User talk:Kintetsubuffalo

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Welcome to my talk page. House Rules I may or may not respond to a post you make here on this page, I will try to respond, but if I don't, you will survive, I'm sure. If I revert or remove your post from my page, it could be that I do not find the discussion germane to me; alternately it could be that I find something in the posting to be preachy or pedantic, in which case I will simply revert or remove your post. I am busy living in Japan, and if I hit one button rather than another, on my own talk page, I am a 5-year editor, not some vandal, and really don't need to be roasted. I'm often very close to being in trouble, but jerks need to be called out. Whiny, self-important editors threaten with "I'll get your x taken away" or "you'll never make admin"... I've been here five years, if I wanted that I would already be one. In the words of Jimbo Wales, I'm a good contributor, and so cutting me some slack is a very reasonable thing to do. This is not your talk page, this is my talk page, and I do not allow edit wars on here. If you are a legal positivist, if the "rules" of Wikipedia in your mind overrule respect for the privacy and pages of others, or if you are a creepy Wikistalking troll, you have your own talkpage which is your own playground to do exactly what you wish. This is not it, and you are not welcome to it. Friends and colleagues are most welcome, and none of the above is meant for you.

This user is one of the 400 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

Non-free Scout logo

When you remove {{Non-free Scout logo}}, you are also removing the category. Please place those images into some category so that we don't loose them. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:10, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

You also need to change the rationale from non-free. And they should be marked for move to Commons. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:12, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Nice to hear from you! Okay, I will find a good category. Some are ready to move to Commons, some should be improved before we kick them out of the nest. I will make sure we don't lose them, and they do us proud.

Also, you have several ZHP images marked ZHR. They are separate competing orgs, just the name is close in Polish. They should all be ZHP.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 13:19, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Tag any that need to be renamed. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:14, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Capital letters

Are scouting and guiding words that should always be in capitals? Just interested, could you point me in direction of reference to this? I can rename the reqphoto tags, just will take me a bit of time to get round to it. --Traveler100 (talk) 13:48, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, per Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/MOS#Capitalization, thank you!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 13:53, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Yakusugi

I am a little unclear on the article if it is a specific tree or about the type of tree cryptomeria_japonica. Just wondering if one of the images on this link will do for the article?--Traveler100 (talk) 14:53, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I believe, based on the wording, that it is the type of tree, not a specific one. You do great legwork!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:56, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Article incubator/German-speaking Scouts in Namibia

Hello Kintetsubuffalo. I've come across your tagging of this page and would like to remind you that {{notenglish}} should really only be used for articles in the article namespace. If you would like to have it translated, please list the page at the "Cleanup" section at WP:PNT with a short explanation. It has to go there because the "Pages for consideration" section is reserved for articles, and pages listed there have a deadline of 14 days. If you have more questions about translations, please ask them here, I'll watch your page. Regards, De728631 (talk) 20:43, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

I've gone ahead now and translated the titles and quotations on that page; but only because I remembered to have look at it, not because it was marked at "Pages needing translation". The "notenglish" template does not automatically list the page at WP:PNT, that's why there is an instruction on the template tag. You have to do that yourself after tagging a page. That said, good luck with future Pfadfinder articles. De728631 (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

That's wonderful, thank you so much for your help! Also thank you for the legwork, I don't know everything, so it's nice that others know things I don't! :) --Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:53, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Graphic Lab interview at The Signpost

Hello Kintetsubuffalo. You seem active at the Graphic Lab, so I wanted to invite you to participate in The Signpost's interview of the project. The report is being written by Rock drum and will be published September 13; this is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Please stop by and answer some interview questions here. Thank you,  â�³ono 

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Shisa face

Hi, sorry to hear that. Anyway i have a backed up copy of the file. Regards Fιηεmαηη ^[talk] 05:34, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Scout emblem - inquiry at WP:UKRAINE

• File:Scouting and Guiding in Ukraine regional organization.png
• 
  same top, different bottom
• 
  same bottom, no top

It does not look like a Ukrainian COA. It looks one of the towns of the former Ryazan vice-royalty, Russia - see commons:Category:Coats_of_arms_of_cities_and_villages_of_Ryazan_Region. The towns of the southern frontier of the former governorate are now not in Ryazan Oblast but in Lipetsk Oblast, Voronezh Oblast etc. and some were abandoned or downgraded to villages. The upper half (Ryazan ) is easily identifiable, although the sword is curved, not straight as it should be (there are two options for this part - either sword, sheath and hat in upper half, or just the hat in a small escutcheon like here). Bottom half - which identifies the town - ??? East of Borschov 19:15, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

