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Kling

REGARDING:

1. Måns Nilsson Kling

Måns Nilsson Kling was the second governor of the 17th century New Sweden settlement, which was administrated from Fort Christina, now … 3 KB (425 words) - 17:05, 31 March 2009

1. Mauno Kling

Måns Nilsson Kling or Mauno Kling was the Lieutenant in command of the 17th century … author Weslager, C. A. | title A Man and his Ship: … 3 KB (388 words) - 00:58, 29 March 2009

These two separate pages are both apparently about the same person. This there a way to combine the two reports into one.

Yes, I could merge the two articles for you or explain how you can do it. It is not difficult to do. Which article should be primary, and which should be the redirect? Jonathunder (talk) 22:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Måns Nilsson Kling is the more complete of the two articles. Also the title has the correct spelling of his name as it would appear in the Swedish language. Mauno would be a nickname or alternative name. Note the article titled Kolonin Nya Sverige 1638-1655 at http://www.historiesajten.se/handelserb.asp?id=47

Thank you very much for your help in this matter. I will give the merged page a through read.

Governor Portraits

Hi Jonathunder,
Thanks for your help! Yes, It looks like an avalanche of copyright notifications on my talk page. I did post the situation to Media copyright questions. If you have any suggestions they would be very welcome.

--Mnhs (talk) 20:27, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Lori Swanson

I see that you've locked down the edit war on the Lori Swanson page. Please note that IP 213.146.164.142 has contributed information to the Swanson entry that is neutral in tone, and which offers citations to the Star Tribune (Minnesota's largest newspaper), and MinnPost (Minnesota's most important online news source). There are no unsubstantiated positions taken in those edits. The only problem, so far as I can see, is that one or two users are determined to suppress the information contributed to this page - all of which has been documented in the Minnesota media. Respectfully, I ask that you allow the information to be restored. There is nothing factually ambiguous here; it's all solid. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.146.164.142 (talk) 15:18, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Gregory Watson

In Gregory Watson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), note that (a) Watson has a history of reverting any edits that remove the comparison of his report card to the Constitution (see [1]; [2]; [3]; and [4]); and (b) the IP editors who have three times reverted your edit ([5]; [6]; [7]) are IP addresses assigned to the State of Texas General Services Commission where Watson works, or the City of Austin (i.e., Austin's public libraries, if you search on 162.89.0.%), where Watson lives. Coincidence? I don't think so. TJRC (talk) 18:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps, perhaps not. I just see a lot of completely pointless reverts from a wide variety of IP addresses. Perhaps semi-protection for a little while will cause them to get bored and move on, or to log in and discuss. Jonathunder (talk) 17:06, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Copyright Cleanup Barnstar

		The Copyright Cleanup Barnstar
		For your persistence in cleaning up image copyright issues for the Igor Panarin page! Лъчезар (talk) 08:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Congrats! ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:25, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

United States presidential election, 2008

Edit-warring is not the answer. Please discuss on the talk page why you feel "re-elected" would be better for the article instead of repeatedly reverting. Timmeh! 17:25, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota State Law Library - wiki article

Jonathunder - Hello, my name is Dennis Skrade,and I am the Head of Technical Services which includes our Special Collections and Archives. The information about me and my position is on our website Minnesota State Law Library staff The information I have added to the article is from either our website brief history of State Law Library where we have a brief history of the library or from information from our archives. An example is the Louisa Goodwin story - Louisa Good win, where we have found through contacting other state law libraries/state libraries that she was indeed the first woman appointed to the position of state librarian.

As you can tell I am a rank amateur in this wiki article thing and need help. I would love to receive more guidance in this endeavor and participate in the Minnesota Profile project. Let me know what I need to do. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sebastiaan69 (talk • contribs) 20:02, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I need your help to write a thesis.

Dear Jonathunder,

I am a student in Seoul National University in South Korea doing a research project on Wikipedia. I am very impressed about your insight and active contributions. I thought you could provide some opinions really worthwhile. So, would it be possible for you to take some time off and give an online interview via E-mail? It would provide my project a lively voice of an actual administrator. And this will be of a great meaning; your experience, concerns, opinions and ideas would add a lot to my project. Actually I'm in real need of something concrete; for my project is about the mechanism a biased version of explanation is settled, and as you will probably guess, understanding such things involves a lot more than just watching explicit process. Again, I would really, really appreciate your help.

It will not take that long; in fact everything will depend completely upon your will. If you are willing to give some help, would you mind mailing me swiftly? Thanks a lot. I also leave this message to other administrators' user talk for my research. And further I'm a starter so I couldn't find your e-mail address. Please don't be upset about that.

