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Greetings from the United Federation of Planets

Hey there. Since you were the major uploader of Star Trek rank insignias I thought you'd like t know most of the images are now in commons. I am however hesitant to upload TNG enlisted ranks at the moment as I want these to be checked, something doesnt look right.

Now I know on TNG enlisted insignia was a complete mess but on DS9 Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brian wars a single hollow pip. On TNG thats onw gold pip and one hollow pip. Whats up with that?

By the way, I have made some major modifications to Starfleet ranks and insignia and you might want to take a look

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks for sending them to the Commons. As for the error in the images, i'll take a peek and see which ones were screwed up and fix them. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:19, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also take a look at commons:Starfleet ranks and insignia. I need few images with a free license. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:41, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you provide specific examples, since some of the ones I checked are PD-user|me, which is pretty free. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well I need Star Trek: Enterprise enlisted insignias, voyager provisional insignias, 29th century insignias

Also need Star Trek: Enterprise era mirror universe as well as The Next Generation Mirror universe.

Basicaly any red link on commons:Starfleet ranks and insignia... Aside from TNG enslited which you were going to check. ;)

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am also looking for MACO insignias... --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:52, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nerys Kira

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Star_Trek#Moving_of_Kira_Nerys_article

Thought you may want to comment. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 21:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright question

Hello, Zscout370. I've uploaded an image to inllustrate Cyclone Larry, but I was hoping you could clear up the copyright status of the image. I've claimed fair use on the image (Image:Larry track map 11AM EST Monday 20 March 2006.gif), and tried to follow the instructions at the corresponding copyright page, but I was wondering if it is usable due to the restrictions on Crown Copyright on commercial usage. I don't mind deleting the image if I'm mistaken, but I'd rather know if it is something we can do in the future for future storms. Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 04:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Titoxd, I was reading http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml and it says that the image is not allowed to be used for commercial use. However, that will be something you can ask someone to draw and have them put under a free license. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:58, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nah. Since it is basically usable for only a few hours, it isn't really worth the trouble. I'll just delete it. Thanks. Tito xd^{(?!? - help us)} 05:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. While your here, I was killing some red links at the Mexican national anthem article. Your welcome to expand on anything there. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 06:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:SPUI

Can this be unsemiprotected? The reason for semiprotection appears to now be moot. Stifle 13:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, so I unprotected. NoSeptember ^talk 14:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Why was it protected again? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 19:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Belarusian Central Rada

In hoping to learn about Belarusian history, I stumbled across this article. It is a right mess. I have tried to clean it up, but since I know close to nothing about Belarusian history, I was a bit at a loss. This important article would benefit from your knowledge in the area. I hope you father returns home safely. Regards, Ground Zero | t 00:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the words about my dad; I will try and take a peek at the article and see what I can do. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Cool Cat/Ribbon

I thought you might want to take a look at this page. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you mind if I uploaded your ribbons to commons?

~~Do you have a ribbon for every barn star? If not~~ I'd like you to create two more ribbons for me for the barnstars I got and you havent: Image:Barnstar of Reversion2.png, Image:Upholder order.gif Image:Barnstar-minor.png

--Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also perhaps a year of service barnstar?

Wikipedia talk:Barnstar and award proposals/Ribbons

You may want to take a look at there for my proposal. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the ribbons can be uploaded to the Commons; I believe other ribbons were made for those two awards. My intent was to make the ribbons not official and just make my userpage look better, but I am suprised that y'all like them so much. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 19:38, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You think? I am burried under a mass of barnstars... --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 11:24, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was why I did the ribbons. I know there will be some things to work out if the ribbons become official, but I a still generally suprised the community likes them. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

USN Jack

Thanks for the help using the bot to clean up some of the jack images on ship pages! However, I have one concern. I noticed you have been replacing the historical US Navy jack (USN-Jack.png) with the new and current one. This fine for any ships in commission from 2001 on, but may not be appropriate for a lot of ships which served earlier as this puts a jack on their page which they never sailed under. Instead, it seems to be the consensus of the ships WikiProject to use the jack a ship actually used, so putting historical ships under appropriate historical jacks/ensigns. I don't have a bot at my disposal and so I can't make the individual edits myself, so I would respectfully ask that you review your bot's routine so that only appropriate articles have their jack/ensign image updated. Thanks!! Josh 05:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the ship articles anyways should have used the 48 Star Jack, but that image was never created and they used the 50 Star Jack Instead (from 1960-2001). And, if you want, a 48 Star jack can be created and be used on several articles. I do not read the articles myself before I let my bot run loose, I just switch images regardless of how the image is used in the article. I can always run it again, but I am going to wait and see which articles need the 48 Star Jack, the 50 Star Jack and those that can be left with the 2001 Jack. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was just too late to support you!

