User talk:24fan24/Archive1

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Let The Eagle Fly

Let The Eagle Fly is a musical, not an 'album'. Your changes have been removed and the correct categories applied. Please check articles more carefully in the future before submitting edits.

--PatHaugen 22:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Don't be sorry, just giving a heads up ;)

--PatHaugen 22:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Morituri te salutant

Well, I added the article because I came across it and found the meaning.

I am not knowledgeable on latin phrases, but this one seems to have some relevance if you troll the web for it. And the whole purpose of wikipedia is to add something and then let it grow. I assume someone will come along in time and add more meaning to this article. I think it is unfair to mark an article for deletion right after it has been added to wikipedia. If you are an authority on latin phrases and do not think that this item should not have its own article, so be it.

The phrase itself is of has some history to it according to the following explanation. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/games/qt/morituritesalut.htm

I will add the phrase to the latin phrases article on wikipedia anyways.

So, I will leave it to you to leave it here or remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gnikhil (talk • contribs) .

Please support

Hi. I'm wondering if you could lend support to a proposal for a Stub-sorting Barnstar. The page is here. Have a good day :) SynergeticMaggot 17:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, please excuse the wording. I do not mean to ask for a vote, just that you participate. SynergeticMaggot 18:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Joseph Merrick

Hi there! I believe we have a slight misunderstanding concerning my edit to Joseph Merrick. I wasn't testing or vandalising; rather, I was working to revert what has become a common act of vandalism to that page. The number of people with Joseph Merrick's condition has not tripled since his death; this is part of an in-joke that originated on The Colbert Report. The other editors of Joseph Merrick and I have been working hard to try and keep this joke from staying on the page: you can read more about it on talk: Joseph Merrick.

All the same, thank you for fighting what, I'll admit, looked like vandalism :) Have a great day! Skybright Daye 18:19, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry --24fan24 18:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem :) I'd rather have something reverted mistakenly than let vandalism go unchecked! Skybright Daye 18:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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Recent Patroling

Dear 24Fan24

What tag would you recomend for new articles that looks like a comercial? eg. B&H Photo Video, the article is created 02:11, 14 August 2006 by User:58lm.

regards Mads Angelbo 01:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Tim Totten

Just as a heads up, I speedy tagged the article as a bio. Clocked.in, the creator, blanked it. Under the CSD guidelines, that means you can place db-author as the new template without contest :) Thanks for the help on the article! Teke 02:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Makes sense, I'll be sure to do that in the future. --24fan24 03:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

User:24.123.19.166 vandalizes again

24.123.19.166 (talk · contribs) vandalized Juan Ponce de León and Talk:Vasco da Gama today. As I'm not an admin, and you posted the last warning, I though I'd pass this on to you. -- Donald Albury 14:25, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

You're not singing anymore

As I didn't vandalise it, I'm going to check it, and if anything I put was reverted I shall put it back. Dave 01:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that when I saw "anymore" changed to "aaaaaannnnnnnyyyyyymmmmmore" [1] it appeared as vandalism to me. I guess I did not check the article closely enough. I would have been glad to remove the warning from your talk page but it appears that you have already done so. In the future please do not remove these warnings your self, even if you feel they are unjust. Many editors consider removing one's own warnings to be a form of vandalism. --24fan24 01:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

Thanks for keeping an eye out for vandalism of the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School article. I've just reverted more vandalism, coming from the same unregistered user. I'll keep watching it and let you know if it happens again. Thanks again, Lincolnite 23:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know and thanks for finding and reverting the vandalism :) --24fan24 23:39, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

April Wine Image

cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the recording or cover artwork in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such covers is ok —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucifers hammer (talk • contribs) .

This is acceptable however, it is necessary to provide a detailed fair use rationale on the image page. Thanks for your help. --24fan24 03:14, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

looking at some of you edits

need to slow down a bit give people some time to post all that is need some time what people upload may not have the right info give then time to fix the mistake.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucifers hammer (talk • contribs) .

The fair use rationale as well as the copyright tags are meant to be added at the same time images are uploaded. This is why I add notices to images immediately after finding that they are absent. The deletion tags I have added grant the uploader one week to fix the mistake and I think this is ample time for someone to fix a mistake. The addition of these tags and the notices on the talk page are important because otherwise users may not realize that they have made a mistake at all. --24fan24 04:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Good point!! your right my mistake sorry  :-) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucifers hammer (talk • contribs) .

