User talk:R.123/2004

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Andre 23:26, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Computer art scene

I noticed that you recently worked on Computer art scene; do you think it still needs the cleanup banner? It's been on there since at least 6 Aug 2004. If you want to remove it, please also remove it's entry from: WP:LO(it's at the bottom). Thanks for your work on Wikipedia! JesseW 22:46, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Blue box

Hi, please tag the blue box image to indicate its copyright status. I.e. include {{GFDL}} or some other image copyright tag on the image description page. TIA. — David Remahl 16:00, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The photo was taken by myself, so I am granting permission to Wikipedia to use it. Where may I find a list of licenses so I can pick the correct one to grant them.

Ok, for images contributed by Wikipedia, the GFDL license is the one normally used (since it is the default license for all content submitted to Wikipedia). Some also like to release their images into the public domain. A full list of the image copyright tags can be found at: Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. — David Remahl 20:51, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You should be clear -- if you are only giving permission to Wikipedia, then most licenses are not suitable. You would need to use something like:

"{{NoncommercialProvided}} it is only used by Wikipedia"

This is frowned upon, as Wikipedia is supposed to entirely be a free-to-reuse source. GFDL is preffered, Creative Commons Attribution licenes without reuse restrictions are also appreciated, public domain is of course appreciated. There seems to be some lenience given to Creative Commons noncommercial and other noncommercial-use licenses, though they aren't preferred. Anyway, this is the gist I get from WP:IFD and the image copyright tags page. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 20:55, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Textfiles.com

By the way, reading your user page, I realized that you may be interested in helping me write an article about Textfiles.com. It is a pretty much unique resource which truly deserves an article, and yet there isn't even a stub. What do you say? Also, see a list of hacker scene related items that I plan to write about some time in the future on my user page. — David Remahl 22:20, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'd be glad to help. RaD Man (talk) 22:22, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Cool, I'll see if I can get started this weekend! By the way, your main namespace article is now part of Category:Wikipedians with article. — 02:34, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  - For now. ^_^ RaD Man (talk) 19:42, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If you try and write anything about textfiles.com on Wikipedia, I will do my utmost to prevent this happening. --Jscott 23:37, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yay :-). — David Remahl 23:39, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ok, nothing like vague threats to get into the writing spirit...Radman and Jason, textfiles.com has been started. I welcome your input. — David Remahl 05:29, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

And now he knows! --Jscott 07:07, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RaD Man VfD

Congrats looks like your bio gets to stick around at least another 48hrs. I've got 10$ that says its VfD'd again before Jan 1st 2005. Any takers :) Alkivar 03:14, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ten says RaDMan lists it himself.Dr Zen 05:29, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

nah my money is on RickK or one of the Deletionists. Alkivar 09:07, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

DEViANCE

Reloaded and Vengeance fork? I dont know anything about that. I left DEV in 99. I didnt retire from the whole "warez" community until around 2001 however.

Affils:

Motiv-8 Amiga to Rise in Superior Couriering (RiSC) in the BBS days to DiMENSiON (DMS) and Angels on Drugs (AoD) net courier til i retired around 2001.
aPC/RnS in the mp3 scene.
EViLiSO/KALiSTO in the iSO/VCD scenes.
I cant even begin to list my utils affils as there must have been 90 or so of them. That and i've forgotten half their names.

However if you google for old issues of NWR (Netmonkey Weekly Report) - Lester's old E-Zine, you can find some funny mentions of me. Including one very drunken incident with TRpS. NWR started in like 1999 or 2000 and ran until around the beginning of 2002. Has some information on groups and such. Alkivar 19:06, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Interesting, I'll try to see if I can obtain a complete archive of NWR for inclusion into my emag collection. The split took place very recently from what I understand with MYTH eventually teaming up with Hoodlum. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 19:22, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I could have been wrong on when they ended, but i woulda sworn they went up to around issue 100. Alkivar 20:39, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I managed to catch up with PaleDeth recently who was a bit fuzzy on the details but said he was fairly certain the NWR archives up on Defacto2 are complete. In any event I'll continue to keep an eye out for this one. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 09:15, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Carried away on VfD?

