User talk:DVD R W/Archive4

My userpage
Thanks for always being so speedy in reverting vandalism to my page. What is that, the third time? :) --Mr. L e fty Talk to me! 00:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem, don't let them sway you from A6ing those attack pages. DVD+ R/W 00:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I did, didn't I? He, of course, removed the tags. --Mr. L e fty Talk to me! 00:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * You're welcome from me too, and I always like it when that "you have new messages" light is something good, and not another love-letter from a troll. Happy editing!  Antandrus  (talk) 03:41, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Today has been quite a busy day, hasn't it? Thanks from me too! Tito xd (?!?) 03:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A thanks and a you're welcome from me too. I just saw you reverted vandalism to my userpage while checking my watchlist. K O  S |  talk  07:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Meetup notes
Meetup/Seattle4. Sorry you missed it. Anyway, you can read up on what you missed. - Jmabel | Talk 08:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks J, I read them as you wrote them, I wish I'd have been there. Nice reporting too. DVD+ R/W 08:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
What do you think? The image nees some work I reckon. --Mcginnly | Natter 14:29, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

About the tiger article
Please take a look at my effort in the tiger talk page. I didn't revert anything without any explanation. There has been an effort made by so many people to change some false information in the tiger article. Users Thegoodson, Sohola and 155.53.44.203 keep on reverting according to their point of views without giving any reason. As civil people we are trying discuss something but they are acting foolish swearing and being aggressive and keep reverting. If you read "Serious issue", "This has got to stop" and "recaption or remove" respectively you would have an idea of what's going on. Thank you. BJK1903 22:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've given you the same advice I gave 155.53.44.203, which follows. You are obviously a party in this content dispute-- a good forum for you to state your case is Administrators' noticeboard/3RR. But there are other avenues, see Resolving disputes for advice, and please, try to avoid edit warring. Regards, DVD+ R/W 22:20, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

By the way, can a user upload a picture from a website, plus if the photo belongs to someone? I don't think a picture of that sort should be uploaded afterall. BJK1903 22:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If you are referring to Image:Tigressoncrocodile mdparashar.jpg, which I am confident you are, you have a good point. It is has improper copyright info, and is likely to be deleted today or tomorrow. DVD+ R/W 22:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:W710smaller.jpg
Hello, could you undelete the Image:W710smaller.jpg image? I contacted Sony Ericsson and got explicit permission to use it on Wikipedia. (I can forward the conversation to you if you like). Sorry, I'm somewhat new at this :-\ User:TMSTKSBK


 * Please bear in mind this section from before:


 * If you did not create this media file but want it to be used on Wikipedia, there are two ways to proceed. First, you may replace this message with one of the fair use tags from this list if you believe one of those fair use rationales applies to this file.  Second, you may want to contact the copyright holder and request that they make the media available under a free license. If you have any questions please ask at Media copyright questions.


 * I've undeleted it, the explicit permission stuff needs to go on the image's page, not on mine. Make sure it is labeled properly, see CSD I3, for what not to do, and also see Image copyright tags for more of what to do. DVD+ R/W 23:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Proxies
Hey, greetings! Several ways. If they make backslashing edits (\\\ -- you see them in the diffs); if they show up on Google in the DNSstuff blacklist, or the IP appears via Google on lists of open proxies AND it's clearly the same user using IPs that come from obviously different parts of the world; if an open proxy scanner shows them to be (I often use ). The particular vandal we have tonight always uses open proxies. Look at this edit from a while back, or this one. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 03:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:Ianywhere.gif
Hi. Stop deleting random people's images and find something better to do with your life. I understand the rules, and am putting up a logo and picture of a company that I have permission from.

Thanks, Peter —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pcebo (talk • contribs).

Dear uploader: This media file, which you just uploaded, has been listed for speedy deletion because you indicated that only non-commercial or educational use of the file is allowed. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, a non-profit website, this is in fact not the case. Please do not upload any more files with this restriction on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.

If you created this media file and want it to be kept on Wikipedia, remove this message and replace this with to license it under the GFDL, or to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use  to release it into the public domain.

If you did not create this media file but want it to be used on Wikipedia, there are two ways to proceed. First, you may replace this message with one of the fair use tags from this list if you believe one of those fair use rationales applies to this file. Second, you may want to contact the copyright holder and request that they make the media available under a free license.

If you have any questions please ask at Media copyright questions. Thank you.

