User talk:Randomfrenchie

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Some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article RANDOM 17 may not be sufficiently well-known to merit articles of their own. The Wikipedia community welcomes newcomers, and encourages them to become Wikipedians. On Wikipedia, each user is entitled to a user page in which they can describe themselves, and this article's content may be incorporated into that page. However, to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia proper, a subject must be notable. We encourage you to write or improve articles on notable subjects. -- Francs2000 01:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem, if ever you need anything, just ask. -- Francs2000 00:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] The Dozens

The discussion section of The Dozens is not a forum for discussing the supposed racist nature of Wikipedia editors. Making such blanket statements, that also border on being inflammatory, only makes you look like an ass. Please take some time to think before you start shooting at the mouth. Jerkface03 (talk) 18:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher Columbus

I removed that section becuase the critisism is in the rest of the article, so I saw no need for an individual 'section' on that when wikipedia has that spread through-out the article. I was working on that article as part of WP:SPOTLIGHT. This is a collaboration of multiple editors who are working to improve articles. Feel free to join us and ask your question on IRC (detials at WP:SPOTLIGHT). Cheers! —— Eagle (ask me for help) 23:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bill987.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 23:05, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wonder Spot

I have restored the deleted article to User:Randomfrenchie/Wonder Spot. Note that it is a copyvio from the source newspaper article, and as such will be instantly deleted if it shows up in the article namespace. ➥the Epopt 23:55, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilobbying

Why did you delete the page Wikilobbying? It will not let me recreate it. I know that I can create an unbiased version of that page which will be written in Wikipedia-style. Please let me create it. There is no point of deleting factual articles. The more articles on Wikipedia, the better. Randomfrenchie 22:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

This was one of dozens of inappropriate pages created as a result of Stephen Colbert's "Wikilobbying" segment. I just made this one a redirect to The Colbert Report. I don't think that "wikilobbying" is a sufficiently important topic to warrant a dedicated article, but you're welcome to propose that one be created. I suggest that you coordinate any such efforts at Talk:The Colbert Report and file a request at Wikipedia:Deletion review when you believe that you're ready to present a compelling argument in favor of the article's existence. If you so desire, you may begin authoring such an article at User:Randomfrenchie/Wikilobbying and cite the resultant prose as evidence. —David Levy 23:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I suggest you can help improve the article at User:TV4Fun/Wikilobbying--Kevinkor2 17:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] February 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Exarion 02:31, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello. this edit was out of line in more than one way. Please communicate with other users on their talk page, not their user page. Please keep Wikipedia:Civility in mind. Try to discuss differences with other users first; if that isn't working, ask for opinions from 3rd parties. Certainly there will be times when one can be frustrated with other users' actions, but please do not resort to personal insults and profanity. See Wikipedia:Resolving disputes; for problem users, see Wikipedia:Vandalism. Note that replacing a user's page with profanity could be considered vandalism, so I'd strongly advise against doing so. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 05:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hm?

Okay, apparently I have badly pissed you off by deleting your article. Thing is, I delete a lot, a lot, a lot of articles. SO I honestly don't know which one it was. Tell me, and I'll see if I can explain things to you. Okay? DS 14:36, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Boris, the reason I deleted the article on the Wonder Spot was that it was copied from an article on the Wonder Spot that appeared in a newspaper. It was a copyright violation. You are free to write a new article on the WS, using the newspaper article as a source of information - but not as a source of sentences. Okay? DS 03:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
    • The reason we care about copyright violations is that it leaves us open to legal consequences. We use original material, public domain material, and material that has been licensed under the GFDL. There may be material on Wikipedia that is copyright violation, but we do our best to remove it wherever we find it. Understand now? DS 22:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

The edit box states quite clearly "Content that violates any copyright will be deleted" regardless of your own personal philosophy, you may see the risk as small but that is irrelevant. There also seems to be a misconception here that you hold no personal liability for your postings. Other than the representation that you make that you are contributing these under the GFDL (which if you aren't able to is potentially fraudulent), the information posted here be it libel, copyright infringement or whatever you can personally be held liable for. Regardless of the direct legal risk, wikipedia is also about building a free resource, you may have seen we make much of that, we also rely on donations to keep the project running, there are plenty of critics who would happily jump on any lax attitude to protecting the rights of others, this may then negatively impact out ability to keep the project running. --pgk 22:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dixie Chicks

