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1 Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gay Nigger Association of America 2 NASA animation 3 Goa Trance 4 Too much simplification 5 Psy track 6 Articles about Belarusian cities 7 image copyright tag on Image:NY Police Commissioner Shield.jpg

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gay Nigger Association of America

Would you mind telling me why you removed my comment on Roguelazer's vote? Did you think I was attacking him? Was my wording improper? JRM 02:00, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)

I would not delete your or anyone's comment, even if I did not agree with it. I think what happened is that you made the comment while I was adding my vote and it got lost in the process. I'm not entirely sure how Wikipedia works in these cases. I will now try to restore it, sorry for the mixup. -Ld | talk 02:11, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What's supposed to happen in these cases is that either of us gets an edit conflict, which forces us to merge our new edits with the current revision. In this case, since your vote successfully ended up on top of my comment, and then an edit was put in that removed my comment, it looked as if you purposefully deleted it, hence my question. I'm sure either your browser or the database just had a hiccup, though. Thanks for clearing it up. JRM 02:23, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)

I see what you mean, it looks like I edited it twice, although I don't recall doing so. I probably got mixed up with all my tabs in Firefox. I think it's back to normal now. -Ld | talk 02:33, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

NASA animation

Oh, OK. I changed it into an internal link instead of an external one, like this. Thanks and warmest regards --Neutrality^talk 21:21, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

Goa Trance

Hey Ld, just wanted to say great work on the psy goa articles the new artist page is great and I notice quite a few new stubs. Keep up the great work! Htaccess 09:25, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! I think the artist page will serve multiple purposes:

1. Pick up orphaned psy articles - I noticed we have quite a few in the process.
2. Serve as a central list without cluttering up the main articles.
3. Encourage people to write about their favorite artists.

Hopefully it will work out. :) -Ld | talk 16:18, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I noticed that you're into goa/psy, and I've actually got some mp3s of some mixes that I can dropload to you, notably my Hightener mix that I've created for the Everything2 Weeknight Sound Track project. (There really should be a quick option for linking to E2 from here, I swear. :) ) That is some great work on the goa and psytrance articles. I actually fixed a couple of minor errors in the psytrance article a long time ago. :) Myrkabah 19:43, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

ld, Another psytance related wiki page under the name zirk has been added. Zirkis (http://www.roundtheclocknetwork.com) our page, greetz from zirk

Too much simplification

A word or too can make a difference! Fire Island Thanks, -Willmcw 19:58, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Psy track

ld can you please help me to recognise some PSy-track that i have and dont know what it isVorash 13:55, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sure, why not. -Ld | talk 16:35, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Its here: MP3 Sample (http://www.geocities.com/vorashgroup/_Trance002_Apocalips.mp3)

I also wanted to ask you what you think about adding some mp3s as defining genre

to articles of Goa and Psy-trance.Vorash 21:23, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It's definatelly released after 2000, probably Israeli. Sounds a lot like Sesto Sento, but could be something else. What tracks do you have in mind for adding to the articles? -Ld | talk 22:40, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I wanted to add Muses Rapt,Astral Projection to Goa.....and to Psy i dont know...HOw much it should be in length 1 min or so ?Vorash 00:59, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It seems MP3's are not allowed on Wikipedia. You would have to encode it to Ogg. See these rules for details [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sound). The longest music sample I have seen here was 20 seconds and encoded at ~65kbps. I think you should do the same (not more then 30 seconds probably) so that they would not decide to delete it. -Ld | talk 01:43, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK, I figured out how to do it:

1. Convert MP3 to WAV
2. Cut out about 30-40 seconds of the WAV file you want to use (you can use the sound recorder that comes with Windows for this).
3. Download the Vorbis encoder at http://www.vorbis.com/download_win_1.0.1.psp and extract it to a directory.
4. Run "oggenc -q 0 myfile.wav" at the command prompt.

I've put up two files so far, by Etnica andf Talamasca. Feel free to add more. If you want me to help you out with converting some stuff let me know. -Ld | talk 05:38, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Good job you did with a tracks ! Thank you !Vorash 18:59, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I puted a track that i a sked you to id on psynews forum .Maybe they will recognise this. I wanted to ask you another qiestion - maybe you know who did a remix on Muses rapt "spiritual healing" . I had two versions. One is an original, that you puted as a sample and second one more popular, that i heard on radio ,its sounds more "progressive".But unfortunately i didnt find who did it.Maybe you know ?Vorash 19:16, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

There are many remixes of this track .. it's probably one of these (http://www.psydb.net/labels/tracks/labels_tracks_2366.html). -Ld | talk 21:09, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for infoVorash 22:45, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

ld i wanted to ask you how you determine the popularity of the artists? By number of discogs.com members that have any particular album?Vorash 03:18, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Also X-Dream's Trip To Trancesylvania was originally released in 1993 (See here (http://www.discogs.com/release/11815)) and here (http://www.cs.umu.se/~tdv94ati/labels/tracks/labels_tracks_0944.html)) and was rereleased in 1997. Only 20 members have it ,which is not so popular.Vorash 03:55, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

There are 2 versions of that album, one is called "In the Mix". Also the list was intended to have notable albums, not necessarily popular. For example, today albums sell a lot more copies than they used to in 1993, when this music was still mostly unknown. -Ld | talk 17:22, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Articles about Belarusian cities

Will be good to make discussion how to name articles about Belarusian cities. I think they should be named based on transliteration from Belarusian name with redirects from Russian transliteration. Mikkalai and Rydel (indeed other could participate too) are active contributors to Belarus related articles with good knowledge of subject.

Please place these articles in Category:Towns in Belarus.

Will be great if all Belarus related public domain/GFDL/Creative Commons images will be uploaded to commons: for sharing with other Wikipedia (Belarusian one is first consumer :-)

Thank you. --EugeneZelenko 03:00, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree, they should use the Belarussian names. Unfortunatelly I didn't realize that at first and probably created a few that are not .. feel free to move/redirect them. - Ld | talk 03:13, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

image copyright tag on Image:NY Police Commissioner Shield.jpg

Why did you tag this image as a work of the U.S. federal government? I see from your user page that you're from the U.S., so you should have been aware of the difference between federal and local government. I changed the tag to fair use instead. Postdlf 21:30, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I see where you might be comming from. I assumed this qualified as PD since it originated from a .gov site and there was no copyright notice stating otherwise. -Ld | talk 21:32, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

.gov sites are obviously not all federal, but are also used by state and municipal governments. Whether works of state or local governments are public domain depends on whether the particular state or city has decided to commit their works to the public domain or retain copyright, as they are permitted to do either under U.S. copyright law. The copyright notice at the very bottom of http://www.nyc.gov/ shows that the city claims copyright in its works. If the shield design is sufficiently old enough, then any copyright would have expired and the general {{PD}} tag may be applied. If not, I still think use of this particular image would pass a fair use test.

The PD-USGov tag, on the other hand, is only for works of the federal government, which, by federal statute, are all committed to the public domain. Postdlf 21:47, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)