User talk:Volatile/1

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[edit] Welcome!

Hi Volatile, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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- Mailer Diablo 13:45, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello, Volatile. Thanks for your vote at my adminship nomination. I appreciate the support and your kind comments. Cheers! — Trilobite (Talk) 14:03, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Roaring Twenties, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Falphin 03:28, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yay! A Velvelletes page!

Thanks so much for "givin' back to the chil'ren" ;) --FuriousFreddy 17:18, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Literature in The Seventies

I took a class called "1970s in American Culture" at college and one of the books we had to read was Looking for Mr. Goodbar, by Judith Rossner. Is there any way you can fit this one in? Mike H 16:18, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

It's "different." My teacher made it a point to pick out books that he felt represented the '70s, and this book surely couldn't have come before that time period. Mike H 16:47, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BioCOTW Project

You voted for Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, this weeks' Biography Collaboration of the weeks. Please come and help them become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Henry Fonda

I wanted to thank you for adding the template to the page, I was going to do that right before I left but it is a pleasant suprise to see it done. Thanks a lot! Falphin 19:32, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I really appreciate your work on the Henry Fonda article - I disagree about the structure, though. See you at Talk! Kaisershatner 14:12, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Hey - saw your comments at talk, I'm glad you're on board. I was also amused to find your traces at Charlotte Rampling, just by coincidence. LOL Kaisershatner 21:13, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Joe Cotten

I must say, great work on the Joseph Cotten article. There may be a few pictires we could get rid of, and like you said to me before, a lot is needed on Radio (if I remember correctly, I stated earlier that he was in the Suspense version of The Most Dangerous Game)AND you talk a tad too much about Citizen Kane's mechanics and results... but overall it is a great job!

[edit] VfD pollution

Ril enlisted Persecution by Muslims for VfD again, just 24 hours after the article withstood the first VfD. You might be interested to watch it. [1] --Germen (Talk | Contribs ) 10:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: Respect (song)

THe best way to get a song article as an FA is to go in-depth about the making and meaning of the song. Out of all the articles I've written on soul songs, there's only one that I've done that's close: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (but I'm too timid to nomiate it as a FAC; plus I can't find the single cover or a picture of The Tempts performing it on Ed Sullivan--I only have footage from the same show of them doing "Get Ready").

So, the best thing ot do is to as in-depth as possible about the making of the song: what was going on in Otis' life and career when he wrote it, what he personally thought of the song; what Aretha thought of the song, the beginnings of her career at Atlantic during the time, more about the song representing the feminist movement, more about the various (and numerous) covers of the song and notable uses in movies/commercials. Also, a thirty-second or less clip would be good too (for a song of this vintage, the original mono 45 is ususally best, as opposed to a stereo album mix). --FuriousFreddy 20:06, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Book Club

The first book selected for the Book Club is Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard. --Oldak Quill 14:02, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Fonda image

I recently nominated Henry Fonda for an FA, and an argument against it was that the intro image had no source or copyright info. So it'd be best if you could find an image to replace it with. -- A Link to the Past 01:35, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Madigen

Great job with Madigan. I've been meaning to get to that one Steve-O

[edit] User:OmegaWikipedia

I'm afraid that there's no getting through to him; he doesn't care about other editors, nor about Wikipedia policies and guidelines — he does what he wants to do in the way that he wants to do it, and gets aggressive when challenged. It's getting very close to time to open an RfC on him, but until then, the only option is to clear up after him (and be prepared for him to revert whatever he doesn't like). I've dealt with Respect (song). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:19, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I've now tidied up Respect (Otis Redding song). I agree, by the way, that the article shouldn't really have been split, but now it has been, unless you feel very strongly about it, we might as well leave things as they are. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:20, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh, Volatile, I'm really really sorry about that. I had intentions of cleaning up both articles. I was going to clean up the Redding article later, but my connection got messed up and I couldn't log onto the internet for awhile. I have no bias against either version too, that wasn't my intention. OmegaWikipedia 12:00, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Respect

