User talk:Mavarin/Archive 5

Thank you for the award!
Thank you very much for the Original Barnstar award, Karen!! I appreciate the recognition. (Sinisterminister 01:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC))

thing u sent me
I don't care what u say cuz i don't know who u are —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garganzola (talk • contribs) 19:11, 17 January 2007
 * You didn't try to find out, either. More to the point, when you go around adding nonsense or rude words to Wikipedia articles, it doesn't matter who asks you to stop doing it. The policy comes from Wikipedia, and is supported by many thousands of editors. If you want to edit here, you need to make edits that are actually useful. Are you up to the challenge? Karen | Talk | contribs 02:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Rating system for fictional books
When you get a chance, take a look at Talk:List_of_fictional_books -- let me know what you think... --Bookgrrl holler/ looksee 22:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Across Five Aprils
Thank for the note, but I'll have to respectfully maintain my position. Anyone can write an article and claim its subject has won something prestigious; if that victory is notability's sine qua non, it fails absent citation. Verifiability standards require that those adding the data provide the source, not that those reading be forced to search&mdash;and this is as true of literature, fact or fiction, as any other encyclopedia subject. :) RadioKirk (u|t|c)  03:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

MMC
Why the hell did you delete the stuff I posted?74.195.3.199 01:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't. See my note on your talk page. -- Karen | Talk | contribs 01:40, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Fisherman's Choice
moved deleted nonsense article text to here: User talk:Mavarin/Fisherman (deleted now that original wirer has retrieved it)

Greetings From Lord Tortville
Attention Mavarin, I am the Lord Cranville, close and personal friend of the Lord Tortville. Lord Tortville, and his other account, Lordtortvillethegreat have been blocked. However he wishes me to inform thee that your efforts for the salvation of Fisherman's Choice have not gone un-noticed. That precious document will live for generations more. Wikipedia is a fickle organization and gives adinistrators power to delete history forever. It is people like us and you that protect all history and save it from sure corruption and destruction. Lord Tortville wishes me to inform you that you are awarded several medals due to your services to the Empire: You have earned the respect and love of our people for eternity and you are welcome in our lands. Show thine medals, wear them on your chest in our lands men women alike will buy you drink, food, clothing, trinkets, you name it, your status as hero of our lands is eternal. We also cordially invite thee to royal court, should you choose to accept this invitation, you will most definately be knighted, and possibly be given an honorary title as count of an insignificant province.
 * ♠Order of St. Peter and St. Paul of Noblest Degree
 * ♠Iron Cross of Gerlad for perseverence in the face of evil and most certain peril
 * ♠Hero of the Empire of the 2nd Degree of Valor
 * ♠Saviour of Documents of Historical and Cultural Significance of the Highest Order

Fare thee well, remember, strenght, honor, glory, all are forgotten if we do not save history.

His Humblest respects and nobility, The Fourteenth Lord Cranville of Orange


 * Thank you for the honors and kind words. I shall treasure them as I treasure my cheese (see below). Karen | Talk | contribs 16:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Terrible News from Lord Tortville and Cranville
During a midnight coup, the queen and Emperor have been toppled from power by communist dissidents. Their safety is my one concern at this point and I, along with the Lord Tortville and Sir Walterhouse, must assemble the army to attempt to secure our lands and quell this rebellion which has struck up like wildfire. Though we cannot stop you from venturing into our lands, it is ill advised that you accept the invitation to court, as it is in the hands of rebel dissenters. A favorite of the empire will not be welcome there, nor can your safety be guaranteed anywhere in the empire. Right now, this is no place for foreigners, should our empire survive the year, you will be given your medals and knighthood directly, however do not give into the communists, as they will surely attempt to claim you as their own hero.

His Humblest respects and nobility, The Fourteenth Lord Cranville of Orange


 * Indeed, Mâvarin suffers from its own political instability at present, due to certain romantic entanglements and the expected death of King Jor. Do not look for an early visit from me; I must look to the needs of my own royal families. Regards and good luck.  Karen | Talk | contribs 08:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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Never mind
Karen,

Hi. Thank you for your additions to the subject article last weekend. As I wrote in my latest edit summary, "I'm not too sure I like the javascripted ads presented by the target page" of the External link to TV ACRES: Catchphrases (Character Trademark Phrases & Sayings). I am considering moving changing the external link to be a footnote to "she is back with a similar mistake (and another "Never mind!") in succeeding episodes." and perhaps adding a disclaimer like "(presents javascripted ads)" - what do you think? Have you run into any problems before with using external links to TV ACRES on Wikipedia? Thanks! — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 00:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 21:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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Mr chuzzlewit
I've got a slight suspicion that is violating the policy at WP:COI, as I suggested to him on his talkpage and at Talk:Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack. His edits and edit summaries seem to suggest that he either is Murray Gold (very unlikely) or else an agent or close friend. He has only edited two articles (the soundtrack and Murray's own article), and then only to remove certain sentences which he claims are against policy (while then refusing to cite the said policies).