Hi, Zach. I came across your RfB through looking at the contributions of someone to see if he was online. I voted to support, but got an edit conflict. I looked to see what the conflict was, and saw that it had just been closed, probably while I was pressing preview. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to support you, but want you to know that you would have had my support, and I appreciate the good work you do here. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 23:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I guess the community thought I was doing a good job as admin, and felt like my energies should be devoted elsewhere. I am not bothered by the RFB removed early (I did it myself) since a lot of people were just fighting it out on the talk page. Plus, I saw a bunch of men, filled with sraw, coming to the page, and that is when I pulled the plug. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 23:51, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No big deal

File:SpamInACan.jpg

I dare you!

I may have missed the party with regards to having a say in your 'crat-ship, but I reckon you're cunning as a dunny rat and you don't need no stinking badger to get my respect. - brenneman^{L} 00:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dinner, FTW! Thanks for the support anyways. I think I will just focus more on what I can do at Meta and start stubs at BE Wikipedia. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RfB

Don't let my minor spat with Linuxbeak cloud things for you. It's only twoish editors disagreeing with one another. -Splash^talk 00:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More users started to get involved, I saw invisible sraw people coming up, so I figured for the best of the Wiki, and our blood pressure, to end it pre-maturely. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A somewhat late Thank You

I was bored, so I clicked on an article on my watchlist (Your talkpage) and then went to your main userpage, and found out that you are what made The Flag of Mexico a featured article. Thank you for drawing attention to it and making it a absolutely wonderful article. I'd give you an award of some sort, but I'm out of ideas. Thank you! - RPharazon 00:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De nada; your welcome. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Various unseen or stub Star Trek Classes

You may want to vote here --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 02:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFC?

Would you recommend article or user RFC? Arguably it could be a user RFC since it's one person against many. Really we're just trying to get him to wait until we have consensus for either side- but SPUI decided that the consensus was on his side and started moving pages. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you really, truely, think it is a RFC on a person, rather than an issue, then go ahead and fill out an RFC against SPUI. Either way, this issue needs to be resolved now. The quicker, the better. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If noone is assigned to the Med Cabal I'll escalate it to some form of RFC. I'll poll the other people and ask for their opinion. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 05:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:50, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

By the same token SPUI has been doing mass conversions of {{routeboxca2}} to {{Infobox CA Route}} without consensus, and a major edit war is developing regarding this. Could we make any conversions from {{routeboxca2}} to {{Infobox CA Route}} or the other way around a blockable offense? (For only the users involved- if there's a user who has no clue and changes the infobox then they're not included). Respond to WP:AN/I --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 06:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

At these the same one's up for TFD? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 06:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{routeboxca2}} was TFD'ed by SPUI but had a keep consensus. However after this SPUI continued and continues to change the infoboxes to his liking. People revert and he reverts back. This war could spread to all 200+ pages of the California State Highway System and something needs to be done. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 06:42, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipediatrix's talk page

I understand that removal of warnings from one's talk page is considered vandalism but surely if the warning is disputed or added incorrectly an exception should be made? The warnings on Wikipediatrix's talk page were added by Swatjester who is not even an admin (unlike Wikipediatrix). What are your thoughts? File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

one does not need to be an admin to give warnings on wikipedia. ⇒ SWATJester

^Ready Aim _Fire! 07:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I know that please reread what I wrote. Taking what I wrote to the extreme imagine that some vandal came and added half a dozen warnings to your user page for no reason... Is it your position that you have to leave them there? File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 07:12, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Depends. If it's a case of blatant vandalism, no, ideally another editor would remove it for me, or I'd do it myself. If they were valid, or even borderline valid (i was disputing them, but many believe them to be true), then yes I'd have to keep them. In wikipediatrix's case though, she's been personally attacking myself, disrupting at least one article, and she has a history of doing it to other editors, as I found out tonight. Not just me, two other editors, including two admins, were keeping the warnings up on her page. That's a pretty good sign they've got some merit behind them. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 07:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Needless to say, I disagree severely with virtually everything Swatjester just said. Pot, kettle, black. wikipediatrix 07:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The warnings were added by two different people, and both said to not remove them. He did so, and based on the edit history of revert after revert, I decided to lock the page. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 07:15, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He is a she BTW. Thank you for your reply, I'm just trying to locate the second warning (I'm no doubt getting blind in my old age). File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 07:19, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops. I knew that. The first warning was by me, the second one was by vilerage (name appears in cyrillic). ⇒ SWATJester

