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I saw your changes to the film processing section in the article on Kodachrome. There, you state that Dwayne's is the sole remaining processor of Kodachrome in the world. (I presume you mean the sole Kodak authorized processor. Is that true?) Did the Japanese lab give it up? Anoneditor 23:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply:

In re Kodachrome processing:

Yes: Kodak's Lausanne plant shut down their K-Lab processor; and Horiuchi Color in Tokyo also just shut down their K-Lab as well. As of now, only Dwayne's is left; and, as I understand it, they have a full-sized K-14 cine processor, not a K-Lab.

Also, I just updated the Kodachrome page to add the link to the K-Lab technical manual Z-50, which also describes in detail the chemical, re-exposure and mechanical steps involved.

Reply to reply:

In re Kodachrome processing:

What's your source for this? The Horiuchi website, http://www.horiuchi-color.co.jp/index2/english/english.html, still (as of today) lists the K-14 process as one of the things it does. Anoneditor 23:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Reply to reply to reply:

No, Horiuchi shut down their K-Lab; and removed the page from their English version of their website. My source is Kodak itself, as they stopped making the B-I-B (bag-in-box) chemistry required for the K-Lab. Dwayne's, with the sole K-14 line, buys K-14 soup in bulk and has an analytic lab to keep their process in control.

Striking Comments

It is completely unacceptable to strike other peoples comments on talk pages as you did in the Terry Shannon AfD. Users should only strike their own comments, and doing this to other peoples comments makes it look as if they have withdrawn their own statements. --Daniel J. Leivick 16:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

In fact, it's considered vandalism to do so -- please stop, as you may be blocked for editing other's comments during an AfD discussion.--Leflyman^Talk 16:58, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages, as you did with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Shannon. Doing so won't stop the discussion from taking place. You are however welcome to comment about the proposed deletion on the appropriate page. Thank you.--Leflyman^Talk 18:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please take care how you use the word "vandalism"- see Wikipedia:Vandalism. Specifically, this edit summary is inappropriate. Redirects are not vandalism, and you don't get to avoid AFD by making a second article on the same topic. Friday (talk) 19:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Please also take note that adding "vandalism warnings" to articles is entirely inappropriate and is not helping the situation. --- RockMFR 19:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, this is vandalism, when pertinent content is destroyed.

It's not vandalism. Do this again and I will block you. Friday (talk) 19:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

What are you doing?

What is the purpose of this edit? The talk page is where we discuss the article, not in the article itself. I know you're only doing what you think is right, but please be careful. Friday (talk) 19:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Please stop forking

How many articles do you want about Terry Shannon? It would be better to work on all this in one place, and then consider breaking them out later if length is a concern. Friday (talk) 22:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Along those lines, don't screw with the Signpost. It is rude and disruptive. Teke ^(talk) 01:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Please help with formatting and reference style

I need some help formatting two tables and the reference link on the Speed Graphic page at the Graflex manufacturer history and Graflex model history sections.

In other words, I'm good at gathering info; not so good in formatting tables.

Thanks in advance! Dan Schwartz Expresso@Snip.Net

Looking into it... —Dgies^t c 17:10, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, made a Wiki markup table example at Speed Graphic. For the others, just follow that example... —Dgies^t c 17:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Also gave you an example of how to properly format a reference for citation of a website. —Dgies^t c 17:34, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Discpad 17:01, 1 March 2007 (UTC)Dan Schwartz

Your edit summaries and talk page message locations

You do not have to sign your edits in the edit summary . It's already recorded and can be seen through page histories, watchlists, etc that you made the edit, not someone else. Please discontinue doing this as it clutters up the edit histories and it really doesn't tell us anything important that we already didn't know. Thank you. --pIrish 16:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, please do not move messages around on talk pages as you did to the chinchilla article. Old messages should remain where they are to not give rise to confusion about when they were added. It doesn't have anything to do with importance, it's just when someone decided to discuss something. New messages, like the one you included about sugar in the diet, should always go at the bottom of the page. I can't stress this enough. New messages ALWAYS go at the bottom of the page, not the top. That's the way discussion topics flow and most editors know to look at the bottom of the page to see if something else has been brought up. If it's just plopped in the middle, your questions may go unanswered for a very long time unless someone watching the page catches it. --pIrish 16:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Rickshaw Inn

A tag has been placed on Rickshaw Inn, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Realkyhick 06:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Holy sh*t! It's 2AM; and I just started the damn Rickshaw Inn page. It wil take a few days as I research more of this inn's illustrious history. Our family has been involved with Cherry Hill for a half-century; and there is much to say as I go back to the Cherry Hill Library's township history room in the basement... Which my parents have contributed many artifacts to.

