User talk:Roisterer/2005 Archive

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 2000 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)

Re Father of the Australian House of Reps see Father of the House - it's the member with the longest continuous service - as Ward was between the defeat of Earle Page at the 1961 election and his own death in 1963. PMA 22:10, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Robin Millhouse

Robin claims (because I sent article to him to check) that he was elected to bench of SA supreme court earlier than July 1982: he thinks April and before Easter. Otherwise it's OK. --GPoss 09:29, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Rehoboth/Rehobeth

Rehoboth/Rehobeth is on one of the maps of Namibia, Towns in Namibia, just south of Windhoek.

Unfortunately, the second "o" was obscurred and I typed "e".

An admin-level person may be needed to tidy up this mistake.

Belingen on Belinger River

Originally the town and the river in New South Wales had the same name, but the "n" became and "r" (or visa versa) because of someone's bad handwriting. See Belinger and Belingen.

Tabletop 8 July 2005 01:50 (UTC)

My RfA

Just a quick note of appreciation for your support on my RfA. Nice to find someone who appreciates the importance of a good roister :). I'll be sure to see you around, Happy editing! Slac speak up! 21:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Australia page as being an expatriate/overseas Australian. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Australian Wikipedians for instructions.--Rmky87 02:29, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Public Domain Images

All images taken in Australia before 1955 are now in the public domain. The date of the photographer's death and the date of publication do not come into the equation.

Any image taken after 1955 is only acceptable to upload to wikipedia if it is released under a GFDL compatible license. A non-comercial license is not compatible with the GFDL so photos that are released under this are not allowed to be uploaded. --Martyman-(talk) 09:53, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes unfortunatly the options are limited for photos newer than 1955. I would think in the particular case you mention fait use is probably an acceptable claim, but for many cases this isn't an option. Otherwise maybe contacting someone who owns the copyright to a photo you need and asking them to release the photo under a free licence. --Martyman-(talk) 06:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gregor McGregor

I think we should crop NLA photos so as to remove the NLA line at the bottom. We may think these images are PD but the NLA certainly won't take that view, and we should not draw attention to our use of their photos. Adam 06:19, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm happy to do any photo-cropping as requested. On the Premiers of South Australia, I notice that some of the article are very rudimentary. When I have finished doing all the Premiers of Victoria (which will be a while, I'm only up to the 1890s) I might have a go at the other states. Adam 07:47, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to say what Adam just did. Cropping them is easy enough with any basic graphics program, and takes about five minutes. There's also much larger versions available of the National Library pictures you've been using. Ambi 08:24, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanto translation

From page Keppel Enderby, quote "First time I've ever seen an article translated from Esperanto". It happens all the time, I do it a lot, for example, but most people don't mention in the comment. I'm guessing you live in Australia - which city do you live in? If you're interested, there's sure to be an Esperanto group... well, probably, anyway:P

By the way, I noticed that there is also a page Kep Enderby, which I didn't notice before I did the translation from Esperanto. It has some different information, but not quite as much as the new version, so I suggest they be merged. Thanks for your fixing, anyway. Sumthingweird 04:10, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information on Esperanto & Keppel I once knew how to say "Could you call the hall porter, there seems to be a frog in my bidet" in Esperanto but alas the lack of opportunity to make such a comment has meant that I have forgotten it. I'll go off and merge the Keppel pages. Cheers --Roisterer 04:22, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see you're a Red Dwarf enthusiast :P. I should really watch that one day... Thanks for doing the Keppel pages, last time I checked he wasn't answering his email so he might not have realised that there was a new page about him. But he probably wouldn't notice anyway... If you want to check out some of my articles, I'm mostly responsible for pages such as Australian Esperanto Association, Newcastle Esperanto Society (a group I run), and a few Australia-related pages in the Esperanto Wikipedia. If ever you decide to learn Esperanto, the best course is [www.kurso.com.br/kurso.exe] but I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time at the moment... :P

Roistering

If you want to get served alcohol in Vatican City all you have to do is go to Mass. Adam

Nuggeting

NUGGET (AfD discussion)

You considered this to be "dubious". Please re-visit both the article and the discussion. Please also visit Talk:NUGGET#Cleanup and consider adding the article to your watchlist and assisting in the effort to keep the article clear of unverifiable additions and original research by schoolchildren. Uncle G 15:10, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ianblair23's RfA

G'day Roisterer,

I would like to thank you for supporting me on my RfA. It closed with the final tally of 57/0/0. I can only hope I can live up to the expectations that this wonderful community of ours demands from each of its administrators. If you ever need anything, please just let me know. Cheers! -- Ianblair23 (talk) 03:03, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cnwb's RfA

Roisterer,

Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. PS; were you at the Melb meetup? I can't place you. Were you the one who talked about Microsoft? Cnwb 22:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Rositerer, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) PS, it wouldn't have mattered if you voted against me, I would also have needed to know where you live ;) --bainer (talk) 23:23, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ianbrown's RfA

Thanks for voting in my recent RfA. I was overwhelmed at the turnout and comments received.

Ian ≡ talk 07:51, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject AFL

G'day mate, I'm a big fan, like you, of Australiana and Aussie rules footy. Any chance you'd consider having a look at WikiProject AFL? Cheers, Rogerthat 08:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Asian politician

No luck so far, mate. But thanks for asking, I'd almsot forgotten I'd asked that question. Nice to know people still care out there. Cheers JackofOz 06:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]