User talk:J Greb/Archive May 2009

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Adventure Comics

To be fair, the blacked out image of the cover not yet revealing Conner was already there. When the more complete version came out, I simply updated it. --CmdrClow (talk) 09:02, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Quicksilver

Thanks - I got tired of removing the fan spec from that one. I imagine it will go back in after the protection runs out though, but I'll keep an eye out. Nice catch on Banshee too; there are several character articles related to the film which are protected now, and I was having enough problems keeping stuff out when we were just dealing with the illegal workprint! 71.194.32.252 (talk) 03:12, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Images

"If the consensus with Pryor goes for the Goblyn Queen look, only one image of the costume can be in the article. So the one that is currently in the body of the article would move to the infobox."

If the Goblyn Queen look is chosen, the image with Sinister shouldn't be used as the main image. Maddie isn't the focus of the image, and her face is turned halfway. Plus, that image illustrates her relationship with Sinister; it's not just another image showing her costume. --DrBat (talk) 03:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I'm not the one who originally uploaded the Sisterhood image. I just uploaded a new version because there was a black line in the previous one. If you want to remove it I'm ok with that.

The image with Sinister still shouldn't be used as the main image, for the reasons I listed above. If that means it needs to be removed as well, fine. --DrBat (talk) 11:44, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Earlier in the Madelyne Pryor topic you said, And one last though on the "iconic" look of the character... I'm tempted to say there isn't just one. Both the pre- and post-"Inferno" looks have about equal weight. If that were the only sticking point, I'd be tempted to say remove the image from the infobox entirely and use them as spot images in the article. There is something else to consider though - the article's title. Since this is "Madelyne Pryor" not "Goblin Queen", the Goblin Queen image isn't really preferable. Do you think the Paul Smith image should be used for the infobox? --DrBat (talk) 16:20, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Image abuse in Power ring (DC Comics)

Out of curiosity how were my additions different from whats there currently?TriiipleThreat (talk) 02:36, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Also would it help to know that those images were from Blackest Night #0, a free promotional comic released on Free Comic Book Day?TriiipleThreat (talk) 02:43, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for responding,

1. Am I to understand that wikipedia does not allow use of full images? 2. Would it help if those thumbs were resized? 3. It is my opinion that my posts were better suited for each section because it is more representative of each corps instead of a singular member, also due to the text which could have usefull information for those inquiring.TriiipleThreat (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks for taking the time to explain this.TriiipleThreat (talk) 03:05, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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PhotoCatBot

I had to stop that bot because it had 9-10 positive hits and 26+ mistagged articles, showing it just can't seem to be cope with the complexity of comics articles without actually checking by eye.

As our image and template expert I'd appreciate it if you had any better ideas than that over at User talk:PhotoCatBot#Stop the PhotoCatBot. Cheers. (Emperor (talk) 22:30, 7 May 2009 (UTC))

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century

Re: removal of link to Jess Nevins annotations - huh? how exactly does the fact that this comic has yet to be released negate the relevance of the link? Damiantgordon (talk) 17:48, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Henshaw

You know how Sandifer said "Why not cut the baby in half and go with a face shot that has no uniform visible?" (though I do want to add that my problem with using the Sinestro Corps cover in the infobox wasn't so much that Henshaw was in a different outfit as it was the fact he was posing with Kent's glasses on, which isn't how he usually looks).

Well, what do you think of one these images?

http://img2.pict.com/07/0f/5c/ce515d7c78906ef88b843af131/gbQs3/henshaw1.png

http://img2.pict.com/e8/3a/04/fd4bc072be1cae7888846a38a9/tYYFu/henshaw2.png --DrBat (talk) 14:36, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

The short problem?

A mugshot is next to useless for the purposes of an infobox. And there is still the nagging issues of redundancy and significantly helping understanding. Being used in the infobox isn't a shield from those.

The full body shots fulfill the "significantly helping understanding" criteria better than the mugshots. It's part of the reason the project level MoS is what it is - "This is what the character looks like" the whole character.

And with the 4 "costume" looks in the article, the mugshot becomes redundant - "The character's head looks like this, just like in the other images."

So... we're stuck with using the minimum number of images to show the basic look of the character best. Right now, the 5 images in the article cover that. (Side: The 2 between "Reign" and "Sinestro" may be overkill.) Any more and we exceed what's reasonable. And since there has been trouble agreeing to which of the "Reign" and "Sinestro" images are the more recognizable/classic/iconic, we're left with no infobox image but enough images in use to not really need it.

- J Greb (talk) 21:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

(cross posting to the project talk)

Black Night

#1 is the real first issue. #0 was just a free promo. Plus, #1 better represents the series and what it's about, with the skull and all the black power rings. #0 just shows Hal and the different corps.

