User talk:Vincent Lextrait

Thanks!

Thanks for spotting and removing the image I inserted into Nice. About time someone did! But I have to point out that it was made with the GIMP, not with Photoshop. JIP | Talk 16:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Terve. Point taken! :-)

Removing external links

Nice, Monaco and the French Riviera is a holiday destination, it is the main economic activity of the region. Your decision to remove external links that feature Detailed and Relevant information for people on holidays is incorrect. 10 million visitors every year need information relevant to them, not to residents.

Most of the search traffic to Wikipedia that finds these Nice, Monaco and French Riviera pages, are people researching holiday information.

The pages I am linking to are up-to-date, extremely well researched, relevant and extremely useful, and should be in Wikipedia. If anything it is the content-less sites created for advertising programmes that should have the links removed.Monacomike 10:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You need to read about Wikipedia external links guidelines. You are more than welcome to remove any commercial link you find on the pages. There are lots remaining.

You deleted external links for Sisteron and Vinon-sur-Verdon on the grounds that they were commercial. The guidelines allow commercial links but say that links should not be used if they contain "objectionable amounts of advertising". The links that were deleted contain a map, interesting photographs and supplementary information in addition to modest advertising. In my opinion they do not break the guidelines, but 'objectionable' is always going to be subjective. Of course if they have major inaccuracies then they should be removed, but this was not the reason that you gave. JMcC 21:40, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The map is merely coming from google maps, the information on Sisteron is extremely small, and the amount of advertisement exceeds the amount of information. This site is an advertisement shell around google maps, with almost no added value (on Sisteron). If you believe the map is useful, I have no objection, but then let us link google maps directly. Vincent Lextrait 05:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have cleaned up the external links section of Sisteron and deleted any unsourced, personal bulletin board and travel guide websites from the list. The links removed were not used as references within the article and did not contain publish data referencable within wikipedia. Bulleting boards do not represent destinations worthy of being links from the town's page. The Wikipedia map link has been added, offering choice of mapping system to readers. Captain scarlet

MAD

Please read my comment on the AfD page. We want to keep your article--please add what sources you have--weren't there thing in Byte? DGG 05:13, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:MonBuddha.jpg

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I saw that you updated the license tag for this image. I've also added {{PD-art-3d}} as images of 3-d art have their own copyright status separate from the copyright belonging to the photograph of them. I'm assuming these two are ancient statues so I thought I'd add the 3-d object licensing tag. Hope this is ok. Madmedea 20:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the statue is from the 7th century, so there is no problem. Thanks. Vincent Lextrait 20:32, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Mass removal of Dublin mapping

Hello, A query - I have just logged on for today, and find a whole range of watched pages where links along the lines of http://www.dublin.forumforus.com/Map_of_Raheny Map of Raheny have been stripped out. These predate my joining but have obviously been found useful over time, and are no more commercial than many other external pages. Could you share your reasoning in removing them, and your suggestion for their replacement? I will certainly promote Placeopedia - but some of these pages had both, and the dublin.forumforus map format is quite handy. Could I perhaps suggest that such a multi-page removal should have been raised for discussion first? Regards, SeoR 09:49, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the topic is debated a few lines above on this page. forumforus is just a fat ad shell around google maps without measurable added value. Linking google maps from wikipedia is okay, wrapping up ads around google maps and linking the result from wikipedia is inappropriate. Vincent Lextrait 04:24, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What is a "blacklisted link" - in the Dolmen sense? (Sarah777 23:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC))[reply]

You are probably referring to the spanish site on dolmens which was removed from a few articles. This site is blacklisted (not by me, by meta wiki I assume), and the presence of the link prevented any edition of the article until the link was removed. During the course of the removal of another blacklisted link, I removed that link too so that people could keep on contributing to the article. Vincent Lextrait 10:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amadeus IT Group

Hi there, thank you for the feedback. I have responded to your comment on my talk page, and copied the comment to Talk:Amadeus IT Group#Third Opinion, as it is relevant there as well. Mildly Mad^T_C 17:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dvaravati buddha picture

hi there,

the image is taken in the British Museum and that is what the explanation underneath the object said, see also here [1]. Gryffindor (talk) 13:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I know that, that's what I wrote on my note to you ("While it is good to have a referenced picture (British Museum), I do not know if you are aware that the one you picked is very atypical."). My point is that it is a very atypical one, not one that is an encyclopaedic representation of a Dvaravati buddha. See the technical reasons I mention. Vincent Lextrait (talk) 04:57, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well feel free to add another image then that is in your opinion more representative along the one from the British Museum. Gryffindor (talk) 19:26, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Actually, if you look carefully, the article raison d'être is a hybrid page, both a definition and a disambiguation, in case the definition does not apply. I am not sure whether this is a good thing to do to have such hybrid pages in wikipedia. The definition applies to the reference I added. Vincent Lextrait (talk) 01:21, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, feedback added at Talk:Kasta_Tomb; thanks George C. Tsiagalakis (talk) 12:05, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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