User talk:BaronLarf

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Opera

Congrats. on Porgy and Bess

I would like to conglatulate you on getting Porgy and Bess to FA. The page has undergone some amazing work over the past semester, and most of it has been you. Now I need something else to occupy my time. Do you want to try another opera page? I was thinking Wagner's Ring. --Alexs letterbox 06:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'd be interested in working to get another opera article to FA, but just not right at the moment. I've started an unrelated wikiproject WP:WPWI and I'm devoting my time right now at getting off the ground. Congrats to you, too. --Baron Larf 12:43, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Wisconsin

Beloit College

Nice fix on my Mounds link, to Tumulus#U.S.A. - much better approach. Question, though - should the first "Mound" link also go to the same spot? Was just curious why you changed mine, but left the original that I modeled mine on....

I didn't see the first link, only yours. I've now changed the first one, and removed the second wikilink; consensus is to have only the first instance of a term wikilinked. (see WP:MOS) Cheers. --Baron Larf 20:08, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation, and the heads up on etiquette!

Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

For Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod you put the WikiProject Wisconsin link on the Talk page, not the general page. Shouldn't it be on the general page? (from Johnh; originally unsigned & on User:BaronLarf)

The Template:WikiProject Wisconsin template goes on to the talk page, not the article page, since the message is meant for people editing and discussing articles, not those reading the article. Also, please leave messages on user talk pages (User talk:BaronLarf) rather than user pages (User:BaronLarf). Cheers. --Baron Larf 23:43, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, if that's what you want. Sorry for marking up the wrong page (your user page). Johnh 03:36, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Schools

RfA

I nominated you for admin: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship#BaronLarf. Buon fortuna, -- Viajero | Talk 23:41, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 23:44, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! :^) I will tread this new ground cautiously. --Baron Larf 23:49, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

That went well. Have fun with new buttons...;)--Viajero | Talk 01:05, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well deserved! Welcome to the ~~Caba~~Mop Brigade! Antandrus (talk) 01:28, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats on your adminship! You will do well. HollyAm 02:07, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What's the big deal? It's only a mop. ;-) Congrats! -- BDAbramson ^talk 02:32, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats fro me too, and thanks for the kind words! No problems with support from me, you'll be a good admin. Grutness...wha? 06:04, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. You impressed me greatly during the Great Jeb Bush Incident, so I have great faith you'll be an impressive admin. Joyous (talk) 14:31, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind my message to Boothy; I of course was hoping it wasn't a typo. Let me take the time to add my congratulations. Cheers, Slac speak up! 23:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It really doesn't bother me that I got 37-1 instead of 38-0; what does bother me is that Boothy used my nomination as another one of his antisocial soapboxes. Thanks for the note. :^) Cheers. --Baron Larf 12:22, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, and you're quite welcome! --Merovingian (t) (c) 13:52, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
How did I miss this?! Here I thought I was paying attention! Congrats. :-) We need more people with mops. :-) Tomer ^TALK 01:32, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Re: BaronLarf's RFA

I have received your acknowledgement and you are welcome. As I also plan to become an administrator here sometime soon, you may nominate me if you would like to.--Jusjih 07:05, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jusjih - I hope you don't mind that I decline; to tell you the truth, I have never run across you when editing. Doesn't mean that I wouldn't support you, just that I'm not the person to do the nominating. Cheers.--Baron Larf 12:22, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Silas Warner

Hi. I posted a bio on Silas and you reverted it. I used to work with him. I'm new to Wikipedia so I don't really know how it works. What did I do wrong?

Thanks

Your additions to Silas Warner were simply copied from http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/124_Zaron_and_the_art_of_moto.php , as I stated in that articles talk page. Copy violations cannot be tolerated. This is why I removed your edit. --Baron Larf 21:19, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

I was pretty sure that my quote - since it credited the original publication - was ok under "fair use" however, I contacted Kevin Savetz who has permission to post the articles on the web. His response seems to ok that. I would like to resubmit my entry but before I do - what other objections to you have that would prompt you to summarily revert my edits?

Original Message-----

From: Kevin Savetz Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 12:43 PM To: Eric Ace Subject: Re: regarding http://www.atarimagazines.com/

I short quote from that page won't be a problem - it'll fall clearly into Fair Use. A link to the article would be appreciated.