One edit summary said that "MG's publishers will shortly be in contact with Wikipedia", and a note on his talkpage said that information about MG's parentage and religion "are considered intrusive, tendentious and unjust by the LIVING persons concerned''"; the use of the present tense and the lack of a qualifier such as "probably" is rather suspicious.

What do you suggest I do? Thanks,--Rambutan (talk) 18:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Barbara Bauer
Thanks for your note. I'm travelling so I just got it. Meanwhile events have overtaken your question. But tfor the record, primary sources like dockets are best avoided. As an encyclopedia we try to stick with secondary sources. Primary sources require interpretation. In this case, the internet-accesible information merely indicates the parties, not the claims or dates, so we have no way of evaluating the relevance, etc. If it were reported in a reliable secondary source then it'd be more suitable for inclusion. -Will Beback · † · 00:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Madeleine L'Engle
You asked about Madeleine L'Engle several weeks ago. She taught a creative writing class at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's during the 1989-90 school year and maybe thereafter. There's a photo of the class in the school's 1990 yearbook if you want to check it out - although I don't know how easy it is to get one's hands on it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Balkan72 (talk • contribs) 19:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

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So Weird/so weird
I believe it was Feb when the restriction was dropped. I know that's when all the IPod articles were moved to their stylistic, if not grammatically correct iPod titles they have now. I believe stylistic titles, if self proclaimed, can now be supported. Either way though the WP:RM will need to be done on this article now that the "move" feature is inoperable. Adam's incorrect moves earlier today made direct moving by regular users impossible since there have been edits to the page he would like the page moved to. Only RM can override that now. And cut and paste is still (and never) an appropriate option as it violates the GPL license agreement that Wikipedia operates under. Gateman1997 05:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * No that was right on. Same type of thing goes for merging articles, cut and paste works fine since the data is usually compressed and reference is still available. It is only all out moves that can't be cut and pasted. Gateman1997 05:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Boukenger
Thanks for your message. To be honest, I was just following up on a complaint about this user, and was going through his contributions &mdash; this one stood out a bit (though it's not out of character).

If there's a problem with incivility and revrting at the article, the best thing is probably to ask for protection (if it's mainly from IP addresses, then semi-protection should do it). If it's one or more people who are persistently uncivil, then you can report them (199.80.117.24 is blocked for six months, already, I see). Would you like me to protect the article, or do you think that things are OK for the moment? --Mel Etitis ( Talk ) 16:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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Vodcast
OK, I'll take your word that it's true, but unfortunately, WP requires sources, and there isn't one. I do sympathise!--Rambutan (talk) 18:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Jack
Oh yeah, I see, sorry and thank you :) ~ZytheTalk to me! 12:05, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
 WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive! WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive! The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the WikiCookie to the great Golden Wiki Award. There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the drive's page and help out!

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Thanks very much - I do try!--Rambutan (talk) 09:26, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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Resolved - it's in a different part of the article now. -- Karen | Talk | contribs 05:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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Fair use rationales / book examples
Hi. Thank you for the examples of fair use rationales. There is not a whole lot I could do to automate the process for rationales of the kind I describe. Whatever I do you would still have to type all of this information into my template, if not the basic template. The only thing that could help somewhat is to use the same fields as the infobox, so the field information could be cut and pasted instead of retyped, an incremental improvement. If the policy ends up requiring a long legalistic argument I could help by allowing the template to produce that automatically. However, if the powers that be are content with this basic level of information without the prose argument, not much I can add. If you have to add rationales to all of the non-free images in the novel project that implies spending 2-3 minutes per novel. Perhaps 1-2 if someone gets very good at it, and less if you develop some software tools. My suggestion is you round people up and get them to work, starting with the images that have been tagged, then after that move on to all the other images so they do not get tagged.

