User talk:Dino/Archive 1

Kaweah Peaks Ridge
I am afraid that the picture does not depict the Kaweah Peaks Ridge, for the most part anyways. I am very certain about that. It is a view of a section of the Great Western Divide as seen from the High Sierra Trail about 1 mile east of the Mehrten Creek crossing. From this place, the Kaweah Peaks Ridge is located behind the Great Western Divide. Only on the far left the Black Kaweah (13765') is visible and just to the right, barely visible, is the Red Kaweah with its two peaks. The remaining peaks belong to the Great Western Divide. From the left: Eagle Scout Peak (12040') appearing just a tiny bit higher than the Black Kaweah. The next three peaks are unnamed. In the center of the picture is Lippincott Mountain (12265') and the prominent peak on the right side is Mt. Eisen (12160').Theschenks 10:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Safari Club
Au contraire! It is one of the last "real Oregon places", very old school :) In any case, the bar is still open but the nightclub and restaurant are a Chinese restaurant. The window containing the taxidemery specimens (including the claimed world record tiger bagged in India in 1967) are still there. Certainly it has the air of a ruin. Might I ask, when were you there? -- Decumanus 04:58, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
 * Oh I see you're a native. Forget I asked that question. I just moved back here after having gone to college in Salem many year ago. I also see you created the Willamette Meteorite article recently. I won't pretend I'm not jealous :) Best wishes.-- Decumanus 05:02, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)

read your Victory Disease article
With no mention of 2003_occupation_of_Iraq; impressive restrain (and patience). WpZurp 22:11, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Requests for adminship
Could you please answer the questions at requests for adminship? It'll help others in their decision whether or not to support your request. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:03, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)

PSU
Hey Dino, as it happens I also attended PSU (1981-85). Did you study math there? Whatever became of John Erdman? He was my all-time favorite prof, although/because his advanced calculus class nearly killed me. And I also moved to Boulder, to attend grad school. Yup, still here! Although the older I get, the less I like cold weather... Anyway, glad to see you're here, keep up the good work. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:31, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations, Dino, and Sorry!
Sorry to hear about your metacarpal, but on the positive side, it's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 20:40, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congrats, dino, and get well soon! J OHN C OLLISON [ Ludraman] 22:13, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:35, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Two Collapse articles
I noticed you wrote an article under the title "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". I also wrote one under "Collapse (book)". I guess the two articles should be merged. &mdash;Vespristiano 00:33, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You asked whether Collapse is a 2004 book or a 2005 book. I receieved a copy of Collapse in 2004. On Amazon.com, the publication date was listed as 2004. I encourage you to settle this question. (I'll accept whatever you decide.) &mdash;Vespristiano 03:57, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

US deaths at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
The best number I know of is 262: 210 with Custer, 52 with Reno; six others died of wounds later. See my recent revision, the Nichols reference. best wishes, Seesdifferent 24.182.100.66 17:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oppenheimer photo
There's no way you would have known, don't worry about it. LANL didn't label its source at all and unless I knew otherwise I would too have assumed it was a Los Alamos-owned picture. I only knew it wasn't because I once tried to secure rights for it a long time ago for a project I was working on and realized that it was a wire-press photo and thus owned by Corbis, who charges extortive licensing fees on historical photographs of that sort. Anyway, it was not your fault in the slightest! --Fastfission 19:25, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

American Old West rollback
You asked: ''What is the significance of Dzikie Pola to this article? And Winnetou lives underneath Karl May''. Let me reply and explain why I insist they should be there: Dzikie Pola form a kind of 'Wild East' of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and so are an interesting 'see also', mostly unknown to English reader (who have likely never heard of PLC either, so no suprise here). As for Winnetou, he is more widely known then Karol May. Eventually, when this article is (finally) expanded, Dzikie Pola will likely remain just in see also, hopefully with several other similar time/places, but Karol May, Winneto, Old Shatterhand and others will surely have their own para, at least. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:01, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Definetly it should be expand. I make no promises about doing it myself, though. I would love to write on it, but I have only so much time. If you would like to read more about Dzikie Pola 'setting', check my articles on PLCommonwealth (linked above), Stanisław Koniecpolski or Magnate wars in Moldavia for a good start. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Scarface references in south park
Could you close the vfd debate and delete this? The time for the vfd still has three days but every user, about ten, have voted to delete. Thanks. freestylefrappe 04:38, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I just got to your usename through a list of administrators; I would close the debate myself, but I would be unable to delete the page as I am not yet an administrator. Thanks. freestylefrappe 20:04, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Dams Along the Mohawk......oh...Columbia
Dino, your right, it was late and I wasn't thinking. I lived in Clackamas for 13-years, there are hundreds of little dams all over the Pacific Northwest. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. WikiDon

