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Assistance please

Hi there. I'm not sure how this whole process works but I'd like to request a speedy review of the image File:Oliver Lewis (violinist).jpg. It's up for a potential DYK mainpage appearance and until it is reveiwed it is holding up the DYK review process. Much thanks in advance for any help given.4meter4 (talk) 08:24, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

please help torsion field article is nonsense accepted as truth

The article have no reliable sources as pseudoscientific concept. Shipov`s Torsion field research was not disbanded and will never be (it becomed private) due to the 1991 eastern "revolutions" the Soviet Union itself dissolved (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comunism)! The ultimate truth is that torsion technology is the best and used by NASA(US), Cern LHC (top European Scientifical Experiments),Russian Research Institute of Space Systems, in one word everyone uses Akimov and Shipov`s work, the only technology provided with unlimited funds from KGB (Russia)! Torsion field devices are sold all around the world. In 2010 Chairman of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Mr. Boris Gryzlov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Gryzlov) gave an online interview (http://www.gazeta.ru/interview/nm/s3337459.shtml) «??????.Ru» “Gazeta.ru”,, where he commented the activities of "RANS" - the Russian Commission on Pseudoscience”. Chairman of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Party Boris Gryzlov denounced the activities of Commission on Pseudoscience of Russian Academy of Science (lead by ) as obnoxious (‘mrakobesy” Rus.) that work against development of Russia and her advances. He further named the commission’s scientific eloquence as “pearls” (an ironic substitute for an “obscene language” used by Commission to intimidate their opponents), which fell down below the intellectual level of top class experts in science.

He got over 6,000 complaints about the Commission’s activities

His Statement:

"The commission does not represent any of the legal departments of the Academy. The commission represents just the interests of few academicians, who stuck together as a group. Judging by the “pearls” of their “eloquences”, I may conclude that they do not perform at a level of the highest class professionals."

Gryzlov stated about his intention to detach “the commission from the Academy” the false group of scientists (the imaginary commission who asks for money from any new invention)! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.233.93.182 (talk) 15:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Query about OTRS actions and permissions

While looking into issues discussed at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Aaron Saxton, I noticed that in November 2009, user:Kmccoy confirmed the OTRS ticket on two videos uploaded to Commons (1 & 2), but does not appear to have been granted OTRS permissions until August 2010. It gives the appearance that Kmmcoy granted OTRS permissions when they were not qualified to do so. I have left a message for Kmccoy, but they do not seem to be very active. I'm sure there is nothing untoward happening here, but I am confused by how it appears and would appreciate it if someone could explain this. Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:12, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

The OTRS userright on commons is unrelated to actual OTRS access (as far as I'm aware all it does is let them use an edit filter to track tickets being added by non-OTRS members). Kmccoy was an OTRS volunteer at the time those tags were added. VernoWhitney (talk) 21:06, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Query about usage of image

Recently, I got permission from the librarian from Special Collections at the Cal Poly Pomona University Library to release this image for fair use in the article California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She e-mailed to both "permissions-en@wikimedia.org" and myself the following:

"Hello,

The photo of WK Kellogg and his horse Antez may be used in the article about Cal Poly Pomona being written by student Marco Guzman. We will supply him with a copy to upload in the near future. The image can be released under “Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)”

Best regards,

D****** C*** A****** [name censored to maintain librarian's privacy]

Special Collections Librarian"

She didn't add the link itself. Is this a constrain for its usage, or can I upload the image? Regards, -- Marco Guzman, Jr  Chat  19:01, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

If you never received a response, my apologies. I would be of the opinion that the image can be uploaded without issue. NW (Talk) 17:24, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Louis Febre

Someone please sort this out? It looks like the author tried to add a ticket number or something. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  05:08, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

At some point it had an actual tag added and the ticket itself looks good, so that's fine and the tag can just be placed on the article's talk page if/when the article is approved. VernoWhitney (talk) 11:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

Election administrators needed for WP:ACE2011

Three election administrators are needed who are Wikimedia Foundation-identified editors who can oversee the election, including the SecurePoll voting system. Anyone who is interested, please indicate below. This can include any of the functionaries or any of the WMF-identified WP:OTRS volunteers, but this does not apply to any current arbitrators or ArbCom clerks.

Anyone interested in being an election administrator should please indicate so at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2011/Coordination#Election administrators. –MuZemike 17:34, 15 November 2011 (UTC)