User talk:SuperGirl

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Request reason:

The reasons cited by Peta for why I was blocked are that two other accounts "edit a common pool of articles" as well as inserting a "100 incorrect image licenses." Also it is stated that these two other accounts participated on my side of a CfD debate way back in October 2006. My reply: (i) I checked if we really edit common pools of articles. Comparing histories shows different edit habits, dates, and articles. There is subject overlap as all three users seem to have interest in science bios. (ii) The CfD relates to a category that science bio writers mostly like. It was the non-bio writers voting against. Also it should be no surprise to find three accounts that agree, given the vote was 27 keep and 13 delete. Also it was one CfD 6 months ago. Simple statistics 101 tells us that one CfD is not significant:-) (iii) Where are these 100 claimed wrong image licenses? I know nothing about this. The first message I got from Peta on image license problems is the day before I was blocked (see her message and my reply by scrolling down). As you can see it is a vague message with no specifics. Being relatively new to wiki it is true I have accidentally tagged some licenses incorrectly (out of ignorance), but why doesn't Peta's message simply tell me what to do so I can correct it? I feel this blocking episode is a result of a rather 'trigger happy' set of conclusions that were jumped to.

Decline reason:

Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Bunzil confirms that you are a sockpuppet. Please contact the checkuser administrator, jpgordon (talk · contribs), direct if you have any explanation for the edit similarities and the fact these three accounts are editing from the same addresses. — Yamla 14:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Erdos Number CfD

At Least there are some people around who are sensible like you. LW77 23:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Scientist

I urge you to stop sticking in those Infoboxes. There is a lot of opposition to it as is obvious from the recent discussion on the Template:Infobox_Scientist . The result of the debate was no consensous. To keep sticking in those infoboxes, and ignore all those Wikipedians who are opposed to it is inappropriate, even disruptive. I would suggest that you make some constructive contributions instead, by writing some state-of-the-art biographies. JdH 12:59, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Summaries

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Conway

I'm not saying that the replacement is good(i suspect that they cut it from a larger photo).But the replacement is PD.Well i guess we can argue that the replacement is not very showing and thus fair use still apply s for the old one.Do what you want.Whatever you do ,do it before the 13,because fair use images are deleted 1 week after they have been orphaned.--Pixel ;-) 12:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Ginsburg Vitaliy Lazarevich.jpg

Hi! I'm not sure about current enwiki rules, but is it possible for the picture to be under fair use and creative commons attribution-sharealike licenses simultaneously? As far as I understand, if the picture is copyrighted, and copyright owner doesn't permit it's redistribution under CC, it can't be under CC license. And if it's under CC, it doesn't need fair use to use in wiki. Ilya Voyager 20:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Many of the images you are enlarging are natively smaller than the size you are specifying, resulting in ugly pixelation.--ragesoss 15:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Ginsburg Vitaliy Lazarevich.jpg

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Albert Einstein

Could you be a little more explicit in your edit summaries? While I appreciate your restoring the See Also section back, it took forever to find where it had been removed. By that point, I'd seen so many unhelpful edit summaries I was rather upset. An edit summary of "rm some" (another editor's) is about as helpful as a random scream in the dark, and as unnerving.

I guess I can understand why you could characterize this as vandalism. I wonder if that editor has ever read Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. Good grief, is this torture Albert Einstein month? (suitably stretched out over time, as it were ;-) Shenme 02:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, to some extent I was venting, after seeing all those other edit summaries which were near useless. After finding the actual edit that removed the see also section, I repeated my implied criticism of the person who removed it as unnecessary, in my note on the talk page. I've been told it is 'bad' to label another editor's good faith edit as 'vandalism', which is part of why I looked for the edit. However, it is _hard_ to diffentiate between vandalism and a truly bad edit. :( Shenme 00:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image uploads

You cannot apply a creative commons license to a public domain to a domain image; and most of the images you are uploading have nothing from their source to indicate that they are infact public domai. Please don't make false copyright claims. --Peta 23:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peta, Pls can you be a little more specific? Most of the pics I have uploaded are where the author died >70yrs ago. Are you talking about those ones in particular or the few others? For the PD-old-70 photos, I've been using "Creative Commons 2.5." If that is the incorrect one to select, please can you advise me which is the best choice for PD-old-70 stuff.SuperGirl 12:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SuperGirl. IANAL, but you cannot apply any license, including CC, to an image that you did not create, because it isn't yours to license. Either it is PD or it is under someone else's copyright. If there is a copyright in force, you need to get the creator's permission to upload the image, unless they put a license on it. If you believe that the image is PD, you still need to give attribution so that everyone knows it is legit. Click on the image on Thomas Jefferson for an example of art in the public domain. Also take a look at Commons:Licensing. HTH. Smallpond 21:55, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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