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Insults

Do not ever insult me again without checking your facts out [1]! You may enjoy the odd pleasures of being an Admin, other people enjoy contributing to the project. If accurate research is beyond you, then stick to vandal patrol, or whatever it is inexperienced admins do. Giano (talk) 18:47, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I have said it as I saw it. Stifle (talk) 21:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Copyright free images

Do you know what tag I should attach to an image if I access it from this site at egyptarchive.co.uk: [2]? The author states explicitly they are copyright free. I checked the 'index' section and he has an impressive collection of images. One was used for king Neferirkare Kakai here: [3] I have never uploaded an image onto Wikicommons and this is a unique case. How many sites say they feature copyright free images? Not many, I suppose.

BTW, I did notify Mr. Bodsworth that I used his image for pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai. The previous image of this king's pyramid was badly marred by the presence of a person in the picture. Any help you can give is appreciated on approaching copyright feee images. Thank You, Leoboudv (talk) 05:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. You may find you get a quicker response in future to questions like this at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions.
You can use {{PD-release}} and place a link to that contact page on the image description page. Stifle (talk) 22:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

response to Stifle message re: deletion review

Oh, sorry about the missing signature thingie, but that typewriter key does NOT work on my computer, trying to have it fixed.

Anyway, mission accomplished, I scammed those other Wiki editors into assuring my unsigned music artists listings will never be challenged nor removed again, no matter who objects. They are now completely untouchable. lol lol The secret is this: you only need object strongly, "loudly," and hysterically to a Wiki editor's ruling and they always unite together to do the exact opposite of your objection. lol lol lol I learned that lesson a long time ago and, of course, applied it ever since. The best thing is this: once Wiki editors make any formal dispute ruling they never revoke it either lol lol lol When it comes to understanding reverse psychology, well, sweetie, that was my major in college and I am THE expert lol lol lol And that's how you make the big $$$$ in the music biz, my darling---- it's called big time SMARTS, and I got them and then some, that's why my clients love me. lol lol

!MusicBizLady —Preceding comment was added at 10:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

As an alternative to the signature button you can type ~~~~.
Regarding the rest of your message, I must confess that I have not the slightest idea what you are talking about. Stifle (talk) 22:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

All I'm saying, stifle my sweet, is that the most certain manner to ensure Wikipeea never removes a listing is to INSIST upon its removal and attack the editors who support it. Then like trained Skinner rats, they band together, circle the wagons, and defend the listing until the day they die lol lol Done it before and it works like a charm. The music artists I've attacked will never be removed and never be tagged again, I promise you that lol lol I got that bit of advice from a fellow who once worked as an active editor here and then left in disgust in a bitter disagreement with the guy who set up this whole internet thingie. He told me the secret to ensuring listings will never be challenged, no matter how less than notable or dumb they might be, and so far he's been 100% correct lol lol

MusicBizLady (nowiki) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MusicBizLady (talk • contribs) 03:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Patrick Briscoe

Hello, Please can you help me in reinstating the Patrick Briscoe page. I believe you deleted it in April.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poochlet (talk • contribs) 09:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

While I'm happy to answer questions, it looks like your question could have been answered and resolved more quickly if you had used my message wizard. It's linked as "Talk" after my name and at the top of my talk page. Why not try it next time?
Patrick Briscoe was deleted by User:Davewild and not me. You would need to discuss the matter with him. Please note that there was a unanimous decision to delete the page, and you can view the archived deletion discussion here. Stifle (talk) 10:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

