User talk:Zanimum/Archive 19/Archive 4

Please, please stop putting cosplay pictures into articles where they are not appropriate. I remember the lengthy discussions relating to the leotard article; now you have added a similar image to the maid article. Can you tell me why you consider these images to be appropriate illustrations for these articles? -- The Anome 12:38, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Why aren't these appropriate? For starters, there are no other images of maids available for us to use, so far as I know. Would you not agree that something is better than nothing? Also, when we have many other opportunities to get images of villains and mad scientists, through the marvel of screen captures, we end up with two cartoons. Not only that, but these cartoons are deemed "featured" by the Wikipedia community. -- user:zanimum

My impression of you was limited to a vague "been around a long time, and reasonably active". You've changed that in one fell swoop.

• Adding to a WP article an ext lk p't-ing to your own column on a pop-under-ing site is not a minor edit
• Failing to remove that lk when you knew it had stopped being a "regular" column is irresponsible, and also serves to further impeach your good intentions.
• If you're really only in your first term of "Advertising and Graphic Design", your fate is not sealed, but it is already time to be thinking about whether you want to be an art director, and of the kind that your colleagues
  • feed with raw meat,
  • keep the client from meeting, and
  • justify with "his stuff always looks great; never mind whether it means anything."

or if you're willing to learn the syntax of English and form the habit of proofreading what you sign.

• Nearly all childless, single, teenage kid-TV enthusiasts are incompetent to write under the heading "Family Entertainment"; the incompetent ones include all those who don't realize that the competent ones need to specifically address that credibility problem.

--Jerzy(t) 16:34, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

Go to Google. Type "children's television" in. And if you think that's solely from the extra links Wikipedia provides, it's been this way since a month or two before that edit. I get absolutely no profit from this column, I solely volunteer.

When I signed up with Suite, the pop-unders weren't there. Frankly, there were very few ads at all.

As for the lack of new content, give me a break. Ignoring my school work, I've been too busy contributing to Wikipedia, and retrofitting my newly adopted Academy Awards column.

Also, it seems to me that you're giving me the blame for being public about my other activities. Before a few weeks ago, I would have been "safe" from you, as my personal info was limited.

What is your problem anyway about the whole "oohhh... you're going to fail!" stuff? Other than a run on sentence, I can't see anything wrong with the syntax of my bio. Even if there was, you are among five people to see the page since the start of the month. Frankly, those others are likely web crawlers. People don't really care about who's giving them the information.

The point is, my articles on Wikipedia and Suite101 are factually accurate, and decisively opinionated. I'm not a media fluff-ball like most other family ent outlets. Dr Toy will give anything the stamp of approval, so her name can be touted in press releases and on the video jacket. I give an honest, unbiased opinion that's rare in the preschool DVD field. This has counted for a lot, and quotes from my article have often been used on the manufacturer's websites. -- user:zanimum

"Dr Toy will give anything the stamp of approval, so her name can be touted in press releases and on the video jacket. I give an honest, unbiased opinion that's rare in the preschool DVD field." -- this quote makes my day. +sj +

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:27, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure how you would like things dumbed down. What was the confusing part? I'm not sure how else to explain this. -- Ram-Man 21:54, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

I understood it, but up until you posted this message, I, and most other Wikipedians didn't know that you could dual license articles, and suddenly we have to respond to how we would like them licensed. Possibly a gentler introduction would have been better. I dunno. -- user:zanimum

Hey, where did you get all the cosplay pictures from? Do you happen to have a list of all the ones on the wikipedia? -Cookiemobsta 06:21, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Primarily SKA.fam.cx -- user:zanimum

Over at Culture of the United Kingdom one of the main things that is stopping us from putting it forward as a featured article candidate is the fact that the art section is so small (one small paragraph). You have listed yourself on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by fields of interest as someone with an interest in art. Would you be able to pop over there at some point and help us to expand the section please? Many thanks. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:53, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Remember to put {{test}} on the user pages of any user who creates a non-sensical page. -- user:zanimum

I thought I talked most of them, but occasionally one might get missed. I'll pay better attention in future. --fvw*† 01:27, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

