User talk:ChrisRuvolo/Archive/2004

"assumed fair use"

Hello. I saw your upload of the NJ Transit logo. Image:NJ_Transit_logo.png In that description, you say, "used for identification, assumed fair use". Is there a wikipedia policy describing this practice? I'm curious because I'd like to upload some similar logos and want to make sure that it is indeed a fair use. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 09:22, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Fair_use covers, I'm led to believe. Marnanel 03:19, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Looks good, thanks, that clears things up. FYI, I just uploaded a somewhat cleaner versions of the logo that includes their "The Way to Go" tagline. Thanks for getting back to me. I wouldn't have realized logos were fair use if I hadn't seen your contribution. --ChrisRuvolo 06:45, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council)

I just wanted to let you know I reverted your removal of "Township" from "River Vale Township" at Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council). Since the article is dealing with legal municipal corporations, and not geographic place, I have listed the municipalities by legal name. For example "Parsippany-Troy Hills Township" is simply referred to as "Parsippany" in everyday life, and like River Vale, almost every borough in the state omits the "Borough" from their name except in legal circumstances. I have kept the distinction for clarity because in New Jersey several municipalities share the same name, such as Berlin Borough and Berlin Township. Thanks for all of the work you have done on New Jersey related articles. --"DICK" CHENEY 12:35, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I see your point about the legal names, thanks for letting me know. I didn't realize that is what you were aiming for, sorry for the extra edit. However, I think the proper name of River Vale is the "Township of River Vale", as it appears on the town seal. Image:River_Vale_seal.png Your thoughts? --ChrisRuvolo 15:59, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

San Jose

Thanks for catching my east/west brain hiccup. I originally typed "from the east" and thought that sounded stilted so I changed the text but not the direction. Duh! It's catches like this that especially give me good feelings about Wikipedia's accuracy. Elf | Talk 20:35, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sun in Palo Alto

Not that it's a big deal, but I can't find any Sun presence in Palo Alto anymore. I think their headquarters building was the last one. See http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/locations.html

You may be right. I'll have to take a drive by their San Antonio office. --ChrisRuvolo 15:39, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

New York and Stepp-Wulf

• This is the SECOND time that you have VANDALIZED an article written by me with Useless, Worthless wikification. I erased the first wikification in July with the advisement that if you really wish to write articles on those topics, then you should do so. Since that time you have come up with nothing more useful than to wikify the same things once more, creating two blank pages that will probably NEVER be completed due to lack of information, and a FALSE link to a related topic. Apparently, you have so little interest in Hamilton County, that you did not even bother to look at what was already done. If you really are interested in writing about NEW YORK, then do so. There are many locations that need work. There is no need to be stepping all over the material being worked by other people. I really do not appreciate childish twits trying to have their own way, just to score points. You seem to believe that no one else knows how to use square brackets. More useful than creating unwanted stub articles would be to wikify to existing links (as most others do) or actually WRITE the articles you seem to feel are so damned important. Sincerely Stepp-Wulf 05:01, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

What articles did I "vandalize"? This encyclopedia is a *WIKI*. The whole *point* is to have links to related articles. Why are you so put off by that? What "blank related topics" did I create? How are people supposed to identify areas that need work except by creating stubs and seeing red links? Red links are used to create lists like Special:Wantedpages and Wikipedia:Offline_reports. They are valuable because they show where work is needed. Wikipedia is about more than writing, it is about organization and connection to related topics. On subjects where I don't have text or images to contribute, or I don't find time to write about the topics I am familiar with, I will contribute organization and links. I am very tired of your territorial bullshit. I have and will continue to contribute to articles in New York, as I see fit. Because you contributed to an article does not mean that you get to dictate the form of all further contributions. I am not focused on one topic, and do not believe Wikipedia to be territorial. I do not appreciate my contributions being called vandalism, and you calling me a "childish twit". --ChrisRuvolo 16:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I assume you are talking about Lake Pleasant (hamlet), New York. Read the damn history. I didn't even make those edits. User:Friedo did. His only mistake is that Lake Pleasant is a disambiguation page and there is no article on the lake itself. --ChrisRuvolo 20:08, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category:Jewish terrorist organizations

Please reconsider your vote on Category:Jewish terrorist organizations in Wikipedia:Categories for deletion in light of recent comments. 172 12:46, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

GPL of quake1 maps

To answer your question, John Romero said he would release the source to all the quake1 maps and put them under GPL on his site a while ago. He has been contacted many times about this with no reply, but I think it still stands.

That is interesting, but I'm not sure how Romero could do that. Romero left id software some time ago, and I believe the copyrights are id's. Do you know if that is correct? --ChrisRuvolo 19:14, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

New Jersey townships

Sorry about the moves. I was mostly irked that they were all coded as CDPs, and I was moving the articles on the basis of my better knowledge of PA townships, which are all called "Name Township," as far as I'm aware. But move back any errors I've unwittingly created - you'll note that I've stopped doing this - I think I only did it for Bergen County. john k 01:17, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Hmm, I will consider this when I get a chance to read over the licenses and FAQ. I'm not sure why WikiTravel is not using the GFDL for compatibility with the other WikiMedia projects to begin with -- but I'm sure its the FAQ or something. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo 23:06, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)