User talk:Pharos/Golden Age of American Radio

DYK
Picaroon 23:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Congrats :) It's quite a good article. Mak (talk)  23:54, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

About Reference_desk/Humanities
Hi. Cool, concise, and correct. And including any "yes, but"s I may have had. If there was one, the 'I wish I had written that' barnstar to you! --Shirt58 11:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
 * University library database access, for, mmm, reasons. As per your recommendation, will have a look-see! --Shirt58 10:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

MP Fair Use
I've started a discussion on removing FU exemption status from MP templates, if you have a moment please check in at Wikipedia_talk:Fair_use_exemptions. Thank you, — xaosflux  Talk  12:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Signpost: Features and admins
Hello, Thank you for adding the two sounds to the F&A section of this weeks Signpost. It's my third week doing this and I am getting around to making it 100% correct every week. Once again, thanks and have a great day. Extranet (Talk 05:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

User:NotQuiteEvil665
Howdy, I didn't see any warnings or anything for NotQuiteEvil665 before you blocked him/her, what's up? It's considered standard practice. Regards, - C HAIRBOY (☎) 23:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * See warnings at User talk:63.215.28.130 and User talk:NotQuiteEvil555.--Pharos 23:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, gotcha. Request for the future, please consider linking to that info on the other pages so folks like me don't get too confused when we're trying to figure stuff out.  :D  Regards, C HAIRBOY  (☎) 23:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

RE
That image is legally because I caught it on Blogeko.. blogeko has our licence...:-) Do you speak italian? I'm not a vandal but an exul from it.wiki... Flavio/Tigre Reietta 12:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

HELP HELP
HELP ME my dear Pharos... help me!!! I'm very unhappy... all my hard work may be delayed... please... save my images... They have been capured from fishbase... but could they are legaly? Do you put them legaly..Insomma potresti renderle legali? Ti chiedo umilmente aiuto... My dear Pharos...I want only to adorne wikipedia... I love our enciclopedy... please... Usa il Fair use Flavio/Tigre Reietta 19:34, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Old Lighthouse?
I'm familiar with the ancient Library of Alexandria, but I'm not sure how Pharos refers to The Statue of Liberty, as noted on your User Page. Would you mind enlightening me? Even a short reference would be appreciated. I am curious. Thank you! Valaqil 16:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Conflict and change in Iraq
Template:Conflict and change in Iraq has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --  LeCour T:C 06:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Since you are the author and contributions by others have been pretty minor I'd say tagging it for speedy deletion using would be appropriate. --  LeCour T:C 06:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Holding the door open
FYI - I am keeping the April 1 main page FA slot open, although I've gone ahead and scheduled for the days following it (something I have been very reluctant to do in the past and will probably not be doing again). I'm going to be doing another around of FAC promotions tomorrow and I will consider George Washington in the bunch, but a picture of him would be a very big boon. Raul654 17:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Raul's chosen it, and it's brilliant, just brilliant. Big props to you, this article is great seperately, but great as a April Fool's Day Featured article. --  Zanimum 22:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed - here's an original barnstar for it, although it could just as easily have been the The Surreal Barnstar or The Barnstar of Good Humor! Thanks for a great article and laugh, Ruhrfisch 23:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, the time from article creation to being featured on the main page is only 5 days, which could very well be the record. Raul315 23:07, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, the main page FA description is excellent. Good work. —Centrx→talk &bull; 23:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, guys. I really appreciate it.  I wasn't sure at all that I could finish this in time, or indeed that folks would share my sense of humor.--Pharos 00:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations on the George Washington article. Had I not been specifically looking for the Fool's Day joke on the main page, I would have been convinced it was talking about George Washington. And even though I was looking, I doubted for minutes whether the featured article box was talking about the other George Washington (afterall Benjamin Franklin was quite the inventor). Blur4760 00:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I bow to you kind sir. :)--Jersey Devil 05:44, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Brilliant

