User talk:Quadell/Archive 17

block
Hey, Quadell--I got your e-mail, though some time after the hubbub had died down (I'm still not here). It seems like things are fairly calm at the moment. I'm not familiar with this Bobblewik situation (though Tony1 convinced me of the foolishness of indiscriminate date-linking a long time ago), but I'm disappointed to see an admin block another admin with such flimsy reasoning--this seems like inviting wheel-warring, and remarkably similar to what put Carnildo in this pickle. By the way, I saw your name on my watchlist for the Catapult list--thanks for doing a few of those. I'll be back in a few weeks, probably, to finish off whatever's left. My best wishes in the meantime, Chick Bowen 00:43, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi - we haven't interacted before, but I wanted to say thanks for the work you have been doing around here. Note: I re-reverted the date link nonsense by Ambi that showed up on my watchlist. I am strongly in favor of ridding those useless date links. Enjoy your wikibreak, but please come back. Vsmith 15:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ambi and Talaris are way out of line. I support your work. David D. (Talk) 22:14, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your hard work and dedication. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 22:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I also support your efforts here and think you have been hard done by. Xtra 23:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, Quadell, don't leave. This is a tempest in a teapot, it really is. You're highly respected and loved around here. SlimVirgin (talk) 00:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Quadell, do whatever you think is necessary but if you do decide to leave you will be missed. Take care and all the best. --Reflex Reaction (talk)&bull; 06:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I support you as well. --Cyde Weys 00:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

While I absolutely stand by my edits, you are a good editor, and it is a shame to see you go. Date links are not that important, but they do have their uses, and it greatly frustrates me when people waste time with formatting crusades based on their own personal preferences. It is a shame to see you of all people go over such a thing. Ambi 02:12, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't go, especially over this!!! Jayjg (talk) 04:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Please don't leave!!!!!!!! You're such a very valuable editor, we don't wan't to lose you!! -- M P er el ( talk 08:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Have a good wiki-break. Rich  Farmbrough 20:53 26  March 2006 (UTC).

Quadell, the block of your account was totally wrong, I sincerely hope you have a nice break and come back to carry on dong all the good stuff you always do. Martin 21:33, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

You are very much appreciated here. I've seen the "community" drive good editors away before. Don't let them get you. Remember, to use the project; don't let the project use you. The JPS 21:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to commend you both on your efforts to help the date situation and on your clear and rational thoughts on your user page. While I felt the block on you was not necessary, you were right that it helped increase discussion, so there's always a silver lining. Enjoy your Wikibreak, relax a bit, and please come back and help us with "Wikipedia-the-project." :o) E WS23 | (Leave me a message!) 17:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

It's totally weird that you'd be blocked for unlinking those useless year links. There's even a bot running around these days that's unlinking years and various dates (like August 1 and so forth). I hope you come back. Wikipedia needs editors like you. --F a ng Aili 說嗎? 18:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Quadell, you're one of the good ones! DON'T LEAVE WE NEED YOU! EdwinHJ | Talk 19:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