Crystal power/healing
Hi Dino; Crystal healing is one type of crystal power, and crystal power was two sentences long before the merge. Nothing is gained by having separate articles (now they're just duplicates of each other); I'll make a sub heading called "Crystal healing" in the crystal power article. Plus, the image of a quartz crystal is just that, a quartz crystal, so it's just a "decoration" of sorts. What do you think? --CDN99 03:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough; I'll leave the quartz in there too--CDN99 17:35, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves deletion
Why did you see fit to remove the example I added? Just because it appeared on a Slashdot thread? --Hooperbloob 15:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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The image was tagged as PD-Usgov, but it was taken from a state government website. Since it's no longer on the original site, I can't verify that it's available under another license. It needs a different license, or else we'll have to delete it. Night Gyr 07:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * The real issue is that it's at a Utah site, not a federal site. States don't automatically release everything into the public domain the way the fed does. Night Gyr 19:47, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello / Apology for detailed encounter with a "skeptic"
You say we have similar goals ? The reason I may be a little testy is that the skeptics I and others have ran into were abusive, even offensive. I know you are not that kind at all. One I ran into told me to," Shut that fucking shit the fucking hell up or they'll lock your fucking ass up in a damn loony bin. I don't want to hear that damn shit." In a UFO incident I came accross, a commercial pilot was asked to look at a UFO, he said that,"We don't report that shit. Good way to lose my damn job." Why are people like that ? I do humbly apologise if I had offened you. I was only telling you about one of my experiences with a person who claimed to be a "skeptic". Martial Law 07:53, 16 April 2006 (UTC) :)

We may have similar mission statements. Allies ? Martial Law 07:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC) :)

I too am skeptical of certain matters as well, incl. psychics. I grew up with the "Seeing is believing" family value myself. As stated, I know you're not the kind to go out and insult people at all. I have been caught between skeptics and believers. I have yet to see a psychic, other than what has been advertised in the media, such as "Let Sister Valdees cure your LOVE problems." or "Let White Witch Sistro cure your money problems." I've seen UFOs myself, encountered aliens, along with trigger happy neighbors myself, been around ghosts, incl. one that was a pipe smoker. We (my family) verified who the pipe smoking ghost was. I have yet to see a chupacabra, a Bigfoot (Did have a smelly encounter, but did not see a bigfoot.), vampire, a angel, a demon, other strange matter. I did investigate the famous and not so famous paranormal matters, when NOT hunting for gold, meteorites, fossils, other precious metals. I did not mean to offend you at all, and I'm humbly apologising if I have done so. I have had some really bad experiences with both skeptics and believers. One of the former threatened me, while one of the latter reported that IF there is alien contact, the planet will erupt into rebellion and pointed out the existence of private armies a.k.a. The Militia Movement. Some of these armies are devoted to religion. Again, I don't mean to offend you at all, and do humbly apologise if I had. Martial Law 03:42, 17 April 2006 (UTC) :)

I am not into the New Age phenomena at all. Martial Law 04:21, 17 April 2006 (UTC) :)

I do apologise if we got off on the wrong foot. Can we be friends ? Martial Law 06:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC) :)


 * I do hopeso. :) (btw, some of us replied to your comments on reinventing the wheel. ---J.Smith 17:25, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Hitchhiking Wiki
Hi! There is a wiki effort to create a good guide for hitchhikers at Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking (and this name will probably change :) From your profile I gather you might be interested. Guaka 15:40, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

thunder eggs
Hey, Just to say hi, thanks for all the articles and everything else on wikipedia. I added a space to "thunder egg" on the wiki page for them, as I had tried to do a search for "thunder egg" and didn't come up with anything, then googled it, and found "thunderegg". As I'm not a guru at wikipedia, the space worked. I'm sure there's a better way, but at least now it can be found by searching with or without a space in between.

Joe 1
The image is a modern picture of the casing, taken probably in the mid-1990s, of the casing on display at the Sarov nuclear museum (off limits to foreigners and probably most Russians). --Fastfission 21:14, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

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Granite dome
Hi - looks like I jumped in before you were finished with editing, hope I didn't mess anything up. Cheers, Vsmith 21:02, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

remyelination problems
Hi Dino,


 * I've reverted your edits to the Multiple sclerosis article, because...
 * ...I've also restored Remyelination and...
 * ...marked Remyelinating damaged nerves in the central nervous system as a copyvio.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 23:36, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm proposing the latest version of Remyelination as a compromise, ok?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 08:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No, I just think that, in a mature article on remyelination, it shouldn't be dominated so much by The Myelin Project.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Raymond Chandler and Mexicans
Just for the record, the knife-wielding butler in The Long Goodbye is Chilean. --ManEatingDonut 14:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

