User talk:Liftarn

Heh, thanks. I'm just trying to be reasonable, and create something that's neutral, as opposed to pro-or-anti-ODP. If you've got any ideas for making it more neutral (Delirium commented that it was a wee bit on the pro side, and I was afraid I might have done that), feel free to make changes...it'd be appreciated. Oh, and just out of curiosity...I noticed in the Open Site page history that you made a nasty edit there...did we fire you or something? :P -- Ambivalenthysteria

Huh? I think you missed something in the edit history of Open Site. The nasty remark was from 64.109.201.77, not me. // Liftarn

Re: Garrett Morgan, traffic light

Greetings Liftarn,

There is quite a bit of evidence (http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/trfclt/page.html) against Garrett Morgan inventing the first traffic light of any type. Same goes for the gas mask (http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/gasmask/page.html).

Netesq

Netesq is mainly (basicly only) active in the Open Directory Project article by deleting information anybody except himself add. Attempts to start a discussion with him regarding this has only been met with silence. He is a known ODP hater so his bias is rather obvious. // Liftarn 16:25, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Liftarn and I are involved in an edit war, and this is an attempt to poison the well with a personal attack. I would like to respond, but I am unable to do so without violating established rules of Wikiquette. -- NetEsq 16:47, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

~~Ha! You're doing fine so far: attempt to poison the well --Uncle Ed 18:59, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)~~

NetEsq is not a problem user, and it is poor form to take a dispute over a single article into this page. It takes two to get into an edit war. I note that this issue was not first raised on user talk:NetEsq, as strongly recommended. Therefore I intend to move this comment to user talk:Liftarn. Martin 18:43, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi liftarn- I was wondering if you could clarify the chronology of the various Dan Dare series- i've left a comment at Talk:Dan Dare explaining my query in more detail, thanks quercus robur 20:11, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Liftarn. I wondered if you could supply some references for Ford Köln. Every reference I find for the word is for the name of Ford's German subsidiary. DJ Clayworth 18:00, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Any WP User with any experience at all would know that such an edit would be immediately reverted. I conclude that you were being deliberately provocative. Adam 11:00, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Then I must be inexperienced because I quite frankly don't see what's so controversial with adding two links and some missing information. Please explain. // Liftarn

I have no opinion on the links you added. I was refering to the political opinion you inserted in the opening section, as I'm sure you know. Adam 11:56, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Then why did you repitedly delete the links? // Liftarn

I don't think "form of racism" can be reasonably considered part of the definition of Zionism. Zionism can be defined as, among other formulations, the movement for Jews to have an independent state in the Middle East (Israel). This can then be interpreted in a number of ways—it might be justified, or it might be racist, or it might be something else. But those are interpretations, not part of the definition. --Delirium 11:34, Feb 11, 2004 (UTC)

I can be (and has been) defined as a "form of racism". I agree that the definition probably doesn't belong in the zionism article, but it should be included in the anti-zionism article since it's not uncommon that people are opposed to zionism on anri-racist grounds. // Liftarn

The definition of Zionism is "a political movement among Jews aimed at the creation of a Jewish state." That Zionism is a form of racism is an opinion, which is highly contested and therefore does not belong in the opening paragraph. The question is discussed in the appropriate place in the article. Adam 12:42, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The text "It follows that anti-Zionism is opposition to these objectives, and that any person, organisation or government that opposes these objectives can in some sense be described as anti-Zionist." that follows the different definitions gets an entierly different meaning if one definition is excluded. That definition isn't included under "Defining anti-Zionism" either. // Liftarn

I don't really know what you're talking about, but you are of course free to make edits to the text. Just as I am free to revert them if you insert your opinions into the text. A lot of work has gone into creating a balanced text at both this article and Zionism and edits that weaken that will be reverted, if not by me then by others. Adam 13:08, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ok, let's take this text as an example: "Widgetism is the idea that everybody should live happily. It means that anti-widgetists are in opposition to these objectives." This is clearly POV if the anti-widgetists think that widgetism wants to reach the goal by painting all cars pink. Do you see what I'm getting at? Using the text as an example it would leave people wondering what anti-widgetists have against everybody living happily. // Liftarn

Sniper or soldier?

