User talk:Geo Swan

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Replaceable fair use File:Camp 7, Guantanamo, via google -a.jpg

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I'll watch this talk page so we can discuss the issue here. Being that Google was able to publicly publish this image, it follows that a free equivalent is possible (since Google is not a government entity). Whatever inconveniences may have to be surmounted to obtain the image, the possibility of free-replaceability fails to fulfill the first criterion for non-free use. -- Veggy (talk) 09:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• Google has gaps. It cooperates with governments, and will fog or black out sensitive regions -- like nuclear reactors -- when those governments inform them of the regions to obfuscate. I'll bet that google's images of the site of the secret camp are obfuscated now.

Google, and its competitors, pay for the satellite images they use. Are you suggesting that WikiLeaks might purchase a handful of images from a commercial satellite? Don't those commercial satellites have long term exclusive deals with their customers? Aren't you suggesting that some non-profit, like WikiLeaks, outbid Google for access to some satellite provider's worldwide coverage, just for this single image? If so, I have got to tell you, that strikes me as a suggestion not worth taking seriously. Geo Swan (talk) 17:32, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm not going to get into politics—it's a question of Wikipedia policy. This base, or whatever, still exists and is still potentially available to be photographed. The difficulties entailed (buying satellite time, getting on a plane and taking a picture) don't mitigate the potential of replaceability. -- Veggy (talk) 21:14, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Addendum: The image is here: [1]. Nothing obfuscated about it, either. -- Veggy (talk) 21:46, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

• Well, aren't you concerned that by arguing that a free image could be acquired, when, we all know this is inherently not possible, you appear to have already taken a political stand?

One of well admired science fiction writer Robert Heinlein's classic novels was entitled "The Man Who Sold The Moon". It was about a billionaire prepared to sacrifice his entire fortune to go to the moon. NASA's actual moon program cost $20,000,000,000 in 1968 dollars. Can we imagine if Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or that Mexican cell phone magnate were prepared to spend their entire fortune, and cut corners, they could make it to the moon? While it is theoretically possible, it is science fiction, a fantasy. An idea interesting to speculate about, and use in thought experiments -- but not to be taken seriously.

It seems to me that your suggestion a free satellite image of this secret base could be acquired is also a fantasy -- a wild speculative idea, not worth deleting an image over. Geo Swan (talk) 00:40, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Richard Dixon (USCG Boatswains Mate)

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Roger Dixon

Discussion taken to a correct forum Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Independent ref question. A question of "independence of refs" shouldn't be taken to the reliable sources forum. Bgwhite (talk) 19:45, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of William Trump

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Stop the insults

"I am going to assume that asking for the opinion of his or her colleagues at a second forum, when I had already raised the issue at WP:RSN was not a conscious effort to go "WP:Forum shopping", merely an innocent mistake."

You have just crossed the line. Thanks for the condescending insult above and other rude insults on the talk pages. You were asked by others to stop the deeming comments towards me.

You took it to the "Reliable noticeboard" which is the wrong board. I said the refs are reliable. I took it to the military talk page where it should have been in the first place. I see you refuse to listen to anything. At this point, please don't interact with me, leave any messages on my talk page or leave any more insulting message, period. I'm done with you. Bgwhite (talk) 17:59, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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 Done Geo Swan (talk) 14:57, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Minor confidentiality

Thanks for your e-mail. I agree and will check the articles to make sure of this. You've done so much good work, well-sourced and balanced; great to see your contributions.Parkwells (talk) 14:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

It may be difficult to maintain that - the family page has labels on photographs and a list of all members. Parkwells (talk) 15:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Granted, other sites do include the name, and determined readers can follow our links and arrive at those sites. But since that individual is truly non-notable, by wikipedia standards, we can prevent their secret being outed to the more casually interested of their real-life acquaintances -- those who would stop here when our pages don't confirm their suspicions.

So, I think we can stop the more casual potential real-world harrassers. But should we? I believe WP:BLP -- the policy on biographies of living people, recommends this kind of protection. Frankly, I have disagreed with some instances where the authority of BLP was called upon to hide details, but this is an instance where I think its recommendations holds merit. Email me if you want to hear where I thought it was misapplied.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 17:30, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Already Responded

My talk page, my rules. I am refactoring a comment left here by User:Lycurgus. They cut and pasted a comment I left on their page, rather than leave a diff. I hate it when people do that, because the time stamps don't correspond to those in the revision history.

I owe Lycurgus a little apology. I didn't mean to leave the same message on their talk page twice. I use my old computer sometimes, when my number one computer is busy with a complicated task. I used it again earlier today. I fired up firefox, which restored my tabs as of when it last crashed. One of those tabs had a the question to Lycurgus in an edit box. I didn't realize how long it had been since I drafted it. I didn't remember completing it, and leaving it a first time. That is how I left the same message twice. 2013-01-07 13:56, 2013-01-26 13:20. Again, sorry, I don't usually leave duplicate messages.

A diff to Lycurgus's reply, which included my original question(s) and their new comment, reproduced below:

Please don't put this on my talk page again, I'm trying to break my wiki habit and want things to stay as they are. I responded to the above and left it there for a week then archived it. Lycurgus (talk) 01:33, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

That being said -- I don't understand the last three of those comments they left on their talk page: [2], [3], [4], [5]. Geo Swan (talk) 05:42, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

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 Done Geo Swan (talk) 20:53, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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Uyghur guest houses suspected of ties to islamist militancy

Geo Swan, I am wondering why such an article should exist here now. I've read your user page, and suppose that most probably you wouldn't think of creating such a thing today. No? Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:00, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Bounty Edit

Thanks for your message, and sorry about the delay getting back to you.

I was trying to consolidate some of the names of the Bounty ships into the correct naming format used by WPSHIPS. I do not know how to merge edit histories... but a good way around it would be to cite information from an external source via references to maintain attribution. Apart from that, I don't know how one would maintain attribution for specific edit content.. usually by posting informtion into a wiki page you accept the reality that your work will be edited mercilessly by tireless editors. If this is still an issue, we might be abe to find an admin to help find a resolution on this? I don't mean to cause problems, just fix it :) Silivrenion (talk) 05:52, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

I responded at User_talk:Silivrenion. Geo Swan (talk) 16:53, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks... I was trying to disambiguate the Bounty versions. If the name of the ship is not officially Bounty II, it shouldn't have that article name in wikipedia, according to the disambiguation options (which is why I redirected content to a new page with the correct data formats and used the year on the bounty page to distinguish between the different ships) Since my edit, it seems my disambiguation was merged with the entire word Bounty, but all three Bounty ships have their own pages with the correct naming at this point. Looking back at this, a renaming of the pages instead of copy and pasting content to a new page probably would have been good. I thought that people can't hold licenses to content submitted without either references or independently on the images used... textual information probably shouldn't be cited through the edit history since it breaks things, right? What if I wanted to add more content to your area of submission and didn't know where that is on the page? I've just never heard of it! Sorry for the fuss :P. Silivrenion (talk) 16:59, 11 February 2013 (UTC)