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Crystal power
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Edgar Cayce
Some kid administrator (he's 16 years old) added the Dr. Little reference; I made sure that Little was Cayce-connected. This is a problem I had with certain people for a long time. They're one-sided; they won't do any serious research beyond their own b.s.; they just have to trust the word of a psychic when this same psychic couldn't even pull the winning lotto number out of a hat, much less any psychic. Carajou 00:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Great Issac Lighthouse keepers
The reference to the underwater UFO is contained within the book "The Devil's Triangle" by Richard Winer. Perhaps I should have made the citation a little clearer. Carajou 01:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Nye Beach
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Fuzzy Zoeller edit controversy
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Psychics
Hi Dino, I noticed your edits reverting the removal of the 'purported psychic' categories. Please review the ArbCom ruling on Adequate framing and the use of Paranormal as an effective tag. Also, please refrain from from making accusations in the edit summary per WP:BLP. Let me know if you have any questions about this. – Dreadstar †  20:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Dino, thanks so much for your kind and thoughtful response! No worries on the quick editing, there's no way you could have known about that ArbCom decision.. I'm with ya, man.  It's a perplexing question as to why, with so little hard evidence, people still believe in spirits, psychic powers, mediums, mind-readers and the like...  I think it's the desire to believe there's something more than what they can see and feel, perhaps to hold off the fear of dying and being no more...just ending.


 * It can be a scary thing, that big unknown awaiting us...and, as with all the unknowns, and how mankind has handled them (Zeus throwing lightning bolts, Thor the thundergod making thunder, fear of black cats crossing paths...), they handle that fear of the unknown by creating or believing in worlds beyond this world. And in those worlds...psychics exist....  I dunno.  I respect all viewpoints..and just try to be neutral and learn what I can.


 * Hey, I really appreciate your nice note! It's nice to meet good people who care about 'our project', Wikipedia!  I'm sorry if I sounded stern in my message..sometimes I come across that way when I'm writing things out..!  If there's anything I can ever to do to help ya out, let me know!  – Dreadstar  †  02:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Psychic category
Hi dino,

I've been reading your conversation with Dreadstar. You're right about the dreadful stuff that goes on- religion seems to be a holdover from our hunter-gatherer past when tribal cohesion was highly adaptive, and thinking for one's self was death. But anyway, I think it is better to just call things what they are culturally called, and then make sure that we explain the controversy in the articles, such as Psychic. Otherwise what it sounds like is that we are sneering right off the bat, and that means the articles simply can't be neutral. See this also.

But you are wrong that all "psychics" are frauds. Many really believe in their powers- I know this for a fact.  Martinphi  (Talk Ψ Contribs) 03:14, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Image:Three facts for trisecting angles.jpeg
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Page Deletions
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Eighth Wonder of the World
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Derivative
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 * I replied on my talk page. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I replied on my talk. In short, thank you! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:39, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Moved image
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Crucifixion eclipse
You should consider editing your recent contribution to Crucifixion eclipse. An examination of the literature about New England's Dark Day indicates it was attributed to obscurration by clouds of smoke and/or dust. Various publications have not associated it with solar eclipses. The variety of documents examined by F. R. Stephenson about the June 3, 1239 darkness explicitly refer to the darkening of the solar disk in a manner not attributable to obscurration by clouds. Your contribution to this would be appropriate if it had cited references that had described the darkening of the solar disk. If you are not able to cite such references, please remove your paragraph about the New England's Dark Day. Thank you. Tcisco (talk) 15:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Children of the Night
This morning I read Edwin Arlington Robinson on my cellphone before work, but I couldn't fix the "Children of the Night" link because I use Opera Mini, so I figured I'd do it when I got to work, but you beat me to it! Really cool! --Slashme (talk) 05:38, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Image:Cockaigne small.jpg
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Image deletion (Image:Andrei Sakharov and Igor Kurchatov.jpeg)
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AfD nomination of Anti-Homophobia
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Image copyright problem with File:Hanging of William Kidd.jpg
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image sizes
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Reversing Gehenna Edit?
Why have you reverse my edit of the count of the number of times Gehenna is referred to in the synoptic Gospels? This is not a matter up for dispute, even the source linked for the prior count of 12 lists 11 instances occuring in the synoptic Gospels. The additional reference occurs in the Epistle of James. If you would like to change it to reflect the 12 occurrences in the whole of the New Testament that is fine, but so long as it refers to the "synoptic Gospels" and on the lips of Jesus himself the count is 11. Vestibul1443 (talk) 16:24, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

