User talk:PPGMD

Regarding your Mediation case

The case page has been moved to Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-05 Bowling for Columbine, but no mediator has been selected yet. Please feel free to use the case page to discuss possible solutions with eachother. Good luck to all the involved parties. ~Kylu (u|t) 21:38, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glider image

I am trying to get gliding up to featured article standard. One of my reviewers has pointed out that the copyright on Image:Blanik 3 a.jpg is not up to current standard. (Personally I find the whole business of copyright tags really tedious.) It seems that you loaded it when Wikipedia wasn't as fussy. Is it possible to reload this image with one of the approved tags? Since the owner wanted the copyright preserved, may I suggest {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} or, if you took it, {{CopyrightedFreeUse-User}}. I guess you have been around long enough to know that basically this means saying that anyone can use it for any purpose anywhare provided the copyright are credited. Since the photo is already on the internet, where most users are less worried, this will probably make little difference. If this is a problem, I can get another image, but using this one might be quicker. Would you let me know if you can get permission ASAP because gliding has been a featured article candidate for a while. Thanks JMcC 07:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the new tag for your image. Yes, there are 3000 Blaniks and 750 K21's. Although the K21 is sexier, I suppose the venerable Blanik illustrates this section better. If you would like to add your support to gliding becoming a featured article, you can put your comments on Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Gliding. Thanks again. JMcC 20:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Books on Navigation

> Bowditch's book and Maury's book <

Sir, you stated and I replied --

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MAURY (Talk | contribs) (True but his WORK is and especially since Bowditch himself agreed.)

I see your point but I am not focused upon Matthew Maury in that area. I am looking to Bowditch and his book just as Matthew Maury did when he wrote his book that ended up as a standard textbook for midshipmen in the US Navy. I included the sources that Matthew Maury studied and included the statement that Bowditch himself made. Since the USN had considered Bowditch's book to be "as Holy Writ" (source: Williams, Frances Leigh 1969 Scientist of the Sea) to have the work replaced is an important concern that shouls, in some manner, be inculcated to that area of work regarding "Navigation" and the other topics the two books included. If Commander M F Maury's own book that replaced Bowditch's book cannot be inculcated in that area then where should it be since that area is about the Navy's use of books on navigation? The navigation area alone does not look appropriate. So, again, how do we inculcate what, in history, that is factual, to that area and or subject. I await your response.

Kindest regards to you,

--MAURY 08:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

junk category

What's wrong with an american defeat category?? --Sugarcaddy 19:36, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The bowling matter

I personally think Kopel's website is an acceptable source for his views, since there is no evidence that it is not authentic. Otherwise I endorse what you said to me completely. Mangoe 02:47, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glider dispute

Thanks for helping sort out the "dispute" on Glider. I added the 'disputed' tag rather than having the (one) user who objects adding prose indicating a dispute. FWIW, I agree with you and the FAA! --Ghewgill 18:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Military defeats

Please withdraw your nomination. There are many articles that would fall under this category such as Pearl Harbor, Alamo, etc. None of these battles has any POV issues as it is obvious who lost --Sugarcaddy 19:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

battle of mogadishu

Thanks for all your hard work reverting the vandalism on that page. I just wanted you to know that it's appreciated. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 03:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine

Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Arbitration Committee Clerk, FloNight 17:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glider & Proberts

Thanks for trying to help in Talk:Glider but I don't think Proberts is capable of admitting his pre-conceptions are wrong. I have decided that replying to him only encourages him. He now has convinced himself that there are six forces on a glider and would doubtless tie himself into further knots if he had to explain how it moved at all. If you look back at his postings, he has contradicted himself but it is not possible to point this out to him. Good luck if you decide to continue. JMcC 16:08, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kodachrome

Regarding this edit, are you aware that a large proportion of current DSLRs (although clearly designed with a 35mm-film-SLR-style form factor) aren't full-frame 35mm? Many of them use APS or similar-sized sensors. (I don't know if you had them in mind, or you genuinely meant 35mm-frame-sized (24 x 36) digital sensors). Fourohfour 14:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Airbus A340

I just want the assessor to give reasoning and suggestions as stated in the template itself. Do you not want that too? Paul Beardsell 03:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Bowling for Columbine

This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.

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CopyrightedFreeUse template

Please do not use the CopyrightedFreeUse template. It has been deprecated since February of last year. To release all rights, use {{PD-release}} or {{PD-self}} instead. Thanks. Kaldari 22:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see my response to your concerns at Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_January_4#Template:CopyrightedFreeUse. If you do not want your image released to the public domain, please describe what what type of licensing you would like this image released under. Relenquishing all rights to an image is the same as releasing it to the "public domain". If you would like to use a more restrictive license, please state that on the image description page. Using {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} is not an option as that template has been officially deprecated since February (that's why it says "This template should not be used for new images.") If you want to use a template that is extremely similar, but approved for use on new images, try {{NoRightsReserved}}. Sorry for the confusion, we are trying to clean up all the licensing templates so that confusion will be minimized in the future. Kaldari 22:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The image desciption page of Image:Blanik 3 a.jpg indicated that it was for noncommercial use only. That's a Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Jkelly 03:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for revising the licensing on your images. And sorry again about the trouble and confusion. Hopefully at some point in the future the image licensing on Wikipedia won't be such a mess. Kaldari 07:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blanik image

The picture of the Blanik has vanished. From what I can deduce, with very short notice. To zap an image for a minor thing is very odd. I have replaced the Blanik with a K13 until you can reinstate it. JMcC 01:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've restored the image per your release, and removed the noncommercial statement on the image description page. If you have such a statement on any other images you have uploaded, please remove it. Jkelly 03:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Manfrotto Group and Bogen Imaging

I see that you added the sentence "Manfrotto also owns Bogen Imaging..." to the Manfrotto Group article. I read the company profile pages on both Manfrotto's site and Bogen's site and neither says that Bogen is owned by Manfrotto. My understanding is that Bogen is the exclusive distributor of Manfrotto's products in the US, but I see no evidence of any other relationship. Do your have a reference that shows that Manfrotto is the parent of Bogen? Thanks. --rogerd 03:04, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This page: [1]PPGMD 22:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I added that as a reference to the Manfrotto Group article --rogerd 22:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Bowling for columbine.jpg

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List of notable glider pilots

There is a proposal to delete the List of notable glider pilots. Please register your opinion on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of notable glider pilots. I think it is an interesting list and useful when publicising the sport. JMcC 09:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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