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[edit] License tagging for Image:CHHS Eagle-huge.PNG

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[edit] Missing image Image:Gnome-globe.svg

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  • Hi, Image:Gnome-globe.svg is an image on the Commons. If you'd like to add information to it, it's best to do it there and to leave an empty description page here. I'll tag it for another deletion. Thanks! --Strangerer (Talk) 11:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Beta wings.jpg)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Hotmail Live beta---collage.jpg)

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[edit] Little context in Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia)

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No longer relevant.— Supuhstar §

[edit] Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia)

Please don't create test pages in the main article space. Wait until you have content to post before you create the page.--Isotope23 16:35, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

No longer relevant.— Supuhstar §

[edit] Your edit to The Sims 2

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That was not an inappropriate link! That link led to the Wiki of The Sims 2! How can an inter-wiki link ever be inappropriate? — Supuhstar * §
Its not an official The Sims 2 wiki. Its a fan site. There has been long and exhaustive talk on the article's talk page, and those aren't appropriate for linking from that article.--Crossmr 00:26, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk about what on which talk page?— Supuhstar * §
Talk about links to fan sites on the talk page of the The Sims 2. They are too numerous to list, and everyone who runs one thinsk that this article should be a place to advertise their site. Hence nothing but the open directory project gets linked.--Crossmr 04:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
I appologize: this was no attempt to advertize. I was under the Impression that Simpedia had become official. How may we go about making it an official Wiki?— Supuhstar * §
EA would have to publicly state that it is the official Sims 2 Wiki and that they endorse the website.--Crossmr 13:15, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
What if the official The Sims 2 website declared it the official wiki of The Sims 2? Or if Wikimedia declared it an official Wikimedia project?— Supuhstar §

[edit] Your signature

I noticed when responding to your comment on the help desk that your signature incorporates a personal template. This isn't allowed, per Wikipedia:Signature#Transclusion_of_templates, so I'd appreciate it if you changed it (to a manual raw signature). Further, your signature incorporates an image, which also isn't allowed (Wikipedia:Signature#Images). I know it looks nice (I'd love to do that sort of thing myself), but we're not supposed to do it. Thanks, Nihiltres(t.l) 00:10, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Fine. Delete it or whatever.— Supuhstar §

[edit] Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia)

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[edit] AfD nomination of Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia)

Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia), an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Covenant Christian Academy (Loganville, Georgia) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. KTC 01:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Covenant Christian Academy article

Hi Supuhstar,

Thanks for your work on Covenant Christian Academy and thanks for participating in the Articles for Deletion discussion about it. I noticed the AfD discussion for the article and saw you had responded to a number of points in order to try to save the article. I sympathize with anyone trying to save an article from deletion. I also saw a lot of quote marks in the article before and after the text in most of the sections. Looking at the school's Web site, I see you copied and pasted much of the information into Wikipedia. I think the quote marks show you acted in good faith and didn't mean to violate a Wikipedia policy, but unfortunately, you did. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Spotting possible copyright violations.

It's OK to rewrite what you saw elsewhere, and it's OK to quote parts of it, but not nearly the amount you've got here. Some editor could easily report the page to the copyright notice board and delete almost all the text you've got there. Unless the text is rewritten, that's going to happen no matter what decision the deletion discussion comes up with.

Rather than just report it to the copyright notice board, I thought I'd leave a message with you so that you might have time to replace the copyrighted material (the vast majority of it, but not all of it) by rewriting. Unfortunately, now that you've got a deletion discussion, the article may not be kept anyway. Good luck. Noroton 03:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I was planning on adding to and deleting from the articles, but I was busy co-making Simpedia. I might redo it the right way some day, thanks to your info. — Supuhstar * §

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:CCA Cougar.PNG)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:CCA Name Logo.PNG)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Marriott Logo.svg

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Fix'd (Marriott International)— Supuhstar * § 21:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pascal's triangle table

Hi - I've asked a couple of times at WT:WPM what's wrong with the ASCII version and you haven't replied (maybe the question is buried among other comments), so I thought I'd ask here directly. What's wrong with the ASCII version? -- Rick Block (talk) 18:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, three things, mostly.
  1. It looks unprofessional. It does not fit with the professional, corporate grey-and-white basic theme of Wikipedia. Moreover, on some screens, you have to scroll fight to see the whole triangle.
  2. It's numbers don't align. Well, somewhat, But the lack of established borders makes them difficult if not impossible to read nearing the bottom row.
  3. It's incapable of displaying the triangle's most interesting features. These are features such as the fact that if one highlights only the odds or only the evens, it resembles a famous fractal.
I attempted to fix both issues in the first version, but it lined up even worse, so after adding all the code, it looked perfect, or at least I thought it did. It turns out that these Wiki tables look different depending on which browser you use. So I made a second version. This one was an attempt at fixing all the problems. People complained about the borders giving "leader lines" to the cells, so I got rid of the border. They complained about the fact that it was too big on some screens, so I shrunk the text. They complained about slight misalignments, so I spent hours perfecting the code so it was rock solid, but it turned out that firefox didn't agree with me. Therefore, I have nearly given up now. I cannot see how I can fix it other than make everyone use Internet Explorer, and I am not about to do that. Therefore, with my most recent message, in a final desperate attempt, I proposed that the table be hidden, much like many things on the site, with a [show] button. If that gets shot down, then I will forfeit the idea. — Supuhstar * § 00:06, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
1. Really? In the default (Monobook) skin, it fits right in as far as I can tell (of course, I'm using Firefox). It looks like a block image with a very light grey background with a dashed outline. If I make the window more narrow than required for the whole triangle the dashed lines get a little weird, but I suspect at most window widths it looks perfectly fine. Do you prefer the rendering in Classic skin (from "my preferences" select "skin" and then "classic")? In Classic the background color is white just like the rest of the article. Is it the different background color in Monobook skin that bothers you?
2. In the ASCII version the bottom couple of rows get kind of cluttered, but a blank line could be inserted between each line which I think makes it look very much like your latest version (without the cell borders). Have you tried this? In particular, is the table without cell borders significantly better?
3. If we're going to use your latest version (no cell borders, no coloring) is there any difference here? In the current version of the article, the More subtle patterns section highlights (in ASCII!) the shallow diagonal pattern. If we go to a table how would this be done? Color (not a good idea)?
The main point is that the ASCII version works for all browsers, for all skins, even for screen readers (in case you didn't pick up on this user:Graham87 is the blind user I was referring to - and he says he prefers the ASCII version). You've spent a lot of time on the table version, and it looks great in monobook skin in IE (have you shrunk and expanded the window width?), but making it look like this for all browsers, for all skins, for all window widths, in a form accessible to folks using screen readers is a tremendously significant challenge. It might be possible, but I think the bottom line is we shouldn't do this unless there's some particular reason this should be a table. That it looks better, in IE in monobook skin in the window width you typically use, doesn't seem like a very good reason (to me). I really don't mean to be unappreciative of your efforts here, but turning this particular ASCII graphic into a table doesn't seem like a good idea.
As far as I know the show/hide mechanism doesn't work for two different versions of the same content - it allows content to be selectively displayed. I don't see how this would be useful here.
I believe your original idea here is quite worthwhile, but unfortunately doesn't actually work out. I hope you don't find this too discouraging. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)