User talk:Sven Manguard

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I edit from a location in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) and have an erratic schedule. I will try to never disappear in the middle of a conversation, but it might happen occasionally. If I do disappear, don't worry, I'll get back to you as soon as I'm able to. If I disappear after 05:00 UTC do not expect to hear from me for at least 10 hours. Thanks for your understanding, Sven

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I now have the email user function enabled. Emails will be sent to my alternate account, which I never check unless I am expecting a message. There is absolutely no way that I will read your email message unless you leave a note about it here, on this talk page. I will not be held accountable for not seeing your message if you do not leave me a note here. It doesn't have to be fancy, but make it obvious please. Also, please use email sparingly. If it can be discussed on the talk page, I would far prefer it there. Thanks for your understanding, Sven

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Seriously

If you don't enjoy the funning around, just do something else. You don't have to piss on everyone's parade. I've got a Huggle session up and am reverting plenty of vandalism tonight, but it's nice to take a break from it every few minutes and have a chuckle. Just ignore it, let people have their fun. 28bytes (talk) 03:16, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with the fun, I have a problem with the stupidity, and especially the vandalism done by experienced users (as was done to AN/I). I'm the kind of person that has a sense of humor, but at the same time finds Will Ferrell movies and anyone that finds them humorous to be pathetic. Stupidity of this kind shouldn't be funny. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:52, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

This is pretty standard on the wiki each year. Take care not to conflate vandalism with something else otherwise you'll end up ruining the unretirement; there's a very specific meaning to vandalism. Some people do enjoy having the fun and this is the only day of the whole year that a blind eye has been cast towards it. Of course, if you really can't stand it, then you know which day of the year you should avoid turning up at wiki (April 1) - particularly the Wikipedia space. Ncmvocalist (talk) 05:28, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I can't stand the way people treated you on that thread, Sven. I think that some fun is acceptable, but I draw the line at anything that would confuse new users and readers. Kansan (talk) 05:32, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi Sven, I saw your reaction. I guess humor is a subjective thing, and all the more tricky online. Please understand that I didn't mean anything harmful by it, and I sincerely hope that it didn't make you feel bad in any way. For what it's worth, I remember you writing a rap for a past ArbCom election, and I initially thought to myself that you were serious, and couldn't understand how a candidate would expect to be taken seriously on the basis of a statement like that. Happy editing! --Tryptofish (talk) 17:30, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Well the rap was actually just my attempt at humor, oddly enough, in a throwaway page situation, (the candidacy pages were created to test the templates ahead of the election, and ahh that brings back memories.) Really, as I said, I'm fine with the humor, even the really bad and unoriginal stuff, but the disruption is what gets me. Fake MfDs, RfAs, and pagemoves are disruptive, replacing high traffic pages with images and filing false reports (especially RfPP, which is going to be needed today) are even more disruptive. If people want to prank each other with userpage gags that's fine. It really dosen't effect the smooth running of the website. However everything else above that I mentione as disruptive, does, and that's not a good thing. Sven Manguard Wha? 18:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Remove the MfD tag

Hi, I saw you closed the MfD for WP:RfA. Not having a go at you for that, but if you were serious about closing it (I'm assuming you were), then you might want to remove the MfD tag from the top of the RfA page. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 03:35, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

My photos

I dont know what your doing or who you are trying to prove but all of my images were orphaned because you made them orphaned. Also DASHBot has removed your tag because I rolledback your edits to Ellison Greenslade. Ithink it was vandalism for you to remove the image from the article and then put the image up for deletion when you clearly took the image off the article. And I will correct the non free image right now. Jessy _(talk) ^(contribs) • 21:05, April 1, 2011 (UTC)

Yes, they are orphaned because I removed them. I removed them because they are a violation of Wikipedia fair use policy. I tried to make that very clear. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:35, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Also please read WP:ROLLBACK. It is for only vandalism. Other uses of it could end up with that flag being removed. --Guerillero | My Talk 23:26, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Just to say

I have copied your e-mail statement for my talk page. I will change it a bit. I put the note on just to say. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 23:10, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Autoconformation RfC

A formal Request for Comment has now been started on this topic. Feel free to contribute; best, Ironholds (talk) 19:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Miller Center - PD US Gov under assault at commons

I left a note at WT:FSC. One of my Miller center files is up for deletion at commons. You had said this was one of many and that if one was deleted a ton of Miller center files will have to be deleted from WP:FS. I assume it is an important discussion for the project. Just making sure you look for it.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 23:20, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Ah, no that's just a documentation issue, not a copyright one. I addressed it at the deletion discussion on commons. In short, the video is PD (it says so at the website of the Kennedy Library, again linked at the Commons discussion) it just doesn't say so at the Miller site. Sven Manguard Wha? 00:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured_sound_candidates/SITOR_idling_pattern

Most unpleasant FSC ever? Still, I think it has a point. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:05, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Move

“ Sven Manguard (talk | contribs) moved File:State of the Union (Four Freedoms speech), January 6, 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt.ogg to File:1941 State of the Union - Edit 1.ogg ”

I really think that was a terrible idea. Here's why:

• More descriptive filenames are preferred by policy. In particular, "1941 State of the Union - Edit 1" is largely incomprehensible, but "State of the Union (Four Freedoms speech), January 6, 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt" gives a good idea of what it is and who did it. One could simplify a lot more than I prefer without ending up with as generic and non-informative of a filename as you came up with. For example "Roosevelt's 1941 Four Freedoms State of the Union.ogg" is at least identifiable as to content for someone who doesn't have the 200 or so State of the Union addresses memorised by year.
• If you ARE going to force horribly simple names, don't include a hyphen. Dashes are only excusable in a longer filename; in a short one, you get all the risk of some idiot coming in and turning it into an en-dash, breaking the link, without the benefits of it doing anything useful.
• If you have a problem with long filenames, you have several thousand uploads by me to deal with. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:18, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Move

I missed a comma. Should be File:U.S. Air Force Band - Robert Browne Hall - Veni, Vidi, Vici.ogg

In the future, you can use Template:Rename media template and a friendly neighborhood file mover or admin will help you. That or... well you could keep doing this. At least four file movers seem to be watching my page, not including myself. I'll do it right now. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

 Done - That'll cost you more than you can possibly imagine though. Gwah ha ha ha ha! Sven Manguard Wha?

Oh, hey, Sven. Get on IRC. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:38, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

How ominous.... Sven Manguard Wha? 01:43, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

File

Could you please tell me if this file is available for use on Wikipedia. It states here, the only place the photo was used, that it was a handout. Thanks. Jessy _(talk) ^(contribs) •21:16, April 8, 2011 (UTC)

My answer would be no. Per the fair use criteria, the image would have to have contextual significance (NFCC #8), which this does not have in the article where it would be placed (i.e. the article for InSecurity.) Also, it is not a better image than the one currently used to illustrate the cast, so it fails NFCC #3-a as well. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

The article where it is to be used is not actually an article yet. It is a userspace draft here. I was not planning to upload it yet because it fair use and a bot would remove it from the userspace.