Oh, good, glad to know you do so regularly. It seems too many admins that don't follow up on the user pages. -- user:zanimum

The picture you put on the tarantula article is a very attractive picture, but it is not a picture of a tarantula. It's a picture of a jumping spiders -- creatures that I've been in love with for the last 50 years. Somebody else had already removed it before I saw it. Where did you get the picture? We may be able to use it on the "Jumping Spider" article somehow, especially if I can figure out the species. (Too bad the view of the upper surface of the abdomen is not clearer, but you've got a beautiful shot of the head. Jumping spiders are the only ones I know of that seem to be aware that somebody is looking at them, and they like to look back. They seem to be as curious about us as we are about them. P0M 08:41, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

If you remember back a little bit, you were kind enough to test the idea of Kiki with nine kids. You said they were interested in her, as long as she were intelligent. Since then, Kiki has developed into a character that appears on ever few pages in the books, and occasionally interviews real-life scientists, politicians, artists, dancers, zookeepers, what ever relates to the book. These people will be shown in cartoon form, in their work environments. For example, I'm hoping to have "Kiki" interview a NASA scientist or astronaut, or some sort of astronomer, for the debut Solar System issue. Would you be able to run this new role for Kiki past the kids you talked to before, and see if this interests them? The character is in trouble of being eliminated by criticism from other users. -- user:zanimum

Point me at the discussion please? Pedant 18:52, 2004 Dec 6 (UTC)

Sure, it's at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikijunior_project_Kiki_character . Thanks! -- user:zanimum

What do you know about the AMA? Is it caput, or is it still actually functioning? -- user:zanimum

Zani, good question about the AMA -- based on the activity at their requests for assistance page (I forget the name exactly, but it's linked to from WP:AMA) I think it's crawling along at a snail's pace. It would appear that someone called Keith Tyler (I don't know him) is handling most of what few requests arrive. I imagine that it, like the harmonious editing club and dozens of other voluntary associations here, didn't have sufficient gravity to keep itself together. Perhaps it will revive one day. I think it was little used, though, for the basic reason that most people who need help with dispute resolution have already decided who they will trust to give them answers, and so they don't go looking for an "organization" to provide help. The few I ever saw go to the AMA mistakenly seemed to believe that they were acquiring a mediator (and one who would be favorable to them) -- most of them seemed to abandon AMA assistance once they discovered the "actual" dispute resolution procedure. Sorry for the long answer. Did you ask for any particular reason, by the way, or just curiosity? :-) Jwrosenzweig 21:25, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks JW, I was curious because you and I had run the inaugural (and possibly only ever) election for the AMAs. Do you think there should still be an election, being six months after the initial one? -- user:zanimum

Thanks for the email Zanimum. I watched it and wrote about the mention at Wikipedia:Press_coverage#December. — Jeandré, 2004-12-11t18:32z

Hi hi, I noticed that Image:Fursuit autumn fox hotel.jpg is lacking a proper copyright tag - could you add one, please? Thanks. ^_^ On a related note, does the owner/creator of this suit have a website? I've been in love with the suit (so to speak ^_~) ever since I first saw it on http://www.ratemyfursuit.com (defunct, unfortunately), but wasn't able to find any information or further photos really. Thanks! ^^ -- Schneelocke (cheeks clone) [[]] 16:46, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi Schneelocke! It's from http://www.rabbitinthemoon.us . It's a great fursuit. The creator's also got some relatively well-made kigurumi masks on the site. Theere is also a relatively interesting forum. -- user:zanimum

Heya, I've moved Wikijunior PR test to User:Zanimum/Wikijunior PR test. Please put personal stuff on subpages of your user page, the main namespace is just for encyclopaedic articles. --fvw* 18:08, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

Without looking at it, your page may have been appropriate in the Wikipedia namespace (for instance if it is policy or policy suggestion and discussion). Hyacinth 00:31, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 00:31, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Heya. I saw your logo for wikisource, very impresive.

