User talk:TimShell

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Hi Tim Shell,

i was lead to your photo website from las vegas articles: http://www.timshell.com/pics.html

I have browsed some of your las vegas photos and others. I enjoyed them greatly!

I was wondering if i can use some of your photos on my own website. If you require credit, i'd be glad to credit it, and link back to your website if you like. Please let me know know. Thanks! Xah Lee P0lyglut 07:15, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

  • Yes, that would be fine, if you include the link back to my site. - Tim

Hi. I just deleted Jin-Qua which you yourself marked as being deleted. However you better use {{delete}} instead of {{vfd}} for something which should be deleted without the need for discussion - if it is not a clear case you better do the complete vfd process. And maybe you had better moved the first version of your article to the new location, and then exchange the automatically created redirect with the delete note - that way it would be much less confusing to have a valid article in the history upon deletion. andy 09:50, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Mojave Desert

Hi Tim. Thanks for your recent addition to the Mojave Desert article with your photo. Please see my comments about it at Talk:Mojave Desert. Thanks! --avnative 13:49, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC) Oh no! Am I in the right place? Went for a search for someone to help me out here, hit the top brass, oh well, can someone ehlp me with a pciture load and what is happening with my page? Did I type this in the wrong place?

[edit] Noble House

Great job on the Noble House characters. You might want to reconsider having links for all the minor and mentioned characters on the Noble House page, except maybe for the founding Struans. I think it would be great to have a Struan's family tree compiled from info in all three Struan's books at some point, but that would really be a lot of work. Thumbs up. --Aramgutang 01:39, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've just created an Asian Saga category, and felt you deserved to be notified, since most of the articles I moved into it were by you. :) --Paul A 05:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[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] Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/La Shawn Barber

I DEMAND an apology. RickK 20:59, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

The "puffery" I refered to was the long list of quotes talking about how wonderful she is. RickK 21:16, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for cleaning up the Category syntax for Jason Kottke; I figured out that I messed it up but forgot to go back and fix it msyelf. --Dhartung | Talk 08:35, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] aliens

see Talk:Extraterrestrial life

[edit] Image tags

Hello, I am cleaning some of the image copyright tags and Image:TimShell-LaJolla20031207.jpg doesn't have a license tag, I realize that's a personal picture, so I didn't want to assume gfdl. Thanks :D - cohesion ☎ 09:30, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Word

Hi, Just writing to say that I like your theories…the good enough is better then best theory is awesome! I have often times thought about how that is true, however it is easy to loose sight of this understanding especially in America. KEEP IT REAL!

[edit] radio show about Wikipedia

Hi Tim-

my name is Robin Amer and I'm a producer for a new public radio show called Open Source, which you can check out here: www.radioopensource.org.

We're doing a show this week on Wikipedia and we're looking for passionate, involved Wikipedia users to talk to. Another user/ site administrator recommended you as someone who might be good to talk to.

If you're interested, I would love to speak with you. Please give me a call at 617 497 8096 or email me at robinamer@riseup.net and send me your phone number.

thanks so much! I look forward to speaking with you.

best, Robin Amer radioopensource.org

[edit] Adminship of Timshell and Tim Shell

Hi Tim. User:Timshell and User:Tim Shell are both admins. I suggest that User:Timshell should be de-sysopped. Also, perhaps you'd like to have adminship transferred from User:Tim Shell to you? What is your opinion of this? dbenbenn | talk 5 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)

Didn't realize there was a User:Tim Shell account - so if you de-sysop or de-anything that account (the one with the space), that would be fine. TimShell 5 July 2005 16:57 (UTC)

I've written a tool to figure out which admins are active. This tool starts by querying the sysop user list (like this), which finds user:Timshell, not user:TimShell. You've apparently never made any edits as user:Timshell, so I'm a little confused. Is the sysop'd account the wrong one? I guess I don't really care very much, but it seems this is something you might want to get fixed. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:54, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User categorization

Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. Although I know that some people don't like to be "categorized" I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Nevada (Category:Wikipedians in Nevada) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Nevada page and I didn't want to lose sight of that. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Nevada page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 03:43, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old user page

Hi, your old user page from the main namespace has been moved to User:TimShell/Old, complete with history (from 2001!). Noel (talk) 01:09, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Image Tagging Image:NewYork-NewYork19.jpg

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[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Things in Atlas Shrugged

Hi Tim,

The article you started, Things in Atlas Shrugged, is currently up for deletion. There are quite a few editors who feel that it deserves a rewrite, but are not knowledgable on the topic. Would you care to join the discussion, or perhaps help on a rewrite?

Cheers, The Minister of War (Peace) 10:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] what happened to your wiki?

you seem to have had one. I understand the urge to scrap it after you start one when perhaps it doesn't turn out as grand as you'd sometimes envisioned in those moments of blinding inspiration. Ka-zizzl 05:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I miss your wiki too. -- EveelMunky, aka Dreamyshade 08:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

:) Dreamyshade 07:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting the English Wikipedia into American and British English Wikipedias

I think this is a stupid silly idea (i'm glad you oppose). A much better solution would be to have an option in the preferences for each user to display the page with their own locality of english. I don't know how much this would sap power from the servers, but it would put a stop to the arguments. Also, you are on the board of trustees, so why does your talk page get so few posts? MichaelBillington 04:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meetups, events, US chapters

Hiya Tim,

There's currently some renewed discussion about whether and how to set up [a] US wikimedia chapter[s]. Among other things this could help better organize meetups, gatherings at large events and cons, and local outreach. You were interested in this before; there is a quiet mailing-list and a meta-page on the topic... both of which could use input and ideas. +sj + 17:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Boston Tea Party

Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [1]. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:LaJolla-Seals.jpg

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[edit] Flag change

Hi,

I took the liberty of changing the Flag of Georgia (i.e, the Republic of Georgia) to the Flag of the State of Georgia on your user page. I think that's what you wanted. --SteveMcCluskey 17:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image use

Greetings! On October 2, I removed two fair use image violations from your userpage. See [2]. On October 18, you reverted those removals. See [3]. Please be aware that per Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9, the use of fair use tagged images outside of the main article namespace is not permitted. I've removed three fair use images from your userpage today [4]. Please do not re-add these images. If you have any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Also, your page says "I currently serve on the board of the". You're a former member, not a current one :) All the best, --Durin 15:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Las Vegas where abouts

Hi Tim. You mentioned that you live in Las Vegas, however, you never really stated which Las Vegas, you were talking about. There's one in New Mexico, that hardly anyone mentions, and the infamousLas Vegas, Nevada . Well, I live in the infamous Las Vegas, Nevada, and would like to know how to contact you to ask a quick question.

-- [[User:Winey|Winey], also known as Bobby Singer, Wiki contributer and student at Bishop Gorman High School, founded by the Diocese of Las Vegas. 15:37, 7 January 2006 (PST)

[edit] Survey Invitation

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[edit] Hi!

St. Petersburg skyline St. Petersburg Meetup


Where: Bishop Tavern, 260 1st Avenue North
When: June 29, 2007, starting at 6 p.m.
This box: view • talk • edit

Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 21:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image source problem with Image:Cheyenne.jpg

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Shithead city! Crime city! Isolation city! Tourists beware and head somewhere else, like New York City, for instance.

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