User talk:NYKevin/Archive 4

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Vandalism
Just so you know, I have semi-protected vandalism for 3 months. Malinaccier (talk) 00:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, let's hope it doesn't need to end up indefinitely protected. -- Thin  boy  00  @072, i.e. 00:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

BigNate37 status templates
"I just wanted to let you know that I stole copied your formatting in some of your status templates in some of my own. Several of your templates are transcluded via user status auto, which I originally authored. A total of four templates not written by you but designed to look like yours are also used, specifically two userboxen and two banners.  In case you cannot read ParserFunctions, here is a list: User:Thinboy00/status-lurking User:Thinboy00/status-lurking-banner User:Thinboy00/status-unknown User:Thinboy00/status-unknown-banner I'm telling you this via email because your user page told me to.  I want to make sure that you are O.K. with me doing this.  If you have any replies, it would be nice if you could use my talk page at User talk:Thinboy00, because my inbox is currently flooded.  Thanks!"

- Thinboy00

Thank you for your e-mail. You are correct in using e-mail to open dialog, since I don't log in anymore and seldom lurk outside of the main namespace. However, feel free to reply right here in the course of this discussion—however long that may be—since I check up on any ongoing discussion regardless of my wiki habits.

Anyways, you may of course use my templates. In fact, I couldn't stop you if I wanted to, they're already released under two licenses. Per my userpage I dual-license all my works (unless explicitly stated otherwise) with the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License version 2.5. Looking at your userboxes, it seems that you're familiar with the notion of free software, so if that is all you needed to know, great.

I'll go into a little more detail in case you're not that well-versed in licensing copyrighted intellectual property. This is a gross simplification, but it will do nicely for work on Wikipedia based on other work on Wikipedia. To use my work under the GFDL you must:
 * 1) Put your derived work under the GFDL (this is implied by putting it on Wikipedia—you've basically already done this)
 * 2) Credit the original author (me), which can be as simple as linking to the original template either on the talk page or in the history

Now having said all that, I'm not terribly concerned if my Wikipedia-based intellectual property is slightly abused. That is to say, if someone uses my stuff here without complying with the license, it's no big deal. It's more important to me that folks learn about and understand copyleft than that they apply it meticulously to something I did off-the-cuff.

 Big Nate 37 (T) 21:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I happen to be familiar with copyleft.  I asked because I did not feel comfortable doing this without your approval, or at least your knowledge.  I created them via substitution, so a verbatim copy is in the history.  I am more than willing to make dummy edits to provide a link, and I think I'll go do that now.  Thank you for your reply.  -- Thin  boy  00  @951, i.e. 21:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, thank you for the heads up. It's nice to know when one's own work is still catching the odd eye, even if it is only a tiny part of a huge project :) As an aside, I tried to hit you up on Google Chat (I use GMail behind my IEEE Computer Society alias), but it doesn't seem to recognize your username as being "chattable".  Big Nate 37 (T) 21:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm almost never online on Gmail. I use Thunderbird.  Maybe I should note that on my page.  -- Thin  boy  00  @958, i.e. 21:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

New mailing list
There has been a mailing list created for Wikipedians in the New York metropolitan area (list: Wikimedia NYC). Please consider joining it!  Cbrown1023   talk   21:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'll probably go join now.  -- Thin  boy  00  @853, i.e. 19:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

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Golden Pass (Disney)
I see you have a history of working on the article Golden Pass (Disney). I am looking at it from the project Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest unreferenced tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since June 2006. It would be extremely helpful if you had some references you could add to the article to help support its verifiability and notability. Thanks for any help you can give.  Birgitte SB  19:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I removed the prod because it looked like the query string the prodder used would not generate many results (he used parenthesis inside of quotes) and my searches had many more results than his. I did not intend to indicate anything about its notability, merely that the prod should have been reconsidered.  I then added the tags because I spend much of my time doing that type of thing.  I really think the article either needs a fundamental rewrite or a deletion.  I mentioned a Google search in my edit summary, why not check that?  I don't know about the reliability of the results, but there are enough results that to me, a prod for notability is unreasonable, especially since the prodder didn't know about those results (I assume).  But that doesn't mean I would !vote keep, nor does this mean I would !vote delete, in an XFD (I know that sounds like a disclaimer, but honestly I don't know what I would !vote for).  I hope this is helpful; I see my actions here as largely WikiGnomeish, and I'm not that fascinated by the topic, to be honest.   Good luck improving it!  -- Thin  boy  00  @041, i.e. 23:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a problem, I didn't mean to imply that you are responsible for the artilce. We have taken care the large majority of articles in the category and have just strarted trying this type of contact with people over the dregs that are left.  I am still working out what sorts of people are most contructive to contact and so far I am 0 for 2 on prod removers so I will probably drop that criteria.-- Birgitte  SB  17:11, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

Well also make preparations for our exciting Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).

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The Sandbox
I'm confused. All I did was type the four tildes to verify that my signature had changed properly. Bsrboy (talk) 00:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC) conversation began and shall continue here. -- Thin boy  00  @070, i.e. 00:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)