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Bruno Schultz

You created an article which redirects to itself. Rick K 23:35, Aug 10, 2004 (UTC)

Yes but I corrected it few seconds after I hit save, as soon as I saw bold font instead of a link — see the history — I am surprised anyone even noticed. Rafał Pocztarski 00:20, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Greek letters in Aristotle entry

Why did you change the Greek letters from the correct Greek? What you have done causes several problems:

the named entitles are for mathematical expressions, not for writing Greek.
the ሴ entites include the correct ancient accent marks and breathings, and are set up for writing Greek.

Please see the Unicode help page for details. I've reverted the page. m.e. 08:46-08:50, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I was sure that except being able to read ASCII source there was no other difference at all between named and numbered Unicode HTML entities, but if there is then I stand corrected (I cannot find any reference on Wikipedia:Unicode, though). I have updated pl:Arystoteles. Since you seem to be fixing Greek language on Wikipedia, could you see Pornography article as well? The word πορνογραφια is written with named HTML entities πορνογραφια. Also, I am not sure whether the English spelling pornographia is correct. Out of curiosity, what is exactly Ἀ (Ἀ) character and how should it differ from Α (Α)? Also, what is έ (έ)? Rafał Pocztarski 10:06, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

ok, I have checked, and actually the HTML entities are being mapped into the Unicode Greek letters and not the mathematical symbols. σ maps into

<!ENTITY sigma    CDATA "σ" -- greek small letter sigma,
                                    U+03C3 ISOgrk3 -->

which does give us σ = 03C3;GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA. But Ἀ Ἀ (1F08;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI) is different from Α Α — the psili also known as spiritus lenis or soft breathing appears on the first character of the word if it is a vowel. The tick on the &1f73; έ (1F73;GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA) is an oxia (acute accent) used to indicate a pitch accent. m.e. 10:45, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) — my apologies for reverting your changes; I was wrong. m.e. 11:10, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure how does the oxia look like, but the whole έ (&1f73;) looks exactly like a latin e to me. It doesn't have any tick and doesn't look like ε (epsilon) at all. Couldn't that psili and oxia be used as combining Unicode characters? What about πορνογραφια? Does it need any accents? Rafał Pocztarski 20:18, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

If there were any such ancient Greek word, it would be written πορνογραφία pornographía, but in fact no such word is found in the body of texts. The έ (&1f73;) should look like an epsilon (ε) with an acute accent, but this will depend on the capabilities of your browser. Yes, you could also use ́ ́ (0301;COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) e.g. ́ε m.e. 11:27, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Form of Greek names

In what sense are numeric values more "correct" than mnemonics in entering non-Latin characters? Please see Wikipedia:Special_characters, which specifically recommends menomics, as does Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#The_wiki_markup Dandrake 19:19, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC) [Copied from Aristotle Talk page]

There are many non-Latin characters that do not have mnemonics, including Greek characters with diacritical marks (oxia, perispomenon, etc). m.e. 11:32, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Julian Tuwim

"What is exactly wrong with Julian Tuwim article?"

Uh, nothing anymore, as far as I know. It's been fixed, I think. That list is pretty stale. Sorry about that -- it's been overdue for a removal for a while now. Paul Stansifer 23:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK. I just followed What links here link while writing the article and found your comment. I was suspecting that it might refer to some earlier version, but I just wanted to make sure. No problem at all. Thanks. Rafał Pocztarski 01:28, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mandelbrot set

Rafal - nice pictures on the Mandelbrot set article. However, you also added Mandelbrot set to category complex analysis. As the construction of the Mandelbrot set involves neither integration nor differentiation, I do not think it belongs in the complex analysis category. Would you have a problem if I removed it from this category ? Gandalf61

Not at all, since quite frankly I don’t remember adding this article to any category at all... Rafał Pocztarski 08:49, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ah, yes, looking more carefully I can see the category assignment was already there, and your edit had only moved it. Gandalf61 09:20, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

