User talk:John

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Copyright of photos

Hi John,

I have tried asking for assistance elsewhere but without success.

I have a whole load of alerts sent to me by wikipedia saying that a bunch of photos that I have added are going to be deleted for concerns related to copyright. At least 1 of them has been deleted already. Can you tell me what the issue is please? When I took the photos I don't see what the concern is.

Regards, Socheid (talk) 16:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi again Socheid. You need to licence your photos correctly. Have a look at the ones I did for you before such as the scoreboard and you'll see what I mean. Let me know if you need more help. If you add, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} that will work. --John (talk) 22:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

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Admin Coaching

Hi, I was wondering if you would consent to being my admin coach, I have already created a page at User:Mifter/Admin Coaching, I did see that you already had a student but after seeing that the Admin Coaching page had not been edited for the last few months I was wondering if you would consider taking me on as a second student? Thanks in Advance and All the Best, --Mifter (talk) 03:08, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mifter. I'm sorry but I can't help you at the moment as I have too much going on in real life just now. If you are still looking in a few weeks or a month I may be able to help you then. Best wishes, --John (talk) 17:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much!!

Homemade is always better. That's an awesome photo and a lovely award. Thank you :) - Alison ^❤ 05:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome Alison, and I'm glad you liked it. I uploaded a better edit, as the first was a little choppy. It was slightly surreal to walk around and see actual barnstars and star anchors on houses. A sign I have spent too much time at the wiki-coalface. I feel another break, or protracted spell of semi-involvement coming on. Real life is a bit busy just now, mostly in a good way. Thanks again for all the great work you do. --John (talk) 05:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks from me too, John. That is a great 'star, did you spot it on your holidays? I hope it gets put into common usage. Thanks again. Rockpocket 21:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

You are totally welcome. Yes, I took it in New Hope, Pennsylvania, as pleasant a little town as you could hope to see. As for common usage, there is nothing to stop anyone awarding it to anyone else in the future. Maybe I'll see if I can get it adopted as an official barnstar (which I should probably have done prior to making the template) as well. --John (talk) 21:40, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I would like to thank you personally for reverting edits by Mitsomega and restoring my page. Thank you very much. Montgomery' 39 12:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Thanks for the award. --John (talk) 01:24, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Protect this article

If you take a look on the history of Dildo there is constant vandalism, alot of articles that are in the particular sex category get vandelized alot. I thought it would be of the common editor's best interest to semi-protect this article YBK

Thanks, I've added it to my watchlist for now and will semi-protect if that seems necessary. --John (talk) 22:02, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Your welcome, I really like the way you look at things, John. YBK

Edgar Froese

Tangerine Dream's website has been overhauled and all personal information is gone, so I guess I can't provide a reference. FYI, at one time the TD website contained a ridiculous 300 or so item "FAQ" split into several pages because of its size, which stated that Froese & son are almost radical vegetarians (which is no doubt why the category was included, but it wasn't me who put it in origianlly), and also had a long list of grievances about past members (a lot of really insulting and doubtful stuff about Peter Baumann in particular, but on the whole Froese doesn't think much of any of his past associates). He/They also had a lot of negative things to say about reviewers and fans, complaining about their being tagged as electronic musicians, saying "Tangerine Dream were never about electronic music" and suggesting anyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant. I really like Froese's music, but I get the impression he is not an easy person to get along with. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 02:45, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

That's really interesting, thank you. I love your user name too! --John (talk) 02:54, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Ditto to all of the above, actually. I'm also a big fan of theirs and had heard the radical veggie allegations before. If I remember, Froese and wife and son had to have their own chef accompany them on tours. There's a bunch more information in the "dancing grizzlies" interview that Froese gave some years back. I have the audio here and can check stuff up if you like ... - Alison ^❤ 22:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

I found this, which is a pretty crappy-looking reference but will do for the purpose of establishing Froese's vegetarianism. I have a thing about categories added to living people articles without any references or even mention in the text... --John (talk) 22:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Here's a really hefty and well-sourced set of references from the International Vegetarian Union. This has the lot! - Alison ^❤ 22:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that is a better-looking references. I always mistrust these type of lists (ie the first ref I found by googling). --John (talk) 22:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Your GA is under review

Hi there, I see that you are a primary contributor to the article Tsar Bomba. This article has come under review for Good article reassessment as part of GA Sweeps and a number of problems have been identified which are listed on the talk page. Please begin to address these points in the next seven days or the article will be delisted from GA and will have to go through the GAN process all over again to regain its status once improvements have been made. If you have any questions, please drop me a line.--Jackyd101 (talk) 09:19, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Patchogue, NY page edit

On June 7th, I added a link to the Patchogue, NY page to a map of restaurants and bars which you removed. Can you let me know why it was removed?

Thanks Nking79 (talk) 16:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

I already did. See User talk:162.84.177.144 and WP:EL. --John (talk) 16:30, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Help????

Please see Aircraft of the Battle of Britain. Heated editwar taking place. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC).

7th of July 2005

Please can you explain why you have chosen to change the date formats for the article 7th of July 2005 London bombings? Failed search (talk) 21:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Sure, it's explained at Wikipedia:MOSNUM#Dates. --John (talk) 23:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. But isn't it an article about an incident in the UK, where we normally use dates with the 'st/nd/rd/th' and 'of', especially when used in a sentence.

"Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should generally use the more common date format for that nation; articles related to Canada may use either format consistently. Articles related to other countries that commonly use one of the two acceptable guidelines above should use that format." Failed search (talk) 12:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

No, you've misunderstood the guideline. The 'st/nd/rd/th' and 'of' are still deprecated, worldwide. By format it means 7 July or July 7. --John (talk) 15:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough, thanks. 82.10.206.163 (talk) 16:08, 20 July 2008 (UTC)