You changed "soldier" into "sniper" in Tom Hurndall, but how do you know that? IDF "snipers" have special equipment and training. Was this soldier one of such people? We couldn't answer this question before which is why we changed "sniper" into "soldier". --Zero 10:22, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ok, fair enough. All the reports I have read said it was a sniper so I thought it was an established fact. // Liftarn

St. Louis Blues

EMERGENCY! Infrogmation has vandalised your contributions to St. Louis Blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=St._Louis_Blues_(hockey)&action=history). Please ask all hockey fans to vote at Talk:St. Louis Blues to keep St. Louis Blues as a National Hockey League page and not a redirect to a disambiguation page. Thank You! -- 24.217.211.99 07:53, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

my nomination for admin

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Dori has nominated me for admin at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Since you and I have had conflicts, I wanted to give you a heads up so you can show your support or dissent. Nohat 20:00, 2004 Apr 15 (UTC)

License ?

Hi, you tell you've painted the picture Image:Jolly-roger.png but could you tell me its license ? Is it GFDL or public domain or so ? Thanks in advancE. Tipiac 08:26, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Icelandic Sheepdog

Hi Liftarn! Thanks for your answer. I am new here and one of the things I want to work on are issues related to Icelandic sheepdogs. When arriving I saw that Wikipedia:Requested pictures#Dog breeds mentioned at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dog breeds. We provided the picture which is now also at the Russian and Esperanto versions. You can find more pictures at [1] (http://easy.go.is/gangleri/hundarnir/). Just click (for example) on the leftmost picture.
During the last two weeks I was trying to get familiar with Wikipedia and the whole family. Have you found Talk:Icelandic Sheepdog already? On [[Icelandic Sheepdog in national languages]] I started about the names for the dog in different languages. Would be happy if you have some additions to this list. Please not make modifications directly, because I would like to move it to meta or Wictionary. Please let your commens either at User talk:Gangleri or at Talk:Icelandic Sheepdog or send me an e-mail. Thanks.
Do you have contacts to Finnland? Would be nice to have an article / stub there too. How is your Danish?

All the best to you and your dog. Regards Gangleri 00:08, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)

Sports Cars

Why did you add all those Saab sedans to the sports car category where they obviously don't belong? -- stewacide

Re:Haas School of Business

There's no such thing as a "Bank of Sweden" laureate. Who uses the term? The term overwhelming used for winners of the Prize in Economics is "Nobel laureate". There's nothing wrong with that as long as the term "Nobel Prize in Economics" isnt specifically used. --Jia ng 17:49, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough, but please don't call it a nobel prize.

Adminship

Recently I did some analysis of contribution history for Wikipedia, the fruits of which are at Wikipedia:Another list of Wikipedians in order of arrival. As I reviewed the list, I noted that there are about a dozen longtime contributors who have not been made administrators. You are one of them. Accordingly, I would like to nominate you for adminship, with your permission. If you would appreciate such a nomination, please let me know on my talk page. If you do wish to decline, a note so saying would also be appreciated, though not necessary. Kindest regards, The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:43, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nordisk familjebok?

Image:Anchor1.png, etc. Could you explain to me what a Nordisk familjebok is, and how the images provided (which I really like!) fall into the public domain? Just indulging my personal curiousity. - Amgine 21:42, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Amgine might want to know that the popular encyclopedia, Nordisk familjebok has its own Wikipedia entry now! --Wetman 23:38, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). 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. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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:

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:

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 at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk) 14:37, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Doric order

Would you be upset if I removed the Doric capital illustration, from the Nordisk familjebok which you originally downloaded? Now there are much better examples at the entry. --Wetman 23:38, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No problem. When I added it the article had no illustration at all. // Liftarn

CKD

Do you have any plans with CKD? In its present state it is ripe for VFD. JFW | T@lk 12:26, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Martin Bergstrand

Hello. Are you Martin Bergstrand? Or is he perhaps a friend of yours? – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 02:19, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Neither. The name sounds a bit familliar, but I can't place it. (Did a search) Ah, him! Not really a friend as such. He's a fellow member of the Swedish SAAB Club (www.saabklubben.com). I was given permission to use his photos as long as he was credited. // Liftarn