Straight quotes, rather than smart

Hi, I noticed your edits of Ellipsis, specifically this one here. Wikipedia's Manual of Style says here that we use straight quotes rather than smart. Just thought I'd point it out for you. - Vague Rant 08:45, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

At that time I was changing the punctuation in articles on typography and punctuation to use the standard conventions used in English publications as described in said articles, and I believe that when I started to do it I had read in the manual of style that both "inch signs" and “English curved quotes” were acceptable on Wikipedia. Right now I try to use the currently recommended style in articles (though of course in my comments on Talk pages I use the style which I believe to be preferable for serious publications). If you discover that I forget about it and mistakenly use English curved quotes in any article I edit, please feel free to correct it. Rafał Pocztarski 12:40, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Merging with homeopathy

You have labled homeopathic proving nad homeopathy reportry as needing to be merged with homeopathy. However the homeopathy article is already fairly long and there is very little overlap between the articles.Geni 11:30, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Homeopathy. Rafał Pocztarski 17:26, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Administrator

Hello rfl. I think you would be an excellent administrator, and so I have nominated you. Admins can delete pages and images, edit protected pages, block vandals, etc. You can go here to accept and answer the standard questions: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Good luck! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 05:04, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I’ll read what exactly does it mean to be an administrator, and answer on WP:RFA. Rafał Pocztarski 06:23, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations, Rafał

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 05:07, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I can see new delete, protect and rollback links. I don’t think I will ban anyone or delete anything soon, but I will surely use the privilege of editing protected pages to implement my CC templates proposal. First I’ll read the guides and experiment in my user namespace before I do anything. Thanks. Rafał Pocztarski 12:03, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Too late! (Didn't mean to steal your thunder there.) Anyway, congratulations. You've earned it. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 15:36, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. That stealing my thunder was very convenient. I have converted those templates to be usable on Wikimedia Commons: Commons:User:Rfl/CC templates/free. Are you an admnistrator on Commons as well? Should I post an independent proposal on Commons? Rafał Pocztarski 19:07, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I should be an admin on the Commons very soon. Those templates aren't protected on the Commons, however, so you can do them yourself if you like. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 05:19, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

You’re right, the templates on Commons are not protected. I have just posted my proposal and I’ll change the tables if there is any support. Rafał Pocztarski 23:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Good luck on your bid to be an admin on Commons, by the way. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 01:35, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your support and congratulations for winning just hours after I voted for you. Rafał Pocztarski 02:16, 14 Dec 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 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. 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:

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:

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| talk)

My personal license

Thanks for the info. When I made my license tag way back, I was sure that the GFDL clearly demands that both the original author and the license must be stated wherever the licensed document is reproduced (posted in this context). Apparently I must've get it wrongly. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 18:33, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

According to the GFDL, everyone already has to reproduce your copyright notice and the license. In the case of verbatim copying: “You may copy and distribute the Document [...] provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License.” The distribution of modified versions is more complicated: “you must do these things in the Modified Version: [...] B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has fewer than five), unless they release you from this requirement. [...] D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document. E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications adjacent to the other copyright notices. F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the terms of this License [...].”

Of course, the GNU Free Documentation License is much more complicated than that, but the attribution requirements are essentially designed in a way that “preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.” Your condition that “the author demands that his name be quoted under the image wherever it is posted” seems to resemble the advertising clause in the original BSD license [1] which makes it incompatible with the GNU GPL and causes problems which the GFDL was specifically designed to avoid.

Now when I’m thinking about it, I am not quite sure what are the implications of adding restrictions to the GFDL. Changing the GFDL itself is not allowed, however it doesn’t have to mean there can be no amendments. But if amending the license is possible, those additional conditions would probably have to be inherited by any derivative works, in a copyleft manner.

I am not a lawyer, but I would suggest that if the requirements that are already present in the GFDL are not enough for you (keep in mind that you can sue anyone who violates the license of your work for copyright infringement, and misrepresenting the autorship of your works would certainly violate the GFDL) then you might want to take a look at some other license, like the Creative Commons Attribution [2] or Attribution-ShareAlike [3] license (using {{cc-by-2.0}} and {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} tags, respectively).

