User talk:Sikander/Archive 20080412

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Townships of Ontario

New Featured Picture Process

Hello, I notice that you recently voted on a few featured picture candidates. Please read the top of the featured pictures page; the process has recently changed. Now there is a 2 day commenting period before voting starts, so that there can be feedback on the image and it can be cleaned up if necessary.

Also, please do not remove the comments people leave on your discussion page. See Wikipedia:Talk_page#Etiquette and Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages. ••MDD4696 ( talk - contribs ) 16:03, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Cu aerial.jpg

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Medal images

High you removed my new images. I think they look more professional and fit in better. In what way do you think they are unclear, I could modify them a little, but they are just shrunken images of real gold, silver and bronze? Cheers, —Ruud 21:02, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is caused by a bug in Internet Explorer 6, I have asked if the MediaWiki developers can create a workaround or else I can convert the images to GIF files, in either case they will then be displayed on a white/light gray background just like they would be if you where using Firefox. Cheers, —Ruud 23:28, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've have used GIF images this time, so it should work with IE6. COuld you tell me if you like the result? Cheers, —Ruud 00:01, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Shacknews funky.jpg

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Perfect. Thanks! -SCEhard T 05:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured Picture

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Markham-suburbs id.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations, and thanks for nominating it. Raven4x4x 06:15, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:PhoneAreaCodes orphaning

You participated in this template's TfD and indicated a willingness to help orphan. I don't doubt you've been hard at work but I see there are still quite a few articles left on the inlink list. I'd appreciate it if you would help us finish this off. Thank you. John Reid 07:32, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:Cu aerial.jpg

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-SCEhard T 05:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Varied interests

I was just browsing the World Cup 2006 article that you had done some edits on, then I took a look at your recents edits. Wow! You have varied interests. It's good to see editors with a wide spread of interests - all too often editors get bogged down in their own subject area and become too petty. Nice one. SilkTork 01:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Footballbox

No problem, I noticed that there were 64 matches in the World Cup, and of course many World Cups in the future, not to mention other football competitions... seemed like the perfect time to make a template for it :) – ugen64 23:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Downtown Chicago Picture

Hi! Just a quick note to say congratulations on your arial picture of Downtown Chicago. It's Fantastic!! Skyscraper297 09:04, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World Cup

Hehe, we made it! I never trusted the goalkeeper, but today I promised to never insult him again, hehe. And we'll meet France, what a surprise, I didn't expected. Brazil looked like just any other team today. Anyway, I don't like them. Afonso Silva 21:09, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Mukhtar Mai - Accused Rapists.jpg

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Awesome gif

Nice job uploading that gif of Zidane - and so quickly too. It shows it much better than words could. --Loudsox 21:17, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You had it looped, but then made it not loop. I think you should make it loop at least three times (a compromise), that way you don't have to reload the whole page to see it again. You need to see it a couple times to get the full effect. Check the talk page of that image. good work either though man. --Jaysscholar 15:19, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so curious as to what the Italian player actually said! But it also might've just been like the straw the broke the camels back. Definately disappointing to go out like that... --Loudsox 21:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Football (soccer)

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Thanks! I was using the popup assisted revert for the first time and did not do it properly. sikander 00:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template

I did not remove anything. Did you mistouk me for somebody else? What edits are you talking about? Chaldean 20:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh man, I apologize for that. I was just trying to add the flags of Israel, Hezbollah, and Lebanon's. Sorry again. Chaldean 21:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey no problem. If it was inadvertent, then its ok. Just be careful next time. Happy editing! sikander 21:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Lebanon harat hreik neighbourhood.jpg

Hi. The author claims copyright on this. He didn't release it into CC-BY-2.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.0... the two licenses flickr allows that are compatible with Wikipedia. I have messaged the man to see if he will allow it to be under a free license but until then I've put it on the unfree images list. gren グレン 10:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

revert dispute International reactions to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict

Hi, There is an dispute in International reactions to the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The dispute is over inclusion of the AIPAC reaction to a US House of Representatives Resolution expressing support for Israel. Various accusations are being thrown around by Comrade438 eg. im being accused of trying to paint a "zionist conspiracy".

Comrade438 has made few silly edits, and comments, along with what might be a threat. It degenerated to Comrade438 blocking the page without consulting WP:RPP, then reverting last changes. I am trying to alert other users who have edited the article to this dispute as I believe the detail should be included. Is it possible you can look and see if you agree that AIPAC's reaction should be included in the article? I dont believe its a content issue and is possible trolling. I previously highlighted the problems on wikipedian noticeboard [1] 82.29.227.171 21:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:University Of Ottawa.gif)

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Image Vancouver_International_Airport_2006.jpg

Hi, can you please move your image( [2] ) to thw wikicommons? So that it can be used in other language wikipedias.--LugPaj 11:10, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism in Mathematics Portal

Hi. I also found some vandalism in the "Did you know" section in the Mathematics portal. I have now removed it. Best regards,

Tyraios 09:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Short articles

Please don't keep creating "clones" of the Deal or No Deal models. They're almost totally lacking content and are creating a lot of cleanup for other editors. Thanks. - Lucky 6.9 03:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notice

NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT the scope of WikiProject Ottawa is being debated. Your input is requested. Thank you. GreenJoe 20:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ottawa meetup

File:Wikimeetup.PNG -- Earl Andrew - talk 21:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ANAA

I've nominated this for deletion because the article does not mention why ANAA is notable. You may want to participate in the debate here. Robinson weijman 11:05, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:NathanPhillipsSquare.jpg

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Image:Nac Mac Feegle.jpg

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Re: Orphaned | Non-orphaned

Hi. Thanks for the tip. I will modify the bot ASAP. Sorry for the trouble caused. But, the template says "This public domain or GFDL-compatible file is linked to from some pages" and your image is copyright. Are you sure that it is the correct template to use? - Aksi_great (talk) 18:44, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I started a discussion about the template here. Can you give your input too as I mentioned your image there. - Aksi_great (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:G8 2006 leaders.jpg listed for deletion

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Featured Picture Candidate

I've just nominated ===Chicago from the air===

Reason: A bit pixelly, but still a striking image
Proposed caption: Downtown Chicago, viewed from the air in 2005.
Articles this image appears in: Chicago, Nature, Human ecosystem
Creator: User:Siqbal but apparently uploaded by somebody else

Support as nominator Spikebrennan 20:28, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's an interesting picture but a bit too small for its subject and as you say, a bit pixelly/grainey. ~ Veledan • Talk 22:38, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Veledan. I really like the shot, but the quality is not there. Matt Deres 23:22, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Good picture, but hazy at the top. The angle of the picture and the composition are not very good either. The angle distorts the farther section and the composition is tilted. I think aerial shots are better taken straight down, not from a window. Luca 07:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support A terrific picture--Southern Texas 05:13, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. A nice illustration of Chicago, but technically unimpressive. --Dhartung | Talk 12:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:39, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

as a featured picture candidate.  Spikebrennan 20:31, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Missing image Image:Corel Centre March 2004.jpg

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