Hmmm, not to cause drama, but the song is far from my "pet project". There is no need to insinuate something like that. Anyway, let's move on from that. The placement of the hits...(they should each be moved up one notch, sorry about that). I've heard about the problem with Atlantic and Aretha adding new parts, but I don't know if I can come up with a source (I read about it somewhere not online), but I definitely did not mean to put wrong info in. OmegaWikipedia 12:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Volatile, I think we should reflect the modern names of charts, but I understand what you're saying. I've made some notes on the Aretha Franklin version and the Otis Redding version to help avoid confusion. But I think we should pick one format of writing or the other, sooner or later. I've also commented out for now the debated text that you had problem with. I've also redirected pages that linked to Respect (song). If there is anything else that you have an issue with, let me know. Thanks OmegaWikipedia 13:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Once again, I fail to see how this is my pet project. I dont think I claimed anything about adding new stuff. And I think you are overreacting on the matter of the split. Like I explained to you, I changed it as soon as I could. If you want you can search my contributions. I'm not lying to you, and I have no reason to. I made the split Sunday. Monday, I couldn't edit much because like I said before, my internet was having problems. Late Tuesday leading into early Wednesday, I was able to log back on, and went to fix some articles. It's not like I waited three weeks to fix this. Well, at the very least, I'm glad we were able to reach some resolution in this situation. OmegaWikipedia 04:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You see why I left?

Why people like OmegaWikipedia decide they can violate the project's rules and turn Wikipedia into their own personal fan site frustrates me. A free-source encyclopedia could be a great asset, especially for music coverage, but he seems intent on undermining any attempt at credibility in order to satisfy only himself.

I saw what he did to you article on "Respect", and it pissed me off enough to fix it up myself, removing the innaccuracies, clumsy wording, etc. Watch him revert it to his version, for no reason other than to satisfy himself. And when he does, he's getting an RfC. I've had it written and sitting on my desktop for a month. Enough is enough. --FuriousFreddy 04:53, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Those articles (and every other seperated article about the same song) need to be recombined, and O.W> should never have seperated them. This is an encyclopedia, and it needs to read as such. There is a such thing as overinformation in an encyclopedia, and many of this new batch of song articles could stand to get cut down to a much shorter legnth without losing any important information. So is it okay to go ahead and boldly recombine them? --FuriousFreddy 17:19, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Recombined. --FuriousFreddy 19:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RfC: Pop music issues

See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Pop music issues. --FuriousFreddy 05:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources for Wonderful World (song)

Hello, good work on Wonderful World (song), and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Wonderful World (song)? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 05:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, sorry for bothering you when you didn't write much of it. Any references you could add would be a help. A Change Is Gonna Come (song) looks good. The lead could be a bit longer, and each image should describe why it is fair use in this article. - SimonP 22:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

For a good example look at the images in Cool (song), a recent FA. - SimonP 22:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] A Change is Gonna Come (song)

I did a little bit of revision. It's a nice article, although I think FAC likes at least three references. --FuriousFreddy 19:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] comments...

I hope that more people work on some of the old films and actors that have passed. Wikipedia, in a few years I think, will have a great film sectionSteve-O 22:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Long Goodbye

My friend, help me save a page they want to delete The Long Goodbye (film). You can vote on the discussion page Cheers, Steve-O 22:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help... looks like the vote's goin my way Steve-O 04:49, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Facts of Life

I guess I know that you were watching Turner Classic Movies today! --rogerd 19:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] movie posters

Yeah.. I think this bot is wrong. Someone probably should contact it's owner and discuss it. I see that the James Bond posters which were uploaded by an administrator is OK, so why not the ones we upload? Steve-O 06:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I sent a note to the bot, hopefully that will clear it up. Steve-O 07:44, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Fox, Jr.

Hi. I noticed that you wrote the original article for John Fox, Jr.. Do you hold a particular interest in that author? --Takeel 14:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: your reply to me on my talk page, I'll try to gather up the will to add a section about how The Trail of the Lonesome Pine has been re-written as a play and designated as the official outdoor drama of Virginia...but no promises. I'm lazy. :) --Takeel 02:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much for making an article about The Trail of the Lonesome Pine! --Takeel 01:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Arethaperform.jpg

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[edit] TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004

Greetings. You were involved in the discussion regarding the deletion of certain lists as copyright violations. TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004 was determined to be a copyright violation, and was deleted. I restored the article, but removed the list itself, simply describing the list so as to avoid copyright problems. The article is now nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004 (2nd nomination). If you'd like to weigh in, I'd appreciate it. All the best, – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 16:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Rare Breed

Random question: Is there any particular reason you started this article? I'm just curious, because I didn't think anyone outside my family had ever heard of it hehe. The movie is, as the article says, loosely based on the life of William Burgess, who is a relative of mine. The fact that it stars Jimmy Stewart is a bonus because he is one of my favorite actors. Anyway, I've had the article on my "To Do" list for some time now and had just not gotten to it yet. It makes me happy to see someone else started it though! Thanks :) --Naha|^(talk) 08:54, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Cotten2.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Cotten2.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Zsinj^Talk 01:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)