User talk:Iamunknown

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Editor assistance userbox

As you're a participant in Wikipedia:Editor assistance, I thought you might be interested in this new userbox that I've designed for the project. You can add it to your userpage with {{User Editor Assistance}}. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 17:26, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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Promotional images

Abu badali, I'm curious, have you ever come across a promotional image that was from a press kit or a site indicating in the terms of use that the image may be used for promotional- or press-related things. A while ago when I picked thirty or so promotional images at random, most of them did not include a source, those that did were from an official website but weren't promotional, and think that there was one I thought might actually be a promotional image. What have been your results? --Iamunknown 03:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

I believe I have once see a source for real promotional image for the Lost tv-series, but I'm not sure. I also have the impression that I once was pointed to a source of real promotional image for Comedy Central's produtcions.

But the fact stays that 90% of the images claimed to be promotional in Wikipedia simply are not. I wonder if we could get a bot to tag for deletion all images claimed do be promotional but whose source is in a blacklist we would provide, containing the most common mistaken sources, as imdb.com, tv.yahoo.com, abc.go.com. fox.com. wbtv.com, sony.com, starwars.com, startrek.com... --Abu badali ^(talk) 03:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

That would be nice, though I'm not sure how easily it would go down. People seem resistant to the idea that "Oh, an image on an official website!" is not necessarily a promotional image, no matter how much you want to believe it is. To get around that resistance, we individually could create a list of image description pages that link to those domains, create a list of image description pages that are in Category:Promotional images and its sub categories and then intersect the two lists and go through them manually (preferably with api.php or query.php) (ugh). --Iamunknown 03:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Assistance question

I came across HP Output Management Solutions, and a few other articles written by User:HPOMteam. The author put a note on the bottom saying the information was copyrighted by HP. I got the feeling this was frowned upon and should be speedily deleted, but I wasn't sure. -Haikon 17:43, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Hello Haikon! Thanks for asking. Remember that the four necessary parameters for speedy deletion of blatant copyright infringement are:

• "Material was copied from another website which does not have a license compatible with Wikipedia;
• "There is no non-infringing content in the page history worth saving.
• "The infringement was introduced at once by a single person rather than created organically on wiki and then copied by another website such as one of the many Wikipedia mirrors.
• "Uploader does not assert permission (for images: no assertion aside from tags) or fair use, or the assertion is questionable." (WP:CSD#G12)

An assertion has been made but it is questionable. The only time an assertion isn't questionable is when an OTRS member (a list is at m:OTRS/personnel) adds Template:OTRS ticket or Template:PermissionOTRS to the article's talk page or to the image description page.

I cannot find a website from which the material was added, so technically the pages shouldn't be speedy deleted. Even if the website from which the content was taken is obvious, administrators monitoring speedy deletions may not delete a page but instead cull the infrining content and leave a stub (see this diff for an example). I think that the prod tags you added are entirely appropriate; I'll be watching the pages myself.

Thanks for asking, I hope that helped, but if you have any further questions, feel free to ask! --Iamunknown 21:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Jenvidanes

Err, she took those pictures herself at a concert. She's perfectly free to re-license her content to Wikipedia. Nardman1 20:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Silly me, now I see the text "I took the picture last Jan. 28, 2007 at Eastwood Central Plaza, Eastwood, Quezon City" on Image:Dictalicense livelyevent.JPG. No author, however, is indicated on Image:Dictalicensepic.jpg, no? --Iamunknown 21:47, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

• Ah, right. 50/50 ain't bad though. Nardman1 23:38, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

George Albu

Please advise re image size Talk:George_Albu#Image_size and Charles_Collier_Michell. - Kittybrewster (talk) 20:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for asking! I've commented at Talk:George Albu. --Iamunknown 21:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. - Kittybrewster (talk) 22:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. I have watchlist-ed that page, so I'll add any further comments if necessary. Regards, Iamunknown 22:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Image deletion script

Thanks for the note! I don't nominate images for deletion very often, but it's good to have a link to that script on my talk page for future reference. It may yet come in handy. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 04:05, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For jumping in to help out and offering good advice during the formation of Wikipedia:Editor assistance, I award Iamunknown the Original Barnstar. Seraphimblade Talk to me 00:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Aw shucks. Thanks. :-) --Iamunknown 03:56, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

RE minor edits

The edits i mark minor are usually fixing typos or simple vandalism. Unexplained blankings, adding gibberish, ect. I try to make sure anything i mark minor is not controversial, but if you think i need to watch my edits more carefully i will. Sorry if i have caused you any trouble. --Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 19:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

