User talk:MZMcBride

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Assistance on Image

As you are an expert on image licencing you may be able to help us out. Some concerns have been raised on the image of Adi Shankara on the FAC nomination page of Anekantavada. Can you help to clear some air? I hope you dont mind my putting up this request on your page. --Anish (talk) 05:36, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip.--Anish (talk) 07:08, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Film

You're half right; I checked the code - some fields have a non breaking space, some don't. It should probably be standardised, and I think I would lean in favour of not having them, but don't feel strongly enough to place another edit request. PC78 (talk) 20:14, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Unprotection of Category:Country data templates

Hi, I see you are in the middle of unprotecting many of the templates used by the flag template system. I'm curious about two things—what is the threshold you are using for high-use or not, and are you using any tools to perform this job quickly? Some background may help: Back on Dec. 10, User:East718 protected every one of those ~1000 or so templates. This included several that really were high use (i.e. tens to hundreds of thousands of transclusions) to many that had only a dozen or so transclusions. There was also a bit of a botch-job in attaching the "padlock icon" to many of these, so that whole mess was quickly reverted and I came up with an alternate mechanism for attaching {{pp-semi-template}} to this set. I added code to Template:Country showdata, which is used to automatically generate documentation for these templates, so that it looked inside Template:Country data protected to see if it is on the list or not. Now that you are unprotecting many of these, that template should be edited too so that the padlock doesn't appear on templates that are no longer protected. I suppose that if the list of country_data templates that really need to remain protected is a manageable list, we can dispense of that whole scheme altogether and simply put {{pp-semi-template}} directly inside the ones that need it. Anyway, when I started the process of looking at these templates to gauge the number of transclusions, unprotect some of them, and update the Template:Country data protected list, it was rather time consuming, so if you are doing something to make this process more efficient, then I am interested. Thanks! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:56, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I was using a threshold of 50 myself when I started (and gave up) on this work manually back in March, so that's good that we're aligned. It was relatively easy to filter out the 397 templates from Template:Country data protected using an Excel sheet, so I've just updated that. Thanks for your help! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Image Deletion Reason?

Hiya,

I'm not sure why my image was deleted:

01:04, 22 July 2008 MZMcBride (Talk | contribs) deleted "Image:Lynn de Silva.jpg" ‎ (csd g7)

From my understanding, "CSD G7" stands for either "Speedy request by only editor" or "Page blanked by only editor". I don't believe either of these are true.

Would you please be able to restore the image?

Cheers, Ldesilva (talk) 01:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Now I see why it was deleted. Thanks for restoring! I've added copyright info. I'm still getting the hang of Wikipedia :) Ldesilva (talk) 02:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.css

I am honestly, very truly sorry. I'll get off now. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 02:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Wasp Factory Recordings

Hi, User:Davewild tells me that you deleted Talk:Wasp Factory Recordings, where I referred all people seeking to re-create Wasp Factory Recordings to my userfied version. This has already attracted a new editor to the project. Since I am co-ordinating a rewrite of this article (Davewild userfied the article page for me), please can you re-instate this talk page so that it continues to point potential re-creators/editors at my userfied page? Otherwise I suspect that people will recreate this deleted page in a poor unsourced form as per the original article. I believe this talk page qualifies for an exemption under CSD G8 "This excludes any talk page which is useful to the project, and in particular: deletion discussions that are not logged elsewhere"; improving the article for re-inclusion is useful to the project and my co-ordination of the rewrite is not logged elsewhere (or at least, not anywhere that anyone could reasonably be expected to find easily). See also WP:CIVIL and WP:GOODFAITH. Could you temporarily reinstate this talk page for two months please? Andrew Oakley (talk) 13:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/Main Page Draft

I suggest we start with a copy of the current Main Page, called Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/Main Page Draft, and through edits and discussion transform it via consensus into the new Main Page that will be proposed to the community for final approval. Competitions won't work (we tried that last time), because submissions that are only slightly different from each other will divide the vote between them which will drive their basic common design out of the competition, obscuring its support as well as support for particular design elements. Each new design element or change needs to be discussed on the talk page of the community-developed draft, to arrive at a consensus for each as to whether it should be included or not, and what each design element should look like. We need to literally get on the same page and integrate the best features of all those wonderful designs that have been submitted. Let the edit wars editing and discussion begin! :) The Transhumanist    01:23, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk pages without corresponding article

Hi, I know you enjoy deleting these pages. I wanted to ask you how we can prevent pages such as WT:Articles for creation/Submissions/Optical Tactics Group from being deleted by you or someone else. We are currently experimenting with creating pages in talk space because unregistered users can do this. Obviously we would not want these requests deleted as it provides a record of whether they are accepted or declined and the reasons for the decision. Regards, MSGJ (talk) 10:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Creating talk pages without a corresponding article is very likely to have an administrator delete the page. While some administrators will notice and not delete a page if it is tagged with {{go away}}, a few still may. The best option is to create pages in subpages of a WikiProject. Alternately, you could create stubs in the article space. But if you create talk pages without a corresponding article, the likelihood of them being deleted greatly increases. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:34, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, putting them in subpages of a wikiproject is certainly possible. Does that make them safe? But creating the corresponding project page would not be convenient. MSGJ (talk) 20:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Apologies. The entire thread below this one I completely missed until just now as well. I really do try to reply to these threads promptly, I swear.... : - ) Subpages of a WikiProject are fine. There's no need to create a subject-space page. Alternately, you can even use the Wikipedia: namespace, which means that it can never be deleted as an orphaned talk page as it won't be in a Talk: namespace at all. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Amtrak/Springfield Terminal railroad bridge (Suffield, Connecticut)

Why was this article deleted? It wasn't proposed for deletion. - Denimadept (talk) 14:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

MZM only deleted that as a broken redirect - the article itself, which had been moved, was deleted at AfD. krimpet✽ 14:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Strange, the article which had been deleted was for another bridge, or it was supposed to be. - Denimadept (talk) 14:33, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

The AfD discussion was for six articles in total, including this one. krimpet✽ 15:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

your main page proposal

FWIW, I've fallen madly in love with your proposal. user:Everyme 18:02, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! : - ) --MZMcBride (talk) 19:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I hate to admit to something that makes me look stupid, but what exactly is different? I mean, is it simply that the colors are neutral? HuskyHuskie (talk) 13:28, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

MyIRCname

My IRC name is ViciousGu :) WhisperToMe (talk) 22:42, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Your removal of links to the List of United States Supreme Court cases

Hi. I noticed that you removed a few of these links from a few case articles, see here and here. Why?--Cdogsimmons (talk) 16:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I now notice that you've done it to like, a hundred articles with an edit summary of "(fixed infobox)". I'm afraid I don't understand. Was there a decision made about this that I wasn't privy to? It's been my impression from various discussion when the links had been previously removed that these links have been found to be useful and relevant to the articles. Any why such a non-descriptive edit summary? Are you planning to re-add the links to the infobox or something? If so please do so. If not, I would appreciate it if you would reinsert the links into the articles so I don't have to. Thanks.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Red Steel 2

The title is now confirmed by the publisher, any issue with lifting the protection? –xeno (talk) 17:21, 28 July 2008 (UTC)