* Is it OK to remove the "speedy deletion" tag?

* How did people even detect this page to begin with?

Thanks! Dan Schwartz Discpad 07:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Cherry Hill, NJ

Hi, Dan. I have removed the speedy tag and marked it as a stub instead. People often find pages like this through Special:Recentchanges or similar tools. See Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol for more info. I agree that the speedy on your article was a little hasty. A good way to avoid problems like that is by starting out with a good lead paragraph so that people can tell what you're talking about and why it's important. Please don't think too badly of Realkyhick; if you look at how much junk is entered into Wikipedia all the time, you'll see how easy is to mistake a struggling new article for something that won't make it. Hope that helps! William Pietri 07:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict, a little more specific reply) Don't remove the tag if you can't make it meet the requirements of the policies listed above. I suggest creating User:Discpad/Sandbox, writing it there and then creating the article once it meets the notability requirements. Many users monitor Special:Newpages and tag articles that meet the criteria for speedy deletion. John Reaves (talk) 07:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

John - I started several pages as part of a project to "kick-start" a project documenting the illustrious history of Cherry Hill. Not every contributor is a 20-something, `ya know...

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Removal of content from talk pages

It is not appropriate to remove content from talk pages as you did twice to this page. Talk pages can be used by other editor to see how a particular user has interacted with people in the past and should not be altered to present a particular view. See WP:TALK --Daniel J. Leivick 00:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Terry Shannon AfD

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 March 13, you will be blocked from editing. . EliminatorJR ^Talk 02:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The topic of deleting the Terry Shannon article has been debated; and is the subject of Terry Shannon nominated for Wikipedia deletion; Terry Shannon gets Wikipedia reprieve and Terry Shannon archive material wanted for Wikiporpoise Discpad 04:54, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Emphasizing my remark

May I ask why you want my comment emphasized? I'm curious now. -Amarkov moo! 04:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you're quite familiar with the readership of The Inquirer and (especially) El Reg in I.T. circles. Part of the appeal is their sarcastic writing style. But, I suggest as a starting point that you call up the articles in those respected journals on most any I.T. topic. Dan Schwartz, Expresso@Snip.Net Discpad 04:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I don't deny that they have appeal. But not everything that has appeal is necessary reliable. And sarcasm is not at all condusive to reliability. -Amarkov moo! 04:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Um... Okay, is there any particular reason you've started emphasizing everything I say? -Amarkov moo! 04:49, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

This user wants to capture a Shedinja.

So when your remarks hit El Reg, people the world over will have no trouble finding them. Discpad 04:53, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Would you like me to start a subpage for you, then? It's much less annoying than emphasis on everything. -Amarkov moo! 04:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

MfD on AfD

Hi --- I fixed your MfD nom. Anyway I could be wrong, but as far as I know, AfD discussions generally themselves aren't subject to deletion unless they were created as clear vandalism (e.g. sockpuppet of a banned user). You can just express your comments on the AfD itself (e.g. by putting in an opinion of "Speedy Close"). Cheers, cab 06:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Terry Shannon

1. Your deletion of the AfD was vandalism. It is not up to you to decide whether an AfD should continue or not.
2. If you actually read the AfD, you'll notice that I actually voted for the Terry Shannon article to be KEPT.
3. If you're that bothered about it, why didn't you improve the article after the last deletion review, so it didn't get nominated again?

The problem is that the article HAS been improved; but references and footnotes have been REMOVED.Discpad 11:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

1. I deleted the references? I did no such thing (see the history page), and I don't appreciate personal attacks, especially untrue ones.
2. I have nothing against Terry Shannon, only against people who don't follow Wikipedia's rules.
3. Please WP:CIVIL.
4. Oh, and I know all about "old" computing. I used to program Honeywell mainframes in Cobol and JCL. Thanks,EliminatorJR ^Talk 07:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

More on AfD issue about Terry Shannon...