On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Eric Ace wrote:

>> Hi Kevin, >> >> My name is Eric Ace. I wanted to create an entry in Wikipedia for >> Silas >> Warner, who I worked with at MUSE software many years ago. I'd like to >> include a quote from Ed Zaron that appeard in an article you've >> posted on >> the web: >> >> http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/ >> v10n11/124_Zaron_and_the_art_of_moto. >> php >> >> How would I go about inquiring about getting permission to do that? >> >> Thanks! >> >> - Eric Ace

Your email did not mention the GDFL. It doesn't have to be this complicated. Just write an article in your own words and list the website as a source. --Baron Larf 00:08, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

3RR

Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. Thank you. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 22:11, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware of the 3RR rule, thank you. As you can tell be looking at the history of Talk:Truth, I was replacing text which had been repeatedly removed by an anonymous user who has since been blocked. No need to threaten me. Cheers. --Baron Larf 22:14, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

WVTV

You reverted the additions I made to the entry on WVTV, saying that they were copied from: http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/MilwTV.html. I happen to own that website, and am the author of that page. Most of the other Milwaukee TV station histories are, for the most part, rewrites of information on my page.

As such, I rewrote my information on WVTV and added it as a way of making that information available to folks here. Am I to assume that you don't want me to?

Sorry, but there's no way of showing that you are the same person who wrote the website article. In order to protect his copyrighted material, it was removed. A rewrite of the article, with different wording, listing the website as a source would easily solve the problem. --Baron Larf 00:09, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Well, it was a rewrite. You reverted it 6 minutes after I posted it - hardly enough time to check.

The easy way to clear things up would have been for you to have gone to the website, write an email to the contact, and I would have responded that I wrote that section and that it was ok.

If we work this out, I'll write the histories of WJJA and WPXE, but I'm not going to take all of the time to do so and then have those pages reverted.

I was on vandalism patrol. I selected a random portion of text, googled it, and found an exact match to another portion of text. I looked over the article and it was a match. Wikipedians can't sit down and write letters for every copyviolation that they find. Cheers. --Baron Larf 11:18, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Well, you've turned me off. I was offering my material - which I've spent 100's of hours digging up - so that others might find it here organized by channel.

I'm sorry you feel that way. --Baron Larf 12:02, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Friends of Soviet Russia

May I remove the copyright warning on the Friends of Soviet Russia page? The material cited as being possibly in violation of copyright protection is in fact not covered by copyright. It is taken from the Marxists Internet Archive which allows free use of its material, when that material is not explicitly copyrighted. MIA's 100% free pledge: http://www.marxists.org/admin/legal/charter.htm This notice applies to all texts on the MIA that are not otherwise indicated as copyrighted.

Furthermore, the original author's main and subsidiary pages do not have copyright notices:

http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/index.html
http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/fsr.html
http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/socialistlaborparty.html (sample of organization page).

Also, I obtained prior permission from the article's author to repost his original organizational histories from the Marxists Internet Archive on Wikipedia. Please see the Talk:Friends of Soviet Russia page for my acknowledgements.

This is a revised post, since my initial response was unclear. Cheers. DJ Silverfish 03:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just a friendly notice that I am removing the copy vio from Friends of Soviet Russia. I think the allowable use of the text is suffiently clear to move ahead. If you have any concerns, please contact me via my Talk page. DJ Silverfish 16:08, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

user:DotSix

If you block this user before getting the go-ahead from the arbcom, please remember to log this fact at Wikipedia:policy enforcement log. Uncle Ed 22:27, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks; I lost my internet connection for an hour before I could do it. --Baron Larf 23:23, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Chicago meetup

I live up in the Milwaukee area, but might be interested in a Chicago meetup. :^) --Baron Larf 00:41, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Well, you're welcome to locomotate down here to join us, but I rather doubt that we'd select a venue north of about Gurnee (assuming we ever get one together at all). Kelly Martin 00:45, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

That's fine; when you Chicago people decide upon a time and location, I might join you down there. --Baron Larf 00:58, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

Congrats on Porgy and Bess Front Page

Just wanted to drop a line and congratulate you on the Porgy and Bess article. I don't think I've seen a front page article have as few edits and vandalism as this one did. I'd say that was due to the article's overall excellent shape. Best, --Alabamaboy 00:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your improvements, too, and for the kind note. Cheers. --Baron Larf 04:22, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Catholic encyclopedia