It seems like the only real problem with it is the square edges required for the sea. I was wondering, have you considered playing around with a circular background for the sea? Depending on aspect ratios etc, I thought that might look okay. Another idea is to try to draw the sourceberg with an overhead view and use a circular ocean. There's a bit of liberty for creative freedom in that idea as well. CXI 14:55, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please do not delete my thumbnails without asking, they are often special sharpened thumbnails, or palletted PNG's. ed g2s • talk 20:25, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please don't bother picking your bones with me. I was only deleting images that others had listed for speedy deletion. It was in a list of thumbnails that a user had listed, all of which were useless, except for your apparently. If you can refer me to the name of the image that I deleted, I'd be more than happy to look in the logs to see who listed it for deletion. -- user:zanimum

If images are listed for deletion (and especially speedy deletion), it is your responsibility to check them out as an admin if you take it upon yourself to delete then as the process is irreversible. But now worries in this case, no harm done. ed g2s • talk 02:42, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading the image

• Image:Character comedian charles e. grapewin.gif

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks – Kbh3rd 08:05, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am asking simple questions, and I dont get an answer from you. What is the voters population? In order for a Vfd poll to be a valid one, what is the minimum number of voters (as population percentage) that has to cast a vote on it? What is your decision method when you extract the decision from the poll? 2/3 majority? simple majority? other? Finnaly as long as you take a decision, how long this decision is valid and cannot be reversed? I am expecting simple answers from you, in order to stop proposing my own answers to those questions .Vfd policy is a total mess! How I calculate my results? I dont know yet. I have read majority rule, average rule, quadratic rule e.t.c. and I am trying to find out. Iasson 09:50, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Look. We're just like any other democracy here. You hold a vote, basically just an election. If only 0.0001% of the population turns up, so be it. They vote, they decide who's the victor. We can't force anyone to vote. I think I heard there's almost 100,000 registered users on Wikipedia, but there's really only 1,000 or so users that have edited in the last month. VfD should be a simple procedure, based on a normal majority. xx users said delete, yy users said keep. If xx is greater than yy, delete the article, if yy is greater, delete. -- user:zanimum

Congrats on the "Jeopardy!" article making the "Did You Know?" section! I stumbled on that article the other day when I was surfing the new pages and meant to comment on it then. It's one of the best esoteric articles I've ever seen on this site. - Lucky 6.9 17:50, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Lucky, I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's root section from the Jeopardy! article was just getting a little to cluttered, and when I started to clean it, it got long, so why not spend an hour more researching a weird pop culture craze? -- user:zanimum

Zanimum - an anon has tagged two of your images, Image:Event expo 67 poster 1990-552-1.jpg and Image:Event expo 67 united states pavilion.jpg, fair use because you wrote "deemed fair use." Could you please note your source for these images on their description pages? Thanks very much. Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 00:27, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Likewise Image:EricPeterson.jpg. Rdsmith4— Dan | Talk 01:07, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hi, the referenced image has you listed as the uploader, and it's tagged fair use. NBC's license on that image is:

Copyright ? 2004 NBC, Inc. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted for use of the photo herein depicting the NBC program solely for editorial purposes in newspapers and periodicals to promote the NBC program only and for no other purpose.

...so, using it here is a little on the iffy side. If you have a good fair use justification handy, could you add one? If not, we do have a substitute fair use image for Ashlee Simpson so it's not the end of the world. Thanks. iMeowbot~Mw 18:08, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

When reverting a page or template, especially "inthenews", make sure that you put a {{*test*}} (without the astericks) on it. If it's something that affects the main page, I personally go straight for {{*test3*}} or higher. -- user:zanimum

There wasn't much point, since I'd blocked the IP immediately after reverting. I think the rather prominent notice saying "IF YOU VANDALISE THIS TEMPLATE, YOU WILL BE ***BLOCKED*** IMMEDIATELY" at the top of Template:In the news is warning enough. Proteus (Talk) 17:51, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Oh, great. I hadn't checked that out. Should still leave something on their talk pages, just in case they vandalise once their block is up, we know to treat them more seriously than others. -- user:zanimum

