User talk:Greba

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The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Wikipedia, GNU and Everything

You wrote: "Accordingly, 'all original material contributed to Wikipedia is deemed to be free content under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning that it may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license.'"

Yeah, well that...sucks, doesn't it? Many other sites have banners and such and they essentially make money from reposting others' hard-earned info. Personally, I feel that the laxity of the GNU licensing system is what keeps Wikipedia from gaining a more authoritative status. If, at least, there was differentiation between freely contributing and taking wholesale articles, Wikipedia would gain a higher status as a reference work. *shrug* But it all seems to be "all or nothing" in the crazy, crazy world of open-source. ;) NeoThe1 02:29, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

407 ETR and ANPR

Thanks for you entry at talk:407 ETR about Automatic number plate recognition. Because you linked to the ANPR article I found out about the 407 ETR (using "What links here" in the toolbox) – that gave me scope to make a great addition to the ANPR article that I created and have been working on for the last few days. I'd just dried up on ideas of how to expand it, so thanks for that! violet/riga (t) 22:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Rating stars

I noticed you have been replacing written-out 10-scale ratings (eg "(9/10)") with the star template, but from what I remember the last time this was brought up on the WikiProject Albums talk page there were a number of people opposed to this, and nobody really in favor, so I was wondering if I missed some newer discussion about this...? --Fritz S. (Talk) 22:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No you didn't miss any discussion. I didn't know there had been a discussion regarding using the rating-10 template and had made the assumption that a note about *not* using the template would have been placed in the talk page for the template Template_talk:Rating-10. I was replacing the text as there seemed to be inconsistences in what people were using. Be it "(9/10)", "9 stars out of 10", "9.0/10.0", "90%", "9 out of 10", etc. I was also basing my changes on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums#Professional_reviews. Upon re-reading, it doesn't that I shouldn't be converting numbers into stars (specifically the ten ones), but it also doesn't state a preference for either one. I've stopped making any further changes. Greba 23:05, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should discuss making changes to such a huge number of articles with the Project first, anyway. --Fritz S. (Talk) 23:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

First time using WP:AWB and I didn't realize how many edits I had actually made. Upon further research, I've found Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums/Stars has a discussion that would have been nice to know about before I started. Should be a link from the main project page to make it easier to find. Greba 23:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles for deletion nomination of Pocketwatch (album)

I have nominated Pocketwatch (album), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pocketwatch (album). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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