User talk:Distantbody

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Sam Spade (talk · contribs) 15:29, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Left-wing politics

I had to roll back your edit at Left-wing politics because you had inserted a copy of the article into itself. If you also made a substantive edit, I couldn't find it and have inadvertantly reverted it, so you might want to revisit that article. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:27, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Millau Bridge over Tarn River France.jpg

Hi Distantbody,

That's a nice picture of the Millau Viaduct. Can you be sure to add an appropriate copyright tag and any source information that you have. Thanks. -- Solipsist 12:26, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

i have added file info as your request. We all get a bit lazy now and then dont we ;)

Thanks, that looks good. Shame its a FairUse image, as that means I can't nominate it for WP:FPC. Nevertheless its good to have the tags in place. -- Solipsist 08:31, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Adding the tag does not make it usable in WP. You need to cite the source's permission to use the image. Use of the fair use tag may be more limited than you think. Note that you did not properly reference the source, which was not the blogspot - that only referenced the original which is in a library deeply embeded within the site (http://www.athenaamerica.com/) and for which I have not been able to find a link path to from the home page. You need to contact AthenaAmerica to find out more. For now, I have noted the possible copyright violation (but not tagged it as such). Please follow up on this. Thanks, and best wishes. Leonard G. 14:43, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Redundant links

I see you've removed some links to dates in Crew Exploration Vehicle. We link these dates not so much so the date article can be clicked on, but because this allows Wikipedia to display the date according to local preference. Some people find that a date of 'December 9' looks natural, others prefer '9 December'. If we link 9 December and December 9 (look at the wiki code for these to see the difference), you see what your preferences ask for.-gadfium 08:48, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Oceanxx.jpg

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Image tagging (yet again...)

Hi can you please add the image copyright tag for Image:Yellow OLED.jpg and Image:A good example of the flexability of OLEDs.gif. I've added no source tag to them but I need to know its copyright status because I would like to use one of them. Thanks alot --antilived 06:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Hot Dry Rock Diagram.gif

moved this comment from your user page --Deathphoenix 15:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Er, Hi! Just wondered if you had any licensing information for Image:Hot Dry Rock Diagram.gif? Was it a diagram you produced yourself, or did you get it from the web? CharlesC 00:03, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Quasar

Hi Distantbody,

I just wanted to let you know why I removed your theory of the formation of quasars. This theory has yet to see publication in a peer-reviewed document, and since original research is not allowed, I have removed your theory. Please see Talk:Quasar#Reverting supermassive black hole theory for more details. Thanks, Deathphoenix 15:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

ITER

i see your point, infomation repeated form other articles is somewhat redundant. however, i never intended to preach the complex workings of a fusion reactor. i feel what i added is a brief summary of that, aimed at users without an in-depth technical understanding of fusion power. please edit away; it is far from perfect, but please dont remove most of what i put.

the reason i added what i did is because before i began, almost all of the article concerned the political impact of the experiment, and very little of what it actually is supposed to do, and how it does it. it is an experiment in physics, not politics.

on another note, i am a bit rubbish with copyrights. could you please help me verify that i have not broken the law in uploading this picture from this site.

thanks, mastodon 20:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

please stop removing the reaction workings from the article, no one is thanking you for it. just because you say it is, doesnt mean it is irrelivant. if two seperate users had not reverted you edits so quickly, i would have done it myself. it is not a full explaination of fusion power, it is a summary for those of us who have not yet memorised wikipedia, which would be oh, ALL of us. i wrote it to try to thin out the politics in the article. thankyou kindly. mastodon 20:13, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

why not dig your teeth into the Joint European Torus article? its the same thing as ITER, just smaller so receives less press. mastodon 20:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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