This is ridiculous. You were blocked for removing date links by hand, and then an admin went through your edits and reverted all of them. Outrageous. I can see no basis for blocking for what is in essence a format or style dispute (not even a content dispute); the second is verging on wikistalking. Please do not let this fuss stop you making the valuable contribution for which you are held in high regard by many wikipedians. -- ALoan (Talk) 22:49, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Quadell, I wholeheartedly agree with you. This has been a thorny issue for a while now, but recently escalated since Bobblewik's mass delinking. A new guideline clarifying dates is in need and maybe you can help. I'm a 'cleanup guy' too and been lambasted several times. Don't let it get you down! Take a short break if necessary, but please don't leave. You're a great Wikipedian and your presence is felt. :) Gflor e sTalk 19:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Quadell, while Talrias has been a good friend of mine for a good while, I must say I disagree with his course of actions, and have pointed this out to him. I hope your Wikibreak does some good, and I look forward to seeing you back and editing in full force. Your work is much appreciated --&#171;&#920;&#187; z  ee  rus  14:11, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I see that in my absence you took a lot of unwarranted flak. There is a lot for me to catch up on but it is clear that you were doing a great job. I think you have responded well. bobblewik 10:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Guilt
I feel guilty for not unblocking Quadell. I knew that the block was wrong, becasue it was by a party to a content dispute, (regardless of the merits of the dispute itself) but I hoped that the furore would die down, as it had when Bobblewik was blocked. I also worried that I was not independent enough. Now I wonder if it's more a case of "They came for Bobblewik, I did nothing. They came for Quadell I did nothing.... "  Rich   Farmbrough 22:10 26  March 2006 (UTC).
 * Just don't stay silent when "they" come for the next person. --Cyde Weys 19:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back, it looks like the steps you're taking are good ones. I hope everyone can be reasonable and and follow your example. --Cyde Weys 20:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I quoted you
Hi! I quoted you on Images and media for deletion/2006 March 28 regarding fair use in images. Please let me know if you think I took your words out of context or have otherwise miscommunicated your intents. Thanks! ClarkBHM 04:31, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Red sofa.jpg
Are you sure its public domain, although there are no restrictions, does that make it public domain - I'm just not 100% sure on the tagging -- Tawker 08:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I would try or , not sure which, can you provide a link to the image file? -- Tawker 02:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Category Q at Commons
Hi there, I have a query about some categories over at Commons, which includes a category started by you. Take a look? (It's nothing nasty!) Cheers, JackyR 16:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Alhawsawi.jpg
Hi - do you have a source for Image:Alhawsawi.jpg? Thanks -   Crosbiesmith 17:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * The image comes from here. Sorry for the delay - I'm not editing Wikipedia regularly anymore. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 19:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Seemed pretty quick to me - I've linked that from the image. Thanks!   -   Crosbiesmith 21:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Latin America won!
Joyous | Talk 18:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Notre_dame-paris-view.jpg
Hello, the image Image:Notre_dame-paris-view.jpg which you seem to have uploaded is nominated for delisting from Wikipedias Featured Pictures. The prime reason is the image resolution, which is felt by some voters to be below the current standards (which have evolved along with digital camera technology since the promotion of the picture). If you still have a higher resolution version, uploading it over the old version would be highly appreciated. Nowadays storage space is of no concern anymore and it is policy to upload the highest available quality. Thanks! --Dschwen 21:32, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Remedy
I don't intend to be reverting any mass-delinkings unless someone starts making them again. Bobblewik urged a lot of people to start making these edits before he himself stopped, and should someone like Cyde or David start up, I'll revert them. If that doesn't happen, however, there is no issue. Ambi 23:28, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Replaced exit sign
Hi, Image:Eu fire exit sign.gif which you uploaded is up for deletion. It's been replaced by Image:Fire exit.svg. Hope this is OK. –Mysid 12:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go
I appreciate the help that you gave me regarding image copyright problems. If you ever decide to come back, look me up! Regards, ClarkBHM 13:02, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Also very sorry, and hoping you'll change your mind. SlimVirgin (talk) 13:09, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Damn. That really makes me sad. Lupo 13:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * You did great work. Wikipedia is better for your contributions. Sorry to see you go. bobblewik 19:10, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I hope that you return to wikipedia. I know you will. Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: &#39;&#39;Have A Nice Day&#39;&#39; 11:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm very sorry too. I hope it's just a temporary break. Jayjg (talk) 19:55, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