Would you care for me to pose the question on the fair use talk board? Wikidemo 07:36, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

VotD
Good work, there!--Rambutan (talk) 07:03, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

DRV
Hi, an IFD discussion in which you participated is now up for review at. Your input is requested there. Thank you.  howcheng  {chat} 16:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Charleswallace.jpg
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FMHS
I nominated FMHS to be reviewed for Good Article status, and it was denied, no surprise. However, my intention was to receive some constructive criticism, so as to further improve the article. I urge you to read the review on the discussion page. Thanks. Sinisterminister 06:09, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Madeleine L'Engle
There seems to be some heavy editing of Madeleine L'Engle. Would you please take a look at the article to make sure that the edits are relevant to the topic. Thanks. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 21:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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AfD discussion
I thought that you, as a contributor to List of fictional books—and, may I add, an articulate defender of that list when it was prodded nearly a year ago—might want to add your opinion to this discussion of the possible deletion of List of fictional books within the Harry Potter series.-- Shelf Skewed  Talk  05:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Matthew Burton Morris
Hi Mavarin. If you have the time, would you please take a look at Matthew Burton Morris. He was in the Mickey Mouse Club and his article needs some TLC. Thanks. --  Jreferee  (Talk) 14:49, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

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re: Template:Madeleine L'Engle
I'm not exactly sure; I almost removed the image all together, although I understand the work you must have put into it. Most templates are far smaller in size and do not include any image at all. Also, I doubt the image is notable/understandable to the general public. A picture of L'Engle herself (since this is a template encompassing information about her, not only one of her works) would be far more appropriate. What do you think? Perhaps that would look better? María ( críticame ) 12:15, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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El Con Mall
Thanks for the compliment. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 02:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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Replaceable fair use Image:Jackscaliatb1992.jpg
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Book vs. Publication
Hi Mavarin- Just to let you know, book and publication are one in the same. It is arbitrary and the editor can choose which to use. In fact, the Roget's Thesaurus states as follows:

Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus - Cite This Source - Share This Main Entry:  book Part of Speech:  noun 1 Definition:  document Synonyms:  album, atlas, bestseller, bible, booklet, brochure, codex, compendium, copy, dictionary, dissertation, edition, encyclopedia, essay, fiction, folio, handbook, hardcover, leaflet, lexicon, magazine, manual, monograph, nonfiction, novel, octavo, offprint, omnibus, opus, opuscule, pamphlet, paperback, periodical, portfolio, preprint, primer, publication, quarto, reader, reprint, scroll, softcover, speller, text, textbook, thesaurus, tome, tract, treatise, volume, work, writing

Happy Holidays! DownUndr (talk) 19:07, 26 December 2007 (UTC)DownUndr

So please, in future do not summarize your changes on this matter as 'erroneous'.

Replaceable fair use Image:McCord5.jpg
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BTTF timeline
re: Back to the Future timeline - If you are familiar with the source, please help clarify it. You have readded "imagineer", but I deleted it since the term links only to a DAB, and it was not clear which of the two DABlink was referenced, or whether it was even referring to one of them, or was just a misuse of the term. Since the name of the person also links to a DAB, it was not clear who was being referenced. If you could please correct the links for both "imagineer" (if it's disney, the the link would be more clear if it links to the imagineering page than the DAB for Imagineer), and the man's name to link to the proper articles (if there is no page for him, remove the wikilink), it would be appreciated. Thanks. TheHYPO (talk) 20:35, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Bruce Gordon also brings up a host of wikientries that don't look like any of them are him. Pretty common name - Google probably includes a lot of other Bruce Gordons in its results. Either way, appreciate your doing all that research, and I think it's a lot better now. Noone takes care of some of these BTTF articles, I really hate that timeline one because it's so arbitrarily put together with some included and some excluded stuff... It really needs to be redone from scratch but I simply don't have the time. TheHYPO (talk) 06:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Kent McCord image
Hi! Non-free images of living people used solely to depict their appearance generally aren't allowed, but can be used in an article about the character. The images was being used only in the actor's page, so I went ahead and deleted it. east. 718 at 10:55, January 1, 2008

I see you found the deletion log and dicovered the deleting admin. I am not really sure of the image should have been deleted after you moved it and added a fair use rationale. Although when I ask myself, does the article still gives the same information without the image, the answer is yes. In that regard I don't think the image passed WP:NFCC. But it's a judgment call. Garion96 (talk) 11:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)