User talk:QueenStupid

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Hello There[edit]

If you are indeed a second-year undergraduate student, then I graduated with you at LSMSA. Pray tell, exactly which one of my compadres am I talking to? --Anaraug (Wa|ker) 21:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additional Adding[edit]

Certainly. Although you're more than welcome to take on the task yourself (in case I don't get thereto as soon as should be expected..). DrWho42 19:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (= DrWho42 20:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tess[edit]

Thanks for your help at User:Chick Bowen/Bad book covers; much appreciated. Chick Bowen (book cover project) 03:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was perfect! The only tiny thing I might have done differently was to use a longer/more descriptive filename for the image, to make sure no one overwrites it (it happens). But "Tess" is uncommon enough that it's not likely. Also, uploading it to Commons was great, because it's certainly PD worldwide, but remember that anything published between 1900 and 1923 can safely be assumed only to public domain in the US, which means we have to upload it to Wikipedia. If that makes no sense, ask and I'll clarify. I'll add a note to the book cover page too. Chick Bowen (book cover project) 04:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} How do I rename images I uploaded to Wikipedia (more specifically, Commons)? QueenStupid 06:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(edit confliect)Re: your question at my talk pageWell, that gets a little complicated. It varies by country, and it depends on the copyright-holder, which for a book cover or title page is probably the publisher rather than the author. It's summarized (if you can call it that) at commons:Commons:Licensing#Material in the public domain. I said 1900 as a quite arbitrary rule of thumb, since I wanted to err on the safe side. Actually, anything before 1909 should be fine on Commons; it's stuff between 1909 and 1923 that can get complicated and should go on Wikipedia with a {{PD-US}} tag. But of course that means the edition, not the original book. As you can see from my talk page, when I get confused about these things (which is often) I ask Lupo. . . Chick Bowen 06:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll answer your helpme question, too. Basically, you can't--you have to upload it again and then tag the old one for deletion. I think the Tess image will be fine, though, if you'd rather not deal with it. Chick Bowen 06:13, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't matter that she was Canadian, actually--the book was published by Grosset and Dunlap, an American press, so it's absolutely PD. Chick Bowen 17:03, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing fair use images[edit]

Thanks for the gentle note on the replacement of the image in What Maisie Knew. In the future, though, please don't put a note on my talk page if a fair-use image is being replaced. I'll see the replacement on my watchlist, so a talk page note is unnecessary. Just go ahead and replace the image with the free-use one. Thanks again. Casey Abell 18:36, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have no objection to a first edition cover being used in lieu of the later paperback cover per the guidelines at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels, however your interpretation of the fair use rules appears to contradict those set out in the Fair use rationale tag for book covers, in which it is clearly stated that any book cover may be used to illustrate an article on the book in question. There is no reference to "if a free alternative exists". In this case one did (albeit an inferior image since all it is is a blank book cover). If the rules on fair use have changed again (they appear to change every two weeks around this place), please go through the applicable channels to have the bookcover licensing tag revised. BTW thanks for the notification, especially since it did create an orphan of the image; I'll delete it since there is no further use for it, but on occasion I have been able to reuse such images elsewhere. Cheers. 23skidoo 21:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a mistake per se on your part; it's just a case of interpretation. The current book covers licence tag makes no distinction between pre- and post-1923 works and makes no reference to "replacability". Under the current wording, in other words, the 1959 Green Mansion edition cover I had was perfectly acceptable. I personally think the original 1904 cover is much duller, however the Novels WikiProject (of which I am a member) stresses that we use first edition covers when available, so as such I have no complaint about the image being replaced. Cheers! 23skidoo 22:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Book covers again[edit]

Hello, Queen, I just wanted to let you know I've moved the project into Wikipedia space, here, if you're interested. If you've have enough of it, that's fine too--either way, thanks very much for your help, and let me know if there's ever anything I can do for you. Chick Bowen 21:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and good luck with your finals (I'm grading mine, currently). Chick Bowen 00:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poke[edit]

I'm back in the saddle again, so to speak. Christopherlin 06:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:PeonyNovel.jpg)[edit]

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Hello + WikiProject Magic[edit]

Hi, and thanks for your edit to the André Kole article. It is one of a group of relatively new articles I am working on so mucg remains to be done. There are other articles that will be connected to it but which are not yet started (hopefully I will get around to them soon). I hope you continue to take an interest in wikiproject magic articles. Circusandmagicfan 09:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan[reply]

Speedy deletion of Image:Cat Eyes.jpg[edit]

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Russian language[edit]

Hi,

In this edit you removed a sentence claiming that the source was biased. The bit of information you removed does not violate policy as far as I know; it is WP:V, and in an article discussing the Russian language a statistic as dramatic as that should be noted. If comparing the worldwide usage of languages were POV, then Wikipedia would never use rankings to begin with and articles like this would be deleted. As it does not violate WP:NPOV, I cannot think of a single WP policy which may have guided you to delete the sentence. --71.112.145.203 (talk) 03:37, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:ESvol1.gif)[edit]

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Replaceable fair use Image:Sergei Nakariakov carnival.JPG[edit]

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