User talk:Lobo

Welcome!

Hello, Lobo, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Stifle (talk) 08:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removing image licenses

Please don't remove license tags from images, like you did at Image:Rodolfo Chikilicuatre.jpg. This can cause the image to be unduly deleted. Stifle (talk) 08:54, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just seen this message. The image, as you can see, is property of EFE Agency (not 20Minutos), so it's incorrectly licensed because 20Minutos license doesn't apply to EFE:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bad_sources#www.20minutos.es. Lobo de Hokkaido (talk) 09:00, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I've deleted the image. Make sure you link to that Commons page in future when modifying image tags so that anyone reviewing the page doesn't come to the same incorrect conclusion that I did. Stifle (talk) 09:06, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Katie Holmes

Two reasons. First, the image that you removed is the more recent one, which tends to be the main consideration when deciding which of two images to use. The second one is that the rule of thumb for changing around a featured article content is to first broach it on the talk page to allow involved editors to comment on the proposed change. Wildhartlivie (talk) 12:26, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flan

Thanks for suggesting the merger of flan and crème caramel. The content of the flan article did in fact make it sound as though they should be merged. But that was an error. As the hatnote says, the flan article is about the British flan, which is something like a quiche, not the Spanish flan, which is indeed pretty much synonymous with crème caramel. I have edited the flan article to eliminate the confusion (the Cuban, Phillipine, etc. flans are all the crème caramel type), and also removed the merge template. Please let me know if you disagree. --macrakis (talk) 04:58, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect that the problem is that some editors don't understand the implications of Wikipedia is not a dictionary -- the articles don't define a word, they discuss a thing. When a word refers to more than one thing, each article should focus on one of those things. A lot of stuff was added to the flan article which actually referred to the Spanish-type flan, which of course is the same word, but a different thing.... --macrakis (talk) 16:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]