User talk:Gregorof

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Image deleted

I deleted the image because it had been tagged for speedy deletion due to its licence. It had been tagged as for use in 'non-commercial and educational' aims. However, this does not qualify the image for free use on Wikipedia and it was deleted by me. I apologise; whoever tagged the article as incorectly licensed should have notified you.

If you want, I can restore the article and you can tag it with {{GFDL-self}} --Robdurbar 18:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see that you've reuploaded it anyway with the correct licnece. If you use this in future, then you shouldn't have any difficulties. Thank you! --Robdurbar 18:33, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, sorry if I sounded a little harsh earlier I was just confused. Do I have to tag it with {{GFDL-self}} though? What I am getting at is that I would prefer not to completely release it to the public domain, but instead just for 'non-commercial and educational' means. However if this is not possible, I am defintely willing to completely release it. Also, if it is not inconvenient, could you please restore the images for the article Pakbeng and for the Ban Houayxay article, under the neccesary licenses. Thanks for your time! --Gregorof 19:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dawson_College_Shooting

Do you have a photo of the underground tunnel that goes under the college. I've seen you have already uploaded 3 to the article Dawson_College_Shooting. Hello32020 19:14, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I don't. I couldnt get that close. --Gregorof 19:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Im a journalist at La Presse. Can you give me a quick phone call 514-350-4837 to talk about this current event article. I never tought that Wikipedians were that fast. Thanks

Your images on Dawson College shooting

Hey, since you took those pictures yourself and have released them into the public domain, you should upload them to Wikimedia Commons, which is a collection of public domain images that can be used in articles (you don't have to if you don't want to, though). If you do, be sure to give them different file names to avoid conflicts. The images will automatically be transwikied here, so you can just replace the old filenames with the new ones. --Core des at talk! 19:16, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, thanks, I'll do that, gimme a bit of time, still working on the article. In fact, I'll do that with the rest of my pictures too. PS, if you are an administrator can you please see the earlier discussion on this page with Robdurbar. Hes been away and unable to do what that stuff. Thanks. --Gregorof 19:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm not an admin, so I probably can't help with that case. --Core des at talk! 21:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stubs

Hi Gregorof - no, it's fine to have up to about four stub templates on an article. What you didn't notice was that I remoed the SEAsia stub and also changed the Laos-stub to Laos-geo-stub. Since there's now a Laos-geo-stub it doesn't also need a SEAsia-geo-stub. You probably didn't notice because the Laos-geo-stub currently feeds back into both Category:Southeast Asia geography stubs and Category:Laos stubs - there aren't enough of them yet for their own separate stub category (there may be soon, the number of Laos-geo-stubs is growing quite fast). Grutness...wha? 06:44, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thanks then. Is there anything I can help you with project-wise? Im still a new editor, and am finishing up my wikipedia to-do list, and looking for things to do. Dont mind doing the nitty-gritty stuff, ie stub organizing ( I am definately a WikiGnome ) ... please let me know. --Gregorof 07:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting is always looking for more members - we'd be happy to see you over there if you'd like to help out! Grutness...wha? 07:50, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rumi

Thanks! :-) I saw here–it was in response to the previous comments, where the Persian and Turkish editors were fighting over his ethnicity. I don't mind at all...ciao. —Khoi khoi 07:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

BC

Thanks for the warm greeting. Actually, I go to McGill (but have more friends at Concordia - which probably meansd something). Victoriagirl 23:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Gregorof! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 20:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Barnstar

You're very welcome! Thanks for the barnstar! Kolay gelsin, —Khoi khoi 02:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And I thank you too! If I can be of any assistance, please let me know. Regards, Ground Zero | t 01:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nation_of_origin_user_templates

Hi your user page is showing up in Category:Nation_of_origin_user_templates and I don't think your user page really is a template :-) --AGoon 00:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No its definately not a template! Sorry, I have no idea how that showed up. I have tried going over the source of my page to see why its doing that by could find nothing along the lines of [[:Category:Nation_of_origin_user_templates]] . Im still kinda new and don't understand how else that would be showing up. If you can point me in the right direction, or go ahead and edit whatever needs to be, for me, it would be much appreciated. No idea why that would be showing up though --Gregorof 19:46, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Arrgh took a bit of finding! It wasn't your fault at all :-) It was because there was a fault in the Template:User Cook Islands so every body there was listed as a template (there were only two people using that template). While I was at it I made the template automatically add people to the Category:Wikipedians in Cook Islands (which doesn't yet exist, but someone might wish to create it one day when there's enough people to use it (just replicate another country's one) --AGoon 23:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also note that your User:Gregorof/templates page results in you showing up in a lot of categories as "Gregorof/templates" as well as "Gregorof" :-) --AGoon 23:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I will do my best to deal with that...right now in fact. I may come back asking for help.--Gregorof 00:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Re VandalProof - I would LOVE to help, but...

