User talk:Lordmontu

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Images
I took a quick look at the letter. It looks like you mentioned only free licenses in your original query, and the librarian said we could use the images but did not tell us under what license. It would be ideal if the library actually used the phrase "We release these images under the GFDL license" or "We release these images under the Creative Commons license" or something similar.

I think we are on solid ground to use the images, but which license to apply is the problem. I think I would use. Most people think it is less cumbersome for images than GFDL. On the image page, you should also place info about the image such as its source. More info is at Image_use_policy. Images without a source may be deleted. You should also link to that permission letter from the Image page. There is also an e-mail address to which you should send the permission letter, but I can't find that at the moment. I will get back to you on that.

Following these guidelines is very important. We take this very seriously. There are even some users who take it too seriously and may hastily delete an image on a small technicality. I'd hate to see you spend a lot of time and energy finding and uploading images, only to have them deleted.

I'll look for that e-mail adress. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Johntex\talk 22:46, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

University of Wisconsin System
That map you added to the University of Wisconsin System article is very cool! Crosscountrycpjon 03:35, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:William_H_Sewell.JPG
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Notification of arbitration case
This is to notify you that I am making an arbitration request concernining the University of Wisconsin redirect at [Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration]. Miaers 00:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Wisconsin Field House
I would move it to Wisconsin Field House, not The Wisconsin Field House as Miaers has redirected it to. When I did the rename it was as most people know it as (UW Fieldhouse) in casual conversation, as I could not find an official page at the time. But going by g-hits, Wisconsin Fieldhouse definitely outranks "UW Fieldhouse" and "The Wisconsin Field House". I leave it to others to debate this as I did the article name change very early in its infacy and much more information has been added since then. Nate 00:36, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Endowment
The economic impact is the amount UW receives from the society not what it gives. If you look at those numbers from UW website, you can see that they are the funding sources. The 300 million you want to use is obviously wrong. The endowment of both UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee are larger than that figure. It is ridiculous to see the total endowment of the system is less than that of an individual campus. Also the number from the UW website should be the authoritative and accurate. The source you pointed out is just an unkown organization on the internet that doesn't have any credit at all. Miaers 15:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, does my reply make sense to you? Miaers 21:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

That's odd. The endowment of the system should be the total of all the individual universities. What you just said basically sounds like that the Board of the system has an endowment of 300 mil. That will be ridiculous. Also the UW website provides its funding sources. It is totally appropriate to use it as a source for the endowment figure. Miaers 03:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Your logic is totally wrong. These foundations are part of the individual campuses which are also part of the system. What do you mean they are separate from the UW system. Miaers 04:06, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT
When you put the DEFAULTSORT template in an article, the article is sorted as if all the categories listed have something like "Category name|Smith, John" after them, even if they don't. So, if you have a lot of categories listed, rather than having "Category name|Smith, John" for each, just use DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John and the article will be sorted surname, first name in each of the category lists. It's a way of saving time; even if all the categories are already sorted, additional ones won't have to be. I noticed that a template had been created for faculty of the University of Wisconsin, and that the individual listed categories had been sorted by surname, but that the template-created ones had not, so I put DEFAULTSORT in those articles so they would be listed surname-first in those categories as well.

Any sorting listed on the actual categories takes precedence over DEFAULTSORT. Say if you got "DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John" and then later on "Category|John Smith": in that individual category the article will be sorted as "first name surname". Hope this helps. T@nn 04:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Lake Mendota
Thanks! Daniel J Simanek (talk) 04:23, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Opinion request at WikiProject CBB
I found you through Category:WikiProject College basketball members and am requesting your opinion on an issue. If you have the time, please go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College Basketball. Thank you in advance. Jrcla2 (talk) 15:00, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Tara Calico Polaroid.jpg)
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Edit-a-thon in Madison
I saw that you live in Madison (based on your userpage), so if you're interested, I wanted to invite you to a humanities edit-a-thon in the Madison Public Library on Friday, April 25th (1:30–3:30). It'll be on the shorter side and is aimed at new editors, but I hope to see you there. More information is available on the 2014 UW Conference on the Public Humanities website. Let me know if you have any questions czar ♔  04:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Green Bay Packers WikiProject
Hi Lordmontu! Since you are in, I just wanted to let you know that I have restarted the Green Bay Packers WikiProject. Come check out the page and if you are still interested, add yourself to the active member list! All of our articles have been assessed and there are a lot of new tools available to help us improve Green Bay Packers articles. Please feel free to post on the WikiProject's talk page or on my talk page if you have any questions! Thanks, « Gonzo fan2007   (talk)  @  14:23, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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