Those licenses are much more straightforward than the GFDL, which was designed mostly for books and technical manuals. The CC Attribution license can be summarized as: “You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative works, under the condition that you must give the original author credit.” Attribution-ShareAlike has an additional copyleft requirement: “If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.”

That is what I would do—and in fact that is what I have already done for many of my pictures uploaded to Wikipedia which are released under the CC Attribution license—with any work for which the attribution requirements of the GFDL are not enough, or some other requirements are too much. The advantage of using one of the standard licenses is that people are familiar with its terms and you can be quite sure that it is legally valid. In the case of Creative Commons licenses, you have the expertise of Lawrence Lessig himself. Another great advantage of Creative Commons is that the licenses are very easy to understand and use. Everything is actually explained using comics. [4] [5] Take a look at those comics and the rest of the Creative Commons website [6] and maybe you will find a license [7] more suitable for your works than the GFDL.

Sorry for the confusion, but now after thinking about it I would recommend using one of the Creative Commons licenses if the attribution requirements of the GNU Free Documentation License are not enough instead of amending the GFDL. Rafał Pocztarski 22:14, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Rafał Pocztarski asked me to comment on this. Here it is.:) You should probably modify this so that it makes what you're asking more clear in GFDL terms. I suggest:

That you use a copyright notice, which the GFDL says must be preserved and distributed with the work. A notice of the form (c in a circle character) 2004 (your name) would suffice in most countries. If you want a valid copyright notice in the two minor countries which require it for a valid copyright notice, also include "All rights reserved".
You may also use moral rights and require that in moral rights jurisdictions your name be associated with your work. In those jurisdictions that is a right distinct from copyright and does not interfere with the license.

In general, it's also good on Wikipedia to identify photographers in a standard photo credit identifying the photographer. If you see an image for which we don't have the photographer properly credited, please add the appropriate credit. Jamesday 23:02, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi - thanks for reverting the, um, unauthorized changes to my user page. It's the first time I've had my user page vandalized - I feel so alive! Cdc 04:39, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It was also the first time my user page was vandalized, from the same IP, so I reverted both edits. Few days ago I became an administrator, I’ve been reverting a lot of vandalism since then, and now I have been vandalized myself. Looks like a progress. Rafał Pocztarski 11:02, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jagiellonian University

Could you please move Jagiellonian University in Kraków to Jagiellonian University? See Talk:Jagiellonian University in Kraków for reasons. [[User:Kpalion|– Kpalion (talk)]] 22:49, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes—I’ll read Talk:Jagiellonian University in Kraków#This page should be moved and answer there. Rafał Pocztarski 11:00, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, the history seems to be showing up fine now. I would still have been happy to help if it weren't just a slow cache problem. Thanks for asking. T.PK 12:53, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

National Donkey

Peas pass ye on highway four! DECKBANG! 202.45.121.254 15:50, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A task you would be well suited for

rfl, you seem like a skilled design person, so I have something you may want to do. There are a number of simple diagrams that were probably just scanned in from somewhere, and may be copyright violations. Since they could be re-created fairly simply, I was wondering if you'd be up to it?

ALU adders and gates
Roman rings with wormholes (very simple)

What do you think? Is this something you could tackle? – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 15:23, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

I’ll try to draw the ALU adders as soon as I have some time, but frankly I have no idea what those Roman rings are supposed to be... Are they four cylinders in space? I probably don’t know enough about time travel so I may need to reread “—All You Zombies—” before I get it, but the ALU adders shouldn’t be a problem. Rafał Pocztarski 22:09, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am experimenting with some software to design and simulate circuits, I don’t have much time right now and I cannot decide which program produces better output, but I think I should have the diagrams in few days. I’ll update the articles when the new pictures are ready, and post the old ones on WP:IFD. Rafał Pocztarski 14:40, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have done three diagrams
Image:ALU half adder.png to replace Image:Alu adders half1.JPG
Image:ALU half adder 2.png to replace Image:Alu adders half.JPG
Image:ALU full adder.png to replace Image:Alu adders full.jpg
Rafał Pocztarski 13: 28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Canadian Republicanism

You have reverted the article on Republicanism to return the detailed account of Canadian Republicanism, which was inappropriately large compared to the other countries summarised on the same page. Why did you do that?

