User talk:David Foster

Hi! I'm David (Dave) Foster. I live in South Florida. I am in college majoring in Political Science. I also have a website, which the server just crashed but should be up soon! I'll put a link. See you in Wikiland

Hi David, welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you're marking some edits as minor even though they're more than changes such as spelling corrections or formating changes. Please see minor edit for a discussion of when an edit should be marked as minor. Please also cite the source for your material in the edit summary. Thanks Tom 2:14 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done and thanks!--David Foster 06:08, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Seattle demographics

I see that you've changed demographic statistics for Seattle, still attributing them to the U.S. Census of 2000. I believe the previous numbers correctly reflected that census. Do you have a different source (in which case please cite it), or is there an updated revision of the census, or what? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:29, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

So can I assume that you will sort this out in the article? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:30, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

No --David Foster 12:41, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Global warming.gif and Global warming2.gif

David, you recently uploaded Image:Global warming.gif and Image:Global warming2.gif, marked them as GFDL and stated "The original version of this figure was prepared by Illinois State Museum (http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/) from publicly available data. The figure may be used under the GFDL."

I suspect that both of these images are copyright problems. While the fact that the data is public is good, the copyright in such cases vests with the person or organization that prepared a particular style of presentation for such data. In this case, that would appear to be the not-for-profit Illinois State Museum Society. Unless you have their explicit permission, you would not have the authority to release these images under the GFDL.

Unless you can give me a good reason why the GFDL should apply, I intend to list both these images on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Dragons flight 18:40, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

Noted and accepted--David Foster 10:03, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

(William M. Connolley 13:34, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)) DF is perhaps to modest to point this out, but the new pics are also largely unneeded, because there are nicer ones at User:Dragons flight/Images.

Source for information on L.A. page

Hi there:

CIS is hardly a solid source for such a controversial point. All of the well-established, well-respected think tanks on both sides of the political spectrum (Cato, Heritage, Hudson, Hoover, Manhattan, Brookings, Urban, AEI, etc.) are not afraid to list their trustees and their experts. They also prominently display their experts' education and backgrounds.

Without any listing of its personnel or any description of their qualifications, CIS could easily be three ordinary guys in a one-room office making up numbers off the top of their heads. When you've actually got hands-on experience with political battles, you'll realize there are way too many wannabe think tanks all over the U.S. that have fancy Web sites and not much else.

While you're still an undergraduate, you might want to consider taking courses in epistemology and critical thinking.

--Coolcaesar 10:40, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Al Gore controversies

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