User talk:Livajo

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John Sedgwick

It looks like there were copyright problems with the German-language article for which you requested a translation. I've moved this exchange here from Wikpedia:Translation into English; you can decide if there is some other avenue you want to pursue toward creating this article. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:32, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Article: de:John Sedgwick
Corresponding English-language article: John Sedgwick
Worth doing because: German article contains much more info than its English counterpart, a tiny stub.
Originally Requested by: Livajo 19:04, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Status:
Other notes: I just found out the German version is a literal translation taken from [1], therefore it is less a translation but copyright issue... Olaf Fritz 18:02, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've added a note about that to de:Wikipedia:Artikel mit noch ungeklärten Urheberrechten. -- Jmabel 21:19, Aug 27, 2004 (UTC)
See User_talk:Olaf_Fritz for comparison - At least it is partially quoted from Stewart Sifakis, "Who Was Who In The Civil War", 1988. Olaf Fritz 21:30, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone clarify the current status of the German-language article? It's been a month and a half, my note is gone from de:Wikipedia:Artikel mit noch ungeklärten Urheberrechten, but I see no discussion of the matter at de:Diskussion:John Sedgwick. -- Jmabel | Talk 08:55, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC) -- I put a note on the German Diskussion page... Mpolo 19:20, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)

The response over on DE was that the article has been reedited, with more information added to it since, so that it is not a translation, but uses that page as a source. The respondant suggested that we Americans look for our own sources and have a nice vote. Mpolo 15:47, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

I agree, it should be written from ground up instead of being translated from the German "source", so this request should be moved from translation to article requests Olaf Fritz 22:16, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Great cipher

Great work on Great Cipher! Best regards, — Matt 14:26, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image:Galicia.jpg

Hi. You mentioned that Image:Galicia.jpg came from the Romanian wiki. Does that page give any information about its copyright status? Do you know whether it's public domain or fair use or what? Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 15:41, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Wow! Great research. Thanks! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 17:41, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

finnugor links

Levi, please do not revert the finnugor / uralic links. Even if you are an anrchist and atheist. Thanks, Antifinnugor 10:18, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My personal beliefs have nothing to do with this. My reversion was based on the fact that your edits have been attempting to make the article support your theory, which is not the point of Wikipedia. We are here to explain who believes what and why, not to imply that some fringe theory is correct and the opinions of the vast majority of specialists in the field are to be ignored. [[User:Livajo|Ливай | ☺]] 11:31, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

your vote

"Very similar arguments could be used as "evidence" that English and Hindi are unrelated. " Are they in your opinion related? If yes, which grammatical and dictionary similarities exist? Antifinnugor 19:41, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)