Apologies for reverting your image changes to the Johnny Carson article without checking to see if the original image had been tagged. I uploaded it (before he died), and thought I had tagged it, but didn't. The only thing I was thinking was, "Why did this guy replace the image with one of arguably lower quality?" I didn't bother to check if I'd tagged the image. The original image is a screenshot of an image from MPTV.net as it appeared on IMDB.com. Looking at MPTV's web page, the terms for use are pretty restrictive, and there's no mention of fair use. Then again, I'm not sure where you could find a better picture of him. "Unique" images qualify as fair use, I think. Do you think it should remain in the article? Not necessarily at the top, but anywhere. --Chrysaor 21:58, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think we're fine keeping this picture. The only reason I took issue with it was that it was on the front page. Until anyone else goes out of their way to hunt down less that allowable pictures, we should try and keep it. To my knowledge, fair use covers promotional images, screen captures (thus uncontrolable by the creator), and news photos in extreme cases, as they are one-time moments of high-signifcance that simply can't be recreated. In the last circumstance, you have the slim chance of nulling commerical photography's copyrights. Since this photo was recreatable (we had 4 years to get our own picture of Johnny), I think we don't have a hope on this argument. -- user:zanimum

It appears that the stylized "Sourceberg" logo at Wikisource is at least partially your design. The matter has progressed to the point where it looks like we will be having a final vote between that and the "Stack of books". Could you please indicate on your Wikisource user page that you are in part the designer of that proposed logo, and that you are willing to transfer all your rights if any under copyright and trademark law to the Wikimedia Foundation if it is finally chosen. Eclecticology 21:07, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

I note that you have not yet responded to the above request. Although the original Sourceberg design was produced before you became involved your variation is sufficiently different to possibly carry additional rights. As long as the question of these rights remains unresolved your version cannot be accepted as the Wikisource logo. If you do not respond within a reasonable time this will be interpreted as an indication that you do not intend to transfer those rights, and that you have withdrawn your proposals. Eclecticology 20:04, 2005 Mar 1 (UTC)

Hey...do you happen to know the original release dates for the records in the discography? The ones providd (I'm asuming they're from Amazon.com are for CD rereleases of old albums (for exampl, The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles is obviously a reissue of a 1960s release). I'm going to move the discography to the talk page for right now, so that we can find the correct release dates (years are fine). Just give me a minute to finish up a couple of other edits, and I will start looking up the info--SOMEbody on the internet has to have a complete Chipmunks discography. --b. Touch 23:22, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the dates are from Amazon. You never know, the Beatles release could actually have been new. Goodluck trying to find the content, the Chipmunk fanbase is more into fanfics and fan art than info. -- user:zanimum

I did find a few helpful links. I sourced info from [1], [2], and [3]. No need to wikilink; I doubt anyone's going to write an article for each of these albums. --b. Touch 00:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wow, you're good. I'm impressed. I do have to agree that we can leave the wikilink off, a little unnecessary with so many albums. Thanks B Touch! -- user:zanimum

I am doing stub cleaning and consolidation that is needed to reduce the incidence of tiny articles. For instance, did you know that the Luis Rodriguez article was linked to by a music producer, two boxers and a singer? Courtland 17:19, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

Let's talk about this .. I think we are trying to do the same thing and I'm desirous of keeping all information you've spent a lot of time putting in. Courtland 17:25, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)

This article you seem to have created (way back when) is listed on VFD, and current consensus is that it's a load of complete nonsense ;) Thought it might be a good idea to ask if you've any more info about the subject, or if current consensus is correct? sjorford →•← 22:45, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This user has just made a minor-vandalism edit on Confucius. Given your message on his Talk page, I thought that you'd want to know. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:45, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

While I appreciate your efforts in updating this page, I'd like to ask you to to take the items you add from the bottom of The archive section at Template talk:Did you know to avoid a number of items being skipped (which your edit did). Happy editing! 131.211.210.16 11:15, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Replies to MacGyverMagic, please!

