User talk:VRKatta

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AfDs

AfD nomination of Dave Days

An article that you have been involved in editing, Dave Days, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Days. Thank you. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 22:09, 27 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD for Stephen Colbert (character)

Hello. For your information, the article Stephen Colbert (character) has survived three AfD nominations. The character is sufficiently distinct from the real life Colbert, with a fictional history, beliefs, etc. With Colbert's recent run for President, there are also sufficient real world sources. The article passes WP:FICT and is thus a valid article. mattbuck 10:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is your grudge against Dr. Colbert? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DCno10 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response: I am deeply sorry for my AfD on Dr. Colbert. Let me clear a few things up, I am a big fan of the Colbert Report and DFA Colbert. The only reason I nominated him for deletion was that I didn't think that he deserved an article. I tried to make my arguments good so that it wouldn't be a "I hate colbert, delete him" AfD, but one of actual concern. Thankfully, the AfD was overturned as instead of convincing others to remove the article, I was convinced to keep the article. I believe that the use of AfD as a general article discussion helps in Wikipedia as it is easy for someone to want to remove an article based on false premises.

Command & Conquer Factions

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AfD nomination of Command & Conquer Factions

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Re: Your recent AfD of Stephen Colbert (character)

For the record, there is indeed an article for George Lopez (character) of the television series; it has, in fact, been around for some time. Cinemaniac (talk • contribs • critique) 22:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Response: I guess there is nothing I can say except for that I am deeply sorry

TfD nomination of Template:Creigh Deeds

Template:Creigh Deeds has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 04:07, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image Concerns and Fair Use Misuses

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Wisconsin Republican Caucus Results Map

I don't think the map you made for this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Washington_Republican_Caucuses_Results.jpg) is very clear; it has several very similar shades of reds/pinks contrasted against a bright lime green, which is not even used consistently in the map (compare the green on the Olympic peninsula to the greens in the western part of the state). Could you clean this up a little? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.175.100.66 (talk) 22:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Jerry Brown image

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Possibly unfree File:Creigh Deeds.JPG

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Copyright problems with File:Deedsemail.JPG

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If you didn't write it, it's not yours to release. Simply e-mailing someone text, or a file, doesn't give them ownership of the copyright to be able to release it to the public domain or under some other license. As a screenshot of a large block of someone else's text, it constituted a clear copyright violation and was speedily deleted per our criteria. (ESkog)^(Talk) 22:08, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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General Concerns, Questions, Comments, or Advice

Your recent edits

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Pay attention to copyrights

Re Image:John Edwards 08.jpg: The Associated Press is not in the habit of releasing its news photos under GFDL. It is YOUR responsibility to accurately list the source and copyright status of images you upload. False statements of copyright can be considered vandalism. Please pay attention to what you are doing. Thank you. -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Image:2004 New Hampshire Primary Results.JPG Please include information about the photos of Howard Dean and John Kerry included in the image. If you took the photographs, please state when and where (and copies of the photos at higher resolution as stand alone images would be appreciated as well, thanks). (If you are not the photographer for either or both, you need to state who is and provide proper credit and fix the false statement "I created this work entirely by myself.") The same goes for your other election maps with embedded photographs. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:11, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heads up

Hi, do not run for adminship just yet as your nomination will be quickly closed per WP:NOTNOW. You simply do not have enough edits and experience. However, please do not be discouraged from editing; it is great that you are expressing an interest to further help Wikipedia. For more information, see the guide to requests for adminship. –thedemonhog talk • edits 00:42, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Creigh Deeds

So what's with the Creigh Deeds article farm? The main article is nowhere near being too long, and it's not obvious that a primary candidate below the presidential level merits that much detail. Not to mention that 3 articles seems like a bit few to require a navbox; that could be handled a lot more cleanly by putting "See also" sections in the articles. In fact, it's completely unnecessary for the main article, since there are links to the other two in the appropriate articles. And, if you really don't want to put that much detail in the Deeds article, perhaps it would fit better at Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009. Rklear (talk) 21:55, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, there were several points in doing that. First of all, the readability of the main article was more as if sections were just stuck on as opposed to be arranged. The Political Position section was never mentioned. I'll admit that you're probably right about the gubernatorial campaign section. But the thing is, here in Virginia, Deeds is a fairly influential politician, State Senator for 8 years whose been 'round the state drilling up support for legislation, a candidate for Attorney General who grabbed big attention by losing by around 360 votes and now a candidate for the governorship. Bigvinu (talk) 19:51, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I've known Deeds for most of those eight years. I worked on the 2005 recount. And as good a guy as he is, he is neither the most influential nor second most influential politician in the state, and neither of them has a network of articles being wrapped around them. Remember to give WP:NPOV a good read, and remember that anyone can edit any of these articles. Rklear (talk) 21:18, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Adding new sections on talk pages

Please place new section comments always at the bottom of talk pages. Thanks --Floridianed (talk) 17:15, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, My bad. I'll put 'em at the bottom next time. Thanks. Bigvinu (talk) 23:09, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting Notification

December 2008

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United States presidential election, 2008

Hello Bigvinu. I've reverted you changes to the 'Dems delegate count' template. Please discuss you changes at the article discussion page, before implementing such a change. PS- Having the Democratic template one way & the Republican template the other? isn't acceptable. GoodDay (talk) 18:43, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:John Edwards launches 2004 run.jpg)

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[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008]

If you add the debate section then please do it w/o sneaking in controversal edits. Thanks --Floridianed (talk) 17:09, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your edits on the Jeremiah Wright controversy: Since the controversy happened during the primary election, coverage probably belongs at Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008, and the issue is, in fact, already covered there. Thanks, --Clubjuggle ^T/C 19:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Answer to Bigvinu regarding question in edit summary: First off all: I placed an ? behind vandalism. Furthermore you cut out quite a bit in the info box and also added a new section title "2 Scandals and Gaffes " yet you call it in your edit summary "added debates section as well as organized the page a bit". So please consider cleaning it up by yourself. --Floridianed (talk) 19:58, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

SarekOfVulcan RFA

Thank you for !voting on my RfA. If you supported, I'll make sure your confidence is not misplaced; if you opposed, I'll take your criticism into account and try to adjust my behavior accordingly.

