User talk:Spinboy/Archive 1

your copyvio article

Please note that the article you wrote on Dominique Abrioux was copied from http://www.athabascau.ca/presoff/staff/abrioux/biography2003.htm. Appropriate action has been taken for this article; However, to prevent this mistake from happening in the future, I would advise you to read Wikipedia:Copyrights. As a general rule of thumb, you should never copy and paste information from other websites. Most are protected by some kind of copyright or license. If the page explicitly says that its contents are released into the GNU Free Documentation License, then you may use it here.

If you have explicit permission from the copyright owner of the aforementioned page, then please contact me, and I will be able to revert the article back.

Your contributions are greatly appreciated at wikipedia, but please make sure that you are not violating copyright laws, as this can create problems for wikipedia. You are free to use external websites as references and to link to them, but please only use links, and never copy chunks of text. You should also put references and external links under the appropriate headers: "==References==" and "==External links==" respectively. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. -Frazzydee 05:06, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I appreciate your thanks...you have no idea how many people I warn about copyvios, and how many actually take the time to thank me :). Happy editing! -Frazzydee 05:37, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

PS: I don't necessarily agree with this...but when a copyright violation notice is placed, it's not supposed to be taken out unless it's proven to NOT be a copyright violation (apparantly there's no exceptions to this). For the future, please rewrite articles at Page title/Temp. Thanks!

No worries! It's not a big deal at all. -Frazzydee 05:42, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Universities in Alberta

I'm wondering why you changed the categorization of Alberta's universities from Category:Universities in Alberta back to Category:Alberta universities. Apart from the fact that it should be "Albertan universities" (to specify that they are universities in Alberta) and the fact that "Universities in Alberta" just sounds better, the standard (yet not prescribed) format of categorizing universities/colleges in jurisdictions is "Universities in jurisdiction" (e.g., Category:Universities and colleges in New York, Category:Universities and colleges in New Jersey, Category:Universities and colleges in Massachusetts, Category:Universities and colleges in Ireland, Category:Universities in Quebec, Category:Universities in Singapore, Category:Universities in Lithuania etc., etc.) Darkcore 05:14, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'm not advocating a change to Albertan universities, but Universities in Alberta is consistent with the categorization of universities and colleges in other jurisdictions as I mentioned above. Darkcore 06:40, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No problem ;) Darkcore 06:43, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Working on the Univs. in Ont. cat. as we speak... ;) Darkcore 07:11, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Students' Society of McGill University

As it now stands, this article would not survive a VfD vote. It would certainly be voted to be merged into the McGill article. The subject is not notable for its own article. I have merged the information into the McGill article (minus the copyright violation), so let's just leave the redirect as it is. Rick K 07:33, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

I think it should be it's own article - that is as it may be. But previous votes on student organizations have been to merge into the main article. You might want to review the history of the massive quantity Dartmouth College articles which all got merged there. Rick K 07:38, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

Since you refused to leave it as it was, I've listed it on Vfd -- Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Students' Society of McGill University. Rick K 23:50, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

CFS

You removed my edits on Canadian Federation of Students a mere 15 minutes later when what was presented were FACTS, and NOT PERSONAL OPINIONS.

That page does not belong to you even though your numerous edtis only led to a page with 3 short paragraphs in length.

You should know some wiki rules in editing and NOT taking your own POV to be the NPOV. — LegolasGreenleaf 04:14, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

So a 30% increase in tuition fees in one year does not sound like skyrocketing to you?

the average tuition in BC has doubled over the past 4 years when the BC Liberals removed the tuition freezes set by NPD, I don't know about Ontario but it doesn't mean that if your province does not have increasing tuition fees others won't have it either.

And HOW CAN A RESULT BE AN OPINION?!~? a result is a factual information that will only materialize after something have happened. It was written in the CFS member handbook that the tuition fees have been frozen this year for those provinces listed. — LegolasGreenleaf 04:53, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Fair Enough

lol so you are a fan of LotR as well eh...you know at this point I'm afraid that whatever I say you might disagree with...lol

Well thank you for your compliments and it was a nice discussion with another fellow wiki on POV which I think would never be fully neutral.