Image:Brooker_Behnen_Ordaz.jpg was obtained from Student Association of Missouri archives. This image is not copyrighted is fair use. Thanks! -- BCV

The Kakisis pic was sent to me by Kakisis himself for the Wikipedia entry. The stadium pic is a frame I captured off of greek public TV last summer. - user:Chronographos

Great, I've added the appropriate tags to the images. Image:OlympiaStad1.gif now has screencapture , and Image:SK1.gif has permission. In the future, try and find an appropriate tag from Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. It's a daunting list to pick through, but any of these folks (including me) will be more than happy to help. -- user:zanimum

Brazilië Vila Sésamo Noorwegen Sesam Statsjon Palestijnse gebieden Shara'a Sumsum PolenPortugal Ulica Sezamkowa Finland Seesamtie Portugal Rua Sésamo Frankrijk Les Amis de Sesame Indonesië Boneka Sesame Tsjechië Sezamé Otevri Se Koeweit Iftah Ya Simsim Turkije Susam Sokagi Maleisië Taman Sesame IJsland Sesam Opnist Pû

Your Christopher Street Day image was so striking I thought it would be perfect for the drag queen article. I hope you don't mind. -- user:CDThieme

By all means, CDThieme. If you find a picture in article A, think it also works it article B, by all means copy it there. One of Wikipedia's guidelines is be bold in editing. By the way, I found that photo in sxc.hu , a great site for free stock photography, most of which can be used in Wikipedia. -- user:zanimum

Hi there, welcome to Wikipedia! I've just moved your quote to Wikiquote, our quotation project. Do you remember what episode this was from? The quote temporarily is just on the talk page of Wikiquote: Blackadder, here. If you know where the quote was from, tell me at user_talk:Zanimum -- user:zanimum

Hey - it's from the very last scene in Blackadder Goes Forth. I've fixed it on wikiquote now, and woven it together with another quote that was on there that comes right after it in the script. Of course, it helps to have the complete scripts book around ;) Thanks for your help! -- user:81.154.64.247

Great to know that you're catching on quickly in how to edit Wikimedia projects. If you ever need any help, just call on an admin, including me. Cheers! -- user:zanimum

Hi zanimum. Lockeshocke proposed an interesting icy cover for the next Quarto; I thought perhaps you two could work together on it. And are you free sometime this Sunday to discuss the internal layout of the next edition? +sj + 03:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Sj... sorry, I'm overflowing with year-end homework projects this weekend. I guess I'm willing to work with LockeShocke on the cover design; there are quite a few things Wikimedia needs to iron once and for all, to keep designs consistant, between issues and languages. Would any weekday/night be okay to chat with you sj, or should we just set up a talk page somewhere and discuss over the course of a few days? -- user:zanimum

Monday (tomorrow) would work for me; also Wednesday. Let me know... see the very top of the source of my talk page for contact info if you can't find me on-wiki. +sj + 02:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wednesday is best, I'm cramming today, too many deadlines. Is there anything we can start to discuss now, so that I can leave my input here and there? -- user:zanimum

Sure thing. Ideas for new navigation: icons and page-navigation along the bottom; those were thrown together for WQ-1 and are one of the most-seen parts of the quarto; we should make them really nice. Thoughts on how to structure entire pages, beyond (instead of) a full-page colored border; ways to make excellent section headers for each part of the Quarto, rather than using Wikitext [since we're not using auto-tocs, anyway]... I'm using m:WQ/design ideas to collect these thoughts. +sj + 03:53, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for updating DYK! Could you please try to avoid a US centric (especially a Virginia centric line-up next time as put forth on WP:DYK. Also, Lebanon Correctional Institution was left because it was too stubby to be included and only one article per item should be bolded. See you later. Mgm|^(talk) 09:50, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Us convidem a l'inscripció per una mostra d'art internacional, allotjada a una Galeria Canadenca. Totes les obres han de ser del tipus d'una postal, enviada pel servei de correus. La galeria d'art canadenca Artway està fent una crida per obtenir objectes per “The 2005 Snail Mail Wolrd Postcard Art Show”. Tots els objectes per aquesta exhibició única, que es farà a l'area de Toronto, han de ser enviats per correu a Snail Mail Central com una postal. La exhibició es farà del 26 d'Agost al 30 de setembre de 2005.

Aproximadament un miler de objectes seran mostrats en una exhibició, portada per la Artway Gallery a Shoppers World Brampton, un centre comercial regional a Ontario, Canada.

