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Hi, I am amused to find a thread that I started on the BLP noticeboard listed as a reference on the subject essay. I wanted to thank you for your consideration and the seriousness with which you addressed my issue. I gripe occasionally about the obtuseness of some of the superusers around here, but you are definitely not one of them. Have a great day!Jarhed (talk) 23:15, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Sorry for the delayed response. I've been really busy lately and somehow missed this. :) Glad to have been of assistance. Lara 20:49, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

By the way.....

Misplaced Pages:Featured_article_candidates#Elvis_Presley :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:44, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Chipotle

Two over two days, y'mean? Unless there was an additional (third) meeting on the Saturday I wasn't aware of. That's fine; I can get a bus in, and I know Coffee will be around all day. Ironholds (talk) 15:29, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Two in one day is too much. Your hotel offers a free shuttle from the airport, or I can pick you up if you want to do lunch, but I don't think it's a good idea to have it be part of the events. Depending on when Chet arrives, the four of us can do a quick lunch; but hanging out for lunch from 1-3, then having dinner at 6 would be bad times. Lara 15:41, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Shuttle sounds good. I'd suggest either dinner and the following lunch, or just the following lunch, then. Ironholds (talk) 13:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

That's currently the plan. The lunch is for sure. We'll possibly do the dinner too. Lara 22:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 January newsletter

We are half way through round one of the WikiCup. We've had some shakeups regarding late entries, flag changes and early dropouts, but the competition is now established- there will be no more flag changes or new competitors. Congratulations to Sasata (submissions), our current leader, who, at the time of writing, has more listed points than Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (second and third place respectively) combined. A special well done also goes to Fetchcomms (submissions)- his artcle Jewel Box (St. Louis, Missouri) was the first content to score points in the competition.

Around half of competitors are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. 64 of the 149 current competitors will advance to round 2- if you currently have no points, do not worry, as over half of the current top 64 have under 50 points. Everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places in round 2! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! J Milburn, Garden, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:16, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Eastern Front (World War II)

Lara, with all due respect, what the sweet fuck are you talking about? "Image is famous, so fuck the NFCC"? J Milburn (talk) 02:20, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Look, I could really do with another voice of reason in that thread. It would be great if you could actually read the discussion so far, and join in as appropriate. Your comment really quite alarmed me- "Images with iconic status or historical importance: As subjects of commentary" are listed as a type of image that can be used, "providing they meet both the legal criteria for fair use, and Misplaced Pages's own guidelines for non-free content". In any case, that's from the guideline page- the guidelines discussing possible practical applications of our policy. How you interpretted that to mean they can "bypass the non-free content criteria" really is beyond me. Also, note that this doesn't even meet that definition- the image is not by any stretch of the imagination the subject of commentary. This is all somewhat irrelevent, as it has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. J Milburn (talk) 02:37, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Fuck yes! This is what I'm talking about. This is how all conversations should start on this project.

Okay, so what am I talking about? You removed an iconic image (see Yevgeny Khaldei) from an article where it's extremely relevant. That it's not discussed in the article is surprising. That considered, it soon will be, then the issue should be resolved. Lara 03:22, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

If the fucking image was discussed in the shitting article, I would have no cunting aversion to it crapping well being used alongside the bitching description. Of course, that would not make it appropriate in the shagging lead, where it could cocking well be replaced by a bastarding free photo/map from or of the bollocksing battle. J Milburn (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Now that just seems contrived. Expletives should come naturally, J. You've got to let them flow from your lips or your fingertips. Also, bastarding? I think you're just making things up now.

Anyway, the image is fucking iconic. ICONIC!! And undeniably saturated with historical significance. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE!! A picture is worth a thousands words, ya know. Maps aren't worth nearly as much. Srsly. Go check prices. This particular image is one of the most iconic images in all of history. It really is unfortunate that in the face of zero legal concern, our readers would be denied such a deeply relevant image. Lara 20:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

The image is non-free, regardless of how iconic or apparently economically worthless it is. As such, we must treat it as non-free- if it is to be used, it must be used for a specific pupose which adds significantly to the article, and must be used only if a free image could not be used in its place. Therefore, if we use it to illustrate itself (as in, if we use it to illustrate discussion about that picture) it would be both of these things- however, the use of the image as a general illustration of the battle would not be legitimate, as it could be replaced. This isn't particularly difficult; the issue primarily seems to be that people don't like the fact that it is non-free, which, sadly, it is. (For what it's worth, I have actually used the word "bastarding" before. I'm all for equality of the sexes, so if we can have "bitching", we can have "bastarding". You must be some kind of sexist.) J Milburn (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