How do you draw thei gif picture in Ellipse?
Hello Dino, could you tell me how do you drow the gif picture in Ellipse? The link is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ellipse_as_hypotrochoid.gif What software do you use? Is it possible use MATLAB to drow such picture? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eviox (talk • contribs) 15:54, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Apologies
Greetings Dino - in the "very bold" blanket revert I recently made to some major re-writing at George Orwell's Politics and the English Language I reverted some [minor] edits you had made. Please accept my apologies. I felt I had to take an "executive decision" that called for some inevitable collateral damage - albeit temporal - but the beauty of Wikipedia is that no change/revert/edit is permanent... Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 01:45, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

File:Cockaigne big.jpg listed for deletion
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Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Yip harburg stamp.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image (File:Yip harburg stamp.jpg)
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AFD
An article of yours is in AFD: Articles for deletion/Wihtgils. Joe Chill (talk) 01:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

File:User dino.jpg listed for deletion
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File:Gogol.jpg missing description details
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83.114.28.49
This user is continuously editing the pages Korea DPR (Current squad section) and Pak Nam-Chol (born 1985) with wrong information. I don't know what should be done concerning the unknown user or to "block" the pages, but it's boring to keep correcting those pages every hour. Regards Baros1

WikiProject Colorado
The year 2011 has brought many changes to the State of Colorado. We have a new Governor and other state officers, two new U.S. Representatives, many new state legislators, and a new Mayor of Denver. WikiProject Colorado is updating many Colorado articles. Many Colorado places, people, and organizations need new articles. Portal:Colorado needs new featured articles.

Can you help us? Please see our list of some requested articles. If you wish, you may join WikiProject Colorado at WikiProject Colorado/Members. If you have any questions, please leave me a message at User talk:Buaidh or e-mail me at Special:EmailUser/Buaidh. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Don't forget the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary event in Boulder tomorrow. Yours aye, Buaidh  21:35, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Image for Article
Hi, Dino, I was reading the article about Matilda's Horned Viper, and I saw that it was lacking an image. Being relatively new to wikipedia editing, I don't have the authorization to upload one. Could you help me out and upload this image to the article?

Thanks, --Draginfli (talk) 21:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I'll keep in mind your advice, but I couldn't find an image without a copyright. I'm not yet experienced in Wikipedia editing, so I'll be reading the policies before I get to serious editing and image uploading. But right now I have to get back to homework.

Thanks for getting back to me! Draginfli (talk) 20:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification
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Code for File:Splined epitrochoid.png
Hello,

Could you please fix the code on your file File:Splined epitrochoid.png? It doesn't work in its current state; it's indexing an empty list and has strange characters.

Thanks in advance. Inverse Hypercube 23:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I found the code at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-support/2ZKIP8wPxx0/7uPRtLqvCEIJ. Inverse Hypercube  08:40, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Help with one of your images
Hi Dino... Regarding the File:Three facts for trisecting angles.svg shown at right, the fact that should appear as a + b + c = 180&deg; appears (at least on my computer) as a + +  = 180&deg;bc. I am wondering if you have the original file and could upload a correction? Thanks. EdChem (talk) 07:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Dino,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 05:44, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Vandalized Stalin, Fallen Monument Park, Moscow.JPG
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Vandalized Stalin, Fallen Monument Park, Moscow.JPG, has been listed at Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Bulwersator (talk) 16:41, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Re:Possibly unfree File:Vandalized Stalin, Fallen Monument Park, Moscow.JPG

 * [#Possibly_unfree_File:Vandalized_Stalin.2C_Fallen_Monument_Park.2C_Moscow.JPG Re:Possibly unfree File:Vandalized Stalin, Fallen Monument Park, Moscow.JPG]

Unfortunately statue is also copyrighted, so your photo is a derivative work of this statue :(. Bulwersator (talk) 09:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes - see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FOP Bulwersator (talk) 05:38, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/2012/03/06#File:Lenin_statue_in_Vladivostok.jpg Bulwersator (talk) 20:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Opinion needed on a possible vandalism case
I need an opinion on a possible vandalism case. Here A sourced statement was deleted where WP:BLPCRIME was stated was an issue. This part was ok since a user was taking issue with a policy problem with the article. In fact I agreed that part of it did apply. At this point partly reverted and kept the part that didn't apply. That edit is shown here. This is the part that I take issue with. I put in a sourced statement which was deleted on multiple occasions within a span of several minutes and still claiming WP:BLPCRIME. This, this and this I perceived as vandalism. I added a sourced statement and used quotation marks showing that I'm not the one using it and I stated who is using it. I gave User:Ianmacm a level 1 vandalism template due to my perception that it was vandalism. I don't think there should be anymore issues related to WP:BLPCRIME. Kingjeff (talk) 19:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)