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[edit] You're famous

The Observer July 01, 2007 For Your Information by Tim Adams ROGER ^TALK 09:34, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Gracious! It was very kind of you to let me know. The article over-states my accomplishments a bit; I am a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar, which means I can bring cases and make arguments before them. To be an attorney at the U.S. Supreme Court implies that I work for the Court itself or as a clerk for one of the Justices, an honor which I have not enjoyed. It is a tiny thing in the context of the article, but the Court would be peeved with me if I didn't say something, somewhere, to correct the record (so I choose here and now).

Also, I remember the excitement of the first times I tried to get online using a very slow dial-up. For several seconds that curious beeping static sounded like all the world's voices competing for attention, sharing their thoughts, a global mind humming away. — I admired many lines in the article (as well as the piece as a whole) but this is the one that I found most touching. I remember that feeling, too. And yay for the lines on the Nature study comparing Wiki's error rate to the EB's! --Lisasmall 18:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Whoops, I'd've made it clearer! I'm not the writer of the piece: I saw it yesterday and thought you'de be interested. However, the Supreme Court information was fascinating, it's amazing the difference a preposition makes. (My brother is a barrister so it almost runs in my blood.) ROGER ^TALK 20:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I know, I got tangled up by the maroon name of author immediately adjoining your own name in maroon, without intervening punctuation. I finally figured out that "Roger" had sent the article that "Tim Adams" had written. My thanks are for you, for sending me notice of my newfound fame... heh! :) — Lisasmall 08:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to Join WikiProject Crime

Would you like to upgrade from an honorary member to a full member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography? Your work on the Westies was greatly appreciated I think you would be a great asset to our project. Jmm6f488 07:40, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Salem Userbox Not Working?

{{User:UBX/User Salem Trials Interest}} (user name MBX, box title Salem Trials Interest) Welcome home from your vacation. I tried to use this box on my own user page today, but it kept falling off the right side of the frame (attached at its left edge to whatever box precedes it), unlike all the other boxes there. I don't know if you're the right person to ask, or what could be wrong, or if it is something I can fix by editing the box myself. Any ideas? It seems to be fine here, although it is left-aligned rather than right-aligned, as I would have expected. —— Lisasmall 19:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure what was going wrong, but your userpage looks fine now, so I'll assume you've fixed it. —METS501 (talk) 05:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bhairav

Thank you for your contributions to Bhairav. About the sloka, a discussion is started by me on WP:HINDU, please present your views there.--Redtigerxyz 06:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I followed you from WP:HINDU to Talk:Sritattvanidhi and left my comment there. Thanks for your kind words re Bhairav and for asking my opinion. Hope it helps. -- Lisasmall 00:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I did not want to drag you in Sritattvanidhi debate. Thats i told you to present your views on WP:HINDU for a generalized discussion. A disccussion is on , on WP:IN too. Sorry if you felt hurt in any way. Thanks for the comments.--Redtigerxyz 13:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Hurt? No, I'm not at all hurt, it was nice of you to invite me to join the discussion. I misunderstood the situation when I got to WP:IN -- I thought the reference there meant you wanted me to go to the Sritattvanidhi situation. Please feel free to move or copy my remarks to WP:IN where you think they should belong, or tell me where and I'll do it. Thank you for asking for my views. :) -- Lisasmall | Talk 12:33, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Would you do it yourself. Thanks.--Redtigerxyz 13:03, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I think I have fixed it here on Sritttvanidhi and here on WP:Hindu. I also dropped a short note on into the WP:IN discussion. Sorry I went astray. At the end of your WP:Hindu talkpage note, I read the first and sentences to mean you wanted us to go over to the Sritattvanidhi page and leave our comments there, and it looks like Abecedare thought so too, so you might want to clarify that. Hope this works out so that some slokas get included somewhere. I think examples add a lot this kind of religious article. -- Lisasmall | Talk 15:18, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gray box quotes

This line moved from socking section immediately above: I wanted to put that in a gray box instead of the cquote template; can you teach me how? Lisasmall 16:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You can put things in a gray box by using the {{Quotation}} template. MastCell ^Talk 16:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

MastCell, so kind of you, thanks! Here's what I was trying in addition to the cquote template:

 I was experimenting with just using leading spaces, which sort of works too, with a different border.  
 However, it seems to let things run off the right-hand side of the page unless you manually
 break each line and enter the leading spaces manually again.  
 