Els artistes poden presentar fins a 20 obres, de franc. Les obres poden ser originals o reproduccions, i poden ser de totes les matèries i qualsevol medi. Tots els treballs han de tenir 102 mm per 145 mm (4 per 6 polzades). Han de haver sigut rebudes per correu a Snail Mail Central a Canada el dilluns, 8 d'agost de 2005. Les obres ha de tenir el nom de l'artista i el nom i el medi del seu treball al darrera. Els treballs han de ser enviats a la següent adreça:

      SNAIL MAIL CENTRAL
      c/o VAB
      1 Bartley Bull Parkway, Suite 10
      Brampton, ON
      L6W 3T7
      Canada

Els detalls i normes de la mostra es poden veure a www.visualartsbrampton.com/snail

Plàcid 80.58.40.235 18:59, 6 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi Zanium, I noticed that for some images you have cropped, (such as Pm sq turner.jpg), you have slapped a PD tag on them and say that you "release it into the public domain". But you just cannot DO that. You did not create the content, you just created a derivative work over which you probably have no rights. You should probably go back to each of these and put a suitable tag on them, presumably the same as for the originals, and provide also a link to the original images.... Cheers, Fawcett5 20:28, 14 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Replied at user_talk:fawcett5

I think you need to slow down on uploading images and learn more about copyrights and appropriate usage, because you are doing things that are just not kosher.

For example, you took a picture of a werewolf mask and claimed the copyright owner released it under license... except the problem there is that taking a picture of a copyrighted work -- in this case, a mask -- does not give you a copyright on the image itself. You'd have copyright to the part you did that was artistic, but the original mask copyright is owned by that creator, and you can't use it without their permission.

And, for the love of god, stop putting pics of some model in cheesey costumes onto a bunch of article pages (for example, Pixie) as they are really bad. DreamGuy 20:58, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

The photographer of the werewolf expressed his willingness to me that it could be under any license, as long as it was credited to him as being the creator of the image. Until you have actual substitutes for "cheesy" costumes, something is better than nothing. -- user:zanimum

the image still sucks, which is why people keep deleting it. Gabrielsimon 01:56, 21 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Having nothing is far, far better than something totally inappropriate for the article. And these images you are uploading are pretty sad even by typical fanwank standards. Wikipedia standards are much higher than that. DreamGuy 05:45, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

that lastest one got removed becuase it was from a movie, and hence, would be copyright violation if it was used. Gabrielsimon 13:21, 22 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hey, I know you're interested in Sesame Street stuff, so I wanted to make you aware I'm working on the Sesame Street Live article a bit, and my first move was to vfd Allison Greenwald and Yram Rivera, since it's really not noteworthy at all to include the names of the dancers from the shows (there are far too many to do that, anyway.) Thanks. :) kmccoy (talk) 03:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hello Zanimum,
elian told me that you are in Toronto. I search for the Commons and the Toronto Subway article in the german wikipedia (normal) photos. Can you take few pictures e.g. from two stations (Union Station? Spadina? Sheppard-Yonge?) and trains? Sorry for my bad english, greetings from Berlin --Jcornelius20:53, 28 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum P.S. I'm sure no one would mind if you moved your Ancient Egyptian outline to Wikibooks, so long as their was a clear disclaimer that nothing except the outline should be worked on, until the first issue is published.

• I've send you an email telling you about the outline I copied to Wikijunior Ancient Egypt on wikibooks. Shouldn't be too hard to find in my contribution history there. :) Hopefully it'll make for a great magazine topic. :) Mgm|^(talk) 18:21, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
• I already voted 2-3 days ago after I saw you paste a similar notice on a meta user page :-) Many good propositions... but I stick to wikijunior I think ;-) Today (*today*), my son is doing his presentation on the Sahara desert, which we prepared together on Wikipedia. Have a look : Le Sahara Algérien. My son is 8 years old :-) (don't laugh, I know I am a very proud mom). Anthere 05:13, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

just letting you know that the Tournament of Roses Parade seems to have been left uncompleted in some parts, such as the post-parade which needs to be adde. You have not added to the page since the end of last year, so just wondering if you are ever going to finish it? -- AlexTheMartian | Talk 09:16, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

See meta :)

I removed the discussion section of this page 'cos it looked like original research. Wikipedia:No original research. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Hi Zanimum. I wrote the following at Wikisource:Logo:

The best of Zanimum's variations is the circular one (the smaller one on the right). However, the colors are off; it is too dark. Would it be possible to change the water to a light blue, and to leave the air plain white (as in the example above, but a lighter blue for the water)?