No worries. --24fan24 04:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually it appears that I applied the wrong tag to the image in question. This image would only qualify for speedy deletion after 7 days from its upload, the proper tag would have been {{subst:nrd}}. I will correct the image page. --24fan24 04:35, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

The user vandalizing the Ina Garten page, vandalized the Ethiopia page, and you mentioned blocking him for further vandalism, I have no power to do so, and though you might want to reinforce it. Thank you. Shy1520 00:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I actually am not an administrator either. However, non-admins can request "administrator intervention" (e.g. blocking of vandals) at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. I have already added 137.207.238.105 (talk · contribs) to the above mentioned page. --24fan24 01:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

David Lary

I removed your speedy tag on the David Lary article. It was expanded significantly some time after you added the tag. However, I just noticed that David lary (note the lowercase) was deleted 3 times several months back as non-notable and vanity. While that's not grounds for a {{db-repost}}, it might make a AfD or PROD worth considering. I'll leave it up to you, Metros232 15:00, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

I think I will leave the article alone for now. He seems fairly notable. Thanks for keeping me up to date :) --24fan24 17:12, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Westchester County, New York

I have removed several large sections that you appear to have copied from www.westchestergov.com. Published text is copyrighted simply by being published, and no copyright notice is required to make copyright effective. If other of your contributions are copied from other websites, I would recommend you remove and/or completely rewrite them-- facts are not subject to copyright, but expression is. You might want to look at WP:Copyright. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 00:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

This is actually content that I was moving around in an effort to Wikify this article. I did not originally place it in the article. I am currently in the process of removing other copyright violations that I noticed in this article and the forks I just made of it. There actually seems to be quite a bit. --24fan24 00:47, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, OK. What a mess. I'm done for the day, but I'll look in tomorrow. Good luck! -- Mwanner | Talk 02:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, I found the edit that introduced all this stuff, and reverted the original article back to before it. There's still the law enforcement article to figure out, though I have a feeling it may be all from the same source? Anyway, later... -- Mwanner | Talk 02:52, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Yea, it looks like it's all from westchestergov.com but its spread out on various different pages. I'm not sure but I don't know if reverting is the best way to attach this. I am sure there were some useful edits between now and when the copyrighted material was added. I have checked over most of the article prior to your revert and found everything else to be in order. I also cleaned out the Law enforcement and emergency service subpages. If it's alright with you I would like to undo the revert. --24fan24 03:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually I looked over the article's history and there were no significant edits other than the 67.87.78.228 (talk · contribs) who had added all of the copyright violations. Might as well leave it like this. I also think I will put the law enforcement and Emergency services articles up for deletion, since they don't really contain any content at this point. --24fan24 18:15, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

This guy did something similar looking in the Yorktown, New York article, except I can't find any online source. I'm tempted to just delete it on the grounds of unencyclopedic detail, though one could salvage some of it. Any thoughts? -- Mwanner | Talk 18:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Tough one. I googled the text of this contribution and also found nothing. It is most likly a copyright violation but if we can't find a source I don't think it should be deleted. Just my opinion, go for it if you want. --24fan24 18:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Execution of Saddam Hussein

hi i noticed you had removed the semi protected tag i had placed on that site. I thought i would put that up since there was vandalism being placed on that site frequently. - MCoop06

I removed the {{sprotected2}} tag from that page because the article is not semi-protected. Adding a protection tag to a page does not protect it. This has to be done by an administrator through another process. The tag is meant to alert users of the protection. --24fan24 05:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

ohh ok, im not that smart on this thing but i try to help. thanks for letting me know about that, I appreciate it! --mcoop06

No problem and keep up the good work. :) --24fan24 05:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

High School Deletion

Check out User talk:David.Monniaux... I've posted a comment there that might be of help... Tom H 00:13, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

This article was deleted following a complaint to the Wikimedia Foundation about some inappropriate content (see m:OTRS). This would have had, at minimum, entailed cleanup. However, there was also no evidence that this particular organization was notable as per Wikipedia:Schools.

You're right that this also applies to other school articles. Indeed, I think that school articles should be remove, for they have little verifiability (nothing outside the official docs from the school and its detractors, in general), and are magnet for vandals. However, I don't care about school articles until we get complaints. David.Monniaux 00:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I would have to agree here to an extent. School articles often can't be supported by many references, and unless they can, their place here is questionable. Tom H 00:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Discussion continued at User talk:David.Monniaux#Deletion of Ardsley High School

This school dance thing is anecdotical. We normally do not put anecdotical material like that in articles, even if it has sources. There is no point in reporting about students being intoxicated at parties — that happens in a gazillion places and is not worth saying, unless it has resulted in some major scandal. David.Monniaux 01:46, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I would rather not argue with about the deletion of this section. I would not contest the removal of this section with a valid reason, as you have provided above. I do not however, think that the entire article should be deleted because of one section.

You obviously feel strongly about this article's removal and there are also others who feel it should be recreated. Please recreate this page and nominate it for AfD so that this can be decided democratically and through a discussion with the entire community. --24fan24 01:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I feel strongly about the length of the 'Schools' email queue on the Foundation's servers, which real people have to process. I don't give a damn about the pseudo-democracy on Wikipedia. 10 people voting on an article, while we have thousands of editors and millions of users? Gimme a break.

