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User_talk:Tomf688/Archive/2004/1/. ==Harry== Hi, I've placed a Wikipedia:Copyright problems notice on Harry W. Nice, but I'm hoping that you can either reword the article as described there, or sort out the status. While I'm not familiar with the Maryland State Archives and their policies, I'm assuming that they're not covered by the U.S.A. "no federal copyright" rule. --User:Zigger 15:30, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC) :I cannot access the "Temp" page you moved the article to to change it. :The procedure on Wikipedia:Copyright problems uses the "Temp" page to start from scratch when permission is not granted. Getting permission to use the Archives material is a far better result! Can you please get an email from them confirming that they release it either under GNU Free Documentation License or something less restrictive such as BSD license or Creative Commons License, and hopefully covering more of their material? The WP:CP page has links to sample requests for permission. Please note that Wikipedia:Copyrights are re-used, sometimes for commercial purposes. --User:Zigger 00:04, 2004 Oct 28 (UTC) ::I personally contacted them via email and informed them that the content would be used on Wikipedia. They replied: "If [the information] is on non-password protected pages [of the Maryland State Archives website] it may be used, as long as credit is given to the Maryland State Archives." User:tomf688 01:10, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC) ==University of Maryland, College Park== Hey, I just saw you increase the logo size on my update. Since I was demoing this for coworkers, it was well-timed. Anyway, I went to UMCP as well. What programs are you in?--User:Howardjp 19:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I'm an undeclared freshman, taking core classes... basically. :) --User:tomf688 23:26, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC) ==Civil war map and green states== I see you created a map at American_Civil_War with much of the west coast shaded green, and information on border states omitted. A couple of us have discussed reverting it to a legitimate version on Image_talk:Civil_war_map.gif -- maybe you'd like to weigh in? User:Benwbrum 18:59, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I created a new image and put it on the talk page (for general approval). --User:tomf688 19:41, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC) ::Sweet! User:Benwbrum 18:14, 24 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 "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
:~~~~ and it will insert a signature that you can customize in special:preferences. In your case, you would want to type User: E. Brown - User talk: E. Brown in the signature box and check the "raw" box underneath it. --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 21:50, May 3, 2005 (UTC)
Oh. Thanks. That saves me a lot of trouble. By the way, I'm a hurricane enthusiast. It's what I do. If you have a question involving hurricanes, I usually know the answer. And if I don't know the answer, I probably know where to find it. I'd love to help with statistics and records and set the facts straight. This will be the last time I manually type in my signature.
-User: E. Brown (User talk: E. Brown) 14 May 2005
Hey, Tom. The Hurricane Center has some black-and-white track maps that go back all the way to 1921. You could use those to standardize the infobox for all seasons.
User: E. Brown - User talk: E. Brown 14:09, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
:Yea I noticed those, but its a lot of work to put maps up. Thanks for the note, though. :) --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 14:13, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
I'd help, but I can't get the picture to show up. Everytime I've tried it didn't work. Perhaps some of the other hurricane junkies could help.
User: E. Brown - User talk: E. Brown 21:30, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
:They seem to load for me, but unfortunately they are a bit small, so you can't read the text. It's better than nothing I suppose. --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 00:53, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
As long as you can see the tracks ok, I think it will be fine. I don't see why it's not a good idea. I could provide the casualty and damage info, and you could set up the infobox.