Do you think you might be able to do that?Dovi July 7, 2005 09:20 (UTC)

That's Jared, not Brad from the tournament. --Madchester 23:02, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Be my guest in updating... I'm not sure which page in particular I wronged on. -- user:zanimum

Specifically the one titled "TV_brad_rutter.jpg"; that's Jared the author guy who came third. --Madchester 23:15, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755-2005, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

— Knowledge Seeker দ 07:50, 13 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

Amazing. I didn't think that anyone would actually get around to doing it! I should really learn how to use vector art software.

I really don't want to sound like commanding or anything because it was really, really nice of you to do the art, but you asked me what I think, and here goes:

• The variations of shadowing on the two arrows are supposed to both be on the top. This is because there is supposed to be a "kinda-hard-to-see" W in the picture. Refer to source sketch if you don't know what I'm talking about.
• The color schemes are... interesting. I'm not sure exactly what colors we should use, but I'm fairly sure that purple/pink is not the way to go. ;-P
• The WikiSource title should be underneath the picture.

These points are by no means commands to make you do it, after all, you've got your own bid in the logo contest (heh, guess I should thank you even more). What program did you use to put these together? — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 00:01, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Firstly let me say that I am sorry to have to bother you.

Secondly, I wish to let you know that a recent VFD that you took part in has closed. The result was that 32 people voted to keep all individual bible verses as seperate articles, and 34 voted that they shouldn't (2 abstensions, and 3 votes for both). This is considered by standard policy not to be a consensus decision (although the closing admin stated that it was a consensus to keep them).