• Got it: It's Yegoryevsk, Moscow oblast. Contemporary COA has only the dragon in red field, but the historical COA was topped with the symbols of Ryazan (see here [1].). East of Borschov 19:30, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I have looked for this information for five years! Thank you thank you thank you!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

3rd World Scout Jamboree.svg

Hello! I've just got a message that the File:3rd_World_Scout_Jamboree.svg file I uploaded for your request on the Illustration Workshop has been nominated for speedy deletion. So you might want to use it in an article so that it can be valid as Fair Use, or maybe use a {{hangon}} template and provide a reason. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 05:49, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I totally didn't see that this was done, I am sorry for the delay.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 11:17, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Union of Burma Boy Scouts

Sorry, Chris. I'm in a worse position than Hybernator. I can't even get the Unicode Burmese font work! Wagaung (talk) 22:47, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Deluxe logo.png

I cropped it a little - does it look better now? – ukexpat (talk) 20:17, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Much, thank you!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:19, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

File:Rhodesian Army recruitment poster Bush War 1976.jpg

Hello. The file above has been tagged to be uploaded as a PNG but in my opinion any conversion will have little positive effect. What do you think could be done about this and similar files? Hugahoody (talk) 21:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia supports change to png for lossless compression and so on. I appreciate the hard work you've done thus far!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:21, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! I'll upload this and similar photos to PNG. It's just that I can't see where changing it from JPG will achieve much as it's a dated photograph. Hugahoody (talk) 18:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

BLPPROD

I think you already read this at AN/I, but just in case, please remember that you can't de-BLPPROD without adding sources. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Lupin Musical

I left a note on WP:REFUND. If you send me an email through wikipedia I can respond from my gmail account w/ the file as an attachment. Just be sure to include the url in the body or subject so I remember what file we are talking about. :) Protonk (talk) 20:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Goodbye

I currently have more on my plate than I can handle, so I'm retiring from Wikipedia today. Go to my user page if you would like to read more about my retirement. I might return next summer, but until then, goodbye. The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 13:30, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Jack Horkheimer article

I have started a Jack Horkheimer article per the discussion on the Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer talk page. I am cordially inviting you join in adding to the article. Or to just watch over my shoulder and correct my mistakes. I will be working on the article over the next few days. Thanks for your time - Hydroxonium (talk | contribs) 15:48, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

I've finished the work on the Jack Horkheimer artcile that I wanted to do. It'a a good start on the article but it needs copy editing and clean up. If you have some time, could you review the article and make any necessary changes? Thanks very much. - Hydroxonium (talk | contribs) 09:34, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Your userpage in a category

Your userpage User talk:Kintetsubuffalo/Archive 6 has a category, and so appears in Category:Typography.
As the guideline on userpages describes, this is undesired. It is suggested that you edit the userpage to prevent this showing. It can be done by adding a semicolon (:) before the word Category, like this: [[:Category:Typography]].-DePiep (talk) 12:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

• I can't find it, if you can fix it, run with it.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 12:28, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

The Talkpage had an emoticon-like thing: {{:)|devil}} by User talk:Gadget850 16:16, 12 November 2009. This thing sort of copiesd the whole page Bracket into the Talkpage. That introduced the (three) Bracket-categories. Workings are unclear to me. But I made the code nowiki, and now it's solved as far as I could check.  Done -DePiep (talk) 13:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Work Done and Really Sorry!

