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==The Cost of Freedom is Always High==
[[Image:USMC_War_Memorial.jpg|thumb|left|350px|The USMC War Memorial, depicting the raising of the U.S. flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Of the six men- five United States Marines and a United States Navyparamedic- who helped raise the flag, only three survived the battle.]]
On September 11, 2001, someone said ''We Will Never Forget''. Abraham Lincoln, addressing those gathered to dedicate the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, spoke these words:
"We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is all togather fitting and proper that we should do this.""But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate- we can not consecrate- we can not hollow- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.""...It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced ... from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
We Have Not Forgotten.
I'm glad that you've decided to register, and I'm honored that you put me on your user page. Don't hesitate to drop a note on my talk page if you need anything. I'll try to assist in any way that I can.
Here are just a few handy links:
*Wikipedia:How to edit a page
*Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
*Wikipedia:How to write a great article
*Wikipedia:Naming conventions
*Wikipedia:Manual of Style
*Wikipedia:village pump
You can sign your name using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. Theres also a button for a sig with timestamp above the edit window. (Ofcourse, I'm probably the last person that should be giving advice on remebering to sign things, seeing as how I keep forgetting myself)
Anyways, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers! --User:Aqua008 03:37, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
== Bikini Atoll ==
Liked your article --- thanks for posting it! User:Fg2 01:27, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
== NOAA ==
Fantastic work on the article! Great job! - User:Ta bu shi da yu 21:30, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing 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 Creative Commons 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 Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits 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:
*User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
*Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
*User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "" template into their user page, but there are other options at Wikipedia:Template messages/User namespace#Licensing Templates. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
:Option 1
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:OR
:Option 2
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing 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 "" with "". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. ''Please let me know'' what you think at my User talk:Ram-Man. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- User:Ram-Man ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new comment]| User talk:Ram-Man
== Zeratul ==
There's a standard template and instructions at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. However, I usually prefer to simply replace with a stub that sets context and does all the other basics, then let others build on the clean base if they're so inclined. I did Zeratul that way just now. User:Stan Shebs 02:44, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
== Gundam stuff ==
It looks like some uninformed anon came in to mess up stuff and then disappear again (some call it... "trolling"). I don't see any reason not to just revert all the anon's changes back to the way you want it. In general, we've been moving toward a policy of not having separate articles for elements of fiction that don't have sufficient material to support more than a two-sentence article - we have a lot of stubs that have nowhere to go, they would be perfectly happy to be embedded in a longer article. But if the separate article are already a page or more in length, include picture, etc, then merging several of those into a single article is not helpful to the reader. User:Stan Shebs 04:29, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
* If I'm uninformed, maybe I should never have wikified pages, categorized the pages, or did any improvements to them so that they are findable? User:132.205.45.148 19:08, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
:Note that these are Stan Sheb's words, not mine. Also note that everyone is uninformed about something, and I have not questioned any of your edits to any article, nor did I erase the additional information you provided on the Cosmic Era ship class pages. My concern was over the merging of these articles because they can stand alone.
* I'm definitely inclined to think of it as trolling that our anonymous friend at IP User:132.205.45.148 reported a bunch of Gundam SEED vessel images as Wikipedia:Copyright problems, but ignored all the UC Gundam vessel images that came from the exact same source. User:Redxiv 21:37, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
** LOL. Now he's claiming that the images are animation cels. Which Gundam SEED doesn't even use. User:Redxiv 05:39, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== Template ==
If there is no edit link: use the url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:TEMPLATE_NAME
However, some templates are protected due to their high visibility. --User:Aqua008 15:41, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
== Re: Seeking Guidance ==
I'd love to help, but could you help point me to the articles/pictures in question and where you got them? --User:Aqua008 07:26, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
*Hmmm, the situation seems to have gotten more complicated since last time. First of all, this anon doesn't seem to quite get the concept of fair use, or just really likes to err on the side of caution. Either way, fair use would apply in the situations were the pictures were taken from screenshots of the series, as they are in fact describing them. However, I'm not sure that all the pictures can simply be categorized under fair use. While they faq appears unchanged, I noticed on the news page that they've started adding "line art". The faq mentions cutouts("Many of our mecha cutouts took hours to create...") which are fine as far as fair use is concerned, but the lineart(which clearly has an artist from what the site says) would be a derived work. While they can't claim copyright on it, I also don't think you can claim fair use as it applies to the origional work. The best thing would probably be to ask for permission from them for the use of the images, including the line art(if you used them, although it's hard to tell which is what, they look pretty similar to the screenshots). --User:Aqua008 01:55, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
*You're right, and it seems that most of the line art in question would be from Mark064, who is part of the staff. It'd probably be fine as is. The website doesn't seem to have a problem with it. As far as preventing this stuff, that line could help if the subject of the line art was brought up, but an email would probably be the most effective defense against this sort of thing. It's your call, but I wouldn't be too worried about it. --User:Aqua008 03:39, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
== re: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cosmic Era vessels ==
Good evening. Thanks for your help with the VfD but your studies should must come first. Wikipedia can be an addiction if you are not careful. Don't worry about cleaning up all the redirects and all. One of the great advantages of a wiki is that no one person must do anything. If you can't get to it, I will. If I can't, someone else eventually will (as long as the task itself is noted somewhere).
