User talk:Nickbigd/Archive

License tagging for Image:JeffersonCityseal.jpg
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Image:StMartinCoat.png
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Giovanna d'Arco
Just to let you know in case you are working on Verdi, the text you (correctly) reverted by Nrswanson originated here. It seems this user has copied and pasted a large amount of material into the Verdi articles. Regards. -- Kleinzach 11:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The Opera project
Oh dear.

I really hoped that you were wrong in your remarks on my talk page about WikiProject Opera, and (asuming good faith I hoped that you'd just been unlucky enough to catch them on a bad day.

There are some folks there with a bit of a tendency towards WP:OWNership, but I hoped that since most seemed fairly decent they'd be workable with. I think that most of them would be, but the others don't seem to have a problem with the editor who explicitly seeks to drive people out, and now I too have been driven out: see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject_Opera.

It's a pity, and it's very short-sighted. A project which drives people away can't claim to have consensus for what its members do, and without consensus it can't help guide work in that area. I Wikipedia didn't rightly take such a dim view of forking, there'd probably be grounds for an other inclusive Opera project.

Anyway, if discussion at the project is impossible, please don't allow yourself to be deterred from working in that area. There's no need to participate in a project if it doesn't want you, and a project doesn't own the articles. Good luck! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:31, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Please slow down with the "expand" tags on Ercole de'Roberti
Sorry about that, its just that I am at work and I have a very easy job with hardly any work to do, so I spend most of the time on wikipedia. I will leave it alone from now on. AdamJWC 06:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Composer infoboxes
You recently spoke, on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera, against the blanket removal of infoboxes from articles about composers, or in an attempt to reach a compromise solution. Despite around a dozen people doing so, there are claims that consensus for their blanket removal was reached. You may be interested in the ongoing debate on the former talk page. Andy Mabbett 10:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Raffaello da Montelupo

 * Ciao!! As per WP:Manual of Style, places of birth and death should be list in-line in the article, not near the corresponding dates. Also, I changed the name sued to refer to him 'case "da Montelupo" was not the true surname, so it sounds a bit ridiculous to call him "Montelupo". It is not a case in which by tradition he has become "Il Caravaggio" or similar. Yes, I am from Rome of course. And of course it is the most beautiful city in the world... I say it not because I want to boast, but because it's the sheer truth. Let me know about everything you need to know about Italy!!! See you soon and thanks. --Attilios 09:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ciao!! Of course, I didn't want to be offensive. I'm not angry against Wikipedia users, but from those who edit the source which Wikipedians use in turn. You can't imagine how many ridiculous typos I found (last one... Bacciochi instead than Baciocchi repeated ALL times in the Elena Bonaparte article...) I can't see why. I seem, when Italian sources use English words, I never found so many typos (rarely one, in fact, and this when Italian writers are often among the most ignorant ones, I admit it). Why instead English authors make such stupid errors in dealing with my language? This is a giant mystery... As for our case, "Il Crocifissione" is clearly wrong like Bush's brain, as "Crocifission" is feminine, and "Il" the masculine article. it's clear the the Commons editor was not Italian, unfortunately. Let me know... see you soon and good work.

Annunciation (van Eyck)
There's an edit war ongoing with a frantic, Wiki-illiterate editor who doesn't accept my Wikifying of his (her?) article. Help is needed to reach a consensus about a decent version will kept here. Can you help? Thank you. --Attilios 11:30, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:June_la_fille.jpg)
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Image:D_Zajick.jpg
I have tagged Image:D_Zajick.jpg as orphaned fairuse. In order for the image to be kept at Wikipedia, it must be included in at least one article. If this image is being used as a link target instead of displayed inline, please add article name to the image description page to prevent it being accidentally marked as orphaned again. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 00:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:June_semiramide.jpg
I have tagged Image:June_semiramide.jpg as orphaned fairuse. In order for the image to be kept at Wikipedia, it must be included in at least one article. If this image is being used as a link target instead of displayed inline, please add article name to the image description page to prevent it being accidentally marked as orphaned again. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 00:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:Anderson_daphne.jpg
I have tagged Image:Anderson_daphne.jpg as orphaned fairuse. In order for the image to be kept at Wikipedia, it must be included in at least one article. If this image is being used as a link target instead of displayed inline, please add article name to the image description page to prevent it being accidentally marked as orphaned again. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 00:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

June Anderson images
Regarding your note on my talk regarding the fair use ablum covers marked as orphans. The debate about the their use in articles continues here. My understanding (though I have not been following it dilegently) is that the use of an album cover could be usable on a article about the album if a proper fair use rational is written and comments are made about it in the article. The cover is not usable in a simple list of ablums released (basically using the image as a bullet format for each entry). These lists may exist as part of an article on the artist or in a "List of..." type article. My suggestion would be to read through the discussions (there is a lot - its been going on three days now) and if you feel that the way the images were being used is acceptable, be bold and re-add them. If you do re-add them, I suggest starting a discussion on the talk page of the artist or album's talk page giving your reasoning for the re-add. If you make the images non-orphans, your welcome to take the orphan deletion tag off the image page. If there are any other questions, please feel free to drop me another note on my talk page.--User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 01:09, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Photo copyright
I see you are putting up some old photos and I am interested in doing the same. Do you understand the limit of copyright as 70 years from first publication, say as a postcard? Is this US law? Thanks for any guidance you can give on this. -- Kleinzach 09:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Sills.jpg)
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June Anderson GA fail
Hey Nick. I've responded to your comments on my Talk Page. Please let me know if you have any further comments or concerns, I'm more than happy to help. Drewcifer3000 00:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use disputed for Image:Popp.jpg
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