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January 2008

If you could: Image:MortonDowney.jpg needs attention too. — Κaiba 00:16, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't mind, I am going through probably through the oldest uploads on Wikipedia right now and your name is coming up as the uploader a lot, so I'll make a short list of images for you to add rationales to. — Κaiba 02:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PaulWhitemanColumbiaLabel.jpg
Image:CameoMemphis5Label.jpg (19:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:Cameo-Kid.jpg (19:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:ParamountLabelBLJefferson.jpg (19:28, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:VelvetTone.jpg (19:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:HMVSavoyHavana.jpg (20:29, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:OkehWilliams.jpg (20:37, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:LincolnLabel.jpg (23:45, 3 January 2008 (UTC))
Image:BelikinLabel.jpg (18:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC))

Problem user

Hi Infrogmation: Several months ago, you cautioned and blocked a user for persistent vandalism. 209.152.83.1 is at it again, replacing entire pages with two or three words along the lines of "dumb animal" and "pest". Any chance you can warn or block this IP again? Thanks! MeegsC | Talk 16:58, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like grade school vandalism with no edits of value for months. Reblocked. Thanks for the notice. -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:59, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yat (New Orleans)

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Yat (New Orleans), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 13:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Louis Armstrong

My source is the H.W. Wilson publication Current Biography, which first wrote about Armstrong in 1944. However, I agree with you, it looks like they must have been referring to William Jones Johnson, whose nickname was "Bunk". Their source, in turn, was Louis Armstrong's first autobiography, Swing That Music. It looks like their mistranscription (see Google books for confirmation) ("...he would steal into the Dago Tony Tonk, where his hero Bunk Jones played the coronet") I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Dago Tonky Tonk instead. I'll make the change; thanks for catching it. Mandsford (talk) 20:09, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Derby Records

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Derby Records, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 13:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Commons cat discussion

commons:Category talk:Road signs in the United States#Roads/Road signs —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 00:49, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Historic sites around New Orleans and LA

Hi Infrogmation -- Very pleased to hear from you, and that you noticed my work on list and sites covered in List of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana. I often don't browse another person's userpage, but i did and am impressed with your wiki-credentials. Liked your link about the wiki-cabal-email-list. I recently found i was interested in learning more about wikipedia history and it adds to my picture of it all. Nice work with photos of hurricane aftermath, too, seems like quite an important contribution.

Anyhow, I would be very glad if you could take any pics of NHLs in New Orleans. I recently started up George Washington Cable House article about a cottage in the Garden District, New Orleans. There are some pics in HABS of other buildings that inspired the writer George Washington Cable, but notably no pic of his home. It would be really great if u could swing by. And obviously the article for the Garden District itself, which turns out to be an NHL itself, and which article i think lacks any pics at all, seems especially lacking. I have yet to go browse the cache of commons pics you mentioned, maybe they cover these. Obviously, the current list of NHLs article lacks pics for most sites in New Orleans and elsewhere, and the descriptions are mostly blank. Your photos and editing help even for the most basic descriptions would be most appreciated. I've visited LA 2x for conventions b4 katrina, stayed in Garden District once, now wish i hadda tooken more pics myself.... :)

FYI, I have been working mostly on developing List of National Historic Landmarks in New York closer to submission for Featured List status, but i also like working at the kinda raw level where the Louisiana NHL list is at now, and it is also in my crosshairs so to speak. Cheers, doncram (talk) 21:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edits adding commons galleries and/or pics and also your editing descriptions in Madame John's Legacy and other of the New Orleans NHL articles! I've never come across this in any other state, someone having ready commons galleries to put into the articles. I am very encouraged by receiving your contributions/feedback/interest that way, so i have happily been doing more in the NHL list and in creating articles for the now-less-numerous red-links. P.S. I glanced at your "contributions" and ur most numerous edits seem to be doing administrative reverts, hope that is not depressing work. Luckily there is little vandalism on the historic site articles i mostly work on. Keep up the good work, cheers doncram (talk) 04:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:HavanaNewCapitalBldg1920.jpg

hello,
I was about to use this photo, which you uploaded, for the Hebrew article of El Capitolio, but then I noticed there's one problem - according to the description of the photo, it was taken on 1920. However, the Capitolio was erected only in 1929. Can you solve the problem? Idobi1 (talk) 19:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Note I said "c. 1920" not "1920"; as the card was not dated and that was my guess from appearance. Back when I uploaded the image, we didn't yet have any article on the building. As the card described the image as the "New Capital Building", I presume it would be fairly soon after the completion in 1929. I have modified the copyright tag on Commons to PD-US-no notice -- legally the same public domain status per US law. Hope this helps, and thanks again. -- Infrogmation (talk) 20:09, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Super Tuesday (2008)

