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I will get down to all those broken links as soon as I find the time to do so. And thank you for noticing what I was doing. Then again, maybe the "small mess" I created will have warranted enough attention already! :D --Huaiwei 23:25, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi there! I noticed you adding yourself to the list of Malaysian wikipedians. I've been semi-systematically contacting likely Malay-speaking users to recruit them to ms, and you look like a good candidate. How about also taking a look at the Malay wikipedia. At the very least, how about creating a User page, just a little toe-hold? We could sure use a hand over there. Cheers, -- Kowey 18:47, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
When you mark an article as a copyvio, you need to delete all the material rather than just adding the copyvio template. Good work finding 'em! --jpgordon{gab} 04:59, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
You have reported that you feel the material posted is a possible copyright violation and you were correct and fast in discovering that it was cut and pasted from a website. But as webmaster of the Parr Instrument Company website we are the authors of the material and the COO of our company asked me to post it. PLease revert and thanks for your diligence. Dagimar
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 Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 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:
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 [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], 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)
Hey, thanks for leaving a note on my talk page about the MTR. Yes, I'm keenly interested in making it a better page. Unfortunately for me, I have been busy putting out lots of other Wikipedia fires and I haven't had the chance to get to the MTR. I propse we come up with a plan for how to improve the MTR article to featured article quality.
Unfortunately, I didn't even realise that I had uploaded images from Gakei.com. Oops! I just did a Google search. If you want to take the time and the effort to fix them, I'm sure that would be much appreciated. Unfortunately I only have one other high-quality image that I can upload onto Wikipedia of the MTR, the other one being the image of the Central sign in Central station. Although I've taken a big break from the MTR, especially after it became so unruly with non-native English speakers making constant edits that had to be changed. Although if you can do some work, I'll be sure to chip in. In the mean time, I just uploaded File:DSC04319.JPG. Let me know what you think of it. Páll 22:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I recently (today) submitted articles on MUKDEN MEDICAL COLLEGE, MARGARET RIDLEY CHARLTON and MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. I received a note back saying I should not submit copyrighted material (unless I am the copyright owner). I am not sure which posting you are querying as in all cases I did use some copyright material BUT I am the copyright owner so hope it is OK and that the pages will appear in due course. Most appear on my own WWW site www.internatlibs.mcgill.ca but I thought that adding the info to Wiki would be useful.
Hello, you marked my Reeve Oliver page for speedy deletion. I have read your bio, and I must insist that the write-up I wrote is not "spam," it is real info about a band that exists. I am neither a huge fan of the band or a flamer of them, just somebody who has listened to their music and decided to add it to wikipedia.
I would be very thankful if you would remove your claim for its deletion.
Sorry, I wasn't logged in and had things to do around the house....I am currently expanding the page and "NPOV'ing" it...let me stress again that I have no affiliation with Reeve Oliver (I live on the opposite side of the continent from them) and am not doing an advertising run here...I'm just a lover of music who would like to share my interests.
I greatly appreciate your warm welcome to wikipedia and pointers to useful links. You User page is very intersting. Look forward to interacting with you more often.
Hello there. You slapped a "speedy" on Timo Noko shortly after I'd seen the article myself.
I'd never heard of this man till this evening. He seems mildly eccentric and mildly interesting; it's not his fault that the article (which I haven't touched) is jocose.
Please look again at what I've written on the "discussion" page. You may agree that a "speedy" is a bit too brusque. Hoary 12:54, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)
I started working on some correction of articles, and within 10 minutes everything i edited changed back to origional format. Is this 'free' only if the contributor fits within certain parameters that agree with yours?
Just a quick thank you for taking the time to post a welcome message on my talk page. It's good to know that there are old hands online looking out for us newbies.
I could only back off and hoped that other people could talk to him.
Once again, thanks for being objective. I hope I didn't come across as being offensive (that might be what Neutrality thought). If I do, please leave a message here so that I'll learn (I'm just a newbie - don't bite! LOL).
I am going to put Octopus cards on WP:FAC this week, so I'd think I'd be busy. But I'm going to get around to doing KCR later, may be later this month or early next month.
Also, I personally believe that KCR should be split along the lines of MTR and MTR Corporation, i.e., for the rail line articles, namely East Rail (KCRC), West Rail (KCRC) and the LRT article to talk about the history of the rail lines, and for the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation article to talk about the company itself. What do you think? My message is also on the individual talk pages.
Gaurav1146 16:28, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I got a welcome message from you yesterday.First of all I would like to thank you for that.
I had some queries.
1)Are the pages on wikipedia case sensitive.Today I created a page titled "Anti-Sikh Riots". When I tried to search for "Anti-Sikh riots" I got the message that the page could not be found.
Is there a better way of redirecting pages apart from "Move" command. I mean if I want to redirect all possible case combinations of "Anti-Sikh Riots" to the same link how can I do that.
2)secondly the searching system at wikipedia is quite inefficient as compared to google. Wikipedia doesnt entertain even slight spelling errors.