^Ready Aim _Fire! 07:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User talk: Wikipediatrix

ZScout370, I honestly did not know users were not supposed to remove warning boxes from their talk pages. I had been under the mistaken assumption, based upon viewing of others, that we were free to maintain our talk pages any way we wished and to keep disruptive posts off. Swatjester's warning was unwarranted in the first place, because he took offense at being called an "Armed Forces guy", and in fact, I feel I am the attacked party here, not him.

More relevantly, your comment on my talk page incorrectly and unfairly accuses me of not heeding "негіднийлють"'s warning, and thus locked my page. I did not revert my page any further after негіднийлють's warning, and a quick glance at the history confirms this.

So when do I get my talk page unlocked? wikipediatrix 07:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is true it was I that reverted after this and rather than locking the page I should probably have been warned myself. However I was also unaware of this rule and now knowing it would not (of course) revert it again. I was only reverting as I believed (like Wikipediatrix) that your talk page was yours to edit as you wish. For this error I apologise. File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 07:36, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stollery, it's ok, things happen. Wikipediatrix, I will go ahead and unlock the userpage now, but please do not remove the warnings again. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 08:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Wikipediatrix, sorry about that :( File:Glenstollery.gif^POW! 08:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, the NPA warning was a combination of your uncivil tone in attacking my military service for no reason, and the more direct referring to me as a "troll" in edit summars for adding a {{npov}} tag, which clearly was a personal attack. ⇒ SWATJester

^Ready Aim _Fire! 18:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you really think calling you an "Armed Forces guy" is attacking your military service, then you speak a different version of the English language than the one I am accustomed to. Similarly, I did not refer to you as a "troll". I accused certain of your POSTS of being an act of "trolling", which, while similar, is not the same thing. It's your POSTS I criticized, not you, therefore I feel your personal attack warning on my talk page (and subsequent unnecessary drama) was completely unwarranted, and an act of petty and deliberate harassment on your part. Even now, you still persist in spinning it into something bigger and worse than it was. wikipediatrix 15:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO, being called an "Armed Forces guy" is not a personal attack to me, but if SWAT believes so, then try to not use that language in a negative tone. But, as for the word troll, the both of y'all need to be careful about the use of that term. I have seen many cases where people are just using that term all of the time and eventually, the parties end up here. So, I suggest the both of you to relax, edit other things. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 16:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Zscout370, one more thing: We have another user, UNK, who is needlessly slapping Warnings on the talk pages of myself, Stollery, and others, in apparent "revenge" over this RfC. How long are the warning notices supposed to stay on my talk page - forever? If that's the case, harassing users can endlessly keep my talk page flooded with warnings over even the slightest comment that rubs anyone's rhubarb the wrong way. And since these users are the ones making the personal attacks against me, there's no way I can respond with a similar warning without it looking like WP:POINT. wikipediatrix 14:53, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The warnings are clearly explained and linked with evidence and therefore warranted and not just a harassment or personal attack. --UNK 15:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The warnings are not supposed to stay up forever: I would say that with the amount of messages you get, in a month, it would be safe to move the messages onto an archive page. However, Wikipediatrix, if someone removes your comments from the talk page, just place them back. I did not see the post you cited, UNK, as a personal attack at all, since she was asking "why did X user take off my two postings at the talk page." User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 15:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Image:Flag of Ottawa, Ontario.svg

It looks like you may have run the bitmap through an auto-tracer. Why not try tracing the image manually from scratch, using as few nodes as you can? Denelson 83 09:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I actually traced it by hand; every looks fine except the Big O. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IRC

Dude, how many days are you going to keep me banned from IRC? I think this is a little excessive. Everyking 10:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And I find your "Do not spam or you will be blocked from Wikipedia" message to be far too harsh and threatening. Why do you need something like that? Everyking 10:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One, the IRC block is lifted. Two, the above notice was a template I started to use once I got the adminship job. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{nospam}} removed. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Barnstar reversion ribbon.png

Here is one image. I will try and knock out the other two images. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 22:41, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 22:43, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SPUI

