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Dagen H
editDagen H is a really nice article! Good work! - Nunh-huh 22:56, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
Al Blozis
editGood work on Al Blozis. Well rescued! --Tagishsimon
Image markup
editSee my response/explanation on Template talk:Did you know. - Mark 04:06, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Ridge Route
editHi! I took your advice regarding the use of the proper templates. The only B/W photo in the bunch that wasn't Caltrans is the one of the speed limit sign. I hope my fair use claim is correct. Could I impose on you to leave a message on the nomination page if this article meets with your approval? THANKS! - Lucky 6.9 22:32, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
KY Medal of Honor
editOn the image upload page, it says "By uploading a file to which you hold the copyright, you agree to licence it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License." That's fine by me. Do you think I still ought to specify on the image page that I do indeed agree to licence it under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License? – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 11:19, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
editHi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 05:31, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
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Salve!
I went and nominated W. Mark Felt as a WP:FAC. As you commented on the article's talk page, I'd appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
Larry King
editWanted to let you know that someone reverted the "Financial & Legal Troubles" section of the Larry King bio that you did. I thought it was a very important part of his bio. DMoney 05:32, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Link problem
editThe reason the {{citenews}} template isn't working properly here, is because it has an additional required field: |url= which is not filled in. I'm putting the |url= in, but I couldn't find the citation, so I leave that in your capable hands. Tomertalk 18:38, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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Khobar Towers bombing
editHi,
I am reading the book "Black Gold" by George Orwel, and incidentally found that there are a couple of pages about the Khobar Towers bombing (pp. 80-81) that are copied verbatim from the Wikipedia article, mostly including the sections that you added to that article. Since you explicitly donated your contributions to the public domain, Mr. Orwel has no obligation to give any credit for this material. So I'm writing this message just to let you know. --Gabi S. 19:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
- I just thought about it, and I think that the GFDL doesn't bind. The text can be considered as being in the public domain beforehand, so that anyone can use it, either for inclusion in a book, or in a Wikipedia article, or even use it as lyrics for a song--all without any permission. For example, most official US documents are in the public domain, and several books were published with just selected US documents on specific topics. -- Gabi S. 06:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
As you may know, this made slashdot...
Have you contacted Wiley or the author yet? Georgewilliamherbert 20:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
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Reporter inquiry
editCould you drop me a line? I want to interview for an article about the Khobar Towers plagiarism case. Chomsky1
- Further to this, there are inquiries in OTRS asking to get in touch with you. Could you provide me with contact details at brian . mcneil @ wikinewsie . org, and also contact jasonleemiller @ gmail.com who would like to ask you a number of questions. --Brianmc 22:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- You can try me at ydorb2007@gmail.com Ydorb 06:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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List of Unexplained Booms
editList of unexplained booms
This is a list of unexplained booms reported through major media outlets. The cause of these are unknown, however some have been shown to be consistent with supersonic aircraft, perhaps top secret military planes like Aurora (aircraft).
- Pensacola, Florida January 13, 2003 [[1]]
- Charleston, South Carolina August 1, 2003 [[2]]
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina March 5, 2005 [[3]]
- Wilmington, North Carolina December 20, 2005 [[4]]
- Mobile, Alabama January 19, 2009 [[5]]
- Somerset County, Maine February, 2009 [[6]]
- San Diego, California Tuesday April 4, 2006 [[7]]
- Orange County, California 9:15 pm Tuesday March 3, 2009 [[8]]
Paper: Seismic detection of sonic booms.[[9]]
- "Bob Dollar of the USGS told the Register that Caltech scientists reviewed seismograms from Tuesday night's event in Orange County. "These data are consistent with a sonic event coming onshore near Dana Point and traveling northward inland," Dollar said. "The energy traveled across our seismic sensor network at the velocity of a compressional wave in air rather than the velocity of a similar wave through the ground, which is much faster," Dollar said.[[10]]
- Santa Cruz, California 9:15 am Wednesday March 4, 2009 [[11]]
- Westchester County, New York 12:24 am, Saturday March 7, 2009 [[12]]
- Rockland County, New York 5:15 am, Monday March 9, 2009 [[13]]
- Staten Island, New York 8 pm, Monday March 16, 2009 [[14]]
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Unreferenced BLPs
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Tom Lee & President Photo
editHello Ydorb,
I saw your message on the talk page of the article about Tom Lee Park in Memphis with the link to a photo of him with the president. Do you recall if there is a description page for that photo that gives details about the where and when? That would be a cool photo to add to the article.
Thank you, doxTxob \ talk 23:41, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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Celestina007 (talk) 16:50, 17 May 2020 (UTC)Thanks for your contributions to Ruthia He. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
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