Take a look here. I was the main moderator that took care of all the user requests. However I changed my username (from GIen --> Glen S) and it screwed up my moderator access. I havent been able to help since! AmiDaniel has been busy at university, and as yet there's little I can do. Sorry! Glen 05:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks anyways, Beta got it. Appreciatd. --Gregorof/(T) 06:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Gregorof! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 06:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC) PS sorry I didnt give you the proper version before make sure that you have 1.3 setup and if that doesnt work let me know[reply]

{{subst:subst:Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.|User:GREGOROF/sandbox}} A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Gregorof/(T) 08:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC) Dont worry just me testing VP --Gregorof/(T) 08:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reggie Fils-Aime article

I understand from this page that you just recently obtained permission to use VandalProof, which is great. However, make sure you're careful with your reverts - your edit to Reggie Fils-Aime replaced the corrected page with the vandalized one and warned the user who corrected it. Rg998 09:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: thanks

Thanks for blocking Jackwan123, and sorry I didnt realize that I had done 3 reverts myself by accident getting rid of his stuff. --Gregorof/(T) 10:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting vandalism doesn't count as breaking the three-revert rule (section 3), so you haven't become a vandal through vandalfighting! (aeropagitica) 10:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know, I thought it was a strict no-matter-what rule, ill read up more on it. --Gregorof/(T) 10:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VandalProof

I am sorry to inform you that I have not been actively editing, thus not moderating VP, for a few months due to a rather unavoidable situation in the real world. I suggest you send your request for help directly onto AmiDaniel's talk page. Sorry I couldn't help more, Prodego ^talk 22:05, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm editing, but I must second prodego in suggesting you head for AmiDaniel, as this issue has been haunting us for quite some time now. Sorry for the trouble. —Xyrael / 17:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks for both your responses, and the problem has been solved on my end. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. --Gregorof/(T) 17:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar. Chris Kreider 18:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pacific Northwest

I'm writing to you as one of the people who contributed to this article. I hope I could contribute to defusing the emotional debate and I would appreciate if you could participate in the new effort of finding a good name for the article. — Sebastian (talk) 22:55, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Appreciated. --GREGorof → ^talk 22:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, too! I am happy that this found such a harmonious resolution and I am looking forward to further collaboration with you. — Sebastian (talk) 23:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, no problem. I'm glad it worked out in the end. Thanks for you help in finding a good solution, and for keeping a cool head. -- TheMightyQuill 20:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal deletes all of Georgia O'Keefe article

User 82.110.35.114 has completely blanked out the Georgia O'Keeffe article. I see from looking at User talk:82.110.35.114 that you've had to warn this person already. MdArtLover 14:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted this vandalism. MdArtLover 23:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I gave them another warning, and will be watching them in the future. --GREGorof → ^talk 20:38, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Letter to the Editor

This was sent to me... "67.162.54.244, why did you remove the text concerning some subject matter of letters? Please justify. --Gregorof 06:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)" Here is my response... I believe this is in reference to the removal of a sentence from the page "letter to the Editors." The sentence added no substance and was pointed. I have previously worked for non-profits, and it is true that members of Non-profits will sent LTE... but this is also true for many other types of organizations. So to have a sentence in the page that was limited to PIG (public interests groups) and not qualified seemed erroneous. It was as if the point of the statement was to say that Non-Profits, and only non-profits, exploit LTE’s by having members who work for the organization write in often…

I have included a response on your talk page. Thank you. --GREGorof → ^talk 06:01, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GREGorof, Why was it added back in? I maintain that the point being made is unnecessary. For example, many types of organizations may encourage their members to write LTEs. It is similar the recommendation to “call your senators and representatives”. The fact that the LTEs are written by a group of people compelled to make change, does not change the value or validity of a LTE. Church groups, PTA's, and business' may do this also. To limit it to the groups that are listed is confounded. However, to list ALL the types of organizations that do this may require more research and many revisions. With this, i suggest that either a more exhaustive list of groups be listed, or that this statement be eliminated unless someone can give better evidence for why it is critical for the statement to remain unchanged. ~67.162.54.244

Concerning James Lloyd (rapist)

Yes, my bad; sorry about that; it would have been an A7. Sorry also for the late reply. Cheers and happy editing. Lectonar 17:19, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Türkiye Portalı

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Image:PatPong Dancer.jpg

Is this image of a "ladyboy" or natural female? The editor(s) seem to have some confusion? Do you know the original source of the photo? Thanks. Mattjs 07:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robert College has been nominated GA

Your Signature

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Dawson College Shooting

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For your photos and continued vigilance against photo vandalism at the Dawson College shooting article, congratulations. Chessy999 (talk) 11:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I don't know very much about English, I'm Argentine, but your pictures on Dawson School shooting are great. Congratulations. How old are you, you seem good photographer. Frankedjsjs (talk) 20:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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File:PatPong Dancer.jpg

Hi Gregorof, we have used the Thai go-go dancer pic in this article: http://www.blatantworld.com/documentary/love_me_long_time.html Cheers for the use of it, tis a very poignant pic indeed :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.255.14 (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Skookum

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Proposed deletion of Pot TV

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