Missing image
Mcpherson_strut.jpg

I added a clear rendering of a MacPherson strut. --Casito 11:41, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Splinter Cell

Perfectly valid? The link is spam. What use is an "Open directory" that only links to other websites and offers absolutely nothing else? This type of link is discouraged on Wikipedia. See: Wikipedia: External links (I quote) "Pages that are linked to in an external links section should be high content, with information that is not found in the Wikipedia article." Therefore the link is nonsensical and I'll revert it everytime. K1Bond007 21:48, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)

Saab 9000

So what engine DID the 9000 use if not the Triumph/Saab Slant-4? Did Saab have another straight-4? --SFoskett 21:08, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Image:MacPhersonStrut.jpg

I've gone ahead and tagged that image as gfdl, because that is the standard license that is applied to all images where the uploader holds the copyright. If this is unsatisfactory, please feel free to change it or contact me to pick a more suitable tag. --Aqua 09:42, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

It's OK. But I think the image is not in use any more. // Liftarn

Mike Follin

I picked up your article on Recent Changes just after it had been created. It appeared to be like so many others about computer programmers - a short biography about some relatively unknown person, so I flagged it for deletion. However, I did find some stuff about Follin on the 'Net, so it seemed reasonable there should be an article about him, hence removal of the speedy delete. I'll be a little less hasty next time! Cheers, Arcturus 20:49, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (movie)

This page needs to be moved back to where it was. The fairy tale that Walt Disney's film originates from is simply titled Snow White (there are two; both are mentioned in the article), not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I am already working to get moderator assistance to do this. --FuriousFreddy 13:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I have already fixed the faulty wikilink from Brothers Grimm. // Liftarn

Dixy Lee Ray plutonium comment

Do you have a source? I've just done some cursory searching and found no mentions of such a remark. RadicalSubversiv E 08:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It may be an urban legend. It's often quoted here in Sweden. // Liftarn

Was there ever a straight-14 or straight-24

I have my doubts. The Napier Sabre was a H-24, which is something else. -- Egil 16:19, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

A55RGY

Hi, Liftarn! You added A55RGY to Wikipedia:Unusual articles, but no article under that name appears to exist. Can you double check your edit? Thanks! -- Coneslayer 14:51, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

Knots

Hi,
I came upon your image image:Nf knots.png. It's used at Knot, with a caption that claims that knot 10 is a round turn and two half hitches. Frankly, I don't see a round turn, and the alleged two half hitches looks more like a clove hitch. Perhaps you could clear up the confusion. I've watchlisted your talk page, so you may reply right here. --Smack (talk) 04:09, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

The image is from Nordisk familjebok and it's in Swedish. So the list is

garn-knop
fallrepsknop
käringknop
taljerepsknop
ormhufvud
vantknop
pertkunta
överhandsknop
sjömansknop
halvslag om egen part

I have no idea how they translate to English. // Liftarn

Norwegian dog breeds

FYI, Norwegian Buhund is not the same as the Norwegian Elkhound; I removed the redirect. Ya learn something new every day. :-) Elf | Talk 15:47, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

They do look very simmilar. // Liftarn

They do. Just so happens that we had a photo waiting for an article, so I added that. Elf | Talk 16:42, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Great! Why not add the photo to the commons? // Liftarn

Because there are a billion dog-related photos already local (see Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Dogs for the probably-usable ones and Wikipedia:List of images/Nature/Animals/Dogs/Photos in question for the unknown or probably-not usable), and no one seems to have had the energy or interest in spending time moving them all over to commons when the commons was finally created & implemented. Elf | Talk 20:04, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:1987volvo244small.jpg

Image deletion warning

The image Image:1987volvo244small.jpg has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it will be deleted. If you have any information on the source or licensing of this image, please go there to provide the necessary information.

Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:18, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Batman (game)

The review offered by Your Sinclair was in fact 91% on release ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourSinclair/Issue47/Pages/YourSinclair4700023.jpg - the 80% came two years later when the title was released under the Hit Squad label. Thanks for the major updates to the article though. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs, Me 07:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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