User talk:MattSal

Archive Sept 2003-Sept 2, 2004

Well, I'm in North Augusta now. How about you? Everyking 10:05, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Oh, I see it's on your user page, never mind. I lived next door in Evans for about ten years. Everyking 11:33, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Some of my favorite people live in Evans! And my roommate, best friend, and ex-girlfriend is in Evans as I type this. Small world, as Evans, Georgia is not large. Uris 12:00, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Azalia elevation

Just out of curiosity, how did you obtain the elevation of 593 feet for Azalia, Michigan? The USGS GNIS doesn't report a specific elevation and the topographical maps [1] show it should be in the range of 650 to 670 feet. older≠wiser 18:16, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image:MetLife Building daytime.jpg

Hi there! Thanks for adding the image Image:MetLife Building daytime.jpg. It currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, and I was hoping that you would add one as untagged images may be deleted eventually. (You can use {{gfdl}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks! --Diberri | Talk 21:56, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 20:59, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Source of city skyline photos

Hello, what is the source of the many city skyline photos that you've uploaded? In the upload comment, you say they are fair use, on the image pages you say they are public domain. No where do you mention their source. Please add source and copyright tag so they don't get deleted. - Redjar 02:49, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hancock Tower photo

Is Image:John Hancock Center (Boston) daytime 2.jpg public domain, or fair use? What was your source? The image description page states both -- which is correct? Thanks, - KeithTyler 18:15, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

Skylines and such

Greetings! Could you tell me where some of your skyline pictures came from? Did you take them yourself? (Examples here and here.) Any info you could provide would be much appreciated. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 15:32, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

I had the same confusion when I first started thinking about contributing photographs, so perhaps I can add a few helpful comments in this case.

American copyright law does not require a copyright notice in order for the photographer to retain copyright. (This used to be the case, but Congress changed the law so that you don't need a notice many years ago.)

Unless the sources for these photographs had a GFDL tag or the site had a notice that explicitly donated them to the public domain, these photographs are copyright violations.

My answer was to buy a camera and start taking photographs for Wikipedia articles myself. There is no question about copyright if I took the photograph myself.

Do you live near Atlanta? Your user page indicates you are in Georgia, so I'm sure you could make just as good a photograph of downtown Atlanta as the one you posted, with even a very cheap camera.

Since Boston is so far away, perhaps you could find another Wikipedia user who lives in that city who would be willing to photograph that location?

Wikipedia can get in a lot of trouble if it isn't careful about getting clear copyright permission for its photographs.

Cheers,

--DV 06:46, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

By the way, here is a photo of the Las Vegas skyline I took at night (click the thumbnail to see it in detail):

Las Vegas Strip at night.

Good luck. --DV 06:57, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. It's Quadell. What DV says is correct, I'm afraid. It's too bad that it's so difficult to put images on Wikipedia -- but it's not Wikipedia's fault, it's the fault of the #!@%* complex U.S. copyright law.

I like to upload images to Wikipedia, so here are some tricks I use, if you're interested:

I go to Google image search and type in "site:.gov" and whatever you want to look for. (example) This will return only images from U.S. government sites, which are almost all in the public domain.
There's a neat Creative Commons search engine that will return sites released under a creative commons license. Just be sure to pick those that don't have "NC" (non-commercial) in the license.
Wikipedia has a nice long list of places to get public-domain images here.

Hope this helps! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 13:45, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Did you know has been updated

And an article you created recently has made the line up and is now featured on the main page. Enjoy! -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 21:59, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Georgia State Capitol

Hi, I've noticed some of your excellent contributions lately about Georgia-related topics. I'm glad you fleshed out the Georgia State Capitol article. One thing: images (and text) from the Georgia state goverment is definitely not the same as material from the federal goverment. The copyright statute on federal material does not automatically extend to the states. I don't know what the copyright status of that image is, but it cannot be claimed as federal government public domain. You might want to look around and see if you can find out the copyright on it. Probably no one from the state, will care with such an image, but there's a lot of fanatical people (with good reason) on Wikipedia making sure everything is completely ship-shape with copyright. Best wishes, and again, I think what you've been doing is very good. -- Decumanus 03:56, 2004 Nov 27 (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)

Higher res pic?

Heya, I just came across Image:Hong Kong skyline nighttime.jpg and I was wondering, do you have a higher resolution version of it? It's wonderful and I'd love it for a desktop. :) Thanks --Golbez 03:40, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi. You uploaded Image:Jacksonville skyline daytime.jpg but did not list any source and/or copyright information on the image description page. Please mark it either as GFDL or public domain. See Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags for more info. Please note that images without copyright information may be deleted in the future. Thanks. RedWolf 16:58, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Charlotte skyline dusk.jpg

Could you please edit Image:Charlotte skyline dusk.jpg and indicate what its source is and why you think it is in the public domain? It is too new to be in the public domain because of age, so it would have to either be a work of the US government or explicitly placed in the public domain by the original owner of the its copyright. In the meantime, I've tagged it as {{unverified}}. Thanks! Kbh3rd 05:22, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

John Hancock Center (Boston) daytime 2.jpg listed for deletion

An image that you uploaded, John Hancock Center (Boston) daytime 2.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion because it lacks source and license information, and it is not used in any articles. Please go there to voice your opinion (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Article for Atlanta newspaper

Hello! I'm writing about Wikipedia and I'd like to talk with you about being a Georgia-based contributor. Please contact me if you're interested. My story deadline is Friday.

