I just wanted to thank you for the amazing copy-edit you did on the Guns N' Roses article. For some time now, I've been working on it in order to make it a worthy featured article, and thanks to your edit, I think the article it's on it's way to achieve featured status. It has already been nominated and has not received objections to this date. Again, thank you very, very much! Coburnpharr04 01:25, 1 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Catherine - One thing I didn't understand about your edit to template:CompactCatTOC. After the "class=plainlink" (BTW - I can't thank you enough for noticing this, I thought we were going to have to live with extlinks until somebody changed the software!) you added an open square bracket (which has no matching close square bracket as far as I can tell). This doesn't seem to make any difference, but rather than simply delete it I thought I'd ask if there's something it does that I'm just not seeing. -- Rick Block 15:01, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

...for forgetting about changes to the CompactTOC. Thanks for cleaning up after me on the geo-stub categories! Grutness|^hello? 08:23, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Brookie here - thanks for your help on my icon-hyperlink query - now I know! In case you haven't seen it - there is the following message at the top of this page:"WARNING: This page is 36 kilobytes long. Please consider condensing the page and moving the detail to another article so it is not approaching or in excess of 32KB." Kind regards Brookie\^talk

You're welcome on the icon thing, and thanks - I guess it was about time for archiving...! — Catherine\^talk 22:50, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I just wanted to congratulate you. I think you designed a far better portal than what we had previously, and it is cleaner-looking than its opponent. You don't need to reply to say thanks or anything -- save your time:) Zantastik 23:28, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi, It did not work to get the portal live. Needs more tinkering. I have no time now for this. Also I must say that I am not very good in doing that type of stuff. But I will tray again if it is not done. Options; ask Tim Starling to do it if he can find time. Or you can ask Meta:Requests_for_adminship#Requests_for_temporary_sysophood Also I can unprotecd the page for a while and watch RC do defend it. If you want the I unprotection say when (time) in UTC. I can be online for this between 10:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC. You can reply here. --Walter 23:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry -- I was trying to find someone who had worked on it previously, who was comfortable with "tinkering". It's my understanding that Tim Starling is taking a break from Wikipedia to work on his doctorate degree, so I hesitated to contact him. Perhaps the temporary sysophood is the way to go..... my schedule is not predictable enough to arrange a good time for unprotection. Thank you very much for your time! — Catherine\^talk 00:29, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have now unprotected the pages meta:Www.wikipedia.org template and meta:Www.wikipedia.org portal so you can work on it if you like to do. I am garding those pages. I am now online whit Jabber; walter@jabber.belnet.be , ICQ 85153582, MSN wvermeir@hotmail.com and IRC freenode user "WalterBE" in #Meta if i need to do something. --Walter 19:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I was wondering whether on articles such as Martyn Lloyd-Jones, in which originally quite a few periods were omitted after Dr and St, all entries with such abbreviations should be edited to add a full stop? How about on actual articles such as R Tudur Jones? -whitti 01:58, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Catherine! You voted for a merge of our projects (thanks) but you didn't sign yourself under any specific option. So please fill up the missing vote. I intend to do the merges when I get some time at last (probably next Sunday) but I need to know what people precisely want. Forseti 21:39, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Catherine, I'm extremely pleased to let you know that the MC and community are unanimous in saying you'd make a fine mediator. :-) I've added your name at WP:MC but you may want to add an email address (or link to Special:Email). I'd offer advice as to how to mediate....but I don't know how myself. :-) I'm new to the committee (in spite of which fact I was made its Chair), and no one so far has been able to give me more than a few pointers. I suggest patrolling WP:RFM to see what's out there, especially as we have such a backlog that all of us will have to take on at least one case if even half of the requests turn into fully-fledged mediation attempts. Thanks for being willing to take on the responsibility, and good luck. If I can ever be of help, let me know. Jwrosenzweig 00:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments at the pump about consensus decision making. I've noticed that some people have already been working on Wikipedia:Consensus. I think the page needs to be expanded and then linked all over. I hope you can contribute. --Samuel Wantman 04:38, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey there! Glad to see you join my little attempt to add content to Manchester Cathedral article. This is only my second real attempt to produce an article (first was Sergey Brin), and it's the first time I've experienced the collaborative effect of Wikipedia first-hand (Though I know well of it; I'm a lurker, it's in my nature). I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that it was an amazing feeling and enthused me greatly, despite the fact that Manchester Cathedral falls well outside of my sphere of knowledge and interest. I can only imagine the feeling of working together on something I truly have a passion for. So thanks again, and keep up all your great work. Yours in Liberty, nsh 05:15, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I noticed that there seems to be a problem with the CSS on your user page. I'm not sure whether it's my client, or a transient mediawiki error, or something wrong with your page code, but the header text "User:CatherineMunro" completely obscures the "user page", "discussion", "edit this page"... tabs. Hope this gets sorted out. :-) nsh 05:32, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the edits you made to the contribution I had made. I was limited on time when I found it turning to a snip and I'm also new to Wikipedia. I wasn't quite clear on all of how to format the page. Being rushed for time didn't help. But I love it! It's one of the most exciting projects I've run across in years. :) The edit is a much appreciated improvement.

I noticed that you have a link to the old site for kate's tools. The new edit count link is http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits.cgi – ABCD 01:59, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I chose you at random, I don't know quite how to approach this thing I'm interested in doing. I'm the guy behind http://firstpersonshooters.org/ As such I find myself in the enviable position of having something which is what Should be available in that portion of wiki. I have made a few changes here and there to that section for UI reasons, and eventually ripped my entire list of the genre for the wiki page. What I'm getting at here is, my site is both non-commercial and specifically designed to be an encyclopedia for this genre. I would like to poke my way through the ranks to find someone who can make an official decision on some method of integrating my site with wiki, Someone who has the authority to sit down with me and work out a method agreeable to both sides. For my part, I would get much assistance on my site, free publicity, etc, for wiki, there would be a section which would suddenly be vastly more complete, and updated on a regular basis.

Please let me know what steps I can now take to get a sit-down with someone capable of honoring this idea with their attention and backing it up with the full knowledge of how wiki works. Thank you. Advocate (Advocate@landofthedragons.com)

Pardon me for evesdropping. I'm not sure specifically what you are looking to do, but it sounds like you may want to try sending a message to Jimbo Wales. func(talk) 17:13, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Today I looked at my User page, and found that an anonymous person (ip: 220.65.189.130) had replaced my entire User page with a single picture of a penis. They did it yesterday, so I believe it was in retaliation for a Delete vote I made on WP:VFD.

The page he/she made is here. (Remember, as I said, it's a picture of a penis, the one from the wikipedia article Penis to be exact.)

This brings up a thought in my head... for User pages, shouldn't the user themself be the ONLY one allowed to make edits to their own main user page? --Kitch 15:04, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

So what you're saying is, it's perfectly fine for anybody to edit anybody else's user page however they see fit? So, for instance, I could edit your user page, and you can't do anything about it except go through the trouble of undoing my changes? --Kitch 01:23, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Catherine, thank you for the welcome. I've checked the Doctors' mess and the WikiProject_Clinical_medicine and confirmed the mind-boggling complexity of our project! I'll become active when I've gathered all my reference books from my other house. I think I'll start from sign (medicine) which is closer to my every day's work. Cheers! --Antono 11:49, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:44, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I looked at your Duran Duran article for an example of a story to model some of my formatting after for consistency in Wikipedia. I was working on three detailed music biography stories here. I was wondering about the promophoto template method for several reasons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Are_large_photo_files_really_necessary.3F is a place where I asked a few questions recently about photos.

For one thing, I don't clearly understand if it's probably a little better from the photographer's standpoint if I just keep the files small in terms of what someone downloading it might be able to do to misuse them. I've seen a photo I uploaded mirrored into several sites and in one case it didn't give the photographer credit, so I had them remove it. But I frankly don't see how for web viewing purposes a 50 kb file is worse than a 500 kb file when we're dealing with the work of a professional photographer who is doing us a favor allowing us to use his or her photo to begin with. I don't really understand clearly if it makes things a little riskier for the photographer, so I wonder if it is ok to use small ones like you did in the Duran Duran story.

Now here is the bigger question....if I were to talk to a record label publicity person about using their Press photo jpgs for a particular story I finished (and possibly any story I do in the future of one of their artists since I tend to have an interest in a couple more and don't want to bother them constantly), but say they do not have time to figure out if they would ever want them GFDL licensed (and maybe wouldn't) but don't mind a small file being used as a "promo photo", do I use the promophoto template and say that I have permission to use them only on a fair use basis? I'm not sure I understand what I'd be saying then. I don't want to imply a GFDL license if they don't specifically give one.

The label I'm thinking of typically has 1 mb photos for the press but not out for the public; I'm not sure what 1 mb photos are used for, do you? They aren't used on the web typically, are they? But they also aren't high enough quality for print at 1 mb either? I guess I don't understand a few things.