I have completed the requests you made in the Graphics Lab. Really sorry about it being late. I had some exams and was a lil' busy! Fιηεmαηη ^(talk) 09:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

No problem, I really appreciate your help and the great work you do!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 11:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

You have new messages

Waiting for you at the Help Desk. Warm regards. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣} 17:07, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Truk

Hi! I translated the map you requested. Let me know if you are happy with it. It is basically as good as I can do without drawing the map from scratch (which I am not eager to do). bamse (talk) 08:07, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Out of retirement

I thought I would let you know that I've decided to return to Wikipedia, only in a semi-retired state instead of completely retired. Life has somewhat settled down for me, and since I'm ditching pre-calculus I'll have a little more free time on my hands. The Raptor ^{You rang?}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 01:05, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Request comment at Wikiproject Old West

As a listed member, your input would be valued at this discussion on the coverage of fiction for WikiProject_American_Old_West. Jason Quinn (talk) 09:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

File:E-tripartite-pact.jpg

Can I ask why you think this is the work of the UK Government? I may be wrong, but I strongly doubt there were UK Government photographers at the Tripartite Pact. The fact the IWM has a copy of the photo (or even the original) does not mean they own the copyright. J Milburn (talk) 15:28, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

It's got "Imperial War Museum" stamped on it, all others I have seen on Commons (and had removed as watermarking) are tagged thus. I don't know why they do that, maybe they had observers or spies? But they seem to have laid claim to the thing.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:33, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

They may owe the original, they may own a copy, I don't know. Doesn't mean they own the rights; I'm gonna remove the PD notice (and, for what it's worth, having both a PD and a non-free notice is rather bad form). J Milburn (talk) 15:19, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Belgian Scouts and Guides emblem

Wikipedia email won't send attachments, nothing but text. If you like to send me your real email address, I'll send you the PNG as an attachment - I have downloaded it. You mentioned "the earlier blue-and-white version" - actually, it's the most recent that is blue and white, there are two earlier multi-coloured ones. JohnCD (talk) 21:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

French fries

Forgive me if I'm missing an earlier issue with this editor, but I just went thru an unpleasant interaction with an IP (who had to be blocked) on this article. I see where your first action was a rollback, whereas I understand it can be a close call as to whether to use rollback or undo, perhaps undo might have resulted in the editor taking less offense since his edit would not have been labeled as vandalism. VMS Mosaic (talk) 04:55, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Understood, but the IP came loaded for bear in their edit summaries, they were looking for a fight by the time I saw them this morning. Rolling back a miscapped and contentious editor who favors misspelled screeds makes sense to me.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:15, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Germany

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Your opinion

Hi Chris, I'm not very familiar with what the scouting project considers notable enough to be on Wikipedia and was hoping you could take a look at SFVS - Slieve Foy Venture Scouts if you have a free moment. It would be much appreciated. Thanks, Shep^Talk 22:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, the Powers That Be are quick this morning!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:31, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, Shep^Talk 18:50, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Also, Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Photography_workshop#Falun_Gong, Sadads (talk) 01:28, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

You've been blocked

I regret to inform you that you have been blocked for 24 hours because of your edit warring at Japanese place names. Since you've been here a while, I imagine you know all my usual spiel about consensus, dispute resolution and appealing blocks, so I won't repeat it here. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 11:08, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, and thanks for taking the side of the deletionists. I was the one who brought the edit war and improper behavior to your attention. Meh. That's why this place is going down the toilet.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:42, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Your accusations are hollow. I blocked the anon for exactly the same amount of time as I blocked you. I've taken no sides here except the one against edit warring. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 07:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Didn't know blocks were all around, for that at least I thank you. Still it's improper to remove images during a deletion discussion, trying to shoehorn the answer they wanted by forcing POV changes here. That should have been considered-contentious editors brought the fight over from Commons, I didn't, I was fighting bad removals. Anyway how much time is left on this turkey? I don't want to jump the gun and get in more trouble than I already don't need.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:01, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Your block is for 24 hours. In a future situation like this, after you have reverted twice, notify the administrators noticeboard, and then leave it be. If you understand that edit warring about that image isn't the best way to deal with this type of situation, and wont re-instate that image again, you can be unblocked now. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Agreed, sounds good, let's shake on it! That seems a better way to cover myself.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I've unblocked you. Have a good evening, John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:34, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

You too, and thank you for the good faith. The pink box is still showing up.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Should be fixed now. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 08:48, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

"Restored" article?