And yes, you may be unaware of it, but there's a special queue on m:OTRS just for dealing with complaints about school articles. Wikipedia is not a directory of companies, corporations or schools, and schools articles create a steady flow of complaints completely out of proportion with their quality, sources, and encyclopedic value. It is abnormal that we should get more problems with that than with Armenian genocide or Israel.

I read in our official policy:

The school has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself, including published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, television documentaries, and public reports by schools inspection agencies and consumer watchdog organizations

Unless your article demonstrates that this is the case, it is rightly up for deletion.

Apart from that, I don't care about that particular article. David.Monniaux 09:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Fuchal

Actually, that anon's edit was correct. That said, it wouldn't be apparent to anyone who hasn't watched the show.--Drat (Talk) 21:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. --24fan24 (talk) 21:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Frank Sicoli

Hey, I noticed you accepted the request for Frank Sicoli at WP:AFC. Did you really create the article? I had previously declined the article because I thought it read too much like an advertisement, but the IP removed my declined templates. If the article has been created, I think it may need to be deleted under CSD G11 unless it gets a major rewrite. Can you reply on my talk page? I'd like to see the article, but Frank Sicoli is still a red link. Thanks much, delldot | talk 02:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry but I can't seem to find this article in my recent contributions. The only articles I have accepted in the last 48 hours were Watson Interferometer and Corona Schröter. Would you be able to further describe the article?Checked AFC Perhaps this was another editor or you meant one of these other articles? Furthermore it appears that the article you mentioned was already speedily deleted. --24fan24 (talk) 04:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry about that; you were impersonated. I should have figured it out earlier, since I knew that IP was the one to remove my declined notice. Anyway, sorry for the hassle. I'll revert and warn. delldot | talk 05:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Ha! Thats a first for me. And no hassle, always glad to help. --24fan24 (talk) 05:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 10 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Corona Schröter, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

As much as I'd like to take credit for this edit, I actually created that article through AFC on behalf of Liller (talk · contribs). I will go ahead and forward this message to the rightful contributer. --24fan24 (talk) 19:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Respones from Porsche997SBS

Hello, fellow passionate Wikipedian, a quality we share, along with our similar date of membership (you: May 2006, me: April 2006) and our location on the East Coast of the United States (I'm from Florida, and I speculate you live in New York). I would like to inform you I have responded your accusation of copyright infringement here.--Porsche997SBS 01:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

No offense taken. What I suggest is to contact all those involved in that Google-userbox conversation and to also research to see if any copyright information is given anywhere on the Fox or the 24 site.--Porsche997SBS 00:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not particulary inspired to handle this little situation, so unfortunately, you won't get any help from me (besides what I will advise of you now). There are dozens (hundreds, maybe) of people who chose to use that userbox (the one with the "controversial" seven-segment display) instead of another with a clock, and if it was altered, some sort of an uproar may result. Supposedly an "uproar" occured after you put the image up for deletion (though I just heard it, I didn't see it myself). You may want to consult some of these people, these people, these people, these people, these people, or these people, who are the people aformentioned that chose the 7SD over the clock (though contacting all of them would be quite tedious). Good luck with that.--Porsche997SBS 03:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Jack Waldenmaier

Hello 24fan24, I am Jack Waldenmaier. I discovered that someone wrote an article about me and I would like to make a few corrections. I found the article by doing a google search on imdb (internet movie database) where my film scores are listed. Thank you, Jack Waldenmaier jackw@musicbakery.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.244.32.63 (talk) 16:31, 22 February 2007 (UTC).

Jack, you can edit any page yourself, even without an account by simply clicking the edit tab up at the top of the page. You might want to see Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages. Also feel free to contact me here if I can be of any more help. --24fan24 (talk) 00:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

RFC discussion of your username (24fan24)

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Username allowed

Hello, 24fan24. While there had been some discussion here about whether your username met Wikipedia policy on what usernames editors can use, the result was to allow it, and that discussion has now been closed. If you would like to see what concerns were raised, you can still find that discussion in the archive (here). You do not need to change your username. However, if you ever wish to do so, it is possible for you to keep your present contributions history under a new name: simply request a new name here following the guidelines on that page, rather than creating a whole new account. Thank you. -- RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 18:56, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Image:24DNTV.PNG

Please do not rescind your nomination. I think that this image is definitely a copyright violation and should be deleted. —Iamunknown 20:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Concern About Username john196920022001

Hey dude the numbers in my name have meaning. 1. 1969 is my birth year. 2. 2002 is the year I picked this ID 3. 2001 is the year before 2002. 4. I have used this name since 2002. I use it for almost all my public internet posts. I am known is somed circles. Using this ID consitantly allows other internet users to find what I have posted on various internet sites. I do not want to give this ID up John196920022001 02:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, might as well leave it be. Thanks for getting back to me. 24fan24 (talk) 02:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Lesser spotted mule

An editor has nominated Lesser spotted mule, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lesser spotted mule and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 20:25, 18 March 2007 (UTC)