User talk:Mswake

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Hello there Mswake, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, holly wars are usually rare around here -- I think the performance issues with the website is just on everyones nerves. Cheers! --maveric149

The vote for pages are write where you left them, at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion, etc. What has been removed is the link to vote automatically when viewing a page. This is controversial and is currently being discussed on the mailing list, Wikipedia-L. — Toby 16:10 Jul 22, 2002 (PDT)

Please look at Talk:Isadora Duncan Ericd

Whats wrong with it? Please be specific.-Stevert

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[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, 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:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Short message service

Thank you for your interest in the "story" about Neil Papworth sending the world's first commercial short message to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone. I understand your request for a citation, but I suspect it would be somewhat difficult (though not impossible) to find a definitive written record. I was on the team at Sema Group that developed the SMSC for Vodafone and Neil was one of our programmers. Richard Jarvis was at the head of Vodata: the part of Vodafone that commissioned the SMSC.

On the day in question many members of the team were invited by Richard to Newbury for lunch, and while we were eating our sandwiches Richard announced that he had just received the first short message.

I related the story in an interview with Martin Shankleman on BBC Radio 2 in October 2005 (I can send you the recording if you wish). This was after several people had independently come up with the same story, some including Neil's name, some not. While I knew Neil to be the originator of the short message, I did not remember all of the details, such as the date, so I did some research before appearing on the programme.

You can check this story to some extent by looking at the Web site of Airwide Solutions, which includes a reference to it. Airwide was formed when Taral Networks bought the messaging part of SchlumbergerSema. SchlumbergerSema was in turn formed when Schlumberger bought Sema Group. You can find other references to it using simple Google searches, though it may be difficult to work out which predated the fact being on Wikipedia or on Radio 2 and which came after. If you wish to check the facts with Neil Papworth himself see his Web site. Let me know if you need more information. SMeeds 11:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Mswake. By all means reference my reply in the article. SMeeds 11:33, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swimming

Dear Mswake,

I am trying to create a wikiproject that deals with swimming, and sports based on swimming. I noticed on your user page you have worked on the swimming page, and a project like this would bring like minded people together to improve articles. As a fellow swimmer, I would like to invite you to join. Please add your name here if you are interested. See you around the pool, --wpktsfs 01:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

Sorry, I was wrong thinking a page was just created but it was vandalized. My mistake, sorry. — Indon (reply) — 14:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC)