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Please add your 2¢ below. I will respond to you on your page, unless you indicate otherwise. Archived Versions: *March 2005 Image:Cowbell2.gif I'm afraid this image is used in articles under fair uses and therefore its use is not allowed on user pages. Could you remove it please?Geni 10:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC) Done... I fixed the culprit! tiZom 19:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC) Help desk reply I have replied to your help desk question. On another note, it may be considered poor etiquette to remove what is on your talk page. See "Can I do whatever I want to my own user talk page?". jnothman talk 00:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC) Thanks Thanks for your help with the numbered list! bcatt 00:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC) DDR arrow image. I realized one thing that we neglected to consider. Instead of using a DDR arrow, we may use the aarow used in IN the Groove (or from Stepmania). As the game use MIT License, we should be able to use its images without any copyright complications. SYSS Mouse 03:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC) Fixed [1] tiZom(the man) 18:51, 3 February 2006 (UTC) Medal Infobox Oh, I had already done that infobox the day before you made that! :o\ (See {{Olympic Record}}) Ahh well, I updated yours so that the olympic rings picture meshes better with the background color. I also added a {{MedalDisqualified}}, because I have seen this on rare occasions where a medal was taken away, and I believe this is significant. I wanted to add it to the talk pages, but first, I wanted to clear it through you... As for my own {{Olympic Record}} template, should I just point it to these ones here? Or send them off to TfD? There are only several articles that use it so far, so it's not a big deal. Let me know. tiZom(the man) 06:42, 3 February 2006 (UTC) Oh, hey, sorry, didn't see that you'd made that one. My only thing is that Olympic record (btw, holy cripes does that need more info...) has a meaning similar to world record, and therefore having it as a header for the box might be confusing (perhaps just "Olympic medals" might work?). But the background color definitely looks better. And the Disqualified one is nice for these people (at least, the ones who won medals before being caught). I suggest redirects for the duplicate templates, as that's less work than TfDing them ;) but do whatever you feel should be done with them. -- Jonel | Speak 03:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC) Yeah, I wasn't too vocal about making it... I was just sort of playing around with it...didn't know anyone else would be too interested! Anyway, I changed the template to "Olympic Medal Record." Hope that works :o) Also, I templated all the talk pages to the {{MedalTop talk}} page. That way, if we have updates, we can just change the MedalTop page, and it can be seen from anywhere. I also added the {{MedalDisqualified}} template into the general instructions. Do you have a plan on getting this implemented throughout all the individual olympian pages? Let me know - if you have a system, I'd like to help. Don't have too much free time on my hands, but I do love the Olympics :o) tiZom(the man) 04:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC) I've got all of the 1896 Summer Olympics medal winners done (old Olympics are quite fun to look at and compare to modern ones--though old Olympic Reports leave much to be desired). Starting to get busy as heck with "real life" stuff, so I'm probably not going to be doing too much on WP for a while. Sreed1234 (talk · contribs) has been pretty active recently on Olympics stuff, you might talk with her about it. -- Jonel | Speak 05:01, 4 February 2006 (UTC) Table Formatting Hey, I was wondering if you could help me with something: I'm trying to make some results pages for some Torino events, but I'm having a little trouble with tables. I saw your little tournament template that you've got (User:Jonel/Bracket-test), and that's really advanced, so I figured you'd know this :o) If you would, take a look at this. I'd like to remove the vertical border lines surrounding the athletes' names, as well as the horizontal line that separates them. Do you know how I do that? tiZom(2¢) 00:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC) I've mostly just modified that from Template:Round16-waiting. As for removing the border lines, those are part of the wikitable class. MediaWiki:Common.css is where you can find the CSS for the class. Drop the class tag, and the lines disappear. You can pull desired attributes from the CSS page. You can add borders selectively through tags like style="border-width:0 0 2px 0; border-style: solid;border-color:black;" The order of the 4 border segments is top, right, bottom, left. Higher px numbers give thicker borders. #aaaaaa is the standard gray color used by wikitables, if you want that color. Let me know if this helps. -- Jonel | Speak 01:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC) Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics I reverted your change that removed the {{current sport}} template from Curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics, since the Men's gold and bronze medal matches aren't until Friday February 24 2006 --rogerd 02:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC) oops! Sorry - I backed out of that save, but I guess not in time. Thanks for catching that error! tiZom(2¢) 03:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC) Image:GoldMedal-bgwhite.png Could you explain what happened here? I don't see why this conversion was necessary in the first place. The transparency doesn't work in all browsers. In mine, for instance, the transparency was showing up as black (which looked terrible...). I changed it to white, but then didn't realize that I should have used the gray tone that's used in the table itself. In your edit summary it says you used AWB, does AWB automatically convert images with transparency to images with a white background? I could see some serous problems if this is the case. I only use AWB because I have a terribly slow internet connection, and the save almost always fails on me if I'm saving on a normal browser. Sorry for the confusion! The conversion was done incorrectly. My image contains an alpha channel, by the image was not blended correctly with the background in your image. What I did was really rough. I don't have much graphic capability, and I didn't think it mattered terribly, especially since it is on such a small scale. You changed the license from GFDL to public domain, while I doubt my image is ellegible for copyright I would have preffered if you had contacted me first. You're right - I should have paid attention to your license. I'm very foreign to the whole copyright thing, and when I looked at the list, that's just what I figured you would have put down. Very sorry about that. Cheers, —Ruud 21:05, 25 February 2006 (UTC) Finally, we are not even sure if we're going to be using images on this template at all. Please see Wikipedia:Olympic Conventions. tiZom(2¢) 21:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC) The problem is that the background-color of Wikipedia pages is not fixed. I depends on the skin you use etc. What browser do you use? I know PNG redering is f*cked up in Internet Explorer 5 and the it is definitly fixed in IE7. Don't know about about IE6, though. —Ruud 21:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC) Unfortunately, like a good portion of the world, I'm still using IE6. I do know that gif's have the capability of displaying some transparencies (on all the browsers I've seen anyway. Any way you could convert it to gif for now? tiZom(2¢) 21:39, 25 February 2006 (UTC) I've asked the developers if there is any change that MediaWiki will convert the images automatically for IE6 users, if not I will convert them to GIFs tomorrow. (b.t.w. I'm watching your talk page so you don't have to respond on mine.) —Ruud 22:12, 25 February 2006 (UTC) Hi, I've converted the PNG iamges to GIF images? Do you like how they look now? This unfortunatly means we can't use a background color which differs significantly from white or very light gray anymore. Cheers, —Ruud 00:08, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Oh man, so there's no way to fix it with the png's? I just changed the background colors...lol. But I don't think it looks terrible... tiZom(2¢) 00:11, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Use Firefox :p. —Ruud 00:14, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Olympic Rings Hi, I just have a question about the removal of the Olympic Rings from the MedalTop template. I was under the impression that this was a free image. Per the Olympic Charter, anyone is allowed to use the pictures of the rings as long as they promote the Olympic Movement, which I've no doubt this does. If you don't mind, I need to know which license I can apply to this picture so that we can use it to refer to the the Olympic committees, the Olympic Games, and Olympic athletes. Thanks for your help! tiZom(2¢) 20:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC) Under the IOCs conditions, the Olympic Rings are not free enough for Wikipedia, as they restrict third-party use (worse, they restrict our use). ed g2s • talk 00:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC) medal infobox 2 Hi, could you please point me to the place where you discussed adding the names of the cities to medal infobox? The other guy and I think that's not a nice thing. --Dijxtra 07:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Ha. I didn't like it either, because it was too lengthy. But it was discussed at Template talk:MedalTop#Games location with year?. And after I started doing it, I found it gave a good frame of reference. Sorry, I was unaware of the discussion elsewhere. What should we do from here? tiZom(2¢) 14:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC) I joined the discussion there. I propose you stop the adding of names for a day until the discussion there is concluded. --Dijxtra 14:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Notice Hi. On February 14, you placed an {{underconstruction}} tag on this page. You havn't made any edits since then, so unless you say otherwise, I am going to remove the tag in a few days for the convenience of other users. Thanks. --Jared [T]/[+] 21:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Yeah, like the talk page says, there ended up being way too much work to do on the Torino Olympics. I took the template off, and I wrote that this was an incomplete list. (For the time being, of course) tiZom(2¢) 22:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Ok, thanks. I didn't think to look at the talk page, so I didn't know that you said that. Best regards. --Jared [T]/[+] 