I moved the text by Andy L its own page called Canadian Republicanism. Why would this level of detail be found on a general page? The only things Canadian that should be on the Republicanism page are any Canadian contributions to republicanism in general or a one paragraph summary.

Canadian Republicanism has lost having its own page, so the history of the movement can't be recorded in appropriate detail. In the meantime, people from other parts of the world will be wondering about why the Canadian Constitutional Negotiations of 1982 were such an important republican event, which of course they were not.

I have put in enough effort on this. You broke it, why don't you fix it. 129.78.228.114 06:31, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am one of many people who routinely monitor recent changes and deal with vandalism on Wikipedia (see: my contributions). Your 16 Dec 2004 edit [8] looks like an ordinary example of section blanking vandalism, an anonymous removal of a large part of article without any explanation whatsoever. If you had included an edit summary, I wouldn’t have reverted your deletion on Republicanism, and fvw (who is also active in RC patrolling) wouldn’t have deleted your text on Canadian Republicanism. Next time please summarize your edits so anyone tracking RC can understand what you are doing. Your effort hasn’t been wasted, you can easily restore your edits by clicking on the time stamp next to your version in the article history, clicking the edit link, filling the edit summary with an informative explanation, and saving the page (see: How to revert a page to an earlier version for more details). You have to realize that when you are removing many paragraphs of text from an article without any explanation, such edits will most probably get reverted, and they should get reverted, for they are indistinguishable from a very common kind of vandalism. The edit summary is a solution to that very problem. Rafał Pocztarski 07:57, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Purushottam Das Tandon

Heya, I added your tagging of Purushottam Das Tandon to Wikipedia:Copyright problems; Not sure if you forgot or just hadn't gotten around to it, hope you don't mind. &0xfeff; --fvw * 04:42, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

I forgot to add Purushottam Das Tandon to WP:CP, as well as Aruna Asaf Ali, which I am adding right now. Thanks for reminding. Rafał Pocztarski 15:48, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I'm about 4 months old on Wikipedia. I have worked on Purushottam Das Tandon for the last 4 days. You may want to check it out; I don't see any copyright violation issues now. I don't how it can be removed from WP:CP - hence this msg. what is the procedure generally to remove from copyvio? Can I also do it or can only the admins do it? Am working on Aruna Asaf Ali currently. These 2 articles are important for me as they've been awarded India's highest civilian award (less than 40 awardees in our 50+ years of freedom). Thanks (& sorry 4 the longish msg.) -Gurubrahma 12:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The old versions of Purushottam Das Tandon and Aruna Asaf Ali articles (copies of [9] and [10]) have been already deleted back in January and March (see [11] and [12]) and they are no longer listed in WP:CP. By the way, you've done a great job with the Purushottam Das Tandon article. Rafał Pocztarski 12:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rafał Pocztarski, thanx a ton for your compliments and copyediting Gurubrahma 15:03, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

American Civil War

Thanks for protecting it, however, you missed some of the vandalism: right above the Origins of conflict section is the random phrase "JIMMY BROWN". Please remove. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 _talk]] 19:16, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Danke. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 _talk]] 19:19, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out. Rafał Pocztarski 19:23, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

George

It's just one guy, who I've blocked. Do we really need page protection? Evercat 19:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

We seemed to need for a while. If there is no problem now, I’ll unprotect George W. Bush. Rafał Pocztarski 19:36, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Other cc license templates

Hello again. I thought you'd like to know that the British cc license templates ({{cc-by-sa-2.0_(UK)}} etc.) do not have the descriptive copyright circles you added to the U.S. versions. Happy Holidays! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 12:21, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. I’ll update the British CC templates here and all of the templates on Commons probably in January. Happy New Year. Rafał Pocztarski 00:06, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

How’s My Administrating? Please comment.

