User talk:GeeJo/Archive 6

DYK THANKS
for SLOMR and Peştera cu Oase !--Vintila Barbu 19:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK thanks
I know i already gave ya a barn star but, after trying my had at creating a few next updates for the DYK, I have a new appreciation for people who work on it! You do an amazing job! Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 20:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Did you know?

 * Yehey! Thank you. Please accept this Philippine barnstar [[Image:Barnstar-philippines.png|left|50px]] in recognition of your support for Philippine-related articles..--Pinay06 22:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Carabosse
Do you think the article is DYKable? -- Ghirla -трёп-  10:23, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I am busy at the moment. Could you devise some blurb yourself? Thanks, Ghirla  -трёп-  12:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Artistic billiards
Thanks for nominating the article and all the hard work with DYK. One request: I would have liked to have know the article had been nominated prior to receiving notiification that it was already appearing in DYK. If you had done so, the article would have been put through a rigorous second draft to make sure it was correct in every way and I could have had some input in the wording of the extracted fact. Thanks again.--Fuhghettaboutit 19:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Did You Know
Just a quick question, how often is DYK updated? It's obviously more than once a day, but I don't know exactly how often. Based on how logn my article was up, looks liek 3 times a day, but I'm not sure. Thanks for putting my article on the front page, BTW. --Wizardman 06:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Image:Horsfieldstarsius.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Horsfieldstarsius.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:


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Image:Lely Venus BM 1963.jpg
Hi! I'm quite pleased that one of my pictures has been chosen for the main page. However, the description template template used on Commons doesn't exist here on en:, therefore the description doesn't appear at all. As I'm a simple user, I cannot fix it. Could you please see to it? Jastrow (Λέγετε) 19:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK nom for Rice Creek (Minnesota)
Hi GeeJo, thank you for nominating this article I started Dec. 5 for the DYK column! I want to let you know that the detail you suggested extracting for the blurb (that it was named for abundant wild rice) has been changed since your nomination, as it appears somewhat likely to have been named instead for Henry Rice. (At last edit, I left the wording a bit equivocal in the article.) There's also been a bit added about burial mounds along the creek, if Henry Rice isn't interesting enough for DYK. Thanks for your efforts, and thanks again for noticing and nominating the article. Malepheasant 04:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Erm, never mind, I guess it went straight to the main page without the fix. Oh well.  Malepheasant 07:29, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the change to the template, and for the note of explanation. Malepheasant 08:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Speedy Delete article "L-5 Sentinel"
Wow - you're quick! In the time that it took for me to finish typing in all the information that I could, you had flagged this article for speedy deletion.... I didn't remove the flag (as you are the one who put it there). What's the proper procedure here?

BTW - I'm not crabbing at you or accusing you of causing any trouble or anything. I'm just a newbie that types slow (and had 2 kids to deal with) trying to help out and figure out what to do and how to do it....

Thanks! NDCompuGeek 19:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
I didn't even realise you'd nominated my Radu Irimescu article, which I didn't consider DYK-worthy. I appreciate what you did. Biruitorul 19:17, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK

 * Imitation is the best form of flattery - I've been busy replenishing our stocks! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Mirror stage
I do not believe that "itself" is the gender-neutral for "himself" when referring to a person. In the case of your edit, I believe "itself" has introduced an error. Is there official MoS policy in this regard? Robert K S 11:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the heading changes to the Baffle spray tower and Spray tower articles, eventually I have also changed the Ejector venturi scrubber headings so that now we have a good pattern for this area of air pollution control systems articles. The Vindictive 05:38, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification
Thanks for the notification that a fact from one of my articles was on Did you know on December 10th, just one thing on DYK it says that 122 people were killed in the fighting, well that was only in the street fighting, the final death toll was 198 because 76 Iraqi army soldiers were executed and their bodies were found weeks later. I sumed up the death toll in the article soo people don't understand it wrong. Thanks again.

