User talk:Dronkle/Archives/2009/November

DYK verification of Michael Slater
First I would like to thank you for your help at DYK recently. There is always a need for ambitious editors to help. I wanted to recommend that you provide feedback that is positive to help a nominator rather than a comment that looks a liitle {{WP:BITE}bitey]]. Rather than saying if you want people to view your article take it to FA, you could point out how much needs to be expanded to reach the required amount. I see that he has not contibuted often and may not be aware of how a 5x expansion is calculated. Maybe a note about the DYK check tool maybe helpful. In this case, a  may have been better suited. It may be difficult to expand, through not impossible. Don't take this as negative. Just a friendly note. Kindly Calmer   Waters  09:17, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah, fine mate. Still learning with DYK, sorry.  Aaroncrick  ( talk )  Review me! 19:37, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

copyright problems
so, news paper articles are copyrighted? at the time i didn't think it would be a problem to very accurately copy the information. only 1 of the sentences in the paragraph was word for word copied.

Wikidrift (talk) 18:15, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

what you've mentioned to me is fine.it's good to know. it is so complicated,that i believe only the pros can edit wikipedia. I'm extremely intimidated to contribute anything else.

Wikidrift (talk) 00:12, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Siegfried Translateur
I replied at WT:DYK regarding this article and its DYK nomination. I am all ears and hope we can resolve this issue. Sincerely Materialscientist (talk) 01:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Let me clarify my message: I read some German and I did Google translate that page for the sake of experiment, before restoring it. I don't doubt the page was used a a source and perhaps Google translated, but. (i) There is no reason to forbid using that page as a source; (ii) WP:PARAPHRASE is only a guide, not a clear-cut directive, and most importantly, (iii) that article is very basic and summarized basic facts. It is so much easier to rewrite and expand it than keep it tagged. We are here to build an encyclopedia, and you can only help. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 03:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Copyvio clean up query
Voceditenore (talk) 08:39, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Fish
I caught your reference to "fishing trip", I just figured that one of "us" should acknowledge that the discussion was occurring. In addition, I also intentionally made note of "individual concerns aside", as I do believe the questions both you and nableezy raised have merit (see here and here). -- nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 22:45, 20 November 2009 (UTC)