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Hi Tim Shell,

i was lead to your photo website from las vegas articles: http://www.timshell.com/pics.html

I have browsed some of your las vegas photos and others. I enjoyed them greatly!

I was wondering if i can use some of your photos on my own website. If you require credit, i'd be glad to credit it, and link back to your website if you like. Please let me know know. Thanks! Xah Lee P0lyglut 07:15, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Yes, that would be fine, if you include the link back to my site. - Tim

Hi. I just deleted Jin-Qua which you yourself marked as being deleted. However you better use {{delete}} instead of {{vfd}} for something which should be deleted without the need for discussion - if it is not a clear case you better do the complete vfd process. And maybe you had better moved the first version of your article to the new location, and then exchange the automatically created redirect with the delete note - that way it would be much less confusing to have a valid article in the history upon deletion. andy 09:50, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Mojave Desert

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Hi Tim. Thanks for your recent addition to the Mojave Desert article with your photo. Please see my comments about it at Talk:Mojave Desert. Thanks! --avnative 13:49, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC) Oh no! Am I in the right place? Went for a search for someone to help me out here, hit the top brass, oh well, can someone ehlp me with a pciture load and what is happening with my page? Did I type this in the wrong place?

Noble House

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Great job on the Noble House characters. You might want to reconsider having links for all the minor and mentioned characters on the Noble House page, except maybe for the founding Struans. I think it would be great to have a Struan's family tree compiled from info in all three Struan's books at some point, but that would really be a lot of work. Thumbs up. --Aramgutang 01:39, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've just created an Asian Saga category, and felt you deserved to be notified, since most of the articles I moved into it were by you. :) --Paul A 05:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

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Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/La Shawn Barber

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I DEMAND an apology. Rick K 20:59, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

The "puffery" I refered to was the long list of quotes talking about how wonderful she is. Rick K 21:16, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Thanks for cleaning up the Category syntax for Jason Kottke; I figured out that I messed it up but forgot to go back and fix it msyelf. --Dhartung | Talk 08:35, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

aliens

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see Talk:Extraterrestrial life

Image tags

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Hello, I am cleaning some of the image copyright tags and Image:TimShell-LaJolla20031207.jpg doesn't have a license tag, I realize that's a personal picture, so I didn't want to assume gfdl. Thanks :D - cohesion ☎ 09:30, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Word

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Hi, Just writing to say that I like your theories…the good enough is better then best theory is awesome! I have often times thought about how that is true, however it is easy to loose sight of this understanding especially in America. KEEP IT REAL!

radio show about Wikipedia

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Hi Tim-

my name is Robin Amer and I'm a producer for a new public radio show called Open Source, which you can check out here: www.radioopensource.org.

We're doing a show this week on Wikipedia and we're looking for passionate, involved Wikipedia users to talk to. Another user/ site administrator recommended you as someone who might be good to talk to.

If you're interested, I would love to speak with you. Please give me a call at 617 497 8096 or email me at robinamer@riseup.net and send me your phone number.

thanks so much! I look forward to speaking with you.

best, Robin Amer radioopensource.org

Adminship of Timshell and Tim Shell

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Hi Tim. User:Timshell and User:Tim Shell are both admins. I suggest that User:Timshell should be de-sysopped. Also, perhaps you'd like to have adminship transferred from User:Tim Shell to you? What is your opinion of this? dbenbenn | talk 5 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)

Didn't realize there was a User:Tim Shell account - so if you de-sysop or de-anything that account (the one with the space), that would be fine. TimShell 5 July 2005 16:57 (UTC)

I've written a tool to figure out which admins are active. This tool starts by querying the sysop user list (like this), which finds user:Timshell, not user:TimShell. You've apparently never made any edits as user:Timshell, so I'm a little confused. Is the sysop'd account the wrong one? I guess I don't really care very much, but it seems this is something you might want to get fixed. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:54, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

User categorization

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Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. Although I know that some people don't like to be "categorized" I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Nevada (Category:Wikipedians in Nevada) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Nevada page and I didn't want to lose sight of that. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Nevada page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 03:43, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Old user page

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Hi, your old user page from the main namespace has been moved to User:TimShell/Old, complete with history (from 2001!). Noel (talk) 01:09, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

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Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:NewYork-NewYork19.jpg

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Things in Atlas Shrugged

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Hi Tim,

The article you started, Things in Atlas Shrugged, is currently up for deletion. There are quite a few editors who feel that it deserves a rewrite, but are not knowledgable on the topic. Would you care to join the discussion, or perhaps help on a rewrite?

Cheers, The Minist e r of War ^(Peace) 10:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

what happened to your wiki?

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you seem to have had one. I understand the urge to scrap it after you start one when perhaps it doesn't turn out as grand as you'd sometimes envisioned in those moments of blinding inspiration. Ka-zizzl 05:15, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I miss your wiki too. -- EveelMunky, aka Dreamyshade 08:36, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

:) Dreamyshade 07:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting the English Wikipedia into American and British English Wikipedias

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I think this is a ~~stupid~~ silly idea (i'm glad you oppose). A much better solution would be to have an option in the preferences for each user to display the page with their own locality of english. I don't know how much this would sap power from the servers, but it would put a stop to the arguments. Also, you are on the board of trustees, so why does your talk page get so few posts? MichaelBillington 04:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meetups, events, US chapters

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Hiya Tim,

There's currently some renewed discussion about whether and how to set up [a] US wikimedia chapter[s]. Among other things this could help better organize meetups, gatherings at large events and cons, and local outreach. You were interested in this before; there is a quiet mailing-list and a meta-page on the topic... both of which could use input and ideas. +sj + 17:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Boston Tea Party