CENT conclusions

I've stumbled upon Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Conclusions, and my first thought was to make it {{historical}}. But, I've noticed you are a single person still updating it, so I would like to ask: why? Conclusions will be always looked upon on the original talk pages anyway, nobody will search in a such well-hidden place. --Kubanczyk (talk) 19:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, the page is there more with the intention of having a link to the old pages that have been taken off {{cent}}. It doesn't particularly need to include conclusions, but if someone wants to make a new centralized discussion topic and can see that a previous discussion of the same topic failed, they might be able to save their time. Stifle (talk) 10:26, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I had no idea the Conclusions page existed. It seems like a good idea! EdJohnston (talk) 14:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems obvious that when anyone adds anything to WP:CENT they first should check the Talk page and archives, it is unlikely that they look at Conclusions page because (a) hard to find (b) the conclusions can be safely assumed as outdated, because no synchronization is kept with the primary source. If you insist on keeping it for archival reasons, I would suggest naming it Archive instead of Conclusions. This would be the obvious name. --Kubanczyk (talk) 11:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Just my personal observation, but the postings on CENT often appear to be well-intentioned but a waste of time, since these discussions are often long and inconclusive. Having a 'scoresheet' that shows that some of them have a good outcome might be a positive thing. EdJohnston (talk) 16:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I think I can agree with that, Ed. Kubanczyk, feel free to move the page or nominate it for MFD. Stifle (talk) 09:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 Done renamed it. --Kubanczyk (talk) 11:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Rollback Request

Hi Stifle, I would like to be considered for rollback permission. Thanks --Noxia (talk) 17:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to be mean here, but per our conversation on Noxia's talk, they might need to get a little more comfortable with using undo properly before going to rollback. Franamax (talk) 17:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Replied at User talk:Noxia. Stifle (talk) 09:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Copyright free

Dear Stifle, This image was made by a contributor who attached the copyright free tag to this stunning quartzite statue of pharaoh Amenhotep III--the father of Akhenaten. [4] The picture is another copyright free image from egyptarchive.co.uk.

Do you know how I would create this specific CF tag in the picture? I assume it would be {{pd-XX}} but I don't know the exact words are for the two XX's. Or would public domain be good enough? I'm sorry to disturb you...its just that I'm an amateur at uploading pictures to Wikicommons. Thank You from Canada Leoboudv (talk) 05:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
The tag on that page is {{Copyrighted free use}}.
If you create an image yourself and want to release it to the public domain, use {{PD-self}}. Stifle (talk) 09:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Stifle for your time and pointers on Wikicommons tags. You are a very kind and decent chap indeed! Regards, Leoboudv (talk) 19:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Attack images also suspected as covyvio

Hello, Stifle. I saw you deleted the attack image uploaded by Michael Friedrich (talk · contribs). He uploaded also suspicious images in the same vein (uploaded on the same date as soon as he joined in the Wikipedia). I've also requested other images, but still two images are undeleted. Image:Gohomehitler.jpg, Image:Azzuritomb.JPG, all of the bashing images with low quality look captured from TV clips and are not being used as fair use. If you have a time, can you take a look at them? Also, I think the user in question needs a proper warning by an admin. Thanks. --Appletrees (talk) 11:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Gone. Stifle (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. --Appletrees (talk) 12:30, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: 3RR blocks

Hi Stifle, just wanted to ask what was the rationale behind blocking Reezy for 8 hours? Isn't 24 the norm for first vio's? Thanks in advance for your reply (Btw, I'm not questioning the block, just inquiring about the length :-) ScarianCall me Pat! 12:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Not as far as I'm aware — the original vote which enacted 3RR said that all 3RR blocks could be up to 24 hours. Stifle (talk) 12:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

the Saint Townsville

Hi i never started this page but i have ask why did you delete it without any discussion? i was adding a ref to the page at the time you deleted it and this is a landmark here in Townsville, here is the ref i was going to add http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200203/s506796.htm plus google has a lot more if i needed them, so can i get you view on doing this page again (but worded better and with refs). Thanks Thuringowacityrep (talk) 12:34, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

While I'm happy to answer questions, it looks like your question could have been answered and resolved more quickly if you had used my message wizard. It's linked as "Talk" after my name and at the top of my talk page. Why not try it next time?
Go ahead and recreate it. The only sentence on the page that I could make any sense of was "The Saint is a famous land mark in Townsville, Queensland which was painted by a group of men in 1962". The rest was rubbish. Stifle (talk) 20:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Thank you, will start the page again soon and when done, would love it if you could look over it and let me know your thoughts.

