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External links on Fender Bass VI page

Why have you deleted the links that I have added ? Because they're in French ? The Fender Bass VI notice is in english language, the information about original colors are useful even in french. This is the same with the strings available, it doesn't matter the language. I really don't understand why to delete useful information for Internet and Bass VI users ... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.27.212.146 (talk • contribs)

This quacks like spam as far as I can tell. MER-C 12:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I corroborate that's not spam. Too bad for people who are looking for information about Bass VI because theses pages are the most complete on the web about this instrument !!! I will try to add another time, but if the link are still deleted, too bad ...

Request your help

This user-User:Wikiking123 has falsely claimed to be the owner of the copyright of this image. Ths image is property of "Univision" see:[1]. Plus all other imgaes uploaded by the user about the subject in question are false since the subject is nither married nor has a child. Please take a speedy delete action. Thank you Tony the Marine 16:21, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I tagged them as possibly unfree images. MER-C 09:09, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Look will you stop it. I don't want to spend all my day restoring images i added to articles which other people have unrightly removed. I appreciate your efforts but please stop harassing me. I'd rather you gave me a list of orphaned images rather than sending me a full automated message each time ok? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you?" Contribs} 12:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

The Editor's Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I noticed that your edits were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Editor's Barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 12:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you on this marvellous day! MER-C 13:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

A question about FP

Hello,
I'd like to ask you a question please. This nomination was not promoted, but why? 2 people supported alternative 1 and only one weak opposed it. All otheres opposed it before alternative 1 was introduced and never bothered to oppose it one more time. I wonder what the rulls are? Thank you.--Mbz1 16:24, 13 August 2007 (UTC)Mbz1

Well, was there consensus for promotion? Approximately seven days had elapsed since the nom was made. I'll let you decide this one. MER-C 12:08, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Did I address your Concern correctly?

I am new to Wikipedia, and added my first article this weekend.

I understand the concern you raised, and believe I have addressed it, per the instructions I received, but I just want to be certain that I did so correctly.

I added this GNU FDL information to the www.314th.org website, and on the discussion tab of the page I created, to address your concern:

Note for Wikipedia added August 13, 2007 As instructed by Wikipedia, I placed the following notice on [www.314th.org] (in a bright yellow box at the end of the home page)

"The following copyright information is added pursuant to notice placed on [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/314th_Infantry_Regiment_A.E.F. I hold the copyright to this text and permit its use under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License."

Thank you for your time to tell me if I did this correctly...

- Tony — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.30.254.195 (talk • contribs)

Yes you have. MER-C 12:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Notification of discussion: Guideline/policy governing lists

Given your extensive Wikipedia experience, I'd appreciate your input on the following:

User:Sidatio/Conversations/On list guidelines

Thank you in advance for any thoughts you may have on the topic. Sidatio 00:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Tin soldier FP

Thanks for your note. There were requests for getting the separate images uploaded - what do you think? They're all of different aspect ratios (heights), so combining them with wikimarkup may nor be easy. Send me a word, and I can upload the separate next week. --Janke | Talk 13:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Note: replied at User talk:Janke. MER-C 12:15, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. However, the layout of the links on the composite image page needs to be tweaked to horizontal. I'm not very familiar with wikimarkup, could you please fix it? Thanks, --Janke | Talk 16:43, 19 August 2007 (UTC) PS: I copied the text, including the FP tag, from the composite to the individual images. Was this correct? If not, please edit, thanks. --Janke | Talk 07:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Bot archiving at WP:COIN

Hi MER-C. Since you're doing 60% of the archiving lately, I decided to check if you favor bot archiving. The system that I helped to set up in July at WP:WQA is:

{{User:MiszaBot/config

  | maxarchivesize = 100K

  | counter = 19

  | algo = old(14d)

  | archive = Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts/archive%(counter)d

}}

Ours would be the same, except the counter would be set to '15' since that's the currently active archive. Athaenara and Jehochman are OK with bot archiving. Your opinion is sought. EdJohnston 19:06, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I disagree, as I archive stuff when it is dealt with, not on some arbitrary time frame as determined by a bot. I'd flush the current backlog first, then think about it. MER-C 06:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Di-no source

I notice you made some changes to Template:Di-no source and I'd like to run something by you. I'm not exactly sure how this change should be made or worded, but some additional text should be added to the tag. The template currently dates deletion 7 days later which is almost always correct, however per WP:NFCC, if a fair use image has no source information it can be deleted 48 hours after notification of the uploader under CSD I7. I seem to recall that the old no source tag said something along the lines of "If no source information is provided, this image will be deleted on (7 days later) or 48 hours after the notification of the uploader for fair use images". This tag should have similar wording and I was hoping you could help out. --Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 23:57, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Template:Di-replaceable fair use does a similar trick - you need to have a template parameter e.g. non-free=yes and test for that parameter. This also means that you'll need to get User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js and User:AzaToth/twinkleimage.js edited (admins only) to reflect this change. I know of no way of finding using wiki markup of finding out whether an image is in a certain category or not. MER-C 08:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I have made a test version at User:NickW557/TemplateTest (the image copyright tag category is commented out only for the test) with a "non-free" parameter. If yes is specified, it will set the date two days in advance, if no (or nothing) is specified it sets the usual seven. Edits to those tools would be helpful, but not required immediatly, as it would default to "no" if the parameter was ignored and the template would function as everyone is used to it functioning. Could you have a look and tell me what you think? Thanks, Nick—^Contact/_Contribs 22:01, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I tested it on Image:V.jpg (diff) and Image:Hatchings.jpg (diff). Looks good, you can move this into the real template. MER-C 12:03, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

DAZ

Hi There,

why did you delete the DAZ links on several artists? At these artists there are also links to AllMusicGuide, Discog, Freedb etc. These are simular sites as DAZ, DAZ is non commercial and a big music resource which could be interesting for music lovers.

BR, Joyce OE —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Joyce oe (talk • contribs) 10:05:05, August 19, 2007 (UTC).

It was fairly obvious that the site was being spammed. See WP:SPAM#How not to be a spammer. MER-C 11:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

These external links are NOT inappropriate

Dear Mer-C,

You consider some external links I've added to Wikipedia as inappropriate. I know Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion (and I fully agree with that). However, I don't think that it is inappropriate to add a link to an external web site where people can find more info, pictures and videos - including relevant data not found on Wikipedia. I feel you've been too strict. Take http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lang: why would a link to Drummerworld be allowed, and not to Drummerzone?