 * Love it! Beit Or 08:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Superb- good idea :D TheOne00 09:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * George Washington: very good work! Thomas [User:Dzubint (talk)] 12:46, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * ...*chuckles* Sorry, once I saw who started the article I couldn't resist that: ideal article/content into which to name-drop a bluff/counter-bluff - and was beginning to wonder whether I'd have to revert that, myself. Will probably end up finding out that he did have cloudies after all, since Long Island did have its fair share of felines in later days (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Ocelot_Club ) *g*. aside: I still don't understand the modern-day obsession re. photos > drawn illos, though, since the latter are still very much "standard" for species IDing purposes and reference manuals. Good luck obtaining one for the article in due course, though. Best wishes, David. harami2000 14:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Precision on WP:ITN
I shortened the speed on ITN because of the "over" (it was attune to saying "The nearby town is just over 2.8 miles away"; it sounds odd). Now that you removed the "over", it would probably be best to use the exact speed – 574.8 km/h – since that is how fast it went (and it never actually reached 575 km/h). --  tariq abjotu  06:05, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Dede Korkut and Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi
Thank you for helping with re-phrasing the DYK Wisconsin96 21:11, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Derived Image at commons
Hi, Im BeŻet from Commons. There are many, many photos which can be treated as derived, since they present famous characters:        ... But there still exists freedom of panorama, which allows such photographs. It's not a picture of the character itself - scooby is a balloon in the background, surrounded by buildings. This is not a copyvio. It was aprooved by an admin (the flickr tag). Please remove the speedy deletion request. Best regards, BeŻet —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.219.131.208 (talk) 20:08, 7 April 2007 (UTC).
 * Thank you for changing it from speedy deletion to normal. Such discussions take place very frequently at commons, since many pictures have doubtfull "legality". Let the admins decide. Best regards, BeŻet 81.219.131.208 14:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Foreign relations
I sense sarcasm in what you said here, but you're an admin, so you won't get upset when I ask you to clarify what you meant. Please explain. Chris 04:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not the figure I question, it's the tone and meaning of your statements. If you seek to mock, be clear. I am certain the creator of the project was using Samoa and Palau as illustrations, not literally. I would be very surprised, outside the G8, whether most smaller countries even have individual articles about relations with their own neighbors, unless there has been some conflict historically. If you have something constructive to say, be open. If you are just being ugly, that is unworthy of an admin. Chris 04:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

China Fair Use Tag Deletion
Canildo said "A license template for images that would be permitted under Chinese fair-use law but not US fair-use law. Unfortunately, since Wikipedia is based in the US, we need to follow US law".

I disagree with him on this point. Fair Use in this case, is a common treatment in both systems. Is Wikipedia based on US and English only? How about Canada and Great Britain and other English speaking nations? They all have different law systems. How about other language version of Wikipedia?

Please explain in practical, how an image created in China which qualifies fair use of Chinese fair-use law would violate US copyright law here, thanks.

Lupo said “The U.S. does not apply Chinese law, and China doesn't apply U.S. law. Thus, "Chinese fair use" is irrelevant for us; we cannot rely on it. "Fair use" at the English Wikipedia is always and exclusively U.S. fair use.... This template should be deleted. Lupo 06:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)”

I also disagree with his point. The law of China and US are not totally irrelevant. The purpose of both laws are both for justice, fair, protection of the public and punishment the breachers.

I agree there are lots of discrenpencies between two laws. But they not always on the opposite. For example, stealing and rubery are illigal in both systems, and the right for girls to go to school are guarantted in both. Should we say that the illegality of stealing and rubbery are exclusively US illegality, and right of girls go to the school is exclusively US right????Dongwenliang 02:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Churchill Passport Image
Hi, just to a quick message to say thanks for sending my photograph to the lab. The new cropped image looks amazing - totally different from the dark gloom of the case in the museum (alas no flash photography!). Because the new cropped image is much more suited to wikipedia, would you recommend I nominate the original for deletion? LordHarris 23:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Scooby ring.png
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WikiProject Classroom coordination
On March 20 you expressed an interest in this proposal. The WikiProject has gone live. Your participation is welcome. Durova Charge! 18:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Sentimento (album)
Hi. I saw your recent edits on Sentimento (album). I understand where you're coming from regarding the notability; however an advanced google search (adding lang=English) on the album title with artist name comes up with 33 matches and some of those aren't even English, the results at best appear to be a list of Bongo's albums. There seems to be no reference available for the article; perhaps this can be the basis for deleting the article, however I don't know how to word it. Perhaps in this case there should just be an artist page and a discography page (if appopriate), instead of multiple unreferenced articles on virtually the same subject, none of which have any substantial reference under WP:A Can you advise? Thanks Cloudz679 17:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I don't think his albums deserve any less coverage just because he's primarily popular outside of English-speaking countries. This is an international encyclopedia, and we cover a fair number of topics that are seldom written about in English; that's part of our goal. Anyway, Bonga certainly seems more notable than a lot of vanity articles we get for just-above-garage-band groups. So, can I ask you to please take the prods off of the Bonga albums. If you feel that some of them have insufficient references to stand as independent articles, perhaps you could merge the track listings into Bonga discography. Thanks.--Pharos 02:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Two important points, according to WP:A are
 * Wikipedia articles must be based on reliable sources
 * Material added to articles must be directly and explicitly supported by the cited sources.

The material on all the articles tagged with prod actually fails both of these points, and although I support your idea of using the discography to collect the tracklists and album details, this would still require referencing. Cloudz679 19:05, 16 April 2007 (UTC)