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Meta::usurpation::GFDL

I have the same concerns you have over breaking GFDL with the proposed usurpation policy. I think I might have found a solution which could possibly make everyone happy (IANAL tho). My concern is that the identity of a user who had been subject to usurpation would be usurped as well -- obviously a flagrant breach of the license. But what if the usurper was obligated to keep a perpetual, highly visible notice on both their user page and their talk page stating that "this account has been operated by XYZ (usurped) until YYYY-MM-DD"? Do you think that would be acceptable? As much as I have fought against the proposed usurpation policy (before your radical edit), I think this could actually work -- as long as you wear a prominent notice on your forehead, I don't think anyone can accuse you of identity theft or anything similar. What say you? --Gutza ^{T T+} 21:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

No, I mean we allow for usurpation as originally proposed, but the usurper has to perpetually identify themselves as an usurper of an account held by somebody else before the usurpation date. --Gutza ^{T T+} 21:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean, Wikipedia:Changing_username/Usurpations#Notes reads "When the rename has been completed, your account will have been renamed, and any contributions you have made (including deleted contributions) will be reattributed to your new account as a background process." What am I missing? --Gutza ^{T T+} 22:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

We cannot change the person, and we also cannot change the identity, that far I'm all with you. But what's in a name, really -- apart from an identity? As long as you preserve the identity, the person behind the name, I don't think there are any problems. After all, the GFDL doesn't make any provisions on usernames, it makes provisions related to authorship (and authorship is related to persons, people -- not usernames). --Gutza ^{T T+} 22:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, GFDL demands no such thing. --Gutza ^{T T+} 22:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Precisely: preserve the authors, not the "authors' usernames". --Gutza ^{T T+} 22:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Look, I'm not a lawyer, and I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're not one either (just kidding). But licenses, as all legal documents, are about people, not usernames. I'm of the opinion that as long as you make an obvious, good faith effort of preserving the identity of the person (again, person, not username) who has indeed been the author of a derivative work, you are very much in the clear -- it's more than a reasonable effort to preserve the true history of the document. Once again, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one -- I'm just running this by you. --Gutza ^{T T+} 22:51, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

You're making me play the Devil's advocate. You seem quite rigid about preserving the History section as if set in stone. What if, in a real world scenario, Ms. John contributes to a GFDL document, gets marries, becomes Mrs. Smith, and asks for the History section to be revised? Does it or doesn't it get revised? Are there legal precedents? (I said I was playing the Devil's advocate because I'm fully aware in case of usurpation poor Ms. John not only doesn't ask for anything, but she's also completely oblivious to the name change -- but hey, what's life without a debate?) --Gutza ^{T T+} 23:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

That makes perfect sense. But now (please indulge me), what if Ms. John happened to actually be called Ms. Hillary Clinton instead? Hear me out, this really isn't nonsensical: Ms. Hillary Clinton gets married, and she's now Mrs. Hillary Smith. She did have legitimate contributions under the (then) legitimate name Hillary Clinton, and nobody's denying them. But now there's one Hillary Clinton who happens to be a more prominent person (read "contributor"), and at the same time the former Ms. Clinton doesn't in fact use that name any more. Wouldn't it be acceptable for the current Mrs. Hillary Clinton to take over that name -- as a brand, if you wish? That is, as long as Mrs. Clinton bears a visible banner at all times reading "whatever happened before 2007-03-05 under the name Hillary Clinton is belong to Mrs. Hillary Smith"? --Gutza ^{T T+} 23:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting using a dual account, as Mrs. Hillary Clinton wouldn't if Ms. Clinton were a known pornstar. People are intent on preserving their identities, pornstars or not, politicians or not, private people or not. My point is that we have to preserve the identity, not necessarily the username, as long as ambiguity is not a matter of concern (and I do take that quite seriously). --Gutza ^{T T+} 23:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I think we reached the end of our exploratory journey: this is, in my opinion, something which should go straight to the usurpation policy: "The GFDL is only interested in the name the person adds to the history when they release the work under the GFDL." Thank you for taking the time to do this with me, it has really helped me understand this issue a lot better than before this conversation. --Gutza ^{T T+} 11:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Reminder Sunday Lunchtime

Just a reminder about Wikipedia:Meetup/London 10 See you Sunday 1p.m.! -- Harry Wood (talk) 00:22, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Grave1 high.jpg