Curious as to your decision to restore the "List of foreign place names in Japanese" but having it as part of your sandbox. If my memory serves me, after I had started the article, a decision was made that it would be better for this type of article to be housed at Wiktionary instead of at Wikipedia, it was deleted in Wikipedia, but also not created in Wiktionary. Since its deletion, the Japanese article has been beefed up, as have the German article. CJLippert (talk) 00:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm not planning to use it "as-is", I need the information from it for a local placename etymology article. So nice for everyone to question me on this undelete request.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 06:42, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

As the article was never transwiki'd to Wiktionary, if you know how do it (as I don't), would you mind doing that while you have the page there with you? CJLippert (talk) 12:15, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't know how to do it either.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

File:Duke and Duchess of Windsor meet Adolf Hitler 1937.jpg

So often with these images, it's very hard to tell. I'd say there's about a fiffty-fifty chance it's PD, but it's gonna be hard to prove. We really need to know who the original author is, or, failing that, when/where it was first published. The current "source" is not so useful in that regard. J Milburn (talk) 16:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Organ transplantation in the People's Republic of China

I have posted a GA reassessment at Talk:Organ transplantation in the People's Republic of China. Please feel free to comment. Axl ¤ [Talk] 09:52, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Please comment here. Axl ¤ [Talk] 08:59, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scouting#Girl_Scout_National_Center_West_expansion_help

See this. Gave you and I both credit for it. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:38, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for cleaning it up, DYKing it and the heads up!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:39, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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Possibly unfree File:Bob Farrell.jpg

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German-Japanese relations

こんにちは。;) Over the past year or so I've been working on gradually expanding the article on German-Japanese relations. I've recently discovered the pictures of the Hitlerjugend visiting the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo that you've uploaded. So far I've hastily implemented one of them in the article, but I'd like to ask you, if you could elaborate on that visit (and/or similar ones during these years) in a short paragraph at approximately the place the image sits now. Thanks :) Gliese876 (talk) 08:46, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

I will do my best.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Girl Scout National Center West

The DYK project (nominate) 18:04, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Jodhpurs v. Jodhpur Breeches

I would appreciate your views to my rationale on the talk page Talk:Jodhpurs. Regards. (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 16:12, 18 October 2010 (UTC))

BBW

Hi, I refomatted your comment slightly on the BBW talk page to try and help construct some consensus Talk:Big Beautiful Woman. Please check it to ensure I've understood your meaning. Cheers Clovis Sangrail (talk) 01:00, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Close, and thanks for the heads up.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:03, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

"Crap edits"

Please watch it with the edit summaries -- I know you don't make a habit of it, but good to avoid anyway. Thanks. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 17:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Nope, that was very intentional on my part, and said exactly what I needed to say. I appreciate your sentiment, but sometimes softness won't do.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:02, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject Southern United States

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Marxist MIR and FPMR guerrilla groups

I wonder if you can help with the Spanish page dealing with the Marxist MIR and FPMR guerrilla groups in Chile in the 70s and 80s: [[2]] . There are two individuals bent on sweeping their crimes under the carpet. I don't think this is fair, for I have provided reliable sources. There are many lies propagated by the left, like the belief held by many ill informed Chileans, that 200,000 to 1 million were exiled and the vast majority of the armed forces personnel, that appear in their roll of honour, were in fact killed at the hands of their superiors. This is an insult to their families. In reality their were a handful (about a dozen) that were court-martialled and shot, although over a hundred were jailed or exiled. I strive to separate fact from fiction, but instead get penalized for it.--Breitkopf (talk) 23:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't speak Spanish. :( Lo siento mucho.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 23:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Akira Suzuki (media)

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Akashi Domain

Hi, you added the {{wikify}} tag to Akashi Domain, but I could see no need for wikification so I removed it. Did I miss something because I don't see what needs to be done. -- Whpq (talk) 18:02, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I meant the sources need to be, uh, sourcified.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 01:19, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

I noticed the message you recently left to 99.231.241.146. Please remember: do not bite the newcomers. If you see someone make a common mistake, try to politely point out what they did wrong and how to correct it. Thank you. This is especially considering your comment at Talk:Sriracha sauce, where you said "I feel no need to justify myself to an IP". -- Bk314159 (Talk to me and find out what I've done) 02:18, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't biting him because he was new, I was biting him because he was contentious, also explained on that page. Look at my history, I also welcome IPs. I just don't welcome fights.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:21, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

And the accusation of antiJapanese racism was over the top, you can also check my edit history for that one, I love everything about this country.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Changes to Template:Infobox family name