DYK - Ludwig von Siegen
Thxs for putting it up, but the "pictured" on the entry rather suggests the picture is OF him, rather than by him. She looks as if she would have made a fine Lt-Colonel, I must admit Johnbod 21:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Order of nominations to DYK
Hello, GeeJo. Thanks for your hard working making nominations to "Did you know...". I am sure many many people appreciate their new articles being recognized there. Could you possibly try to add your nominations in chronological order? There are perhaps dozens of new nominations by yourself and others being added to earlier dates, which can result in some unfairness. For example today some of your new noms were added to 10 December? I think if you look you'll find that the list of Candidates is all out of whack. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Please reply here (on your talk page not mine). Best wishes.Susanlesch 21:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply (but on my talk page). Yes this was in part my error. The instructions do indeed say list by date of creation. I was baffled today and a few other days by what wound up in DYK on the Main Page and when it got there, but thanks anyway, the order in the list of Candidates was not the problem. Best wishes.Susanlesch 21:56, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Clear Template
What does the clear template do? Aka the OWU Activism page.Balloonman 23:45, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Editing Image:17a-matses-woman.jpg
Thanks for editing this image by cropping the watermark. Unfortunately, User:Descendall deleted a similar image without the same courtesy and thoughtfulness you used. In fact, User:Descendall went on to delete the listing for the MATSES indigenous organization via an AfD and even attacked the founder of MATSES by submitting an AfD for his page. It's wonderful to have someone like yourself preserve images rather than destroy them. Thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matses (talk • contribs).
 * Incidentally, although Matses refers to the founder of MATSES In the third person, he has acknowledged elsewhere that he is Dan James Pantone - so it is the deletion of his own article to which he is apparently objecting. Guy (Help!) 11:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development
You have a copy of Pawle? Mine's not unpacked after my house move. I started Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, I think we should have a category to link these articles. What say? Guy (Help!) 21:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK noms
And some more:

Will you have a few more? Go on, go on, go on:

Thank you
It was kind of you to nominate an item from the Charles Crookham article for DYK. -- "J-M" Jgilhousen 08:40, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Categorize
Could you please help me categorize the pollution control technologies, air pollution control systems, scrubbers? I don't know how to edit the category pages, it shows just one *. Thanks. The Vindictive 20:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Activism at OWU
Hi GeeJo,

An article that was recently featured for a DYK (that you nominated) has been nominated for a GAR. I support the GAR for the POV that I've seen in the article (or more accurately on the OWU mainpage) that is replicated on this article has POV. The person who approved the GA status of the article is accusing me of implicitly insulting you for my comments that this article. Basically that persons reasoning is "you nominated a page for DYK. It was approved. Prior to your nominating it, I was critical of it's sister page's POV.  Thus, my expressing concerns about this articles POV, that you nominated, I am attacking you." As far as I am concerned, it is a ridiculous argument... but I think the person is simply engaging in ad hominem attacks. (Attack me rather than address the criticism.) I would love your input on the GAR as a result. Please see the criticisms that I've identified and outlined on the OWU talk page. thanks. Balloonman 03:14, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Borat soundtrack pagemove
Yep, I see that now. Thanks for letting me know. -- Silva  Storm  

Licensing for photographs of miniatures
Hi. If you're tweaking the wording on Image:Ultramarines Dreadnought.jpg, you might like to do Image:ChaosTerminator.jpg, Image:ImperialGuard.jpg and Image:TyranidHiveTyrant.jpg as well. Cheers --Pak21 16:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

RfA
Thank you for supporting my request for adminship. It appears that most people do not yet deem me worthy of the trust, so your support was very appreciated.--Berig 18:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:JasonKidd.jpg)
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dyk
Please update. Its backlogged. Baka man  15:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Haditha affair, thanks
Thank you for restoring the redirects, it would have become very confusing having the two (or is it three? H.Killing, H.Incident, H.Massacre) articles all live.htom 16:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK!
Thank you for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  00:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship
 