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bongeun319@hanmail.net------------

Sincerely, Bongeun Myarchives (talk) 06:07, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Mondegreen

Let me refresh your memory, because I clearly see that regulations have somewhat obscured it. Quoting WP:Revert: "if you feel the edit is unsatisfactory, then try to improve it, if possible - reword rather than revert." I have not yet seen a single example of a "chaste" veteran Wikipedia editor who actually made the effort to find references for unsourced claims (although I strongly feel that in this case it was fitting the description of the main article subject, so why source the obvious?) rather than ruthlessly reverting, thus making other editors "run errands." Isn't that what Wikipedia should be about – mutual help by equally respected members of the community, regardless of the time they've been here? What I see instead is something like "I'm just enforcing a policy by assigning a parking ticket. I know I might be wrong, but if you want to avoid paying the fine, better start running around... schnell! Hell, I'm not doing it for you, I got more heads to chop!" Drone2Gather (talk) 06:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion about the map on Upper Midwest

Hi, I have started a discussion at Talk:Upper Midwest#An alternate map to discuss which of the two maps should be on the article. I see you have been a past contributor to the article and therefore am notifying you of the discussion. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 00:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Garrison Keillor

My name is Theresa Larson and I work for Garrison Keillor. I have been asked by the artist to update these pages with photos that he deems more appropriate and flattering. I have been attempting to remove your images, not because we do not appreciate your attendance at our Lanesboro show but, beacause the conditions at that event were very harsh and we feel the photos are deeply unflattering. I thought I would pose this as a request before attempting to have them removed by Wikipedia.

Thank you for your time,

Theresa Larson Prairie Home Productions —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lars1521 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:29, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

Sotomayor image

I don't think you can use the standing one you just added. That's marked as credited to Stacey Ilys on the White House web site, and thus is excluded from all the ones that are Creative Commons licensed. The fact that you cropped out the Stacey Ilys credit doesn't change that. Wasted Time R (talk) 14:16, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Please see the template on the Commons original for the CC license justification. Per the White House source: "Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License." No alternative licensing information is given for these photos, so they are assumed to be available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License." Jonathunder (talk) 14:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

It is noted otherwise: "Photo: Credit: Stacey Ilys", and on the actual image, "photo by: stacey ilys photography". Wasted Time R (talk) 14:26, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, the photographer is credited, as she should be. The White House says third party images on the site are available under CC unless stated otherwise. Crediting Stacey Ilys tells us it is a third party image. It is not saying this is not a CC image--if they wanted to say that, they could have. It is a CC image, authored by Stacey Ilys, cropped by me. Jonathunder (talk) 14:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

That's one possible interpretation, but I believe it's the wrong one, and that we're committing a copyright violation in a high-profile article. I've put the image up for deletion at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:SoniaSotomayor2009robe7crop.jpg#File:SoniaSotomayor2009robe7crop.jpg, we'll see what the powers that be there say. If you are right and it stays, then yes it's obviously the best image to use in the infobox. Wasted Time R (talk) 14:57, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

If the derivative is not CC then the original is not either, nor are many other photographs released by the White House and used in Wikimedia projects. I have to believe the WH site is careful enough about copyright that if they wanted to say this image was not available under the CC, they know how to do that. Jonathunder (talk) 15:13, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

A new image uploaded: please approve, advise what to do or help

Hello! I uploaded an image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Igor_Panarin.jpg with a description of how it was obtained, its source, etc. Please take a look and write me whether this can be approved for use in the English Wikipedia. If there are problems, please let me know what to do or help me with it. Thank you very much for your attention! --Лъчезар (talk) 11:28, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I've looked at this, and am unsure. Does "неизвестен" mean unknown? Jonathunder (talk) 19:48, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes :) I suppose that just like with the other image (see the "Igor Panarin" section above), the one who sent the image to the magazine was Panarin, along with the interview text. (I can ask the magazine's editor if needed.) So probably someone else made the photo. Who is considered the author in this case? --Лъчезар (talk) 18:29, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Good to see you around. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 03:26, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Likewise. We should start thinking about another Minnesota meetup. Jonathunder (talk) 16:11, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Church of the Redeemer

Regarding the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Redeemer_(Cannon_Falls,_Minnesota) page, I was wondering when the building was restored or at the very least, re-landscaped. I took this photo in 2002 http://www.flickr.com/photos/9417702@N08/3640480606/, and it doesn't even look like the same church anymore. If you have any info on when the appearance was cleaned up, I'd like to know when it occurred and why it was done. Thanks.