I used to upload highlander pictures from other sites when I was a fresh user on wikipedia but didn't knew exactly how to do it well. I guess the licensing is wrong since I can't find the picture on the website I took it from. Not really an expert on uploading images. Stopped doing it long ago. If you think it should be deleted, the do it Secretaria 04:02 29 June 2008 (UTC)

List of sustainability topics

As you previously commented on this at User talk:Granitethighs#your lists, and following some discussion on my own talk page, I thought I should let you know I've started a thread at Wikipedia:Village_pump (miscellaneous)#List of sustainability topics. Wasn't sure how far your interest in this went, but figured a quick note can't hurt either way. – Luna Santin (talk) 11:30, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

linking

Hi—I've responded to your message here. Cheers. TONY (talk) 15:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

wiki-meetup

Hey, I saw from past records that you attended london wiki-meetup no. 10; if you're interested in attending again we're planning meetup 12 at the moment. Ironholds 16:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Norwegian Jade

Responded to your comment on my talk page. --OneCyclone (talk) 20:07, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Good catch on Girvan

As it seems to have been very persistent, I've semi-protected. DGG (talk) 19:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:ImamAli.jpg

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Paget-Tomlinson

Hi, do you happen to have the page numbers for the Paget-Tomlinson references you put into the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal article? I'm expanding the references to include a bibliography section and will need individual page numbers to advance the article further. Parrot of Doom (talk) 11:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm just tidying things up now and maybe one day it could be a featured candidate - I'd rather have exact page numbers, but if that isn't practical then we'll leave it as two pages and see what happens. Thanks for the tip re pp and p though, I'll look into that. Parrot of Doom (talk) 14:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

OS maps

Thanks for the info, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Your RFA

Best wishes for your RFA -- Tinu Cherian - 13:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Canals of North West England

Hi, I'm after replacing most of the Jim Shead references in the article with refs from this book - its only numbers and years, and should be easy to find. Would you be able to do it? Parrot of Doom (talk) 09:08, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Couldn't scan those few pages for me could you? Then I can sort the references myself. Parrot of Doom (talk) 11:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Have replied via email. Let me know if you don't get it. Parrot of Doom (talk) 12:30, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

RfA closed

Hi Geni. I'm sorry that I have closed your RfA as one that did not reach consensus.

Thank you very much for standing for adminship and for all the work you do for the Project. --Dweller (talk) 10:31, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to hear your RfA was unsuccessful :( —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs) 11:04, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

My observations and comments at your RFA may not have pleased you but kindly understand that there is nothing personal in my comments aganist you. We all know that you were good at using the admin tools but people expect a right attitude in RFA. Having said that I hope you take my comments in right way and prehaps think of what actually went wrong.. Anyways Best wishes again. Thanks -- Tinu Cherian - 11:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

-- Tinu Cherian - has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
....Hopefully this would have a made a better day for you. Best wishes
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

• You had significantly more support this time around than before. I'm sure that after another few months, and you run for RfA again, you'll pass RfA. Best wishes. Acalamari 15:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

August 2008

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Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Re:Letter to community nonsense

Thank you for wiping those comments. This thing is threatening to go even more insane.--Tznkai (talk) 05:09, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Image:Muckle_Fulga_Sunny.jpg

I took it from the top of the cliffs on Unst – see the image's page for camera information. Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 17:52, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Muslim Massacre

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Since it's apparently courteous to inform other people when they're mentioned on WP:ANI, this mentions your nick but does not really involve you. Also, thanks for having that kitten picture up. --Kizor 11:44, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Removing image placeholders

I imagine, like me, you'd like to forget all the ugliness behind the debate on placeholders but I was recently made aware of a bot request to remove all instances of the image placeholders. I have sent this message to inform you of it as well since I recall you as an active participant in the discussion and should be able to shed some light on the wisdom of the bot request. Regards, DoubleBlue (Talk) 21:22, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Mediation request for NZ inclusion on GDS' article

In order to solve the revert war on GDS article over the inclusion of the banning from New Zealand, I have opened a request for formal mediation at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Giovanni Di Stefano. Please participate on the discussion. --Enric Naval (talk) 01:30, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Geni, re: GDS

You haven't signed the Mediation Agreement. Is there a reason? Just curious. Hag2 (talk) 16:37, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. I do not know much history. Nice talking to you. Hag2 (talk)