Thanks for your support on my successful Request for Adminship  (final result 78 Support /0 Oppose / 1 Neutral) I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. I will be slowly acclimating myself to my new tools over the next months. I am humbled by your kind support and would certainly welcome any feedback on my actions. Please do not hesitate to contact me. Once again, many thanks and happy new year! All the best, Asterion talk 13:29, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Expired Noms
Are you supposed to clear the Expired Noms at DYK periodically? I was moving December 21 to Expired Noms, but I didn't see the section there, so I went back and saw that you had removed it. I re-created the section now, and it just has December 21.  Nish kid 64  17:55, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks for the thorough reply. =)  Nish kid 64  18:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK!
Thanks for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  21:31, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for John Dunmore was successful
Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 14:32, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK!
Thank you for your contributions!  Nish kid 64  19:02, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for Edward B. Evans was successful
Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 11:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Your DYK nomination for St. Stephen Coleman Street was successful
Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 12:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

dyk
Its backlogged. Baka man  18:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Did you know/Next update
It's good to see you've gotten this off the ground. When a similar idea occurred to me in June, I'm afraid I didn't have the fortitude to carry it through. I've been a little out of the loop recently, and just noted your innovation in the DYK process. Thanks for your boldness!--Pharos 21:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

dyk
Backlogged. Baka man  22:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

wikimedia Gyurcsany_cc
Hey,

I was looking for a way to contact you about a file you uploaded to wikimedia. That is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ferenc_Gyurcsany_cc.jpg, and that's my picture. I was wondering how did you find it. And please reply to melyviz [at] gmail.com for I'm not quite familiar wit the wikipedia user pages (I only registered to be able to talk to you).

Thanks!

Bálint —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.209.221.9 (talk) 23:39, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

Misunderstandings
Yes it is mainly about evolution so far. But if you look on the talk page, it will be drastsically expanded and renamed, probably in not too long. This is just sort of a stub that was removed while we work on two much longer drafts in sandbox forms. Eventually all 3 will be merged, with probably material added from the Creation-evolution controversy article as well. I am not sure we will have enough room even all in one article, to be honest. So, more is coming. --Filll 20:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for supporting me in my RfA! It succeeded, and I now have The Tools – which I'm planning to use as wisely as I possibly can. I hope I will be worth your confidence. Thanks again! :-) –m y s i d ☎ 21:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

April fools main page
Hi GeeJo - I've been working to develop guidelines for the April Fools Main Page (AFMP) project. My discussion with Lar about this led me to you. The main page is composed of fixed text and changeable text. EXTERNAL to the main page (and every other wikipedia page) are the fixed text navigation window, search window, toolbox window, and copyright window. Posters to AFMP 2006 and AFMP 2007 suggested changing the text external to the main page as well. The AFMP project should include guidance on how to get approval and cooperation to change these, even if approval for such a change is very remote. I located those responsible for the changeable sections of the mainpage. Could you please let me know who has approval over the fixed text sections of the main page and who has approval over the sections external to the main page. Thanks.-- Jreferee 21:18, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Campbell's Soup Can Fair Use
I am continuing to revise Campbell's Soup Cans. You may recall your objection. Let me know if I have gotten these close enough for you to clean them up as you had discussed. TonyTheTiger 17:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Ylva Johansson Sweden.gov.jpg)
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Sorting within category
Hello GeeJo,

if you upload any images to Commons and add them to a category like Porn stars, please don't forget to add the proper sorting extensions. This means: Don't just add, add  (or whatever the person's name is). Regards --Rosenzweig 20:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, please DO NOT upload duplicate pictures. Image:Randy Spears, April 2006.JPG is a duplicate of Image:Randy Spears DSC 0009 cropped.JPG, uploaded in April 2006, and Image:Mike Horner, October 2006.JPG is a duplicate of Image:Mike Horner DSC 0004 cropped.JPG, uploaded in October 2006. Please have a look at which pictures are already there, use those and don't upload them again. This will save both you and others a lot of work. --Rosenzweig 21:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC)