User talk:Madmagic

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Contents

1 Sir Isaac Brock Talk 1 Great article! 2 Stub msg 3 Categories 4 Article Licensing 5 Good eye!... 6 Beaumont Hamel 7 Industrial rev

Sir Isaac Brock Talk

(okay, I couldn't resist the urge to make that rhyme). Anyway, thanks for the kind words and pointing me towards those two pages...I'd seen the Galafilm one but generalbrock.com was new to me, and I'll have to look it over.

Glad to see that somebody new's arrived to write War of 1812 articles. I'm too slow to fill the many glaring holes out there, so welcome. :) Lord Bob 23:05, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

Great article!

Hi Madmagic, great article on Terry Southern. (I hope you really wrote all of it yourself and there is no copyright violation.) It had been long overdue. Looking forward to reading your other contributions, <KF> 22:38, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I only mentioned the idea of a copyright violation because (a) there's quite a number of people contributing to Wikipedia who are obviously not familiar with the concept of plagiarism and because (b) the article is so good. So keep on writing! <KF> 17:43, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Stub msg

Hi, juat a message to ask if you could add some info to an article before you put in the stub msg? Articles that solely consist of that msg are normally speedily deleted. -- Graham :) | Talk 15:04, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Articles that are little more than external links are equally speedily deleted. Try adding some of you own text to National Archives of Canada before inserting the stub msg or external link, and it won't be deleted as quickly. -- Graham :) | Talk 15:06, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Categories

Hi...this may not have been mentioned to you before, but when you add a category link to an article on a person, could you please use the format [[Category:Whatever|Surname, First Name]] rather than just [[Category:Whatever]]? If you do it without the extra step, it alphabetizes wrong on the category page (frex, Peter Russell would file under P instead of R.) This also applies to any article title beginning with The, by the way. Bearcat 08:12, 1 Sep 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 2000 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)

Good eye!...

... on "Cannon". I couldn't get "shot" in italics without putting the whole thing in. It kept reverting. Your way works. Sfahey 02:20, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Beaumont Hamel

Just wanted to let you know that I deleted the Newfoundland Memorial Park section of the Beaumont Hamel article, which you first wrote and then semi-amputated. In its current state, it was badly formatted and served no purpose, but do feel free to bring it back if you can fix it. Fbriere 03:26, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Industrial rev

"Hi. Thanks for adding this article to Wikipedia:Article improvement drive... &c."

You're most welcome. I hope it gets accepted. :) — RJH 18:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) Template:AIDvoter