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Hello! At the moment, I am engaged in no ongoing conversations. The four archived conversations are summarized here:

Oleg Alexandrov made minor revisions, which I replied to, which set off a chain reaction that wholly changed/improved the integer square root article. We conversed on my talk page, his talk page, and the article talk page, so I consolidated everything and placed it in the archive, along with a timeline of the changes.
Michael Hardy noted that my edit on improper integrals was incorrect: a definite Riemann integral does not necessarily need to be evaluated as an improper integral, but may be evaulated as a Lebesgue integral instead. But because some circumstances require a definite Riemann integral to be evaluated as an improper integral, we decided to point out both methods in the article.
Guðsþegn requested help revising Covenant Theology.
Tomf688 noted a copyright problem with File:Olene S Walker.jpg.

Moriz Rosenthal

I noticed you tagged the Moriz Rosenthal article for wikification. I'm curious what concerns you have about the article's current state. There doesn't seem to be much (if any) wikification to be done in the article. Do you have specific concerns? Metros232 17:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When I originally came across the page, I felt it had a weak opening paragraph. Wikification, however, does not concern that. Now that I look at the article again, I myself wonder if there is any wikifcation to be done in the article. I was mistaken in tagging the article. Please feel free to remove the tag. --Iamunknown 19:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the tag just now, thanks for letting me know. Metros232 20:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Vale

I knew this might have happened. Allow me to explain. I searched High and Low for a decent photo of Voice Actor Eric Vale, this was the only one that I could find of him where I can clearly see his face, the photo was on a website dedicated to covering the events of A-Kon 2003. I am unsure what the qualifies of as I assume it was a photo that someone in the audience took, the author is likely going to be impossible to find. Exactly what kind of copyright would I need to cover this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jack Cox (talk • contribs) 20:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I admire that you found that photo. I too looked many places, but I found no photos of Eric Vale, not even this one. But as per Wikipedia:Publicity photos, I do not think that this photo is a publicity photo. (Keep in mind that Wikipedia:Publicity_photos is not a guideline of Wikipedia, but an essay detailing the implied guidelines for publicity photos under fair use.) I believe the photograph to be a photo by a copyright holder (presumably an audience member) unaffiliated with Eric Vale. The copyright may be directly held by the author of the website A Fan's View of anime conventions, or the copyright holder may be in contact with the author. But unless we specifically contact the copyright holder and establish correspondence to grant use to Wikipedia, or unless the use of the photograph is released under a copyleft, then I feel that the use of the image is a violation of the copyright held by whomever shot the photograph. Please feel free to reply. --Iamunknown 03:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have contacted the author and will be waiting to hear back from he/she. If he/she allows us to use this photograph then it will be allowed for all photos from that website--Jack Cox 05:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just make sure that the author understands that for the image to be able to be used by Wikipedia, he or she must either

release it under the GFDL or a GFDL-compatible license, in which case any user (whether Wikipedia or otherwise), could use his or her image for free or commerical use, for which he or she would be entitled no royalites or compensation; or
ask him or her to allow Wikipedia to use it under the GFDL or a GFDL-compatible license, in which case he or she would also be agreeing that their picture (or text) can be used freely by Wikipedia AND its downstream users, and that such use might include commercial use, for which he or she is not entitled to royalties or compensation.

Finally, good luck! I have never attempted to persuade a copyright holder to do either of these (similar) options. If you need any help, I know that you could read more about the law behind this at requesting copyright permission and that you could find example requests and related help at example requests for permission.

--Iamunknown 01:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright examination

You moved the Olene S. Walker request to the list of rejected requests upon closing it. Note that closed requests should simply be removed from the examinations page instead of moving them to the list of rejected requests. --Easyas12c 08:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the copyright of the picture of the Mayor of Salt Lake City Rocky Anderson I found the following disclaimer of copyright on the official Salt Lake City's web site: http://www.slcgov.com/disclaimer.htm . This would seem to indicate that there is no fair use question with this image. I am going to put it on Commons. Alex756 18:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: List of solar system objects by mass

The information on the moons of Saturn and Uranus is in the articles themselves. For example, Tethys: Dimensions are 1080.8×1062.2×1055 km. Because only one of the axes is signifigantly longer, what you have is a prolate sphereoid. Compare to 4 Vesta, which has dimensions of 578×560×458 km. Two of the axes are signifigantly longer than the third, so you have an oblate spereoid. Many of the moons of the gas giants are in fact prolate, because they're being stretched by tidal forces from thier primaries. There are several images of Mimas that show this clearly. shaggy 16:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't spam

Please don't spam Wikipedia:Spam. I am advising you to no longer post any more messages to my user talk page, if you do I will report you to the admins. Thank you MapleTree 10:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stop soliciting meatpuppets Please immediately stop soliciting meatpuppets. Please read the following from the Wikipedia policy on sockpuppets.

