User talk:Fried Gold

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Hello, Fried Gold, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Carnildo

To respond to your query directly: It would be nice if everyone knew Wikipedia's rules against fair use overuse and did not create image galleries for discographies. However, this is not the case, and these (putatively) overused fair use images will need to be removed. However, the way that ImageRemovalBot is doing it is inappropriate. If a bot cannot do it smartly, then people will have to do it by hand. That's slower and more annoying to some people, but if Wikipedia seriously wishes to deal with this fair use overuse problem, then the fair use overuse partisans will need to go and do the removing themselves, without writing bot programs that are destructive to the pages they are editing. Chubbles 00:51, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello Chubbles! I think I'm going to have to remain officially neutral on this issue, as I simply don't know enough to be more than a devil's advocate. I do want to apologize if you thought this was directed at you at all; I wrote it in a moment of exasperation with those on Carnildo's Talk page who, unlike you, were being uncivil. --Fried Gold 12:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Gack! After reading the above diff again, I feel even worse for having posted it; I responded to incivility with more incivility! --Fried Gold 12:18, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
P.S. Thanks for being the first non-semi-automated editor to add something to my Talk page. Now I feel like a real Wikipedian!  :D

Also, chipmunks are way cuddlier than squirrels. Chubbles 02:28, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the support, but we should probably avoid discussing such a potentially divisive issue.  ; ) --Fried Gold 12:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)