User talk:Robert Merkel

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[edit] Keating!

Hi Robert, Thank you for your expansion of the Keating! article, especially the detailed song summary. You attention to detail is brilliant. I have made a couple of small alterations: 1- describing "It's Time" as Blue-eyed soul rather than bossa nova, and 2- including a reference to Barry White in the "I Wanna Do You Slowly" summary. I hope you don't mind. Feel free to revert if you disagree. Altissima 02:14, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm. I'm not sure about exactly how you'd classify "It's time", maybe I'll have to ask a musician friend. I would definitely agree with the Barry White reference with "I wanna...". Thanks for giving the article further attention--Robert Merkel 04:29, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Try imagining Spandau Ballet or Culture Club singing "It's Time" ...what do you think? Altissima 05:58, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Field hockey pitch

[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Hockey field.svg

This Image which you claim to have created your self appears to be a copyright violation. If you can prove that you did infact create the image and the image is under your copyright then the image can remain on wikipedia. If not the image may be deleted.--Lucy-marie 15:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I take your point on board and admit that I may be wrong. In my defence however I typed in "Hockey pitch" in to google and the first image to appear was an identical image on the hockey factory website. On their so that is the reason I flagged it. no malice was intended. all I simply did was say look could put this straight by proving you created the image. Instead I got another edit jumping all over it making a big deal. All I wanted was a couple of lines saying look either I'm sorry ok I did take it from them or This is how it was created by my self and they haven't properly attributed this as the source. I did not have any intention of slandering your name. I also highly doubt an employer would take wiki as a definitive reference of your character.

On an aside note why is the whole image in the imperial system and not at least metric and imperial. I understand that if you are from America primarily the imperial system is used, but America is one of only three countries in the world to do so and the only country who competitively plays hockey to do so. Could you please place the metric equivalent on the image as well?

Many thanks and I hope this is cleared up--Lucy-marie 21:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. As to your point about employers not using Wikipedia histories to judge character, unfortunately, what you do online is increasingly being scrutinized by employers. I think this is inappropriate, but it's happening.

As to my objection, it's not that you asked, it's that the way you went about it presumed a copyvio rather than querying first. But, in any case, I've said my piece on that.

As to adding metric, when I created the image, the distances were quoted in imperial (and are nice round numbers in imperial) in the official hockey rulebook. I think that's been changed. I'll fix the diagram when I get a chance. --Robert Merkel 01:35, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] request for comment on Hugh Hefner

Please take the time to go to Hugh Hefner's talkpage [1] and respond to the request for comment on what jerrygraf is trying to add that does not belong on Hugh Hefner's page, but belongs on PEI's, as well as the part I deleted is ment as a "controversial comment on the biography of a living person"Rogue Gremlin 04:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

(move Rogue Gremlin 04:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC) edit from user page - wrong place for edit - to user talk page - right place for edit - step 2)
Made judgement that edit was in wrong place; make no judgement about the content of edit. --Shirt58 (talk) 11:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC) (ps: Hi, Rob!)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:All out of love excerpt.ogg

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:Aussie rules ground distances small.png

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