User talk:TreveX/Archive3

colour of Template talk:Classical work infobox

I have to agree with 69.246.12.184, I prefer Template talk:Classical work infobox without the "jarring" green background, and it does not match the colour scheme of wikipedia at all... Could we please keep it colourless? -- Rmrfstar 12:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Kenya-geo-stub

Hi TreveX - just thought you'd like to know that there is now - finally - a separate {{Kenya-geo-stub}}. :) Grutness...wha? 00:41, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

boda boda redirected to bodaboda

I redirecteded "boda boda" to bodaboda. I don't reckon anyone will oppose it. --Ezeu 17:32, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Bounty Board

Greetings. You've recently been involved with working on get articles up to featured status, so I wanted to let you know about a new page, Wikipedia:Bounty board. People have put up monetary bounties for certain articles reaching featured status - if the article makes it, the bounty lister donates the stated amount of money to the Wikimedia Foundation. So you can work on making articles featured, and donate other people's money at the same time. If this sounds interesting, I hope you stop by. – Quadell ^{(talk) (bounties)} 13:51, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

ready for FAC?

Hi TreveX, I see that you did some streamlining of the Yoweri Museveni. Would you mind if I went ahead and put it on FAC? Cheers, BanyanTree 05:00, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Go right ahead. It's about time. TreveX^talk 17:26, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Alright, here we go - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yoweri Museveni/archive1. - BanyanTree 18:01, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations, TreveX! Sorry for going in and rearranging your neatly arranged structure, but I do think that the ethnic component that Michael Snow drew out was important. I notice from your contribs that you haven't been editing much recently. On Wikibreak? In any case, congratulations again! - BanyanTree 02:21, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Images

I am writing because I noticed that you uploaded the image of Yoweri Museveni. I am interested in oploading images of other African leaders, and I have a couple of questions. To frame my questions, consider Specioza Kazibwe. Although she was not president or leader of any huge movement, she is playing an important role in politics in Uganda, and I feel like it would be nice to have a picture of her on the article. The best photo's I've found are from the BBC ([1] and [2]). My question is, is there any basic level of notariety that someone must hold before they get an image on WP, or is the load of such a move insignificant enough any topic for which a good (read: legal) photo may be found should have one? Secondly, about fair use, would the reasoning that you gave in the Museveni photo apply for this type of photo? Third, do I need to contact press agencies about using photos? What about employers, as would be the case if I wanted to use the photo of Barney Pityana found here? Thanks for your patience. Smmurphy 04:01, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi Smurphy, if you want to put up a picture for someone then go right ahead. If someone has a photo on BBC news then they are probably already notable enough. In terms of fair use, their is no requirement to notify the press agencies or other copyright holders, so long as you have a proper rationale. TreveX^talk 09:31, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Kampala.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Kampala.jpg, 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.

Unreconstructed Marxism

I just left a note on Talk:Marxism about the redirect of Unreconstructed Marxism to Marxism. As you appear to have created the redirect I thought I would point the question out to you. Regards, Dalf | Talk 07:08, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

You're quoted

I just want you to know you've been quoted on a userpage here. I think it's fair for you to at least know, though I don't see any real point in []'s comment. If you already know, or don't care, just ignore this message. I'm not trying to stir any trouble, I just know that I'd like someone to tell me if I was quoted somewhere. I don't see any need whatsoever for him to mention a specific username and still make the same point. --DanielCD 20:04, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I did notice that a while back. It is instructive to note that the editing process, which, according to my detractor, "promotes mediocrity", has fashioned the article concerned into a featured article. Cheers. TreveX^talk 20:14, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

• I should say that I think your involvement in the Acorn article caused a very rapid and thoroughgoing improvement. lmno 23:01, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No apologies necessary, at least not on your part. It's been a while since the Acorn article was put together, but I remember that your input to it greatly improved it. So some of my sentences disappeared... wasn't a problem, which is why I didn't revert them. But when I wrote that piece on my user page, I had just been involved in a "discussion" concerning something that was quite controversial and I found the Wikipedia rules and consensus gathering working to provide a means of censorship rather than as a way to reduce bias. The same thing has happened recently in the Pete Townshend article, where it was impossible to label him a "sex offender" simply becuase some people didn't want it said, despite its basis in English law as absolute fact. I wanted to write something about how Wikipedia's rules that work fine in normal, everyday articles like the one on Acorn do not work where there subject is controversial. I was rather too impatient to write my piece and leave. Sorry for making it seem as though I was criticising your input to the Acorn article, which I still enjoy reading. lmno 14:08, 21 January 2006 (UTC)