User talk:Ztrawhcs

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Michigan Glee Club
Hi, I am making a concerted effort to improve the articles on the major US glee clubs (Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers, etc.) particularly relating to adding sources and trimming "promo" material and text that seems like it might have been lifted from brochures. I notice that you have contributed a lot to the Michigan article, which I think is quite well written, but I would love to see sources and citations added to make it really up to "good article" status (see Harvard Glee Club for an example, it took a long time and is somewhat thankless but it greatly improved the article.) Thanks! --Dmz5 18:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

User page
Also, don't mean to be a jerk, but some editors might take offense (some might even take enormous offense) to your humorous equation of the National Council of Teachers of English with NAMBLA. You might want to edit that before someone accuses you of vandalism or something.--Dmz5 18:05, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hahaha, thank you so much for your heartfelt advice. However, my profile is meant to be humorous, and as Jon Stewart of Daily Show fame has popularized the practice of adding "NAMBLA" to the end of long association names, I suggest you complain to him. Not me. Ztrawhcs 02:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Mattbaby.jpg
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 * On 14 December 2007, Quadell deleted it for no license. I have undeleted it to give you another chance, but as images in your user pages are not exempt from our copyright policy, please add a license. Thank you.--Jusjih (talk) 01:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

There is a "ticket" system -- used to verify things like photographers agreeing to liscence their photos. I have never used it myself. But I think it might be a good idea for you to consider having the photographer who took agree to confirm liscencing through the WP:OTRS ticket system.

If I understand how it works:
 * 1) you open a "ticket" for the image;
 * 2) the ticket contains a contact method for the photographer -- which the ticket committee keeps confidential;
 * 3) I know there is supposed to be a mechanism through which the ticket committee can verify the contact you offered is the actual photographer -- I am unclear on this part;
 * 4) the photographer confirms they took the photo and agree to liscense it.
 * 5) the ticket committee leaves a note on the image page confirming that the photographer's liscense has been confirmed.

There are images like this one that have not been confirmed. But images that have been confirmed will never get challenged by someone who says "prove the photographer gave permission". If someone were to demand that, someone would have to contact the photographer then. If the photographer has given you permission recently it might make more sense to get it officially confirmed now, rather than later, when they might have forgotten, or have changed email addresses, and you can't reach them.

Note: Let me specifically clarify I am not challenging this photo.

I admire Ms Khan for her principles.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 23:17, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Collaborative news on quippd
Hey, I noticed that you had recently edited the Dove World Outreach Center, and I hoped that you could help out on another collaborative community edited project.

I run quippd, a collaboratively edited social news site, which mixes elements of Wikis, social networking, and social news sites. You can get some more information about what we are doing at: http://quippd.com/about/intro

Basically, we want to get good coverage on news stories, collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. We are trying to take the ideas of WikiFactCheck -- to make news less biased and speedier (unlike something like Wikinews).

I hope you check us out -- and feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or concerns.

--Yoasif (talk) 01:52, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tim Young (comedian)


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Replaceable fair use File:Sun-conure-in-tree.jpg
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File permission problem with File:MahvishKhan.jpg
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Proposed deletion of File:Matt-beard-computer.jpg


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Proposed deletion of File:Matt-pensive.jpg


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