Your edit [1] to Super Tuesday (2008) has me puzzled. Which two of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia are no longer states? By my count, this is 24, not 22 states. --Kralizec! (talk) 13:49, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I explained on the talk page of the article, see there. Before my edit, the article claimed American Samoa was a state, which is not; that's the issue I was concerned with. If you can make the language or numbers in the article more accurate, please do so. Thank you, -- Infrogmation (talk) 14:13, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock request

User talk:Markreidyhp has requested an unblock. I have not done so yet, but I have left conditions at his talk page that he must meet BEFORE I grant the request. Could you please check this over, since you were the blocking admin, and see if my conditions seem reasonable? He appears somewhat contrite, and I am inclined to shorten his block IF he can show he knows WHY what he did is wrong. How does this sound? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 18:27, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. Sounds fine to me. I added a comment on Markreidyhp's talk page. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 18:44, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank u 4 unblocking me.--Markreidyhp (talk) 20:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notice and Discussion: Redlink changes by BETA

Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we must insist that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on The_Last_Paradises:_On_the_Track_of_Rare_Animals.

Please don't impugn other editors' behaviors based on superlation of stylistic guidelines. Editor's have to make a judgment call between what is best for our readers, and what is easiest for our editors in order to build an encyclopedia. In other words, I had to weigh WP:REDLINK, and WP:CONTEXT to make a determination of what to do with these links. I happened to lean more towards context, and concluded that the content of one article could not possibly be relevant to the context of another if one contained no information.

Obviously we had consensus issues because our opinions differ, and I will not revert changes you have made. But, this does not mean that my opinion is wrong.

The lack of consensus does not give you cause to make an impulsive mass revert of all changes made by me, and to publicly berate me for my judgments. Thank you. —BE TA 16:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:SwanRecordNapoleon.jpg

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William Brocke Badger

You have removed an article on William Brocke Badger which is of interest to me. Is it possible to send me a copy of this article if it is not suitable to be published on this site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.25.15 (talk) 15:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was a silly prank article, hence deleted. I believe it was copied to "Wikipedia:Bad jokes & other deleted nonsense" before deletion; try a search for it. -- 17:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for reverting the edits and then tagging 163.153.175.63. The district has reported that "I believe we identified the students and are taking appropriate steps." --NERIC-Security (talk) 13:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Junulo

I notice you blocked this user for 1 month for vandalism. Note that he did not perform any vandalism after his final warning. May I suggest you lift or commute the block? Stifle (talk) 11:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note the user had been warned about junk edits earlier, and some of Junulo's edits were outright vandalism. I think the block was justified by the user behavior. However I do not object to lifting the block early if Junulo expresses intent to refrain from problem edits in the future, and I have put a note to that effect on Junulo's talk page. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 20:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Kimbo Disney header.jpg)

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An IP you blocked

It came back again. The vandalism lately has been light from the IP, but I noticed you blocked it in January, and I just had to warn it for vandalism on the Signatures page. Thanks, Enigma ^msg! 00:11, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source

Well the information its from diferent history books, investigations and that, but if you want to remove my contribution is OK, Yucatan and Guatemala were the same Captaincy, its more known "Guatemala Captaincy" but at the time, its ok "Yucatan Captaincy", and a correction, its CAPTAINCY, not "captain", if you think isn't correct "Yucatan" you can remove it with out a notification (i will search the books and web sources) --Zinco335 (talk) 03:13, 26 February 2008 (UTC) PD: sorry about my grammar but i'm sleeping rigth now[reply]

Oh Noez!

WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and Happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 21:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Block

He was vandalizing and no one was paying attention to it so i took action.(Rhinostampede (talk) 22:14, 23 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Well can you block him?? This person or people need to be blocked for constant vandalism.(Rhinostampede (talk) 22:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

There are over 2,000 students using Wikipedia at that place i believe.(Rhinostampede (talk) 22:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

I didn't realize you had to be an admin to do that my apologies. I hope i don't get blocked for this because this was an honest mistake.(Rhinostampede (talk) 00:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Usurpation

