User talk:LarryGilbert

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Happy editing, Isomorphic 20:18, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your note on the new user log. Glad you like it here. Good work on the albums, and hope you keep contributing. Isomorphic 22:16, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Grammys

By the way, on the subject of jazz Grammys, do you think I'm right to spilt the general awards from the instrumental awards? For example, the award for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album" has switched between using the word instrumental or not several times over the years (see User:Sannse/Grammy to-do list again). I'm wondering whether I should put them all together (less articles, better flow over the years) or split them into two articles (keeping different awards separate). I'm not sure what's best. I'm going to sleep on it now, but a second opinion would be welcome! -- sannse (talk) 23:23, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I will defer to your judgment, since you've been doing more of this than I have. That, and it's too much for my brain to deal with right now. :-) --LarryGilbert 01:54, 2004 Mar 2 (UTC)

heh! I know that feeling. mumble-grumble-Grammy awards ;) I'll have another look at my lists -- sannse (talk) 11:02, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I've thought on this some more, and I'm leaning toward separate pages. Which, of course, means more pages. But somehow I like the idea of that better than mixing multiple ideas together on one page. So, for example, in the years where "Best Jazz Instrumental Thingie" or whatever is given separately for an individual and a group, the individual category would get its own page, and both pages would have a "See also..." link. Next week I may feel differently; I don't know. *shrug* --LarryGilbert 20:28, 2004 Mar 2 (UTC)

How about this as an alternative? User:Sannse/Grammy to-do list/jazz alternative. It lists the "solo" and "solo or group" separately, but combines "jazz" and "jazz instrumental". That seems to keep the flow of the years consistent. What do you think? -- sannse (talk) 23:13, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

KMFDM

This thread evolved into a debate over inclusion of images from Amazon.com in Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Images from Amazon.com). I have moved it to Wikipedia talk:Images from Amazon.com. —LarryGilbert 17:41, 2004 Mar 11 (UTC)

Hispanic American

For the record, Ames, Iowa is a college town. So a significant portion of the hispanic population is not American. --Ben Brockert 21:28, Jul 13, 2004 (UTC)

The edit was to disamiguate the word "Hispanic," the page for which is now a disambiguation page. I think the term "Hispanic American" is correct in the given context, namely U.S. Census figures. I don't believe foreign-exchange students are (supposed to be) counted by the Census. —LarryGilbert 21:36, 2004 Jul 15 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license 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 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 top 2000 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

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

OR

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, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

January 15 Seattle meetup

Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:21, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

User categorization

Greetings, LarryGilbert! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Washington|LarryGilbert]] to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 06:45, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done. —LarryGilbert 19:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!!!! -Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 18:58, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-standard album infobox

I came across your userpage (User:LarryGilbert/Album template), which contains an Album infobox with a non-standard album type. Because of this, your userpage is listed at Category:Non-standard album infoboxes. May I ask that you either adjust the infobox type, or delete the infobox entirely? This would be greatly appreciated. Cheers. -- Reaper X 05:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:58, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

why bother? (Syngman Rhee photo)

I notice you couldn't wait to delete the image of Syngman Rhee because according to you...

The evidence given in the upload and the original web page is not enough for me to say with certainty whether it's in the public domain or not.

Well for you information it had been on that page for a long time without a single problem. Certainly there haven't been any angry copyright holder chasing after WP for rights infringement or anyone claiming ownership of the image. It was just an image that had great historical significance, as it showed the first President of the Republic of Korea taking office.

I'll repeat that: it was an image that had great historical significance, as it showed the first President of the Republic of Korea taking office.

Now personally I didn't have a vested interest in the picture or that page, but what it does show, is how an all-editors-are-equal project like WP doesn't work.

There are too many people like you on this site, the Rules lawyer who rather than contribute anything meaningful, i.e. information that ALL can benefit from. Use the limited powers they have to garner some satisfaction by withdrawing or deconstructing valuable resources because "rules are rules".

Did you ever consider that the uploader was probably not a native English speaker? Possibly Korean, after all? Didn't you try to "amend" the image's copyright status, or is that too much effort? Or is it just easier and simpler, within your life model, to arbitrarily delete images as you're ability to extrapolate is always too much "for me to say" !?

By being such a person, don't you think you should seriously question you're long term contributions to WP and whether your actions are selflessly benefiting a wider audience with useful additions to a free-learning database?

I don't think so! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.67.246 (talk) 21:38, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dear anonymous user, I do not have the power to delete images. I changed the "public domain" tag (which did not apply) to the {{pui}} tag (which did apply). I do not know which editor ultimately took action on that image. --LarryGilbert (talk) 22:11, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you look at the Possibly unfree files page, you'll see that photos have to be left available for at least two weeks of public discussion before they are removed, and that they cannot be removed unless no one has provided any supporting information during that time. No one commented, so it was deleted. Now, Wikipedia does make an allowance for "fair use" (as defined by U.S. law) under some instances, but correct copyright information is still required in order to do that. If you have information on the copyright of that photo, please let me know. --LarryGilbert (talk) 22:33, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

rollback

I have given you WP:ROLLBACK here; it should only be used for vandalism. The time saved with this device can be used on light reading ;-) John Vandenberg ^(chat) 18:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That hair trigger it has doesn't leave much room for error, but I'll be as careful as I can. --LarryGilbert (talk) 00:49, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Industrial Invitation

You have been invited to join the Industrial WikiProject, a collaborative effort to build a more detailed guide on Wikipedia's coverage of industrial music. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks or add some of your own.

Hi there! I happened to see that you did a lot of editing to KMFDM and their album articles a while ago, and I thought I'd invite you to join our project to work on all industrial music articles. Take care. Torchiest (talk | contribs) 23:31, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

CA school districts

Hi, just wondering how the merge was coming? Lionel (talk) 23:12, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference

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Thank you for your understanding and happy editing :) Editing on behalf of User:Jarry1250, LivingBot (talk) 19:20, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Tag Request

Good Morning Larry. You have contributed to the discussion on removing the redirect and moving the High Capactiy Barcode (HCB) page to go directly to Microsoft Tag. Can you please move the page? I dont have an account.

Here's the discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:High_Capacity_Color_Barcode#Article_should_be_seperated

So, I recommend that a redirect from "High Capacity Barcode" should goto "Microsoft Tag". The present HCB page should be moved ("renamed") to "Microsoft Tag".

A link to the move process is at the link above. Please help. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.107.188.5 (talk) 12:50, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Disambiguation link fixing one-day contest

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:49, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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