 The Quotation template you recommended is better, and I've put it in place above to quote WP:SOCK.
 
 I went here -
 Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#No_or_limited_formatting.E2.80.94showing_exactly_what_is_being_typed
 and here -
 Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Character_formatting but the <PRE> and <CODE> tags 
 recommended there didn't work worth a darn for me in this situation.  
 Guess they are just good for short clips of actual computer code or similar items, not the text
 quoting effect I wanted to do.

Now, may I ask you another question? What combo of tildes do you type to make your talk link show up in your signature? Or are you manually re-entering <sup>[[User Talk:MastCell|Talk]]</sup> each time? If there's a chat space on Wiki to ask this sort of thing live, I don't know where it is. -- Lisasmall 17:02, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Lisa, you do that by going up to Preferences and clicking the "Raw signatures" box. If you put text with a leading space, that's interpreted the same way as if you enclosed it with <pre> tags.--SarekOfVulcan 17:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Sarek, thank you for the lessons. I hadn't felt the need for a talk link in my sig until lately. It works! :) When I have time, I'll tweak it to get rid of the bold, which is distracting. -- Lisasmall | Talk 21:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 17 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vehicle (Hindu), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Laïka 22:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, thank you, Laika, I'm surprised and honored. I am still working on getting a really good illustration for that page. :) -- Lisasmall | Talk 01:14, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Orange signature

Medical issues are more then a good reason for me to change my signature and if my signature is causing anyone medical problems then it is my problem. Is there anything else I can do for you? Tcrow777 (Talk) 20:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Forgive me for asking? Thank you so much, Tcrow. Few things are as important to a user as their name, and you are being very kind about this. Sorry to be a bother. -- Lisasmall | Talk 23:17, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

You are not a bother at all, I am just acting how any Wikipedian should act. I am sad to say that I must leave for a some time, but I will most likely be coming back. Tcrow777 ^Talk 08:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

What a nice message on such a sore subject! Nice to meet you Lisasmall! Dreadstar † 01:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much, Dreadstar, very kind of you to say so. :) -- LisaSmall ^T/C 06:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Interesting coincidence, you and I created our accounts on the very same day. Dreadstar † 07:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey, cool! I always wanted a twin. I was thinking of a sister, but a brother could be even better. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 00:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cherry Impact Event Award

		The Cherry Impact Event Award
		I award you this Cherry Impact Event Award for the global impact of your incredibly delightful sweetness! Dreadstar † 07:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it was all the blushing that did it, but the exchange between you and Tcrow777 was so wonderful that I had to present you with this award. Dreadstar † 07:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

If you like blushing, you should see me now. Thanks! And I'm very glad you barnstarred Tcrow, who is the real sweetie in this exchange. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 00:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Aww..I'm glad you're glad! This: "Oh, man, I should have done this myself but I'm a barnstar dunce" really made me laugh out loud! Say, you can add your name to the barnstar, if you like...I've been part of multi-barnstar awards before... You both deserve'em...! I changed the color of the barnstar for ya, btw...thought the original might bother your eyes...Dreadstar † 03:54, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name change

Please discuss name change of articles in talk pages before taking the drastic step of the name change or merge , unlike what you did in Vahana. You have improved the Vahana article to a great extent with the sourcing. Hope you will improve it further. --Redtigerxyz 06:30, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Redtigerxyz, are you sure you don't have me mixed up with someone else? I don't think I've ever even seen the Asana page (before glancing at it right now), much less changed it. I am nowhere in the page's edit history going back at least three years (before I even began as a Wikipedia editor). As to Vehicle (Hindu), I did bring up the Vahana-Vehicle change on a talk page, and I'm confident I handled the name change in according to policy. We can put up a note asking for consensus if you want to. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 00:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I am so sorry, about mixing you up with Lara. Continue Your good work. --Redtigerxyz 10:56, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page layout

Ask User:Phaedriel, one of the nicest Wikipedians around, which was kind enough to create the page layout for me. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 02:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My pleasure! :)

