User talk:Whiskers

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Infrogmation 03:28, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Storm 02:21, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nat Krause 07:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Zora 20:07, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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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 1000 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] Page moves

Hello. Please do not "move" a page to a new title by copying and pasting text. Use the "Move this page" feature -- it's in the task bar at every page while you're logged in. This will preserve the page edit history and automatically makes a redirect from the old title to the new one. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 03:38, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Yes, I realized to late that I could have just renamed the old page.

[edit] Kata

I've noticed yo've worked on some of Shotokan's kata. Now, I am a practitioner of Shotokan myself, and know some kata, and I found it difficult to follow the kata execution lists, and it was doubly not easy having to go back and forth to Shotokan to figure out all the acronyms - I know the names of the techniques, but when I'm describing a kata, I say "Execute a low block in a front stance", not "Execute a gb in a kkd". I decided to take the lists, replace all the acronyms, and just make it a little clearer and more readable - cleaning up grammar mistakes, dubious English, etc... I was bold and replaced the pages, so take a look and tell me what you think. As I was going through, if there was a conflict between how I knew the kata and what was written, I usually went with what was written, unless it completely didn't make any sense, or if I couldn't find the acronym. Tell me if you think I made any mistakes. I would really like to see all the Shotokan articles cleaned up... Do you know if there is a WikiProject dedicated to martial arts? I just finished cleaning up all the hebrew alphabet articles and this is going to become my new project. Anyway I'd love to collaborate with you on adding execution lists to the other kata I know, and writing articles on the basic blocks and strikes. Thanks for your contribs already... СПУТНИКССС Р 03:40, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Maupassant.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Maupassant.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. BRossow 16:10, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Edouard detaille.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Edouard detaille.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. 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 non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 18:30, 31 July 2007 (UTC)