User talk:Bdubay

Listenability

Hi, saw your message. The only issue with your contribution is that we need you to confirm your identity to the satisfaction of the OTRS staff. This is done for the protection of copyright holders like yourself. Please send an email to them at "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org". I'll restore the article, blank it and mark it as a possible copyvio. Once OTRS is satisfied that you are the copyright holder, they'll leave a template on the talk page, and the article can be unblanked. Sorry it's a bit convoluted. Let me know if you have further questions. Thanks for your contribution! -- But|seriously|folks 02:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see someone's already restored it. -- But|seriously|folks 02:13, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It sometimes takes a week or so for them to reply. They're all volunteers there too. They'll get to it. -- But|seriously|folks 22:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I had taken care of the copyright issue with OTRS.

The article seems to have disappeared entirely from Wikipedia, though it does show up in answers.com.

Is there any way to get it up again in Wikipedia?

Bill DuBay bdubay@sbcglobal.net

Wikipedia is still lacking an article on listenability, a feature of language that makes speech comprehensible.

I had written a good one that was adequately documented, but editors removed it on the pretext that I had quoted something I did not own. I had communicated with OTRS and explained that the quote in question, in fact, was taken from a 1776 English translation of Cicero's "De Oratore" that I had quoted on my own Webpage, http://www.impact-information.com. If one needs to cite a reference for something that has been in the public domain for centuries, I would be glad to do that, but the site has to be restored first. Bdubay (talk) 19:34, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Taiji softball.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Taiji softball.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

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If assume that on my talk page you are referring to File:Taiji softball.jpg then it is clear this image was copied from a copyright website and that is a copyright violation. We only accept freely licenced images, so you will either have to find such an image or go out and take a photo yourself. Unless an image is clearly noted to be freely licenced then it is copyright to somebody and you can't just copy and paste it here. Sorry. ww2censor (talk) 13:06, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Taichisoftball.jpg

File Copyright problem

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File copyright problem with File:Taichisoftball.jpg

File Copyright problem

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File copyright problem with File:Taichisoftball.jpg

File Copyright problem

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History of Los Angeles

Well done. Emargie (talk) 15:59, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto. Thanks for contributing. Will Beback talk 04:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tritto. I'm an LA native and I'm learning things I never heard before. Incredible contributions. Thanks! --Manway (talk) 02:47, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good work. Keep it up. 108.0.127.244 (talk) 09:14, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Los Angeles

		The Original Barnstar
		for your wonderful and informative additions to the History of Los Angeles Manway (talk) 05:18, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Style

I don't want to put you off your fine work on History of Los Angeles, but it might help to leave a note about some of Wikipedia's particular "style" issues. WP:MOS. Many of the details are minor and can easily be fixed later, or even by a "bot". But one that you might want to take into consideration is the guideline on section headings. The house style calls for using "sentence case", meaning that only the first word and any proper nouns are capitalized. So "Civic Corruption and Police Brutality" should be "Civic corruption and police brutality". Also, unnecessary articles are undesirable. Instead of "The Early Pueblo" it's better to have "Early Pueblo". More complicated would be "The Coming of the Railroads". Is "the Railroads" a proper noun? It might be in this context but if it weren't then perhaps "Coming of the railroads" would be the result. I'll leave it to you to decide what's right for each heading. Cheers, Will Beback talk 07:00, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Watts Riots

Hi there. Was all of this edit intentional? I had already reverted the vandal's addition of the offending words, and you removed some additional content. I think there might have been a confusing edit conflict there. Note that I'm not disagreeing with your edits if you intended them – I'm just checking that a vandal didn't indirectly cause the loss of some content. Thanks. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 10:48, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ibid

Thank you for your contributions to Labeling theory. However, in the references, you write a lot of "ibid", and these are constructs that are discouraged by Wikipedia's style guide, because they are so easily broken. When the next editor comes and moves a section to another place, the "ibid"-reference follows, but is now underneath a different source. So could you please change your ibids into true references? By the way, here is a link that shows how you can name a ref tag so it can be used more than once. Thank you! Lova Falk talk 07:23, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Questions at the Board election

Dear William! There are some questions raised at the meta page here and here. I would like to see your answers before I vote. Best wishes, Cassandro (talk) 10:35, 29 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sauerkraut

I just wanted to let you know that I reverted your changes in Sauerkraut due to What Wikipedia is not. - Hoo man (talk) 23:03, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Grace Olive Wiley

Hi! I thought your addition to Grace Olive Wiley was interesting, but unfortunately, it's not the sort of thing we'd normally accept. Because of the nature of this website, it's important that everything can be verified in a previously published source. (See WP:V.) If there are any books or magazine/newspaper articles that could corroborate your account, we'd be just fine. But relying solely on personal reflections (especially for things that happened decades ago) isn't the best practice, for reasons I hope you understand. Zagalejo^^^ 01:25, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, I don't understand. The information I added was not just "interesting," it was critical, as the article previously had no information about Wiley's business in Long Beach. Why would my account be more credible quoted from another source than related here directly? Is a secondary source more reliable than a primary source? Why is a "previously published account" more reliable than an account by an eye witness? Doesn't everything in Wikipedia depend ultimately on eye witnesses? Bdubay (talk) 19:06, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to have a dialogue..

at some point you need to actually respond, thoughtfully and not dismissively, to what has been written to you here. As it is, your posts are degenerating into pure WP:SOAPBOX and the more that goes on, the more likely you are to face a topic ban for disruptive editing for violation of WP:TPG per WP:TENDENTIOUS (I recommended that you read that before, and you do not seem to have done so). Good luck! Jytdog (talk) 19:25, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jytdog: I have responded. I have asked you for specifics on specific statements. I have said i will provide all the documentation necessary. I am the one who is neutral here. I have not called names or talked abusively to others. I have been trying to get to the facts, to what your opinions are in regard to the original statements I made (which have been reverted.) I don't know how to be neutral without offending you. Please help me out. Your accusations of POV and tendentious only imply that you disagree with my statements, and that no matter how the material is stated, it will be censored. I would be more than happy to reach some agreement with you on how to proceed, but i will not be talked down to or called names.Bdubay (talk) 22:00, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Los Angeles Junior Seminary (March 28)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 333-blue was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Los Angeles College (Junior Seminary) (March 31)

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Not entirely certain of notability but, please see WP:Referencing for beginners as this needs any available amount of in-depth sources such as news, books, magazines and journals.

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