I don't plan on continually updating the infobox by adding the cover #2 when #2 comes out, and so on. --DrBat (talk) 13:23, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Banshee and Quicksilver

Yep, again... 67.175.176.178 (talk) 12:24, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

And Chamber (comics)‎‎... and the images... - J Greb (talk) 00:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Madelyne Pryor

Could you try protecting that article? An anon-user keeps on trying to reinsert the Land image. --DrBat (talk) 00:41, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Jack Kirby

Hey there. In case you weren't aware, I nominated Jack Kirby for "Good Article" despite some issues we knew it had; we figured we'd take a chance and see if we're able to fix it up on the go. The review has just started, and the reviewer has identified a number of trouble spots in need of work. We may not be able to fix it up enough to get it to GA at this time, but I think this would be a great opportunity to put some work into improving the article in general. See the reviewer's comments and fix anything you can, or just have a look at the article and work on anything you can identify yourself. Thanks, and thanks for what you've already done on this one. :) BOZ (talk) 23:21, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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Amalgam Comics

Buy a life nerd! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctor Doomsday (talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

This should be another nail in the coffin. Check his talk page history, I tried a couple times, politely even, to explain this. It's probably time for a button flex, before anythign gets worse. I'm warning him for 3RR now. ThuranX (talk) 01:40, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

May I suggest taking this to AN/I for a block? You'd be considered an involved party now, but given that he's engaged in NPA vios against you and I, skirted 3RR, blanked all warnings while continuing to edit war against consensus, it shouldn't be hard to get a 24-48 hour block put in place. ThuranX (talk) 21:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

I left a note elsewhere for a send set of eyes to take a look. I want to give that a chance first before taking all of this to AN/I. Especially since he seems to have gotten his head on straight with the image he's uploading now. - J Greb (talk) 22:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Our friend is back now as User:V for Venganza. Time for a SPI, I think. ThuranX (talk) 20:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Your comments were more thorough than my initial report. Nice work. ThuranX (talk) 11:07, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Doctor_Doomsday He's back again as Kluh Erad (hulk dare). ThuranX (talk) 02:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

And thrown back to SPI... - J Greb (talk) 02:17, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Marimaki - looks perfect to me, but I would add him to the case, jsut to be sure. Not as a 'check him please' but as a listing of another instance. ThuranX (talk) 17:36, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Galactus Edit War Mediation

Hi. I'm trying to mediate an edit war over the Galactus article here. Can you chime in with your two cents? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:17, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hello

Hi, you can see Nlu's talk page for more information on this, but he hasn't been on much lately, so I'm coming to you since he hasn't been able to take action. Can you please delete my user page, talk page (and archives), and my awards page. I want everything that can possibly be removed, removed. I really can't be on wikipedia any more, and this is going to drive me crazy if you don't erase the stuff soon. Like I'm asking this as a favor, and I'm giving you full 100% permission to do this. I know I have been a pretty good editor in the past, but I can't return to this, and I really need you to do this for me. Thank you so much. I really just want this done so I can forget about Wikipedia and move on. Thank you. --EveryDayJoe45 (talk) 16:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

hrm...

I've looked over your post to Nlu, and it sounds like you're looking to vanish. That's something that I believe has to be handled by a Bureaucrat, not an Admin.

I've passed your request along to Rlevse, though I'm not sure what the time lag is going to be.

- J Greb (talk) 22:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

And it's been passed back...

Joe, please read through Wikipedia:Right to vanish and make sure you've covered all the steps it indicates. Then you're going to have to ask yourself some hard questions, including:

"Do you want to be left the option to come back?"
"Do you want you account indefinitely blocked?"

_ J Greb (talk) 00:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. --EveryDayJoe45 (talk) 15:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok J Greb. I believe I did all the steps I need to. If I havn't let me know. But bottom line, I really don't want to come back. I may want to in the future, but anything you can do to prevent me from doing so is greatly appreciated. Blocking my account indefinitely, deleting all my personal pages (i.e. user page, talk pages, award page), changing my username to something else, anything. The reason for all of this, is because Wikipedia was really starting to interfere with school, and my relationship, etc. As much as I may want to come back one day, I really want to stop myself from being able to. I don't want this to run my life anymore. So Anything you or anyone else can do is greatly appreciated. And by the way, I truly respect how you are helping me out, just so you know. I will be on later, to see how you reply, to find out how I can finish off this process, if it is not already done. --EveryDayJoe45 (talk) 20:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Minis, Events, and Stprylines

I'm thinking that, as a rule of thumb, it depends on the focus of article. Final Crisis specifically focuses on the core limited series, with the main tie-ins being mentioned but dealt with elsewhere (as opposed to say Annihilation (comics).

In some ways they are getting more sophisticated with big events - they were pretty much what killed me for American comic books for a while. I can't think of a better example than DC One Million - the trade is a complete shambles as you can't just read the mini-series and a few of the tie-ins (it even has pages explaining where the next bit of the story is told and what happened in it), you'd need to have bought dozens of different titles to read the story.

So default to the storyline box if there is ambiguity but yes it is possible to cover "events" with an infobox for the limited series. It is probably something that needs to be judged on a case by case basis. (Emperor (talk) 22:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC))

Removed Art?