Your edits adding more picture parameters to the Template:Infobox family name infobox is apparently now causing the same image to appear twice in the infobox, as found on Phelps (surname). -- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 17:18, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah, crud. Okay, I'll undo it, please read the talkpage for what I want to do, is there any way this is possible?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:19, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but I tried adding image2 ... image3 and using those names as parameters and no duplicate images are showing. I checked two other pages that use the template and all seems fine. If you want to change a parameter name to "coatofarms" or "familyshield" feel free. -- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:26, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Just tried it, the second image shows but not the third.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 05:34, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Tried adding num to image_size paramater. Try it again. -- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:45, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Nothin' yet.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:03, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Burmese seals

Hi Chris, I thought you might be interested in this: User talk:Stepshep#State seals of Burma. You may want to make back-ups to save locally if they end up getting removed from Commons. Shep^Talk 20:02, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the headsup, that's a pity. Right now I am proudly on a week block at Commons for fighting the crapocracy, but I will comment when I am back.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:56, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations on fighting the good fight. -- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, that's refreshing to hear, in the climate this has become lately, I appreciate it. Shame what happened to Randy.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 05:36, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, have been steering clear of administrivia and adminisdrama. I see his account is gone, deleted, like he never existed. He left or was encouraged to leave? -- btphelps ^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:46, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

He got accused of plagiarism for actually oversourcing an article. Admins eat their own, which is why I never wanted to be one. They're a necessary evil, in equal measure. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=395463652#Right.21_What.27s_going_on_with_RLevse.3F and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Vanished_6551232 .--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:06, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

NCSHP

I think it was referring, as the paramilitary article says, that the NCSHP train as a specialized section and have different training from other police agencies in the state and the ranking is like the military. I am not sure that other citation is needed. Big Roger (talk) 16:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

WPMOS

You use the abbreviation WPMOS on your request on the Graphic Map Lab Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop# Antartica. What does it mean? Wereldburger758 (talk) 07:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi World Citizen! It stands for Wikipedia:Manual of Style.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Flag of New Spain

A lot of articles use File:Flag of New Spain and now the file is missing. You must arrange it. Thanks. Durero (talk) 18:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Please see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Flag_of_New_Spain.svg .--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:33, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Scouting & Asia...

While I have interests in both scouting and Asia (I was a scout, am an Alpha Phi Omega historian, lived in Taiwan for two years and Alpha Phi Omega also exists in the Philippines), the area where I am most comfortable is filling in tables of events like National Fraternity Conventions and Jamborees. The information on jamborees for the Interamerican Zone seems fairly complete, to the point where I wonder if User:Inauditous got the rest from a single site (which should be referenced). BTW, the phrase "Even today, the Interamerican Region exists more for the benefit of countries south of the Rio Grande, as evidenced by the website being only in Spanish; consequently, the United States and Canada do not participate as vigorously in regional activities as do other national organizations around the world." seems inappropriate for wikipedia.Naraht (talk) 18:28, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

It could be written better, but it is factual. The other regions function as a whole (Jp, SK, ROC, Ph, Indo seem to be the big dogs, but even Iran and Kiribati have a say). BSA makes sense to me, kind of like the US at the UN, it pretty much does what it wants, size and power-but then Indonesia is so much bigger and they play ball. Canada I can't explain, but they aren't as active in the Region as other countries. Have you suggestions?

Ps-how was Taiwan? Everyone suggests to go there, it's friendly but humid, apparently.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

It may be factual, but it is completely unreferenced, even the website isn't identified. There are both English and French speaking islands in the Caribbean, I wonder if they are equally excluded. Unless it is referenced, I think it should be deleted. BTW,I don't know if Iran still is a member of the Asia Pacific, I know their scouts were nuked after the Revolution.

I liked Taiwan, definitely humid. It is about half way between Miami and Havana in Latitude I think. It has been 20 years since I was there...Naraht (talk) 01:31, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Lethal Weapon Film Series

Hiya! Just please be careful with your reverts on Lethal_Weapon_(film_series) - though I understand your intent and reasoning, sadly, the 3RR/war policies don't allow breaking them for such justification. If you need a hand, let me know. The article is on my watchlist, so I will keep an eye on it, and I will also drop a note on the other editor's talk page imploring they raise discussion on the article's talk page. Best, Rob ROBERTMFROMLI | ^TK/_CN 22:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Philmont Ranger