And sorry i didn't use the wizard thing as i just clicked on the Talk link after your name as i do with any talk page, so im not sure why i never went to the wizard. Thanks Thuringowacityrep (talk) 07:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Photograph of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Dear Stifle, I am about to upload a photograph of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar which I have just received, upon my request, from his family/friends. Please kindly have this photograph under your kind protection until their official permission arrives at Wikipedia (I had told them that I needed the photograph for Wikipeda, however had not sent them the instructions regarding the required copy-right statement, not wishing to put them off by the fear of administrative burden — I am now going to send them the Wikipedia e-mail address and other relevant details; for your information, the person I have been in touch with is Ms Hélène Saraj and her e-mail address is: bahar.site@yahoo.com). With thanks in advance and kind regards, --BF 14:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Just wish to mention that I have now forwarded an e-mail to Ms Hélène Saraj, requesting her to write to permissions-en@wikimedia.org (I have also instructed her about the details of what her e-mail should contain). Please kindly keep an eye on the case. With kind regards, --BF 16:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC).

So many asteroids...

I noticed you left a comment for one of the creators of the many, many essentially content-free articles on "inherently notable" asteroids. You may be interested in this WPJ discussion about what to do with them. Alai (talk) 14:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

College of Charleston Image Replacement

Hi there, I work at the College of Charleston in Marketing and Communications and I am trying to replace the seal with our new wordmark. I only have the png format, not svg, altho I will ask our tech people for one. I would like to have the wordmark centered, can you help with that? Thanks!Monteith (talk) 13:24, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Is it better now? Stifle (talk) 13:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

emailing deleted article?

Hello--You recently deleted the article Swedish auction. I'm not asking for it to be re-instated. I recall seeing somewhere that you could request that the deleted article be emailed to you. I'd be very grateful if you could point me back to that information. Cretog8 (talk) 13:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

You can request it either at Wikipedia:Deletion review or by contacting anyone on this list, including me. But you have to set an email address at Special:Preferences first. Stifle (talk) 13:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

College of Charleston page

Looks great, thank you very much! I will be working on resolving the citation issues over the next couple of weeks as well. Thanks again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clydecougar (talk • contribs) 14:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Swedish auction

I note that you have deleted Swedish auction stating that it is (previously) deletad material (G4). But this is NOT previously delated material! The TITLE of the recent article was the same as that of the previous article but the CONTENTS were totally new taking every precaution to make sure that there is nothing offensive in the recent article. Please have a close look at the contents that you have deleted. Let the recent article "stand on its own feet" and be judged by its own merits, not on the contents of the previous article. Please! - On the Swedish auction Talk page I added some background material. That was also deleted. - By the way, I note that you are an Irish Wikipedian. It may interest you to know that in 1968 my wife and I were in Dublin and Limerick on our honeymoon. Sadly my wife died in 1976, but our days in Ireland belong to my fondest memories. Sincerely, Max7437 (talk) 16:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Max7437 (talk) 19:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I was not going to undelete this but as there were only two contributors to the original deletion discussion I think I will send it for a new discussion. Stifle (talk) 08:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The Vandal Blaxthos

A vandal named Blaxthos has been harrassing me and repeatedly vandalising my edits and threatening to block my IP.

See the Scott McClellan article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.36.252 (talk) 09:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

How do I get him to stop bullying me and obsessively trashing my edits?

