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Valerie Wilson

Thank you for your comments to that anon editor on Valerie Wilson. He has been attacking that stub—albeit less obviously—for many days now. I have attempted to engage him in a discussion, assuming good faith, as to why he will not allow the article to stand as it was written. This is the only thing that he has said:

I live in NY state; I delivered lottery magazines for over 8 1/2 years. Since NY retired "Tax-Free Million" in 2000, there has not been a "true" million-dollar scratch prize offered by the NY Lottery. Tax-Free Million was lump-sum; the check (after withholdings) was for exactly $1 million, so the actual prize was more than $1.5 million.

NO lottery/sweepstakes etc winner should ever be forced to receive annuity payments. Ms Wilson, in both cases, was forced to receive her "million-dollar" prize in 20 annual payments. Since she was already being paid through an annuity; IMO it made no sense for her to play for another annuity. She should be trying her luck on Mega Millions, which has a cash option. For whatever reason, NY allows the cash/annuity choice on Mega Millions, but not on its scratch games.

Annuity-only prizes should be boycotted (including "lifetime" prizes).

BTW the cash value is not "less" than the annuity; the lump sum represents the present-day value of future money (ie inflation). 216.179.123.145 13:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I encourage you to read my comments on the talk page; I think I have been a paragon of patience. The guy obviously is on a campaign to attack annuity-style jackpots, but why he is bringing it here is beyond me. I do believe that he is sincere in his beliefs (all he does here is edit lottery articles), but he is really lacking a grasp on normal Wikinteraction. (Did I just coin a word?) Anyway, I was wondering if you were an admin, or if you knew how to get him blocked. He does not appear to have a static IP address, so it would take several blocks, but I think he needs to be. Can you help? Unschool 01:01, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I am not an admin and actually a relatively new user (this was the first warning a gave in a long time). I think for now we should wait if he/she makes another "move", give a proper "last warning" and report it on WP:AIV. You can do it yourself if you want, and I will certainly keep an eye on this. Yury Petrachenko 01:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Uploaded image

{{helpme}} Could someone help me correctly deal with this image. The author in his blog (in my request to release the image into public domain) stated that he allows to use the image "in any form you find appropriate".

I hope I handle this image correctly and no further action required. Thanks! Yury Petrachenko 04:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

E-mail permissions at wikimedia dot org to send the permission of the file being uploaded to Misplaced Pages. Real96 05:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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		For considerably improving (rewriting might be better description) the article Khimki War Memorial, while staying true to NPOV and spirit of Misplaced Pages. DLX 08:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I appreciate this Yury Petrachenko 09:21, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Join the gretl team?

Hi,

I see that you are interested in Statistics and also is an advanced C programmer. Have you looked at the gretl software? It is an open source software for econometrics and statistics programmed in C. Maybe you will consider joining the programming team and implement missing statistics functions?

Best, FSK