User talk:Jerzeykydd/Jan11-June11

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Jerzeykydd/Jan11-June11! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 18:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Free images

I noticed you have been uploading free images of American politicians - if you wouldn't mind, would you consider uploading them directly to Wikimedia Commons? They have to be moved there eventually, it saves everyone a lot of work if they're just uploaded there straightaway. I just moved over the photo of Kristi Noem. Kelly ^hi! 01:49, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

It's one of the speedy deletion criteria - Commons is the free media repository for all the various projects, so I guess there's no sense in maintaining multiple copies of the same media on multiple projects. See Wikipedia:Moving files to the Commons. Don't know how familiar you are with Commons, let me know if you have any questions. The upload process there is pretty much exactly the same as it is here, and images are used in articles in the exact same way. Your single-user-login should work there no problem. Kelly ^hi! 02:01, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, absolutely not! Thanks for finding and uploading the images! They'll eventually be moved over to the Commons and will continue to be used here and other projects. I was just asking if you would mind uploading them straight to Commons in the future to save some work for other folks. Kelly ^hi! 02:12, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I should have been more clear - they only get deleted locally when a good copy exists on the Commons. So they're not really "deleted", they're just moved to make them more widely available. Kelly ^hi! 02:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

You should take care not to upload copyright violations - not every image on a Congress website is free. Take File:David Cicilline.jpg, which you uploaded as free federal government work - it's actually an old photo and not federal government work. Those images with a blue background look fine, as they were taken in this Congress. Again, please be careful, copyright is a serious issue. Hekerui (talk) 09:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

The Wikipedia image use policy states: "Always specify on the description page where the image came from (the source) and information on how this could be verified." Images used on federal government websites are not automatically free, and your speculation is not evidence - the blue background images were taken after the people were sworn in, so at least one can make a case - this image has been used at least since February last year. You can write the copyright holder, asking him/her to release an image, but please do not upload images claiming images hosted on federal government servers are automatically free. There is a discussion on this here. Hekerui (talk) 17:12, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Please do not remove file deletion tags from file description pages on Wikipedia, as you did to File:David Cicilline.jpg, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Hekerui (talk) 17:16, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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U.S.government

I thought you might cool off after the election, but apparently you haven't. I'm sorry you detest the Untied States so much you are determined to trivialize everyone in Congress, pretending the only thing they do is run for office and get involved in 'controversies'. Obviously we don't take articles about people in business and fill them up with coverage of their job interviews, or go on endlessly about what they do or say, as opposed to what they do in their job - because their job is what makes them notable which is why that is, and should be, the focus. We are an encyclopedia, not a tabloid, as I've reminded you many times. I don't know what country you're from, or why exactly you are so determined to do sabotage articles about U.S. government figures, but I don't really care. I've tried to help you in the past, but obviously you've made your choice to be destructive on purpose and it isn't from a lack of knowledge or understanding. Actions speak louder than words. Flatterworld (talk) 02:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Mass reversion of Flatterworld's edits

You are using WP:TW-based rollback to undo the work of Flatterworld (talk · contribs) on almost two dozen articles. You've been blocked for harassing other editors before and it appears that you are now harassing Flatterworld. Please discuss mass reversions like this before instituting them unilaterally. Continued stalking of other editors may find you blocked and/or losing privileges. Toddst1 (talk) 13:56, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

As you pointed out, you are edit warring, not harassing. Toddst1 (talk) 00:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Which he's still doing, as he refuses to abide by any consensus he doesn't happen to personally agree with. His latest 'bit' is to claim the Cato Institute is part of the Missouri Legislature! But hey Todsdst1 - you just keep encouraging him to keep on 'improving' these articles. Flatterworld (talk) 05:28, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Diffs? Toddst1 (talk) 06:39, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Macaca

Thanks for your comments. There is a question pending for you at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macaca_(term) As the only objector, it would be great if you could weigh in on what you meant. Ratagonia (talk) 20:52, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Why did you revert me? Unless it's vandalism, you're supposed to give a reason in the edit summary for reverting. Victor Victoria (talk) 18:00, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

US National Archives collaboration

United States National Archives WikiProject

Would you like to help improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the National Archives and its incredible collection? This summer, the National Archives—which houses some of America's most important historical documents—is hosting me as its Wikipedian in Residence, and I have created WP:NARA to launch these efforts. There are all sorts of tasks available for any type of editor, whether you're a writer, organizer, gnome, coder, or image guru. The National Archives is making its resources available to Wikipedia, so help us forge this important relationship! Please sign up and introduce yourself. Dominic·t 15:22, 22 June 2011 (UTC)