User talk:DeLarge

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2G Lancer, Marcos comment

Hi. Just wanted to check on something. In a revision of the Lancer page you... compressed, I guess is the word I'm looking for, what seems to be speculation on the part of the original contributor. The original wording was "and that the government was probably getting a kickback from the sale of each car". However, after you were done, this was treated as an established fact ("with the government getting an increased share in any foreign manufacturing venture").

I'll probably be the last person to claim that the Marcos government, or any government for that matter, is beyond reproach. But still... wouldn't this be hard to support with references to actual findings?

Neil 21:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Let's see... the original paragraph read as follows:

"In the Philippines, this generation of Lancer was the only car manufactured and sold officially in the country for most of the 1980s due to restrictive foreign investment laws initiated under the Marcos administration, with the government getting an increased share in any foreign manufacturing venture. Other car manufacturers, like Toyota, Ford and General Motors left the country. A popular nickname for this car in the Philippines is "Lancer Kickback," a pun, due to the fact that such an aged vehicle was being produced in the late-1980s (a throwback to the 1970s), and that the government was probably getting a kickback from the sale of each car, which was priced unusually high. Other manufacturers would return to the country around 1988. Nonetheless, this model was quite popular, especially the GT versions."

The text I've bolded is only the most obviously controversial, and the least likely to ever be supported by external refs. However, don't let the fact that I didn't purge the whole lot put you off doing so yourself; I hate those kind of region-centric edits ("In <one specific country>, blah blah happened.") and would be happy to see it gone. --DeLarge 21:48, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. I wouldn't mind it so much if I thought it likely that we could find a supporting article. But considering the state of the country at the time... *shrug* --Neil 10:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You uploaded so many non free image

at mitsubishi motors. you must obey Wikipedia:Image use policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Totoz (talk • contribs) 10:44, July 30, 2007.

Reply posted at User talk:Totoz. --DeLarge 09:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try and deal with your issues in order:

your mitubishi motor images are simply not going to survive a challenge to its fair use justification. According to Wikipedia's Non-free content policy, "Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose." Since the mitsubishi motors image has now been available for about several months, your claim that it is not replaceable is patently false. When one person abuses our fair use policies like this, it makes it more difficult for everyone else, so please do not be disruptive.
The WP Manual of Style is very specific on the issue of forcing thumbnail sizes: "Specifying the size of a thumb image is not recommended". Remember that many users have small screens (WP is designed to be viewed on PDAs, web-enabled phones, etc), and users can also set image sizes in their user preferences. Forcing the size of the thumbnail, especially to something like greater, forces them to view images according to your personal preference. This is why it is recommended not to do so.
Your edits to the various MMC images were, frankly, childish and disruptive to make a point. As with the several mitsubishi images, these were concept vehicles not available to the public. Further, you marked it as replaceable fair use when in fact it was a free image. This is vandalism.
Similarly, your edits to Kia Motors were equally disruptive. In the event that these issues escalate further, your conduct in these matters will count against you, as you will not have demonstrated (a) a willingness to work within WP policies and guidelines, or (b) an ability to work with other editors in a constructive fashion.

Regards, Totoz 09:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note, the above is a copy/paste of my comments on User talk:Totoz.[1] I guess I'll be taking this further... --DeLarge 09:50, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image source problem with Image:Mitsutech banner.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading Image:Mitsutech banner.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|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 have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 12:05, 30 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

Sorted by User:OSX.[2]. --DeLarge 16:44, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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