Thank you!

--Kayakembe 18:01, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Vancouver skyline aerial.jpg

Hi, I'm thinking of moving some pics to commons, and I was wondering what the source of Image:Vancouver skyline aerial.jpg and similar vancouver pics is, as you say that they are PD. I'm not trying to cast doubts, just cover our asses, since commons should be pretty level about these things.

Peregrine981 12:41, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for beign honest about this. I feel bad to delete everything, so we'll see what happens in the review process. For now I'm going to presume that these images are not PD. Hope you keep working on wikipedia this summer. Thanks again,

Peregrine981 04:24, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Images on PUI

The following images have been list on WP:PUI as they are probably not PD. Please comment on them there. Burgundavia

georgia state stuff

Only the federal gov is PD by default. Do you have information that says otherwise? Burgundavia 05:17, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

Los Angeles

Hey MattSal,

I was wondering where you got Image:Los Angeles skyline daytime 2.jpg, just so I can prove to User:Coolcaesar & User:Willmcw where the image is from and if I can contact the photographer so we can have it on the Los Angeles article. Thanks. ---User:Hottentot

Re: Los Angeles Image

Yeah, that seems like a great idea. --User:Hottentot

Lyrics

Hi, I am getting my siblings into the Wikipedia. I like Phish a lot, but I am not really an authority. My siblings are Phish authorities, which brings me to why I am writing. It seems to me that many many Phish songs are so monumental that adding the lyrics to some of the song articles would be really easy to do. Do you have an opinion? And, do think the songs should be wikified on the album pages? I myself can't see any reason why the Phish page diaspora shouldn't be continued in this manner. But I am not the authority on this, even though my brother and sister would surely agree to continued expansion. I will be showing the Phishiwikipedia to them next week. I am sort of writing this to help them get involved, and I hope to get them off to a good start on writing articles on the songs of Junta and Lawn Boy, to start with. It shouldn't be too difficult to write paragraphs about the big songs that everyone will pretty much agree with, and then follow with the lyrics, and adding interesting Phish trivia. I don't know about the copywright issues involved but it is one of those situations that is obvious in terms of the band's approval -- what I mean is that the band would certainly support its fans generating in effect a fan-club type presence here on the Wikipedia. I know that for bands that I really know, like Brain Failure, which I wrote, and The Butthole Surfers, it really is a simple matter to just take a 'These are just the facts' attitude towards copying out the lyrics for Phish fans to consult. I graduated from Film School, where issues like this are routinely considered, and I think the final line on this is that the songs, like maybe the top 25 songs, of Phish, are so monumentally well known that putting the lyrics down at this point simply amounts to 'reporting the news' as it were. I will be showing my brother and sister the Phish pages and showing them how to edit. For a band like Brain Failure the legal issues aren't really interesting, but since Phish has a serious legal team in Burlington one needs to consider the parameters of the situation. Knowing the Phish and Grateful Dead communities as well as I do, it seems to me that if worse comes to worse the lyrics would just be suspended from being available in computer encylopedia format until all the people involved talked out all the issues involved. However, to reiterate before I go, so many of those songs are so incredibly well known, and important to the information economy, as it were, that at this point not putting some of them on would be a public disservice. P.S. I will be working on Georgia on the ZH Wikipedia eventually and I will be probably using Georgia geography pages to fill out their articles. Check the Pennsylvania and Boston articles I worked on on the Zh if you have any interest in how it is going to look. Tx.--McDogm 17:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Asking permission

May you permit me to use the banners of Alien (movie) and Aliens (1986 movie) the same spanish wikipedian articles?

I'm a spanish wikipedian user named Agguizar. If you were to give me the permission you would answer me in user's page?

bye.

July 15th,2005

Los Angeles Image

Hi, You said awhile back that you could get me a good image of Los Angeles. Do you have it now? --Hottentot

Image:Augusta area map.jpg listed for deletion

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Unspecified source for Image:Los Angeles urban sprawl.jpg

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List of the most popular names in the 1900s in the United States

This article has no context and no sources at all. I'll send it to the deletion pile if you do not do something with it. Bearian (talk) 22:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Junta cover.jpg

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AfD nomination of Skyline

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AfD nomination of Coneball

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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, MattSal! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Nomination of List of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon for deletion

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