User talk:Kevin Saff/Archive 1

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 21:20, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I am here. -- Kevin Saff 20:40, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

144
Please elaborate why Bilbo's 144th birthday is important. Fanatic deletionists point to items like this in their mad quest to destroy all number articles. Look at the remark's on Lincoln's speech at eighty-seven as an example for elaborating landmark anniversaries. Let's hope no deletionist looks at your article before you get a chance to elaborate the Bilbo birthday. PrimeFan 18:46, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * Well it isn't quite so important as Lincoln's speech. I was just using another number as a template and it was the only 144 I immediately thought of.  Kevin Saff 19:34, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * You can help set the template for all the number articles by joining the discussion at WikiProject Numbers. The problem with the articles on three and five is that they have a lot of bulleted lists, and bulleted lists are a pet peeve of the fanatic deletionists. We need to avoid bulleted lists, and any other thing that gives the fanatic deletionists ammo for their argument that all number articles should be deleted. PrimeFan 20:30, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * Copyright Vio:

Hi there. Thanks for checking over the entrees that I entered the other day. I went back and rewrote Einstein's puzzle from scratch and did as you said i.e. entering the new info in a /Temp page. for the article on calculating the day of the week, I had emailed Guy Rimmer the person who hosts the site "http://www.terra.es/personal2/grimmer/". He gave me the go ahead to put a copy of his algorithm up on Wikipedia. As for the SAT words and definitions. I got them from a site (http://www.freevocabulary.com/), which claims they are free for individual and classroom use. I found them also in the same form on numerous other sites including Texas Instruments, which has a downloadable pdf version. I assumed this was public domain information for this very reason. User: 147.252.229.65, 13:59, Apr 29, 2004.

See also: simple:User talk:Kevin Saff, meta:User talk:Kevin Saff.

Reps from District of Columbia
''Do you think US Congress Representatives from District of Columbia and Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia are both needed? I ran across the one you started today, and wonder whether these overlap too much.''
 * US Congress Representatives from District of Columbia is an incorrect term. The people sent to Congress from DC are Delegates, not Representatives.  The Representatives article should be deleted or made into a redirect to the Delegates article.  RickK 20:30, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Photo William D. Phillips
Hi Kevin, I'm just editing the German version of William D. Phillips. Research for a PD photo took me to the english article, where you uploaded the photo as "Public domain". A quick look at the source website says: "Free use of these photos is restricted to materials that describe NIST programs directly. Copyright is owned by the photographer." Is this to be understood as PD? Maybe I do not understand it properly, but PD should be "free of any rights", shouldn't it? As my German colleages are quite strict with copyright questions (we do not have fair use, for example), it would be nice to hear from you if you could confirm the PD status of the photo. You could leave a message on my german User talk page. Thanks a lot! --elya 10:29, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi, this was really a kind of message in a bottle :-) thanks a lot for the verification. I copied the pic with all its information to commons so it can be used in alle wps. Best wishes, --elya 06:10, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Unverified images
You kindly uploaded these images (among other): Did you make those? I see on your user page that you intend to put your own creations into the public domain. If you didn't make them, do you know where they came from? Their copyright/license status needs to be properly tagged so that they can continue to be used in Wikipedia. Could you edit their description pages and add the appropriate tag? Or let me know, and I'll tag them. This is important. Thanks! Kbh3rd 03:32, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Image:Kalah captured.png
 * Image:Kalah sowed.png
 * Image:Kalah sowing.png
 * Image:Kalah sowing4.png

Chicken Kiev
I don't doubt that the information was true, but it hardly merits being more than half of the article. RickK 22:40, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Request for arbitration, rktect
For your information, I have now submitted a request for arbitration: User:rktect -- Egil 11:34, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Cow-on pole, with horns.jpeg has been listed for deletion
The image no longer even has any relation to the title, due to it being changed. Perhaps on the discussion page for this, if you want the original kept, you could suggest it be reverted to the original version you uploaded. HowardBerry 17:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Raven paradox images
As a student of philosophy and someone who has slaved through the issues surrounding philosophical induction I have to applaud your adding of the images here. It gave me (and a couple of my philosophy friends who also took the induction course with me) deep laughter. Even though the images are slightly unencyclopedic they have to stay. Thank you for your sense of humor (even if it was unintended).--droptone 14:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Kevin Saff 22:00, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Backgammon set from American civil war
Would you mind taking a look at Image:Backgammon-set_from_American_civil_war.jpeg and clarifying the license conditions? Based on what I can find at http://www.cr.nps.gov, it's not clear that the image is in the public domain. &mdash;ptk✰fgs 11:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks! &mdash;ptk✰fgs 21:10, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Fantasy Bedtime Hour
I found this article on Category:Stubs and made an attempt to improve it somewhat, but nevertheless the show is still just a public access television show, and almost all public access shows are inherently non-notable because their viewership is so low it can hardly be measured. I realize that Fantasy Bedtime Hour was the subject of a San Francisco Chronicle article (linked in the Wikipedia article), but I'm still skeptical of its notability. Do you have any other evidence to support the show's notability? Thanks. --Metropolitan90 03:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Dgèrnésiais
As the creator of this page, would you like to comment on its proposed move to Guernésiais? Widsith 20:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Carbon cycle-cute diagram.jpeg
Thanks for uploading Image:Carbon cycle-cute diagram.jpeg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the GFDL-self-no-disclaimers tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Fair use, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following [ this link]. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 22:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — PSUMark2006   talk  |  contribs  22:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

mancalaaa
WOW your mancala images ruuule! Can you make yellow hiĝliĝted images for up to 14 seeds? --Sonjaaa 20:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:GAO-seal.jpg listed for deletion
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Speedy deletion of Template:Mancala hole
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Non-free use disputed for Image:PubPat_Logo_Blue.png
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Image:MSOlogo55x55-safe.gif
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Unspecified source for Image:BRCA_Genes-location_of_BRCA1_and_BRCA2_on_chromosomes_13_and_17.gif
Thanks for uploading Image:BRCA_Genes-location_of_BRCA1_and_BRCA2_on_chromosomes_13_and_17.gif. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the GFDL-self tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Fair use, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following [ this link]. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 18:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MECU ≈ talk 18:38, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

NowCommons: Image:John Pool-photograph.jpeg
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Speedy deletion of Image:Mancala hole.xcf
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