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Howdy, I noticed that you and I seem to post in one or two articles dealing with progressive issues in political science/sociology. There's currently a debate beginning in Boston Tea Party as to whether the article should include the category [1]. It meets definitions set in the articles Terrorism and Definition of terrorism, however, there are several self-proclaimed patriots who watch BTP who refuse to recognise the fact. The simple criteria for terrorism generally seem to be intimidation or destruction of property in order to change public policy or public opinion while a state of war has not yet been declared. Some users would rather use recent acts of terrorism as a yardstick, rather than using a firm definition, and hence lose their ability to discuss matters calmly. Would you be able to pop in to the Talk page and join in the discussion? Thanks much, samwaltz 05:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:LaJolla-Seals.jpg

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Flag change

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Hi,

I took the liberty of changing the Flag of Georgia (i.e, the Republic of Georgia) to the Flag of the State of Georgia on your user page. I think that's what you wanted. --SteveMcCluskey 17:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use image use

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Greetings! On October 2, I removed two fair use image violations from your userpage. See [2]. On October 18, you reverted those removals. See [3]. Please be aware that per Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9, the use of fair use tagged images outside of the main article namespace is not permitted. I've removed three fair use images from your userpage today [4]. Please do not re-add these images. If you have any questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Also, your page says "I currently serve on the board of the". You're a former member, not a current one :) All the best, --Durin 15:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Las Vegas where abouts

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Hi Tim. You mentioned that you live in Las Vegas, however, you never really stated which Las Vegas, you were talking about. There's one in New Mexico, that hardly anyone mentions, and the infamousLas Vegas, Nevada . Well, I live in the infamous Las Vegas, Nevada, and would like to know how to contact you to ask a quick question.

-- [[User:Winey|Winey], also known as Bobby Singer, Wiki contributer and student at Bishop Gorman High School, founded by the Diocese of Las Vegas. 15:37, 7 January 2006 (PST)

Survey Invitation

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Hi!

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Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 21:27, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image source problem with Image:Cheyenne.jpg

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Speedy deletion of Shithead city! Crime city! Isolation city! Tourists beware and head somewhere else, like New York City, for instance.

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Utah Wikipedia Meetup

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Interested in attending a Utah Wikipedia Meetup?
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You're Awesome Man!

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Hi TimShell! I was recently on one of my favorite websites, Internet WayBack Machine. I started using wikipedia about a year ago and I became a wikipedian user in June 2008. Anyway, I wanted to see what wikipedia looked like back in 2001 using the virtual time machine when it first started. I clicked on the Recent Changes to see some of its users'. I noticed yours, went on wikipedia now and saw your userpage. Wow that's different. I even looked at some messages on your talk and were exactly the same. One of those messages included "...hero for changing RecentChanges to Recent Changes..." is this true? And who invented wikipedia's temporary slogan "the collabrative free encyclopedia" which I saw on your talk page also? Thank you for your time, TimShell! - entertainU (talk) 23:11, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Sami Khoshaba Latchin

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File:Bellagio11.jpg

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Your user page

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I found your old user page while checking out some old edits. I have history merged it, so that all edits are in one place. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 07:51, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity

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Possibly unfree File:MojaveDesert.jpg

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Nupedia

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Hi Tim—

I've been futzing around with the early history of WP a little bit this week. It rapidly became obvious to me that WP wasn't a successor to Nupedia so much as it was a little auxiliary of the Nupedia project which took off and flew, while Nupedia stagnated and was terminated — the parallel fates of WP and Citizendium over the last 5 years seem a direct replay of events. In any event, I started to wonder about the form and content of Nupedia. Tale is told of a server crash in 2003 and the decision being made not to repair the server and to instead concentrate exclusively on the booming WP project.

Anti-vandalism at Nupedia seems to have been done by means of full dumps of the content, yes? Have any of these dumps survived? Do you have a file or know of anyone who might? And what became of the broken server — was it taken to a landfill or does it exist on someone's shelf somewhere? Do you happen to possess it or know who might?

I'd also be interested, if you'd like to make a contribution to history, in your thoughts on objectivism and Bomis/Nupedia/WP/Sanger/Wales. An essay by you or an interview with you on the degree of connection between the philosophy and the project, as well as your reaction to my somewhat flippant off-wiki observation that in practice Jimmy Wales at WP has demonstrated himself to be an excellent anarcho-syndicalist and a very poor Rand disciple (which I mean as high praise although you may differ). I've got no publication designs, but you're a guy to address that topic of history (how Wales got from point A to point B, intellectually) and there should be something in the archives for a serious scholar coming down the pike, don't you agree?

Email probably works best.

best regards, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR //// MutantPop@aol.com //// Carrite (talk) 15:21, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Organic electronics for deletion

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Possibly unfree File:SamuelSmithsOatmealStout.jpg

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
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"Wikipedia:Why Arent These Pages Copyedited" listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Why Arent These Pages Copyedited. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Why Arent These Pages Copyedited redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. -- Tavix ^(talk) 00:16, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Dr. Nick for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dr. Nick is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Nick until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:24, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"ThreeLawsOfAlGore" listed at Redirects for discussion

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A discussion is taking place to address the redirect ThreeLawsOfAlGore. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 30#ThreeLawsOfAlGore until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. wbm1058 (talk) 01:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Jin-qua

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The article Jin-qua has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

he coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline requirement nor the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) supplementary essay. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:52, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Jin-qua for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jin-qua is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jin-qua until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:43, 23 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"United States/Government" listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect United States/Government and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 5#United States/Government until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 10:54, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Dick Cheney

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Dick Cheney has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:36, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]