22:36, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Re: Comment on WP:Olympic conventions Thank you very much for the comment. I don't want to be the person here taking in all of the glory (because I was the one who created the page, but it is you guys who made it happen), so don't get me wrong, but ever since I created the page I've heard negative feedback from people who disagreed with the outcomes, so it's nice to hear a good comment for a change. I totally agree with you that it is past its "infant" stage, so to speak, and it needs more structure and attention. What I don't want to do, though, is take over what the Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Olympics has already set out. I think that things would get hostile if we just decided to do things our own way. I suggest letting them know what we propose to do first, and let them decide if it is right. I think sistering up with them would be our first goal...it'll get us some more needed public attention. If you have any additional ideas, feel free to voice them on my page or the olympic con. page. Thank, again! --Jared [T]/[+] 22:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC) WikiPorject Sports Olympics Welcome to the project, Hope you enjoy your stay and can get envolved. Can I encourage you to add {{user WikiProject Olympics}} to your user page as this advertises us more and adds you to the participants category. :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page) 07:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC) Urgent! King, please go to this page ASAP, as the Olympic conventions pages have been nominated for deletion! I trust that you like them a lot and from your edits, you are not willing to lose all of the work you put in. I urge you to vote "Keep", as 3 weeks of work are about to go down the drain! Thanks. (and tell other active contributors.) --Jared [T]/[+] 20:34, 8 March 2006 (UTC) I voted to move it into the Wikiproject, if they will allow it. I figure that with the main options being keep and delete, this seems like a viable compromise. I don't want to lose all that work, and I think it will be a little bit more fitting as part of the Wikiproject. Hope that's ok! tiZom(2¢) 05:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC) Yeah, sorry....I sent it to a bunch of people (hope you don't mind) and I forgot to change the name. haha. Well a move vote is good! I don't mind. I'm only trying to keep it so I don't have to give in to them. I will say move only when I have to, but I do agree it should be moved. Sorry again. --Jared [T]/[+] 12:08, 9 March 2006 (UTC) Medal template use in non-olympic contexts I noticed when editing a page that uses Template:MedalTopEAA (European track and field (athletics) championships medal table top) that Template:MedalGold, Template:MedalSilver, and Template:MedalBronze have the undesirable side-effect of adding the page to an olympic medal category. So I created new templates just for use in non-olympic contexts: Template:MedalGoldGeneric, Template:MedalSilverGeneric, and Template:MedalBronzeGeneric which don't do any adding to categories. I went ahead and updated all the pages affected by this that I found linking to Template:MedalTopEAA, but I don't know about other non-olympic medal table contexts. (This pertains to your edits on Linford Christie and Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe when you cleaned up the medal tables.) -- Mareklug talk 20:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Oooh...good catch! I hadn't thought about that. Actually, I was entirely unaware of those categories...seems like someone added those after the fact. I know that the {{MedalTopEAA}} template is the only one that I created. I'm unsure if anyone else created anything different. Maybe for each {{MedalTopXXX}} template, we could have {{MedalGoldXXX}} so that we can add appropriate categories...sound like a good idea? I'm sure there aren't too many widespread competitions that give out gold, silver, and bronze medals. tiZom(2¢) 23:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC) I looked in the template index starting with "MedalTop" and Template:MedalTopEAA is the only one there beside the two Olympic ones (standard and the one for pictures). I'm not sure how to look for templates for other competitions; there may not be any. For now I hesitate to adopt a policy that unnecessarily spawns templates -- the Olympic medal templates do the special category adding to Olympic medal categories, yes, but there may be no need for that for other competitions. For now, I'd say, let's just remember to use Template:MedalGoldGeneric (and its Silver and Bronze variants) with non-Olympic competitions. And yes, the idea of giving out gold, silver and bronze medals is a generic idea -- in sports and otherwise -- and includes such things as World Championships, European Championships, Commonwealth Games, Pan-Am Games in many sports and other regional championships as well as various national competions. Chances are they all merely need what the Template:MedalGoldGeneric, Template:MedalSilverGeneric and Template:MedalBronzeGeneric provide: formatting a single row in a medal table with no side-effects. -- Mareklug talk 00:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC) Chronological Order Hey, I'm sorry for reverting your stuff. I had completely missed out on that part of the conversation ... I've put in my two cents about the order of things on the talk page. Sue Anne 02:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Olympic conventions debate Hi all! The debate on Olympic conventions has been moved and is now under the auspices of WikiProject Sports Olympics/Olympic conventions. We are now trying to decide what to do with all of the data that has been collected and start some sort of "governance". If you'd like to take part in this discussion, feel free to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics#Ground_rules (the WikiProject talk page). We would appreciate your help! --J@red [T]/[+] 20:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC) Your user page Hey, i was wondering how you did all the cloured boxes at the top of your page that has little peices of info about you. did you use some kind of tool for it, or make it yourself?? If it isn't your i dont suppose you can help me so i can construct my own?? Would be very grateful I dont know how internal messages work so can you just email me at dezzy1@gmail.com Thanks Helpful User Thanks Very Much for your detailed assistance!! Not to sound too ardent (or crazy) but my admiration of American people continues to grow. Regards Sumit Desai 11:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC) Image copyright problem with Image:BronzeMedalSmall.gif Thanks for uploading Image:BronzeMedalSmall.gif. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy). The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}. Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. 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For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 11:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC) Such hassle! ...I've put speedy delete tags on them all, because I don't remember the copyright status, and also the discussion in which they were used is over. tiZom(2¢) 15:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC) Re: Olympic-rings.png removed from your user page An image or media file, Image:Olympic-rings.png, has been removed from your userpage or user talk page because it was licensed as fair use. Wikipedia's fair use policy states that fair use images should only be used in the article namespace. As a result, although users are often given a great amount of latitude in the type of content that is allowed on their user pages, it is requested that you abide by this policy. Feel free, however, to add images and media files licensed under other terms. For more information, see Wikipedia's fair use policy and an accompanying essay on the removal of fair use images. Thank you for your cooperation. joturner 16:02, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Thanks, but be a little more careful next time. You actually didn't remove any images at all. But don't worry, I took care of it. Thanks for the notice :o) tiZom(2¢) 17:12, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Actually, I did remove the image from your page (see here). However, I could completely understand if you thought I didn't remove any images, because there are in fact two images of Olympic rings Olympic-rings.png, the image I said I removed, and Olympic rings.svg, the images you removed. Obviously, the fact that we have two images that depict the exact same thing needs to be rectified. joturner 18:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Re: Competitor country template Hi Tom, thanks for your comment at regarding adding the country for a competitor. I have created a test version at User:Mattbr30/Sandbox if you would like to have a look, and let me know what you think. Thanks, mattbr30 20:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC) I'll admit that I'm very concerned with the coding here, as I'm a big advocate of WP:AUM. I mean, that's why we did the medal infobox like this in the first place, with the MedalTop and MedalBottom templates. You did a great job on the coding there, and I'm wondering if maybe there is a way to get the best of both worlds. My question is this: Is there a way to create, say, an {{addNOC}} template, such that when you subst: it, then the resulting text is itself a template with parameters? For example, say you have page Ronaldo. When we add your template to his existing infobox, we get Olympic medal record Competitor for Brazil Men’s Football Atlanta 1996 Team Competition {{MedalTop}} {{MedalNOC | BRA | 1996}} {{MedalSport | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}} {{MedalBronze| [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}} {{MedalBottom}} I'd like to instead code this {{MedalTop}} {{subst:addNOC| BRA | 1996}} {{MedalSport | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}} {{MedalBronze | [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}} {{MedalBottom}} And then when it gets saved, the resulting code in the Ronaldo article shows like this: {{MedalTop}} {{MedalNOC | Brazil | Flag of Brazil.svg}} {{MedalSport | Men’s [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Football]]}} {{MedalBronze| [[1996 Summer Olympics|Atlanta 1996]]|Team Competition}} {{MedalBottom}} This way, the meta-templates are only called for the first save, and from then on, it is a single-layer template. Because the only reason that you have coded it your way is just to automate things, so that while coding, we don't have to remember which flag was Brazil using back in 1996, etc. Does this make any sense to you? I'm not that great at explaining this sort of thing :o\ tiZom(2¢) 20:53, 26 June 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the