User talk:WikiDon

"Mr. Wiki? This is the Thomas Crown School of Dance and Contemporary Etiquette. We aren't going to call again. Now, you want these free lessons, or what?"

Please put Image Deletion notices in that section

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05 Archive

IMAGE DELETION NOTICES HERE PLEASE

All images not tagged, should be deleted. Thanks WikiDon

Image:Auckland.PNG

Thank you for uploading Image:Auckland.PNG. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for a list of copyright tags that you can use. Thank you. Korg 14:26, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! For information, all images on Wikipedia must be tagged! Regards, Korg 23:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Palmerston North.PNG

Thanks for uploading Image:Palmerston North.PNG. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Could you add a tag to let us know its copyright status? (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Thanks so much. --michael180 16:07, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Valentia Island.PNG

Thanks for uploading Image:Valentia Island.PNG. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Could you add a tag to let us know its copyright status? (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Thanks so much. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:VCNP map.PNG

Image deletion warning

Image:VCNP map.PNG has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

SteinbDJ 16:38, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:VCNP Map.PNG

Thanks for uploading Image:VCNP Map.PNG. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Could you add a tag to let us know its copyright status? (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Thanks so much. --SteinbDJ 16:41, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Akureyri.PNG

Image deletion warning

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Please delete me.....A newer file was created.

Image:gisborne.PNG

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Image:gisborne.PNG has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

i believe this has been superceded by yourself with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gisborne.png; thanks for tagging that one so quickly, btw! --Piranha 21:06, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

pls verify copyright status

Image Tagging Image:gisborne.png

Thanks for uploading Image:gisborne.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, so its copyright status is therefore unclear. Please add a tag to let us know its copyright status. (If you created/took the picture then you can use {{gfdl}} to release it under the GFDL. If you can claim fair use use {{fairuse}}.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know on the image description page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Otherwise, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. Thanks so much. --Piranha 00:22, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Edgar Alwin Payne proofreading/typo corrections

Hi, there, WikiDon. You're welcome--I was actually trying to find who Payne's Gray, the paint color, was named after, and saw a few small typos, so I fixed them. Still haven't found out which Payne the gray is named for, though. I'm an artist, myself, and hoping to work on entries for a bunch of Alaskan artists (seems to be hardly any in Wikipedia--nor any categories of artists by state, so I suspect that was decided to be a no-no). But art in general is fun to peruse...Deirdre 2 July 2005 06:52 (UTC)

Re: Journey (band)

If you want to list the common vernacular for events like "Woodstock", that's perfectly understandable, but I think it should be listed it on Woodstock's page, not Journey's. That's what hyperlinks are for. Change it back if it's that big a concern for you, but I stand by my opinion.--BrokenStoic 6 July 2005 01:00 (UTC)

RE: 67.189.5.57, Blue Öyster Cult

I understand how you feel, but 1 day is the normal period for a first-time block. If he continues, we'll give him a longer one. Shanes 7 July 2005 22:27 (UTC)

LNG

Do you think the disputed header can come off this arrticle now? --Rjstott 9 July 2005 04:13 (UTC)

James Garner

I wouldn't simply revert another editor's edits with a curt edit summary like "Thanks for playing." May I remind you that since this a Wiki, you don't "own" the James Garner article? Mike H (Talking is hot) 01:09, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Santana/Journey work

I see you contributed the early Santana/Journey history to the Journey article. FYI I moved the Santana portion of that into the Santana article, and then expanded both articles significantly (in the case of Journey, by pulling in material from member and album articles). Give the articles a review if you like; in particular, pre-Perry Journey is a little thin. Wasted Time R 19:06, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Hellfighters (movie)

Thanks for the laugh. I must have seen that movie 50 times over the years and it doesn't get old.--Rogerd 05:41, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Journey

All of your Santana era material is in the Santana article now, did you look there as well? Wasted Time R 18:45, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Sjrdude

I blocked him indefinently this time, he has had his share of second chances. Thanks for letting me know. Thue | talk 20:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I think he is back under this IP 24.117.242.35; Rush (band) was just vandalized with the same old tone he has been dishing out. WikiDon 18:28, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

I left a warning on the IP's talk page. Thue | talk 19:16, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

I see you changed the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum back to say it was originally called the National Cowboy Musuem. Do you know exactly when that was? I looked up some old newspaper articles from 1955. They said when the trustees met in Denver in 1954 to choose a site it was called the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and when they met in 1955 to dedicate the site in Oklahoma City it was the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. By the grand opening in 1965 it was the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. The articles only said C.A. Reynolds first started promoting it in 1947, they didn't say if he had a name for it then so maybe that was when. Frank101 03:26, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Well, they should know. It's a puzzle though. Frank101 04:16, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Bidiot