UK 2.0 vote

Hi, I'm taking that that was a "blanket" message? Because I already voted if it wasn't? :-) fr33kman ^{t - c} 03:20, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I have voted too. But as far as I can see there is no way of telling this so well done for the low key reminders. --BozMo talk 07:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for sending the reminders around, but you got the wrong day - "Saturday (September 25th)" is either today (Tuesday 25th), or it should be Saturday 27th... That probably doesn't matter too much, though. Mike Peel (talk) 08:12, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Do we have a board? :-) fr33kman -s- 03:07, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

London 14

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Speedy deletion of Mario Fernando Hernández

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AfD nomination of Mario Fernando Hernández

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Mumbai map

CNN's map has the location of Leopold's, which seems to be missing on yours, and it looks like they are placing the CST station slightly off from where it should be. GetLinkPrimitiveParams (talk) 23:53, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

You can put Vile Parle back on, per [1] (check all three pages.) [2] says "Trident hotel, Taj hotel, Wadi Bunder, Cama hospital, GT hospital, VT station, Bootleggers pub, Girgaum and Metro cinema." GetLinkPrimitiveParams (talk) 02:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Mumbai images

Do you have proof those images were copyvios? Daniel Case (talk) 14:59, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about the whole Brandt mess. It was wrong to bring you down and I do feel awful about it. Yanksox (talk) 16:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

ITN

On 23 December, 2008, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Lansana Conté, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the In the news candidates page.

--Spencer^{Merry Christmas!} 16:51, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the Dave Littlefield vandalism

I created a user page for that IP address (66.211.238.79) that keeps vandalizing the Dave Littlefield page and added a warning... that was my best guess as to what was appropriate. - gohlkus (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC).

Happy New Year!

Dear Geni,

Wishing you a happy new year, and very best wishes for 2009. Whether we were friends or not in the past year, I hope 2009 will be better for us both.

Kind regards,

Majorly talk 21:14, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

New straw poll

You are a user who responded to RFC: Use of logos on sports team pages. As someone interested in the discussion a new straw poll has been laid out to see where we currently stand with regards to building a consensus. For the sake of clarity, please indicate your support or opposition (or neutrality) to each section, but leave discussion to the end of each section. — BQZip01 — ^talk 23:25, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

As a user who responded to the straw poll regarding non-free images in sports, your further input is requested with regards to the Straw poll summary and proposed guidelines on image use — BQZip01 — ^talk 00:36, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I made a good faith effort to reformat what you wrote (no content was changed) in order to keep the same basic formatting of the other proposals (for clarity). If I have, in any way, misconstrued or distorted your comments or ideas, please feel free to alter them or revert. — BQZip01 — ^talk 01:26, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revs

Hi,

I noticed you voted oppose in the flag revs straw pole and would like to ask if you would mind adding User:Promethean/No to your user or talk page to make your position clear to people who visit your page :) - Thanks to Neurolysis for the template   «l| Ψrometheăn ™|l»  (talk) 07:08, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Hannah Montana upcoming episode list

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Re: Biber (submarine)

I have thought about it, and I think that this should fix it. --Enric Naval (talk) 04:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Geni 4

I have added some questions for your perusal. Cheers Dlohcierekim 00:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

I was unclear and have rephrased. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 00:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Side Q

In your selfnom, you said that you did something that is now impossible. What is that? flaminglawyer^c 01:30, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Well done

Geni - you're an administrator again. Best of luck to you, and happy editing. — Dan | talk 01:09, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, good luck! It took a while but we got there in the end. Haukur (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Congrats :)! Mifter (talk) 01:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! I'm glad you're back. --B (talk) 03:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! It is deserved. --Chasingsol^(talk) 05:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Congrats

Again, I'm sorry you were tangled in the whole Brandt mess. Yanksox (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Your comment on Jimbo's talk page

Hi Geni. Respectfully, I would ask you not to suggest who I should and should not leave out of a conversation, thanks. Brion got himself involved with it by commenting, others have mentioned him and I do not see why that comment was directed solely at myself. I have a brain, a mouth and a keyboard. I decide what I want to discuss. Thanks. Thor Malmjursson (talk) 03:18, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/London 18

The Victoria and Albert Museum Wikipedia Loves Art event is February 1 (this Sunday), -not- February 8. Thanks!--Pharos (talk) 02:48, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism on Wikispecies

