User talk:Quintote

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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Re: Maine East High School 3 CSD fun with images from http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ 4 Quintote 5 Scintillation counter image 6 Usage of picture 7 Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3 8 Re: Counter-Strike 9 IP Vandal 10 Putin 11 Your bot didn't fully correct vandalism to strudel

[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Quintote, and welcome to Wikipedia! I am CTSWyneken. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Re: Maine East High School

Just letting you know, I reverted your edit on Maine East High School because it accidentally restored a line of vandalism from an earlier edit. I used VandalProof to do it, but I know your edit wasn't vandalism. :) --Coredesat talk. o_O 01:28, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CSD fun with images from http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/

I've moved Image:Scintillation counter.jpg to Image:Quintote_colony_counter.jpg (per someone's CSD notice), but I'd still like clarification about which cancer.gov page it came from, because I can't find it there. When uploading images, don't just give the internet domain, give the full URL. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for making sure this image didn't get thrown out, Mgm. As I indicated on your talk page, I've clarified the URLs for this image and the others I got from http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/ and will work on making sure I'm as clear as possible on image source and licensing. I also hope that whomever flags items CSD with great abandon can work to keep the contributors better in the loop. I'd accurately specified the license for this image, and the others like it, as qualifying for public domain status as a work of the US Government. Again, I'll be sure to provide exact URLs to source and will try to continue to list out the explicit public domain status whenever I can as well. - Quintote 02:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Update: Ah, I see the issue. The image is called a scintillation counter on http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/, but Deglr6328 believes this is not a scintillation counter. I....don't know what it is :-) so will defer to the experts. Now I think I understand the issue, though I'll still try to be as clear as possible with future images. Thanks again for the heads-up. - Quintote 02:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quintote

I don't like this chump.

neither do I --69.233.37.32 02:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I do prefer that people like me. However, I also prefer that people not vandalize Wikipedia, as both of you did to retention factor. I neither know nor dislike either of you (if there are indeed two separate people behind these two IP addresses), but I do wish you'd use your energy to constructively edit Wikipedia. -Quintote 02:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Quintote you are a true chumpette. -- 69.105.72.47 05:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scintillation counter image

Sorry that Image:Quintote_colony_counter.jpg apparently wasn't what it said it was. I retrieved this image from http://visualsonline.cancer.gov along with the captions indicating that this was a scintillation counter. Here's a link to the same, which I hadn't provided in the original upload of the image: http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2044

The site's well organized and the captions coherent, so I thought I made a good call assuming it was it said it was. Sorry about that, and thanks for the catch. My goal is to help Wikipedia to be as rich and complete as possible, and I certainly intended to improve, not compromise, the article.

not your fault! I am frequently shocked at the lax accuracy in the descriptions of PD images on gov sites. Just looking at the device though you can see it is some kind of overhead projector like thing which has a petri dish being projected onto the screen. a search for "artek counter" + colonies [1] reveals its actual use. It looks like the company went out of buisness ages ago..... anyway I do have one request. could you include the date that the image was taken in the descriptions? some of the techniqes depicted in those images are horribly out of date. also why not upload the big 300dpi image versions? wiki has the space!--Deglr6328 03:43, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

• I've taken another look at the description page of Image:Quintote_colony_counter.jpg. You did everything right (specific URL, and even a site specific licensing info instead of the implicit gov PD). Thanks! - Mgm|^(talk) 08:12, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Usage of picture

Hello! I i'm asking if you're willing to license this image under cc-by-sa, so that it can be used on this article on Wikitravel. Please respond either here or mail me on andreas.bergstrom@gmail.com. --Andreas

Thanks, I'm happy I can contribute! This was one of my earliest Wikipedia image contributions, and I was a little stingy on the image resolution the first time, so I've upped it as much as the image seems to support. (In case if you're wondering why I didn't just upload the original, the camera's white balance didn't seem to correct enough, and because the image was taken using available light, the full-res 7 megapixel version was a bit grainy.) I also bothered to upload it a third time since I noticed using Photoshop's "Save for Web" option dropped out the Exif details. If you care, the photo time of 03:18 reflects my home time zone of GMT-06. -Quintote 11:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Quintote! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand ^{(talk • contribs • Bot)} 16:32, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Please be careful with the tool and remember to look at the page history before reverting anything - your recent revert to Hurricane Rita reverted to a version containing vandalism. – Chacor 15:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Oops, thanks for the catch. I'll watch that more closely. -Quintote 15:26, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Counter-Strike

I made a revision to the Counter-Strike page in reguards to hacking/cheating. I'd like to clarify that it was in no way an attempt at vandalism. The information I added was accurate. A quick google search will verify that the clan "myg0t" is in fact one of the most notorious cheating/hacking clans in all of first person gaming. The information I added would have only informed more people of myg0t and explained the actions of their members further. If it was truly inappropriate I apologize, but I do not feel it was vandalism.66.228.252.142 02:12, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the follow-up. I updated my comment on your talk page. I think that mentioning myg0t around here is a hot-button thing that is likely to get reverted, but I believe you that you didn't intend to vandalize. -Quintote 03:04, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IP Vandal

The ip vandal whom you issued the last warning has acted again [2]. May-be time to get to blocks now?--Constanz - Talk 08:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, though I could've reported it to WP:AIV had I been on. The next time you see something like this, the best thing to do is report it directly to WP:AIV. At this point I've seen several good edits coming from this IP address, which could mean the user had a change of heart, or a different person is now editing under that IP address. A block at this point would be counterproductive, unfortunately. -Quintote 19:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

re Aussie vandal

An admin told me - "I can't block him. It's coming from a shared IP address. Those can only be blocked for short periods to stop a vandalism in active progress. Sorry. " - Kittybrewster 09:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Putin

That Putin has been implicated in poisoning his critics is "nonsense"? Do you even read the news? Do you think Yushchenko and Litvinenko just fell ill?

Question: Why is it that Putin's enemies keep getting poisoned, but no mention of that appears in the article? Do you consider it not worthy of an encyclopedia, but examples of his "humor" are? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.252.113.75 (talk) 20:23, 24 November 2006

I reverted your edits because including the category at this time is nonsensical. I have no dispute whatsoever with your assertion that Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, and were I the betting sort, would place money that Putin was behind it. However, Wikipedia articles are not a place for conjecture. Instead, they are a place where verifiable facts are collected, organized and disseminated.

I truly appreciate your passion, especially your desire to provide a complete view of Putin. I only rejected your edit based on its inability to be determined factual. I welcome you to discuss this further on this article's Talk page, or by including this in the article framed up with text indicating it's a current event and providing links to articles that allege Putin's involvement.

-Quintote 01:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot didn't fully correct vandalism to strudel

Hello. Your bot did not remove all the vandalism to the strudel article. It removed the most recent vandalism, but since it had been vandalized several times and not corrected, your bot kept some of the vandalism. I have manually corrected. Carmela Soprano 21:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)