--Hi Peter, I recieved your message. Please take notice of messages like this on the images you upload, because it means they are likely to be speedily deleted. You can change the tags as the message says, so that they won't be deleted. DVD+ R/W 05:53, 12 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, it looks like you are doing that now. Happy editing. DVD+ R/W 05:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: Ok I've gotta ask
"Foi avisado"... it's a long story, but it's just something I picked up from the Portuguese Wikipedia. It (I hope) means something like "was warned". I guess I should just use the standard "was warned" ;) "AO" is "anonymous only", and it means I checked the "Block anonymous users only" checkbox on Special:Blockip. "AB" is "account creation blocked", which is checked by default. Cheers, Tangot a ngo 02:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome :) - Tangot a ngo 03:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Labyrinth or Maze
Which one for what? - Selected article, I'd go with labyrinth for an architectural slant (For Chartres if nothing else) and Maze for a Landscape architecture slant. --Mcginnly | Natter 08:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:RATS cast.jpg
Hi. I hope I'm doing this right. I had absolutely no idea just how... dense the Wikipedia guidelines and meta-information would be. It is, to my mind, daunting. Anyway, regarding the image in question, thank you very much for your friendly and explanatory additions to my talk page regarding this items.

Unless I'm specifically told otherwise, I'm convinced that a scan of the back of a toy's package must be fair use. Looking over the Fair_Use page to which you directed me, I see many similar items, such as Promotional, or Gamecover, or Character-artwork, etc. However, I cannot honestly find a tag that exactly corresponds with "toy package art". Do you have a suggestion? If there is a tag that's appropriate, would I just add it, along with the other info, in the image's summary when I upload it?

Lastly, would the more appropriate way of handling this have been to upload the image, describe it as best I can, and add the help tag to its summary? Many thanks. Botch the Crab 14:16, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Image deletion
Sorry, I've got far too much on as it is, and I don't really take to the image deletion business, though I did have a go at one just now! Please don't take the Sisyphean task as your personal responsibility. I think a post from time to time on AN should get some more help. User:Sarah Ewart has stated an interest in copyright issues and it looks as though she's heading for adminship imminently (Requests for adminship/Sarah Ewart), so that might be a good port of call. Tyrenius 16:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

iAnywhere Solutions Page
Hi.

I appreciate the fact that you put in a lot of work to help with the upkeep of this site. However, the iAnywhere Solutions page was not infringing on copyrights in any way, since I have permission of the company to create this article... and it had already been approved by them. Please "undelete" the article if possible. In the future I would greatly appreciate (as others would I'm sure) if you contacted me/them before you took action.

You previously deleted my images, and I informed you that I had permission from Sybase iAnywhere and put them back up. Then you proceeded to delete the whole article. That doesn't seem to make much sense. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pcebo (talk • contribs).

74.117.47.205's continuing vandalization
Hi ... just thought you should know that 74.117.47.205, who you recently warned about vandalization and was blocked by Sango123 less than 15 minutes later, is back to his old tricks. He just vandalized the Fox News Channel article a few minutes ago. Thanks, --Aaron 22:20, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

hey
Thanks for the welcome message, I registered my account only yesterday and I'm trying my best to fight vandalism and fixing grammar/spelling errors :D Swalot 04:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the reverts to the userspace, by stupid and/or ignorant vandals. --Alf melmac 06:23, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Another sockpuppet
Hey. Do you remember when you blocked User:3 Brands? I believe he has come back as another sockpuppet under the name User:WrestlingGod. Just thought I'd let you know. Normy  132  05:30, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * User:3 Brands has retired from Wiki-editing. I have been in contact with him and he says he's fed up with the nazi-style running of Wikipedia. I decided to pick up where he left off, and if you look at my contributions, you will see there is nothing wrong wit them. I am not User:3 Brands, and I have only talked to him once, and we are not friends. I only want to continue the great work he has done for the Wrestling Pages. From Not JBL 10:23, 23 September 2006 (AEST)


 * Just thought I'd let you know that User:3 Brands no longer uses this IP Addess and has not participated in any online activities on this website as we have blocked his User Area from editing this site. He can only view. User:3 Brands has been transfered out to our Wrestling Promotion so his time is taken up by the organisation of our new promotion. User:WrestlingGod is a trusted member of Brisbane Sports Entertainemnt's Internet Division and will not insite any conflict with anyone as he fears fights. Thanks for your time, From From Lance Kinsley, Director of Brisbane Sports Entertanemnt Internet Division 10:41, 23 September 2006 (AEST)

