Quadell

Welcome

Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 15:41, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Chris said. . .

Great job Quadell. I am myself to be non biased and provide accurate info for people on the presidency. I applaud your actions and urge you to keep up the good work. ChrisDJackson 23:07, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

dic def solutions

Answer on my talk. - UtherSRG 13:47, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! Good advice.

Belgian Shepherd Dogs

Thanks for taking a look at the list of dog breeds, but we deliberately didn't combine the belgian shepherd dogs because they're separate breeds in some registries. I wouldn't object to there being a generic Belgian Shepherd Dog page that basically makes observations about the group and how they're sometimes considered to be variants of the same breed & sometimes different, with links to the individual breeds. We've done the same for others, such as Corgi and Fox Terrier. BTW, I saw that you uploaded an image of belgian shepherd dogs. Could you fill in the copyright info on the image page so we know it's valid to use it on a public-domain site? You'll need to specify the image's source and its copyright status; see Wikipedia:Image_use_policy and Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags for more info. If you have questions, feel free to contact me (although I'm gone this weekend) or User:Sannse, who is also familiar with the dogs page. Elf | Talk 02:00, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

From a personal page--I wish it were that easy to just assume it's OK! But noooo-- You could certainly ask that person & explain what it's going to be used for; if it's really their picture (as opposed to something that *they* took from somewhere else), they'll need to agree to release it under the Gnu Free Distribution License, text at Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License. Wikipedia is getting very careful about images that it uses and making sure that they're legally usable.

BTW, you can sign your name using ~~~ or use four (~~~~ ) to include the date, which is what most of us do. Thanks for verifying, and welcome to Wikipedia! See you next week. Elf | Talk 03:22, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. It seems like uploading images is generally too much trouble for a non-dedicated newbie to bother with, unless they're pictures you take yourself. *sigh*.

I think some of the other pictures I uploaded are unkosher. I'll have to back and pull them. *sigh again*.

Hi Quadell. We have some GFDL images available for three of the Belgian Shepherd breeds (taken by me). Those would be better to use than images that are not free use, those may cause future copyright problems (even if the site you got them from did not mention copyright). The photos are:

• Image:Belgian Groenendael 600.jpg
• Image:Belgian Laekenois 600.jpg
• Image:Belgian Tervuren 600.jpg
• Image:Belgian Tervuren bitch 600.jpg

Sadly my picture of a Malinois didn't come out. I hope to get one in the future though. Hope this helps -- sannse (talk) 09:05, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Wow! These are great! Thanks.

Nice job on the Belgian Shepherd pages! Thanks. Nice to have another person interested in the dogs. Elf | Talk 01:37, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Tears

Good work on Tears !! Jay 05:44, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! *grin*

Pickle

Great pickle pic! jaknouse 17:55, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Images

Thanks about the editing at Garden of Eden. (I just did a little editing at Cheryl Bentov you'll approve of too.) I do respond to symbols and myth, it's true. So... if I'm so smart, how come I don't grasp the process for downloading public-domain images, uploading them at Wikipedia and formating them? There's so much that is crying out for illustration, where entries hardly make sense without images... Wetman 14:36, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Operation Mockingbird

I have proposed Operation Mockingbird for deletion. Nothing personal. Do you have some sort of cite?

Excuse me, I have to get to work, I will check back this afternoon. [[PaulinSaudi 02:58, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)]]

• Exceptional claims demand exceptional proof. I would like to see a cite that Harry Truman was involved in a plan to influence American newspapers.

