User talk:BrianSmithson
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Welcomes and kudos
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Welcome! It' looks like you're making good contributions about classic animation! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 03:46 Mar 19, 2003 (UTC)
Hi there. Nice work expanding Daffy Duck etc. :-) -- Tarquin 09:45 Mar 20, 2003 (UTC)
You sign like this: ~ ~ ~ (without the spaces) LittleDan
Hi Brian! Great work so far. Re: Magical girls/Magical girl -- don't worry too much about naming conventions. After you've been here a while, they'll become second nature to you. Until then, someone will (almost) always help you by changing the titles. -- Stephen Gilbert 17:51 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
I just wanted to give you kudos on your Flapper article and other contributions. Keep up the great work! -- Infrogmation 00:46 Mar 30, 2003 (UTC)
- Thank you much! I'm glad to see folks are enjoying my contributions. This is an addictive place to be! BrianSmithson 00:49 Mar 30, 2003 (UTC)
Crusader Rabbit
While contemplating a List of Fictional Lagomorphs, I remembered Crusader Rabbit. Anything you can add to him? <G> -- Someone else 01:12 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)
- Sorry, I'd never heard of the character until you mentioned him. My animation books don't have much more on him than his current Wikipedia entry, anyway. BrianSmithson 01:45 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)
- Oh, well, worth a try.<G> If only there were public domain images of animation characters, but I guess that's not going to happen soon. -- Someone else 01:47 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)
- Nice article on Crusader Rabbit at http://www.toontracker.com/crusader/crusader.htm, and some cool pictures at http://www.toontracker.com/crusader/crusapix.htm -- Zoe
Felix article
Are you sure you didn't copy that Felix the Cat article? LittleDan
- I tried a couple of phrases in google and didn't get any hits. Does that look like some book you're familiar with, Little Dan? That of course wouldn't be allowed for copyright reasons. If those are original work, they look very nice. -- Infrogmation
- Hi, guys. Everything I've contributed has been original work. Felix' sources were The History of Animation by Charles Solomon and some webpages I consulted.
Thought you might want to sneak a peek at your baby. It's grown up quite a bit. :^) I've been working on ol' Felix and I just put it up as a featured article nomination. - Lucky 6.9 22:40, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Good work. I've gone through and copy edited everything that people have added in the flurry. Take a look; I think it's in the best shape it's ever been in. BrianSmithson 10:13, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- the vidcap wasn't taken in 1936, right? - I had a mental note to make the same change (the trouble with mental notes is that they aren't worth the paper they are written on). Looking at the following vidcap screen, there is a copyright date which is difficult to read but looks like it might be MCMLIX or 1959. -- Solipsist 15:23, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Wow, I hadn't seen that! The article stated that the character was dumbed down (my words, not the article's) when he went to color and the picture was listed as being Technicolor. The style is very 1930s compared to the TV show. Only other thing I can think of is a renewal of copyright, because I'm sure I never saw such a well-detailed Felix playing a lute on TV. :^) BTW, the article really does look great. Keep your fingers crossed there in Cameroon, Brian! - Lucky 6.9 01:19, 19 Aug 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§ion=new)| talk)
Impressed
Hi Brian,
I just want to say that I'm impressed by the articles you list under 'African stuff' on your user page. I think I came across Maka-Njem or Bamileke when I was checking out some Bantu languages; and the quality and length of the article surprised me, as articles like this are very rare in this area of Wikipedia. So I give you this Sunflower of Thanks for contributing content of exceptional high quality. Are you aware of Wikiproject Countering Systemic Bias? Because you're doing just that. Keep up the good work!
On a sidenote, I've placed the excellent Adamawa Province on Peer Review and after that I intend to nominate it at Featured Article Candidates. Kind regards, — mark ✎ 01:52, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Daffy Dumas Duck
I did some checking and found that name was used exactly once, in "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (1950). It's the name Daffy puts on a script he is trying to sell to the studio. The script is a takeoff on the novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Alexandre Dumas was the author of "The Three Musketeers", "The Man in the Iron Mask", "The Count of Monte Cristo" and other tales contemporary with the Scarlet Pimpernel's time frame. It is reasonable to assume that this was just a joke (possibly a sly double-meaning joke, given the track record of the "Termite Terrace" guys, who brought us geographical names like "Bear Butte") and I'm guessing that some "ignoranimous", as Bugsy would say, took it literally. As a result, there are several Google references to "Daffy Dumas Duck" that imply that was his real name somehow. Wahkeenah 18:19, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
The old Charlie Dog cartoons which had to do nothing with "disco" in the 1940s and 50s, but it did not exist in those decades, the genre began in the 1970s, but my family (or my parents) got this all wrong mistaking Charlie for a singer, and tried to warn me not to watch his shows. He did not host his own shows and I am sure that WB denies the claims.
This situation has gotten stupid.
Back?
I see you're fairly active these days. Are you back from Cameroon? In that case, welcome back, and keep up the good work! — mark ✎ 14:35, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Got back this past Saturday. Right now, I'm still adjusting to the reverse culture shock, but I hope to begin writing new articles soon. Thanks for the welcome back! BrianSmithson 18:23, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)