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Happy editing! Psy guy (talk) 21:37, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I notice several times you've tried to get rid of the article 'Runescape Cheats'. You don't perchance work for JAGeX, do you? Jonathan888 (talk) 01:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I love it...
Awesome, people think about me so much they try to vandalise my user page.
Please, give me more advertising by doing this. The globe shall yet learn about my plans for global domination! Mike 21:35, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Vandalized # Times Counter
I notice some people's talk pages have a counter that keeps track of how many times a page has been vandalised. Is there a way to automatically keep track of this or do people just manually keep a tally?Mike 07:59, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
- It has to be done manually, since of course there's no way to tell automatically what's vandalism and what's not. (If there were, vandalism wouldn't be a problem!) By the way, if you want to ask questions to the Wikipedia community, you should look at where to ask a question. It's unlikely that anyone will read what you write on your own talk page, unless someone just happens to wander by, as I did. Talk pages are most useful when you talk to some other user by writing on their talk page. —Bkell 21:46, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Fire Cape article
Mike, if you want to vote on whether to keep the article, you need to vote here. Make any suggestions you would like there as well. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- I already voted... Mike 07:03, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Web-screenshot tag
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. I've noticed you've uploaded some images tagged with {{web-screenshot}}. This tag is not meant to be used for images that came from Web pages; it's meant to be used for images of Web pages (such as Image:Wikipedia.PNG, for example). I've retagged the images below as having no license information. Please make sure that Wikipedia has permission to use these images. Then edit the image description pages to include information about the licenses these images are under. You may find an appropriate tag at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags or Wikipedia:Template messages, or if none of these fit you may write a description of the license yourself. You may want to refer to the image use policy. If the use of this image on Wikipedia is a copyright violation, please follow the steps at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion to nominate this image to be deleted. If you have any questions, please feel free to post a message on my talk page. —Bkell 21:42, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not exactly sure what you mean by my using the wrong tag on the image I uploaded it. As per the Wikipedia policy I cited the source I got it from. Apologies for not doing it correctly.Mike 23:26, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, you cited your source. That is important. But it is also important to establish the copyright status of these images. Wikipedia cannot use copyrighted images without the copyright holder's permission (unless the use of the image happens to fall under fair use). This is the purpose of the various image copyright tags—to establish that Wikipedia can indeed legally use each image. The tag you selected, {{web-screenshot}}, is used to tag images of entire Web pages, such as Image:Google screenshot.png. This tag makes the claim that such screenshots, when used to illustrate the Web page in question, should be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law. But this tag is not applicable to Image:B33.PNG, which is a drawing of an airplane, not a screenshot of a Web page. So the {{web-screenshot}} tag does not adequately establish that this image can legally be used on Wikipedia. This is why a different tag is necessary.
- You should find out who holds the copyright to this image. Then you should see if the copyright holder is willing to release the image into the public domain (i.e., abandon all exclusive rights) or to license it under a free license, such as the GFDL. If not, perhaps the copyright holder is willing to use a different license (see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and Wikipedia:Template messages for some examples of various acceptable licenses). Otherwise, you will need to determine whether this image falls under fair use; I would recommend reading the fair use article. If it does, you can use an appropriate fair use tag. (If you are unsure about this, you can tag it with the {{fairusereview}} tag, and an experienced Wikipedia editor will review the claim of fair use.) If none of these conditions apply, then this image cannot be used on Wikipedia, so you will need to follow the steps at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion to nominate this image to be deleted. Please let me know if you have more questions by posting on my talk page. —Bkell 23:42, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- If the original source of the image is the United States military, the image is probably already in the public domain; see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#USA military public domain images. —Bkell 23:46, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
- Delete it if it's going to cause an issue; as far as I'm aware as you stated it is in the PD as it's of a US military piece. Again, apologies for the stress caused by this. Mike 02:43, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- No stress caused. I'll tag it as a public-domain U.S. military image, then. —Bkell 05:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- Feel free to slap me around if I make any more goof-ups or the like. I'm still kind of new here and worried I'll blow something up. :\ Mike 07:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
- That's okay! Thanks a lot for helping out. I'm still learning how some things work myself. And don't worry too much about blowing things up. There are a lot of safeguards in place so that Bad Things can be undone. Be bold! —Bkell 07:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
runescape userbox
Thanx for the RS userbox, didnt know there was one. - .svg?lang=en){kind=small}
«ßØÛ®ßÖѧ3» Talk | Contrib's 21:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
- I invented it. You're welcome. Mike 22:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Rune scape box
Fair use images are likely not allowable in user templates. If you read WP:FUC it discusses this issue. I didn't know there was any debate on this issue but apparently there is. gren グレン 07:57, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
- There is no issue. It's a sections of a screenshot of the RuneScape login page. How exactly does this constitute copyright violation?