User talk:Mactographer/Archive-2

IP Address
Maybe this will save you from logging out and back in next time: My IP Address. :) --Dan East 10:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

WP meetup
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Controversies pages
FYI, Controversies of Rudy Giuliani has now been dismantled, with its legitimate contents disbursed among the appropriate Giuliani articles and its unworthy contents junked. See Talk:Controversies of Rudy Giuliani for more. This is pertinent to your concern that it was unfair that Republican candidates had such articles and Hillary Clinton did not. I hope that someone dismantles the Mike_Huckabee section as well. Wasted Time R 18:46, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I spoke a bit too soon ... another editor wants it revived and it's now at AfD at Articles for deletion/Controversies of Rudy Giuliani. Wasted Time R 22:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Comments on Talk:Hillary Clinton
Mactographer, I would also suggest that you apologize to the editors of the Hillary Rodham Clinton article for your rather uneducated comment about them being sockpuppets of the Clinton campaign. If you take a look at the edit history for the Giuliani and McCain articles you will find that many of the editors on the Clinton article and talk page were also the ones (particularly Wasted Time R) that were in large part responsible for the dismantling of the Criticism section and/or articles in those articles. What you see reflected on the Clinton article and on many other politician articles, is a general dislike of criticism sections that has been applied across party lines and without regard to a person's political beliefs and/or practices. --Bobblehead (rants) 23:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: user-requested deletions
Sure thing! Generally, pages and images are deleted "on sight" if the sole author requests so. Just dump a list of what you want gone on my talk page. east. 718 at 00:06, December 25, 2007
 * OK, I've removed all the images on enwiki. I am not a Commons admin, but am trying to get a hold of one right now; if the pictures aren't gone in a couple hours, you'll have to file deletion requests on Commons, and I do not have any idea as to what their procedures are. east. 718 at 00:35, December 25, 2007
 * I am a Commons Administrator. east718 told me of your request and I went ahead and removed the images from the Commons. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:39, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅. Let me know if there's anything else you need help with. east. 718 at 03:43, December 28, 2007

Copyright problem
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Would it be possible for you to add the fair-use template to the image page? You will also need to remove it from your user page. Please let me know if you have any questions. Cheers--DO11.10 (talk) 03:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

huckabee 44/54
Check the List of Governors of Arkansas. Orval Faubus (what a name) was 44. Huckabee just had another one of those things where sounds came out of his mouth, but they weren't sensible when he said 44. If you look, the Huckabee article already has quotes from him about the frequency of such incidents. ThuranX (talk) 12:25, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll be reporting your personal attack. ThuranX (talk) 16:29, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I made no personal attack against you. Good luck with that. ThuranX (talk) 05:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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A picture
this is about the picture you captured the one with the horse at the renaissance fair do you happen to Know what breed of horse it is? thanks  Electrical  Experiment 21:00, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Hello
Hello Mactographer! I'd like to tell you, don't give up the fight and don't give up hope. Stand strong in the Word of God (like the Founding Fathers did) and continue to tell the truth. Be bold! In case you ever wanted to contact me, my e-mail is the00cheat@gmail.com. I'm not on Wikipedia much, so I don't really respond to messages, lol. -ApJ (talk) 06:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Again, hi! -Optigan13 (talk) 07:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Modern Knight
David Ball, thank you for your beautiful picture File:Modern-Knight.jpg. I make a new version for text illustration (File:Modern-Knight 2.jpg). Encore merci.PRA (talk) 16:56, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Notability of Bridges Community Church
Bridges does not seem to meet wiki's notability guideline WP:NRVE. In order to be considered notable, it must have received significant coverage from third-parties. As the articles creator, are you aware of sources that would establish notability? thanks for your help and contributions to WP. Atokoy (talk) 07:16, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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question
picture's description says that it shows Pyramid Lake. The title, however, says Lake Castaic. Someone on Talk:Pyramid Lake (California) wanted to make sure that this was indeed Pyramid Lake. Could you confirm that? Griffinofwales (talk) 16:42, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

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Victoria photo
Hello, my friend! Well, I took it from the new official flick account created by the Royal family. Here: Good luck! --Lecen (talk) 11:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