I received this interesting email on Tuesday morning:

Here's the thing.

Notability on Wikipedia demands that someone have articles written about them, for the most part. So a journalist must win an award, or be interviewed by someone else as a 'personality'. Clearly, this is a bad way to determine notability - many good journalists stay under the radar to precisely avoid being publicly profiled, and the Wikipedia guidelines determine notability purely relative to celebrity.

There is an exception to this, which is where someone makes a important contribution to their field. This clearly covers Terry, but the Wikians are totally anal about applying it, since its hard to prove. However, it does clearly cover Terry, and so it shouldn't be necessary to have Mike write something about him - that will detract from the main issue.

I think what's interesting is that since the clean up of the page I worked on over the last couple of weeks, the current AfD has got most of the Wikipedia community suggesting to keep the article. This Amarkov character is just one pissed off kid - the rest of the community seems to be in favour of finding more sources. I don't think we have too much to worry about on this occasion.

Enough said...

Whoever told you that was wrong. Articles need sources, period. There is no exception to WP:V if a guy can be shown to have made notable contributions to his field. Due to new information, I do not believe that to apply in this case, but that does not mean that articles don't need sources. -Amarkov moo! 02:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Terry Shannon

hi, those templates always go on the talk pages. Take a look at this link. You can see all the pages that link to that template. See all the (transclusion) ones? Those are the pages it's used on as opposed to just linked to, for a user's reference. Actually, if you do see any actual articles listed on the later pages of that search--you'd want to move them over to talk instead. - Denny 13:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

NTFS

"Native Transactional"? Provide a source. AlistairMcMillan 23:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

If you are right, why is there not a single result for "Native Transactional File System" on microsoft.com? AlistairMcMillan 23:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Alistair, yes, it's Native Transactional, not New Technology: It's a common mistake; and the name is derived from the transactional log used to self-repair (via unwinding) disk errors.

I think you're confusing the meaning of the "NT" in "Windows NT" which indeed is "New Technology" with the "NT" portion of "NTFS"

I'll have to pull out my old NT books from the mid-90's and cite accordingly. Dan Schwartz, Expresso@Snip.Net Discpad 23:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

You know what is amusing. Searching Google for the words "Native Transactional File System" and "NTFS" brings up about twenty results. Nearly all of them attributable to your good self. Going all the way back to the 1990s.

Personally I'm going to go with Helen Custer. AlistairMcMillan 23:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll go with Sean Daily in Windows IT Pro: Windows NT 101 chapter in Optimizing Windows NT:

Installable file systems
Another portability feature of NT is its ability to support many different file systems. Currently, NT supports the FAT (File Allocation Table used in DOS, Windows 95, and OS/2 systems), NTFS (Native Transactional File System introduced with Windows NT), and CDFS (CD-ROM File System). However, because of NT’s modular nature, support for additional file systems can be easily added in the future by simply creating new file system drivers and adding them to NT. This makes it relatively easy for NT to incorporate new technologies. Discpad 23:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

That all very nice. You do know who Helen Custer is right? The woman that wrote two books called "Inside Windows NT" and "Inside the Windows NT File System". Who was asked to write them by David Cutler. Who wrote them at Microsoft, alongside the people who were creating Windows NT, as they were creating Windows NT. "Inside Windows NT" being the book that has a foreword by David Cutler. I'm assuming I don't have to tell you who Cutler is right? AlistairMcMillan 23:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I know who Helen Custer is. And Yes, I knew of Dave Cutler when he was still a DIGIT.

Sources

Please read Wikipedia:Attribution. Please don't replace content on Wikipedia with your own personal knowledge/experiences. AlistairMcMillan 21:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Lustra AF

A tag has been placed on Lustra AF, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngall ^talk 15:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Hydroquinone. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Thank you. --Finngall ^talk 15:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

OK, I'm puzzled: Lustra AF is a prescription pharmaceutical (derm creme); and other brand name drugs (such as Effexor) are listed. How would YOU list it?!

This was moved from the userpage to the talkpage by SuperBall53 12:40, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! Discpad 12:41, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

You may want to ask this question to Finngall by editing User talk:Finngall; it looks like you're trying to contact a specific user rather than broadcast a question. If I'm wrong, put {{helpme}} back up. --ais523 12:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Considering that it was a month ago, I don't recall precisely. But judging by what was left behind in the edit summary in the deletion log, the article likely looked more promotional than encyclopedic. It should be noted that I'm not an admin and cannot delete articles myself; an admin had to come along to either delete the article or remove the tag as warranted. In this case, the admin not only agreed that it was eligible for speedy deletion under criterion G11 (spam) but also under A7 (no assertion of why the subject is notable enough to merit an article here). Since the article appears to have been only one sentence long before going to the references section, one could make the argument that it fell under A1 (little or no context) as well. I make no claims of infallibility, and tagging it as spam may or may not have been an error, but given that it was probably eligible for speedy deletion anyway, please forgive me if I don't feel too guilty about it.

I haven't looked at the other articles you've referenced, but comparing one article to another is a tricky business around here due to the nature of Wikipedia. Since anyone can create or edit an article, and since not all articles get the attention they deserve, using the existence or quality of article X to justify the existence of article Y is not always a strong argument. It's better to ensure that it stands well purely on it's own merits.

Now if you still wish to create an article on this product, my suggestion would be to work on it away from the main article space (either offline or by creating a subpage of your user page to use as a private workspace). When you're done, contact an administrator to request that the original page be unprotected and replaced with the new version of the article. I can't guarantee the results, but if the article is a good one, I think they'll look favorably upon it. If you need further help, I'll be happy to provide it.

I hope all of this helps. Thanks, and take care. --Finngall ^talk 16:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

== June 2007 == When moving pages, as you did to Cherry Hill Library, please remember to fix any double redirects. These can create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, waste server resources, and make the navigational structure of the site confusing. Thank you. Please do not request to redirect a page to an existant redirect, which causes a double redirect. GrooveDog 01:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Please help me fix the double redirect

Since I don't know all of the syntax, could someone kindly fix the double redirect I accidentally created? What I'm trying to do is redirect users who enter Cherry Hill Free Public Library to the correct Cherry Hill Public Library, to reflect the 2003 name shortening. Thanks! Dan Schwartz Discpad 01:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I will fix it. Miranda 01:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you kindly! I'm only an occasional user and contributor, so I appreciate any help on the syntax this site uses. Discpad 01:44, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you kindly for the help on my accidental double redirect for Cherry Hill Public Library and (the now obsolete) Cherry Hill Free Public Library.

By the way, my mother Kathleen has the most seniority of the nine Board of Director members, having served 34 years; so I have "special access" to the correct info. :) Dan Schwartz Discpad 01:43, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool. Just make sure the article doesn't have a conflict of interest and a neutral point of view. Miranda 01:48, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

June 2007

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that recently you carried out a copy and paste page move from Cherry Hill Public Library. Please do not move articles by copying and pasting them because it splits the article's history, which is needed for attribution and is helpful in many other ways. If there is an article that you cannot move yourself using the move link at the top of the page, follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Also, if there are any other articles that you copied and pasted, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. There's a "move" button at the top of the page. :) GrooveDog 17:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Geography of NJ COTW

I've nominated Geography of New Jersey for the article improvement drive. Support would be great for it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ZeWrestler (talk • contribs) 22:05, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Speedy deletion of Bellows factor

A tag has been placed on Bellows factor requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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Dispad, another editor and I have had to repair and/or reverse most of your photography edits today. I was working on making this article more sensible when I checked your source and noticed that the article was a straight copy. Surely you've been around wikipedia long enough to know not to do this, yes? Dicklyon 05:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Helpmes

Hello, please put the helpme template on your user page and not on articles. Thanks. Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 01:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Chipzilla

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Proposed deletion of Contact Press Images

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Both Jon Corzine and The Sopranos were promoted to Good Article status in the past month. No WikiProject New Jersey articles were promoted to Featured article status. Battle of Trenton was not listed as a Featured Article, and may need more editors to complete the remaining work to be promoted. Also, in an item that was missed last month, Thomas Edison was delisted as a Good Article in July. The WPNJ Assessment Drive is ongoing. Please help assess all of the articles about places in New Jersey. There are currently 119 articles that have not been assessed.	Portal Crew Collaboration project Photographers in NYC Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Fall has arrived, and with it will come a rush of new Wikipedians. Inviting new editors to join WPNJ is easy to do, and can help us improve our New Jersey articles. Keep an eye out for editors who work on NJ articles who can help the project. The Wikipedia Release version project is in its final stages for the next version. Take a look at the article lists, cleanup where you can, and nominate articles that should be included on the DVD version of WP. Lets make sure that those who end up with a downloaded copy of WP get solid articles about New Jersey. - Jim Miller
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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (October 2008)