February GA Sweeps update

Thanks to everyone's efforts to the GA Sweeps process, we are currently over 95% done with around 130 articles left to be swept! Currently there are over 50 members participating in Sweeps, that averages out to about 3 articles per person! If each member reviews an article once a week this month (or several!), we'll be completely finished. At that point, awards will be handed out to reviewers. Per my message last month, although we did not review 100 articles last month, I still made a donation of $90 (we had 90 reviews completed/initiated) to Misplaced Pages Forever on behalf of all GA Sweeps reviewers. I would like to thank everyone's efforts for last month, and ask for additional effort this month so we can be finished. I know you have to be sick of seeing these updates (as well as Sweeps itself) by now, so please do consider reviewing a few articles if you haven't reviewed in a while. If you have any questions about reviews or Sweeps let me know and I'll be happy to get back to you. Again, thank you for taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:34, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

heya

AfD nomination of Oscar van Dillen

Possibly unfree File:Black Dahlia.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Black Dahlia.jpg, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Chowbok ☠ 06:10, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Protection on Travis Outlaw

Hi- I'm curious why you used such an extended period of protection on Travis Outlaw. (one year, never had protection before, no indiciations of BLP in your message). Per your talk page header, I've dialed the protection down to 3 days (to keep it from going crazy due to current trade rumors). I'll apologize in advance if I've stepped on your toes with this. Thanks- and BTW, you'll see what prompted this on my talk page. tedder (talk) 05:56, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

If it makes sense to you to set the protection to expire at a time that it's probably going to get hit hardest, then that's your decision to make. I'm not an admin anymore, so my opinion is pretty much irrelevant at this point. As for the first portion of your post, it was probably one of the original User:Lar/Liberal Semi requests. Lara 01:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Final discussion for Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

Hello, I note that you have commented on the first phase of Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people

As this RFC closes, there are two proposals being considered:

1. Proposal to Close This RfC
2. Alternate proposal to close this RFC: we don't need a whole new layer of bureaucracy

Your opinion on this is welcome. Okip 02:20, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Category:Schools of medicine in Costa Rica

I tried to recreate this category, but when I do, I just get a page stating that this category has been deleted. You were the deleting admin, so could you recreate it? There is one entry now, Universidad de Ciencias Medicas . Thanks! --StaniStani  11:34, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm not an admin anymore, so I can't restore it. You can recreate it, though. It's just notifying that the page has previously been deleted. More important feature on articles (measure before salting), but it does it for every deleted page. Lara 21:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiCup 2010 February newsletter

Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.

Credits awarded after the end of round one but before round two may be claimed in round two, but remember the rule that content must have been worked on in some significant way during 2010 by you for you to claim points. The groups for round two will be placed up shortly, and the submissions' pages will be blanked. This round will continue until 28 April, when the top two users from each group, as well as 16 wildcards, will progress to round three. Please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup; thank you to all doing this last round, and particularly to those helping at Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, by email or on IRC. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Misplaced Pages:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox, iMatthew and The ed17 Delivered by JCbot (talk) at 00:48, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

GA Sweeps Completed!

Thanks to everyone's amazing efforts in February, we have reviewed all of the articles and are now finished with Sweeps! There are still about 30 articles currently on hold, and once those reviews are completed, I will send you a final message about Sweeps process stats including the total number of articles that were passed and failed. If you have one of these open reviews, be sure to update your count when the review is completed so I can compile the stats. You can except to receive your award for reviewing within the next week or two. Although the majority of the editors did not start Sweeps at the beginning in August 2007 (myself included), over 50 editors have all come together to complete a monumental task and improve many articles in the process. I commend you for sticking with this often challenging task and strengthening the integrity of the GA WikiProject as well as the GAs themselves. I invite you to take a break from reviewing (don't want you to burn out!) and then consider returning/starting to review GANs and/or contribute to GAR reviews. With your assistance, we can help bring the backlog down to a manageable level and help inspire more editors to improve articles to higher classes and consider reviewing themselves. Again, thank you for putting up with difficult reviews, unhappy editors, numerous spam messages from me, and taking the time to help with the process, I appreciate your efforts! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Would you still be willing to hand out the award to the reviewers when it is convenient for you? You can either wait until the ~30 articles are completely finished, or hand them out now if you'd like. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 02:29, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Yea, I can do it. I've got a hugely important test Wednesday that I'm studying for, then some other homework before a three day vacation/wikimeet this weekend followed by a short spring break next week. Sooooo, I'll do it next week! Thanks for everything you did with sweeps. That's awesome. And completed two years earlier than expected too. Lara 03:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Why?

Ironholds made an idiotic personal attack. A purplish box doesn't keep me from responding to it. Scottaka UnitAnode 02:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure you know where his talk page is. I don't know who said it, but "To take revenge is often to sacrifice oneself." Seems particularly true in cases so blatant. Maybe time for you to simmer down. Lara 02:08, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

I wasn't "hot" until people started ignoring the substance of the complaint, prematurely archiving it, and then removing my comments. That is when I got angry. Before that, I was just reporting on Ironholds' own violations of our policies. Scottaka UnitAnode 02:10, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Most of which have already been addressed. I guess someone should have mentioned that to you when you started spreading emails. Lara 02:12, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

What the hell are you talking about? Do you have some kind of evidence to back up your accusations? Scottaka UnitAnode 02:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC)