User talk:Palm dogg/Archive 2

Ran (film)


Congrats for FA status on Ran (film)! Very well deserved, many thanks for the huge research effort you put in. It's nice to see such a well-deserving subject covered so thoroughly. --Estarriol 10:08, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Seconded. It was one of my watched articles, although I did very little work on it, but I'd see your name popping up constantly. Good work, mate. Gram 13:37, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture
Congratulations, and thanks for nominating it. Raven4x4x 08:12, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Another one! Thanks once more. Raven4x4x 05:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Invasion
Since you worked on the article Invasion, I thought you might like to know that it has now been submitted as a featured article candidate. If you're interested, I wanted to invite you to come vote at Featured article candidates/Invasion. Thanks - Kafziel 05:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: How's that?
If you would mind replying to the objection at the nomination page, I'll be sure to look at it soon. Thanks a lot! Flcelloguy (A note? ) 23:25, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Junta (game)
I was thinking of nominating this to be a featured article, but I'm worried that it would fail because it doesn't contain much information other than on the gameplay. Do you know of any sources that exist on the culture of the game or maybe some mainstream media coverage that it has gotten so that I could expand it without doing original research. Savidan 00:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Edit conflict on featured articles
Please do not edit that page while I am updating the featured article list. Raul654 06:55, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Your question on Image talk:Reichsparteitag.jpg
At first: Sorry for answering so late, i usually hang around in the german wikipedia, so the probability of losing sight of some english pages is quite high;-) I have access to the 'DZ RPTG' (quite unusual abbreviation, i had to think several times about its meaning), since it is a public museum and i live in Nurembergs neighbour town Fürth. Please correct me if misunderstood your intention: You want some better images of some Riefenstahl-Pictures? Well, I do not know, if it is allowed to take photos inside the Museum. If it is allowed, the next problem arises: The pictures in the exhibition are behind glass, so i cannot use a flashlight but a tripod...you see, it's a quite elaborate procedure. It would be easier to make a good scan from a printed version of the pictures. I could provide you with some of them, but i am really not certain about the copyright-implications if you intend to use them inside wikipedia. I'll have a look on your discussion-page, so i should see if i got you right or totally wrong. Bye, --Gnu17 10:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Es tut mir leid. I did not know you only speak a little English. Yes, you did understand my question. This page has two images, Image:Leni Riefenstahl editing Triumph of the Will.gif and Image:TriumphPremier.jpg. For these two, the quality and size are not very good. If you have better versions of them, I would really like it. However, I understand if there are copyright problems. Even better, I would like it if you could help me determine the copyright status of these two images, as well as Image:Triumph018.jpg. Vielen Danken. Palm_Dogg 15:20, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually i used to think that my english is better than only 'a little'...or both my mother (a former english-teacher) and a former colleague (an english-native-speaker) lied to me;-)) You have to admit that it did not really become clear, that you are talking about some other images... Well, never mind, let's see what we can do about the pictures. First of all, there are two weblinks which might be helpful: The (english) Homepage of the Documentation centre and the Homepage of 'Geschichte für Alle' ('History for all'), a membership association which offers (amongst others) tours around the Party Rally Ground and also publishes books about Nuremberg history apart from the 'Nice town with medieval castle'-ones. Probably both of them can offer better information about the pictures. In one of the books there is a similar picture to Image:Triumph018.jpg. It shows Riefenstahl talking to some NSDAP-Officials before the parade in the nearly same perspective, with part of the Sebaldus-church in the left background and the Beautiful Fountain (the gothic-style something behind Hitler), so i suppose it was taken shortly before Image:Triumph018.jpg by the same photographer. The book states that it was not possible to determine who actually made that photography, so probably it is the same for Image:Triumph018.jpg, sorry. One last point: In 1934 Leni Riefenstahl published a book 'Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitagsfilms', some kind of Making-of of Triumph of the will, so probably this is the source of the pictures. The Documentation-Centre may be the best contact for further information, for they did a Riefenstahl-Exhibition some weeks ago (Unfortunately i missed it) and therefore have done some research on that item. I am sorry i can not give you more information, but their sources are not documented very well. The copyright is a well discussed item in german wikipedia and we are very, very careful (my opinion: much too careful) about it, so we do not even use those pictures in the according articles. I'd be glad if i have helped you a bit further, feel free to keep on asking. bye, --Gnu17 20:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, your English is really good! :) Thanks for the info.  Palm_Dogg 18:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Planetes Episodes
I've made a new article called "List of Planetes episodes". As you've said that you have DVDs 1-4, and 5 on the way, I hope you can help me with this article. I have yet to get DVD volume 4, since Ban Dai doesn't seem to like Canada very much, and have terribly deprived my country of this fantastic series. --TcDohl 19:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Not to rub it in, but DVD 4 is the best of the series (so far), especially Episode 16. Palm_Dogg 20:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, no duh. It only has one of the two best episodes in the series, Ignition. But anyway, have you read the manga? Because I would have like to have seen a more iconic picture from the anime and the manga, which was Hachi's hallucination where he first sees himself. But hey, no pressure, right? --TcDohl 03:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Bounties
Greetings! You recently did fantastic work on the Battle of Badr article, leading to it being featured. Thanks! I wanted to make you aware that I have bounties out on several other articles pertinent to Muslim history: Al-Nahda, Akbar, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Mohammed Mossadegh, and, tangentially, Bank of Credit and Commerce International. All these articles are in relatively good condition, but just need a little push to get them featured. A total of $130 is on the line. Are you up for it? – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 13:52, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well I dare say Ran (film) is quite worthy. Best of luck! – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 17:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Starship Troopers
thanks for amending our Worklist and amending it to A-Class, I was beginning to think much the same myself. Anymore you can do to improve it the better. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Had you thought of joining the project. Notice you preempted me on the announcements template - only just wrote it up today and was going to let it settle in before placing it on the Main Page, oh what the ehack I'll leave it there. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  17:50, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Nice merger for the two Roughneck pages, but you should include a spoiler warning. I added it.

Plus a warning about the sequence error. Having already seen the alien as an ally, the whole suprise ending was spolied for me.

--GwydionM 16:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

GA Self-nomination
Hi there! I noticed you self-nominated the article Ran (film) for GA status. First of all, very nice article! Especially about a single film. I love the film by the way, and was thrilled to see such an article here. I only have to say that a "stubbed" section is the only thing keeping me from nominating it. Could something be done about that? -- Kripkenstein  τ κ
 * I have nominated this article - I don't think the "stubbed" section really detracts from it meeting the GA standards, it is superior in quality to many GA-listed articles IMHO. Great article, nice work Palm dogg. --Estarriol 10:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Triumph of the Will
Hello! I see this article you have worked on substantially is currently on the main page, as our featured article of the day. Well done! However, there are some problems with the fair use images on it, especially those used in the gallery (which has been taken down for the moment). The issue is explained in further detail at Fair use review, but basically the problems are: I hope we can work together to find a workable solution. For further details, please see Fair use review. Thanks! :) Johnleemk | Talk 16:53, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) The images are high-resolution, which should be avoided (note the fair use message stating: "It is believed that the use of a limited number of web-resolution screenshots" -- which basically means something typical of the web, not something you can use as a wallpaper)
 * 2) The gallery was blatantly not fair use (a fair use image must be critically discussed, and a gallery with captions is typically considered insufficient for fair use)

Films that have been considered the greatest ever
I have added a citation for Triumph. -- Samuel Wantman 00:04, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congratulations for getting the Battle of Badr article featured! -- a.n.o.n.y.m  t 20:34, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair Use Images
Greetings. In general, we should use fair use images when they help to illustrate an article, and when the image itself is mentioned in some way in the text, but we should use as few fair-use images as possible per article. One book cover is certainly fair - six would not be, unless it was an article specifically about the different covers on Starship Troopers books. Hope this helps, – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 17:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

starship troopers
congrats on starship troopers getting promoted! semper fi! Blue Shirts  23:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:RiefenstahlElevator.jpg
Could you please take a look at ? Thank you. Lupo 10:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Starship Troopers -- Rico killed
Heinlein stated that Rico died in several interviews and convention appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. I believe this is quoted in the Penthouse interview (1978?), as a comment on both Stranger and Troopers, that one story is about a man who had died, and the other about a man who "is about to." He said pretty much the same thing in the NPR interview of about 1980, that Rico had never come back to report on Klendathu. At a convention talk, he mentioned that he had killed off several of his favorite characters in that period, and his publishers had forced him to save Podkayne "but didn't say a word about any of the guys I killed, like Juan Rico."

However, you are welcome to delete anything you like. I've long since given up on kissing the butts of people on Wikipedia who think that if it isn't in the Times, it isn't so.

Email?
Is there a reason you don't have an email address setup? Just curious. Thanks. -- LV (Dark Mark)  20:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem. I was just going to drop you a little note, but I understand completely. Stay safe. See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark)  01:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to say hi
Hey, how are you? I just wanted to say I appreciate your edits and all that you've done for Wikipedia. All of it is very beneficial, especially those edits contributing to the Triumph of the Will. Эйрон Кинни (t) 23:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Scouting article work
If you are getting this, it is because you do or did work on Scouting articles (see WikiProject_Scouting).

As the Scouting WikiProject has been formed since early January 2006, we've had many great improvements made in this area of Wiki and I want to personally thank everyone for their help. We don't always agree on things, but we keep moving forward. YIS, Rlevse 22:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC) GOOD LUCK IN THE CORPS!

Congratulations! Starship Troopers Made Featured Article!
Congratulations! Starship Troopers was made Featured Article today!

Your hard work editing and embellishing the article and advocating for it has paid off. Hu 11:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! I hope USMC training is helping to forge you into the person you want to be. God Bless and good luck. Kaisershatner 13:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:VT-6TBDs.jpg
I know you won't get this for a while, but that's OK because it's not urgent. Thanks for uploading Image:VT-6TBDs.jpg which really contributes to a great featured article. I was wondering if you would have any objection to cropping the image to get rid of the white space at the top. Hope the training is going well; get back to me when you can. savidan(talk) (e@) 04:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Conservative_notice_board
Hello, I noticed that you identify as a conservative Wikipedian. So I would like to invite you to post any conservative issues you might have over at the new project page, Conservative_notice_board. Thanks. --Facto 05:35, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Category:Memorable photographs
I recently added Category:Memorable photographs to Categories for deletion/Log/2006 June 28. Since you contributed to Category talk:Memorable photographs in regard to the category's suitability, I thought you might like to know. &mdash;D-Rock 09:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Parris Island
I had noticed that you had really been making some great changes to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. We were thinking about making this the feature article in the USMC Portal for the 4th of July weekend. I saw that you have some ideas lined up for the article and wondered if there is any help I can provide to make this article worth featuring. Thanks and let me know.--Looper5920 09:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)