User talk:Urvabara/Archive1

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Good luck! Jrdioko

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Thanks for your note on my talk page. Just to let you know, in the future you might want to put new entries on talk pages at the bottom of the page--it's easier to find them that way. I'm just a Wikipedian who tries to help welcome newcomers and answer any questions they have about the site (see Welcoming committee). Actually en puhu suomea, but I'll be taking a Finnish class at the University of California, Berkeley in the fall. – Jrdioko (Talk)  16:41, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Delete tags
(William M. Connolley 18:29, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)) Hello, welcome to wikipedia, etc. Sorry to be negative but removing delete tags is Bad Form. Don't do it. If you don't think the article should be deleted, do what the text says: argue on the delete page.

Maybe I should expand that a bit more. Essentially, there is a procedure for getting rid of... pages that should be got rid of. If yours *isn't* one that should be removed, you still need to follow the procedure to get the tag removed. Removing delete tags tends to be characteristic of vandals and wackos (which you're not).

re: Insulting comment?
The problem is that even if that is the case, the comment you posted could be a violation of the "no personal attacks" rule. There are templates that allow you to leave warnings on a talkpage in the event of vandalism by a user. What you did would not look good in the event that the anon. user started to vandalize your userpage and/or talkpage. If you responded to that in the same you did (with that comment), there is a good chance that it would appear to the admin(s) that you were attempting to deliberately provoke the anon. user, and that would get you in trouble. Please be more careful in the future... and next time, please don't place your message at the top of my talk page. There's a reason for that tab with the plus sign at the top of my (and your) talkpage.--Chanting Fox 00:58, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Combo Drive Petition
Whoa! Please take a look at Assume good faith.

No one, not a single person in VfD has said you are a vandal, just that this article does not meet the criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia. Look at WP:NOT, particularly the parts about not being a soapbox, a list of websites and so on. If your petition is ultimately effective, then Combo drives will be an encyclopedic subject, and the petition worthy of a section.

The fact that other, less worthwhile, articles have escaped notice -- so far, is no argument to keep any particular article. By now you know how Wikipedia works: getting tagged for improvment, edited or nominated for VfD occurs only because some volunteer has noticed the article and feels that action is justified.

In the meantime, I have a suggestion for a good encyclopedic article: there are many issues raised by the rapid obsolescence of data-storage technologies. The subject was discussed peripherally in a book, and associated PBS documentary, Slow fires, which dealt primarily with the deterioration and ultimate loss of acid-paper books. They also noticed that much of the Apollo-era data has been stored on magnetic media that are unreadable by current technology, or have deteriorated, or both.

Such an article can be well-sourced, informative, encyclopedic, and could include your proposal as an example of potential solutions without being either original research or vanity. Robert A West 17:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikierrata
Hi Henri, I saw your note about Wikierrata from a year ago on meta. I have also been working on a project like this and put it under the wikibooks hierarchy: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Errata We're getting kicked off wikibooks now, perhaps moving to wikicities or perhaps moving to a different infrastructure if a more suitable one can be found. I thought you might be interested in working on this. Also I thought I should let you know that although I organized the wikibook of errata based on ISBNs similar to what you proposed, it actually turns out that sometimes corrected printings of books are made without changing the ISBN, so having a combination of ISBN and printing number is necessary. --Chinasaur 03:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:HenriTapaniHeinonen2003.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:HenriTapaniHeinonen2003.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use GFDL-self to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at Image copyright tags. See Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T / C ) 07:22, 15 March 2006 (UTC)