TIA
gaurav
Hi. I am not 100% sure whether you want rolling stock inside KCR or inside the four individual rail lines because as far as I remember they are totally different. JuntungWu 11:51, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mailer Diablo. I seem to have oddly lost any record of your greeting when I first came here about a month ago. I was messing around with redirecting my User page, and it just disappeared. Huh. Anyway, I noticed the images on your WikiStats page were all linked like external links. In case you didn't know, images can be easily from articles by using the syntax [[:Image:Title.jpg|Displayed text]]. I was going to change it for you, but I figured you have some other reason for linking like that. See ya. --Poiuytman 12:08, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your warm welcome page and the useful hints it contains. I am just new to the whole wikiproject and enjoy adding, fixing, expanding, and exploring. I may need your help if I get stuck.Ekem 21:08, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I do try to assume good faith, but checking the history, it seems like you added vandalism where there was none before, and did it twice. Still, you're right, I should have been more patient. Sorry for overreacting. --L33tminion | (talk) 20:34, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
I started an article on Photoelasticity yesterday. Thats quite vast a topic for a single person to cover. So, is there any way where I can ask people related to Mechanics directly to contribute to that article.
Thanx in Advance
Gaurav Gaurav1146 18:43, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hey, how are you? it seems like someone added a lot of material to the expansion section of the MTR, but its horribly formatted and I have no idea how to fix it. Do you have any ideas? Páll 11:26, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon(talk)
I would like to send my thanks on the rearrrangement of the page. I am a newbie just need to polish my own contribution skills. I hope you could help if I really mess up the MTR page.
By the way, I'd like to ask why the part for Airport Exhibition Centre station's content was deleted. Is it making the page too "bloated"?
Yes, and I'm from Hong Kong. It's nice to know that some local people contributes much.
I have written some in the KCR page, especially on the fare system and future expansion parts. There will soon be some discussion on Sha Tin to Central Link (SCL) in the Legislative Council, so I have not start modifying that part. SCL is a complicated project and deserves a separate page, like West/South Island Line of MTR. I'll try building up the contents. Some images in West and South Island Line Page has been added (my work ;) ).
I'd also like to ask if there'll be any copyvio if I make modification on images of MTR/KCR official site and put them up in the wiki. I've checked the copyright notice of MTR, and (if I read it correct) it does not allow any redistribution of modified content in its site, but the two system maps in MTR & KCR seems to be a cropped official map. No offense, but I'd like to make sure if I can do so or not.
I have made some amendments on MTR page, especially on the safety part. I don't wanna conveying false info on the paragraphs stating PSDs. Some rearrangements on the reference part too, linking to the real website that the title reads, and putting them in neat categories.
I found that the external links part is somehow messy now. Is it ok for me to do some rearrangement again?
Hello there. I am recently being listed on RfC. Feel free to comment as you wish to. I regard it as a way out and to have the matter settled. Thanks. (and thanks for telling me about that :-P ) — Instantnood 19:01 Mar 1 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your view. I am thinking where should be appropriate for me to make any response to the comments there. — Instantnood 20:58 Mar 1 2005 (UTC)
Hey thanks Mailer diablo. I'm going to have a response as a whole some time when things are all said and discussed. Joining too early could lead to more lengthy debates. It's happening already and there's nothing much to worry about. :-P — Instantnood 09:16 Mar 2 2005 (UTC)
Right. Should be ready some time later by today. — Instantnood 12:53 Mar 5 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I have made a response there. Please take a look. :-D — Instantnood 21:16 Mar 5 2005 (UTC)
As of March 4, 2005, the following (7) articles are currently listed for deletion under the POV suggestion that schools are not notable (even though this is invalid reasoning as per the Wikipedia deletion policy. Whether you agree or disagree, please be aware that the following schools are actively being voted on:
Thanks for your attempt to calm me down, but I'm not sure a Wiki-vacation is the solution - I'm thinking more of leaving Wikipedia altogether. Netoholic's a bully and the community does not care. I would be most obliged if you were to have a look and voice your opinion at Template talk:Sisterproject#Enough, but you don't have to. — Itai (f&t) 08:06, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I present this Barnstar to you for your all-round contributions to Wikipedia.utcursch | talk 13:42, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
Your user page has been designed very well and I don't want to spoil it. So, I am posting this Barnstar here. Please feel free to move this to your user page. utcursch | talk 13:42, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your warm welcome. I'm quite new at editing and talking. I am not good for editing. Thanks for your welcome and useful links. I'm learning from them.
CW32 15:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Our very own notice board is up! Do try to look through and contribute. And yeah....it came about because you created that red link. ;)--Huaiwei 08:49, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks a lot Mailer diablo. I didn't mean to join him in these revert wars. But there's certainly something that one cannot give up. Indeed she/he's been challenging many of my edits across Wikipedia. I don't think that's tolerable. — Instantnood 19:33, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
sorry, i've been here for a while, thanks for the welcome but it's not really necessary...--Theloniouszen 06:42, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hello Mailer diablo. I'm not sure if you have noticed the discussion at Talk:Singapore#Capital and #Largest city. Please take a look of this proposed version. I would like to add the footnote, with the word "city-state", into the infobox. — Instantnood 16:24, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
hope all is well. just wanted to ask you to please not vote to delete our entry in wikipedia, it means a lot to us (even though it is only an imaginary country at the moment, it is very real to us) and is not intended for commercial purposes. hope you will consider this. thanks, seh.
Hello Mailer diablo, I would to have your assistance to help relieving a long-term revert war by Huaiwei on my edits. He is starting to revert as many as my edits as possible, no matter what changes I have made to the pages. This recent one over Category:Airports of Macau is particularly annoying, not to mention his words " you are in the mood for rv war episode 2? This is simply getting lame. " in the edit summary. He's simply ignoring what have been changed.
I don't know exactly what you can help, but I believe you're in a much more neutral and unbiased position to deal with the issue. Thanks in advance. — Instantnood 21:00, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. No, I didn't know about that header. RickK 20:05, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)
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