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Happy editing, Isomorphic 04:10, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Pardon if my tone on the revert of 'Replicators' was a bit harsh. Misplaced Pages has a standard for dealing with disambiguation which I was following - it's detailed at Misplaced Pages:Disambiguation. I gave the 'Star Trek' article for 'Replicators' the primary position. In these cases, the secondary article generally is allowed a brief line at the top of the article to define an alternative link. It is also customary to describe very briefly the primary article as part of this line, even if it is obvious from the first paragraph.

If the secondary article is placed at the bottom, it will often not be seen.

There is an alternative resolution: we can create a disambiguation page that treats both articles as equal, offering a 'Star Trek' branch and a 'Stargate-SG1' branch. I see no need for this if the standard disambiguation format is followed.

Welcome to Misplaced Pages!

Brian Rock 23:32, 2004 Mar 8 (UTC)

Lyrics

I think that posting complete sets of lyrics to songs written within the last few decades, as you've done with Rock The Roll, I Know You Will, Where You Gonna Run To, etc. is almost certainly a copyright violation. Why you think these can be released under the GFDL? You certainly didn't write it yourself, and I don't believe they could have been copied from a public domain resource. Have you read the notice about this under every edit box? Have you discussed this with knowledgeable people on Misplaced Pages? Dpbsmith 01:59, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of this! Dpbsmith 13:59, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Tables

Hello, thanks for the note on my talk. I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with tables to know what's happening there. You might want to take a look at m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables or ask at Misplaced Pages:Help desk if that doesn't answer your question. Sorry I wasn't able to help further.  – Jrdioko (Talk) 15:05, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Empty Friends plots

I think I put stub notes on those pages, are these not sufficient? The incomplete pages are definately works in progress. Would it be safer just to disable the links until I am ready to totally complete the article?

Very odd, I swear I did the tilde thing before. Anyway, I removed the links and I'm going to fill in those plots as fast as I can (I'm a bit of a perfectionist so halfdone pages bug me more than empty pages. I know, weird). So if those orphan pages get found somehow (by bloodhounds) and get deleted, no big deal for me to create more complete ones.

On another side note, thank you for your help so far. I've been very impressed by the level of consideration and professionalism that I've seen from this project so far. Mimsie 00:57, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Tabula Rasa (Buffy episode)

It really needs to be "(Buffy episode)". The reason is because of episodes named Angel and The Initiative, which would be hopelessly ambiguous if qualified with "(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)". To avoid this, the episode names need to have their own separate namespace. -- Curps 13:00, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I contacted Wolf Deunan about it before doing it. I went over all the articles to make sure I fixed up all the links. Hopefully I didn't miss any.

Angel has the same problem: there's an episode named Darla. -- Curps 13:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Warp

I noticed you uploaded Image:Warp.jpg, is this image protected by any copyright? --H. CHENEY 03:51, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I believe that image is copyrighted, and is probably not covered by fair use. Please read Misplaced Pages:Image use policy for more information

Table edits on Michael Phelps

Hi,

I wanted to let you know that I reverted your color changes and centering to the table for a few reasons:

• there is no "bronze" color available (at least not on most browsers - that's why we use "#c96"), and those sections were showing up as white
• centering the table centers all data in the table, including times (which then makes the WR notation cause the times to not line up)
• most tables dealing with medal counts/results on Misplaced Pages are not centered on the page, and the footnote describing Phelps' withdrawal should not be centered (especially since the footnote normally will go over 2 lines)
• and in a totally subjective thing, I just think the WR footnotes should be flush with the table if they take up more horizontal space than the table itself.

If you want to discuss any of this with me, feel free to respond on Talk:Michael Phelps, here, or on my talk page. Thanks, Mike J. 01:13, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Okay, apparently the "#c96" thing is causing problems with other browsers as well. I suspect the problem's just IE not respecting "#abc" as opposed to "#aabbcc" codes - I only use the former because I'm lazy and am used to them after working w/ CSS.

How does this look in your browser?

If the above block comes out black-on-bronze for you, then that code would be fine. If not, perhaps we could work on trying to find something that would be more portable than what we've come up with? -- Mike J. 02:02, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Alright, I think it's all fixed on the page now. Thanks for your help. -- Mike J. 02:19, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image:Transporter.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Transporter.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell ] 21:08, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Done. Redux 23:21, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Now how about Image:Trophys.jpg?

Actually, I created that image myself. I have added a note to the image's page on that regard. Redux 02:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Help with a troublemaker

Let me know if this is still looking like trouble in a couple of days, and no one else seems to be helping; if it is, I'll add it to my watchlist. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:06, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

• I've already added it to my watchlist. Try to engage him in discussion first, if he still reverts without replying, he can be blocked for violation of policy. ] 21:43, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
• You say it may take an admin to deal with him. Remember that admins can only enforce community decisions not make them. You might want to start a "Request for comment" to start gathering evidence of his inappropriate behavior so someonecan act. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:20, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

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 Misplaced Pages'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 ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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)