I'm glad that you've been going to Philmont since before I was born, and I've no doubt that such historical knowledge might be useful in discussing how the Ranger Department has evolved over the decades. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Owen1985 (talk • contribs) 19:04, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

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Frenzel

I'm sorry that the name I used for the file imported from German Wikipedia was not acceptable to you. The original title on the German Wikipedia was just "Frenzel klein", which was even worse, I'm sure you agree. Powers ^T 13:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Puzzling 3RR report

Please see my update at WP:AN3#User:Thunderbird L17 reported by User:Kintetsubuffalo (Result: ). Do you know how to open an WP:RFC? It is quite unclear as to what the dispute is about. A more focussed discussion between you and the other parties might be able to resolve this. EdJohnston (talk) 14:38, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Re: Scouting in Yugoslavia

No problem. This made more sense to me because the SCG page now described a comparatively minor part of the complete history. The main question now is how much of the SCG page was generic, i.e. how much of it also applied in the 1950-1991 period too, not just 1995-2006. Those parts should be moved to a higher header level. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that. Well, it'll be pretty straightforward to work on this for someone who actually knows anything about these guys. I have no idea about scouting, I just did this to help clear out the obsolete category Category:Organizations based in Serbia and Montenegro :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:11, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

You deserve a more complete explanation.

When I first starting deleting PRODs, I checked to make sure that the original author was notified (some exceptions, e.g. original author not active). However, when I ran across my first PROD with no notification, and contacted the editor, I was informed that notifying was encouraged but not required. I thought we should notify, so I attempted to tighten up the language here, but as you can see, I failed to persuade.

That left me with limited options. I couldn't insist that notification occur, and if I just abandoned those without notification, someone else might come along and delete without adding the notification. I adopted my own personal rule. If I saw a PROD where I thought notification was warranted, I would do the notification myself before the deletion. To be sure, only seconds before, so it doesn't provide enough time to contest the deletion, but it does provide notification so the author could request userfication or other remedies. If you have a better approach, I'm all ears.

(As an aside, kudos on the scouting work you do. One of my regrets in life is that I stopped at Life, but I was part of an active scouting family.)--SPhilbrickT 12:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Main page

I don't know how often you check out the main page, but you should check it out today. On the chance you see this after the main page has changed, the FA of the day is The Scout Association of Hong Kong --SPhilbrickT 21:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for reverting vandalism.

I hadn't noticed that comment in my page. It was a bit funny. Nonetheless, thank you for reverting it. Best regards.--MarshalN20 | ^Talk 02:12, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

File:Delphine LaLaurie.jpg

Thank you for adding a fair use rationale to this image. However, it is tolerably clear from this site that the image was painted in recent years, is still under copyright, and holds no claim of accurately depicting its subject. I have amended the image's description accordingly, awaiting its pending deletion. - DustFormsWords (talk) 04:01, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Didn't know that. From the site, it looks like the top image was painted from a life photo. Any ideas how we can find that one?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

No, but all the editors working on Delphine LaLaurie would be deeply grateful if you managed it! (All the relevant results on Google image search trace back to Haunted America Tours or Pustanio.) - DustFormsWords (talk) 04:05, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

FYI

Hi Chris! As for Interwiki sorting order, please take a look at this. En WP uses this order. Oda Mari (talk) 04:48, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I know...

Just to let you know there's a note on my user page that explains nothing at all if you're interested.

(And yes, I know, you sent me an email - would you believe I accidentally deleted it in a purge before reading it, although I do know I received it ? Well, I did... Go figure that which is me, if you like...)  Begoon•talk 18:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I've missed you and I look forward to your return!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 22:49, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Ásatrú Scouting and Guiding

Are you sure that this organization really exists? I couldn't find anything except the ebay offer by a spanish ebay trader. It could be a scam; the fleur-de-lis was taken from Wikipedia. Is there any other proof of the existence of these groups? --jergen (talk) 21:21, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

That the fleur-de-lis was taken from Wikipedia is what drew my attention to it-somebody does read us! ;) It is too elaborate to be a hoax, with the attention to detail; in addition, I have known that seller for 18 years, he's (or was) head of the International Badgers Club Spanish Tejones, so while I don't have proof, I am taking it on good faith. Mostly I was impressed that someone chose to use our design.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 00:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Could you ask the seller for further informations? An organization with such elaborate ranks should have some written-down rules for advancement or some bylaws. And the seller should have some contact closer to the organization.

