User talk:Magi Media

Welcome

Hello, Magi Media, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -Will Beback 08:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

TSC Lowe

You seem quite the authority on Thad! Thank you for your input to this article. Could you please add a publisher and date (or other source) on the Intrepid reference to your materials? BTW, if you use the "view preview" button (or paste text from a spell-checked word document), you can cut down on the number of minor cleanup "editions" that the saved history database keeps. ;-) Lupinelawyer 00:25, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Mount Lowe article

Thanks for your great work on Mount Lowe Railway! I made a few copyedits to the article but didn't change anything of substance that you wrote.

I also removed your signature. My apologies, but Wikipedia articles are always unsigned. Your name can be seen in the "History" tab, and anyone who runs a diff on the history will see what work you did.

Thanks again! Lawrence King 10:45, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Some friends and I went hiking up in the Mount Lowe ruins around ten years ago -- some pretty cool stuff. Sadly, I'm now in the Bay Area instead of the Los Angeles area where I grew up....

Los Angeles history

I saw your note at Talk:Los Angeles, California/archive1. FYI, we generally do not post to archive pages, since, well, they're archived. If you have a comment it's better to post it to the current talk page so that more people will see it. Note that we also have a much longer treatment, History of Los Angeles, California. It'd be great if you could add your sourced material to it. Thanks, -Will Beback 07:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Prof. Lowe

FYI, we don't use titles, like "Professor", in the titles of articles. Cheers, -Will Beback 20:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's the formal citation, in case you'tre interested in the arcana. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people). Not to worry, you're doing a great job. Cheers, -Will Beback 02:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

PS, If you've changed usernames, don't forget to change log-ins as well. -Will Beback 20:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Water-gas

This article has been listed as a possible copyright violation. Rmhermen 05:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

This article has been rewritten to obviate copyright infringement. -Magi.

Image licensing

These images have licensing issues:

• Image:Cape.jpg, Image:Woodburys.jpg - have no license or source

• Image:Deodar cedar.jpg - listed GFDL, but no source listed (Did you take it yourself?, if so, use GFDL-self)

• Image:Oak mount.jpg, Image:Alpinetavern.jpg, Image:Circular.jpg, Image:Grangate.jpg, Image:Highbridge.jpg, Image:Horseshoebridge.jpg, Image:Altadena-map.jpg - these are all listed as PD but have no source listed, many of them are also not used in any articles. Rmhermen 05:47, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Altadena

This article has been reverted back before your additions of copyrighted material from [1]. Copying of facts is legal; however, copying blocks of text without rewording, editing, altering is not. Rmhermen 06:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The exception is if the copyright belongs to you. If it is please leave a note on the article talk page prpclaiming your original authorship. -Will Beback 06:38, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

The procedure from Wikipedia:Copyright problems:

Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia: If you submitted work to Wikipedia which you had previously published (especially online), and your submission was marked as a potential infringement of copyright, stating that you are the copyright holder of the work on the article's talk page helps, but will not likely prevent deletion. It is sufficient to:

• Make a note permitting reuse under the GFDL at the site of the original publication.
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions at wikimedia dot org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation.

I agree with Will that a note should also be left at the article page describing the original authorship. Rmhermen 18:19, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

As long as you are the author of the original text (and you were not paid to create it), submission is fine (along with the statement that you added identifying yourself as author. However, unless you took the two photographs or own the rights, you do not own them and cannot release them under GFDL. Remember that under U.S. law, all published works are by default copyrighted - even works created by local governments, in most cases. Rmhermen 15:10, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Movement to impeach George W. Bush

Hi Magi Media. I noticed your comment on Movement to impeach George W. Bush and thought you might be interested to know that the article was previously nominated for deletion. You can see the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Movement to impeach George W. Bush and see why it was kept. I have not made many contributions to the article, and did not participate in the AfD, but I think that article takes a pretty NPOV on a real, notable and verifiable movement. Given the result of the AfD, it seems that the article is on Wikipedia for good. (No alternate meaning intended there.) btm _talk 10:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Dodgerstad.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Dodgerstad.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator.

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you have questions about copyright tagging of images, post on Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags or User talk:Carnildo/images. 10:06, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Railroad

There's a question about the Mt. Lowe Railroad. the article says it " had the distinction of being the one and only electric traction (overhead electric trolley) railroad ever built." That seems implausible. Is there perhaps a word missing? Cheers, -Will Beback 02:49, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Gold_poppy.jpg

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If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies under Wikipedia's fair use guidelines, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you want the image to be deleted, tag it as {{db-unksource}}.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion.

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you have any concerns, contact the bot's owner: Carnildo. 08:23, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Mount Lowe railroad

I figured you'd just left out a word. Fascinating railroad, that's for sure. There are a few photos of it in the Library of Congress collection we could probably use if the Wikipedia article needs some more shots. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 11:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Military Aviation

By all means, Magi! Sign yourself up to the military History wikiproject and the aviation task force! It's definitely relevant. Glad to have you on board. Cheers, Guapovia 14:47, 4 March 2006 (UTC)