Image:Barack obama-nov09.jpg
Why did you delete it? - -  ' twsx 'talk'cont'  07:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I deleted it because it had been in CAT:NS for 7 days, meaning that it had no source information. This is done routinely in accordance with speedy criterion I4. I will gladly restore it for you if you provide the source info. DVD+ R/W 15:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Open Building Weekend
Just back from the London open building weekend - gradually uploading images to User:Mcginnly/Sandbox/London Images if you're interested. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I like the pics, and want to see more of them. I particularly like Image:Idea store 2.jpg, and the one you gave to Giano. Idea store 2 could use an edit to correct the perspective, which is slightly tilted off the horizon and it converges vertically. A perceptible bulging also hints that your camera, or lens, has some Barrel distortion, for which I know a mildly labor intensive way of correcting each photo in Photoshop. I'm not sure if my current freeware photo software can do it, but I don't have that effect with my current camera, so haven't needed to. I'll check though and maybe edit it for you, if you don't mind. DSCN4071, is hypnotic, and introduced me to the Queen's House article, which I like a lot. Much respect from me to Inigo Jones, after seeing that one. Are you going to update the Open House London article?  DVD+ R/W 02:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Dimitri (Sonic the Hedgehog) Pictures
I respectfully request that you reverse the deletion of the pictures I have uploaded for use on the Dimitri article.-User:Denjo
 * I can, but you have to promise to add the source and copyright info. DVD+ R/W 03:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

IG Farben Building
Thanks for that DVD I hadn't even noticed the editing.......... The effect of the edits remove reference to the following.

"The building was the headquarters for research projects relating to the development of Nazi wartime synthetic oil and rubber, and the production administration of magnesium, lubricating oil, explosives, methanol, and Zyklon B, the lethal gas used in concentration camps"

"The restoration work started in March 1998, and the formal reopening as the Poelzig-Bau was celebrated on October 26, 2001. During the ceremony a plaque was unveiled at the building's entrance to commemorate the slave labour victims of the IG Farben factory at Auschwitz III and all those murdered by Zyklon B gas.[2]".

Without them the buildings lead section makes no mention of the buildings' role during the third reich. Wayway states "there was no research in the buildings" and "undue prominence, this is about the building, not what IG Farben did elsewhere".

It may well be that there was no research into zyclon b conducted in the building itself, but that is not what the removed paragraph says (See above). The sources do clearly state that 1. IG Farben's research projects were administered from here 2. Production administration for zyclon B was carried out here.

To suggest the Nazi era activities within the building and the commemorative plaque have been given undue prominence and are not relevant to the building itself is subjective. But the fact that it was felt necessary to erect a plaque at the building demonstrates 1. The issue is notable enough to be commemorated and this is where the german people have chosen to commemorate it 2. The plaque itself is part of the building and so notable in the article and describing it's content should therefore be valid.

PS. I'm assuming good faith about this for now - but I'll be vigilant about POV pushing here - it's clearly contentious. --Mcginnly | Natter 16:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Could you do a User Check on this guy - I suspect a sock?--Mcginnly | Natter 18:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page :)  M  a  rtinp23  18:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for reverting/blocking the troll who seems to like our talk pages tonight :) You'll be happy to know that at the same time I was fighting the back lines for you too see the bottom of the page :) Thanks again, you rock! - Gl e n 05:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Vincent
Hey what's this - slacking on the job? A whole minute! :) Tyrenius 01:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, it took you as long on the next one. It may have been something like :58 - :04 or something less than a minute, but it doesn't count the seconds. Thanks for noticing though, I have been slacking. DVD+ R/W 01:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