Thirdly, the subject has now been put to a survey, so that it may remain open until there is a clear consensus for what appears to be a difficult issue to resolve. You may wish to take part in this survey, and record a similar vote to the one you made at the VFD there. The survey is available at Wikipedia:Bible verses.

~~~~ 18:31, 23 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

Do you wish to place a support vote or no? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:25, 12 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Where did you get that "Viewers Like You" TV screen capture from? (And I mean what episode of Sesame Street, too!) --Ryanasaurus007 20:59, 31 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

You have uploaded Image:Largealligatorfarm panorama.jpg which unknown copyright status. Please could you find the relevant information, so it does not need to be deleted. --βjweþþ (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for notifying me, it was PD by age, and Library of Congress content, as I've now marked. -- user:zanimum

Template:Save page has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Save page. Thank you. ∞Who?¿? 09:16, 23 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Thunderbrand 14:42, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hello Zanimum,

I see you are active on the wikijunior project. I have just gotten involved with Solar system. It has reached the point where it needs

• Fact Checking
• Editing for grade-level, FUN, and length.

I thought that if I knew more about the purpose of the book(let) I could do a better job.

I am trying to find out

• Who the Beck Foundation is (I can't find ANY information about it)
• Why it wants these booklets
• What kind of acceptance criteria they might have for the finished project.

I thought it might be good to see the original grant proposal, which I have been unable to find.

Do you know any of this stuff? Do you know anyone who does know?

Thanks! Wikibooks:User:SV Resolution

Hi Zanimum. I see you're changing the borders of the tables in Governor of the Falkland Islands. Do you mind explaining why you also removed the column headings? I think it needs either the column headings, or a – between the two years instead of them being in two columns. --Scott Davis ^Talk 00:20, 30 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

I've returned the headings. I had thought it was just unnecessary code, not actual display headings. -- user:zanimum

No problems. I didn't just revert it in case you were in the middle of some bigger change. Thanks. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:53, 1 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

I actually like it a lot the way it is. Good luck with the logo vote, or whatever it is! Andre (talk) 01:22, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Zanimum. I like this version best and I think it´s perfect as it is. --Johannes Ries 10:21, 2 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi Zanimum! Please forgive me, I like exactly that version best as well, but I'd still like to make a small request: Could you add a small variation of it with lighter colors? I.e. to use the light-blue water as you did in one of the "square" versions, and to leave the sky white?Dovi 02:42, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Zanimum. Thank you so much for your support on my bureaucratship nomination. Unfortunately, it didn't pass, but I intend to run again soon. If you'd like to be informed next time around, please let me know on my talk page. Thanks again! Andre (talk) 05:30, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

I've been working on a bid to bring Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. I have contacted KMDI, an institute at the University of Toronto. They are very interested in partnering with us, and can get us a full range of U of T facilities for free. With this offer I think there is a very good chance of bringing Wikimania 2006 to Toronto. The only thing we currently lack are people willing to help out. I'm willing to do much of the work, but for the time being I am in Ottawa and having some people on the ground in Toronto will be necessary. We also need a number of people willing to assist at the actual event, likely the first weekend of August 2006. If you are interested in helping out sign up at Wikimania 2006/Toronto. Preliminary bids from various cities need to be made by Sept. 30, 2005, at which point a committee will choose which city gets to host the event. The number of people willing to help will certainly be an important consideration. - SimonP 16:21, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Zanimum - you wrote: Just a few bits of advice for Wikinews articles... Start fresh in telling the reader what's what-- the headline is not the first sentence of the aritcle. Also, make sure to include all details. If it weren't for the sources, I wouldn't know where Don Brash was even from. Speaking of sources, please properly cite them, so others don't have to look it up and correct it for you, it saves us all time.

I have no idea what this is about. I've only twice written wikinews articles - the last was on June 21st, and was to do with the evacuation of the town of Takaka, in New Zealand's South Island (as shown here) - and neither of these stories mentioned Don Brash. Also, as a part-time journalist, I know very well that the headline is not the first sentence of an article, which is why I never use it as such, and - as far as I can tell - cite my sources well. Grutness...wha? 00:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Oh? The history of the article NZ opposition leader admits to Fundamentalist links states that 202.180.83.6 is the creator of the article. On user_talk:202.180.83.6[4], it's you that say thanks for CGorman's welcome, message, and refer people to your Wikipedia talk page. I guess there's someone geographically near to you that contributed the aritcle. -- user:zanimum

There are quite a large number of users with that addres. I've had no account blocked because of one anon at that address who uses it for vandalism on Wikipedia (it's very embarrassing for an admin to be blocked!). No - with the exception of the first edit or two I made on Wikinws, all my edits there have been with the same username as I use here (in fact, it says so further down the page you pointed me at, here). My first Wikinews story was from with that anon address, (on March 28) but that was also the last date I used it. Grutness...wha? 12:13, 9 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi Zanimum. I wanted to inform you that I've nominated some of your past articles for deletion - I feel it's the fair thing to do. Most of them were created in early 2004. Please note that I wasn't targetting you specifically, I just don't think these kinds of articles are appropriate for Wikipedia. Here's the full list:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Manors of Wellington Crown, Brampton, Ontario - residential development in Brampton
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Estates of Valleycreek, Brampton, Ontario (2nd nomination) - residential development in Brampton
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Four Corners, Georgetown, Ontario - residential development in Georgetown
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakelands Village, Brampton, Ontario - residential development in Brampton
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Chateaus in the Highland of Castlemore, Brampton, Ontario - residential development in Brampton
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/South Pointe, Innisfil, Ontario - residential development
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sunflowers, Barrie, Ontario - residential development in Barrie
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Willows at Chillico Woods, Guelph, Ontario - residential development in Guelph
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Creditvalley, Mississauga, Ontario - residential development in Mississauga

I hope you aren't offended by this. Mindmatrix 17:39, 12 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi! The election for the final logo of wikispecies is over now and I would appreciate it if you could - as you offered - do the finetuning (i.e. use the template and do a neat vector file with font and save it a s a png at the competition page). Thank you very much! Benedikt