Please feel free to join the deletion debate. [[PaulinSaudi 11:54, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)]]

My Lai

Good job on fixing up My Lai Massacre. That article's bugged me but was a mess I didn't even want to try to start on. -- VV 19:30, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Quadell 19:35, May 3, 2004 (UTC)

hi Quadell- i noticed your post regarding "Yoga Sutra". can you give me a hint about the material you have in mind that needs to be combined. thanks --robert_wh 15:25, 2004 May 4 (UTC)

thanx for the input on the Yoga Sutra page. i agree with your comments. next time you're in Livingston KY stop in at LEAP. they make same great sorghum-ky whiskey bon bons among other goodies. ;-) robert --robert_wh 05:52, 2004 May 5 (UTC)

John Michell

Hello Quadell. For what it's worth, I have reverted the edit you made [1] to John Michell on April 22, as it appears to be text copied verbatim from [2]. I didn't see a notice on that page which suggests that it's OK to copy it, and I didn't see something in the article history or edit history which suggests you obtained permission to do so. If you know it's OK to copy that text, then feel free to restore it, but you might consider putting the permission notice on the talk page or something so other editors know it's OK. Thanks for your help & happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 06:39, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

No problem. I had moved the info from another Wikipedia page (here) without knowing it was a copyvio. User Jheise had made this addition. Thanks for keeping up with this! Quadell 12:40, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the update. Regards, Wile E. Heresiarch 13:56, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

"Scandal"

I just want to be really, really, really perfectly clear... that, whatever you may think of my changing "Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal" to "Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse reports," my intention in doing this was that I am offended by the trivialization implied by the word "scandal." The issue is war crimes, not Rumsfeld's embarrassment or Lynndie England's disgrace.

You may feel that my change had the effect of whitewashing or minimizing the matter, but that was absolutely not what I meant to do.

I see that you've worked on the My Lai article. Well, suppose the article had been entitled "My Lai scandal"... what would you have done? Dpbsmith 16:27, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

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You wrote:

To me, a scandal is when a bunch of people are upset about an embarrassing controversy. In my view, the My Lai atrocity came first, then the cover-up, and then, when the story broke, there was a scandal. In the Lewinsky affair, there was a scandal but no atrocity. The Russian rape of Berlin was something akin to an atrocity without a scandal.

Very nicely put. Dpbsmith 19:28, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Dog genetics

Thanks for adding the dog DNA stuff from today's news. I didn't have time to pursue it all; I have been wanting to add a detailed article on "dog breeds" and what that means but also haven't had the energy. I was amused by the version of the story that reported something like "despite the AKC believing that the Belgian Shepherd (Groenendale) and Belgian Tervuren were different breeds, this info shows that they are identical." I laugh because, if you see the article on Belgian Shepherd Dog, they *are* the same everywhere except in the US, where the AKC is stubbornly trying to *make* them different breeds. This has caused problems for people importing , say, a brown Belgian from Canada who had one black parent--AKC won't recognize it. Elf | Talk 03:32, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Photo resizing

Hi. I saw that you have reduced the size of tne photo of Jonathon Prandi. Thanks! I didn't know how to do it, therefore it was posted in that big size./Builder

Allgemein

Hello. Found you from what links to Leopold Poetsch page. From your biography you sound quite interesting. Are you a vegetarian or a Vegan? Do you believe the Japanese generals in World War 2 were true Buddhists as they allowed and directed suffering?

Thank you! I eat vegan most of the time, but occasionally I eat things that have egg or milk products. So I guess I'm in between. About the generals, I honestly didn't know that any of the Japanese generals called themselves Buddhists. I guess I would say that they were very bad Buddhists, since "right profession" would seem to rule out directing a war, and "right effort" would proscribe attacking civilian targets. But then again, people have long used teachings of the "Prince of Peace", Jesus, to justify all kinds of attrocities. Quadell (talk) 15:39, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

Cowboy

The Wikipedia article Cowboy hasn't been updated since April 16, and you have been the last one to update it. Please see Talk:Cowboy for a good update to this article. Any comments?? 66.245.6.21 23:33, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Dashes

• Don't use fancy dash characters in the wiki-text; their display may be problematic. (and by this, I mean the — character.)
• Please don't call reversion of the replacement of such dashes (as on Agriculture) vandalism. - Fennec (さばくのきつね) 18:46, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)