User talk:Hewinsj/Archive 1

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Archive 1

The Core-Man 14:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Welcome!

Hello, Hewinsj, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Gungrave

Hoi Hewinsj. Thanks for your help over on the Gungrave pages (I've successfully added a table on the List of Gungrave Episodes article). I noticed you've started an article for Japan-O-Rama. I've got most of series 2 on tape so if you need any help with that I'd be happy to do so.

CosmicFool Enterprises™ 20:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem, I've pretty much accomplished what I wanted to with it so if you have anything to add go for it. The table on the GG anime page looks great. If you want to add to Japan-O-Rama be my guest, I was looking up info on it one day and saw there was nothing, so I figured I could expand it a little bit. I might go back and add some substance to it (episode summaries and whatnot), but for now I'm cool. Hewinsj 21:23, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Justice League Unlimited

Magic-Man's edits of the summaries (I should say "rewrites") were unnecessary and, to put it mildly, of a very questionable standard. No need to compromise on such edits, so I reverted them without question. Feel free to do the same next time. Atlan 23:45, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Great edit

This was a Great Edit, worthy of the Mid-Sentence Capital Letters of Importance! Keep up the good work on Wikipedia. —Scouter Sig 16:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Samurai Jack

You're welcome! I found the image simply by searching "samurai jack logo" on Google. The Prince of Darkness 16:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

That's great. However, do you know how to add fair use rationale to the corrosponding images. If they don't have that, they will eventually be deleted! Help! The Prince of Darkness 20:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. Does this look alright? The Prince of Darkness 21:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks a lot for the help. The Prince of Darkness 21:36, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you think it was a bad idea to move these pages? The Prince of Darkness 11:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I understand, but what I think would be even more convenient is that we merge the two articles into one called "The Birth of Evil". A similar article is the five-episode serial The Treasure of the Golden Suns. The Prince of Darkness 16:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Great. Thanks for the support. The Prince of Darkness 17:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Rob Schrab

The image had insufficient licensing information, i.e. it only told us where the image was taken from (a website). Wikipedia only accepts free images (i.e. licensed as PD, GFDL, certain flavours of creative commons) since our goal is to create a free encyclopedia. We also use images without having a license under the fair use doctrine of copyright law, there is a limited set of circumstances under which we do this as governed by our fair use policy. In absence of any other verifiable licensing information it appears the intent was to use this image on the basis of fair use. This then failed our fair use policy on (at least) two counts. (1) The image needs a detailed fair use rationale to detail how it can be used under the fair use doctrine (2) The policy criteria no 1 excludes items "for which a free image might reasonably be found or created that adequately provides the same information". Given he is not dead or a recluse the prospect of either finding an image under a free license, asking the holder of the copyright of an existing photo to release it under a free license or taking a brand new photo and releasing it under a free license, probably precludes use of a non-free image under the fair use doctrine. (note this criteria is not a part of copyright law, but a wikipedia policy requirement to further our goal of providing a free resource) --pgk 17:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

300

Hullo, no problem. The discussion is here. As you'll see, the issue was whether anybody in the article should be identified by ethnicity / nationality. The consensus seemed to be, better not. Of course the question could always be raised again if that seems inappropriate. Best, --Javits2000 16:37, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Your message

I'm afraid that the popular-music area is full of bad formatting, so that it's diffuicult to learn how to do things by example. The places to look are the Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums and Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs (for other projects see Wikipedia:WikiProject Music). You'll see at the Albums page that producers in the infobox are separated by commas, and allowed to wrap. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 20:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I got distracted in the middle of that reply, and lost track of what we were talking about; information on musicians is more difficult to track down. The relevant Wikiproject says that infoboxes come under the Biographies project, and after following a series of links, I finally ended up here; you'll find a sample infobox at the bottom. --Mel Etitis (Talk) 20:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Samurai Jack

Thanks for your kind not on my talk page.--Opark 77 20:36, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Merger?