Hi Infrogmation. I am user:Volkov from the Russian wikipedia (sysop there) and most WMF projects, bot master of VolkovBot. Can you please help me usurp User:Volkov on English wikipedia which is not active and has only three edits here (the last one on January 3, 2006) Special:Contributions/Volkov. Thank you in advance. Volkov --89.112.30.30 (talk) 06:40, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Update: FYI: None of these three edits seem to add major contents that may be attributable under GFDL. [2], [3], [4] -- Volkov --89.112.10.135 (talk) 15:30, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of bot flag

Hello; could you please remove the bot flag from User:.anacondabot? It's currently dead and I don't have plans to run it again. Thank you. --.anaconda (talk) 18:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Francis Davis Millet

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Unlock

Could you unlock the page [[[Pornograph]]] as I've think that you locked it. I think it should be a disambig or maybe a redirect. I was trying to find sensitive Pornograph article and had a hard time as I wasn't sure what exactly the cartoon was called.

Tharks. Ask D.N.A.- Peter Napkin (talk) 16:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008

Looking for Wikipedians for a User Study

Hello. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We are conducting research on ways to engage content experts on Wikipedia. Previously, Wikipedia started the Adopt-a-User program to allow new users to get to know seasoned Wikipedia editors. We are interested in learning more about how this type of relationship works. Based on your editing record on Wikipedia, we thought you might be interested in participating. If chosen to participate, you will be compensated for your time. We estimate that most participants will spend an hour (over two weeks on your own time and from your own computer) on the study. To learn more or to sign up contact KATPA at CS dot UMN dot EDU or User:KatherinePanciera/WPMentoring. Thanks. KatherinePanciera (talk) 02:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Going back to NOLA

Hi Infrogmation. Your edits about NOLA always impress me. Thanks so your efforts. I will be back in NOLA later this month. Maybe I will see you at the Fairgrounds? Cheers! --Sumori (talk) 12:01, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I hope you get well soon! Cheers. --Sumori (talk) 17:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Hi Infrogmation

More from vandal(s) at 216.220.82.225. Time for a permanent ban now surely?

Best wishes Flapdragon (talk) 13:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Starr

Thanks. I always loved New Orleans jazz, and my little project here gave me an opportunity to learn a lot more about it. At least now we have almost as good coverage as the Germans do. Chubbles (talk) 21:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:NancyACollins1989.jpg listed for deletion

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Unspecified source for Image:Campeche_in_Mexiko.png

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As said, was from de:Wikipedia, but as that was already copied to Commons, I have speedy deleted the local version as redundant to Image:Campeche in Mexico.png. -- Infrogmation (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:LaSultana.jpeg

When you get a chance, could you look at this image you uploaded and see if you can update the copyright tag on it? I wasn't able to find it at the loc.gov site with a quick search or I'd have fixed it. Thanks. Shell ^babelfish 01:33, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

reverts

I see you reveted some of me edits. I know they are not informative but they not vandalizm. Many users place unhelpful witty asides of the ref desks. We are volenteers after all, wheres the mottivation to help if we can't have a little fun? -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Catolog of buggery (talk • contribs)

Comments on article talk pages should be intended to improve the article, not random comments. Have fun improving encyclopedic content here (there are a wealth of places on the internet if that's not what you care for. Be sure to sign all your comments on talk page. See your User talk page for helpful tips. Your user name is inappropriate and I suggest you not edit under it. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation (talk) 21:08, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was talking about the reference desk pages. You seem to be stalking me. Not half hour after I edited pie you reverted it and replaced with a similar discouraging message to the pervious poster. Could you not have put it after mine? I was doing what you are doing. I have requested a username change as someone else has raised this issue and its waiting to be processed.

It just was. I have my neew name.

RE:YWCA 1919

I doubt that you are the artist and copyright holder of Image:YWCA In Service for the Girls of the World - Poster, 1919 s58d.5 - 2.jpg as you claimed. Per the Library of Congress site the image creator was Neysa McMein who is listed as having died in 1949. The image description has been changed in line with information from the LOC source. (If any of the information as currently listed is incorrect, please correct it.) Note that it is YOUR responsibility to accurately list inforation of any image you upload. Thank you for paying attention to this in the future, and for correcting any errors which might be in your earlier uploads. -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is, I only created a modificated version of this for WP:GL/IMPROVE, and I'm not the original author, so I simply copy-pasted the source info. --ANONYMOUSPUSSY 18:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Deleting media copied to Commons

Hi, Infrogmation! Can you point out somewhere I messed up so I know not to repeat my mistakes? Usually, I'll delete only if the copyright information seems plausible, the upload log is retained, and the image is in a category on Commons. east.718 at 08:03, April 25, 2008