In the Giganta article, why have you removed the art I created myself, based on the Justice League art, and replaced it with art ripped-off directly from the same show? You seem to then have removed other art that was similar to what you added, or am I missing something? My image shows only the character in full, drawn by me, making it both more illustrative, and less infringing than what you replaced it with. Please clarify this. Thanks. Steaphan Greene (talk) 02:08, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, I now understand why you did that. First, let me clarify what I said above. I in no way claim to be the original creator of this art. These are composites of screen-shots, with very little creativity on my part involved (basically digital tracings). The point I was trying to make was that I took less from the original source (via fair use) than the other images. This image is also an SVG, and has no real resolution. In terms of data points, it has far fewer than the captured images, and reproduces only the needed material, without also including other unrelated copyrighted materials. Thus, I think these are more appropriate than the screen-shots for encyclopedia articles' fair-use images. Am I wrong?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just want to understand this, and you seem to have a better grasp on this stuff than I do. Thanks. Steaphan Greene (talk) 03:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. That all makes sense. I will be withdrawing these images back to private-use-only (their original intent). Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me - I had not managed to parse that info from all the info online myself. Steaphan Greene (talk) 18:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Identity Crisis

It is all pretty hamfisted.

Worth noting that sales figures are worth including just not in the PH (which I thought would be obvious to an experienced editor) and some of the other edits are mystifying (like removing JL, as you pointed out), others are unnecessary (I'm pretty sure for minor things like dates, you go with the format there so switching "September" to "Sept." is not required - personally I prefer the long form as abbreviations can be less helpful for non-native English speakers). There might be some merit to some of the edits but doing them all in one go means it is all or nothing and it doesn't leave any room to explain why some of them are being done.

It is on my watchlist so I'll keep an eye on it too. (Emperor (talk) 03:47, 26 May 2009 (UTC))

IIUC, and it's damn had with someone who just snipittingin edit summaries, he soesn't like the idea of including her since sh is a costumed super villain... even though the section isn't headed that way. A lot of his edits still come off as "I don't like it and it must be my way", so...

- J Greb (talk) 10:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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Image problems

I ran into a fat gallery of images on Classic Comics but realised {{Comics-infobox-image-issue}} really only works for infobox images. Is it worth making it more flexible or should one just remove such big violations of fair use? (Emperor (talk) 03:16, 29 May 2009 (UTC))

"infobox-image-issue" is actually the "more specific" version.

The one I originally cobbled together was a 2 parter:

{{Comic-questionable-use}} to be placed within the FUR on the image/file page, and
{{Comic-questionable-use-article}} to be placed on the article's talk page.

"questionable-use" actually generates a markup for "questionable-use-article" to be placed on the talk pager(s) in question.

There may be a side issue with Classic Comics... some of the cover scans have been uploaded to the Commons as public domain on the assumption that the copyright was never renewed.

- J Greb (talk) 03:39, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

User:TriiipleThreat/Thor (film)

Please let me know if this sandbox violates any wikipedia policies. If it does then I will gladly remove it. - TriiipleThreat (talk) 13:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Welcome ot the Impersonators club.

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Admin_impersonation_account. I notified them there, then you. ThuranX (talk) 01:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Filed. ThuranX (talk) 02:11, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Nice catch on VVD. ThuranX (talk) 01:26, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

Good work on cleaning up the citations on Jean Grey. Taking advantage of the three days of peace and quiet on that one? :) BOZ (talk) 03:53, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Some what... It's something that really, really needed to be done.

The big screaming though will come when stuff that has been tagged as uncited for more than a year gets removed.

- J Greb (talk) 04:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Secret INvasion...

I bounced there earlier this week, found an edit conflict between Asgardian and an IP. I found the IP's version more reasonable, and have supported it, even using the talk page, where Asgardians' replies have amounted to dismissals of my opinion without real response. Instead, he tries to edit to the exact same problems using slightly different words. It's getting frustrating, and I'm sick of it, this is the same exact WP:OWN tactic he used years ago to push me off the Thor page, and the Abomination page when he inflicted that 'publication history list' problem which you may recall. Can you take a look? I've tried to clearly explain my objections and supports, but it seems not to matter to him, he wants it his way. ThuranX (talk) 04:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for stepping in. In light of recent complaints, I have tried my best to use talk and talk this through, but all I'm seeing here is exactly what we have seen many times before, and you can see it in action even now. He won't talk, he insists he's right and 'non-revert' reverts, using slight language changes. He's currently insisting that the Skrulls' first appearance citation is enough to cite that they are the first alien appearance as well. I cant' get him to understand. ThuranX (talk) 05:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey, in reviewing some of his other recent contribs, i didnt' realize you were in a thing with him already, as here, where his revert reason has nothing to do with his revert of the template. Want me to find someone else to ask for assistance? ThuranX (talk) 05:15, 31 May 2009 (UTC)