quick reply. I understand what you are saying and, with my template, I'm not sure if your suggestion is possible because substing pastes the whole template and not just the results. The only other option I can think of at the moment (unless the flags were not included, but I would prefer not to) would be to have a template for each country, but this would create a large number of templates to manage, which I would also prefer not to have. I will have a think about it further and see if I can come up with something else. Thanks, mattbr30 19:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC) Unified Team Flag Hey, I noticed that we've both been removing Olympic Rings images all over, and so I was wondering what you thought about using Image:Flag of the Olympic Movement.svg as the 20px flag in pages like this. I feel that since the IOC let this entity use the Olympic Rings, then it should be free in this sense, i.e. only when the Rings are representing the flag that represented the Unified Team. But I don't know enough about copyright issues to make this decision. What do you think? tiZom(2¢) 03:57, 27 June 2006 (UTC) I know very little about copyright except what I see on Wikipedia pages (which, as we know, shouldn't be considered reliable sources). I've been acting to implement WP policy without really paying any attention to what's legally allowable (which, as far as I can tell, is quite a bit more than our policy provides for due to the free-content principle). In this case, my guess would be that the use we make of the Rings for EUN representation is under the terms of a (fairly minimally) restrictive license (the same license by which the EUN team itself used the image on its flag) rather than by the image being free. Then again, I'm not one of the nine people who understand the copyright law of my own country, much less the rest of the world, so... -- Jonel | Speak 23:44, 27 June 2006 (UTC) Your question at WP:HD Image tagging for pictures of products I was just looking at the page for Milky Way candy bars (just hungry, I suppose...), and I noticed that the picture Image:Milky Way Wrapped.jpg was tagged as Public Domain. I know this is incorrect - is there a tag for pictures of products? I looked at the list of image license tags but couldn't find it. I'm certainly no expert on copyrights. If possible, could someone get back to me on my talk page? Thanks! tiZom(2¢) 04:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC) Re your question, I think {{Promotional}} would be an appropriate tag there -- Lost(talk) 04:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC) Userboxes in a grid on your User Page? Thanks for your help with the map image. Your user boxes display very well. Where can I find out about the USER : UBX tag that you have used? GeoFan49 00:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC) That's just something I did for myself, to keep myself a little better organized. All I did was create a separate user page and named it User:Tomtheman5/UBX. This essentially creates a subdirectory under my user page. Then I put all my userboxes there (using code). Follow the link, and you'll see what I mean. Then, to include the entire contents of my "UBX" sub-page into my main user page, I just used the code [[:User:Tomtheman5/UBX]]. (Remember to use that first colon) I did this also with my "to do" list, my sandboxes, and my milestones page. This way, the code for my main user page is nice and clean, and all the edits are made in the sub-pages. If you choose to do this, and you need help with it, please, just let me know! tiZom(2¢) 02:21, 24 September 2006 (UTC) License tagging for Image:City of Cranston RI Seal.jpg Thanks for uploading Image:City of Cranston RI Seal.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images. For more information on using images, see the following pages: Wikipedia:Image use policy Wikipedia:Image copyright tags This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. 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Crunch 01:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC) Also, if you look at Alkivar's deletion log, it looks like he had a little fit of deleting both Project Runway and Top Chef contestant articles all within a span of minutes on October 6, 2006 and all without due process even when some have survived votes for deletion. If you can advise how to stop this kind of abuse by admins, I'd appreciate it. Looking at this guy's discussion page, he doesn't seem like the most popular admin. You may have to look at the history of his Talk page because he tends to delete the critical message. Crunch 01:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC) Still no word from Alkivar, but he continues to delete comments on his Talk page from me and others on this matter and others on the same issue and others like it. I tracked down the history of his nomination and voting as an admin see here and it seems it took three attempts and even then it was tenuous for the reasons we've seen here. I'm not sure if this is a permanent appointment, or if it comes up for renewal. In any case, it looks as if some of these deleted bios have been recreated without interference from Alkivar. Crunch 13:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC) You've probably seen that Alkivar has now put an arrogant and snotty responose to you on this talk page. Unbelievable. Crunch 00:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)