User: E. Brown - User talk: E. Brown 21:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
==Governor of Maryland==
:I apologize for not leaving a note to explain my action (that's an area I need to work on). I split List of Governors of Maryland from Governor of Maryland because I intended to significantly expand the article on the office. (I have been working slowly on creating and improving articles on the Government of Maryland, and on the state in general.) You'll see that Governor of Maryland is now much longer (and, I hope, better--though still not excellent). I think that it now stands on it's own without tacking on the list, which matches up nicely with the lists that all of the other states have. I think that the list and article on the office ought to remain separate now. By contrast, I agree with combining the list and the article on Lt. Governor of Maryland, since both of them are so much shorter. I hope that this sufficiently explains my action and that you will agree with it. if not, please let me know and I'm sure we can find a way to work it out and to improve the article(s) further. User:Jacob1207 04:36, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
==History of Maryland==
I have just started the History of Maryland article (largely from material taken from other articles). Since you like both History and Maryland, I thought you might be interested in helping out with the article. It's definitely too big a job for one person if said one person is me. I've you've got the time and inclination, check it out! User:Jacob1207 23:43, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
== Thank you ==
Thank you, Tomf688, for cleaning up my talk page. I didn't even know there was so much duplication. Thanks ! -- User:PFHLai 21:04, 2005 May 23 (UTC)
:I thought it seemed a little long. ;) --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 21:06, May 23, 2005 (UTC)
== Leader in Infobox ==
I am going to remove your addation of leader from the county infobox. I left it out for thr reason that many counties in the US do not have an established leadership position within their goverment structure, and that the leader position only rellay applies to the those the mainly have executive/council for would only realy be included in the leader situation. --User:Boothy443 | User talk:Boothy443 20:39, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
:fair 'nuff --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 21:06, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
== :Image:Soccerballplain.gif ==
Can you confirm the source on this image? User:Burgundavia (User talk:Burgundavia) 09:35, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
:Someone holds the copyright to the traditional soccer ball design? --user:tomf688(User talk:Tomf688) 22:05, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
::No, but they hold the copyright to that image of a soccerball. I doubt anymore is going to sue us over it, but it is a non-sourced image. User:Burgundavia (User talk:Burgundavia) 06:12, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
==History of MD, pt II==
Thanks! I think that History of Maryland is coming together fairly well. There's just the 20th century to do now and then a couple holes to go back and patch. (I'm saving the intro section for last). I think that we can get this up to featured article quality, in maybe another week or so. Oh, and I've taken care of those many spelling errors, lol. User:Jacob1207 00:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There are over 600 featured articles presently (See WP:FA), and not all of them have been featured on the main page. Being a "Featured Article" means that an article is really good and has been vetted by others. They just pick one featured article each day to show on the main page. But I agree, they definitely wouldn't put this on the main page for a while. I think it'd be cool if it is chosen for March 25th (date first colonists landed) or April 28th (date Maryland ratified the constitution) next year. Of course, there is more work yet to be done before these things can come to pass. User:Jacob1207 01:06, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Assistance with Wiki Procedures==
For the life of me, I can not figure out how to properly add a category for deletion. The directions simply say place at the top under the date. When I do that and hit page preview, nothing happens. Thanks for the help.
--User:Noitall 03:52, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
Question and Comment:
Q: How did that other editor know immediately that I added the new category?: I was not editing an article he had done, as far as I know (maybe I did).
C: Did you read the history section I wrote on Cardin? I have been waiting to write that for a long time. I have nothing against people having a huge family advantage in politics (e.g., Bush, Taft), but it also ought to be written about and publicly known. Cardin's is a fine political history, but the effortless ease that he entered politics is far different from most other candidates.
--User:Noitall 16:34, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
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{| style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 242px; border: #99B3FF solid 1px" |- | style="text-align: center" | Wikipedia:Babel |- | |- | style="text-align: center" | :Category:User languages |} Hey there. Happy . Leave a message on User talk:Tomf688 if you have something to say. ==About Me== I reside in the Maryland in the United States and attend the University of Maryland, College Park. Fear the Turtle! As you can probably see, my username here is "Tomf688", which is basically Tom F. along with an 688 added. How did this come to be? One day I needed an email account and TomF was taken. I was thus forced to choose a random something-or-another to be able to use the email, and 688 sounded as good as anything. Quite a thrilling tale, eh? ==Current Projects== I find that Wikipedia is a good way for me to put my mind on something else, so to speak. It is very satisfying to clean up or create an article, knowing that I'm benefitting others. Go ahead and click the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage Random Page] button to your left and clean up an article. Feels good, eh? :) I also task myself projects that I enjoy undertaking; lately it has been Maryland