User:Lupo/rechts

Just a collection of links. Lupo

Useful stuff

Blocks Clean up Copyright Copyvios Deletions PD image sources Peer review Image © tags MediaWiki msgs Kudos

Selected Contributions

These are selected contributions—it is not a comprehensive list, but a highly subjective selection of articles I have worked on that I consider worthy mentioning or remembering for some reason or another. If you want to see all my edits, go to User contributions.

Kitchen failed to become a featured article in July 2004, mainly because people thought it was too much focused on western kitchens.
Old Swiss Confederacy became a featured article on Nov 8, 2004! (Was featured on Dec 5, 2004.)
I also had a hand in bringing the articles on Erich von Manstein (Nov 25, 2004) and on the Antarctic krill (June 26, 2005) to feature-worthy quality.
Krill became a featured article on July 15, 2005!
Shrimp farm became a featured article on August 29, 2005. Although it wasn't perfect yet, it apparently was good enough. (Was featured on Oct 12, 2005.)

Did you know...

... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003? (2005-08-23)
...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying? (2005-08-11)
...that shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater? (2005-07-06)
...that Japan and Poland are the world's largest Krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993? (2005-06-23)
Actually that was true until 2000. By 2003, the largest producers were Japan, South Korea, and Ukraine. Hmph! That's what I get from working with a 1997 source without checking the FAO databases for newer trends. Lupo
...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years? (2005-06-09)
...that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich? (2005-05-17)
...that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League? (2005-05-13)
...that Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, was also an opponent of McCarthyism and an outspoken critic of the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War? (2005-01-05)
...that the Egyptian numeral for 100,000 was the hieroglyph of a tadpole or a frog? (2004-11-10)
...that the Burgundy Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France? (2004-10-19)
...that the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul? (2004-10-12)
...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind? (2004-06-30)
...that the famous horny toad of North America is not an amphibian but a reptile officially known as the Short-horned Lizard? (2004-04-21)
...and that Amerigo Vespucci was also on the main page before Dyk even existed, as the old main page had something similar: 2004-02-07.

Copyright issues

Copyright term and the public domain in the United States (chart)
Copyright term for images in Canada. Bottom line: if created before January 1, 1949, the image is in the PD in Canada. Unsure about its status in the U.S., probably also PD if created before 1946.
Copyright FAQ from CENDI (U.S.)
Copyright terms in Germany
Effect of EU directive: previously expired copyrights may become effective again (Spain has 80 years p.m.a. since 1879). More detailed discussion.
High-quality blog on copyright issues (U.S.)
urecht is a high-quality German mailing list on copyright issues. Unfortunately not searchable, and browse access is by week only.