Hi, I'm leaving this message on the talkpage of several of the Wikispecies admins. User:Cheesecracker has spent an hour and a half running riot through Wikispecies. I couldn't find an admin urgently so requested help from the Stewards. A two hour block has been placed while cleanup occurs. Can an indefinite block please be used? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 08:08, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Final version

As a contributor to the discussion regarding sports team logos, I am soliciting feedback as to the latest version of that guideline. Your support/opposition/feedback would be appreciated. — BQZip01 — ^talk 21:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Would you object to including provisions that allow for a single non-free image as a last resort if no free images exist? I think this will help bring some of those who object to the support side of the house. At the same time, it also gives a little more ammunition because it indicates it is a last resort; if a free image exists, then those images can't be used. My efforts show that almost all college football teams (which seems to be the general genre of those who oppose), if not all, have a valid free image available. In the interests of not cluttering up the talk page any further, please just respond here. — BQZip01 — ^talk 02:19, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

No. season articles are not going to disscuss the logo thus it is decoration.Geni 02:22, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Vega machine

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Abidjan

What have you done????? You've rmeoved all the images i spent ages add to the article. You;ve rmeoved the map and stripped it of four years of edits? Can you please explain what the copy vio problem is as the article is in a dreadul state now. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:08, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Beeeatch! I understand particularly with a complaint. Maybe it would be permitted if you pasted the former article into my User:Dr. Blofeld/Ivory Coast and I can begin working on it? I had it on my list to transwiki from French wikipedia but if I can combine materials (and write our own version with the vio) could you allow me to do this Geni? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

You can trust me that I won't make a mess. I have an article ready to translate from French wikipedia which the bulk of the article will be when complete. However I'd like to view the former article to see if anything vital is missing and if there is anything worth mentioning from it. You can be assured that I won't restore any copyrighted material and in the end we will have a much better article without the problems I promise. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:41, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I would greatly appreciate it if you at least gave me a chance to do something. It will not remotely resemble what was there before. I will be translating from French wikipedia but I want to see what was there to write the best article I can on it. What have you got to lose? If I develop a version which is a mess you can delete it again. A chance please? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:56, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

OK thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:02, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps you could provide me with the url of the external page the article was a copyvio of so I can avoid any problems. Thanks Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Ticket

Just to let you know that Ticket:2009020810011301 has kicked off again. The notification system doesn't seem to work very well for that queue (or, at the moment, at all). Stifle (talk) 11:40, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Ruling in Wikiquette Alert Against You

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Deprecating the GFDL-1.2-only templates on the English Wikipedia

Thought you might be interested in this proposal. Kaldari (talk) 21:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Plasmaball vid1

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MLA articles

I see you recently deleted a goodly number of edits to the articles on MLA style due to their containing copyvio material. Is there any chance you could reach into the void and retrieve the citations used in the refs in the then-latest versions of the articles? I put a good bit of work into them and would rather not have to recreate them manually if I can avoid it. Thanks. --Cybercobra (talk) 09:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm much obliged! --Cybercobra (talk) 14:54, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Your comment...

... has a reply. FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 14:46, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Map Error

Hi Geni, Just a bit of a heads up for you. You have inserted a section of a 1954 OS map, showing Halifax and Sowerby Bridge, on the Halifax, West Yorkshire article, (ie:- File:Halifaxmap1954.png) which you have uploaded to commons. However you have have not put the correct description on for the map during the Commons upload. The description states: 'Map of penistone from 1954. Scale 1 inch to the mile 600DPI Sheet 102 "Huddersfield" series 7'. Somehow I don't feel you would have Halifax on any Map of Penistone and certainly not on sheet 102 from Series 7! :) Richard Harvey (talk) 09:31, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit to penis

Hi, Geni. I noticed that you changed the infobox image for the penis article. While I somewhat agree that the new image is useful, I think it would be appropriate to discuss such a change before we commit to it. Thus I've started a discussion at the article's talk page, seen at Talk:Penis#Changed images again. I'd like to invite your participation, if possible. Thanks! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:24, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Spy

I recall you having a book of vanity fair prints; would you be able to check for Charles Gill? Some time between 1875 and 1910, I believe. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 00:34, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Agg, must have been thinking of somebody else then. Sorry for wasting your time, then. Ironholds (talk) 06:46, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

ITN for Northern Cyprus parliamentary election, 2009

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New image project

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snollygoster

Is this the only reference to the word snollygoster? This word was found in Wikipediai in 2008. There were several different definitions found. Also, I was a child when Harry Truman was running for president, he called another person a republican snollygoster. The news man interviewing him asked, "Mr. Truman, what is a snollygoster?" Truman answered "it is an old southern word meaning, a child born to an unwed mother".

We would appreciate any infromation you have on this.

Thank you very kindly. Oldfossilfile (talk) 21:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Boarding Axe

No permission, so the article needs a re-write to adhere to the wikipedia standards. Feel free to tag/modify/delete etc. Kirk (talk) 17:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

OTRS

Hi,

Is there a way of seeing the contents of OTRS #2008063010023045 that you mentioned on ANI? I've not had much occasion to use it. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 01:18, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I don't think so, since OTRS are confidential. But if Geni could clarify the general issues concerned that would be great, since I can't find anything on-wiki about it. Thanks very much.--Slp1 (talk) 12:44, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I know they can sometimes be reproduced (see Talk:Frederick Crews#Subject_notes_from_OTRS but I'm guessing that's after explicit permissions from the author. I'll be interested to find out whatever I can. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 14:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

'Kay, I think it's resolving itself anyway. Thanks for the reply. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 20:58, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

License Migration Task Force

Hey Geni! Wanted to invite you to join the License Migration Task Force on Commons (if you're interested). Kaldari (talk) 22:03, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Formal Mediation for Sports Logos

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A note re: Talk:Rorschach test/2009 consensus review

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TV commercial replacement

The nomination is a G4 repost of an article deleted through the AfD process as discussed here; none of the issues were addressed in the recreation at all. Nate • (chatter) 10:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags. Only Admins can do that. If you disagree with a nomination, then you need to place a {{hangon}} tag below the deletion tag.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 11:14, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

You're an admin that doesn't identify themselves as one? Interesting. As for the speedy, criteria #3 for redirects is about typos. Maybe it isn't entirely "implausible" that they would capitalize "film", but the point is that we shouldn't be putting in every variation of the disambiguation of a film's title. It's one thing to have A Nightmare On Elm Street, where the "on" is incorrectly capitalized, because that's a common mistake. Most average readers don't know our disambiguation naming conventions to begin with, and to assume that they'd get it all of it right except that we don't capitalize "film" is a little hard to swallow. If they know all that, then they know we don't capitalize it. Secondly, given that our search bar now has that nifty drop down box that automatically brings up the titles as you type, that means that the second they put "(2010..." it would automatically bring up the correct title. If we keep the redirect, it means we'll have two that pop up, which makes one unnecessary to have even if it is "harmless". And if you test this, the capitalized "f" is the one that comes up first.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 11:24, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Ok, assuming of course that they don't have java turned on, where are they going to end up should they type in A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010 Film) (if that redirect wasn't there)? Probably at one of those search pages that say "Did you mean ....". As such, they'd probably learn that you don't capitalize the "f" in the name. So, yes it may be "harmless", but it's also unnecessary to have because it's a disambiguated title that would require them to 1) know how to disambiguate and 2) take them to a place that will direct them to the correct title anyway.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 14:10, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Your edit to RfC/Paid editing#Fuhghettaboutit

Your appear to have registered your approval for F's statement under my comment, which has meant there is a miscount of endorsements. You may wish to move it to the appropriate place. LessHeard vanU (talk) 11:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Titan Globe

Kaldari has proposed a replacement image. Please consider updating your !vote. wadester16 04:52, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki edits

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Re: Pajhwok Afghan News

Hm, that edit was so long ago that I can't remember what made me say that it was unreliable. It seems at least somewhat reliable now that I look at it, so I can't give as straight an answer as I'd like. I'm presuming my figuring was if that was the only source that had the info and it was workable, it would've been picked up by other outlets. Wizardman 22:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

GFDL and deleted/oversighted revs

Hi, there is a discussion at User_talk:Coren#a_boob-ish_gamble about some deleted revs and GFDL compliance. Any chance you can steer us in the right path? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 15:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Mainpagesmall.png listed for deletion

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Geo Data

As someone that nearly got blocked for removing propriatery sourced co-ordinates ( ie. Wikimapia/Google) I have to say that your approach seems somewhat confrontational.

If the co-ordinates are problematic, use a talk page to suggest better ones or better still replace them with sources you feel are 'ideologicaly' clean.

You could also lobby for reform of the policy about original research to allow self discovered GPS readings to be added to articles..