Emerman 16:01, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply at my page; I have asked a couple of more long things in my page (because some of these are promos) but I think I am getting to where I will know how to handle my situation for good after we finish this chat. Thanks again. Emerman 22:22, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In article photos I upload, I had been thinking of whether to put the photographer's name at times in the caption. So far, I've just put the artist's name and year in the caption, and put everything else in the photo description page. I wonder if there's any real reason why someone couldn't put the photographer's name in the caption, especially in the case of people who download photos without looking at the photo description page; I saw a site take a GDFL licensed photo of a musician and put it on a site about a medical disorder the musician had without a credit to the photographer, but they later removed it when I mentioned the license to them. If the photographer is in the caption, it's less likely someone is going to reproduce it without mentioning the photographer. So I was thinking about whether to put a more descriptive caption: "(Artist Name), from (Label)'s promotional photos by (Photographer name) for the (year) album (Album Name)" because that describes it exactly. I wonder if that is too much info for a caption? The more opportunities I have to put a photographer in a caption, the better, so far as I am concerned. I'd do it with all the photos I upload, if I thought it was ok. Emerman 22:23, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also, I have questions about the bit in the Upload page about me checking off the copyright owner has agreed to "license" it is kind of weird in the case of a promo photo where all we're trying to say is that it's tagged "fair use" as a "promophoto." I don't have to get someone's "license permission as GFDL" to tag it a promophoto, I didn't think. My understanding was I just have to establish that it is definitely intended by the label as a "promo photo" and then tag that we believe it therefore is fair use, I thought. A label's reps generally just say, "yes, it's a promo photo and it can be used for that by the press" (which they consider us), but they do not have the time or energy to contemplate "licensing" via GNU. I uploaded a small 60 kb format file I created from their much larger 1 mb + original file, to try to indicate even more strongly it's just fair use. I don't think I understand fair use well enough and i want to do my best to not make any copyright mistake. Emerman 22:28, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pseudoscorpion caption and the previous replies at my page on matters discussed here. I tried the same photographer credit method in your caption with a colon after "Photo." Also I have learned it's a problem regarding confidentiality in some cases to put as much info as I was putting in the photo descrip page and am having to deal with that today. Won't put as much in the captions either, but the photo credit in the caption is still a good idea though..Emerman 14:57, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to knock again, but I would like your opinion. I was asked last year by another Wikipedian, who pointed me to the Peter, Paul and Mary article for a model, to add "song samples" in the article on Kristin Hersh; he suggested I upload a "fair use voice sample" but I found it even easier (also with less concern about "fair use" issues) to provide links to samples and downloads already on the web (except for with 50 Foot Wave's article, where I used direct mp3 links I was given permission to use by a publicity company). I am confused today looking at the Kristin Hersh, 50 Foot Wave, and Tanya Donelly articles I've been editing as to whether to put Song samples before or after the References section. The Peter, Paul and Mary article isn't any help on guidance for that because it has no References section. What do you think? I have just now moved Song Samples in the three articles to before References but I previously had them after that section. Do you have a preference and rationale on whether to place samples before or after References? I don't see any samples in your Duran Duran article, and I haven't seen other examples, but will look. — Emerman 03:11, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've been working on the Gmail article for a little bit now.

We recently got a picture of Gmail rendered in Japanese. The picture, however, is named "Gmail.jpg". Since I don't think that's too descriptive, I tried to move the image. When I did, wikipedia helpfully told me that "This action cannot be performed on this page."

I thought you might be able to help. Any ideas?

Thanks, Starwiz 14:32, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

This is what happens when the programmers write bad error messages, I guess. Anyway, thanks for your quick reply; I really appreciate it. (And for anyone who's reading this and is confused: Images cannot be renamed. You have to create a copy and then delete the old one.) Thanks again, Starwiz 00:28, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

I'm absolutely amazed at the swiftness with which the devs tackled the problem! But you're right: The lack of a move tab doesn't help anyone rename the image. I know the first thing I'd do after I noticed there isn't an option to move an image is to do a search, but the only page I found with half-decent instructions was Wikipedia:Requested moves, and they're stuck at the bottom as an afterthought. I may be bold, but I'm not bold enough to make a new page in the Wikipedia namespace without approval. Would a new page be in order? Or am I just not finding the FAQ? (By the way, am I doing this user talk page thing correctly, responding to your posts on my talk page on yours? Doesn't this get a little confusing?) Starwiz 01:18, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, the compliments, and for the changes to the FAQ. I really do appreciate it. Hope to see you around! Starwiz 21:59, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Catherine,

Thanks for the encouragement with my Duran Duran stuff. It's nice to have somewhere I can dump my ever growing knowledge base of info.

--Feduciary 14:21, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the message, Catherine. I appreciate it. It is good to be back. FearÉIREANN 19:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC) [reply]