Where can I report his threatening, bullying and thuggish behaviour? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.36.252 (talk) 09:52, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. In future, please sign your messages by typing ~~~~ at the end.
While I'm happy to answer questions, it looks like your question could have been answered and resolved more quickly if you had used my message wizard. It's linked as "Talk" after my name and at the top of my talk page. Why not try it next time?
Blaxthos is not a vandal.
If you have issues with editor conduct please report it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Stifle (talk) 10:07, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

This is User:Tm93. I had nominated User talk:A beautiful mind for deletion because I thought that if it was in the English section on wikipedia that it had to be in English. I notice now that there was some English on there. I'm only writing this message here to appologize.Tm93 (talk) 08:35, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

snapplepops

hey sup? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.254.6.226 (talk) 12:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Bob Waters

I'm not sure I'd call it a rewrite, if you look closely just a couple of words have been switched in each of a few sentences. I'm not sure that's enough to prevent a copyright violation, though I'm no expert. Hippo (talk) 20:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from. Why don't you replace it with {{subst:copyvio}} and list it at WP:CP? That'll allow for further discussion. Stifle (talk) 20:49, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Please do not delete my page :(

I made all the necessary changes and re-uploaded the pictures with the proper licenses. Please let me know if anything else must be changed. I appreciate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djidee (talk • contribs) 18:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

DJ I-Dee

Greetings,

I made all the necessary changes as indicated for DJ I-Dee and have listed references. I really do not want my page deleted so please let me know if any more specific changes must be made. I'll be more than willing to do so, thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djidee (talk • contribs) 18:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. In future, please sign your messages by typing ~~~~ at the end.
It is not permitted to remove deletion notices from articles. You can contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DJ I-Dee, and an administrator will look at the arguments after five days and decide whether the article should be deleted or not. Stifle (talk) 19:40, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

DJ I-Dee

Greetings,

In response to the following:

"This article has been nominated for deletion. Stifle (talk) 09:42, 18 June 2008 (UTC)"

I have understood the nomination and have made the necessary changes (listed references, proper image copyright licenses, etc.) in order to prevent my page from deletion. Thanks.

"[L]ow level of Wikipedia namespace edits..."

S;

I'm having a good think, and that comment of yours caught my eye. Since I give you credit for having (>= 1/2) a brain, I'd like to pick it: There is no evidence that we can teach the ability to work collegially, or to create content. I think we can teach policy. Is there some reason that we shouldn't promote people who don't yet know chapter and verse? I can think of some, but I want to hear your views first.
brenneman 01:12, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, as a preface, I don't think that creating content is a requirement for adminship. But that's not the point, I suspect.
As we know, there is a fairly large gulf with few steps in between autoconfirmed user and sysop. Sysops gain a lot of tools at once when the crat flicks the switch. I am not, as such, comfortable with relying on an after-the-fact approach to teaching policies to new admins (plus the fact that it's too bloody hard to get rid of bad ones) so I look for 500+ contribs to Wikipedia namespace to show that there is at least a basic amount of work on policy pages/AFDs/etc. I wouldn't expect someone to know chapter and verse (although I would expect that someone could look up the answer to ~90% of policy questions, but I'm not going to go and test that because I have a life). I just need to see that the candidate has done at least some meta-work on the project before they go blocking and/or deleting.
If it were possible I would check for contributions to AFDs, AIV, etc., and I do check deleted contributions (for good speedy nominations) when I get a chance, because those are the places where I'm expecting admin candidates to have cut their teeth. But there are already people who sift through candidates' histories looking for reasons to oppose, and I hope I don't become one of them.
Feel free to follow up on this — I can't claim to be right all the time, or even most of the time, and I value your opinion. Stifle (talk) 08:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that response. I find it mostly in line with my thoughts, so some bare-bones responses:
  1. [F]ew steps [from] autoconfirmed user [to] sysop... [they] gain a lot of tools at once
    • Ok, if we were to fractionalise the tools, what are the most "dangerous" ones?
      • Protections is benign, ability to edit protected pages is not.
      • Deletion is benign, resotration *cough* BLP *cough* is not. Viewing deleted pages? Not sure.
      • Blocking is nuc-u-lar.
      • How about an intermediate level, then? Give the 'less dangerous" tools to the lower level? Problems with mechanics, etc, yes I know. But we're already handing out rollback.
    • Which is as easy to take away as to give... hmm, nice segue.
  2. [To]o bloody hard to get rid of bad ones
    • The community decides to award the bit but can't take it away? Odd.
    • I believe that there is close to a critical mass of admins who would support some process.
    • It should not involve Arbcom.
  3. [L]ooking for reasons to oppose
    • Ouch. Lucky I just supported someone then! But you're right, it's trial by fire.
    • Maybe #2 would ease that?
Thank again
brenneman 01:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Pretty much agree with all that.
I don't think it's disputed that RFA is the worst possible process for turning people into sysops, except for all the other ones that have been proposed, and that since adminship is allegedly not a big deal, removing it should not be a big deal either. However, getting agreement on how to change it all seems nigh-on impossible.
Splitting the tools might perhaps be more helpful. Rollback was implemented rather stealthily but worked surprisingly well. It's marked as a perennial proposal though, and the last attempt was opposed.
So if we were to have "half-sysops" (working title), and assuming they're needed, what would they be able to do?
Good ideas:
  • Delete pages
  • Protect pages (but maybe not cascading)
  • Rollback
  • Avoid the account creation limit
Bad ideas:
  • Block
  • Undelete
  • View deleted revisions (more or less equivalent to undeleting really since they can just c/p the deleted version, and it comes with the added effect of GFDL-compliance issues)
  • Unprotect
  • Edit protected pages
What else do we do as sysops anyway? Stifle (talk) 14:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