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 22:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Anglethrice

Please see Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 34#Talk pages of indef-blocked users. {{db-housekeeping}} applies to this talk page. Cunard (talk) 23:43, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

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Play Me, I’m Yours (Toque-me, Sou teu)

Hello, Geni

You asked me about Street Pianos in Sao Paulo:

[3]

Play Me, I’m Yours (Toque-me, Sou teu)

--Eugenie Absalom (talk) 14:11, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

A question of privacy

Hi Geni, I was wondering if you could help me. Following our recent discussion concerning privacy, I though it may be a good idea to remove the personal details I added, in the past, to my user pages (not one of my better decisions, in hindsight!) Would it be possible to remove this information from the edit histories?

The entries I am referring to are on English Wikipedia and Wikipedia Commons.

The entries in question were all made on 23 September 2008 (i.e referring to a town in UK)

If something could be done about this, I would be very grateful.

Best Regards :-) Marek.69 ^talk 16:53, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

That's Great. Thank you very much Geni :-)

Cheers Marek.69 ^talk 23:46, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

67.70.153.70

This IP belongs to the long term vandal I describe here. A longer block on the IP would be effective in making sure that the edits do not continue once the block expires.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 01:26, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Happy Geni's Day!

User:Geni has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Geni's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Geni! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Your vote on the Ireland articles

Hi Geni, your vote on the Ireland article names may not count because you did not sign the template properly. Your sig is supposed to go inside the template as a final parameter like this: {{stv-ballot|A=0|B=0|C=0|D=0|E=0|F=0|sign=~~~~}}

Regards, --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid (coṁrá) 18:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Not F

Ah Geni - This guy is attacking me all day and then says he doesn't understand what "not F" means! Surely you wouldn't deny me a tap-in to an unprotected goal??? Sarah777 (talk) 00:39, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Could I draw your attention to the fact that the editor you protected from my response has just now said, to me: "You are lying". What I did was presented a different set of data to his and it is very clear that he is aware of that fact but chose to call me a lier anyway. Now I can handle that; but not if my responses are being censored while he can indulge in personal attacks, invivility and, ironically in this case, lying. Sarah777 (talk) 20:51, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Broken Coord

Hi. I'm working on clearing out Category:Coord template needing repair. Would mind if I removed the instance of {{coord}} from User:Geni/test? The seconds in {{coord|50|46|788|N|1|05|360|W |region:GB_type:museum |display=title}} are way out of bounds. I don't know what it refers to; maybe those are decimal minutes — 50°46.788′N 1°05.360′W?
—WWoods (talk) 19:15, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. —WWoods (talk) 20:15, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

U.S. copyright issues for images

Yesterday, I lived through one of my more bizarre Wiki encounters. An editor named Hammersoft, who is one of the self-appointed Wiki copyright enforcers, in good Monte-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail fashion, tried to convince a dozen administrators that I was trying to intimidate him through "legal threats" ("Help! I'm being oppressed!"). Not one of my happier Wiki moments. Apparently, the sane eventually prevailed and decided that one has to actually make a threat to take legal action (or at least mention legal action) before one can be construed as having made a "legal threat." All of this developed when the editor in question flagged one of WikiProject University of Florida's two-year-old photos for a possible derivative copyright violation (photo of underlying artwork; photo itself was unconditionally released already). I went to the media copyright discussion page to request help with the issue, and the editor in question followed me to the discussion page and pretty much struck a hard-line pose rather an attempting to find an exception/rationale for continued use based on facts that led me to believe that multiple "public domain" and "fair use" exceptions/rationales were probably available (63 year-old, state-owned statute on unrestricted public display on a state university campus for 63 years). You can read the whole hoary exchange, across 4 or 5 different talk, discussion and administrative pages, but it won't make you happy.

Anyway, one of the few good things that came of this was one of your UK compatriots, a young English lawyer who uses the handle Ironholds, recommended you as one of the two or three genuine copyright experts with whom one may discuss such issues. Over the next several weeks, I may be dealing with a series of interesting copyright questions over images. My whole reason for being on Wikipedia is to help with the University of Florida Project, my alma mater. I have made contact with the full-time university historian and archivist, and they have indicated their willingness to consider releasing a series of post-1923 images to illustrate revamped UF-related articles. I hope that I might be able to draw on your expertise in these matters, so that I can properly document such copyright releases correctly and without any further back-and-forth with the self-appointed copyright enforcers.