I picked this name because I like the character very much...both in the book and the movie...but now I feel this name makes my account not original. Oh wellz. — LegolasGreenleaf 12:50, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

lol but many hard-core Tolkien fans would argue that the Legolas in the movie does not fit the character in the book and he has been stylized for the interest of movie-goers. From what little I've read about Legolas, he is nothing but a great elven warrior. — LegolasGreenleaf 02:55, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

External links

Hi Spinboy... Just a quick friendly note to let you know that the proper title for the links of an article is "External links", so when you see that please do not change it to "External Links". Thank you. Marknen

Hello

Spinboy, I want you to discuss the matter with User:Gtabary. This hospital, constructed in 1974, is not considered to be notable from User:Gtabary point of view, likewise the Johor hospital Medical Specialist Centre and Wisma Maria, in which the hospital is in it. Do you think, if Medical Specialist Centre and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, who are in similar status, to be kept or deleted? If your hospital were to be kept, then the Medical Specialist Centre should be kept. Like yours, it is not a stub, in fact, it is a proper and wikified article. User:Chan Han Xiang

Why you are against our platonic love movement? Please stop vandalism. Posted by User: Asexual same-sex marriage

Hi Spinboy, can you please make it clear on the above user's talk page to whom you are referring when you say "You are the one who is vandalizing"? The way it's laid out now it looks like you mean me. Thanks, Exploding Boy 22:05, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

Same-sex marriage

Spinboy, people adding things because they disagree with the article is not vandalism, not even if they don't have the decency to discuss it. Always refer people to the talk page first before reverting, and politely refer to the three revert rule. I appreciate your efforts, but always try to assume good faith first and open a discussion. Cheers! JRM 22:10, 2004 Dec 7 (UTC)

I agree this should not be treated as vandalism. I'm trying to engage User:Asexual same-sex marriage in building an article devoted to Asexual same-sex marriage which I might add is an issue that has come up over the civil partnership bill (UK leglislation). So hopefully we can resolve this little edit war in this way. Barnaby dawson 22:37, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hey, nobody said building an encyclopedia was easy. :-) For the record, I do believe we are unlikely to get anything constructive out of this little revert war, but we can always try. If you find it hard to stay cool when the editing gets hot, it's OK to step back a moment and let the more patient (or naive, if you prefer :-) people try their hand. I promise none of us will stand for outright vandalism or reverting. My experience shows that people like this either calm down and talk or get worked up and leave when they don't get to insert "the truth". I'm still hoping for the former. JRM 22:26, 2004 Dec 7 (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)

"Canadian politics" template

Hey Spinboy, there is a problem with the template you create in that it creates a huge gap in the text in the articles in which it is placed. See Prime Minister of Canada for example. I am unsure what the problem is and I tried to fix it but was unsuccessful :S

Also, I wonder if you would object if I redesigned it? I think it would make more sense if it was broken down by branch of government and also, I don't think the Deputy PM warrants being on there as that position has no seniority over other ministers. -- Jord 06:09, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stub tags and 'External Links'

I've noticed you changing various stub templates to other stub templates and I was wondering if there is some sort of overarching plan for the stub templates. The artice on the Supreme Court of the Yukon Territory was just edited and I noticed that you've edited it 3 times in the last 3 weeks. The first time to capitalize "Links", the second time to change msg-stub to Template:Canada-stub and the third time to change the Template:Canada-stub to Template:Canada-gov-stub as well as uncapitalize the "links". I'm all for standardizing and fixing syntax and so I was wondering if there is some latest standard for these sorts of things so that the pages don't have to keep getting changed. Al guy 01:05, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Images

I notice you added a fairuse picture to University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Please remember, however, that an image can only be fairuse if its source is noted. If this information is not added the photo will eventually have to be deleted. - SimonP 06:17, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Greetings

Just saying "hello" back. Good luck with your studies! Simon 16:30, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)