plot summaries tag

I fully support your use of the "essay" tag as a reasonable compromise. DGG (talk) 02:19, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Badfairuse

Template:Badfairuse has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 04:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Israel and the apartheid analogy, or whatever it's called

I'm just curious whether you considered a WP:ARBPIA sanction before your protection. I mean, it's a bit miraculous this article has escaped one all this time. -- tariqabjotu 14:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I had forgotten that this was one of the lengthening list of areas with discretionary sanctions. Stifle (talk) 16:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

O'Chiese First Nation

Checking the logs, I see that on 09:39, 27 May 2008, you have deleted the original O'Chiese First Nation article because the one User talk:Samspen started was maked as being nonsense, meaningless, or incomprehensible, and was speedily deleted. If you could, would you e-mail me what the original article was? Most likely, if like the user's other contributions, it wouldn't have been nonsense, meaningless, or incomprehensible, but most likely it would have been highly POV, need wikifying, and much un-sourced. Thanks. CJLippert (talk) 16:03, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

 Done Stifle (talk) 16:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, got it. It does appear like chock full of unsubstantiated opinions. The user is correct that the O'Chiese FN were not in the treaty 6 negotiations, but what the user doesn't say was that they are one of the last to sign the treaty's adhesion. The user is also correct that the Anishinaabe peoples were located farther south, but fails to make the connection that the Saulteaux and Cree were active partners in the Fur Trade and thus positioned themselves all along the trans-Plains trade routes. CJLippert (talk) 21:09, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Drmspeedy-n

Template:Drmspeedy-n has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 07:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

CSD I8

Hi, Stifle, I got your message about my manually flagging images for deletion. I've discussed this with other admins in the past, particularly Mets501, who runs MetsBot. You should know I've moved hundreds of images to the Commons, and I'm presently in a project to move all Flickr-sourced images to the Commons, where the licenses can be verified by Commons' trusted user scheme and the images are safe from deletion in the event of the all-too-frequent license changes at Flickr. In those cases (images sourced from Flickr) it's not generally necessary to credit the uploader at en Wikipedia unless they made substantial modifications (i.e. enough to generate a new copyright) to the original image - the Flickr user is the only copyright holder that needs to be attributed.

Agreed that some of those are not bit-for-bit for identical copies - I think all the images on which you removed my {{db}} were lower-resolution versions of the Commons images (I always upload the highest-res version possible at Commons) Although CSD I8 doesn't specifically address this, CSD I1 does ("in the same file format and same or lower quality/resolution"). I suppose technically they could be nominated at WP:IFD, but there deletions there would be utterly uncontroversial, and it seems to me that would just unnecessarily further clog a process that is already backlogged enough as it is.