Has started moving pages again- check his contribs. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moves are legit; the discussion on the proposed move changes was stopped and as part of the decision, they were moved. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um it was no consensus if you look at the talk page. I've blocked for a hour until someone else can look at the situation. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You realize I am an admin, right? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:43, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um, yes. That's why I put this note on your talk page. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 21:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, because I looked at the situation, and in my view, I believe everything was done legit. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meanwhile, there are signs that the massive war is about to go to Washington. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Meta adminship

Thanks for the notice; per your request, I'll re-evaluate it soon. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 01:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hymn of Russia

I have no clue what you done at [1], but I been trying to get that same effect for who-knows how long now. So, for not only doing that, and for the grammar check, that barnstar to the right of the screen is officially yours for the taking. Thanks. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar, it is my first so I will place it on my userpage. What I did was to remove the width code which was pushing the Russian column of the hymn table to 50% of the page. It should work with wdith at 33% but I don't think it's worth the effort. Anyway thanks for the barnstar and if I can help in anyway, feel free to ask. Green Giant 05:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I tried the 33 percent width, but that did not work. But, still, thank you. The only other thing I can suggest is look at the FAC of the article and see if I need to do something. Thanks again. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:21, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of Nashville

Hi Zscout370, I was wondering if you be gracious enough to post the contruction sheet instructions to the Nashville flag talk page, along with information about it's source. There seems to be disagreement about whether or not the fly includes a small white band similar to the state flag. Kaldari 18:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks Zscout!

I appreciate your well wishes for my engagemeent! :-) Ta bu shi da yu 12:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your quite welcome. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images for deletion

A bunch of your st-tng images were nominated for deletion as orphans (which they are currently). Were you notified? Please respond on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 March 20 -Thanks Nv8200p talk 00:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was notified that I need to re-draw some, but not about it's deletion. However, Nv8200p, please kill the images. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its the images now on commons. :) --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 09:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

your ribbons

Barnstar Awards
		User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon
User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon	User:Cool Cat/Ribbon

I personaly think you may want to reorganise them a bit. --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 09:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but the format I am using now is what was used during the former Soviet Union (duplicate ribbons are shown multiple times). User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 14:44, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is why they fell, the uniforms did not had any room for more ribbons! --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 18:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:FOTWpic

I noticed that this template describes a licence that disallows commercial reuse of images but the template doesn't warn about the images getting deleted, unlike other non-commercial-only licence templates.

I noticed that you edited the template so it no longer forbade commercial use but the "no-commercial-use" clause came back recently.

What is the status of these images? I thought after Jimbo's mail we're going to remove all non-commercial-only images....

Note that this template has inspired the creation of another non-commercial-only template -- Template:Canadiansoldiers,com Image. -- Paddu 20:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I discussed this with FOTW editors, since I am the unofficial gopher between us and FOTW. I think that it will be safe to add back the non-commercial deletion warning template. I had added it before, but it kept on being removed since some still believe that Flag=PD, no matter what. However, I have been manually drawing SVG flags, so images from here are getting replaced one by one. My goal is to wipe out FOTW and flags.net images, but I thank you for helping me. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:07, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BYU User Box

You may be interested in updates to Template:User_BYU. I've added several new options to the talk page there. NThurston 22:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I had a say, I would choose something with all three letters, since having the plain Y in the userbox will easily confuse it with the Yale Univ. userbox. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 15:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Innocent Blocking

Sorry to be a bother, but I was recently blocked by you because I shared the same IP as "Tommysun". My user name is User:FireSpike, and my IP address is 205.188.117.6. Please revert the block as soon as possible, Thank You.

I been at Univ. all day, I will lift the block now. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question regarding Image

Please see my post on your commons user account, here. Thanks. → J @red 00:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I seen it, task is now done. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 00:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your helping. The problem, though, is that the image you replaced it with is the same image. Maybe my explanation wasn't the clearest before, but this is what I tried to say:

I'd like the image currently at commons:Image:Olympic flag.svg to be reloaded/uploaded as the new image for Image:Flag of the Olympic Movement.svg.

This will make the many pages containing the ugly colored flag have the right one without having to change the name of the image on each one. Thanks for your help, again! → J @red 02:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That is what I did the first time around, so I suggest you purge/refresh your cache and it should come up correctly. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:49, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm. I tried that but it's not working. It's still the same colors. Do the two images look the same on your browser now? Even looking at pages that contain the image show that it is the same as before. → J @red 03:00, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks fine on my end, so I have no clue what is going on. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, everything is working now. I guess it just took overnight for the page cache to purge and reload. Thanks, again. → J @red 12:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Flags

I just found yourNordic-Celtic Flag at

This user is of Teutonic and Celtic ancestry.