I've noticed you have worked on incorporating information from the Catholic encyclopedia into wikipedia. I've created a project page for the Catholic Encyclopedia as part of the Missing encyclopedic articles project to coordinate efforts and hopefully make the work easier. Reflex Reaction 14:11, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User categorization

Greetings, BaronLarf! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page. The page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Wisconsin page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin|BaronLarf]] to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 04:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, congrats, Bjorklunden

BaronLarf, Wow. Congratulations on getting the admin tap. I hope that when you settle at your new location, you still have time for the old WP, which needs good editors. Speaking of that, I wrote an article for Björklunden based on a newspaper clipping my mother sent me (I even referenced it). It could use some treatment from a student who actually had a chance to attend something there (NPOV of course). Mention of Bjorklunden (this is a redirect) should also be added to the Lawrence page. I made some attempts, but all involved major changes to the order of the page and it's after midnight. I'll see if I have more time for both articles tomorrow. Will you do what you can? Thanks. -Acjelen 05:27, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I'll definitely take a look at it and try to help you out. I don't get internet installed at my new place until tomorrow, but I'm hoping to become active again soon after that. --Baron Larf 19:26, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Wisconsin recent changes

Just out of curiosity, how did you go about populating the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Wisconsin recent changes? older≠wiser 21:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I manually add them by pasting the results into a spreadsheet of the output from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchangeslinked/Template:WikiProject_Wisconsin . I remove the "talk:" prefixes, and paste wikilinks of the articles, categories, images and templates into Wikipedia:WikiProject Wisconsin/Wisconsin recent changes. --Baron Larf 01:46, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago area meetup

I've finally decided on a place for the first Wikipedia meetup in Chicago: 2 p.m. at Saturday, October 15th at Cafe Iberico, a tapas bar in the River North neighborhood of Chicago at 739 N. La Salle Drive. They have parking available and are 0.3 mile from the Chicago stop of the CTA Red Line. See their website for parking information; for transit planning use the RTA trip planner with a destination address of "739 N. La Salle Dr." Cafe Iberico has vegetarian selections for those who are so inclined (sorry, they're not very vegan-friendly, I'm afraid). The food is excellent and the environment very suitable for an informal gathering. Do check their webpage for any additional questions, or ask me. They typically cost typically costs between $10 and $15 per person; I'm willing to cover for anyone for whom this is too much (as long as we don't get too many people).

Please let me know before Saturday, October 8th (by email or on my talk page) if you're planning on coming so I can make the appropriate reservations. See you there! Oh, and please share this invitation with anyone you know of in the Chicago area who I've missed. Kelly Martin 19:53, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Porgy and Bess

This will be much easier since it is you. I was cleaning up Category:Classical albums and discovered Category:Opera albums. What would you think about placing the Porgy and Bess recordings in a subcategory like Category:Porgy and Bess albums, Category:Porgy and Bess opera albums, Category:Albums of Porgy and Bess etc.? What to do then with the jazz albums? Anyway, I wanted to run it by you before changing anything. -Acjelen 20:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Works for me. This is a weird exception, since there are both opera and jazz albums based upon the original work. --Baron Larf 01:57, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I used Category:Porgy and Bess recordings. At the moment, only the operatic recordings are included. -Acjelen 02:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comics RFA

I saw your personal RFA standards of at least 3,000 edits. Comics, who is currently applying for adminship, has only 286. See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Comics freestylefrappe 22:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Seinfeld quote on your user page

Actually, what Jerry and George famously said was: "Not that there's anything wrong with that". Cheers JackofOz 06:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Broadway WikiProjects

Hi. You have listed yourself as a participant in one or more of the following wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Theatre Wikipedia:WikiProject Broadway Wikipedia:WikiProject Off/Off-Off Broadway

I wanted to send out this bulletin to re-spark interest in these projects and hopefully advance their progress. Please contribute in any spare time you may have, in order to make this section of wikipedia even better.

If you know anyone who may be interested in working on this project, please say something to them.

Clarkefreak ∞ 02:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Long time no talk. I see, given your contribs, that something has been keeping you quite busy of late. I'm writing tho, because I'm beginning to become mildly concerned about what might have happened to User:HollyAm... Any ideas? Tomer ^talk 02:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, no idea. I abruptly became much less active when I moved and got a new job. I'm not sure what happend with her. --Baron Larf 17:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Welcome

Thanks for the welcome message. I've thrown myself down user page. Do you have a perferred genre of opera? Is this the proper location for such a question?