Jared (63.226.134.201 (talk) 04:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC))

This photo shows it was still covered in ivy in October 2006. I'll see what more I can find out about the change. Jonathunder (talk) 14:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

You are wrong, Technically Franken is a senator go look at this!

United States Senate election in Louisiana, 1996! This is similar because it was contested and she wasnt seated until October, but her senate started at January 7, which mean Al Franken is a senator with 94th Seniority! I wish you all ADMINS will go do your research before deleting things on wikipedia!_BLuE^DOgTn 20:43, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

RRCC page

No, I'm not copying from their webpage. If you look at the RRCC page again, you will see that I have all of the proper citations in place now. I'm doing this for an assignment for school, so please give me a little leeway as I haven't figured out how to work everything on Wikipedia yet. I would really appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlson5 (talk • contribs) 03:19, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Request

Hi Jonathunder. I'm not sure if you remember me, but you opposed my recent RfA. I'm combing through the opposes, trying to see how exactly I can improve. Honestly, your comment really isn't at all helpful, and I was just wondering if you could elaborate on what exactly I'm doing wrong in my interactions and how I can improve. Thanks. Timmeh 01:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi again. I hope you didn't forget about my request. If you don't want to elaborate, that's fine, but it really would be appreciated. Please let me know. Thanks. Timmeh 23:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Full version of NICE to be released

Thanks for helping me and my colleagues test the NICE interface modification. Depending on when you installed the tool, you were only presented with a specific subset of the features we have developed. We are ready to roll out the full feature set which, we expect, will make the gadget significantly more useful. Before we do that, we'd like you to answer a few questions about your activity in Wikipedia as it relates to undoing other's edits and what you thought of the NICE features you were shown.

The survey will ask for your Wikipedia username, but you can participate anonymously if you choose. To do so, send me an email with an address I can respond to and I will have the survey software respond with an anonymous token for you to continue. --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:59, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Handbuch der Menschenrechtsarbeit

Dear Sir,

the Friedrich Ebert Foundation would like to release our interactive CD-ROM, "Handbuch der Menschenrechtsarbeit" (A Guide for Human Rights Work), which contains an introduction to the work of the BMZ, on our website, free for all users.

I would like to send you the picture you provided to us for the CD-ROM. May we continue to use it free of charge for the purpose described above?

Yours sincerely, Tina Hansen, my Email: tina.hansen@fes.de

I don't know which image this regards; I have uploaded many under free licenses. If I can help with the permissions on a specific one, please let me know. Jonathunder (talk) 22:40, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for Participation in Wikipedia Research

Jonathunder,

Your Request for Adminship (RfA) process was reviewed and studied by our research team at Carnegie Mellon University early in our project to gain insights into the process. We reviewed what voters discussed about your case, and what qualifications you brought to the table as a candidate. In total 50 cases were personally read and reviewed, and we based our further research questions in part on your case.

In continuing our research, I would like to personally invite you to participate in a survey we are conducting to get perspective from people who have participate in the RfA process. The survey will only take a few minutes of your time, and will aid furthering our understanding of online communities, and may assist in the development of tools to assist voters in making RfA evaluations. We are NOT attempting to spam anyone with this survey and are doing our best to be considerate and not instrusive in the Wikipedia community. The results of this survey are for academic research and are not used for any profit nor sold to any companies. We will also post our results back to the Wikipedia community.

This survey is part of an ongoing research project by students and faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and headed by Professor Robert Kraut.

Take the survey

Thank you!

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free comment on my talk page.

CMUResearcher (talk) 19:28, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Minnesota Meetup

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2009

Proposed date: Saturday, October 10.
Details under discussion.

Please share this with anyone who may be interested.

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Delivered by Jonathunder (talk) 14:42, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Update: the meetup will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, October 11, in St. Paul. Click here for more details and to R.S.V.P. Jonathunder (talk)

Test

Testing my own talk page to make sure the above notice does not break normal formatting. Jonathunder (talk) 14:49, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: Minnesota Meetup

Why did I get this? I do not live in Minnesota, nor have I ever. Closest I've ever even lived there is when I was in Chicago over 20 years ago. I was one of the primary article reviewers for the Minneapolis, Minnesota article, but that was mostly as an independent article reviewer familiar with guidelines of WP:CITIES and WP:WIAGA/WP:WIAFA. Dr. Cash (talk) 16:41, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

I was trying to invite everyone whom it appeared had been invited to a past Minnesota Meetup. Obviously I got a least one false positive. Sorry to puzzle you. (Though if you are in the Twin Cities that day, I will gladly buy you a beverage.) Cheers. Jonathunder (talk) 18:21, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:WestQuoddyHeadLight.jpg