I didn't bring his contact info with me to Japan-I will do some searching for it.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:23, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

BTW, the depiction of Sleipnir on the "Knight of Odin" badge is not correct, the designer included some ornaments between the legs, that aren't part of the horse, but are shown on the Tjängvide image stone. The Valknut was taken from File:Valknut-Symbol-triquetra.svg and the Valkyrie from File:Valkyrie.jpg. I'm not really convinced that a real-world organization practicising Asatru would take most of its symbols from Wikipedia or Commons.

Not so fast-anybody practicing that religion might know those symbols-I would argue the triangles and the little gold effigy one you pointed me to could be gotten from any source. You know way more about the religion than I do-I didn't even know what to call some of those, but it doesn't follow they got those here-a Google search would do.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:23, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

It's also unclear how there should be enough members in Sweden to form a Scout unit; the largest group in Sweden, Swedish Asatru Assembly, has about 300 members all over the country; there is no local structure for Malmö [3], but one comprising the whole south of Sweden. The Norwegian no:Foreningen Forn Sed - the largest organization in the country - has only 100 members, mostly in Oslo and Trondheim [4]; how can they run a unit in Stavanger?

That is a good series of questions and I appreciate your legwork on this. It could also be that there are believers who are not registered with a church or org-I am that way (different religion though), so probably I am not counted as a member.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:23, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

And why is there a separate organization in the US with BSA accepting Asatru units (eg former Troop 1239; Great Salt Lake Council)? --jergen (talk) 09:33, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

That's a question for Egel-that was not information I had, and I don't know if that counts as Scouting.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 08:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a source for the Salt Lake troop? That would be worthwhile to add to the article.

I'll do my best, thanks for your hard work!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:23, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

ps-Jergen, do you know what the really complex red one is? I wanna take a look at that. To me it doesn't look like anything similar to the other ones.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:34, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Here is a source for Troop 1239 [5]

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Shisa face

Hi, I have uploaded it as you asked. It is over here. Regards — Finemann (talk) 06:13, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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Conversions to PNG

Hello, since a lot of images tagged for conversion to PNG are your own, is there any way you could convert the originals from your collection and upload them in PNG form? Hugahoody (talk) 14:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm 6,000 miles away from the originals, having moved to Japan.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 23:13, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Moldova

Hello,

I noticed that you are a fellow active member of WikiProject Moldova. Some time ago I created a new userbox for the project and proposed that it become official. Since no responses have been made as of yet, I am hoping to spark a discussion at Template talk:WikiProject Moldova User on the matter.

Mulțumesc,

Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 16:54, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

ShouldBePNG on photographs

Hi, Kintetsubuffalo. I see you've placed a {{ShouldBePNG}} tag several times on the file description pages for File:Vietnamese Scout Association LangBian Dalat.jpg and File:Union of Burma Boy Scouts campout.jpg. I don't understand why you think this is a good idea:

1. These are photographs, for which the JPEG format is the most appropriate choice; see Wikipedia:Image use policy#Format.
2. It is true that the PNG format provides lossless compression, but for photographs a bit of lossiness in compression is acceptable because it is unnoticeable by the human eye (unless the compression is too high, in which case the {{Overcompressed JPEG}} tag would be appropriate).
3. The compression algorithm used by the PNG format, while lossless, performs much more poorly on photographic images than does the JPEG compression algorithm, so a PNG version of a photograph is almost always many times larger than a JPEG version.
4. Moreover, in the case of File:Vietnamese Scout Association LangBian Dalat.jpg, I am sure that the original file, created by a digital camera, was saved in the JPEG format (and is perhaps even the exact file that was uploaded here), so the only way we could get a PNG version of that image is to directly convert a JPEG version to PNG—but the compression artifacts from the original JPEG compression will still be there (PNG compression is lossless, but the information was lost before the PNG compression algorithm ever saw it; the PNG image will be identical to the JPEG image, pixel for pixel, including the JPEG compression artifacts), so we haven't gained anything in image quality, and the resulting file size will be many times greater.

I am going to remove the {{ShouldBePNG}} tag again from these images. If you still feel that the tag should be there, please explain why, because I can see no reason for it. —Bkell (talk) 00:25, 31 December 2010 (UTC)