User:ZooFari/Discussion archive

=Archive as of 2008=

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Thanks for the sequence of development photos at Opuntia - there are plenty more articles which could use good photos (including ones which show some kind of process or detail, as well as just a certain person/place/thing). Oh, and since you are fairly new, here's a welcome:

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Why did you remove that section from Wikipedia talk:Community Portal? Resolved solutions are not removed they are archived. Maxpwr (talk) 15:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * They are? Sorry, I am not that much of a bulb on talk pages... Should I revert or post it back up?
 * That's fine I already have. Maxpwr (talk) 15:35, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks

Portal:Carnivorous plants
Great work there working on the portal. If you don't mind, I would like to give you some suggestions. Take a look at Portal:Cats as example, you need to include other Associated Wikimedia Projects at the bottom of the portal.

Also, I noticed that you take a lot of photos. Have you considered to upload your photos to Wikimedia Commons instead? The advantage for uploading at Commons instead of English Wikipedia is because pictures from Commons can be used in all languages of Wikipedia plus all Associated Wikimedia Projects. If you upload images only in English Wikipedia, then they can only be used in this project and nowhere else. You will still be attributed the same way in both here and Commons, so why not upload them in the better place? OhanaUnitedTalk page 05:15, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestions. I will make some changes soon, except I don't know how to do selected pictures/articles yet. But thanks, I will post more photos on commons as well.--ZooFari 19:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Mouth-Hermit crab.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:Mouth-Hermit crab.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Sdrtirs (talk) 06:50, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. I must have skipped this procedure by accident. It is my own work, and I now have released it to the Public Domain.

Concerning the userbox that you made for me.
The Cyrillic userbox you made is very good. I'd put it on my userpage, if my knowledge of Cyrillic alphabet was better.--Fantastic fred (talk) 01:26, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks !
Hello ZooFari,

Many thanks for making the Articles written by a single editor project more user-friendly, and for your work improving Wikipedia's quality :-) Nicolas1981 (talk) 11:18, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for you comment:)

ASE checklist
Hello again,

The way you modified the ASE page is brilliant ! The sort of checklist makes it easier to not miss anything. It is also a way to quickly view what the best practices are, and I find it very helpful because I do not exactly know what they are ! I guess that finding and updating those best practices will be a work-in-progress, and will require some peer review. The checklist should also mention what to do when the article is full of typos, or when it is obvious advertisement or vandalism... but actually I don't know what is the best practice in those cases ;-)

Cheers :-) Nicolas1981 (talk) 12:53, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Elephant
I will have you take note that I have discussed the 3MB image on Elephant discussion page. The image is not used along with guidelines IMGSIZE. Please read the talk page before accusing people of not using it! Miami33139 (talk) 05:05, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Bemuso-B2.svg
Thank you for uploading Image:Bemuso-B2.svg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Fastily (talk) 03:31, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

PPR
Do not edit my comments, please. The comment was not intended to be rude, but stands as it is. Fletcher (talk) 00:17, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Your RfA
Hello ZooFari! Just letting you know that the request for adminship process has some baseline criteria (found here), one particular editors criteria are about 3000 edits and 9 months experience, although, in some cases, these standards are much higher. It is very unlikely that your RfA will succeed and will probably be closed as WP:NOTNOW (you may want to read that page) or WP:SNOW. I feel that I should inform you of this, and suggest withdrawing the RfA, if you wish. Thankyou and happy editing! Foxy Loxy Pounce! 03:47, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Zoo, I just wanted to let you know that you are on the right tract. People were very encouraging at your first attempt at an RfA, but the current expectations for potential admins is that we generally expect more experience (both in time 6 month minimum and edits 3K edits) before an RfA has a viable chance of passing---and even then, those are minimums.  There is no guarantee or secret formula to becoming an admin, except to keep working and trying to make WP a better place.  I encourage you to help out at the project, and do everything you can to make this people's first place to come for information.  In the mean time, I've gone ahead and closed your RfA, there was no need to keep it open.  Again, the reviews were positive, but premature.  You might want to take a look at WP:NOTNOW. Good luck.--- Balloonman  PoppaBalloon 06:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I'm now working in the Graphics Lab. I will try this one more time in a couple of months. Thanks again. Zoo Fari  22:57, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Articles by single editors
I saw that you like to look at articles created by single editors. Could you look at the items marked "Created," "wrote," or "rewrote" in User:Davidwr and see if I had any blind spots when creating those articles? Thanks. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  00:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Everything seems to be in shape. I only tagged one article as cleanup, but everything else was well tagged or made:) Zoo Fari  02:27, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Which one did you tag, do you remember? I don't see it in my watchlist.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  06:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It was WZNZ, and also, the smackbot made geneal fixes.  Zoo Fari  15:03, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Graphic Lab
Hi ZooFari. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve. I made a note of it here. -- Suntag  ☼  18:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)