Would you be willing to provide advice with these copyright release and related issues? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 11:47, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Bounce Energy

I placed an AfD on this article, for which you had previously declined a speedy--you may want to comment. DGG ( talk ) 00:45, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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Krishna Gokani

How do I know that she's really a soap opera actress? There wasn't even a way for me to know that it was claiming that she was a soap opera actress; "serial", for all I know, could be some trivial show on a minor network. Nyttend (talk) 20:42, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, wasn't paying attention; you might note that I edited that article a few minutes ago. I made no mental connexion between the two. Moreover, I never deleted a redirect: Vikkz94 changed it from a redirect, making it so that it read "She plays the role of Bhakti in Hamari Devrani." and included a little table. Nyttend (talk) 20:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

It did, but I miss your point; could you explain more? Nyttend (talk) 20:56, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Very true; sorry for the confusion. Nyttend (talk) 20:58, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Use movie clip

Hi! You posted a movie clip on the page about viscosity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viscosity_video_science_museum.ogv). I was wondering if it is ok if I use it in my school project, don't want to steal stuff. Elisabeth

It's availible under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license which in this case most likely means that as long as you say the video was made by "Geni" there shouldn't be a problem.©Geni 16:10, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Ordnance Survey

Hello. In a recent edit at Ordnance Survey you commented "rm Location map OS is not a place". Er, why then does the infobox include coordinates? -Arb. (talk) 23:18, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Let's keep this in one place. You replied on my talk page: "Probably because that is where the offices are currently located. Not everything with geocoords needs a location map.©Geni 00:03, 4 October 2009 (UTC)"

That may or may not be correct but in this case including a location map seemed to add value for readers unfamiliar with the OS's primary location. That would be true of any organisations where the head office is as key as it is for the OS. -Arb. (talk) 15:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

It's not that critical and you will note that no such maps appear in Parliament of the United Kingdom, HMS Excellent (shore establishment) and Fire Service College.©Geni 15:19, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Yesterday's meetup

Hi - did I promise to pass anything on to you? I've forgotten! --Redrose64 (talk) 12:26, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I remembered one thing at least - L. T. C. Rolt --Redrose64 (talk) 18:50, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Have remembered another - I've worked out how I bumped into WikiFur! There was an IP user who was posting messages to Template talk:Cite web (which I have on my watchlist) and not signing his posts; when I put a {{subst:UnsignedIP2|16:18, 9 October 2009|134.181.233.102}} on these, he would remove the signature again. So I looked at his contributions to see what his usual activities were, and found that the only other page edited by this user was Furry fandom. One edit in particular contained the intriguing link further details; visit that at your peril. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't Move

Please don't move page without proposing them in the correct procedure.S711 (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Re: usernames as sources

Well, now that you explain what it means, I can see how the information might be useful, particularly if it turned out that certain users were unreliable. However, adding "_source:user:Geni" to the coordinate parameter string is not a great way to do it.

1. Colons ( : ) are used to separate parameter names from values in the parameter string, so embedding a colon in the value will confuse simple-minded parsers. (This could be got around with something like "_source:user-Geni".)
2. The documentation for the source: parameter says that it's to avoid loss of precision due to copying. When copying coordinates obtained by GPS research, there's nothing to be done about loss of precision. A username doesn't address that need.
3. A username doesn't tell me what I most want to know. All wikipedia information comes from users; what I want to know is "Where did the user get this information?" so I can verify it myself or at least judge its reliability. "_source:GPS" would be a lot more enlightening. If I wanted to contact the editor who did the research, I'd go back in the history and find the editor's username that way, just like I would with any other edit.

Still, I'm open to new ideas, and I think there's value in finding ways to document coordinates better. There's been some discussion on the template talk page about including citations -- most recently at [[Template talk:Coord#References for {{coord}}|the template talk page]]. Perhaps you'd care to chime in. --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:08, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I see you've already joined that discussion. Well done.

