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Thanks!

Jreferee, thank you very much for your support in my successful RfA. I am thankful and humbled by the trust that the community has placed in me, and I welcome any comments, questions or complaints that you may have. Again, thank you for your support, and happy editing! Hemlock Martinis 22:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

DRV

[1] Michael G. Davis 21:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Shirahadasha RfA thanks

Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on my my RfA, which was successful. I learned a lot from the comments, I appreciate everything that was said, and I'll do my best to deserve the community's trust. Thanks again! And thanks for your kind words and support. --Shirahadasha 04:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

DRV

Hi,

Since additional commenters have raised points on each side of the issue, the nominator's withdrawl is not grounds for early closure, as far as I know. Best wishes, Xoloz 19:54, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I've always suspected that, but have seen early closure where additional commenters have raised points on each side of the issue. -- Jreferee 20:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

My RfA

Hello Jreferee, thank you for supporting my RfA!
I was promoted with a final tally of 68/12/0.
Also, please wish a Happy Birthday to Her Majesty the Queen. Vivat Regina!

Unfortunately I already posted the thankyou message on all 68 supporters' pages...only then did I realise I hadn't actually put a signature on the template! Now I feel like a wikifool... Anyway, thanks again for your support. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 17:44, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you, I understand now... I will do it!

--Wikimania1011-Wikimania1011 UserTalk 04:06, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:INTRO

No edit to the introduction page counts as vandalism, its there for experimentation. -M^ask? 22:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you BetacommandBot 18:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

DRV

Hi,

You're doing a fantastic job providing little tidbits of information to help keep DRV discussions flowing smoothly. I really appreciate it; I'm sure every commenter does. :) Nobody before you had the idea of providing background and precedural points consistently, and I think you're doing very well in your innovation.

On James Boyce's article being reposted, in its entirety, at DRV: You are absolutely correct that such repostings could become a problem if they became routine. They aren't yet. In the few previous cases where someone has done this, we've let the content stand. My first instinct is to let this remain also: it doesn't present copyvio or defamation problems, and it is unlikely to contribute meaningfully to internet search results (ie, if James Boyce's admirers point to a DRV log as his "homepage", most everybody will be unable to find the text, or understand the context!) I'm undecided on your suggestion, but I just thought I'd share with you some thoughts.

I won't be closing James Boyce, anyway, because it needs more commenters first. I'll comment myself. Best wishes, Xoloz 14:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I think your point that it is unlikely to contribute meaningfully to internet search results in combination with the other points are good enought reasons to leave the content. -- Jreferee 20:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Userfication of store lists

Thanks, but they're not my lists (I nominated one of them to begin with, after all). User:Tuxide and the other retailing project people are the ones who should be referred to that page. Daniel Case 00:05, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Thank you, Jreferee, for your constructive comments in my recent RFA, which passed with 86 support, 8 oppose, and 5 neutral !votes. I will keep in mind all your suggestions and/or concerns, and will try to live up to your standards. Please, if you have any comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page, and I will respond as soon as I possibly can, without frying my brain, of course. Thank you once more, · AndonicO Talk

My (Selket's) RfA

Thank you, Jreferee, for your support on my recent RfA, which recently passed 54/1/1. I hope I can live up to everyone's expectations. I will certainly take the constructive criticism I recieved to heart. Please, if you have any comments or complaints about my actions as an administrator, leave a note on my talk page. Thank you again· --Selket Talk 18:34, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Smile

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:PWU Seal.JPG)

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Images deleted

I have deleted Image:PPSJIIIboxback.JPG and Image:PPSJIIIboxfront.JPG. They were reuploaded to Commons but deleted there with the reason "Derivative work, see Commons:Derivative works" - they are not free images.--Commander Keane 06:33, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

While I appreciate your efforts, English Wikipedia allows both free content images and non-free content images. If an inappropriate image copyright tag is used, it is proper to tag the image page for deletion and then leave a note on the contributor's talk page to give the contributor a chance to fix the problem. Immediately deleting an image on Wikipedia because Commons does not permit non-free content is not supported by Wikipedia process and is aggressive towards the contributor. Please consider restoring the images so that proper Wikipedia process may be followed. -- Jreferee 16:31, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

OK no worries I have restored the images, hopefully you will tag them.--Commander Keane 01:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Commander. I spent some time going through the flow chart at Commons:Derivative works and was surprised to learn that the photos were not free images. I'll work on tagging them. Thanks again for restoring them. This should help me provide a proper tag. -- Jreferee 17:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for tagging the images. I did cut a corner by deleting the images first instead of asking you about them, thankfully the situation was resolved ok and I'll be more carefull next time. Incidentally, your tone during our converstaion was very pleasant (compared to what I'm used to), I think you are an excellent communicator :-).--Commander Keane 11:09, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

More people will ultimately read this comment then will have seen 'Zyzzyx Road'

I first heard of this movie while browsing around on Box Office Mojo. (Not completely related, but they have a fantastic game called Box Office Derby, where you have to predict the grosses of the top ten films in the upcoming weekend's box office. It's a fun game that I would recommend, and here is my prediction history, if you're interested. [2]) Now that I am completely off-track, let me continue.

In mid-2006, I went to their page which showed the highest-grossing films of the year at that point. Just out of curiousity, I wanted to see what the lowest-grossing film was. I figured it would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even tens of thousands if it was an obscure independent film that only played in a few theaters.

Well, I was right about the third-to-last film on the list. I was right about the next-to-last film on the list. And the list film, Jreferee, was called "Zyzzyx Road."

So a few months later, I was on Wikipedia, searching random things that came into my head and seeing if they had an article on it. They did for every single one except the film, so I created it.

Now what's interesting is that this played an instrumental part in the online buzz about the film. A few days later, Digg posted an article on their home page about the film, which gave credit to the Wikipedia article. As Digg is one of the most visited websites on the Internet, this is what really started the buzz, and soon Entertainment Weekly and Variety and Chud caught on, and probably others that I'm unaware of. Nothing else mentioned the Wikipedia article specifically, but it is a very safe guess that my article was what got them interested, albeit through degrees of separation. As an example, here is an NPR story that debuted only about a month after the Wikipedia article was created. [3]

So thanks for your message. Daily Variety and Chud weren't the only ones to not credit my article, but I can know in my heart that I played some role in getting this Internet firestorm started. Now there's even talks about getting it distributed nationally in 2008.

Free-encyclopedia 19:19, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

My edit to the RFC

I've edited Badlydrawnjeff's presentation and your outside statement [4] to remove the name or conceal it behind pipes. This is because of privacy concerns. Please respect this, but do get back to me, or else make reasonable edits, if you think I've altered the RFC unreasonably. Out of deference to the sensitivity of the case, and of the audacity of these edits, I will make no comments on the RFC. --Tony Sidaway 01:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)