I agree it's biased. I hope you'll stay around long enough to help correct it. Xiner (talk, email) 05:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please see my response at Talk:Your mom

Please see my response at Talk:Your mom. Also, on talk pages, new comments generally belong at the bottom. —dgiestc 20:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wiktionary

Hi, you seem to be confusing a proposal to merge two Wikipedia articles (Wiktionary and French Wiktionary) with a proposal to merge the two projects English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary. This is not the same thing at all, and since individual project language editions have no control over the direction of other language editions and Wikipedias have no control over other projects, it would be impossible anyway. Thanks – Qxz 21:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:School 804.gif

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 23:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Please don't restore that "public domain" tag on that image. It is definitely not "public domain". The only way we can keep that picture is if you get the owners (presumably the school) to explicitly release it under the GFDL. You need to obtain at least an e-mail from them saying that. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:20, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Milton High School (Alpharetta, Georgia)

Hello. I was wondering, why did you revert my edits to Milton High School? I added a notice on the image's speedy deletion, sourced the Kyle Farnsworth thing, and pruned the "traditions" section. PTO 20:21, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of edits needed for adminship

Hello! You have asked how many edits are needed for someone to apply for adminship. The answer is NONE. You technically don't need any edits to apply for adminship. However, you almost definately will not pass if you do not have more. There is no official number, but around 4,000 to 6,000 edits is the norm. Sorry if I scared you off, but that's about what you need to have for people to not talk about a lack of experience in your RfA. If you have any other questions you want to ask, leave me a message on my talk page. Captain panda In vino veritas 02:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

That notwithstanding, an empirical analysis would suggest you have an increasing chance of having a successful RfA with an increasing editcount between 1 and 4000 edits. From 4000 edits upwards there is no statistical correlation. See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Statistics for more stats and Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Standards/A-D to see which editor have declared they care about editcount and which ones don't. Rockpocket 03:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
some editors are happy with arond 3,000, somw ill accept less. I do not think that any would see your current total of 207 as being anywhere near adequate. It is also important to show a good involvement in WP:NAMESPACE, which means taking part in WP:AfD, WP:RfA and WP:POLICY, etc. discussions.--Anthony.bradbury 00:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 322 edits

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from 322. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Flowerpotman talk-wot I've done 22:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 322 (reply to your message)

Sorry, I was a bit confused about what you were trying to do at 322 The standard naming convention for articles about years is to give the article the name of the year. So 322 is the standard place in Wikipedia for the article about the year 322, and to be honest, I think that should stay where it is.

If you want to create a disambiguation page for the number, maybe you should create an article at 322 (disambiguation). You could then add an other uses tag , i.e. {{otheruses4|the year}}, at the 322 article. Hope this helps... Flowerpotman talk-wot I've done 22:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

All seems to be working. I added a disambig tag to the 322 (disambiguation) page so it gets categorized. Flowerpotman talk-wot I've done 23:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Dear editor. I'm puzzled by your renaming of this article to "16th", and by your explanation for the change. Every article I have checked so far shows the title spelled out, as in First Amendment to the United States Constitution, etc. I haven't checked every one (in the case of the United States, all the way through Amendment 27), but I'm unclear as to why this change was really needed. Any comment? Yours, Famspear 21:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Follow up note: OK, I've believe I've checked the articles for all 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and I can't find a single one (other than the article you changed) that uses the numera format for the number. All appear to spell out the number, as in "First" amendment rather than "1st." Yours, Famspear 22:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cars85

omg; he/she just became a user, don't delete the page right away, wait a few months

Let me highlight the relevant portion of the notice, for your convenience:

"Not an active editor's page: Only two edits (both in March 2006) are to this page. WP is not a permanent free webhost/MySpace substitute."

It appears the userpage is being used for information storage that may be used to create an article.

It's a spam page, part of an identical series of eighteen I tagged today, essentially reproducing a series of ALREADY deleted articles, all created in Match 2006.

