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I posted a notable alumni on the Waukesha South High School page and you removed it. Matt Morris is the founder of a cowbell enthusiast pep band that plays at high school baskeball games in Waukesha. It seems culturally relative to this school that he is listed as a notable alum.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.36.132 (talk • contribs)

Waukesha

Re: Waukesha and the pep band. I am uncomfortable by your assumption of what you define as "notable" and by the mere statement that you can define what is notable for a particular institution or for its student culture. Obviously, a pep band notation is not inappropriate--by common application of decency standards--but it very well could be notable for people who have gone to and graduated from this particular high school. The core to telling a true democratic history, one of the people and for the people--a story that Misplaced Pages catalogues so wonderfully, is that people should be able capture what is "notable" for them in a particular setting. So please cast a wider net. Please do not reserve notable for only people who may be wider known--as a historian I feel that there are many individuals who I consider notable but would be saddened to find that not many others would have ever heard of them. For instance, being both Jewish and a historian, I feel that the story of the Dreyfus affair is very important. Yet it saddens me that many choose to edit if from course outlines on the basis that is not a commonly known story beyond my community. Please allow for the school and its community to decide what story it wants to report as I will venture that you do not know what is important in that particular school's story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.36.132 (talk • contribs)

Thanks

Yonatanh,

Thank you for reverting the revision to the article on Left Handed(ness), subsection "possible effects on thought in humans." As that information comes from extensive research--some dating back to the work of Roger Sperry in the 1960s--I don't feel it's right to have an individual who:

1.) can type: http://en.wikipedia.org/User_talk:128.227.131.101

2.) is anonymous

come in and discard paragraphs of material that have been peer reviewed for a year.

Thank you again for your vigilance,

Tom Hunter, aka Curmudgeon99, the author of the original section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curmudgeon99 (talk • contribs)

Comment

Would you mind weighing in on this debate? --evrik  15:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• To answer your question ... part of not violating Misplaced Pages:Canvassing is trying to bring in 'bipartisan' views. SInce you had recently edited the article ... in any case, the tempest in a teapot is over. --evrik  22:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

THANK YOU!

Thanks for catching that fake signature. I should probably be more careful next time I discover that Jimbo Wales had signed my autograph book. Should I report that Spawn Man? --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 20:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Where do I report him at? --Cremepuff222 (talk, sign book) 20:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Usurpation

Only two more days for you! {Slash-|-Talk} 02:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. Thanks too for mentioning the glitch; the rename utility is meant to move all userpages to the new name, but apparently it isn't clever enough to offer a delete-and-move option if the target already exists. Regards — Dan | talk 17:14, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

User:Tabercil/Luke_Ford_permission

I'll gladly submit my record of the email exchange to permissions... but in terms of a list of images which use it, that'll be harder as a number of people besides myself have uploaded lots of additional images from Luke, so it's not like I can look back over my submissions list to see them all. In fact, looking at the Luke Ford photo category, there are 385 pictures with that tag, plus who knows how many more are present without the tag. Any suggestions on how I should this situation? Tabercil 01:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

U2 picture

Hi, thank you very much for your explanation on the http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:2005-11-21_U2_%40_MSG_by_ZG.JPG talk page. I posted a response there to your clarification. To rehash, I would like to know what license can preserve the requirement that the author be credited. Also, I'm a little confused why two other editors told me that all the author has to do is say he is willing to allow the picture to be used on any website, but you request that the photographer has to creative commons license, gnu public license, or public domain the picture. Your explanation is much appreciated. Misplaced Pages brown 02:48, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your quick reply to my questions!! I whole-heartedly agree that this business with copyrighting is fairly tricky, reminds me why I didn't want to go to law school and opted for engineering spacecraft instead. Anyways, I've asked the author if he'd give his permission for the work to be used under CC-BY 2.5 (which I realize is not quite as favorable as CC-BY-SA, but I don't want to complicate matters and make him think that Misplaced Pages is too complicated for his excellent works). Anyways, thanks again! Misplaced Pages brown 03:22, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

"Replaceable" fair use

Regarding this edit, I am curious about your rationale for considering this image "replaceable"; the other two images are licensed identically to this one. (Note - User:Duncharris has left Misplaced Pages). Guettarda 04:40, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

What I don't understand is that all three images were uploaded by the same editor using the same tag, so how did you conclude that two of them were valid PD, while the third was not? Either they are all equally suspect (in which case, fair use would have to be asserted for them all) or them are all equally likely to be valid. Calling one suspect and the other two valid just doesn't make sense to me. Guettarda 18:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

What do you think?

This user believes free images should be moved to the Commons.

Just curious. --evrik  16:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• What about a template? Where should we put it? Should we link the box to a category? --evrik  17:32, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Various F1 images

Hi, you listed three images of racing cars uploaded by as possibly unfree images. I've looked at the copyright notice I used for them and can't see any problem with it. It's still listed as acceptable at Misplaced Pages:Image_copyright_tags/All, and I haven't placed an unacceptable caveat on it. I will de-list the images in around 10 hours time, unless I've missed something, in which case, please point it out at Misplaced Pages:Possibly_unfree_images#March_13. Cheers. 4u1e 08:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)