On the images you specifically had a problem with:

If you check my deleted contribs you can see that I have been following this practice uncontroversially for some time. Kelly hi! 15:21, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Talk page sorting

Stifle, sorry about this - but, in my opinion, this whole talk page sorting scheme you've got in place seems kind of dumb. It makes it harder for people (especially new users) to figure out how to talk to you, and it also makes it harder for users who track your admin behavior to keep tabs on what's going on. If you'd like to sort your archives based on subject of the complaint, that's fine - but I think it's inappropriate to direct users off to obscure subpages in order to communicate with you. Kelly hi! 20:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Kelly, I think you're misreading what it going on here, the link just gives some options, then, if you want to leave a message, any message you live is directed to a new section on this talk page. Communication takes place on this talk page, but other resolutions may be found by reading the appropriate heading. If I'm wrong, Stifle, let me know. However, Kelly, you may want to follow through on one of the links and see what happens. --Blechnic (talk) 22:01, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Blechnic, that is exactly right. Kelly, the purpose of the talk page wizard is to make sure that visitors can get as quick as possible a resolution to their issue by diverting problems that anyone could handle to the admin noticeboards, helping people to figure out for themselves why I deleted their page, and explaining that I do not generally intervene or mediate in disputes (I don't have much time to do so). I hope that answers your query. Stifle (talk) 18:38, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Your comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/DJ_I-Dee

See my reply at the bottom. Cheers, Enigma message 16:33, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, someone else has already gone and deleted them. I didn't want to delete them until the AFD closed. Stifle (talk) 08:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Changing English names in Serbian ones

A while ago, I met you on my talk page on a Balkan issue and I learnt that you are an adminitrator. There is a Serb user nicknamed Stevenb who keeps changing the English name of Mitrovica, Kosovo into a Serbian one. He also changed "Kosovo" in "Kosovo, Serbia" in |this article. This disrespects the neutral point of view of wikipedia. He is not open for reason as he does not participate in the talk pages. I believe I sent him all the warnings I could find. Please advise me on how to proceed. Thanks! Klungel (talk) 10:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

While I'm happy to answer questions, it looks like your question could have been answered and resolved more quickly if you had used my message wizard. It's linked as "Talk" after my name and at the top of my talk page. Why not try it next time?
I am sorry, but I am not in a position to intervene in content disputes. Please see Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. Stifle (talk) 11:20, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Image from new user Mlino76

Hello Stifle

You left a welcome message and another message on the talk page of the above new user. Would you be able to advise any more about the image that he created and wants to see used on an article? The position is that he authored it and he says that it appeared in two leading scientific magazines. What else needs to be done in regard to proper attribution of the image (if it is used in the article Solar energy)? Thanks very much. Itsmejudith (talk) 10:00, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

You might want to re-read the message I left. It explains why I have not deleted the image from Wikipedia. Attribution etc. does not come into it. Stifle (talk) 10:53, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

1 Question

Dear Stifle, is it possible to upload this poster: [5] (the main poster), which corresponds to: The Night Bus (film)? I have seen that some people upload similar posters under the heading of "fair use". Should be grateful if you would kindly shed some light on this question. I should add that I put this exact question to User:Polly sometimes ago, but it seems that she has not been in for a long time. Kind regards, --BF 23:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

That would seem fine. The tag you should use is {{Non-free poster}} along with a {{Non-free use rationale}} with the options completed. Make sure you also specify the source URL.
You may get answers to questions about copyright issues faster at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Stifle (talk) 10:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Dear Stifle, thank you very much for the very useful information. Kind regards, --BF 13:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm curious. If you don't mind...

could you please clarify or specify what instances you were referring to in the 'heckling' part of your comment here? Cheers - Ncmvocalist (talk) 10:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Nearly every oppose "vote" was commented on or argued with. Stifle (talk) 10:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
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