Dear Lisa, thank you so much for your kind words about my userpage design - frankly, I'm blushing, so why could I possibly refuse your gracious request? :) Seriously, you're more than welcome to use it, and if you encounter any problems when adapting it for yourself, well... you know just where to find me, right? ;) Lots of love, Phaedriel - 01:15, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Yay! Thank you! -- LisaSmall ^T/C 01:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Haha, anything for another fan of sliced bread, dear Lisa! ;) Btw, don't you want to use it at your Talk page as well? Than can be easily arranged if you wish. Xoxox, Phaedriel - 02:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archive 2: HWA & Jebbrady

As the discussions are stale and having them in one place would be useful, I created Archive 2 accessible from the archive box at the top of my user talk page today. Any new comments about Herbert W. Armstrong or User:Jebbrady should go here, on this page, not on the archive. Thank you. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 15:02, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Lisa. I left a note for you on the article's talk page. I think it would be good if you (and Sarek, jere, Pairadox) take a crack at it. I will fade out and get back to other articles. I will still keep HWA on my watchlist though, just in case ;) --RelHistBuff 15:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Twin!

Thanks for the great userbox! What a great idea..! I'm happy to have you as a twin...I couldn't have asked for anyone nicer.... I hope all is well. Feel free to drop me an email anytime! Dreadstar † 06:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matrikas

Would you please clean up this article too as you did with Bhairav. If you have any more suggestions about the article, please put them on the talk page of the article. Thanks. --Redtigerxyz 06:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your confidence, RedTiger. I will put it in my queue and will probably get to it around the first week of October, if not before. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 00:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot.--Redtigerxyz 14:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Matrikas is undergoing a peer review. Please give your suggestions.--Redtigerxyz 14:30, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Babe Zaharias

Good work, nice additions, good writing (far too rare), yadda yadda yadda -- GWO —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gareth Owen (talk • contribs) 18:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Gareth, thank you very much for the encouragement. It means even more because you'd worked on the article yourself last year. :) -- LisaSmall ^T/C 00:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dreadstar RfA

Click there to open your card! → → →

Thanks for your support! I took the easy way out of thanking everyone by ~~stealing~~ borrowing someone else's design...but know that I sincerely appreciate your support and confidence in me! I was so thrilled to see my twin's vote..! Thank you so much..! Dreadstar † 07:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hey there.....

the company of hamsters, eh? long time no see.....

MMMD —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hobbes9324 (talk • contribs) 08:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright, public agencies, and all that yadda yadda

Hi Lisa, I was very excited to find your comment on mug shots and copyrights from earlier today. I have been frustrated for some time by the fact (sic?) that so many Oregon government-produced materials are copyrighted, and unavailable for use on Wikipedia. I got people interested in this issue some time ago, and drafted a letter to try to get our legislature to do something about it; but haven't done much for a while, mostly because I wanted to have a better understanding of the legal framework before taking any bold steps. (As and example, the Oregon Secretary of State produces a book every year called the Oregon Blue Book, which has all kinds of charts and photos; but at the bottom of the web page, it clearly states "Copyright Oregon Secretary of State." I've talked to a former SoS and a current candidate for that office, and both think it would be great to open this stuff up, but thought it would be a complex legislative project.

Anyway, if you have a moment to look over what we've written thus far, and offer any feedback, I/we would very much appreciate it! I'm sure if we can establish the right framework for Oregon, it will be very helpful to much of the rest of Wikipedia. (I know your background is not in Oregon, but it sounds like you were speaking mainly from a knowledge of federal law; so hopefully it applies universally.)

Thanks in advance for any light you may be able to shed on the situation! -Pete (talk) 23:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC) (and the various gnomes of Wikiproject Oregon)

Hoo, boy, Pete, I don't dare help you in any specific way because I'm not licensed in Oregon. It's one thing to give a general legal point of view on an abstract topic, and quite another to give advice on a specific situation in a specific state. What I can do for you is suggest some strategies about how to get Oregon attorneys on-board to give you some free help, both with legislative or executive proposals, or by going to court. Why don't you click the "email this user" link in the left frame here so I can try to get you where you want to go? It's infuriating that materials paid for by the public are handled this way. Do they expect you to pay twice? And if they aren't slapping copyright notices on there for the legitimate purpose of rewarding authors, exactly why are they doing it? You're right to start at the state level, but any state legislation should specifically cover local governments, too. I'll look forward to your email. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 15:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Only marginally related: I'd like to thank you for weighing in on the topic on the mug shots template talk page. It's refreshing to see someone with an actual legal background commenting on a legal topic. --AdamRoach (talk) 21:03, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kerchief

Nice work! SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:57, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words re Kerchief. Hey, what's your interest in the Dixie Square Mall? I lived near it for a time as a child. :) -- LisaSmall ^T/C 21:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Adopt me?

