User talk:Alexwcovington (Archive 1)

Hello Alex, welcome to Wikipedia.

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Angela. 08:41, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)

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Good clarification on Sacagawea, thank you! - Hephaestos 01:52, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Alex. Could you possibly use the Show preview button instead of making so many minor changes? You're taking up a lot of the space in the Recent changes page. Your work is very much appreciated, though. RickK 03:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Associated Press photos are NOT fair use, they are copyrighted. RickK | Talk 05:41, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Fair use images are copyrighted by definition; I'm not sure I follow. - Hephaestos|§ 05:42, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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We're all struggling with "fair use", especially with current events articles. Ideally I think it would be good to cordon them off into a separate section in the database, so that everything could be downloaded under GFDL without them. That would present a lot of coding challenges though I think (removing the preformatting from the articles etc.)

At any rate, there are fair use images all over the 'pedia already, there's no real way to go back from that now, and I tend to think Rick may have been mistaken in his judgment (as I implied above). - Hephaestos|§ 06:36, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

AP would disagree with you. Album covers, etc. are fair use, but a photo taken by an AP photographer is their property. RickK | Talk 14:56, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This is hardly the actual photo though, it's low-resolution and noticeably compressed (see the red areas around his jacket).... This is not the same as the 300dpi resolution version that the AP took for the papers, this is a reduced version for online distribution... and Wikipedia is well within its rights to use the image. Newspapers do just fine simply by adding a photo credit; Why couldn't we? --Alexwcovington 15:30, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Best I can think of at the moment would be to list it on Wikipedia:Fair_use and see what other people think about the matter. (I'm not aware of the AP challenging the fair use doctrine on Wikipedia, or anywhere else for that matter, but I might just be "out of the loop".) - Hephaestos|§ 20:32, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi sorry you are annoyed I moved it to match the full and correct name of the party I hate redirects sorry but you know what is great about wikipedia anyone can edit and what is bad about wikipedia is anyone can edit.Smith03 dude check out what the party calls it self and think of this as well no party is going to use the word non partisan in its title the party is call the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party not the Democratic-Nonpartisan League party or what ever you have put it under Smith03 I don't think we need to identical pages. I think the page should be under the official name of the party. I didn't make up the title I just moved to give people the actual name of the party

Contents

1 James River 2 United States dollar coin 3 Not from North Dakota 4 Garrison Dam 5 Aclu.png 6 Article Licensing 7 Command & Conquer 8 Tiberian Serries

James River

Can't believe I missed making the article, even after making the graphic. I'll go ahead and do so now, unless you were about it. -- Decumanus | Talk 04:26, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

United States dollar coin

You edited this page in a way that means that Sacagawea golden dollars were in circulation from 2000 to 2003 and are now taken out. Where is your source?? 66.32.251.152 01:32, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Not from North Dakota

No, but at least I wrote the article! I'll leave it to the natives to fix up the details. :) -- Decumanus 03:27, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Source of error [1] (http://www.bartleby.com/69/19/L05019.html). The Columbia Gazeteer is chock full of errors, and I usually double check everything on my atlas, but this time I didn't. -- Decumanus 17:57, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Garrison Dam

Hi Alex, I really enjoyed the Lake Sakakawea article. And I'm sorry I missread the hydroelectric generating capacity, and stated a wrong number in the talk page, since you were right to begin with.

I'll edit the page and fix my mistake.

Pud 17:43, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Aclu.png

Hi. You uploaded Image:Aclu.png and marked it as in the Public Domain. Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure the ACLU logo is copyrighted. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 18:23, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

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 1000 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:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Command & Conquer

You removed a significant amount of material, Id love to know why... You are not the only mod around, its best to discuss dramatic changes in article discussion... --Cool Cat ^{My Talk 07:43, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)} Nevermind you moved it. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk 07:49, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)}

Tiberian Serries

It shall be done. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 15:57, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)