Himalayas
Please please please, tell me you have some good Himalayan pics that you can add to articles. We have plenty of Europe and US mountain pictures, but almost nothing in Asia. Stan 07:04, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- image uploading is disabled, so this is a bit academic ... mfc 21:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- I do have some nice pictures of Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Cholatse, Pumori, Imja Tse. However, I'm not sure yet if I want them to be put under GFDL. -- RedWolf, Nov 7/03 12:10am
- There's little reason not to license them unless you're planning to make a living by selling copies of the pictures, and your income would be cut into by having copies available on the net. GFDL is just a license that permits use by WP and downstream publications, while you retain copyright and ownership and credit. In fact, WP is a great way to get a large audience for the photos; its traffic is comparable to Britannica Online now, and growing. I figure that at some point, photographers are going to be contributing pics just to get some greater visibility for their work! Stan 06:26, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Good idea, I might just do that. RedWolf 00:12, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)
Rush disambiguation
Thanks. Done. HAND --Phil 08:13, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Rush is one of my favorite bands so I had a personal interest in doing it as well! RedWolf 04:50, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
- Ditto. I recall when I was at boarding school and my Grandma came with my family to visit, I had a Rush tape cued up in my tape deck. She switched it on to see what I was listening to, and I was expecting some sarcastic comment: she was an LRAM, qualified as a piano accompanist (which is about as hard and impressive as qualifications get). What she actually said was that the band worked together really well and sounded as if they were enjoying themselves, which is about as big a musical compliment as you would ever hear from her. --Phil 09:28, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
Adminship?
I decided that it was about time you were an admin, so I took the liberty to nominate you. You'll need to visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship and note whether you accept or decline at some point (there's no rush). Stewart Adcock 17:47, 17 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the nomination Stewart -- I have accepted. RedWolf 04:48, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)
Apache disambiguation
Hi, nice work for disambiguation of Apache. Sure there are a lot of them. I was wondering can you disambiguate Apache in computing context to Apache HTTP Server instead of Apache Software Foundation. I think most of time, Apache means the server not people who maintain it. -- Taku 05:13, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
- Hi. Thanks. I used HTTP Server where I thought it was either explicity referring to the web server or in context of such. Otherwise, I used ASF when it seemed to be referring to the organization. I did resolve the majority of them to HTTP Server. RedWolf 05:19, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
Okay. That was all what I wanted to say. Keep your good work. -- Taku 05:22, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
Sysop
Congratulations! You are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Good luck. Angela. 23:30, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks Angela for the joyous news, links and info. Hopefully I can stay out of trouble as a result! :) RedWolf 04:24, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)
Redirecting talk pages?
So, uh, why is Talk:Rock climbing area a redirect to a talk page of a completely different article? That's kind of strange, plus makes it difficult to discuss the article of which it is a talk page... Stan 03:56, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Before my edit, it was re-directed to "Talk:List_of_rock_climbing_areas", which itself was a redirect to Talk:List of climbing areas so I simply substituted the second redirect for Talk:Rock climbing area. I was unaware until now, there was a Talk:Climbing area. However, I see it is a currently a redirect to Talk:List of climbing areas. Looks like the issue started when someone originally redirected the talk page for one of "climbing area" pages to its associated "list" page. That is, Talk:Rock climbing area was re-directed to Talk:List_of_rock_climbing_areas. RedWolf 04:15, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
- MAHH BRANE HUHTS! :-)
White perch VFD
So what was the result of White perch being on VFD? The vfd notice is still on the page if it was decided to keep the page. RedWolf 04:48, Feb 27, 2004 (UTC)
- Actually, I meant to put it on "clean-up", it never went on VfD. I've changed its msg now. -- user:zanimum
- Ah, ok, wondering why I couldn't find it in the VfD archives. Thanks. RedWolf 02:23, Feb 28, 2004 (UTC)
Mixed vegetables VFD
I don't even remember putting mixed vegetables on VFD, but I went through a brief period of posting recipes there, to be transwikied to Wikibooks and then deleted. I waded into a controversy I didn't know existed, got called an anti-Albanian bigot, and drifted away from the argument (though I continue to have an opinion.) The discussion has been moved to Talk:List of recipes/Delete.
Thanks for the comments directly to me about apocatastasis. This approach is a lot more helpful when concerns arise over an article than a VfD entry. Of course, this is impossible when only anonymous users without talk pages are the contributors. I am usually quite happy to look for compromises in articles where I have been a significant participant. In its earlier incarnation I agree that the concept was nothing more than a dictionary definition, but my feeling is that it is also a theological concept that has had some influence over the years. It would be nice to expand the stub.
I also think that there are better ways of dealing with a Wikipedia article that should really be in a sister project. Rather than outright deletion it would cause less aggravation if a message were left on the page such as The article which was previously here was more properly a dictionary definition. To read this definition please go to Wiktionary: ... This could remain harmlessly as a stub indefinitely, Eclecticology 08:01, 2004 Mar 4 (UTC)
object file formats
Heh, I think I had it on my list to expound on further, but don't actually remember now. The todo section is basically me typing in scrawled notes on postits so I can clear my desk, not always that coherent! :-) Stan 05:51, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Image deletion
The image you uploaded was listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements on March 2nd. The image text indicated that you were the copyright owner and agreed to the GFDL but you added text indicating further restrictions on the copyright that did not meet the requirements of GFDL. If you will remove those additional restrictions and release your image solely under the GFDL I will undelete the image or you can reupload it. Is that acceptable? - Texture 03:59, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Sorry I seemed a bit abrupt about this, but as it happened I had good reason without realising it: just as I was about to add a (hopefully) soothing message to your talk page (i.e. here :-) Mozilla died on me. Completely. What I was going to say was I hoped you weren't put out by my tone. See you around. --Phil | Talk 11:06, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)
MD
It would be better if you disambiguated MD with Doctor of Medicine instead of doctorate. --Jiang 01:39, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- If I had been aware of that page (it was not listed on the MD page), I would have used it. I'll remember to use it next time. Thanks for the info. RedWolf 01:45, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)