File:WestQuoddyHeadLight.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:WestQuoddyHeadLight.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:WestQuoddyHeadLight.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 19:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Local copy now deleted. Jonathunder (talk) 19:52, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

My user page

Hello, can you delate my user page? Maglocunus (talk) 15:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Maglocunus (talk) 15:24, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Żaden kwestia. Jonathunder (talk) 15:25, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring

Please do not engage in pointless reverting on contraversial articles like this [8]. It does not make Wikipedia better and is not going to win you any admirers. Did you honestly even read through the whole article given undue weight had been raised in one of the many previous reverts? --BozMo talk 18:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I reverted, exactly once, the removal of a what appeared to be a reliably sourced statement. That's not edit warring by any reasonable definition. As others have said on the talk page, the statement is not out of place or undue weight. Please discuss the issue there. Jonathunder (talk) 19:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I looked at the statement and completely failed to care about whether it went in or not. It was harmless enough. But there are many other admins who watch that article and we often end up with pointless single reverts each between lots of admins which brings everything into disrepute. This statement was introduced by someone who has been indef blocked as a sock. Since then I think four admins have taken it out. What is the point in putting it in? --BozMo talk 20:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

The only reason to keep anything in an article is to serve the Reader. It appeared to me the statement helped build the encyclopedia. That's ultimately what matters, not who in the edit history has an admin bit. If you want to discuss improving the article, let's do it on that talk page. Jonathunder (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Had you checked the talk page (where you didn't leave a comment) - you would have noticed that the major reason for taking it out is: WP:WEIGHT. --Kim D. Petersen (talk) 00:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

You probably saw it on the page you were stalking, but I just wanted to say it here too! And I have my umbrella ready, just in case ;-) Cheers, Shymian (talk) 04:32, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

TYJ

Thanks for your help on the honey article. It was very encouraging to me to have some collegial collaboration at a stressful time. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Pictures

Last weekend, I drove the Mississippi River on the Wisconsin side from Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, crossed briefly into Winona, MN (got lots of shots), then north to Cochrane, Wisconsin. I have many shots that I can't identify, some are historic-type places. I'm working with User:RFD on the La Crosse images. Might you be able to identify some of my images taken in Prairie du Chien or Winona? I see you uploaded images to the national register pages for their counties. Can I email you some of these images? Please respond here on your talk page or you could email me on my userpage. Royalbroil 14:00, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Quelle coïncidence! I just finished taking photos of the La Crosse list yesterday. And Winona is a former home town of mine; I'd be happy to help you there in any way I can. Jonathunder (talk) 16:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I walked around and got great shots of the Hixon House in La Crosse, so I'd appreciate being able to use those. I'm not sure about the other structures, so it might be easier for you to upload what you took first. Let me know if there are deficiencies and I'll try to help fill them in. I took the historic house in Onalaska, so I can take care of that image. Downtown La Crosse is one of the most interesting and extensive historic districts of all the many that I have photographed in Wisconsin! I took a great shot from inside the St. Rose Chapel, so I can cover that one. That building was built between 1900 and 1905, so the paintings inside are okay to be photographed since they are in the public domain now. Other civic structures that I photographed include the local Technical College, Viterbo University, and county courthouse. Royalbroil 21:52, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm glad you got good shots of the Hixon House. I missed the Courthouse and the Onalaska house. I did get the school, which was hard to find at first. (Wilson Avenue does not exist, but if you walk behind the high school on Wilson Street, one entrance is obviously older than the rest of the building.) Did you get the Rose Street house? Did you go inside the Perpetual Adoration Chapel? Jonathunder (talk) 04:01, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The perpetual adoration chapel was UNBELIEVABLE, the highlight of the trip! And since it was built between 1900 and 1905, I'll be able to upload the pictures that I took inside of the artwork and interior. I got great shots of the exterior too. I don't know what Rose Street house you are talking about. I'll have to do some digging. Royalbroil 04:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

There is a lovely Queen Anne on Rose Street, but by the time I got to it, the sun was at a bad angle and the photo I got does not do it justice. The Mons Anderson House is another one I would like to retake at a better time of day when I get a chance, unless you got a good one. I look forward to seeing your photos from inside the convent chapel. Jonathunder (talk) 03:33, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I uploaded the historic pictures that I got in La Crosse (diff). Wow, my internet worked all night. That's about the first time in the past month. The Hixon house shots and interior of the chapel turned out real well. Royalbroil 03:15, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the barn star. I put it on my user page. Jonathunder (talk) 17:15, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

please see message sent to private email

Please review the message sent regarding the use of your photograph. Thank you. Eastwood2008 (talk) 17:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)eastwood2008