User talk:Spiritia/Archive 2008

(New) Lexington, Ohio

As I was reading the article on New Lexington, Ohio, I saw that there was a Bulgarian article on the village — apparently because of Januarius MacGahan. However, to my non-Bulgarian-understanding eyes, the Bulgarian article seems to think that MacGahan was born in New Lexington, rather than in Lexington, Ohio, his actual birthplace. Could you please fix this? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 14:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Portuguese People.PNG

Thanks Spiritia! I am completely ignorant on copyright issues, even if I try to understand them. I'll see what I can do. Cheers! The Ogre (talk) 06:53, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Image:Barber cross.jpg

There's nothing in the enwiki description that isn't on the Commons. However, I completed the transfer for two reasons: it's obviously a US Navy photo; and two, because the uploader is one of our most clueful editors and is quite knowledgeable about copyright. east.718 at 08:03, April 25, 2008

Image:Gelo.jpg

Hello. The license here was {{PD-self}}, and Skara-Bira (talk · contribs) was the uploader, which is what the license on Commons says. Davi (talk · contribs) isn't mentioned anywhere in the logs for that picture. Does this link work for you? It should show that there were two versions uploaded, both by Skara-Bira. I'm rather confused ... Angus McLellan (Talk) 21:26, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining this. Much appreciated. Angus McLellan (Talk) 07:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Lapidarium

Hi! Is there any reason you took an article about a museum and made it into a new topic? Usual practice for this is to create a disambig page, not overwrite the content entirely. It also appears that Lapidarium is more commonly used referring to the museum by that name. Do you plan to move the museum article somewhere so it doesn't violate GFDL? Thanks! _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 12:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

See what you did to fix it, thanks _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 16:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I am relieved to understand everything is resolved. I only object calling my action violation of GFDL, as all contributions of all editors before me are accessible through the page history and it's well seen who is responsible for what. You don't keep all vandalism because of the fear not to trespass the license, do you :-)

The Lapidarium, Prague is only a part of the National Museum (Prague) [1], and it is not even mentioned in the article of the museum itself. Do you know why? I suppose, because there are lapidaria in quite a lot of archaeological and historical museums around the world, maybe even in every of these.

Only in Bulgaria we have more than 20 collections of this sort. That someone has decided to call it "The Lapidarium" and heavily promote it over internet does not mean that the generic title should be given to their enterprise. I think that generic titles should be reserved to the generic definitions. My reason to change the content was that I do not see the specific independent significance of this very part of museum, and I thought that we better not please it with inadequate priority.

Anyway, hope that everybody is happy now. I will have in mind this approach for further edits, and apply it where appropriate. Cheers, →Spiritia 16:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi! I agree, central discussion is a good thing. It was my understanding re: the GFDL that content could not be simply over-written, but I may be wrong in that respect. I think Lapidarium, Prague may end up merged into National Museum (Prague) if I can't find some reliable sources that establish notability. English-language sources are pretty thin on the ground. Wish I were still in Prague because that would make information gathering easier. I think the issue with the definition v. the museum is that the former is not in wide use in English, despite its latin origins. I need to dig a bit into that. Thanks for keeping me in the loop and have a nice day! _{TravellingCari}^{the Busy Bee} 16:17, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Images on Commons

Many thanks for your response. I need to think carefully about the use, licensing, etc about the photographs I upload. Recent shots I have taken specifically for Wikipedia, I have no problem with. However older ones from my archive - taken for other purposes - I need to think carefully about - maybe ensuring they have an appropriate license, or refraining from uploading them if I can not find an appropriate license. I suppose I really need to understand the use to which my images are put to more carefully before uploading in the future. --Stewart ^(talk) 17:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I am now totally confused as it is evident to me that releasing images to wikipedia is not the same as getting them published in a book, and retaining control of future re-use. I have obviously totally misunderstood the licensing issues. So I guess that I will probably not contribute any more images that I have taken (for whatever reason). Many thanks for your guidance. --Stewart ^(talk) 17:16, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Help of disputed copyright tags on images

As you have guided and coached my on my own images, I hope you can help me with a disputed image in Duncan Hawthorne. Two versions of the image have already been deleted, and the uploader has uploaded two more which I have tagged under WP:PUI. Since the image is listed in one case Image:Bruce Power DuncanHawthorne.jpg in the Bruce Power archives, and secondly Image:Bruce Power Duncan27022.jpg the photographer is identified in the caption, I doubt that the uploader is the copyright owner / photographer and hence entitled to use {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}}. The reason for my doubt is that he is the creator of the article which appears to be a copy of an article in a business journal. This article I have been attempting to improve (your help there would also be appreciated). --Stewart ^(talk) 20:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia error message

Hi! I'm sorry I didn't respond to your message on my talk page a couple of months ago; I thought I had, but evidently not. I can't really add the Bulgarian text to the error page, because of the huge process it takes to get the error message updated by the developers (apparently they need to integrate it into the software then update every single squid sever - and there are hundreds - with the new build of the software). Plus there's the added complication that someone else has now adapted the error message to function as the error message for the MySQL (database) servers, which I have absolutely no knowledge of how to do. You might get some luck by convincing one of the developers to do it for you, but I generally just wait until I do the next complete redesign of the page (once every 2 years or thereabouts) to include updates. I hope this isn't too much of a disappointment for you. - Mark 05:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

George Klir

Thank you very much for making and releasing the very nice picture of George Klir. I'm very glad with this image, and have also used it in the Portal:Systems science. Thanks again. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 22:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

The pleasure is mine ;-) I plan to translate this article to Bulgarian when I have some spare time. In the meanwhile, if you're interested in biographies (as I saw from your userpage), I have other images from this conference, of: Ronald Yager, Janusz Kacprzyk and Kaoru Hirota. Regards, →Spiritia 05:53, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not particularly interested in biographies, but in systems thinking and in the people, who initiated this... and there are a lot of them. These biographical articles, for me, are merely a means to tell this story from a personal perspective. Your other images are also very nice. I hope some one will write an article about them sone. Good luck. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 01:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

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