User talk:Branden

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thanks, but I've been around a while. :-) --Branden

I couldn't help but notice your complaining about the gross inaccuracy of Michael's contributions (with regard to Rhoads & Quiet Riot). Believe me, man, you're preaching to the choir. Some people have been reverting his edits on sight. -- goatasaur

Yeah, I just got done bitching about him on his own talk page. Thanks for the heads up. It's weird. I also do some work on pages having to do with Middle East politics, and it seems the Wikipedia has less trouble with those than with what should be innocent pages about heavy metal bands! Color me stupefied. Thanks again for the notice, and sorry if I come off too harshly in my editorializing. I just think it's kind of hurtful to spell a guy's name wrong and state that his accidental death in a plane crash was really the result of suicide. If that's not mean or hateful, I don't know what it is. Though I'll admit some bias; I play guitar myself, and I think Randy's solo at the end of Tonight by Ozzy is just brilliant. -- Branden

You play guitar?! Maybe I'm not the only one who thinks Wikipedia could use some more learning resources for guitar players. My contributions to tablature are about as much as I've done, and it's just some basic information on reading tabs. -- goatasaur

Well, I'm not sure if this what you had in mind, but I tried to elaborate your palm mute article a little bit. Let me know if that's the sort of thing you're talking about. -- Branden

Out of curiosity, how long have you been playing guitar? -- goatasaur

About 12 years. -- Branden

You've got over ten years on me. I don't feel so bad now. :) -- goatasaur

I'm on #wikipedia on OPN^WFreenode^Wwhatever as Overfiend if ya wanna talk more interactively... -- Branden

Brandon- Not meaning to debate you, but your comment on Tailhook was cryptic. If you hae any information that US Special Forces used nerve gas in Laos (heck or anywhere else), please let me know.

Now, with three tildies … PaulinSaudi

(Just FYI, my name is is spelled "Branden" as is hopefully obvious from the name of this page. ;-) ) Also, I think you mean the Operation Tailwind article, not "Tailhook". Tailhook was that Navy scandal where female officers were allegedly subjected to sexual harassment by being groped at a party (Hint to readers: either the search engine is broken, or the Wikipedia has no article on Tailhook...). Anyway, if I had something more substantial to contribute to the Tailwind article, I'd have done so in the article itself and not in its talk page. I just question the credibility of a report solicited by the Department of Defense that purports to investigate misconduct by...the Department of Defense! CNN's investigation might have been wrong -- I don't know -- but even if it were, that wouldn't mean the Pentagon is right. Branden 04:32 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meet Up[edit]

I invite anybody who likes to come to Shag's Tavern (937) 258-8353 1926 S Smithville Rd Dayton, OH at midnight on Sunday the 21st/Monday the 22nd of March. Meet in the rear, near to the jukebox. Feel free to contact me in regards to specifics. Cheers, User:Sam Spade / Jack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#USA_meet_up

Sam Spade 09:22, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

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:

OR

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)

Indiana Wikipedians[edit]

Hello! Please consider adding yourself to Category:Indiana Wikipedians. Thanks! Kurt Weber 7 July 2005 02:49 (UTC)

Nomination of Libre for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Libre 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/Libre until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. — Keφr 12:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:51, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Libre (word) for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Libre (word) 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/Libre (word) until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. —Keφr 15:45, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]