I see you've also gone and removed the source= error check that I added to {{Coord}}. I'm unhappy about this, because it changes the syntax of the template, and I think such changes should be extensively discussed before they are implemented. The source= syntax that you seem to be promoting is not documented anywhere. Nor are the many automated tools that process coord data going to undestand it. Please revert your change. --Stepheng3 (talk) 16:23, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

"source:GPS-user-geni" would be much better, though I have a concern that some usernames belong to different people on different wikis. I don't know all the ins and outs of wikipedia, so I suggest discussing the issue on the template talk page. Whatever practice we adopt, it should also be documented on the Template:Coord-doc-source page for the benefit of future editors and bot-writers.--Stepheng3 (talk) 16:34, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

I've implemented a notes= parameter for supplying footnotes (and other text) in {{Coord}}. I hope this will meet your needs with respect to citing sources. For instance, you could code {{Coord|1|N|2|E|notes=<ref>on-site GPS measurement by {{ultce|Geni}}</ref>}} to obtain 1°N 2°E.

I'd like to switch the source= error checking back on. Since I have no idea how many source= parameters are out there, I propose silent checking at first (maintenance category only, no red text). Would this be acceptable to you? --Stepheng3 (talk) 00:07, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Why don't you want GPS information to be marked as such in an article's footnotes? --Stepheng3 (talk) 21:51, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I've often cited sources for geocoordinates in the past, and I plan to do so more consistently now that title coordinates can be footnoted. This seems a natural consequence of WP:V. Users should be able to easily determine whether the coordinates in question come from a reliable source. --Stepheng3 (talk) 22:00, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

For example: List of islands of California has multiple coordinates footnoted. --Stepheng3 (talk) 23:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

It's fine with me that we disagree about how common the practice of footnoting coordinates is or will be in the future. What I really want to know is, would you object to me collecting articles that use "source=" instead of "source:" in a hidden maintenance category and then standardizing them? --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

HMS Calypso (1883)

Thank you for adding the photograph to this article. I was unaware of it. Can you tell me where this gun is located? Any additional detail you can give us on the gun and how it came to be where it now is, would also be appreciated. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 20:32, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I've checked the Mariner's Mirror article cited on the page (the best technical summary I've seen of the vessels) and cannot come up with anything. I have read that work was done in 1902 prior to the transfer to Newfoundland but photographs taken there show 6" guns, at least on the port side. So when this gun was removed (or changed for another) will have to remain unknown.

Would you mind adding your additional information to the description on the Commons page? It would be helpful. Best regards, Kablammo (talk) 13:51, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I have enquired. Kablammo (talk) 17:39, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I have received no response yet. Kablammo (talk) 03:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The Righteous Sock Barnstar
		Awarded to Geni for meritorious socking at WP:Newbie treatment at CSD :) ϢereSpielChequers 19:13, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

ITN for 2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides

On 11 November 2009, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article 2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides, which you substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 10:19, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Rangeblock discussion

FYI, I'm attempting to raise discussion of the rangeblock you were involved in reviewing, here. Smartiger (talk) 04:33, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Paramilitary

Please see Talk:Blown for Good. Cirt (talk) 19:13, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Peshawar Conspiracy Case

Hi there,

Kindly try to understand that it is Peshawar Conspiracy case and there were five trial undertaken at different times. But it has to be written as A Case only. Kindly do not get influenced by the explanation. So please change the heading also which I am not able to do as I am not all that knowledgeable about using this wiki. sumir Sumir 01:26, 2 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumir Sharma (talk • contribs)

FPC Closing

Hi Geni,

Can you please take care to follow the full process if you are closing FPCs.

If I'm not mistaken, with your promotion of Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Yiddish World War I poster you didn't add it to the Wikipedia:Featured pictures mainpage or update the count (I've fixed), didn't add it to Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs 22 (I've fixed), didn't add it to Template:Announcements/New featured content or Wikipedia:Goings-on (not going to bother with now), and didn't notify the nominator. Also the caption at Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War I was not in the correct format (also fixed). It's a long process...

Cheers, --jjron (talk) 13:11, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Alexander Chancellor

I am intending to replace the indefinite semi-protection on this article. The BLP violation (false notice of death) occurred when this article was NOT in the news - and our current checks and balances abjectly failed to spot and revert. Having subjected the subject to this once, we have no right to say "sorry that happened, but we will take absolutely no further steps to make sure it will not happen again". The risk is not in the next few days, where the article is high profile and thus fairly watched, it is beyond that when this low-notability bio returns to the underwatched state in which the original violation was able to happen without challenge.

I'm always happy for you to challenge my administrative actions, and my talkpage is open.--Scott Mac (Doc) 15:48, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello!

You know me from elsewhere! --BenBurch (talk) 02:17, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

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... Misty Willows ^talk 03:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC)