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Donatello's David Redux

I've now taken some more images of the V&A replica which I'll be uploading to the Commons as and when time permits. These include a couple of nice close-ups of David's and Goliath's faces. Also more than a few back views. What can I say? Arse longa vita brevis... Lee M 02:12, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

I didn't realise it had been so long since I uploaded the last batch of photos. Hopefully I'll get the rest of them done by the end of June. It's not scanning that's the problem, it's cloning out all those millions of bits of dust that aren't visible on the original prints. Lee M 02:42, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FAC

I would like to thank you for your comments and opinion on the Military history of Puerto Rico article. I will work on your recomendations and resumit it in the future. Thank you Tony the Marine

Commonplace categories

IlyaHaykinson suggests you contact him via gmail, haykinson @, with any questions you might have. - Amgine/^talk

Wikipedia:Deletion policy/names and surnames

Hi there! This discussion has drawn to a close, so I've archived it and put up conclusions. Could you please look at them and indicate on the talk page if you find them acceptable by consensus? Thanks. Radiant_* 12:29, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

Picture

The picture on The Seventies is quite appropriate. It's not a SHOW, it was a MINISERIES, meaning it only lasted two nights, and it was on The Seventies, so I don't see how it's not appropriate. If you have a better picture, I suggest uploading it or putting the old one back. Mike H 22:10, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

It is highly inappropriate because it is an image of a poster of a US show made in the 2000s about the global decade. Such shows are highly glamourised and romanticised representations made for commercial purposes. Perhaps not a good representation of the decade of hippies, of the reformation of Spain, of the Iranian revolution... --Oldak Quill 22:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I hope you will counter the systemic bias and contribute about the reformation of Spain in the article. Mike H 23:13, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

7 July 2005 London bombings

Yes, the title might be a little specific, but I suggest leaving it where it is for the moment. When things calm down we can move it again, I fixed once occurance of a quardruple redirect due to all the moves. In any case we should discuss it on the talk page. Thryduulf 7 July 2005 13:16 (UTC)

I agree, we don't want more redirects. I earlier protected the page from moves, so this will hopefully provent the redirection occuring again. [[2005 London transport explosions]], the original, was good. [[2005 London explosions]] is also an option. I think "explosions" is more neutral and less sensational than "bombing". --Oldak Quill 7 July 2005 13:42 (UTC)

Rider's jerseys progress chart (2005 Tour de France)

Yes, I agree that the chart is very useful, and that on the French wikipedia (here, where I borrowed from) they do have it on their main page. I thought it was too big to go on the main page, but perhaps if you start a discussion at the 2005 Tour de France talk page and others support you, we will move it over. --Commander Keane 09:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Greetings, to a fellow Renaissance man

School of Athens

A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 09:49, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Yet Another London Wikimeet

Heya Oldak,

We're organising another London meetup, for Sunday the 11th of September; specifics still to work out, but it will probably be fun as ever, and involve a few drinks and a nice chat in a pub. We'd love to see you there...

James F. (talk) 22:47, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I've put myself down as a possible - I'll see what I can do. --Oldak Quill 00:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Metawiki: proposal for trade standard

I'm not sure exactly how the Trade Standard proposal is a "content fork" with Wikipedia. Could you explain a bit more on its talk page at Metawiki? Lucidish 20:07, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

jbo:sazri

I found your request on meta, but while I was doing it someone removed it and a whole bunch of other stuff from the page. -phma 22:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for fulfilling the request. I am going to ask the guys in #wikimedia-tech to implement meta:LanguageJbo.php at jbo.wikipedia.org, is this OK? --Oldak Quill 06:45, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Wales is no more an ethnically Celtic country than England

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2076470.stm.

Lapsed Pacifist 03:54, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Sociocultural evolution renominated

Since the last voting was a draw, I have renominated the article (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sociocultural evolution). Lead has been signifcantly shortened (which doesn't actually make it better IMHO but this was a popular complaint so I gave up on opposing that). I'd appreciate your input, especially as you voted during the last nom. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Delphic Hymns

Greetings! Yes, I made a midi file last night which I can upload (after I get home from work... ) It's tempting to give it some kind of percussion accompaniment to bring out the 5/8 meter, and make it sound more complete, but that would be "original research" alas ... Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 15:02, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Wonderful. Thanks for all the work on the neglected, yet important, areas of music. You could perhaps add very simple percussion, almost metronomic, if you feel it will bring out the meter. Upload both pieces and point from the raw instrumental to the percussioned piece. Just explain what you have done so that listeners won't be misled. --Oldak Quill 15:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikimeet: London 11 September

You expressed a desire on the Wikipedia:Meetup/London page to attend the 11 September meet, but inidcated that you wouldn't know until nearer the time whether you would be able to or not. This is just a friendly reminder, nearer the time, to see whether you are likely to be attending. Thryduulf 12:12, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European Union member states at the 2004 Summer Olympics

You might be interested to have a look. Regards --Pgreenfinch 15:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Meetup

Heya,

Just a quick note to remind you of the London Meetup this coming Sunday (the 11th of September) that you signed up for (as 'possible', so you'll be definitely coming then, won't you? ;-)). It's at the Archery Tavern, just next to Lancaster Gate tube station, from 13:00 (BST) onwards.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 14:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

I have currently lost access to the internet (hence the speed of my reply), I still hope to show up though I may disappoint... Hopefully see you Sunday. --Oldak Quill 20:04, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Lillooet vs. St’át’imcets

finally an answer for you: User talk:ish ishwar#Lillooet vs. St’át’imcets. (sorry for the wait). peace – ishwar  (speak) 19:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Central nervous system.gif

Here you go:

Please don't forget to tag it! -- grm_wnr Esc 17:55, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, just done. --Oldak Quill 18:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Brain

I'd love to help! Nrets and I already took cerebellum to FA status; I'm now working on basal ganglia. I'm very busy this semester with teaching and research, but I'll help out where I can. semiconscious (talk · home) 20:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK meeting

Hi OldakQuill, there will probably be a meeting for the purpose of discussing Wikimedia UK this Sunday, which you might like to attend. You could add your name there if so. Cormaggio ^@ 23:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

History of Limerick

Hi, Thanks for your comments on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of Limerick/archive1. Some images have been added and I hope you can now support this candidate. Seabhcán 14:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Strap-on dildo

Thanks for the kind words about the article... and for the additions to the talk page!

I was thinking of adding something about a history section, but was waiting for the DYK-induced noise to die down... it also needs a few references, and maybe a bit more on usage... but I also have a list of other sex toy articles that need rewriting.  :)

Thankies, Bushytails 20:46, 17 October 2005 (UTC).

I wish you luck in any future WP:FAC attempts. If you nominate it I'll happily read it thoroughly, try to help and vote. --Oldak Quill 20:49, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure there's any chance of it being a FA, but thanks anyway!  :) Bushytails 19:13, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Palace of Westminster image

A user has requested that I obtain an original version of Image:PalaceOfWestminsterAtNight.jpg, the current version of which I moved to Commons in February. I have had no luck getting it from User:Solipsist, who changed the sky. This is a long shot but in November 2004 this image was on WP:FPC ([1]), you said you'd touch up the sky if you got the original copy - did you ever get it? --Oldak Quill 18:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately I didn't get it. — David Remahl 04:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

UK COTW: Classical music of the United Kingdom

Just to let you know, an article you've voted for, has became this fortnight's UKCOTW - Classical music of the United Kingdom. Come and help out! Thanks, Francs2000 23:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Ptolemy X

You redirected Ptolemy X to Ptolemy XI of Egypt. It doesn't look like a typo, either - you changed it from X to XI. Why not Ptolemy X of Egypt? Art LaPella 07:07, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

How odd, I'm not sure what went on there. I've changed it now. --Oldak Quill 13:20, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK

You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk 19:09, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

About Wikipedia team for Folding@Home

Right now I don't, will see if I can find out. I found out about the team [2] when I saw the link to it removed from the Folding@home page here, and decided to change my affiliation. Thank you - Schissel-nonLop! 17:29, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguating abbreviations

You contributed to the TFD discussion for {{2LCdisambig}}. I am following this with further discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)#Abbreviations. Susvolans ⇔ 18:47, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

President of Venezuela

Hello. Yes, thanks for the compliments. There's just one issue: I never was able to finish the color-coding according to party affiliation — I doubt I could do it even now, due to incomplete information. I don't know if this will be an issue — you could always just remove the coloring from the few president's sections that have them. Again, thanks. ← SARAVASK — 05:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Is it not finished now? Or are should some of the independents have different colours? --Oldak Quill 14:44, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Dietrich v The Queen (feature article status)

• Hi there Quill, re images - I doubt this is possible for two reasons; (1) availability and (2) legality. Further, given the context there is no added informative benefit to the reader of having a picture about a case involving the criminal prosecution of an individual who is not famous or notable, it is the legal judgment here that is notable, being a landmark High Court case.

• references - Perhaps there is some confusion with the references. You are right that the article is jam packed with facts, the majority of which come from the original High Court judgement. This is referenced in the infobox. All of the "facts" in the judgement were excepted as evidence; (i would assume that if a court of law accepts a fact as evidence, that should be enough to verify it?) Referencing each fact to the judgement may prove problematic - the judgment is some 36,000 words! I understand this may be confusing to somebody with a non-law background, trying to assess its quality. I wonder if your opposition would be reversed if the judgment was also referenced in the "References" section of the article? But also take into account my previous comments on this matter. Thanks for taking the time to consider the article. --Never29 16:16, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Image deletion

Hi Oldak. You deleted Image:PalaceOfWestminsterAtNight.jpg, having pushed it to the Commons. The only problem is that you only uploaded the latest revision to the Commons, and didn't keep the original version, from before User:Solipsist smoothed the sky. Perhaps Solipsist still has the original version of this photo; could you please (try to) fix your mistake? Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 00:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

I have spoken to User:Solipsist who touched up the sky and User:Chmod007 who may, according to the November 2004 WP:FPC nomination, have the original. Solipsist does not, I am still waiting to hear from Chmod. --Oldak Quill 18:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

USA PATRIOT Act, Title II

Have taken on board a lot of your feedback from FAC, we now have only to document criticism! (any chance of some assistance on this issue?) Unless you can think of something else? - Ta bu shi da yu 06:16, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

science

Hi OldakQuill , I'm all for coediting ,but not erasing information. There was nothing in the whole article pertainig to the philisophical approach of materialism ,which is the limitation of science - regarding "spiritual realms"(i'm quite a secular man myself..:) I've merged philisophy of sceince and 'limitation of',to a few quintessential lines.

Keep Wiki strong..:)

Chavez FAC

Absolutely. It is in your hands now. Like you said, I will not be making any further comments on it. Thanks, and good luck. Saravask 00:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, I think you should archive the first nomination, give the article a thorough copyedit, then renominate under your own name. That FAC is far too long and acrimonious for you to sort through, and a new second FAC could start on fresh footing. Regards, Saravask 02:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I'll respect your request. --Oldak Quill 06:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Prostate cancer staging

To maintain consistency in the cancer staging articles, I suggest you revert the change you made in the article title (from "prostate cancer staging" to "staging of prostate cancer"). (I'm not sure how to change an article's title.) See Cancer staging for more examples of other articles with similar titles. Also, the first sentence needs the link to prostate cancer. Thanks. Rewster 08:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I think I found a way to reverse the title change. Regards, Rewster 17:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

For future reference, most pages are easily moved by pressing "move" at the top of the page and supplying destination. In this case the destination was occupied by a redirect. You therefore need to contact an administrator to move to a title occupied by a redirect. The way in which you moved the article raises issue with the GFDL licensing - there is no article history. In this instance I have moved the page for you, it is now at prostate cancer staging. --Oldak Quill 17:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Rewster 21:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Maurice Wilkins

Wikipedia needs a picture to go on the Maurice Wilkins page. Any ideas? --JWSchmidt 21:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

I've been trawling through images.google.com for a while and have found very little. The one thing that I have found that is a possibility is [3] which, according to Google Translate [4], says "Authorized reproduction solely with educative aims mentioning its origin." Perhaps a possibility? I am not sure whether they mean that they authorise reproduction or that they grant authorisation if... There is also the possibility of writing to KCL to ask for permission to use an image... --Oldak Quill 22:36, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your Google effort. When I made a similar attempt a few months ago I could not find an image that had a clear license status. I thought that if you were at King's College there might be something like a commemorative plaque on a wall or something that you might have a chance to grab a digital image of. --JWSchmidt 01:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Term is practically out - if I go up next week, I'll get one for you. The Franklin-Wilkins building is, afterall, one of the buildings in which I am taught. --Oldak Quill 02:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

SVG Diagrams

You know, I do know about SVG, the benefits etc.. Is there really the wide support for it already? I think a vector based format is amazing and should be used but I don't wish people to be required to download utilities just to see a little dinky phage diagram. Does IE support SVG yet? Personally I'm even hesitant in using .png because of some lacking support in IE (gif's cloudy lisencing situation keep me using png). I'm all for it if it would be useful. I'm quite able to generate SVG file for all my diagrams. What do you think? Adenosine | Talk 00:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I believe both IE and Firefox are able to display SVG. How about supplying both PNG and SVG versions of your diagrams. When, in the future, SVG is more extensively supported (although I think it is now), the PNGs can be removed. --Oldak Quill 02:06, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

PD image?

Hi, what is your basis for saying Image:Rhincodon typus.jpg is PD? In particular, [5] credits specific individuals for creating these, and [6] seems to make a blanket claim of copyright. (I noticed because it's shadowing a free image of the same name on commons.) Stan 14:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

When the image was uploaded the website did not have the first page to which you link. I discussed it with a couple of other users at the time and it was determined that this was PD. I will tag the image as unsure. --Oldak Quill 23:45, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery

You have in the past edited William-Adolphe Bouguereau. A related article, the William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion for violating WP:NOT (AfD here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:54, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment about wanking & wankers.

Thanks for your comment about wanking & wankers. - (Aidan Work 05:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC))

No problem. :) --Oldak Quill 12:57, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox, {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}}

Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}} to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll add it later. --Oldak Quill 09:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:PPTParadigmShiftsFrr15Events.jpg

Since you commented on the image talk page, I'd like to let you know I have expanded the description of this graph.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 23:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I've left a thanks there too. --Oldak Quill 17:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Dendrobates azureus.gif has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Dendrobates azureus.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

--Sherool (talk) 19:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I'll be voting for its deletion. --Oldak Quill 19:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

CS clans

I noticed you voted on an old AfD for a CS clan article. Two new articles on the same clan were started, and I didn't want to speedy or AfD them, because I'm not sure what counts as "noteworthy" in regards to CD clans. In any case, they're poorly written articles.

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Semiconscious · talk 11:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Fred Phelps Shotgunning a Dog Incident

I've found a reference to this incident - http://blank.org/addict/chapter4.html. Will try to footnote it correctly in the article. exolon 23:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

New main page draft

Hello! I noticed your negative comments regarding the proposed redesign, and I'd like to invite you to review a radically revamped revision, and to post your opinion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft#Proposed_version. Thanks! —David Levy 22:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Talk.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Talk.gif. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Stan 16:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I am the creator. I had forgot I put it there. I'll delete it myself anyway. --Oldak Quill 18:04, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:CourtneyLove.jpg

You deleted this.[7] The image was claimed "fair use" and was relevantly used in Courtney Love. It had no source, and shortly afterwards, I provided a URL to this page. However, User:OrphanBot had removed it from Courtney Love, plainly because of lack of source. If you agree the image is useful to such article, go ahead restore and replace it. adnghiem501 06:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:FAOL

I found your request about Template:FAOL very useful. This template is very space consuming and is often removed from talk pages. I support the idea of introducing multiple parameters so no matter how many languages we still use one template. I would also like you to check on a variant of this template I created here that indicates the quality of the article. CG 23:00, 31 January 2006 (UTC)