LOL. Credit where credit is due! Tyrenius 00:58, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you again for reverting vandalism to my userpage. You're awesome at that. --Mr. L e fty Talk to me! 01:51, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Many thanks for the photographers barnstar. I wasn't really happy with the image processing using an old version of photoshop. It appears they have improved the algorithm when performing transformations in more current versions of the software to reduce the amount of noise that gets added to an image. Have to thank you for the tips for using the skew function to correct verticals, suggested during the Image:British Museum Great Court roof.jpg nomination. Works wonders. Hope you got the email regarding our planned visit to London this November. A small meet-up there would be a great way to get to know the people behind the keyboards across the sea. It also looks like WP:ARCH and the Project are starting to gain some momentum with new editors joining the cause! Cheers. — dogears (talk &bull; contribs) 18:09, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome about the barnstar, it is well deserved. About Photoshop, whatever they've done to improve the algorithm, and other improvements to recent versions, have made the cost too much for me so I have use freeware now- I'm sure their newest products are fantastic though. Another trick I use in Photoshop, is to invert the Spherize filter to correct Barrel distortion, when that happens with the camera or lens- it is most notable on elevations of rectangular buildings. About London, I really wish I could make it to London, but my financial situation doesn't afford me to do much right now. I'm not making much money, and am saving what I can for another round of school next year. Another thing, I was thinking when you uploaded the Storefront images, about which one to put on the page, and I really like triptych format that you used- could I put one of them on my talkpage? And last, you're right, it is nice to see new editors at wikiproject architecture. Regards, DVD+ R/W 19:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The license was perfect for the Chrysler image. As always thank for your vigilance. SFAA Image as requested —dogears (talk &bull; contribs) 02:09, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the congrats. And thankyou very much for supporting my RfA. I was completely blown away by the amount of support I received from so many fantastic people. I'm sorry the thankyou note has been slow coming. I'm only about half way through the list...165 people is a lot of notes! And I keep getting slowed down by interesting userpages. :) Sarah Ewart (Talk) 23:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism to my user page! Dina 03:10, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey there! I'm not a curator, though I aspire to be something like one (hence the graduate school part). And I don't work in an art museum, though my background is in theater and I'm a visual artist -- I work in a science museum. One of the reasons I actually started editing wikipedia was because after 10 years of writing mostly emails and contracts between grad school and college, I realized I needed to work on my formal writing skills. Dina 14:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, the RCP Afd is especially annoying for some reason I can't quite put my finger on. Oh wait, maybe it's the insanely offensive amount of juvenile racism in the article and the sockpuppet vandalism?!? ;) Either way, I did this: Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/User:Zoso2005 as much for practice making an evidence page as anything else. (I think it's pretty clear that there are sock puppets here, so it was a fair bit of work for what might be an obvious conclusion, or just blow over when the article dies.) If you have a moment, tell me if it's coherent -- it was a hard series of acts to spell out clearly. My classes just started, so I don't even have homework to do yet, so it was a nice way to keep my brain occupied. I think I'd like to be an admin, but there are still a couple of black boxes for me on Wikipedia (images and the attendant rules seem a little overwhelming at the moment.) Dina 18:33, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * oh and привет, я тоже говарю на русском языке (толке немного). (I can't spell at all though) Dina 18:48, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, the PD-Soviet is kind of interesting to me. I didn't read the entire argument (it seems pretty juicy though) but I do agree with the Russian that said copyright isn't really regarded the same way as in Russia as in the west (and I've got a hundred good cheap bootleg CD's to prove it....) Not that that demolishes the legal arguments, but still. Yeah, I wasn't sure if WP:SOCK was quite the right place to put it -- in order to put it through I had to basically assume that one guy was the "sockpuppetmaster" (which term puts a weird image into my head) and all the others were his socks, whereas I'm not really convinced that that's it.  I think it's two guys actually, at least.  Hopefully they'll get bored and move on.  I just started to feel a little Nancy Drewish about the whole thing when I noticed that someone had vandalized my page that who I had never reverted or warned....Dina 19:52, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey reading some of this image controversy, it might help to know that I have taken, myself, several hundred images of Moscow over the past 5 years or so. Many are not digital (and though they're better pictures, I imagine scanning them wouldn't turn out very well), but a lot are. I know that won't really solve the problem you seem to have (the wholesale deletion of tons of images) but if it will help (and you show me how to do it) I'll gladly upload for free use any images of Moscow that would be useful to replace any that are in danger of deletion now. Dina 23:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

PD-Soviet etc.
I've left this message on User talk:Zzyzx11's page:-


 * I've just been informed that the PD-Soviet and PD-USSR have now been resolved - they can't be used - There's some discussion on Template_talk:PD-USSR that suggests re-tagging with fair use criteria - I'm pretty sure that we can make a reasonable case for tagging at least the architectural drawings with a Fair Use-Art rationale. Could I ask you to give us a couple of days to re-tag these before deletion - many thanks.

