User:Dbiel/Historic Links

To make it easier to find links to old topics that I considered to be important, I have created this page.

User:Yeanold Viskersenn

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive346#User:Yeanold Viskersenn discussion of the use of using the photo of someone else to represent himself. 12-28-07

Brought again 1-8-07 Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Yeanold Viskersenn

Then posted to: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Yeanold Viskersenn

edit by me lost in edit conflict only to find the discussion had been closed:

Reply to above comments The key issue is not the use of the image which both the GNU license and the subject of the image (Stan) have no problem with. The problem has been with the caption. Both the original caption: "yours, truly" and the new caption: "Look you, representing my picture as a picture of yourself is fraudulent, and no way am I going to tolerate it. So I suggest you volunteer to remove it yourself before you get in any more trouble." - Stan Shebs (pictured), 2007"

You have also mis quoted Stan as saying "but requested that I clarify that the image is of him by using a quote from the message he sent me." when what he actually said was:

"Caption it with my name and/or a note about how you just like the image, and I have no problem with your use of the image." and

"That's a really poor choice for caption, but whatever, not worth the time."

Why not a simple caption like that of the image summary "Self-portrait of User:Stan Shebs, taken April 2007 above Berkeley." that clearly identifies what the picture is, rather than making it seem first like it was a picture of yourself or later using a caption that you yourself have refered to as being unacceptable. see: User talk:Stan_Shebs#Re: My picture If it is unacceptable to you as being posted on you talk page, how is it acceptable to you for you to use it as a caption? Dbiel ^(Talk) 23:23, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Betacommand

also user:Betacommandbot

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive346#Betacommand discussion of his unilaterally removing the edit links from thousands of stub templates

User:Jimbo Wales

• User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 31#Fund raising header and coordinates in en.Wikipedia - a major problem
• User talk:Jimbo Wales/Archive 32#Admins who blindly delete images

User:Polbot

Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#User:Polbot resolved issue regarding Polbot failure to request approval before adding new functions. Also posted to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive343#Polbot

How to respond to Template:Di-replaceable fair use disputed

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive442#How to respond to Template:Di-replaceable fair use disputed Admins do not need to respond to Template:hangon or Template:Di-replaceable fair use disputed, they only need to review the reason stated and act accordingly. - A very poor policy from my point of view.