The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume I - Issue 3 29 October 2008
Project News	Article Alerts
A new bot is patrolling Wikipedia workflows to let WPNJ members know when any of our articles may be in need of attention. Any article tagged with the WPNJ banner that has been added to one of the major workflows (AfD, FAC, GAN, etc.) will be added to a new project page. The bot runs daily, so add the new Article Alerts page to your watchlist, or just check the main project page to see the updates. See the Article Alerts project page for details on how the bot works and which processes it covers.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article/List candidates: List of Nobel Laureates affiliated with Princeton University Good Article nominees: none at this time
Cross-Project Collaboration Request	New WPNJ members
WPNJ received the following request for assistance with New Jersey Devils articles: "The WikiProject Ice Hockey is currently looking for editors to help update team articles about the 2008-09 NHL season. If you are interested in the NHL, please consider helping us keep these article current. To sign up, go to this page and add your name beside the team or teams you wish to particpate in." See the WPNJ talk page for more information.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: Rhvanwinkle (talk) 9 October 2008
New Jersey on the Main Page	Help Wanted
No, not the state - the battleship! On October 15, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was the Featured Article on the Wikipedia main page. Featured articles receive heavier traffic when they are on the main page. Improving WPNJ articles to featured status can help drive more editors to our project.	Recruit new members Article Assessments Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Seems like a pretty light month in terms of activity at WPNJ. Personally, your editor was doing a lot of travelling and went on a wiki-free vacation for nine days. Time to dive back in and create some new NJ articles. - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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SelectaVision CED player

Thanks for your contribution to the RCA Records article. Unfortunately, the way the article was written, the text belongs to the RCA article. Did RCA Records market videodiscs? If yes, then info about RCA Records marketing videodiscs is appropriate for the RCA Records article. Because the text talks about hardware instead of software, your edit was moved to the RCA article. Steelbeard1 (talk) 21:24, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (November 2009)

The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 1 12 November 2009
Project News	Article Alerts
Education Task Force - The conversion of the former WikiProject Education is New Jersey has been completed. New Jersey education-related articles are now supported by the Education task force. The project banner has been updated to fully support the task force with independent importance ratings. No More Comments - A proposal at the Village Pump has resulted in the deprecation of comments subpages. These were usually found at Talk:Article title/Comments and contained little more than assessment notes. These pages were not widely watched, and are often a hidden location for vandalism and BLP violations. WPNJ has 104 articles that used these pages. A complete list of them, along with their contents, can be viewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Deprecation of comments. It is up to the members of WPNJ to decide what to do with this information.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article candidates: none currently Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey Hudson County Courthouse
Municipality template compromise; School Districts (almost) complete	New WPNJ members
Legislative templates in municipal articles - A rather lengthy discussion ran from the end of August until the end of October regarding the use of our legislative district templates in articles about local municipalities. Many WPNJ members commented on the concept, and a proposed compromise seems to have been reached. The templates will require some adjustments to fit the new wording, but should result in more directly relevant sections about County, State, and Federal representation in our articles on cities, towns, villages, townships, and boroughs. Hopefully, more dicussions like this can result is some kind of Manual of Style to bring greater standardization to all of these articles. School District articles now comprehensive - WPNJ Founder Alansohn recently reported that almost all of New Jersey's school districts now have articles - "I have created the article for the last missing (non-vocational) school district in the state." Congrats to Alansohn, who I am sure would love more members at the Education task force to help maintain these articles!	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: A Stop at Willoughby 10 November 2008 Andrewmin 17 November 2008 cryptod 10 January 2009 marksdaly 15 March 2009 Aki Mononoke 23 May 2009 N2icv 14 June 2009 mannybrown1 24 June 2009 Madr1000 14 July 2009 Mr. Matté 15 July 2009 Christopher 17 August 2009 Rttam 11 October 2009
Watch These Pages	Help Wanted
Want to do more to help WikiProject New Jersey? Here are some suggested pages to add to your watchlist: Article Alerts New Articles WPNJ Talk	Newsletter writers and editor Photographers Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Editor's news. OK, so I am going to try this again. It's been a little over a year since our last edition, and activity at the project was a bit slow during that time. Things have picked up again over the last few months, so once more into the breech I go. I will try to produce this newsletter on a regular basis (bi-monthly?) to see if we can get some more activity going at WPNJ. Help is always appreciated, and there is plenty to do. - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter (January 2010)