It is considered highly inappropriate or unacceptable to advertise Wikipedia articles that are being debated in order to attract users with known views and bias, in order to strengthen one side of a debate. It is also considered highly inappropriate to ask friends or family members to create accounts for the purpose of giving additional support. Advertising or soliciting meatpuppet activity is not an acceptable practice on Wikipedia....

If you feel that a debate is ignoring your voice, then the appropriate action is not to solicit others outside Wikipedia. Instead, avoid personal attacks, seek comments and involvement from other Wikipedians, or pursue dispute resolution. These are quite well tested processes, and are designed to avoid the problem of exchanging bias in one direction for bias in another.

You posted the exact same message "Could use votes to save this article [List of doomsday scenarios], thanks" on the following fifty-eight pages. This is soliciting meatpuppets. Again, please stop now.

--Iamunknown 04:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MapleTree 10:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you know IPA pronunciation?

Hey Slp1, how do you know the IPA pronunciation? I would like to help by adding pronunciations as opposed to just adding the templates, but I don't know how to find out the pronuncations (like for 'Ewa Beach) or how to transcribe them into IPA. Thanks! --Iamunknown 03:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I learnt IPA during phonetics courses at university. If you want to learn IPA then a course is probably the best plan, but otherwise there are books as well as articles and exercises on the internet (including wikipedia). It is worth training yourself to really listen and feel words a bit, as it is so easy to get misled by the spelling in English. I hope this helps. --Slp1 12:12, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alix Rosenthal

I added some references to Alix Rosenthal to help establish notability. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:59, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

North Shore Country Day School

Per the Afd: I added several references to show the role this school played in developing progressive education in the U.S. Edison 01:57, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Claremont Hotel Oakland Fire photo

This is in regards to the Image:Claremont Res 91 Oak Fire.png in question. I uploaded this photo under the licensing stating that "This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program or station ID. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of web-resolution screenshots." (And there is only one in this article.) The purpose of the screenshot is that it's the only image of that event that exists from 1991, and a very low resolution on top of that. I'd be happy to clarify the fair use rationale, but seeing that I'm new to the fair use guidelines, I'm requesting assistance from you in figuring out the fair use rationale. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Gordeonbleu 21:57, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thorough response. I appreciate it. =) Gordeonbleu 08:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy

A speedy goes on the image page, it does not go into the article the images is placed in, SqueakBox 23:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't place a {{Speedy}} template on the page, I put a {{speedy-image-c}} template in the caption, which according to the template, {{no rationale}}, is exactly the appropriate thing to do. Why did you revert it? --Iamunknown 23:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And would please consider un-reverting it? --Iamunknown 23:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did already though I am not sure why exactly you want it speedied as I understand logos are fair use, SqueakBox 23:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want it deleted. Logos are fair use, I fully understand that. But policy dictates that images uploaded under fair use after 2006-05-04 must contain a fair use rationale for every image in which they are used. Furthermore, "the uploader, [is] legally responsible for determining whether [his or her] contributions are legal," (Wikipedia:Fair use) and I infer (from that statement) responsible for providing a fair use rationale. I tagged the image because I noticed, when I went to the BitTorrent page and clicked the image out of curiosity (because the logo was different than when I previously saw it), that it did not have a fair use rationale. That is all. I'm not attempting to make a point by tagging this image as a logo, I'm not trying to disrupt any Wikipedia processes, nothing. I am merely tagged the image because it violates the image use policy. Cheers, Iamunknown 00:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation and sorry for any misunderstanding, SqueakBox 00:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Thanks for assuming good faith on my part and for being kind. :) --Iamunknown 00:08, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]