See you around the wiki!--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 01:05, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your !vote at my RFA

Thanks!

Thank you, Bigvinu, for your support !vote at my RFA. I will be doing my best to make sure that your confidence has not been misplaced. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 18:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RfA thanks

My RfA

I hope the other kids at school play with me...

Thank you for your support in my recent RfA, which closed successfully. I felt the process was a thorough review of my contributions and my demeanor, and I was very gratified to see how many editors took the time to really see what I'm about and how I can be of help to the project. As a result, some editors changed their views during the discussion, and most expressed specific, detailed points to indicate their opinion (whether it was , , or ).

A number of editors were concerned about my level of experience. I was purposeful in not waiting until a particular benchmark occurred before requesting adminship, because I feel - as many do - that adminship is not a reward and that each case is individual. It is true that I am not the most experienced editor around here, but I appreciate that people dug into my contributions enough to reach the conclusion that I seem to have a clue. Also, the best thing about this particular concern is that experience is something an editor - or administrator - can always get more of, and I'll continue doing that, just as I've been doing. (If I seem a little slow at it, feel free to slap me.)

Thanks for your positive comments regarding my answers to questions and just general support. I appreciate you taking time to make a careful evaluation.

I am a strong believer in the concept that this project is all about the content, and I'm looking forward to contributing wherever I can. Please let me know if I can be of any help. In the meantime, I'm off to school...

Thanks again!

Frank | talk 13:24, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your RfA

I am sorry, but I have closed your Request for adminship prematurely. Simply put, you only have 289 edits on Wikipedia; while your edit count isn't the only determining factor, and numerous people have their own personal standards by which they judge RfA candidates, this particular RfA was all but assured of not passing.

I am sorry about this, and I hope you don't take it personally. If you continue to contribute to the project in a positive fashion, I am confident that you would be able to submit a successful RfA in the future. You may wish to consider applying for an evaluation by other Wikipedia editors for feedback on how to obtain the necessary experience. Once you are ready to request adminship again, there is a great admin coaching program available, as well as a guide to requests for adminship.

If you have any other questions about becoming an administrator, please don't hesitate to ask me. Good luck! GlassCobra 18:28, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I did add a question, but the RFA closed whilst I was typing it up. Essentially it was asking what specific tools you needed to help with your editing work. In short, I was concerned that you were asking for something that you didn't actually need. There are a lot of very good editors out there who are not administrators - they don't need to be admin; heck - they probably don't want to be admins! You look like you have the makings of being a very good editor, and no additional buttons will change that.

What I suggest is this - put this down to experience, and then carry on with your editing work. It is appreciated - really! In time you may find that you need the admin buttons; it may be that you don't want to be bothered with the hassle of being an admin. It is only with experience, as you find your own little niche in Wikipedia, can you decide if you really want to be an admin. Remember, in the words of Jimbo Wales: being an admin is no big deal. If you want to ask me any questions on anything, please drop me a note on my talk page. StephenBuxton (talk) 18:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. From what I see there's a lot of cleanup effort needed in the Wikipedia political aticles and admin or not, I'm going to do my best to clean them up. Bigvinu (talk) 19:28, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good attitude... and good luck! StephenBuxton (talk) 20:33, 14 July 2008

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RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which did not succeed with 30 in support, 28 in opposition and 6 neutral votes. Thanks again for the support!

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Planet in Peril.jpg)

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Political positions of Creigh Deeds

Please note that referring to another editor, particularly one with over 20,000 edits, as a "maniac" is a violation of WP:CIVIL. Also, please note that in reverting my edit, you destroyed a number of improvements I made to citations (for example, the "cite web" template is wrong for newspaper articles; it should be "cite news").

Also note that your citing several sources as proof that an article is "valid" (the term you probably were thinking of is notable), as you did on my user talk page, proves nothing at all. There are hundreds of sections of articles titled "Political positions" that are not separate articles themselves, even though they are well supported by reliable sources. And speaking of which, normally blog postings are not considered reliable sources.

I've started a new section at Talk:Creigh Deeds to discuss that merger that I attempted; I note that another editor, prior to my starting that section, had already supported the merger.

Finally, please sign your talk page postings with four tildes; if you need a reminder, you'll find that at the top of the edit window when you're in edit mode on a talk page. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:54, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Double image box

I stole your double box for Aborn Opera Company. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I didn't create it, I just started using it as a substitute template for articles that have no suitable template for them. Bigvinu (talk) 14:55, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects

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Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited

Date Saturday, December 8, 2012
Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104
Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand.
Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki.
Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration.

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Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi VRKatta! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 22:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:MathSciLogo.jpg

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A cup of tea for you!

Couldn't find the crumpet option, this'll have to do. Chris Copley (talk) 02:11, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:30, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2019 US Banknote Contest

US Banknote Contest

November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.

If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here

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