Wait, are you talking about merging the graphic novel (upon whichthe film is based) and the film together? They are separate entities, and not in competition with one another. If however, someone started up a POV fork regarding historical inaccuracies and the like, that could be kicked to the curb.Arcayne 20:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

No worries. We're aces. :) Arcayne 20:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

300 lead

Hullo, as you've been actively involved in the discussion of the lead to 300, I wonder if you'ld mind taking a look at the six options on the talk page, and weighing in as to which you'ld prefer. Thanks, --Javits2000 12:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

'Historical fiction' Article

No no, I didn't mean to imply that you did anything wrong--I agree with the page creation. I just didn't want to rewrite anything thing without letting you know beforehand =)
--Xiaphias 08:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Iran

Why did you remove the tag? "WikiProject Greece" is there, so should "WikiProject Iran". Do not remove the tag again. --Mardavich 13:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't matter, the subject is related to Iranians, please do not remove the tag again. --Mardavich 14:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It is afterall related to Iranian history, and has caused controversy among Iranians. --Mardavich 15:58, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Image for List of Justice League episodes

would it have been possible to just add copyright info

No. I'm not prepared to guess at the copyright info for an image. Only the uploader can tell us that; anything else is speculation.

contact the person that loaded it to get this info

The image has been tagged as having no source for about a fortnight. Wikipedia rules say it can be deleted after just a week. There comes a limit on prodding people to provide sources and not getting any

The above is dealt with in the FAQ on the top of my talk page, which is linked from my edit summary and deletion summary.

If you delete the image, do not delete the image= text that comes before it

I deleted some 500-odd copyright violation images today. If this is the smallest mistake I've made then I'm in credit. There's no requirement in Wikipedia rules to be perfect and I've never claimed to be. REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 19:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I've seen you've withdrawn the first two complaints. I'm going to restore them to my talk page, please feel free to ~~strike them through~~ if they no longer stand rather than just removing them. Thanks and happy editing. REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 19:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool enough! Deleting images gets you a lot of s**t, so I'm not the most patient person any more. Actually, deleting images gets you a lot of death threats and petty vandalism and stalkers and so forth. That's why I'm no longer very patient! I don't mean to tar everyone with that brush and I'm sorry if I came over a bit hard-faced. But I did mean the bit about happy editing! :o) REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 19:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

No worries, I was responding to that alienguy. Miskin 15:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Big Finish Links

I have to agree with you with the 3 ep/1 ep stories that are being released. Since they are two distinct stories they should each get their own link. The Core-Man 14:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

300

Don't bother discussing anything with an admin. They're privileged, and discussion with them accomplishes nothing. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 01:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

He's right. They're even above the penalties of wikipedia. BIGNOLE (Contact me) 01:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Nah, you didn't break anything. :) I agree with what you said about adding screenshots to the Plot section in a limited way to help illustrate the key components mentioned in it -- characters, events, locations, what have you. We had gone through discussion at 300 to choose the images, so it really sucks to have an admin take a look at go, "Eh, no." Not to mention that dealings with him is useless if he's going to get unblocked by his peers for "enforcing policy". I'm just gonna take a wikibreak from this madness; this kind of shit pisses me off more than it should. I know it's just Wikipedia, but cabal circle jerks tend to drive me up the wall. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 02:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Religious RV Wars

Thank you for your response. I suggest leaving the new template the way it is for a while to see if any of the frequent posters on the page object to it or revert it themselves. The new template seems to have coincided with a cessation of the RV war on that page for the last few days. If it were a good idea to remove the template now it will be a good idea to do so in a month as well.

Best wishes. David Traver 14:13, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Wow, that was fast on getting the image into the article - I had just uploaded it! Anyway, thanks, and sorry for the edit conflict. I just obtained another free image of her and put it into the infobox; I moved the earlier image into another section. Videmus Omnia 22:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

buddha machine

this is christiaan from fm3.

im not really good at accessing wikipedia from inside china. wondering if you could add this recent new york times article to the reference section?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/magazine/29wwln-consumed-t.html?ex=1186545600&en=473785885882660b&ei=5070

i have a lot of other material to add, if you are interested. you can best contact me at: fm3buddhamachine@gmail.com

cheers!