Thaumato 20:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back

Good to see you around again. Welcome back! Btw the April issue of Milwaukee Magazine was supposed to have a piece on Wikipedia (I can only get the online version where I live though). Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I really can't say how long I'll be able to stick around before my job starts sucking up too much of my time again, but it's good to be Wikipedia-ing again. I think I overdid it last time around, and got burned out. Let me know if you find out anything more about that magazine article; I can't find out anything about it at the Milwaukee Magazine website. Cheers --Baron Larf 21:22, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beer info box

It has been suggested by User:BrianSmithson that the Beer and brewery categories should be renamed. The proposal has been supported by User:Syrthiss, and supported and expanded by myself. The notion is that the regional categories should follow the format of "Beer and breweries in Africa" /Europe/Asia/North America/South America/Oceania. "Brewers and breweries" could also be renamed "Beer and breweries by region". And all the countries should also be renamed (and merged if needed) as, for example, "Beer and breweries of Germany", "Beer and breweries of Britain", "Beer and breweries of Poland". The word in each case would be beer rather than beers to allow for general articles on beer culture in each region as well as individual beers.

Comments, suggestions, objections and simple votes to Wiki Beer Project SilkTork 14:46, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Camp Timberlane edits

You deleted much of the Camp Timberlane article, mostly about the camp-related podcast. The podcast is a major new "off-season" thing that everyone listens to. Can you restore it please? 66.82.9.81 21:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No. WP:N. --Baron Larf 02:48, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You don't Understand. The podcast is a very big part of Camp Timberlane, and not mentioning it in an article about Timberlane borders on censorship. Plus, you told me to get my own account. I have one, but due to something, the login doesnt stick. Know anything about it? 66.82.9.81 03:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't keep deleting a perfectly good article section becuase someone wrote an essay telling you not to. At the very least, post on the talk page and then the various editors of the article about your proposed delete rather than just deleting and citing non-official policy as your reasoning. 66.82.9.81 03:20, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Upon your request, I separated the two topics (Timberlane/KTIM) and placed a short summary in the Timberlane article. But now some other admin wants me to merge it back. At least he told me with a notice on the page rather than taking action straightaway. 66.82.9.81 03:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In view of the fact that this user appears to be referencing me (although I should note that I'm not an admin), I write to direct your attention to KTIM Online, the article about which he writes and an article that I PRODded a bit ago. Surely the station itself, and especially the podcasts thence issuing, is non-notable, and so I imagine that if the PROD tag is removed, the article will be deleted at AfD. Even as I've only looked cursorily at the Camp Timberlane article, I think you are altogether correct that the information as appended is non-notable, and, for that reason, I wouldn't support a merge. Inasmuch, though, as the user seems to have been relatively cordial and to have attempted to comply with policy in his creation of the article, I don't think the "merge" tag is applied in bad faith; I think simply that he/she fails to understand that, irrespective of one's politeness or compliance with otherwise applicable policies, that which is non-notable is non-notable (whether as a standalone article or as part of a broader art). For my part, then, I think the new article should surely be deleted (although not speedied, since it seems to make some argument--however spurious--toward the notability of its subject), and I will leave you to continue what seems to be altogether sound work in policing the Camp article. Joe 03:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alright.. sorry about that whole mess. One more thing: Where can I read dicussions/discuss notability? I don't like the idea that a certain number of people have to know about it for it to be in WIkipedia. If everyone knows about it, then why does it get priority over a topic that 30 people know about? How does that expand human knowledge. Sorry to criticize, and thanks for helping out. 69.19.14.23 01:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC) (Yet another post by "66.82.9.81")[reply]

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of links. Notability is indeed a guideline, and it's a subjective one. But I think you would agree that not every podcast that has 30 listeners deserves its own Wikipedia article. For more on notability, see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Precedents#Remarks on notability as well as all the articles on the infobox to the right of the Wikipedia:Notability article. Discussions can be found under the "discussion" tab. Cheers.--Baron Larf 13:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Font on your user page?

How did you get that Lucida-ish font on your user page? Ccool2ax 13:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh heh. You must be using a mac; it looks like Arial to us PC users. Just click "edit" on my user page and you can copy the code. Just don't click "save page", please. :^) --Baron Larf 13:30, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lynda Barry

Many thanks for the information about Lynda Barry. RFD 19:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]