politics. The pages below are where most of my attention is focused, and I regularly update or work with these pages. ===Maryland's (and other states') Governors=== Write articles for, stubbify, or substubbify most of the red links on the List of Governors of Maryland page. Also, will work to improve their existing articles. Have stubbified all governor's pages after the Civil War, and more recent ones have fuller articles. Significantly expanded on current governor Robert Ehrlich's article. ===Maryland's (and other states') Senators=== Every Maryland senator's article has at least a stub on it now, compared with only a handful before I started. Many, mostly the more recent ones, have fuller articles. ''See List of United States Senators from Maryland.'' ===Maryland's (and other states') Congressmen=== Improved the biographies of the current and previous United States House of Representatives from Maryland. The articles were lacking in detail considerably, so I manipulated various public domain sources to get a decent article for each. Also created a template (Template:MD-FedRep) for the bottom of each current senator/congressman's page. Added categories as well, such as :Category:Members of the U.S. House from Maryland. ''See: U.S. Congressional Delegations from Maryland.'' ==Other Favorite Topics== [[Image:Europa.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Europa (moon), the ice moon of Jupiter (planet). Some speculate that oceans exist underneath the surface, indicating life could exist there.]] [[Image:Jeanne At Landfall.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Hurricane Jeanne at landfall.]] [[Image:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest poster.jpg|150px|right|thumb|One of my favorite movies and book, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' starring Jack Nicholson is a classic not to be forgotten.]] ===Astronomy=== *The Jovian planets: Jupiter (planet) and its moons, namely Europa (moon); Saturn (planet) and its moons, namely Titan (moon); Uranus (planet); Neptune (planet). *Stars: Life cycle, types. *The grander scale: Galaxy, the Universe (Multiverse). ===Film=== I definitely consider myself a movieoholic. I've sorted some of my favorite movies in groups by film director, screenwriters, or producers. *Mel Brooks: ''Blazing Saddles'', ''Young Frankenstein''. *Francis Ford Coppola: ''Apocalypse Now'', ''The Godfather'', ''The Godfather II'', ''Patton''. *Alfred Hitchcock: ''North by Northwest'', ''Psycho'', ''Rear Window'', ''Vertigo (movie)''. *Stanley Kubrick: ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', ''Dr. Strangelove''. *Roman Polanski: ''Chinatown (1974 movie)'', ''The Pianist (memoir)''. *Monty Python: ''The Monty Python and the Holy Grail'', ''The Life of Brian''. *Quentin Tarantino: ''Kill Bill'', ''Pulp Fiction'', ''Reservoir Dogs''. *Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker: ''Airplane!'', ''The Naked Gun''. *Others, but classics nonetheless: ''Casablanca (movie)'', ''The Exorcist'', ''The French Connection'', ''Lawrence of Arabia (film)'', ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''. ===History=== ===Meteorology=== *Tropical cyclones, namely hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean that affect the central and northern Americas. Some of my hurricane contributions include (in order of existence): Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Isabel, Hurricane Frances, Hurricane Ivan and Hurricane Jeanne; also to the 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season page. ===Political science=== ==My Contributions== As of April 21, 2005, I was ranked 491st on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits with 3069 main namespace edits. I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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User_talk:Tomf688/Archive/2004/1/. ==Harry== Hi, I've placed a Wikipedia:Copyright problems notice on Harry W. Nice, but I'm hoping that you can either reword the article as described there, or sort out the status. While I'm not familiar with the Maryland State Archives and their policies, I'm assuming that they're not covered by the U.S.A. "no federal copyright" rule. --User:Zigger 15:30, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC) :I cannot access the "Temp" page you moved the article to to change it. :The procedure on Wikipedia:Copyright problems uses the "Temp" page to start from scratch when permission is not granted. Getting permission to use the Archives material is a far better result! Can you please get an email from them confirming that they release it either under GNU Free Documentation License or something less restrictive such as BSD license or Creative Commons License, and hopefully covering more of their material? The WP:CP page has links to sample requests for permission. Please note that Wikipedia:Copyrights are re-used, sometimes for commercial purposes. --User:Zigger 00:04, 2004 Oct 28 (UTC) ::I personally contacted them via email and informed them that the content would be used on Wikipedia. They replied: "If [the information] is on non-password protected pages [of the Maryland State Archives website] it may be used, as long as credit is given to the Maryland State Archives." User:tomf688 01:10, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC) ==University of Maryland, College Park== Hey, I just saw you increase the logo size on my update. Since I was demoing this for coworkers, it was well-timed. Anyway, I went to UMCP as well. What programs are you in?--User:Howardjp 19:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I'm an undeclared freshman, taking core classes... basically. :) --User:tomf688 23:26, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC) ==Civil war map and green states== I see you created a map at American_Civil_War with much of the west coast shaded green, and information on border states omitted. A couple of us have discussed reverting it to a legitimate version on Image_talk:Civil_war_map.gif -- maybe you'd like to weigh in? User:Benwbrum 18:59, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I created a new image and put it on the talk page (for general approval). --User:tomf688 19:41, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC) ::Sweet! User:Benwbrum 18:14, 24 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 "
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