User talk:Srd2005

what I am doing:

jumping through wikipedia (random page-ing) or checking Wikipedia:Cleanup
- fixing basic things:
  - adding 'external link' sections
  - removing wikilinks if it helps readability (see below)
  - adding country information if it is omitted
  - fixing typo's, spelling issues and so on
- I am too lazy for the more advanced stuff :-)

This is confirmed by another user. User:Tv@nlntv.com

:D Srd2005 14:45, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

on wikilinks: my POV ;-) is that links should only be added if they relate 'logically' to the subject: therefore I leave basically four types of links with which the reader can:

explore 'side-branches'
explore 'roots'
understand specific terminology, jargon and the 'building blocks' of the subject
delve deeper into the subject

on wikilinking dates:

ok, they are for formatting

on wikilinking years I ask myself: would people want to see this page when they click 'what links here' for the year in question (in most cases: definitely not, so what's the use?). wikilinking years is ok:

for major events
for years pre 1800
for births and deaths.

globalizing wikipedia

Just a suggestion, but instead of turning something like Blah Blah is a town "located in Washtenaw County, Michigan" into "located in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States", I suggest changing it instead to "located in Washtenaw County, in the U.S. state of Michigan." Not a huge difference, but I think it reads a bit better and the U.S. state article is arguably a more appropriate link in such a context. older≠wiser 21:43, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

ok, will do that. Srd2005 21:49, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your cleanup work

Just wanted to thank you for doing the cleanup work you're doing. You might consider moving that description of what you're doing to your User page(which would also make your name turn blue, which would give you more credibility)) I'm also working on cleaning up WP:LO... Keep it up! JesseW 07:11, 24 Oct 2004 (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)

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I like the jeans BadCRC 01:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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Please claim your upload(s): File:Scheveningen Pier.jpg

Hi, This image was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices, Thank you.

However, as part of ongoing efforts to ensure all media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed it would be appreciated if you were able to confirm, that it was your own work, by marking it as {{own}}, amending the {{information}} added by a third party, and by changing the license to an appropriate "self" variant. You can also add |claimed=yes to the {{Media by uploader}} or {{Presumed self}} tag(s) if present to indicate that you've acknowledged the image, and license shown (and updated the {{information}} where appropriate).

IF you have other uploads, please consider "claiming" them in a similar manner, You can find a list of files you have created here.

This will assist those reviewing the many many "free" images on commons that have not yet been transferred to Commons. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:15, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please claim your upload(s): File:Scheveningen Pier.jpg

Hi, This media was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices,

However, due to changes in the copyright situation in some jurisdictions, there is a need to ensure media on English Wikipedia is correctly licensed and attributed. It would be appreciated if you were able to confirm that it was your own work, by marking it as {{own}}, Fully completeing the {{information}} block, and leaving an acknowledgement on the file description page to indicate that you've accepted the license shown (and updated the {{information}} accordingly. If you have other uploads, please consider "claiming" them in a similar manner, You can find a list of files you have created here.

If the {{img-unclaimed}} tag is present, please update it to {{img-claimed}} if you have carried out the steps noted above.

If you don't want to keep your media on English Wikipedia, please nominate it for deletion under Criteria G7 of the Criteria for Speedy deletion ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:47, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]