User talk:Kaplansa

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I don't know if you know about all the features of wikipedia which you can use to your advantage, but at the top of the screen by the tabs there is "my watchlist" and when you are on certain pages if you click the "watch" tab, "my watchlist" will keep a record of the changes made to any of the pages you have interest in and are watching. JesseRafe 20:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Videmus Omnia  ^Talk  12:40, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FIXED Image:Father_of_all_bombs.jpg

To everyone with issues regarding this image, I've downgraded the screen cap resolution to 300x240 and added the fair use template with enough purpose and commentary to satisfy even the greatest critic. Not that this point matters any more since I've conformed the image to the Wikipedia terms, but this image is non-replaceable at the end of the day, so nixing it from Wikipedia is a loss for future scholars and readers. Please keep that in mind. -- Kaplansa 15:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, you haven't. (Satisfied the greatest critic, I mean :-) I still disagree. The rationale on both is somewhat bogus; of course taking a screenshot and publishing it here limits Russian Channel One's ability to sell the image. (Who will buy it from them if they could get it for free here?) Furthermore, on Image:Father of all bombs.jpg, it claims the bomb was destroyed, but the image shows a computer-generated drawing of the bomb, not the real thing. Hence that argument won't wash. The size argument also doesn't hold, neither of the two images give any size indications.

You also should not "review" fair-use images you've uploaded yourself.[1] That's very bad style.

Both images are used solely to illustrate the article. They should be deleted. Lupo 22:20, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It allows for visual identification of the item in question. This is completely within fair use guidelines (see Seinfeld character images). Additionally, the image has been rescaled such that it doesn't impede Channel One's ability for resale. This resolution (300x240) is within Wikipedia and Fair Use guidelines for non-free images. See the Wikipedia rules on "Non-free content". Cheers. Kaplansa 17:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Buffalo trace residence.jpg

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Whoops. I took this picture. Somehow neglected to add the PD-self tag. All fixed. Kaplansa 05:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hello Kaplansa :) Glad to see that you joined WikiProject Bluegrass Region. I noticed that you uploaded images related to Kentucky distilleries and I added a category to them so that they are easier to find.

Also, I copied several of them to Commons as you can see here. Letting you know so that you will not upload them to Commons yourself and we have duplicates of them there. In the future you might want to consider uploading them to Commons instead of Wikipedia, if you do not want to upload them twice, since they are available for use on Wikipedia from there. The benefit is that other Wikimedia projects have access to them as well if they are located in Commons.

Again, welcome to WikiProject Bluegrass Region. Let me know if I can help in any way. FloNight ♥♥♥ 12:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. Thanks. Kaplansa 14:45, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pappy Van Winkle

A tag has been placed on Pappy Van Winkle, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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Relax. I'm still adding content. This'll be a legit article when I'm done. It references an interesting piece of notable American history. Kaplansa 21:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And the article has done quite well. We miss you! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 23:40, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Buffalo Trace Distillery

It's nice to see someone else interrested in this distillery. Do you live in the area? I've started working on a history of the distilling site in my userspace. Most of the info is from the Buffalo Trace website. Feel free to add to it and edit it, I have a bit more to add myself. When it looks good I'll add it to the main article all at once. In the near future I'd like to make biographies of some of the key people in the Buffalo Trace history, George T Stagg, Edmund H. Taylor, maybe Blanton. Also, I moved the existing Sazerac article to Sazerac (cocktail) a month ago in anticipation of making a Sazerac (company) article in the future. Keep up the good work.Beakerboy (talk) 16:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I used to work in Frankfort, KY. My office was basically a trailer in the Buffalo Trace parking lot! Needless to say, I've been to quite a few Buffalo Trace tastings :) It's me in the Bourbon whiskey barrels pic - that's at Buffalo Trace. I'll check out your site. Bios are a great idea in fact. I also wrote the one for Pappy Van Winkle so you can link all these together I suppose. Cheers! Kaplansa (talk) 17:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Buffalo Trace product table.

I like the product table. I was thinking of doing something similar in the list of whiskey brands. My only concern in this article is that the list is longer than the article itself. What do you think about just mentioning the parent brands and then list the specific releases with those articles. For example, list Ancient Age, W.L.Weller, etc and then listing Ancient Ancient Age within the Ancient Age article. We could use the organizational structure at greatbourbon.com as a guide. This will first off, reduce the length of the list, making the article more pleasing to the eye and also lessen the amount of duplication of information.

Take Care,

Beakerboy (talk) 12:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Generally I'd agree with you except that the list is about as big now as it's ever gonna get and I'm afraid that linking to sub-pages with two or three bourbons each would be click-hell for most users. However, if there were actually enough content to support an actual article for each brand as you're suggesting then sure, I'm all for it. For the time being, my suggestion would be to leave the list in one place until the article itself gets unruly (like having a chapter within the parent Buffalo Trace Distillery for each brand - that would get insane after a couple of chapters). See what I'm saying? Kaplansa (talk) 19:57, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I see what you did for George T. Stagg and William Larue Weller. Sure, for these I can see the duplication of effort. If you want to clean up the Buffalo Trace Distillery brands list for these, I don't have a problem with that. Perhaps leave a note in the master table that all the varieties listed in that brand's article and then use the same table template for familiarity sake to denote the different brands. Cheers. Kaplansa (talk) 20:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

I enjoyed looking at your photos of Frankfort, and used one in the Selected pictures section of Portal:Kentucky. Do you still live near Frankfort? If so, could I be so bold as to ask you to take pictures of the monuments at http://www.trailsrus.com/monuments/reg4/frankfort.html, both within Frankfort cemeteries? I have a standing offer of starting Kentucky-related articles for anyone who takes pictures I request within the state of Kentucky, so I would extend the offer to you. I hope the fact that image nazis deleted some of your pics before doesn't keep you from Wikipedia; trust me, they drive me nuts as well.--Bedford 03:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I used to work in Frankfort, actually, and never officially lived there - although it seemed like it from time to time. I do have several pictures you might be interested in and some monuments, but not necessarily the ones in your link. I uploaded a few additional Frankfort pics to WikiMediaCommons here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frankfort%2C_KY Kaplansa (talk) 11:23, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry if I got a little trigger-happy. It's one of those articles that attracts a lot of bogus edits. Your addition was reverted and I reverted the revert. Suggest we all go to the talk page if it doesn't stay. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 04:42, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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NUTS. The Nic-o-boli is arguably the most famous food item by name on the eastern seaboard of the USA. Google shows no less than 34,000 entries for this product.

DailyMotion (news video): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xflocy_nicola-pizza-famous-for-nic-o-boli_travel
Check out the Yelp page for Nicola Pizza and read the comments: http://www.yelp.com/biz/nicola-pizza-rehoboth-beach
TripAdvisor ("World Famous"): http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g34048-d396003-r118653677-Nicola_Pizza-Rehoboth_Beach_Delaware.html
See 3,800+ user videos posted from across the globe just about Nic-o-boli's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nic-o-boli&oq=nic-o-boli
There even books on Amazon, including guide books for Washington DC and Philadelphia PA, that reference Nicola Pizza and their famous nic-o-boli: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=nic-o-boli
DC and Philly are HUNDREDS of miles away and the nic-o-boli is still considered a "local" food must-eat item.

Sheesh. Let's have a grown up conversation about this before you go deleting pages arbitrarily just because you've never heard of it. You simply need to search better. BRING BACK NIC-O-BOLI!!!

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