All good wishes, Q. Have fun doin' stuff. Don't worry about this place--it's only worth doing if it's fun. Cheers. Chick Bowen 23:18, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go, but thanks for helping me out along the way. Good luck in your future endeavors! --Howrealisreal 13:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go. --The Brain 14:18, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Have a nice rest- and then please reconsider and come back :) --Duk 16:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Terribly sorry to see you leave. I remember back in my new Wikipedian days you gave me a thank-you flower for creating the article Paul Andrew Hutton. You better come back! You better! &mdash; Webdinger BLAH 21:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

image:Alhawsawi.jpg
Hello, you have tagged this image with PD-ineligible. However, it is clear that this tag is not proper. It could be used for say, simple chemical structural formulas, but not for photos! Please read Copyrights and Image copyright tags. If no proper license will be added in seven days, the image will be re-tagged with no source and deleted. Please ask on my talk page if you have any questions. Renata 04:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

They will leave
If we are not careful as a community, particularly the administrators and senior editors, good wikipedians shall continue to desert us. It is a real shame on us. --Bhadani 15:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I reached here based on a fact (that he is a Buddhist) on this page User:Quadell/aboutme, and wanted to greet him on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. I found he has left us. Now, I am sending him an e-mail. --Bhadani 15:53, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I request him to come back, and I do beleive that he shall come back. Regards. --Bhadani 15:54, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Ac.eisenhower2.jpg
Hi Quadell, could you please provide a fair use rationale for Image:Ac.eisenhower2.jpg? It's been listed at Copyright Problems for quite some time, and with that fact along with the new CSD criteria that states images tagged with fairuse or Non-free fair use in can be deleted if they have no rationale, leads me to deleting the image.

If you can't provide a fair use rationale, I'm afraid I'm going to have to delete it. If you have any quesitons, let me know. Thanks. -- light darkness (talk) 15:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Template:Anti-war topics up for deletion
Template:Anti-war topics is up for deletion. Please weigh in on the discussion. Thanks! SchuminWeb (Talk) 09:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Large Hadron Collider is Science Collaboration of the Week
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Please help on Ancient Egypt
Posted by Pruneau 18:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

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Biopharmaceutical is the Science Collaboration of the Week
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Watching for your return
You're on my watchlist. I hope you do decide to come back, at least to visit every now and then. You were the first (and nearly the last) person to be nice to me here. (I was "Quinobi" back then) -- CQ 06:03, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Sad to see you go
It really is very sad to see you go, your contributions to Kentucky articles were very much appreciated, and you were the first person I ever gave a barn star too. Kudos to you too. Aaрон Кинни (t) 03:35, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

SCOTM
I've removed you from this list since you have left wikipedia. Please feel free to rejoin if you return. pschemp | talk 03:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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Hip hip hooray!
Welcome back! That's the best thing I've seen on Wikipedia in a long time! Lupo 21:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Quadell, I'd also like to be one of the first to welcome you back heartily. I'm glad you've returned! ;) &mdash; † Webdinger BLAH 21:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back, Kotter, uh Quadell
Welcome back! EdwinHJ | Talk 01:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks For Cleaning Up Fibromyalgia
Hello!

Thanks for the clean-up on Fibromyalgia, especially sorting those references. It's been needed for a while and it looks like you're the only one with the time and/or patience to do it. Thanks again. Snowflake Sans Crainte 16:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

District Infobox
Thanks very much for the infobox, it will be put to good use. Orchid Righteous 18:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Sfestuarymodern.gif and Image:Sfestuaryhistorical.gif
Well, I'm just going to have to re-list them, unless you actually have a reason for thinking they're not copyvios that you didn't care to state. They clearly are. I gave the source at. It's pretty obvious that the images were simply cropped out of the larger GIF and had their contrast adjusted. The source is not a US government agency, so they are therefore not PD, and the page carries a clear copyright notice. TCC (talk) (contribs) 20:25, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Adding interwiki links
Thanks very much for letting me know about that, Quadell. It's good to know how to do it the right way, and I'm glad I'll be able to do it correctly from now on. Thanks again, -- Nataly a 22:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

‎Evolutionary progress and Largest-Scale Trends in Evolution
Hi Quadell. The deletion log says you deleted these two pages in order to move them. Where did you move them? Aren't you supposed to create links from the old location to the new location? Pdturney 23:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)


