User talk:BD2412

Status: If I'm not sleeping, I must be working. bd2412 T ^(change)

Dispute resolution clause: By posting on my user talk page, you agree to resolve all disputes that may arise from your interactions with me through the dispute resolution processes offered within the Wikipedia Community. BD2412

Note: If you are visiting to express concerns because I have edited your user page to fix a disambiguation link, please bear in mind:

1. I assume that you have the link there because you wish to point readers to the proper term (e.g "I speak Greek" or "I am Greek").
2. It makes it much easier for those of us who are cleaning up disambiguation links from articles if there are fewer user pages cluttering up the "What links here" page.

Cheers! BD2412

Talk page archives

I have divided my archived pages by topic, rather than by date:

• User:BD2412/Archive - Law the law, or articles on law-related topics (cases, doctrines, judges, professors, etc).
• User:BD2412/Archive - Articles all other Wikipedia articles.
• User:BD2412/Archive - Deletion AfD votes, policies, and mechanics.
• User:BD2412/Archive - RfA Requests for Administration and Requests for Comment.
• User:BD2412/Archive - Tools Wikitools (templates, categories, disambigs, etc.) and Wikiprojects (Disambiguation repair, Red link repair, Duplicated section repair, etc.).
• User:BD2412/Archive - Vandalism vandalism-related discussions, particularly requests to deal with vandals.
• User:BD2412/Archive - Miscellaneous everything else (thank you's, screw you's, my signature, jokes, comments, etc).

• I archive frequently - if you post a comment here, do not be surprised if it has been put away by the next day. I reserve the right to delete frivolous posts.

• My archiving is done primarly by the cut and paste method, although I occasionally archive long pages by page move. If you're looking for the edit history of a comment in my archives, it will likely be in the edit history of a page to which I moved a long archive.

[edit] America: From Freedom to Fascism

Dear BD2412: I removed some material in the above-referenced article that had been copied and pasted from the web site advertising the film itself. I removed it as a possible copyright violation (and I guess I could have cited non-neutral POV as well, maybe). I think I may have asked you this before, but I can't remember the rule. Question: Because I moved the excerpt from the article to the talk page with an explanation of why I deleted it, do we still have a copyright violation problem? Or, is putting it on the talk page OK under the fair use doctrine? Should I delete the quote from the talk page as well? Yours, Famspear 14:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, moving copyvio material from the article to the talk page probably weakens the fair use rationale as it is arguably no longer being used as part of the "educational" process which the articles serve. So, yes, you should probably delete it altogether if that's the rationale for removing it from the article. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent vandalism

This user has been vandalizing Mertens v. Hewitt Associates. He has already been warned once. Should I do anything more? --Eastlaw 23:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Sorry it took me a while to get back to you. Seems the problem stopped right away - good work! bd2412 T 18:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TFD for Template:Legally frivolous

The renamed template has been nominated for deletion. Whether or not you still think it useful, I thought you would like to know. Robert A.West (Talk) 06:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, back

That's all right; that stuff with the tax protesters and Irwin Schiff was annoying all around. Actually, I have been gone for a while (at least from Wikipedia). Hope it goes better the second time around. — Mateo SA (talk | contribs) 17:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Champagne wines

Some cheese with my whine.

Salutations BD2412! It appears that the Champagne pages have been relocated recently, and I was hoping you might have a moment to drop at line over at Talk:Champagne#Page_move? There appears to be a pattern of favoring countries over edibles (see Cheddar, Bologna, and Bordeaux) but after reading through Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Disambiguation I haven't found any specific guidelines covering this. Personally, I found it easiest to sort through things when Champagne redirected to Champagne (disambiguation); it was obvious to see what had and hadn't been disambiguated then. I may have overlooked something in one of the style guidelines, so I thought I'd ask.  :) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 10:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fl. Intl. College of Law

hey great job expanding the FICL article, making it informative without sounding like a advertisement. other law school articles should look like that. Taco325i 14:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami

There is a likely Wikipedia:Meetup/Miami meeting on the 16th of december. Sign if you are interested. Thanks Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 18:04, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] freedom of movement

Still remember that article? Think we could get it up to Featured, or at least GA/A rank? I added new sections on Africa and Tibet. This could really be a good article to add stuff to, and the research isn't all that hard. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 18:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

That was my goal from the start of it! bd2412 T 05:36, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, wanna do me a favor then? I'm starting (or rather restarting) Wikiproject Climbing. WP:CLIMB. The articles are very simple to improve, most need to be tagged with the {{Climbing}} template. But I really am a little over my head here. I could use some help. Want to give me a hand? ⇒ SWATJester ^{On Belay!} 07:45, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll sure look it over, though I can't say I know the first thing about climbing! bd2412 T 21:35, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{deletedpage}}

Don't worry about it, you are allowed to forget things. ;-) (I just came back from a pretty long wikibreak, and forgot things myself). Good to see you, and since you are one of the useful editors (i.e. actually writes things, unlike myself), I was wondering if you could take a look at the pages Cryogenic processor and CryoTech. They currently (to me at least) read like advertisements for 300 Below, but appear to be salvageable. Everything in Cryogenic processor needs to be verified, and it is generally a mess, while CryoTech needs a NPOV check. These pages (and Cryocooler, which could use an expansion) could probably be cleaned up to respectable articles, but I am not very experienced in this, being more of an administrative person. I am sure that you could do a much better job then me alone, and if you have the time could you help me out with these? If you are busy however, just let me know, I can do it myself. Happy editing! Prodego ^talk 21:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm always busy - but I'll have a look. :-) bd2412 T 21:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bad Idea?

I could use an assist (maybe two). I have a pet peeve, and thought I'd come up with a good concept for making chides to editors who leave incomplete documentation trails by creating sort of a wet diaper award. It seems to be drawing some adverse reactions, and even before I'd spammed a request to some others like this for brainstorming on how to shorten same and evolve it, as I'm not happy with it either. Subsequently, it's already drawn fire (here) before I could ask in help and get suggestions. Can you take a look and comment here. There has to be some way to let people know 'shallow edit actions' that reflect poorly on our pages need a talk note justification, no exceptions, thankyou. Much appreciated // FrankB 23:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)