How’s My Administrating? Please comment.

Your administrating is excellent, good work! Your right tail lights are broken though. --fvw * 00:44, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Rafał Pocztarski 18:24, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh, you're using a non-ISO-8859-1 character on your user page. For shame! --fvw * 00:46, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

I am not using ISO 8859-1 but ASCII. All non-ASCII characters (like English quotes and “ł” in my name) are ASCII-clean HTML entities. Rafał Pocztarski 18:24, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

User:195.93.34.13

Hi there. I see that you moved the content of Kimberley Walsh to User:195.93.34.13. Did you think it was vanity? I know it looks a lot like it, but actually its a rather poor article on a member of Girls Aloud. Since you moved it I've noticed that it's a copyvio (from [13]), but I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about that when it's on a user page. I did think about asking the user to remove it, but it looks like a dynamic IP so it's unlikely that the original user will get the message. Could you possibly speedy it? If not I guess I could just mark it as a copyvio and let nature take its course - unless there's some other way to handle this? David Johnson [T|C] 14:20, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I’ll move it back and change it to a stub using some of the data from that website. Thanks for pointing it out. Rafał Pocztarski 14:35, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

RFC handling

(copied from User talk:David Gerard)

RFC procedure states that the page must be deleted if it failed certification, otherwise it is kept. It is not correct to keep the page if it was not certified properly. That being said, there may be room for debate was to whether the certification is valid or not, but do not retain the page only as a "historical record and future reference" or to keep the discussion around. These are not valid reasons. -- Netoholic @ 23:57, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

It is deleted now [14], see: User talk:David Gerard#RfC/Mbecker. Rafał Pocztarski 01:12, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, wasnt trying to offend you.

Sorry, wasnt trying to offend you. 68.21.13.217 05:18, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I was not offended but please stop vandalising Wikipedia nonetheless. Next time I will block you. See other warnings on User talk:68.21.13.217. Rafał Pocztarski 05:40, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Argumentum ad nauseam

Hi - I'm confused about the See Also link you added to Argumentum ad nauseam. What do Urban legends have to do with a logical falicy? I'm sure there must be some connection, but I'm not sure I see it. Thanks! — Asbestos | Talk 16:36, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, I started to edit Argumentum ad nauseam and then had no time to finish. I’ll fix it in a while, thanks for reminding. Rafał Pocztarski 11:11, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Tux.png

See: Commons:User talk:Rfl#Image:Tux.png.

Donkey punch

Why did this not qualify for speedy deletion? Is it still possible to have that article to be voted on for deletion? 4.248.248.170 20:21, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It has been voted. The result was: keep. See Talk:Donkey punch and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Donkey punch. Rafał Pocztarski 20:28, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Michael Collins

Of course, why didn't I think of moving the page to his User page? I learn something every day (actually more like every hour on Wikipedia), and there's still just as much to learn. I suppose that that means that there's an actually infinite amount of knowledge... Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:36, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I probably wouldn’t have thought about it either if I hadn’t moved few more obvious user pages with nicknames in the title to the user namespace before. Sometimes new users don’t know about the namespaces. Few days ago I found a strange article in Candidates for speedy deletion entitled Britney Spears Scratch Page and talking about super powers. It looked strange but it turned out to have been created by User:Britney Spears so I moved it to User:Britney Spears/Scratch Page (see: User talk:Britney Spears#Scratch Page) saving quite a lot of work and time spent writing it. As for the infinite amount of knowledge, I agree with you. Even if the known knowledge, so to speak, is finite in any given time, the Wikipedia alone grows faster than anyone could possibly read... It’s a strange thought than no one will ever read it all. And that it will never be actually written... It’s a true neverending story. Rafał Pocztarski 00:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Even when it's written down, there's a chance no-one will read it. Research done on the readership of physics journals a few years ago discovered that a published paper in physics is read by, on average, 1.5 people... Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:27, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

CSD

Which articles do you mean? I'm pretty sure most of them were blank when I put in the CSD Trampled 10:36, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It was Livelink, already deleted by SWAdair who put Content before blanking was "cost to much" [15] in the deletion log. Rafał Pocztarski 12:43, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace

I noticed that you dropped the recommendation to use subst: for some of the templates meant for User talk namespace [16]. It is advised to use subst: with messages for which some recipients might be newbies, so they don't get confused when they edit their talk page and see that the text that shows up isn't included in the source. Some might be misguided (e.g. that admins have special powers to write "hidden" comments in their pages, or whatever such stuff they could make up in their confused state). Hence I'm changing the page to recommend subst: for messages (partly or wholly) aimed at newbies. -- Paddu 15:02, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

copyleft icons

Hi - I have put a request for a license change for the copyleft icons on your talk page at the commons - please have a look -- commons:User:Duesentrieb -- 22:54, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New user box

Hello Rfl, It's SWD316. Im giving you the user box for your user page called Template:User Member. It's a user box that says your a member of the AWWDMBJ.... Hope you like it! — Moe ε 04:24, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete Thi

You were overzealous when creating the Thi redirect page. "Thi" is an extremely popular Vietnamese middle name for females (virtually all females have it). DHN 00:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Drawing request

I remembered your drawing of the Homo floresiensis skull, and wanted to know if you could make a similar sketch of the skull of Psittacosaurus, for the article Psittacosaurus, which is currently on WP:FAC. Thanks --BRIAN0918 20:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Flag of Poland with Coat of Arms 640px border1.png

You have asked not to delete this page, because it's referenced from Commons. However, the page on Commons doesn't seem to exist anymore. Can it be deleted now? Conscious 11:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The same goes for Image:Flag of Poland with Coat of Arms 640px.png and Image:Flag of Warsaw 640px border1.png. Conscious 11:57, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Use of fair use images outside of article namespace

Hello! You are displaying fair use images in your user namespace. Criterion 9 of the Wikipedia:Fair use criteria states that "Fair use images may be used only in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are not covered under the fair use doctrine." Sincerely, --Oden 07:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 01:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}[reply]

Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions

I nominated an article that you created (albeit 2.5 years ago), Frédéric Chopin Piano Competitions, for deletion. If you think that the article is salvageable, or that I'm mistaken, please comment on its deletion page. ALTON .ıl 04:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Beatles-singles-yesterday.jpg

Hello, Rfl. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Beatles-singles-yesterday.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Rfl/FeaturedArticle. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 05:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Montrealcanadienslogo.gif

Hello, Rfl. An automated process has found and will an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that is in your userspace. The image (Image:Montrealcanadienslogo.gif) was found at the following location: User:Rfl/FeaturedArticle. This image or media will be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. This does not necessarily mean that the image is being deleted, or that the image is being removed from other pages. It is only being removed from the page mentioned above. All mainspace instances of this image will not be affected Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 23:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Tank Man (Tiananmen Square protester).jpg

Hello Rfl, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Tank Man (Tiananmen Square protester).jpg) was found at the following location: User:Rfl. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 01:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Cyclone tracy aerial view darwin.jpg

Hello Rfl, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Cyclone tracy aerial view darwin.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Rfl. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Please note that it is possible that the image on your page is included vie a template or usebox. In that case, please find a free image for the template or userbox. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 11:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Cyclone tracy aerial view darwin.jpg

Hello Rfl, an automated process has found an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, such as fair use. The image (Image:Cyclone tracy aerial view darwin.jpg) was found at the following location: User:Rfl/FeaturedArticle. This image or media will be removed per statement number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media will be replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. The image that was replaced will not be automatically deleted, but it could be deleted at a later date. Articles using the same image should not be affected by my edits. I ask you to please not re-add the image to your userpage and could consider finding a replacement image licensed under either the Creative Commons or GFDL license or released to the public domain. Please note that it is possible that the image on your page is included vie a template or usebox. In that case, please find a free image for the template or userbox. Thanks for your attention and cooperation. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 11:26, 19 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Wikimedia Commons satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikimedia Commons and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikimedia Commons during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Mel sa ran (formerly Salaskаn) 00:01, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]