I removed some irrelevant links he placed. We could leave a note on his talk page if this behavior persists. Sango123 00:48, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

usher

In this country, anyway, when there were people who showed customers to their seats, etc., men were ushers and women were usherettes. It would have been very odd to have called a woman an usher. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:42, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm... that suggests a misunderstanding of the notion of sexism, but that doesn't surprise me. More relevantly, worries about sexism should affect the way that we use language ourselves, but our reporting of it. If the fact is that no-one would call a woman an usher (and in this country I'm pretty certain that that's still the case), then we shouldn't pretend that things are otherwise in the name of political correctness. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:00, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

User:207.55.225.227

Thanks. I'll try to keep an eye open. Love the dog pictures on your page, especially the one where they're on top of what appears to be a very high mountaintop! Did they climb K2? Joyous (talk) 04:07, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

What a shame. I had a daydream about the dogs with little specially-designed oxygen masks and parkas planting a flag at the top of a high peak. Now, sad reality takes over. Sigh.... Joyous (talk) 04:30, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

I believe I was led to write retinal detachment because earlier, I'd done some work on floaters, and there was an unexpected redlink. I was shocked that the article wasn't already in place, really. How could such an innocent-looking puppy cause a detached retina? Joyous (talk) 05:00, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

RE: New Mexico

I was correcting a grammatical error. I think you are misreading the sentence. Compare:

Previously: "New Mexico has the highest percentage of people of Hispanic ancestry of any state, some are recent immigrants and others are descendants of Spanish colonists."

Revision: "New Mexico has the highest percentage of people of Hispanic ancestry of any state, some recent immigrants and others descendants of Spanish colonists."

This paragraph could probably use more of a re-write, but I was correcting what seemed to be a grievous grammatical mistake.

Cheers, Slugmaster 22:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Containerization

Please indicate the article you are talking about in your messages; I had to think a second to realize you were talking about containerization. Anyway, I have posted my response on Talk:Containerization. —Lowellian (talk) 23:30, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Containerization image overlaps The top of the third picture wasn't below the bottom of the second, so it was indented to the left rather than lined up below it. I've uploaded a screenshot to my personal webspace at [1]. My screen resolution is at 1024x768 on this box. I've fixed the TOC position with __TOC__ before the {{clear}} call. slambo 03:54, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Albert Johnson

Text in italics at the top of the article is used to indicate likely sources of confusion, a sort of in-article disambig. I believe you may be the only person to have been confused by this. I also don't understand why you would then put TWO types of cleanup markers in the article and NOT comment on the talk page. I am removing all of it. Maury 11:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Kabocha

Saying that Japanese people use "kabocha" to mean either what English speakers call a "kabocha" or what English speakers call a "pumpkin" isn't the same as saying that English speakers call kabocha "Japanese pumpkin". I may have phrased it unclearly, but I think it's a valid point to make in the kabocha article. What do you say to adding something like that in the third paragraph?

(oops. I meant to sign this and forgot.) Franzeska 04:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Nimmitabel and the Monaro region

Hi - just in relation to Nimmitabel, New South Wales in particular, you might like to be aware that we have a policy for automatically disambiguating Australian place names. The policy was discussed at the Australian Wikipedians' notice board and has been recorded at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(places)#Australia. Regards--AYArktos 11:36, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Nimmitabel: In relation to driving distances, as stated in the edit summary, I think it adds little value to the knowledge of Nimmitabel as a place to know that it is 1277 km east of Adelaide. The Snowy Mountains are in the way for starters and you will see an awful lot of other places in between. Bega and Cooma are the only sensible reference points plus the highways it is on. Cooma is referenced by location back to Canberra. Sydney and Melbourne are not in the picture. If a reader from Kansas wants to know something about Nimmitabel, there is a lot more that they are going to want to know before a distance from a city to which the town has no relation. To give an example from your country, Scyene, Dallas, Texas does not have references to driving distances from Seattle, New York and Los Angeles, or even Boston - cities that feature prominently in the minds of Australians. I appreciate your frustration about wasting time. My edit was not to do with space but readability and logic. The driving distance from Cooma and Bega were incorporated earlier in the article. Nimmitabel is a very small town and I could not commend it as the sole reason for a detour from the Hume or Princes Highways between Sydney and Melbourne. You would want to be a very very dedicated fan of the movie :-) Regards--AYArktos 02:14, 2 September 2005 (UTC)