User:Cobaltbluetony/Templates

Hi. Can you please explain this edit? Without explanation, it seems kind of rude to make a technical adjustment that doesn't really do anything... - CobaltBlueTony 00:20, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Certainly. The link previous linked to Template:User:Cobaltbluetony/Templates/Wiki-philosophy. Now it links to User:Cobaltbluetony/Templates/Wiki-philosophy. The former is a redirect, the latter the actual page in your user space. I did not intend to be rude. I apologise. --Iamunknown 00:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I understand essentially the importance of removing redirects where unnecessary. No apologies needed; the courtesy of an explanation is more than appreciated. Thank you for your efforts. - CobaltBlueTony 00:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Sock concerns

That's almost certainly him, but he does seem to have toned it down to some degree. Hopefully the message got through, but if any more disruption starts, let me know. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry for referring to your accidental deletions as "vandalism". I have seen quite a lot of it on Wikipedia lately, and I just assumed that someone was mucking about again.

I think what you actually did was edit an old version - this can play havoc with articles and Talk pages!! I have done it before myself! Cheers. --Mais oui! 20:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Image Deletion: andyfuchtman.jpg

Sure! I was going to make an article about the band he is in about um.... forever ago? they broke up, yadda yadda yadda, yes, delete it. --Danlock2 21:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I can't actually delete it, but I'll tag it for speedy deletion. --Iamunknown 21:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

List of Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection Games

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from List of Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection games. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. When you added the Image Speedy Deletion notice, you accidentally deleted half the page. Zomic_13 21:18, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Gah, it keeps happening! Firefox keeps truncating text areas. What internet browser are you using? I'm open to any suggestions. --Iamunknown 21:23, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I use Firefox. Zomic_13 21:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

About the fair use Bionicle images

I may not have been clear enough in my first post. The image I requested to be deleted is really bad - at 100x140, it is almost illegible, and is badly pixelated if enlarged to normal Web resolution. The other image, which is recommended as a replacement, is 500x500 - perfectly reasonable for Web resolution (which is our recommended fair use standard), and far too low for illegitimate use such as the production of counterfeit printed game covers. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 22:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I examined both images before I commented. --Iamunknown 22:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Re:Isreal UCFD

Well, it's already been deleted so a rename isn't possible. But there's nothing stopping you from creating Category:Wikipedians interested in Isreal, and I doubt such a category would get deleted. So yes, that would more than likely be an acceptable soultion to the issue if you wanted to do that. VegaDark 03:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your detailed message on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, I do regularly have copyright related questions as I browse through India related articles. I will follow your suggestions when I need. Thanks again. --Spundun 05:31, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Sartzetakhs2.jpg

Thanks for your follow-up and for the Commons responses you provided. They were great. If the majotity of the responses prevail all this effort would have been worth it. Thanks again. Dr.K. 08:52, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Apparently I wasn't clear enough before"

I don't mind if people post talk at commons, so long as they don't expect any immediate response. Sometimes I'm at commons every day, sometimes once a month, and not all talk is looking for a response. In other words, I crafted the message I wanted, but thank you for your input. — Laura Scudder ☎ 15:56, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

images

You posted a request for information on User:WikiManiac64s talk page, but you might want to note that he's banned. I think the copyright information might be the same as on all the other box arts out there. McKay 20:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

China Fair Use Tag Deletion

Canildo said "A license template for images that would be permitted under Chinese fair-use law but not US fair-use law. Unfortunately, since Wikipedia is based in the US, we need to follow US law".

I disagree with him on this point. Fair Use in this case, is a common treatment in both systems. Is Wikipedia based on US and English only? How about Canada and Great Britain and other English speaking nations? They all have different law systems. How about other language version of Wikipedia?

Please explain in pratical, how an image created in China which qualifies fair use of Chinese fair-use law would violate US copyright law here, thanks.

Lupo said “The U.S. does not apply Chinese law, and China doesn't apply U.S. law. Thus, "Chinese fair use" is irrelevant for us; we cannot rely on it. "Fair use" at the English Wikipedia is always and exclusively U.S. fair use.... This template should be deleted. Lupo 06:47, 30 March 2007 (UTC)”

I also disagree with his point. The law of China and US are not totally irrelevant. The purpose of both laws are both for justice, fair, protection of the public and punishment the breachers.