I know you mean well, but don't you think you're getting a bit too carried away on VfD? Some of your most recent listings ranged from borderline to clearly notable. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 07:19, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Some of my VfDs have been mistakes; I have withdrawn those nominations as soon as I found out. Assuming you're referring to Vfd's like Infide Guy: No, I really don't think some small-time webcaster is encyclopaedic. However, I am taking a VfD holiday for a bit (and you made me interrupt it by going to VfD to find out what Infidel Guy was called at which point I couldn't resist voting on extreme deletion. Damn you! :-)), see my userpage. --fvw *† 07:37, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

Good work on Dickinson High School

I really appreciate the fact that you're working to improve the article, and improving it by doing research (as opposed to simply adding empty decoration like taxoboxes). I'm not ready to cast a vote yet; I think I'll probably just sit this one out.

I'm sorry about the images, but until User:Wiking GFDL's them I don't see how we can keep them. I left a note on his Talk page, but maybe someone should also try to email him. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:02, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Phaenomena Aratea by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Months ago I received a photograph taken of a Cicero poem engraved in stone, with no further information. Since then I've been trying to determine if this stone was made during Cicero's lifetime (2000+ years ago), or date approximately when it was made. The stone sets the text from the poem Phaenomena Aratea and sets it in the shape of a swan, similar to how Lewis Carroll presents the final page of text from chapter three of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, in the shape of a long, winding tail. In the case of the Cicero engraving, I have yet to identify the the artist who did the stonework, but his surname is believed to be "Fiornin" as the last part of the text reads "CIGNUS QUI ET OLOR - FIORNIN". [1]

If you can read or translate Latin, please contact me as I'd like to enhance my understanding of this "concrete poetry". :) —RaD Man (talk) 00:23, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

what's up

saw your sig on the VfD for 2004 U.S. Election controversies, just wanted to say what's up, I grew up from 7th grade on (10 years ago) ACiD and iCE packs on underground BBS's back in the day, remember seeing your name all over that stuff. nice to see you here :) --kizzle 10:01, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Cicero

Thanks for the e-mail. Deb 17:50, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Graffiti

Hey dude, could you add some info on the computer graffiti/art scene to the page on Graffiti. Alkivar 05:20, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Deletionism

My god man, is nothing sacred to those deletionist bastards!?!?!?! Your right we might as well start nominating all our creations to VfD right after we're done. I'll be adding content to UCF after this VfD is over, no sense in putting in the effort if their just going to delete it. Alkivar 10:16, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

He's very tricksy, the Radman is. I was wondering why the hell you nominated those. Wolfman 03:14, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

u C F

Do you think you can track down a complete release list for the years I dont have full data for? I've looked and looked thru my software collections, googled, and asked a few people via email, but what I have is all I could track down. Any help in completing the lists would be appreciated. Alkivar 01:53, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

On Vfd protection

Thanks for the message. Yes, it is rare but someone (GNAA member most likely) had figured out a way to become unblockable for awhile and they wanted to vandalize that page. I just unprotected it so please vote or do whatever you were going to do, sorry for the inconveinence :) Arminius 11:04, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

GNAA on VfD

Hi Sam -- I've been watch you watching over the GNAA VfD thread and wanted to stop by and say thank you. I've become a bit concerned lately over folks playing with the votes. There is a clear display of bias being shown here by several of the admins, unfortunately, what with certain individuals moving votes they don't agree with into a, and I quote, "troll section". I would hope that our fellow Wikipedians, arbitrators and admins could display a higher level of objectivity than that. Thanks again... —RaD Man (talk) 07:11, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh. My. GOD. User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#GNAA

You're welcome. Neutrality is probably the most hilarious oxymoron I recently saw. Sam Hocevar 22:51, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cicero

I haven't really got onto it yet. I should make it my new year's resolution! Deb 11:10, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)