User talk:Mikco

Your edits to Curtis Manning

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Fair use rationale for Image:Planet 51 promo.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Activision Blizzard.PNG

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Image:Ilion logo.gif / Ilion Animation Studios

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Mixx (website)

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Talk to me through here! --Mikco (talk) 21:13, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you removed content from Bernard L. Madoff. However, Wikipedia is not censored to remove content that might be considered objectionable. Please do not remove or censor information that is relevant to the article. You have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Xasodfuih (talk) 06:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The only thing removed was a fact in parenthesis that was unsourced. The other revision you undid was a reformat. Mikco (talk) 07:05, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your recent edits to Bernard L. Madoff have been reverted as they could be seen to be defamatory or potentially libellous. Take a look at our welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Xasodfuih (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hypocrisy is bliss, I guess. Tell me please... What has been reverted? Oh, that's right... The last revert of my editing was made by you over 50 edits ago. Baseless attacks have no place here. Mikco (talk) 20:08, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I used the wrong template on you talk page. I'm not the expert templater as you are. I don't spend my time laboring over one-time use templates. But, please don't make vague defamatory statements towards other editors. You are obviously oversensitive to the words Jew or Jewish, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to attack other editors in edit summaries as you did here. Need I remind you that I was the one that removed a number of overuses for those words from the article? If WaPo or Haaretz use "Jewish" in their titles, and countless other source use it the text of the article, then it's justified to make some use of the word in the Wikipedia article. Thanks, Xasodfuih (talk) 20:18, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use Image:Bernie_Madoff.png

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I have deleted Image:Bernie_Madoff.png. Images of Bernie Madoff are readily available on the internet, see http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=3&q=%22Bernie+Madoff%22&btnG=Search+images It is possible we could eventually get a mugshot, or since he will be appearing in court in New York, someone could take a picture. Fred Talk 22:25, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ambox image replacement

Hi,

May I ask whether there was any discussion regarding the overriding of the image in all the templates you just edited? The new "ambox button" image appears to be lower-quality than the previous one. For this reason I have reverted these changes pending discussion. If you think this is a better default warning icon, or that a new class of ambox is required for the "opinions differ" icon you added, please try proposing it on the main ambox talk page at Wikipedia talk:Article message boxes. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:58, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see that not only have you reverted the template in question to your preferred version, you have also reverted several other template to your preferred version, and gone on to add your changes to several more templates. As you haven't seen fit to raise the issue with the community, I have. I've proposed reverting your changes. Please do not continue to alter more templates from the defaults until such point as you have discussed the issue. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:41, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied to the discussion you started. Mikco (talk) 17:59, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bernard Madoff

Mikco - you'd think with a fraud that people wouldn't have a problem with "Modus operandi" - it is simply Latin for "mode of operation", i.e. describing how the guy did the fraud. But no, it is viewed as offensive, and people would rather have "Fraud" (claiming it is actually MORE neutral) or "Claims of wrong-doing" or some other long-worded drawn-out title. They just can't accept "Modus operandi". The cops do - I don't see why everybody else can't. Anyway, thanks.Betathetapi545 (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mikco, I just got through reversing edits in Bernard Madoff. Why in the world are you vandalising actual quotes??????????? I don't get it. If you've got a problem with the quote, go chase The New York Post, or The New York Times, or The Palm Beach Daily News. Don't bring your personal vendetta (whatever it is) onto Wikipedia. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (talk)

I really don't know what you're talking about. I don't think I've removed any quotes. Besides, if you have a problem with any edits take it up on the article talk page. Mikco (talk) 18:02, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

not vandalism

This was not vandalism. If you carry on calling good faith edits vandalism, I will most likely block you for making personal attacks. Gwen Gale (talk) 18:18, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. It looked like vandalism, on account of the discussion on the talk page of that article regarding categorical arrangement. I understand why it might look that way though. I don't see why my comment could be taken as a personal attack. In all fairness, isn't it a bit odd that you reply to an assumption of a personal attack with a threat? Mikco (talk) 18:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wait-- the article remains the same, so what was the problem with my revert? It was only carrying out the guidelines layed out on the talk page. Mikco (talk) 18:32, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are very close to owning this page. Also, the image that you uploaded to Wikipedia cannot be used per #12 on unacceptable use. Pictures of people still alive, groups still active, and buildings still standing; provided that taking a new free picture as a replacement (which is almost always considered possible) would serve the same encyclopedic purpose as the non-free image. This includes non-free promotional images. miranda 20:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you're saying about the image, but I thought an SEC image would be considered public. I'll take your word for it, though, because I don't know if the image is considered public / free. About owning the page, I'm merely attempting to make valid points before other editors carelessly paste snippets into the article. All of the recent edits in question have been and are being discussed on the talk page, but other users are disregarding discussion and publishing inaccuracies and irrelevancies anyways. I'm not doing anything to own the article, I'm just trying to protect its neutrality, accuracy, and reliability (all through discussion). Mikco (talk) 20:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images taken from CNN are fair use. If you want to find a free image, try usasearch.gov. However, usasearch.gov has some copyrighted images. miranda 00:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for constructive edits to Bernard L. Madoff

Overall, I think your contributions to Madoff have been very useful (maybe some newby mistakes included). I'll suggest at this point to back off and cool down a bit. Administrators have a hard time seeing who is to blame for an incident. It will be better all round if you take a few hours off. If User betathetaetc reverts again, just report him to the WP:3RR administrators page together with the diffs I included on the talk page. That's (in my opinion) the best that you can do for several hours (if not days). Let me know if you have any comments or if you think I'm being too tough on you.

Keep up the good work (just do it later!),

Smallbones (talk) 22:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Smallbones. Glad you find my contributions useful (though they are pretty small). Thanks for keeping the article neutral and fair. I guess I'll cool down, but this is just one of those articles that grabs your mind for a bit. And thanks much for the advice and for your help! Mikco (talk) 00:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Smallbones (talk) 01:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Biased

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Wii arcade listed at Redirects for discussion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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