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Stones, henges, userpages, and photographs
This is the part of my original response on Talk:Stonehenge which I felt strayed from the matter at hand there. No particular order:


 * The high priority you place on a userpage is utterly absurd - this is an encyclopedia, not Facebook.
 * Discover is a magazine, written by and for people who already know what Stonehenge is - as such, they're more open to artistic flair. To put it another way, in terms I have no doubt you'll understand: The qualities which make a good senior picture are completely different from the qualities that make a good goth-rock album cover (unless you're going for an ironic effect in the latter, of course). Van Gogh didn't do presidential portraits, James Joyce didn't write for the front page of the New York Times.
 * When I originally labelled your work as "amateurish", I was speaking in the context of this being an encyclopedia. Beethoven's 5th is an amateurish way to depict an E-flat. It struck me as the contribution of an anonymous editor, or editor who had not been with the project for very long - someone eager to contribute something, anything, even if that some/anything was more fitting for a flickrstream than an encyclopedia. Wiki-amateur, photography-pro. I stand by that assessment, for the reasons I outlined in my first post to Talk:Stonehenge. You can repeat "rule of thirds" as often as you like, the facts remain that there's more ground than sky, and while the eye is eventually drawn to Stonehenge itself, it doesn't fall upon it naturally as it would if the photographer had stopped blindly following the letter of the teachings he learned in photography 101, and actually centered the stupid rocks in the stupid viewfinder like most of us "barbarian heathens" would if given a camera.
 * Photographers who worry about straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) shots can be largely lumped into two categories: 1) those who are insecure about their abilities to truly capture the moment and feel they must resort to smoke and Photoshop-mirrors (I'd put the average 15 year old on Deviantart in this category), and 2) those who are looking for an artistic effect, an emotional reaction by the viewer; as opposed to an honest representation of their subject. This is the category I'd place the Stonehenge-Green file under. I'm speaking in terms of digital photography, digital display here - analog is a whole different story, as is physical print media.
 * I resent the accusation that I recruited help, or personally got the page locked on the WRONGVERSION. People can disagree with you without being part of some vast conspiracy orchestrated by a redlinked non-entity such as myself. Grow up.
 * I'm not quite sure how two histrionic posts to my talk page are at all relevant to this discussion (the first was by an editor whose off-kilter approach to editing is well-documented on his talk-page, the second was someone rankled to their very core over my saying that the phrase "an human" only made sense in scouse-speak), but you keep bringing them up as if they are. I would venture that, if anything, they're proof that there are people on this project far crazier than you and I combined.

Have a nice day (though it's hard not to have a nice day out in the Bay Area - spent two years in Santa Cruz myself, it's the voice of experience) - Badger Drink (talk) 18:25, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I find it rather surprising that a self-professed "Christian" would have a hard time reconciling a happy postscript tacked on to a bunch of schizophrenic bullshit, but such is life. Badger Drink (talk) 08:11, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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Need Permission to Use Edinburgh Castle Photo
Hi,

I am working on a show for The History Channel called "Ancient Aliens." I wanted to use a photo of yours of Edinburgh Castle, but I need the correct credit. You said the photo was free to use with the right credit. Do you want us to credit "mactographer?" Thank you! Please email me at: producerzan@yahoo.com Suzanne — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.47.250 (talk) 21:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Featured Picture nomination
I nominated a picture of yours here. I realize it's a little late in the game to be asking, but the image description is a little confusing, this is your picture, right? --TimL (talk) 21:50, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Tim. I've stopped playing much here on Wiki cuz it's way too political for me, so I just found this message from you. Yes, I took the photo. Actually, it's a series of photos composited into ONE photo. Good luck with your nomination.  Glad you liked it anyway. --Mactographer (talk) 07:55, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

My apologies for letting you know about your nomination
I was not aware that you were incapable of handling or even witnessing constructive criticism. You failed to notice that it was not I who brought up any criticism, merely took it into account. It's unfortunate you can't be civil, is something stressful going on in your life? Adios! --TimL (talk) 21:10, 31 July 2011 (UTC)