 * It now seems to me that you deleted these two pages without looking at Talk:Evolutionary progress and Talk:Largest-Scale Trends in Evolution. I had written new versions of these pages in Talk:Largest-Scale Trends in Evolution/Temp and Talk:Evolutionary progress/Temp. Could you please restore these pages from their Temp version? Pdturney 12:03, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Copyright subpages
I think it might be best not to remove the Images subpage when they are done, so that someone looking at the day page (for looking at the page history), can see clearly that there is also an Images subpage. Although, of course, it can mean someone will click on it when it is empty, so I'm not sure. —Centrx→talk &bull; 04:44, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Make sure to check the page history and the Talk pages. Aside from there being a possible salvageable revision there, in this one, for example, I had moved a new rewritten copy over the deleted copyright infringement. —Centrx→talk &bull; 06:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * When keeping the non-infringing parts of articles, or rewriting otherwise copyright-infringing articles, it is best to delete it first, ridding the copyright infringement from the page history, and then start a new page with those parts. I hope you don't think I am getting on your case, I am just coming across these things in my copyvio-intersecting travels and want to give friendly advice. —Centrx→talk &bull; 01:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

CopyVio
Maybe you should check whats a copyright vio and whats not before you delete someones hardwork. -- User:Shy1520 21:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the Tess Wiley page... please put the copyright to the article and lets see if it is or not. -- User:Shy1520 21:31, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, there are only slight similarities. But whatever, I was doing a favor for her. -- User:Shy1520 21:41, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Holy VFD! It's Quadell!
Welcome back! —   00:01, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Request
I have never had the pleasure of inter acting with you before. I noticed that you posted the GA tag on the Smedley Butler article and that is why I'm writing to you. I wrote an article about Lt. General Pedro del Valle. It was nominated for GA status for sometime now and nothing has happened. Could you or maybe someone that you know look into the matter? Thank you Tony the Marine 05:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images on Big Brother articles
Should I remove the fair use images from all Big Brother articles? I know the answer to the question would most likely be yes, but I thought you may want to do it so that can delete them; or would you rather I tagged them as orphaned images? talk to JD wants e-mail 14:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Pedro del Valle
Thank you for looking into the Pedro del Valle article. I have taken into account your recommendations and have subsitituted the word "massacre" with "the outcome of the battle" and I deleted the word "Anti-Semetic" in its place repolaced it with the word "controversial". I alos eliminated the last sentence which stated that the organization was lambasted by the media for its views, becuase even though such a thing was stated by the website in question, it did not provide a reference as to who and which media did the lambasting. I hope that I have taken care of the situation. Tony the Marine 15:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you once again (how many times am I going to do that? smile). When I wrote the article I wanted to create a balance between his Military career and his later life.  I did't want to overshadow one with the other.  Personally, I saw it as a battle between the positive against and the negative.  By creating such a balance I figured that I would let the reader reach his or her own conclusion as to Who was this Pedro del Valle.  You must admit, the subject is an interesting person for study.  Tony the Marine 16:02, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:Money
You created this template for foreign (non-U.S.) currencies some time ago, indicating that they are possibly copyrighted and used under fair use. I have looked far and wide and have not been able to find any discussion on the topic of the copyright status of foreign currencies. I recently uploaded a bunch of images of coins and bills and tagged them all with Template:Money, and I was wondering if as the template creator you had any special knowledge on this subject, as I'd like to re-tag as many of these images with free-use licenses as I can. Thanks — GT 18:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:JoopWijn.jpg
Uh, this image is a copyvio imho. Your tagging with Creative Commons is not correct. Errabee 19:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I did read it. In fact, I placed it there. It says it may be copied. It says nothing about making derivative works, which is part of the CC-BY-SA license. Errabee 19:30, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know of a license that could be used here. Perhaps we could ask a copyright expert (but I don't know any). Errabee 19:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

RFC
Please see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Arabic). I noticed that you previously contributed to the discussions on Arabic. thanks. Cuñado  -  Talk