As far as actually closing the discussion threads, I'm going to offer some advice that I know I already regret. You see, we are desperately short on help closing discussions. We need every hand we can get to keep up. Even so, I'm going to suggest that you might want to stick with closing only the ones where the decision is an obvious "keep" until you make admin. Closing the discussion but not actually being able to carry out the delete just means that some other admin must re-check all your work before deleting the article. It doesn't really save him/her any effort.
As promised, I hate saying that. We really need help closing out those discussions. And I did help close out discussions before I was nominated. It's just that the mechanics of the process work against us when the decision is "delete". I do look forward to your help in the time that you can spare and particularly look forward to your help if/when you decide to shoot for adminship. Good luck. User:RossamiUser talk:Rossami 23:18, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== Battleships ==
Those battleships were already categorized as, e.g.
*:Category:New Mexico class battleships,
*:Category:World War I American battleships, ''and''
*:Category:World War II American battleships.
Isn't putting them in
:Category:United States Navy battleships a little redundant?
User:Wwoods 06:21, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Aloha Tom, looked over your contributions to the Iowa-class article regarding decommissioning. Yes, those look pretty accurate for the most part. It reminded me that we have about 15,000 of the 16" projectiles in storage -- I'll add that to the article when I get a moment. Thanks for your contributions.
Ben M. Schorr
Volunteer Crewmember, USS Missouri (BB-63)
--User:Bschorr 06:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== fair use of ships images ==
You asked about CE ships and UC ships. I'm afraid I've forgotten what pictures you're referring to. (I tag a ''lot'' of images. That's most of what I do on Wikipedia.) Could you link to some of the pictures you're referring to? Thanks, – User:Quadell(User_talk:Quadell) (Wikipedia:Image sleuthing) 00:24, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)
==Logging In==
Did somebody forget to log in? -- User:Chris 73User talk:Chris 73 03:09, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
== Login ==
I just saw an anonymous user editing your pages, and thought that looked like a more experienced user, hence I asked. BTW, you have two pages now, Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Missouri fires a missile and Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Missouri missles.PNG. I think the latter one is redundant. Let me know if you want that deleted. -- User:Chris 73User talk:Chris 73 03:46, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
:Deleted the latter one. ''There wouldn't be enough words in the English vocabulary to express my gratitude for it'' - hey, that's the nicest "ThankYou" I have gotten in a long time :) Thanks -- User:Chris 73User talk:Chris 73 03:53, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks :-) ==
I love M*A*S*H :-) great image, and so apt for the way I'm leaving. Anyway, thanks for your kind words. Take care mate! - User:Ta bu shi da yu 10:42, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== Salamis-Class Cruiser and Magellan-Class Battleship ==
... merged with old versions --User:Chris 73User talk:Chris 73 15:17, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
== PNG vs JPEG ==
I've noticed that you've been uploading a number of files that are photos as a PNG file instead of a JPEG file. That is actually an incorrect thing to do. PNG is designed to handle things like icons and simple graphics, not photos. Putting up PNGs of photos (like the images in the tables for USS Mississippi (CGN-40) and USS Texas (CGN-39)) means that large file sizes are unnecessarily generated. Putting up those pictures as JPEGs would save a great deal of download time for those on dialup connections. User:David Newton 21:45, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
==Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/First Photograph==
I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. --brian0918">User:Brian0918™">User talk:Brian0918 17:03, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks! ==
Thank you for supporting my nomination for administrator. User:Wwoods 05:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== USS Missouri ==
:''The reason it was up for such a short time was because the FAC page had already been created...''
Okay thanks. Good luck with your FAC. — User:RJHall 22:32, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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