User talk:Rexreed

May 2010
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File talk:Cap montage.png
In case you don't notice it on the talk page

You'll need to follow the OTRS procedure, to prove that you are the legitimate copyright owners, that you understand that you will be making a non revokable donation to the Wikimedia foundation and the exact terms you are making the donation (by your wording above Wikipedia only.) However please understand that in my opinion because these caps are not generic baseball caps, merely taking a photograph of caps in your possession would not give you the moral right to release this montage to wikipedia. So you would need to prove also that you are the actual designer/designers of these caps.KTo288 (talk) 18:41, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * re your comment on my talk page then you can begin to work through Donating copyrighted materials.KTo288 (talk) 22:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Just submitted the required permissions to the email address specified for that use. Hopefully I'm getting the hang of Wikipedia! Rexreed (talk) 22:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I've been here a couple of years and there are still things I have to dig for to find. Anyway thank you for your donation and have fun editing here though its slightly frowned upon to edit too much on articles you are part of. I'll try and put a temporary hold on the deletion of the montage.KTo288 (talk) 23:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

VirtuMall
Hi,

Neither the reference you originally added nor the reference you provided when you put it back provides any evidence that the website existed before 1995. They only state that the company existed. I don't dispute that at all. But the wikipedia article is a list of websites that existed before 1995.

While there are several appearances of virtumall.com in 1995 NCSA What's New pages, there are none at all in 1994 or earlier. Similarly, a search of usenet articles of that time period finds only USENET postings in 1995 and 1996. A further search of a regular USENET posting in biz.comp.services called "The Internet Mall", which listed notable online shopping resources makes no mention of any virtumall websites at all in 1994. The earliest entry I find here is in May 1995 (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/biz.comp.services/tZZXRAZD6j8/L7sZe9miE4wJ).

The very first thing I find on USENET is very close, but not quite there. It is from 1/1/1995 (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.culture.mexican/Q4zkm8EKlko/_wK5Vh7hkW4J). But it is not actual evidence of a working website, only of a website that is going to open soon.

Frankly, it does seem likely that they were operational as a website in 1994, but I can hardly consider it a significant contribution to the early (pre-'95) web if NOBODY mentioned them at all pre '95. Battling McGook (talk) 18:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * As per your message on my talk page, I'll leave it there for now. Thanks for contributing. Battling McGook (talk) 18:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)