--FM3 16:17, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

awesome! thanks for your help!

--FM3 17:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:Parodies vs. list

The reason I linked it to "Parodies..." is because the article is now the destination for any query on Barry Trotter, Wizard People, Dear Readers, Porri Gatter and Henry Potty and the Pet Rock. That means it isn't a list anymore; it's an article. If the article is broken up again and the other parodies go back to thier own articles, then it will go back to "List..." I think List can redirect to "Other parodies" for now. Serendi^podous 07:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

You wouldn't want to discuss which parodies should be removed from the list, would you? I really need some kind of consensus before I can proceed. Serendi^podous 13:47, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, could you have a look at the online section? If it were up to me I'd ditch all of them except the Potter Puppet Pals and (maybe) Harry Potter in the Hood, because they have some degree of notability. But I have no idea how to judge the popularity of something on YouTube. Serendi^podous 17:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. As regards Wizard people... it seems to be back. I'll keep an eye on it and make sure it stays where it is. Serendi^podous 17:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: episode notability

Ok thanks for clearing that for me, I understand the issue much better now. The only thing I want to say is that the summaries are very short on the "list of episodes" page. If you miss an episode of a TV show, the great thing about wikipedia is that you can read all the important things you missed [on the actual episode page]. If the actual episode page is merged into the "list of episode" page, then the summary is just the "episode summary", and doesn't include key points. (Wikirocks2 03:01, 5 October 2007 (UTC))

Ok, cool. Well it was fun talking to you! (Wikirocks2 07:20, 5 October 2007 (UTC))

Citation templates

I notice that your citing sources in the Storm Botnet article using long hand. I'm not sure if you are aware of Citation Templates but they might be able to save you time in getting the same results. You just copy and paste the template into the article with a ref tag at the beginning and end, and fill in the necessary information. Anything that you don't fill in doesn't appear in the reference section. I personally like them because they're easy to spot while you have an article in the edit view because everything is split up by vertical lines. Hewinsj 18:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, cool. I'll check them out. Thanks. Are those usually recommended for GAs/FAs etc.? I was doing it long hand mainly because it seemed easier, but this is nice too. I'll start converting them later. • Lawrence Cohen 19:02, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

It's cool, no harm done. I use them myself and figured I'd mention in case it helps make the process go more easily. Long hand tends to take me more time formatting which this takes care of. These do tend to pop up more often in GA or FA articles (but not always) because it gives the same style. Hewinsj 19:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Wait, where do you define a name field on these, to condense sources for the a b c citations? • Lawrence Cohen 19:02, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that much doesn't change. When you first insert a reference it would go <ref name="nameofarticle">{{cite web | ...}}</ref> and when you re-use the reference it goes <ref name="nameofarticle" />. Let me know if this helps.Hewinsj 19:26, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks good; I tried it here. Do you think it makes it hard to read? I'm just thinking that with a heavily sourced article it could be chaotic to read through all the up-and-down scrolling. • Lawrence Cohen 20:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, my bad. You don't have to do it vertically like that, they just display them like that to make the individual items in the citation more distinct. Each item in the citation just needs to be separated by a vertical line | like | this. Your reference would read like this: <ref name="ComputerWorld_101607">{{cite news | last = Espiner | first = Tom | coauthors = | title = Security expert: Storm botnet 'services' could be sold | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = CNet news | date = 10-16-2007 | url = http://www.news.com/Security-expert-Storm-botnet-services-could-be-sold/2100-7349_3-6213781.html | accessdate = 10-16-2007}}</ref> . After that if you want to cite something else you can just copy and paste the whole template and replace the necessary information. Hewinsj 20:21, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! And OK, I do like this better. I'm just dreading going back through all the articles I've been working on to redo them all now. :) • Lawrence Cohen 04:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Jiraiya

Where did u find the picure of Jiraiya with the Pain Piercings?Darth Rayze (talk) 22:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)