The WikiProject New Jersey Newsletter
Volume II - Issue 2 25 January 2010
Project News	Article Alerts
New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for access The New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues. The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by using WebCite. We can help avoid dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT.	The following articles may be in need of attention: Featured Article/List candidates: List of Governors of New Jersey (FLC) Good Article nominees: U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey
All BLP, All the Time	New WPNJ members
BLP Issue Boils Over There are discussions all over the 'pedia about deleting close to 50,000 unreferenced Biographies of Living People. We won't get into a rehash here, but let's just look at what we can do. There is a new item on the project task list for sourcing BLPs. All articles that are in both Category:People from New Jersey and Category:All unreferenced BLPs are now available on this work list. These articles need to be sourced, PRODded, or sent to AfD. An ounce of prevention Unreferenced BLPs are one of the catgories regularly listed in the WPNJ Cleanup listing. New articles are also a prime location to find articles that do not yet have references. You can keep an eye on the New Articles list to help prevent the workload from getting any larger. Can we do more? There are bots that will automatically add the WPNJ Project Banner to all articles in our designated categories if we have consensus to request it. Join the discussion here.	Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey: No new WPNJ members since the last issue!
In NJ, politics means article updates	Help Wanted
New Leaders in NJ Government Over the past 2 weeks, new legislators have been sworn in, the legislature has new leadership, the 55th Governor of New Jersey has been inaugurated, and we have our first Lt. Governor. All new members of the Legislature have at least stub articles, and many of the templates have been updated. Updating templates Many New Jersey articles utilize stadardized templates to convey information. With elections happening as often as they do in this state, January is always a good time to review these templates and update them with new information. Does your town or county have new elected officials? It's maintainance time on many of our articles on municipalities and counties as well.	Outreach Run across any new editors on New Jersey-related articles? Invite them to join WPNJ! Ask a question, make an offer
Editor's Notes
Editor's news Must have been some winter holiday season in New Jersey, because the project talk page has been unusually quiet. I thought with all that snow, many of us would be inside and doing things here at WP. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying a healthy and happy 2010!! - Jim Miller See me | Touch me
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Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

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Proposed deletion of TL Forsberg

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:See What I'm Saying1.jpg

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Permission sent via email from Dan@Snip.Net to permissions-en@wikimedia.org Please restore the fileDiscpad (talk) 04:19, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:HilariScarl directorheadshot.jpg

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Copyright problems

Hi Discpad. I've noticed you've uploaded a few photographs recently that you've claimed as your own work. I have to warn you that Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and you will be expected to prove these are your own work. Numerous users have been blocked from editing Wikipedia in the past for violating these requirements, so please do be careful. I actually run an Adoption school which discusses copyright, for beginners and more advanced.

For example, I have strong doubts that you are the creator of the official poster of See what I'm saying and if you're not you wouldn't have the right to release it under CC-BY-SA (a licence which even means other people can sell it!)

However, you would be able to upload the same picture under fair use, as it fits the required criteria for the See what I'm saying page only. Again, have a read of my adoption school pages for a more thorough explanation. You've done some great work with the articles you've created so far, but I'm worried about you falling foul of copyright. Worm^TT · (talk) 08:37, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Permission sent via email from Dan@Snip.Net to permissions-en@wikimedia.org Ticket #2011060910001816

Fair enough then. If you are indeed the owner of the images, I apologise for my comments, I will await the response from the tickets. Worm^TT · (talk) 15:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

@Worm^TT: Please see copyright statement posted on the Ticket #2011060910001816 -- See What I'm Saying and Wikipedia. for copyright release.

