User talk:Geno

Mediation

Hello,
You requested the mediation cabal to help resolve your slight dispute at Talk:Linda Hamilton. I will be taking the case at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-09-06 Linda Hamilton--Phoenix 15 19:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:IGNORE

No offense, but please see WP:WIARM. "Ignore all rules" is not an invitation to use Wikipedia for purposes contrary to that of building a free encyclopedia. (emphasis mine) I'm sorry, but your repeated inclusion of this non-free image on Linda Hamilton is a violation of policy, which has been pointed out to you numerous times. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 15:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

And I say that other Wikipedia policy supports me and that the picture makes sense. If you disagree, then get a Wikipedia dev in here for a ruling, so I can kick it up to his boss. I figure eventually we can get to Jimbo Wales and get a definitive answer.

I tried compromising for the sake of co-operation and you guys decided, "Okay, we won, we're done here!" Fine, but if you want to compromise the articles, you're going to have to do the work to get an answer from some higher-ups. -- Geno Z Heinlein 15:39, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, I posted a request for an admin opinion here. Videmus Omnia ^Talk 16:07, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia devs are merely people who help to write the software that Wikipedia and other sits run on. They have no say over content. Even if you meant admin, they can't let you violate the appropriate policies concerning fair use content. And nobody here has a "boss". Corvus cornix 16:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

(1) My gods, are you all barracks lawyers here? I want someone who can definitively rule that it is a complete violation of all common sense to disallow in-character pictures on an actor's page. I want that ruling from a high-enough level that you legal geniuses will stop reverting the pictures. I don't care if the person making the ruling is called dev, admin, hoo-hah, muckety-muck or grand high wizard.

(2) Everyone here reports to someone; or there's someone who controls their access; that's their boss. The guy who runs the Wikipedia, Jimbo Wales, could come in here and say, "No, of course I didn't mean that you can't show an actor acting. That would be silly!" That would resolve this, yes? We don't need to kick it up that far, of course, just enough to stop the reversions.

(3) Even assuming the anti-fair-use crowd is correct in their interpretation of the policies -- they're not, even according to pages they themselves have repeatedly pointed me to -- those policies didn't write themselves; someone wrote those policies and someone can re-write them. -- Geno Z Heinlein 23:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Linda Hamilton and 3rr

Hello, I undid the image here. Please be aware of WP:3RR. Thanks. An admin already answered on the talk page. • Lawrence Cohen 23:15, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

How come all of you guys' rules and regulations end up with your picture up there, instead of the original image? -- Geno Z Heinlein 23:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)