Wait a few months. If there are still no edits, then the deletion tag may be applicable

Does "12" count as "a few"? --Calton | Talk 07:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I've tagged hundreds of these type of things, and I swear there's no end in sight. I apologize if my message seemed like overkill. --Calton | Talk 23:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
BTW, you need to be the one to revert the change, because I can't. --Calton | Talk 01:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. --Calton | Talk 23:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] March 28, 2007

Please do not violate Wikipedia policy by introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.Pat Payne 21:55, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page Vandalism

Randomfrenchie,

Thank you for the observation. Please note, however, that it is from March 28 and it has already been addressed. Why you are readdressing it days later is a mystery. Regards. Netkinetic(t/c/@) 05:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Green Day

Apologies, but the picture you chose isn't allowed, due to copyright issues. We can only use that picture if another one can't be found to replace it - see WP:COPYRIGHT. Hawker Typhoon 01:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to quote from the template here, so bear with me:
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of promotional material:
    • to illustrate the work or product being discussed;
    • where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it;
    • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
I've emboldened the key sentence - we can only use fair use if there isn't a free one available - which there is! (apologies if this sounds brusque, it's nearly 3am...)Hawker Typhoon 01:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


I can see your point, but the key phrase is "or could be created" - I would have thought it'd be relatively easy to get a picture of them performing live that's copyright free. Take a look at the Commons - they may have a picture that would be a suitable replacement. Hawker Typhoon 01:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
It's easy enough to get a photo of them at a concert or the like. A free one can easily be created by a Wikipedia fan going to a concert. By all rights, the new picture should not have been uploaded at all, ass we've already got one that's fair use. Hawker Typhoon 19:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Jones

Actually, now that I moved Jan Jones (state rep) to Jan Jones (politician), I am now the only author of the (state rep) page. hbdragon88 23:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I fixed the link already. hbdragon88 00:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Green Day WikiProject

Hi, I've seen you frequently around the article Green Day and other related articles. Please consider joining the Green Day WikiProject, an effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding Green Day.

If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks that you can help with. Thank you for your time.

[edit] Wonder Spot

What, did you think we would forget that you cut and pasted this directly from USA Today, just like you did in February? Don't post this again unless you are willing to put in the effort to write the article in your own words. NawlinWiki 18:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

  • I'm not stalking you -- I have better things to do. I just do C:CSD patrol a lot. Anyway, regardless of how factual your article was, it was a word-for-word cut-and-paste from USA Today. That violates WP:COPYRIGHT. If you rewrite the article in your own words, you'll be fine. NawlinWiki 11:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
    • P.S. You were warned of exactly the same problem here. NawlinWiki 11:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Love Equals Death, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as articles for deletion. If you can indicate how Love Equals Death is different from the previously posted material, or if you can indicate why this article should not be deleted, I advise you to place the template {{hangon}} underneath the other template on the article, and also put a note on Talk:Love Equals Death saying why this article should stay. An admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 4 under General criteria. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. We welcome your help in trying to improve Wikipedia, and we request you to follow these instructions. --Finngall talk 21:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JAMRS

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article JAMRS, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. 172.135.55.47 05:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jon Greenspon

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have perfomed a web search with the contents of Jon Greenspon, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://allballots.com/user/candidate_profile.aspx?Id=8302. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot 22:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Even though you cited it, it is still a copyright violation, as many parts of the content were copied word-for-word, and the site it was copied from holds the copyright. Matt/TheFearow (Talk) (Contribs) (Bot) 01:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please don't copy and paste from other websites. That's not writing, it's copying. Whether or not you respect WP:C, you still have to follow it. -- But|seriously|folks  04:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] JAMRS

Your edits to this article are a copy and paste of http://milrec.nyclu.org/2f.html and are being removed. -- But|seriously|folks  04:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Final Copyright Warning

You have now been caught violating Wikipedia's copyright policy at least three four times. You have been here long enough to know better. If you do it again, you will be blocked. -- But|seriously|folks  04:41, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I have reviewed the message you left on my user talk page. It is clear from your history that you are a persistent copyright violator and therefore a danger to the project. You either don't get our copyright policies or you have decided that you don't have follow them. If you continue to violate them, you will be blocked despite your enhancement of the project. -- But|seriously|folks  10:54, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:MainPostercoachella.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 05:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anthony Collins

You may want to read the notability guidelines. Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, and cannot gaze into the future to guess at future notability. If you have reliable sources of significant coverage of that player, I'll undelete the article into your user space so that you can add the references before moving the article back. — Coren (talk) 04:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Speedy deletion of Robert Haines

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