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turnout in EU const. vote overview
Hi Trilobite, I couldn't find how to modify that upper-right table with the referendum overview for the proposed EU constitution... could you point me how to do it? (or add the turnouts yourself if you wish?) Thanks again! --jbc 23:20, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Replied on talk page. — Trilobite 23:41, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks much, I didn't know about templates indeed! --jbc 00:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Robert McCartney
Hi. I was just wondering if you are going to update the McCartney article, as it has not been updated since the family were in the USA? Fergananim
- Hi, it's probably not a good idea to leave messages in my talk page archives; I only just found that one! I may update it some time, but there is a fair bit of work to be done and I am on a partial wikibreak at the moment. You could have a go yourself, of course. I should think just about all the news reports you'd need are available on the web. I'll have a look at it myself eventually and see what needs doing. Sorry not to be of more assistance. I've been meaning to get round to sorting it out for a while now (always the way on Wikipedia). Cheers. — Trilobite 03:02, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your support
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 14:43, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
W. Mark Felt
Salve!
I went and nominated W. Mark Felt as a WP:FAC. As you commented on it on the talk page, I'd appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt. PedanticallySpeaking 14:54, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note. I remember trying to keep the article in something like a reasonable condition on the day the news broke and edits were coming in thick and fast. I am no Watergate expert and so probably not qualified to make a call on the nomination, but I'll keep an eye on it and comment if I feel something needs mentioning. — Trilobite 23:08, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Ubuntu
Thanks for running to the rescue at Ubuntu. I've always been removing those extlinks on sight, but I never came up with the idea of adding a hidden comment for those illiterate Ubuntu Linux fans. In fact, I was having fun inventing new 'baffled and thunderstruck' edit summaries from time to time :P . Kind regards, — mark ✎ 19:27, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks and sorry to spoil your fun with the edit summaries! I wonder if someone will now fail to notice the comments and add Linux in again. Judging by some of the comments that regularly appear on Talk:Main Page despite the huge notice at the top telling everyone it's not a general contact point it would not surprise me greatly. — Trilobite 20:12, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Trilobite: thanks for the advice, when I have anything worth archiving (like you) I will do that, isn't all in history anyway? Alf 14:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
My replies are on my talk. Alf 15:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, I saw them. — Trilobite 15:34, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Trilobite: I would like to prove I have ox.chem.ac.uk's permission for an article, who would I forward their email to for this purpose? Alf 20:40, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- You would probably need to paste the email in question on the talk page of the article. By the way, it's important to note that permission to reproduce copyrighted material on this website is not good enough, as Wikipedia is free content that anyone can reproduce and modify as they wish. I assume you got them to release it under the GFDL, in which case everything is fine from a legal angle. Often it's not a good idea to add content to Wikipedia that was not written specifically for us, as it may need extensive work before it reads like a proper Wikipedia article. I don't know about your individual circumstances, however. If you're trying to clear up a dispute surrounding an article that was flagged as a copyvio then putting the relevant permission on the talk page should clear things up. Hope this helps. — Trilobite 20:54, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- OK already pasted the email into relevant page (glad I got something right) didn't specifically ask for GFDL but as it is virtually only the books references and research topic bullets would this be a big issue, as I'm pretty sure that was already in public domain? Maybe you'd take a look at their site and then the article and feedback any concerns. I would be surprised if his entry survives however so might not matter anyway. ox.chem website is [1] (http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/dmhodgson.html) and the article is David Hodgson (chemist)/Temp.Alf 21:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- With such a short entry consisting mainly of things like book references, copying it without permission would probably not cause a huge problem, but we need permission nonetheless. Unless it's several decades old, everything published that doesn't consist of simple facts (like a list of cities the Olympics has been held in, or something), and that hasn't been explicitly released into the public domain by its copyright holder should be considered to be protected by copyright law and not inserted into Wikipedia. Some people wrongly assume that a website without a copyright notice is public domain, but anyway, since the one you linked to explicitly claims copyright for the University of Oxford at the bottom we definitely couldn't have used it without permission. It's not as if these things are ever likely to end in a court case or something, it's just that to avoid any question of copyright violation Wikipedia has to take a tough line on such matters. I try to avoid getting into these copyright disputes so I'll leave it for people who know more than me about these things to sort it out. I should think you've cleared it up by putting the note on the talk page. Cheers. — Trilobite 21:22, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)d
- I am indebted, many thanks. Alf 23:29, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)