Hi Lisa, thanks for your message, and thanks for asking about adoption.

Just to point out those examples you highlighted... User:Spelunkster/Scammer is not an article, rather it is a personal Sandbox, a "testing-ground" in the namespace of the user who wrote it, where you can have a go at formatting and writing articles without damaging the original. For example, I have User:Marbles/sandbox; however as you correctly pointed out, you should remove category tags in these tests as so not to interfere with Wikipedia main namespace.

Adoption can offer a whole host of benefits to an adoptee, including personal hints, advice, progress checks and much more.
For your information, I live in the United Kingdom, and therefore my timezone is UTC or BST. I am available on Wikipedia most days, and can offer advice on a range of topics including copyrighting images, policies, edit disputes, basic formatting, NPOV and referencing, alongside other ideas. To contact me, you can leave a message on my talk page or e-mail me.
If you wish to finalise an adoption status, please add {{adoptee|Marbles}} on your user page. If you already have the userbox {{adoptme}} on your page, please replace that with the one above. I can then add you to my list of adoptees. Please don't hesitate to contact me. Many thanks, /Marbles (talk) 15:37, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Adoptee check-up: Hi, is everything okay? Remember if you ever need discussion or guidance on anything, please contact me on my talk page or email me. Please also contact me if you feel you're confident enough now to "graduate" adoptee state. /Marbles (talk) 15:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Marbles, thanks for your help. I've left a note on your talk page. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 01:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Best wishes and remember I'm always at hand if there's anything you need. /Marbles (talk) 14:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mugshots

You point out that mugshot are obviously public domain, and that is how they are treated by the press. Why are they all tagged as copyrighted images on wikipedia? If I upload mugshots will they get deleted? Lobojo (talk) 14:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Apparently Wiki believes that all federal mugshots are public domain, but believes that states and local governments may assert copyright in their own mugshots. I disagree, but I have no idea how to persuade Wiki's powers-that-be that they are wrong. I wish I could tell you whether the mugshots you upload will be deleted, but I have given up on trying to upload photos myself because I can't figure out who deletes them, or why, or how to appeal the deletion. It's been my experience that Wikipedia and Wiki Commons are very user-unfriendly about uploading photos. — LisaSmall ^T/C 18:00, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Proposal

There is a discussion going on about whether or not to merge WikiProject Dogs and WikiProject Dog breeds together. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Coaster1983 (talk) 18:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hidden article re Elizabeth Morgan.

You might find this article's history to be of interest.--88.198.8.14 (talk) 02:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

(Crossposted from 88's talk page; also recaptioned this section from "Hidden Article" to add "re Elizabeth Morgan") - You left a message on my talk page telling me the history of the Elizabeth Morgan page would be of interest. Why? What did you want me to notice? Is there any particular reason you wanted me, versus any other Wikipedian to see it? I'm not clear on what you want. If you are concerned about the repeated revision of the lengthy Elizabeth Morgan article to a redirect to the very brief Elizabeth Morgan Act, I am not an administrator and can do no more about it than you can, which would be to revert the redirect, as has already been done (and re-reverted) once. -- LisaSmall ^T/C 17:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Template missing, what should be used?

Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates lists the template you're referring to. I deleted it after another user tagged it as no longer needed. However, if it is needed, let me know and I'll be happy to restore it. In general, having an in-line template like that for such a limited purpose seems a bit silly, but that's just my opinion. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:09, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, McBride. I got some more help at WP:VPM as follows:

'citation needed' is inserted by {{fact}}. I can't find a template that adds 'date needed', though one could easily be made. Algebraist 09:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

{{when}} and {{year}} are the nearest matches. If you want a new template but cannot build it yourself, just request it somewhere (EAR or VPA, for example) or ask another editor directly. Wandering around in the template namespace will not be very fruitful; better to look through the categories, like this one. Adrian M. H. 17:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

--LisaSmall ^T/C 13:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Old Fact

Thank you for noticing. I was pointing out an error in the template code, and I guess someone changed it afterwards and it became all that mess. My mistake for not subst: in the first place. Thanks again! - Mtmelendez ^(Talk) 11:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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