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Bruce Eisner, the owner of the website where I got the Helms photo, http://www.bruceeisner.com/, gave me permission to use this image as long as I gave him credit. He stated he merged the picture, citing rights in compliance with Creative Commons, which I believe has a modicum of wiki legitimacy. By E-mail I asked Mr. Eisner if this wd pass the DMCA litmus test and did not receive a response as of 30 April 2007. I told him I thought that Fair Use allowed only portions of works to be publicized so I'll leave the decision to the wiki powers that be.

DonL 17:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DonL, I encourage you to make edits on pages where you have an interest. Be bold! You're an editor like me or any other wikipedian. Don't let anyone (ie RPJ), tell you different. The info that Karmafist includeed in his welcoming message makes good reading. I especially recommend How to edit a page Have fun!

Mytwocents 05:21, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify the above remarks by "Mytwocents:" His/her remarks have nothing to do with the Chet Helms article or image, which was removed, and I replaced with a photo I took at the Helms memorial in SF. Mytwocents was writing of an entry I made to the (Earl) Warren Commission Discussion page, "An otherwise illustrious career.." at [[1]]. While I appreciate Mytwocent's comments, since my opinion focused on Warren's overall career and was not relevant to the Commission report, I never entered it.

DonL 15:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your question at the Help desk, I answered the question there as well but just in case you haven't checked back, here it is: You'll probably want to choose one of the "free" licenses such as Public Domain, Creative Commons or some such. When you click on "Upload file" on the left hand side of the page, you'll be presented with a pull down menu of licenses. Choose whichever one you prefer. Dismas|^(talk) 10:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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DonL 06:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edits on Battery Directive. DonL 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome, I have also helped edit the references as per wikistyle--Alex 08:47, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your help and editing on "Battery Directive!" I liked your implementing superscript "notes." On another question: Using the Firefox browser, when typing, say, "vortexrealm wiki" in the URL bar, my browser is directed to your "Talk" webpage. However when I type "battery directive wiki" it always takes me to wiki's "RoHS" ("Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive"} page. Do you you know how to cause direction to the Battery Directive page? I know you figured out how to change the "d" in my first "Battery directive" title to capital "D." Impressive credentials, by the way. Thanks for your service to the world. DonL 15:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite sure why you are getting this redirect. One way to check what words link to which articles is to go to the article of query, press the "what links here" button, below the wikipedia search bar. On the ROHS page it indicates some things such as "lead free" redirects to ROHS, this clearly isnt correct. See [2]

To rectify the redirect, click on the link to the incorrect redirect, then type #REDIRECT [[New page]] at the head of the page to bring the correct links to the correct article. Hope you understand what I mean! If you need me to change these for you let me know and I will help.--Alex 16:17, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. If you have time, Alex, please do.

Thanks DonL 20:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies: I edited some pages, including adding and removing text, while categorizing it as "minor edits." The wiki policy is that deletion is more than "minor." I've changed some of the EMC wiki page (which I felt badly needed it) and possibly others without abiding by this protocol. __this section edited June 4, 2010__

DonL 22:19, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WLAN websites

IEEE 802.11 Overview (FreeRADIUS Wiki) http://wiki.freeradius.org/IEEE_802.11

WLAN standards summary http://www.elcard.fi/standards.htm

no standards.htm "Elcard office will be closed for summer vacations from 3.8.2009 till 14.8.2009"

Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine - 802.11g Wireless information/definitions/descriptions

http://www.bbwexchange.com/wireless_internet_access/802.11g_wireless_internet_access.asp

Cryptography websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Cryptography

My heart felt condolence to the family of Mike Tyson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.206.50.242 (talk) 15:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for entering this tragedy. DonL (talk) 07:05, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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• Got it. Thanks. DonL (talk) 07:05, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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