I agree there are lots of discrenpencies between two laws. But they not always on the opposite. For example, stealing and rubery are illigal in both systems, and the right for girls to go to school are guarantted in both. Should we say that the illegality of stealing and rubbery are exclusively US illegality, and right of girls go to the school is exclusively US right????Dongwenliang 02:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your last reply on my talk page, it is very constructive. :) Dongwenliang 00:42, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Glen Gilmore

Iamunknown: RE your editing of "Glen Gilmore" - I'm still attempting to learn how to use wikipedia, but you have completely edited the posted material. You held that the information posted was copy-infringement. I am the creator of the "pdf" document from his bio, and I am the one who posted the information on the website. Please assist me in returning the page to how it was written - OR, please tell me what I need to do to prove to the satisfaction of Wikipedia that the nature of my post is in complience with all laws.

Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dsphillfan (talk • contribs) 15:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks ...

... for the revert. They've been at it for weeks now. Silly vandals - Alison^☺ 00:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Glad I could help. :-) --Iamunknown 00:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of material from my talk page

You deleted material from my talk page per [1]. You deleted material from the talk pages of 11 other editors as well, at about the same time. Please do not do this again. It is a serious breach of civility. If editors can canvass for support to keep an article as the USRD project recently did, by sending out material on March 10 to about 190 editors, then someone can send out equivalent canvassing to 12 editors. It cannot be a one way street. Thanks. Edison 13:11, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

If I saw that the USRD project canvassed about 190 editors, I would have reverted them as well. Reverting canvassing is in no way related to civility but instead is related to, oh, say, Wikipedia:Consensus and Wikipedia:Canvassing. Thank you for your kind note. --Iamunknown 19:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for helping me on how to chang a copyright tag. Carnildo and Mecu are giving me crap that the copyright is wrong. --FrogTape 03:14, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad I could help! If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask me. Regards, Iamunknown 03:16, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting JB

Thanks for reverting the banned user's vandalization on my User page. He seems to be a bit frustrated that his latest sock farm's getting weeded. SirFozzie 04:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I figured he was a sock with the "I'm here to stay" line in his lovely poem. --Iamunknown 04:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah.. it's banned User:JB196, who is getting close to about 200 sockpuppets (and that's before his latest checkuser, there's about EIGHTY names on that one, and I'm pretty sure that ALL of them are socks. Hopefully the CheckUser folks can get that pushed forward so we can have a nice break from his vandalism. SirFozzie 04:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Europäische Freiwillige

Could you possibly make a note at Talk:Europäische Freiwillige explaining this edit? Just saying that the link is "disputed" without giving any indication of the nature of the dispute is not very helpful, and is not really going to discourage people from re-adding the link. It's not at all obvious what is wrong with it. - Jmabel | Talk 23:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll try. Nearly 50 kB of discussion have already taken place and the link is now on the spam blacklist, so it wouldn't work anyways. --Iamunknown 00:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

AIV

I think the Quid Pro Quo report can be removed, because it was cleared up, and it seems to meet concencus, too.--U.S.A.U.S.A.U.S.A. (talk) 01:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Image policy

Wikipedia:Images#Pertinence and encyclopedicity {Slash-|-Talk} 05:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

The Herd With Colin Cowherd

In terms of copyright protection, is the transcript of Cowherd's comments considered "Fair Use"? You will see it in the History section as STS01 has deleted it numerous times. Your advice is appreciated. --Bluefield 14:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Whether or not unlicensed material can be used under "fair use" depends upon the use, amount and character of the material. Can you give me an explanation of how his comments would be used in The Herd with Colin Cowherd? Is there a link to the transcript? Regards, Iamunknown 20:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I simply removed an unsourced quotation per policy. Please review this vandals contributions and come to your own conclusion as to thier intentions here. Thanks --STS01 20:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Basically it was a transcript of Cowherd urging his listeners to visit a sports blog "to blow it up". Here's a transcript: "We occasionally, once a week…we’ll mention a website, our listeners will flee to it, and we’ll shut it down. We feel bad about this, we don’t mean to do it. It usually forces that young guy or young gal to buy more bandwidth and can be expensive. I don’t know that…but wouldn’t it be great if every day we gave out a new, young website and blew it up? If I told my audience every day–just one that’s annoying–and we could give it to them, and our audience would blow it up? I want everyone to go to it as fast as you possibly can. When I say go, go….it’s three words. THE BIG LEAD dot com. THE. BIG. LEAD. DOT. COM. Go now.”. It was being used in the controversies section to describe the incident, to lead to the effect (TheBigLead.com was knocked offline for approximately four days.) SirFozzie 20:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Copyright questions

Hey, was just looking at the copyright pages and wanted to thank you for answering some of the flood of questions and encouraging people to use free content. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 23:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note! Sorry for the delayed reply, I noticed the "new message" bar but was in the middle of maintenance, so kept on going. Regards, Iamunknown 01:21, 15 April 2007 (UTC)