Unfortunately, I am unable to see the tickets, but I'm sure confirmation will come through soon. Worm^TT · (talk) 19:26, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks good to me, well done. When I get back next week I'll have a look and see if there's anything else we can add to the article. Worm^TT · (talk) 19:36, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

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Robel

I'm sorry, you just... didn't assert any notability about her at all. The article was up for a month, you kept adding to it and adding to it, and at no point did you add content that would get the article kept.

Sorry. DS (talk) 17:45, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Okay, first: if you have a message for me, leave it on my talk page, not my userpage. Second: my username is not a 'fraud', I know you were being silly but that's not a nice thing to say. Third: I was not under any obligation to 'flag' the page for deletion. I am an administrator. I can delete pages myself. And I do. I delete lots of pages. The only limit is that I have to be able to justify my actions to the other administrators, because any other administrator can restore a page. If you insist, that page can be restored, but if it is restored and you do not properly show notability, it will go through a full formal deletion debate -- and those can be quite embarrassing. Based solely on the information you included in the article, Ms Rodel does not yet meet our criteria for inclusion (although she may, someday -- or perhaps you simply did not include the important information). I am confident that other administrators will agree with me. DS (talk) 05:44, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Georgia Tech Freshman Experience

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Al Martino's Daughter, Debbie

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Thiomersal in batteries

Hi, Discpad. Regarding the presence or absence of thimerosal/thiomersal in batteries—I made a reasonable effort to find evidence to support the claim before I removed it from the article, and I've rechecked again now. I have been unable to find any reliable source that describes thiomersal as being used in battery manufacture.

Mercury and mercury-containing compounds have definitely found uses in a number of battery technologies over the years. Up until thirty years ago, mercury battery button cells (using mercuric oxide cathodes) were common in hearing aids and a number of other applications. More recently, it was common for a small amount of mercury (as the pure metal) to be alloyed with the zinc in zinc-air button cells to improve their performance.

I have created a new discussion section at Talk:Thiomersal#Thiomersal in batteries if you would like to discuss this further. In the meantime, please don't re-add the claim about thiomersal in batteries without providing a reliable source to support your edit.

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Dude, I've been a hearing aid engineer and dispenser part time and full time since 1985, probably before you were born. Back in 1992, when mercury button cells were banned, it caused problems with high power hearing aids, because at that time, "Activair" hearing aid batteries was not a mature technology. On the other hand, at time I was a part time dispenser at Certified Hearing Center in South Philly; and I also moonlighted at our family brake shoe rebuilding factory, Guaranteed Brake Parts Co., across the river in Camden, NJ; and my job there as Chief Engineer included handling all of the asbestos brake lining waste and HazMat paperwork. Because of this, I interfaced with both NJDEP and the Camden County Municipal Waste Authority, which recently opened the South Camden trash-to-steam incinerator.

As was explained to me by the plant manager, even a single mercury button battery would contaminate the stack scrubber precipitate so badly, it had to be trucked about 500 miles to a specially-lined landfill, instead of dumping it in the Pennsauken landfill. In fact, this was the days before the Internet as we know it; but I was interviewed on KYW Newsradio 1060 where I discussed this, as I had unique knowledge of the situation from both the hearing aid performance as well as waste disposal streams; and according to my friends, was replayed several times into the night. Alas, because it was before the Internet, it was not archived; but if it would have been a decade later, it would have.

It was at that time I found out from Activair/Duracell that there was still a trace amount of mercury in the form of Thimerosal in their batteries, and the same from Rayovac; so as a test I collected 200 random-sized cells in a coffee can, and the plant manager & I ran a test to see if the amount of mercury would be enough to contaminate the precipitate… And the answer was no, my patients could simply toss their used cells away, instead of bringing them back to me for recycling.

As I said, although newsworthy, there wasn't a story written on it, and that is why you couldn't find a "reliable source:" You did, but didn't realize it. Had I have known this would rear its' head again three decades later. Discpad (talk) 00:44, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

That's a very odd compound to put in a battery. As you describe it, isn't your test failing to demonstrate any Mercury in the batteries? What was the measurement method? Mass spectrometry? Chemistry? Midgley (talk) 23:47, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

The South Camden trash-to-steam plant where the plant manager & I conducted the test on the scrubber precipitate sends out a sample to a local analytical lab to make sure nothing in it would trigger RCRA and can be disposed of in the conventional Pennsauken landfill. Discpad (talk) 19:42, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

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