common variant than BAE Systems, though other incorrect versions were also circulated (BAe Systems etc.) Cheers Mark 20:53, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Akai

This article is in need of references. In order to meet Wikipedia standards, reliable sources should be cited. The first of Wikipedia: Five Pillars states "All articles must follow our no original research policy and strive for accuracy; Wikipedia is not the place to insert personal opinions, experiences, or arguments. Furthermore, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information."

Failing to cite reliable references could result in the deletion of the article. --LaraLoveTalk/Contribs 20:49, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Broadjam‎

I'm fine with the most recent version, and will leave well enough alone. Thanks. --Finngall talk 16:38, 13 May 2008 (UTC)