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Re: Poker players' images

Sorry, I don't think I can help much. I do screen-grabs to get most of the images I've put up. Essexmutant 06:56, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Still, thank you for the answer! --Greetz, Con^structor 09:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Holdem.jpg

I appreciate that you contacted me regarding holdem.jpg. I wish I would have had a moment to respond, however. That picture is part of a set that was originally licensed under a creative commons license. The author at some point (after I uploaded the image) changed the tag on flickr. Both the GFDL and Creative commons licenses contain a "no rescind" clause which prohibits people (like wikipedia) from being caught depending on an image they can no longer use. So, although the author changed the tag, he cannot actually make the image non-free anymore. This came up when discussing another picture by the same author at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Shuffle. Not that you did anything wrong, but it might have been good for you to ask me first before tagging. Long standing authors might feel like you accused them of wrong doing by not first checking into it before tagging. Personally, I'm not upset, but there are many with thinner skins lurking around. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 10:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry for inconvenience. You should talk to administrator on commons and explain the situation. Thank you for your advice. --Con^structor 10:54, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I've contacted the administrator on the commons. Thanks for the quick response. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 16:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Chess translations

I assume you wrote to me in response to my translation of Alois Wotawa from de: to en:. Originally I intended to write it from scratch, but when I saw that de: already had an article, I used the Babel Fish to produce an automated translation, which I then edited. I can do this for other chess-related articles because I know some German chess terminology, even though I don't know German in general.

I wonder if de: has an equivalent page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess, which would help me see which other articles are covered in de: but not en:. Overall, I am impressed by the fact that de: covers chess more thoroughly than en:, even though for many topics en: is the most thorough.

Thanks for the message. I don't spend as much time writing articles as in the past, but even one or two more translations would make this process worthwhile. I have a list of "personal" requested articles here. Shalom ^Hello 03:57, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Conspiration! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | watch Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | watch

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 04:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll take a look later! --Con^structor 13:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know how I could be helpful there. --Con^structor 21:04, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Ľudo Lehen

Thank you for commenting on the Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Ľudovít_Lehen#.C4.BDudov.C3.ADt_Lehen. Your view, however, has not made me very happy. Regardless of the fact that I know Ludo personally - and I have confessed that in the AfD debate in question - I would like to discuss with you the view that just a FM title shouldn't be enough for notability (IM probably, GM is always).

(Well, I should admit also that by chance I hold FM title too, but that is irrelevant in general reasoning. I am not going to write an article about myself. :-))

The first point: Do you know any of Lehen's works? I admit I have never seen any Zinar's except Mat Plus site and that is just because I read everything there. On the other hand I know Lehen's production (and to that matter, production of today's fairy elite) quite well. There were times, especially in 80's, when his works, mostly joint with IM Juraj Brabec were absolute world class. E.g. their twomover got detailed explanation and awe in column Nader Bekeken in Probleemblad, but that is just one example of many complex twomovers from field they have pioneered together. This is however one of things I cannot bring to outsiders as they would not understand single sentence. While these problems are absolutely incomprehensible for average chess-player, they sure are notable in chess composition world.

The second point: Why do you think FM title is not enough? How many composers are in your view notable enough for Wikipedia? Only GMs + (maybe IMs) + a handful of pre-WWII composers? This is at about 100? About 200? What should be criteria in your view? What I perceive as the most grim in this respect, it is the fact that many songs and bands are present in Wikipedia even if they made it just once to the Top of something. But composers with lifetime achievement recognized by official body should be non-notable just because they have no Wikipedia active fans.

Maybe I will think up some other arguments, but I do not want to step into that particular deletion debate anymore as this could be understood as unjustified holding of ground for Ludo, only if someone calls me again. Instead, I think more in direction of adequate presence of chess composition in Wikipedia. --Ruziklan (talk) 15:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

And I already know who you are (and you should know me). I'll reply somewhere else. You can feel free to post the interesting parts of the reply here (anonymously, of course) :-) --Con^structor 23:24, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Navileisten Kompositionsgroßmeister

Fast alle in der heutigen Löschdiskussion --Gereon K. (talk) 08:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Francisco Benkö

Hi! I understand German more or less, so do it youself, please. Grüß aus Schlesien, Mibelz, 18:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

PS. I would like to tell you that an article on Vitaly Chekhover became already written. -- Mibelz, 11:57, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I only got my informations from 2nd hand (somebody told me what stands in the source) so I'll see what I can do. I didn't find an useful obituary in EG, sadly. May take some time. Thanks for information! --Con^structor 20:22, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Good job on the article! Danke schön.-- Mibelz, 9:47, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Con^structor 13:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again for trying to provide balance to Wikipedia:Surveillance awareness day

Hey Con! Just wanted to thank you again for your attempts to provide balance to the Surveillance awareness day proposal. It is critically essential that we educate, not just pontificate. NSA employees aren't 'the enemy' as simpletons would suggest-- they're good people trying to do a good deed in a time when no one is sure what the rules actually should be.

That said, the 'focus' of Feb 11 is on mass surveillance, not espionage. When two nations are at war with each other, they will spy on each other. The mass surveillance controversy is more focused on governments spying on their own citizens, their own allies, or neutral parties. So far as I can tell, the spying on hostile regimes is not a source of controversy.

I would really love more suggestions for you about how we can acheive balance while still maintaining a tight focus on mass surveillance of citizens/residents/allies. --HectorMoffet (talk) 22:01, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Well, the line is hard to draw: Was it espionage, or was it mass surveillance of enemies (and is it espionage on citizens or mass surveillance that most governments do nowadays)? Are those Al Qaida fighters criminals, terrorists, enemy combattants? And what is the difference between a terrorist and a fighter for freedom? Where would we classify someone who tries to take a government down with a bomb, when he thinks that government is unjust (for example Georg Elser)?

In my opinion clear distinctions between words are not always possible, which is also how civil rights can be taken away, or in some cases enforced.

This did not start recently, however. As an old but blatant example of bending words outside of anything related to surveillance: Thalidomide is not dangerous as was proven by tests on animals. So it is also not dangerous to humans since humans are animals.

In this crazy world, words only mean what you want them to mean. --Con^structor 00:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

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File:Schachmathematik Keym.jpg

I see that in 2006 you uploaded a file File:Schachmathematik Keym.jpg to dewiki (later transferred by bot to Commons) for the article Schachmathematik. Even with machine translation (I do not speak German) of the information, I still can't figure out what it is intended to represent (specifically, what is its relevance to the topic of mathematical chess problems). Would you like to explain it? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:20, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

It is a graphical representation of the solution of a problem by Werner Keym. --Con^spiration 10:12, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm Prolog. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Zero Hedge, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Prolog (talk) 17:09, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Cool, thanks for the message! No, if it is relevant, someone else will add it. --Con^spiration 21:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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