I'm out of the blocks now...........--Mcginnly | Natter 20:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm thinking laterally and wondering if we can argue " —for images of three-dimensional works of art that are still under copyright." Might be applied to photographs of works of architecture - Statue would presumably include abstract sculpture and as such I'll argue architecture is sculpture - If nothing else it'll put the brakes on speedy deletion until things are resolved at the commons. Is a DRV initiated there? I thought a couple of weeks ago they were get legal opinion on the matter - isn't this just the result of legal opinion coming down against the use of the tag. If they've had a ruling, I'm not sure what a DRV will achieve? --Mcginnly | Natter 20:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I just noticed that I missed something important, and finally found the rulings. I still think they should have a DRV though. DVD+ R/W 20:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, but I'm gonna tag them as fair use for now - to prevent more work (undeletes) in the future. --Mcginnly | Natter 20:43, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Zvi Hecker
I've added a reference to the article from Curl's dictionary - which is a must buy in my opinion - although he's really damming about most modern architecture from the bauhaus onwards, it's great for wikipedia because there's all sort of obscure stuff in it. --Mcginnly | Natter 22:02, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

RVC RVC Rvc...
Yea, userpage vandals are usually annoying... 68.39.174.238 02:00, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Image
Thanks for the notification. That was long time ago, before the outbreak of pictorial paranoia :)) I'll try to remember where I got it from, probably scanned from a book... Amnesia? ←Humus sapiens ну? 04:52, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

question about article deletion (hopefully this is the right place)
Ok, thanks. I'd like to rewrite it and make it more encyclopaedic and note-worthy this time. *Goes off to read Wikipedia guidelines.* Doricat 06:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

You deleted an article on the Pacifica Quartet at 03:05 on Sept. 26th for CSD A7, I believe. Meaning that they are insignificant, right? I beg to differ, since they're listed in "notable chamber ensembles" in the article about "string quartets." Many of the other ensembles listed have articles, so why not this one? Maybe I messed up some copyright licensing somewhere...I'm new to this, but I'd appreciate feedback. Doricat 06:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Advice
Hi DVD, there's a new wikipedian doing some really good (as yet uncited) writing on United Kingdom planning. He's asked me a question, which I've tried to answer as best I could on Talk:Development Control, regarding A kind of public service 'Do's and don'ts section' he wants to put in - You've got a much better knowledge of policy than I will ever have - would you mind taking a look? --Mcginnly | Natter 13:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

BabyFit on deletion review
An editor has asked for a deletion review of BabyFit. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review. Thryduulf 14:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for looking into this. We're discussing the deletion right now. My apologies for not letting you know when I posted it up for review...I wasn't sure how to find out who deleted it at the time. Jknepfle 16:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Image deletion
Hi DVD R W. When you delete images such as Image:Canada1994.jpg, do you think you could remove them from the articles that they feature in, so that they are not left with boxes around red links? I just removed this one from Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Thanks, JPD (talk) 10:20, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Redlinks from deleted images
Hi Carnildo. I've been spending some time lately deleting images from places like CAT:NL, CAT:NS, CAT:NT, and CAT:NR. I recently was requested to remove these image's redlinks from the articles when doing so, and could use some advice. Just deleting these takes a lot of time, and it would require much more of me to remove these from the articles too (not to mention all the random stuff it would add to my already overgrown watchlist) are there any shortcuts for removing redlinks? I'm thinking of creating an alternate account for this, do you think this is a good idea? I know OrphanBot can do this, is there any place to get more info or any automated ways to help? Thanks and regards, DVD+ R/W 02:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * For CAT:NL and CAT:NS, probably the best thing to do is let OrphanBot deal with the images, but the bot can only do that before the image is deleted. If OrphanBot hasn't removed it by the time it's ready for deletion, the image is probably in an infobox or inlined into the text, and needs a human to figure out how to remove it.  I'd expand the bot's work to CAT:NT, but most of those images were tagged by the bot to begin with, and some people are violently opposed to having a bot completely responsible for enforcing the image use policy.  CAT:NR images really need a human evaluation, as the bot isn't perfect at figuring out what is a rationale and what isn't.


 * A semi-automated editor such as AutoWikiBrowser might be able to speed up removing redlinks, but other than that, I don't have any suggestions. --Carnildo 06:33, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

User:AshyLarryMarcySon
Good point. As it seems to be a userpage vandalism-only account, I've blocked indefinitely. Mango juice talk 22:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)