. My very similar contribution made in March was unrelated to yours. See Talk:Flag_of_Ireland. I wonder how approprate the flag is for Teutonic/Celtic, since green and orange aren't associated with any of the other Celtic languages. Evertype 12:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just drew the flag the way it was depicted in the userbox, so if the colors might be wrong, go ahead and let me know what needs to be changed. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:36, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tavisupleba

Thanks. Very cool. - Jmabel | Talk 03:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Zscout370,

I looked through all the Georgian resources I can find on the net. They are not very informative, but I added some more info to the article. I hope that I’ve been helpful. Regards, Kober 19:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. I’m not sure if the detail below is worth to be mentioned in the article, but it was heavily reported by media and could be included under the trivia section.

During George W Bush’s visit to Georgia, on May 10 2005, when he along with President Saakashvili were addressing tens of thousands of Georgians on Tavisuplebis Moedani, Tbilisi, a recording of Georgia's national anthem failed to play properly. Saakashvili then motioned to choirs, and thousands in the crowd joined the singers in singing the anthem, a moment which was described by media as "the most powerful moment of the day" [2].

Best wishes, Kober 05:15, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead and mention it, it sounds pretty neat. :) I added in the MX anthem article that the anthem was used in Japan to arrest Colombian nationals and in Russia, players were scolded by Putin for using gum and not singing. :) User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added it in. I will try and find more on the music and lyric history, or back story, and see if I can find the regulations too. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:40, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from richardshusr

Hi ZScout370,

I notice that you have a fancy signature that includes a superscripted (Return Fire). How do you do that? I sign my messages with four tildes. What do I need to do to have a signature like yours?

Richard 06:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Richard, you put this into your Nickname: section in your preferences (also click Raw signature): [[User:Zscout370]] <small><sup>[[User_talk:Zscout370|(Return Fire)]]</sup></small>. Enjoy. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 06:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WBRU

Will you please take off the protection you put onto WBRU even though you had no idea what was going on. I followed the story minute by minute and have everything that you ruined saved on my computer. If you could take off the protection I coould give a summary of the events and and major timeline inncidents. Please do not tell me that I am a new user. I have been using Wikipedia for over a year and a half now and I am very well versed in their polices. I only statred editing over the past week because it was the first event that I knew an extensive amount about. You had no right to take the law into your hands. Thanks Caf3623 23:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calm down please; a request was presented to me, I checked the edit history, so I decided to use the least level of protection, which is semi. While you say you have been at Wikipedia for a while, the software prevents people who have the "newest" accounts from editing, and also prevents IP addresses from editing too. But, since April 1st is over, the semi protection can be lifted. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 23:38, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You were still able to edit after I placed the protection, so I guess you will no longer be affected by it. Protection removed, since the page has calmed down a bit. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 23:39, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Caf3623 01:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting warning

Zscout370, removing warnings from their talk pages is vandalism, no? User:Stollery removed warnings after he made personal attacks and then an administrator told Stollery that he could do anything he wanted with his talk page[3] Is this right and acceptable behavior from admin? --Nikitchenko 02:45, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If an admin said it was ok, then I will not wheel war over it. It is usually bad form to do it, but keep in mind that if this happens on a constant basis, then go to WP:AN/I. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for helping to deal with User:PoolGuy's sockpuppet. --Nlu (talk) 15:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just doing my job. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks (four times!)

Thanks a lot for blocking all four recent sockpuppets of Jeffrey Vernon Merkey. We waste too much time tracking his never-ending antics. Can I ping you in case he starts vandalizing the same pages again? Friendly Neighbour 21:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 21:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks also. Just a thought about Merkey's potential return.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/237458/message/1144201223/Re-+Nobody+believe's+you+Jeff

Re: Nobody believe's you Jeff
April 4 2006 at 8:40 PM	Asgaya  (Login AsgayaGigagei)	

Response to Nobody believe's you Jeff	

"Plenty more accounts there moron. I've got hundreds of IPs and dozens of accounts and edit from them all.
Hey, you aren't one of us. You're one of those anal/oral copulaters from San Francisco.
Get back to your board lil'old gay college boy.

Hv-wa"

Merkey's a sweetheart, isn't he? -- talks_to_birds 02:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]