User talk: Dysprosia

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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. Orison Sweet Marden.

-- fm Anthere

I, Reene, hereby award dysprosia the Wiki Wiffle Bat for her general awesomeness and a great attitude.

Arbcom candidate endorsements:

Ambi: Support. Dysprosia 00:43, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
sannse: Support. Dysprosia 00:43, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I will not be here until the 12th of December

Contents

1 Vandalism

2 History edits

3 I am awesome

4 Okay thanks for your offer of help

5 cross-dressing impass

6 Subpages

7 Article Licensing

8 NRZI/NRZ/etc images

9 Well, we tried.

10 Thanks

Vandalism

How much vandalism have you been reverting?? 66.32.241.1 01:19, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

History edits

Dysprosia Hi. Could you clarify something for me on history records please. at times I do a quick edit on The Duke of Wellington's Regiment page without logging in, this records up as 62.252.96.10 however when you go into the page history and click on this link it shows a lot of other edits attributed to that number. None of the ones below Battle of Monte Cassino 1 Nov 2004 are mine except for the Duke of Wellington's Korea edits eg 18th October I was offline scuba diving off the east coast of england from the 14th so couldn't have done any and as for football I don't go near it. why are these linked to me?? Richard Harvey 13:43, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I am awesome

Just passing on my knowledge. - Vague|Rant 07:00, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Okay thanks for your offer of help

I thought I would send you an email, but that didn't work, so did you mean for me to put my questions here?

You suggested that I move my comments on Talk:Original Unix Shell to Talk:Bourne shell. Actually, I should have put them at Talk:Original Unix shell because there is a Original Unix shell. So, how would I move an article, when it has the wrong name? I didn't see any obvious place where this was addressed in the help documentation. Another topic I didn't see addressed in the tutorials were the rules for making a disambiguation page. Geo Swan 03:41, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

cross-dressing impass

Hi, Dysprosia,

I have tried to sort things out a little on the Cross-Dressing discussion. Unfortunately the two individuals who are debating are not getting anywhere. I can talk to one of them, but 'e is so angry that I doubt that I am getting anywhere. The other person is, in my opinion, in need of some advice about trying to "put a stop on" other contributors. When I engaged the other individual in an attempt to clarify his terminology in my own mind (I had actally misconstrued what all the shouting was about), the person newer to Wikipedia as much as told me to butt out. In my opinion he does not discuss matters in an open and fair manner. I have said that my take on the situation is that Joan of Arc was identified by members of that society as a female, and that there is no argument from anyone to say that Joan never wore a man's clothing, Joan's behavior clearly fits "cross-dressing" as it is clearly defined in the article. So Joan is probably the most outstanding instance of cross-dressing in history and a brief notice of that fact is entirely appropriate, and that out to be the end of the matter. Having said that, I doubt that I might have any influence with the newer contributor. I thought it might be helpful if you or Maverick or one of the most stable of the old timers (jeez, I'm the one at retirement age) could give the newer contributor some advice. I'm not angry at him, but I have difficulty in communicating with someone who seems so clearly intent on icing me out. In the long run he may interact with other people who will not be gentle with him. It might keep things saner in the long run if he could be steered toward using a less manipulative approach.

Best, P0M

Subpages

It was discussed on the endorsements talk page. I apologize for not notifying you personally, as there were far too many to deal with. Naturally, feel free to deal with that page now as you wish. --Michael Snow 04:27, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Given the volume of discussion that resulted, that's easy to do. --Michael Snow 04:31, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 50 most. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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 (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 15:27, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Jamesday sed on IRC that BSD license is okay, so I release all my contribs under the BSD 3-clause license, barring those which I've already marked with GFDL unless it's possible to have these relicensed under said license. Dysprosia 09:49, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A relevant discussion is happening here. crazyeddie 07:35, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

NRZI/NRZ/etc images

Hi. I can't help but notice that these images you've created appear to be a derivative work from my original Image:Manchester.png image. Would it be possible for you to highlight this somehow? However, there may be an added problem as to your wish to license the derivatives as PD, which I'm not sure is possible. Thanks Dysprosia 05:50, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

oh geez. sorry, i forgot. i was going to. you can add it i am busy right now. what license should i use? (you can add that, too. :-) ) - Omegatron 15:40, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Well, we tried.

Hi,

I just saw your contribution to the discussion I wrote you about before. You got the same kind of response I got. It's unfortunate, but I don't see an easy out. The ego issues and the need to appeal to "the authorities" seem to make attempts at helpful interventions unsuccessful. Thanks for trying, anyway. P0M 05:34, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Your note is much appreciated -- I'm getting a little burned out, but I figure I can't back down from my oft-expressed belief that no amount of trolling or unpleasantness should make a good contributor sink to a bad contributor's level. I need these little words of kindness, though, to keep me refreshed and willing to continue, and I very much appreciate yours. My best to you this holiday season, Jwrosenzweig 20:29, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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