I'm sorry if I came across as a prick - that wasn't my intention. --mav


Thanks for the change and the bot-idiocy. I will add that to the list of things to work on, that is, I will try to make the entry more intelligent. -- Ram-Man

Didn't mean to come off as criticizing you, Ram-Man. I was just being flip. The pages seem to be a pretty good idea, I was just a little freaked out by the state of Recent Changes.

I responded to you at User talk:Ram-Man -- Ram-Man


Dachsund, thank you for your attention to the hate speech article. I need help with my edits, so that I don't inject my POV into the article. Ideally, a reader should be unable to determine the editor's POV by looking at his changes. Can you tell what I think about hate speech or speech codes by looking at my edits to the article? And am I introducing bias, subtle or otherwise, into the article? I hope note. --Uncle Ed


Hi Dachshund, I have a question about Mikhail Bakunin's photograph. Is it free to use, or "fair use"? What is its source? I know, here in the English Wikipedia it does not matter (at least for some people), but in the German Wikipedia people _do_ care about that issue.

bye, --zeno 10:35 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer. I should have known better, well, but I just did not think about the age of the photograph. I think it is not problematic to use it in the German Wikipedia, too.
Best regards, Zeno

hello, Dachshund. i saw your good job on "cheese project". if it can be helpful, you can have a look on fr:Fromages (liste complète). that is a complete (?) list of chheses, not only from france.
à bientôt, bye Alvaro 18:08, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)


I was sure that I undid my changes to the articles, but it seems I only undid the changes on one of them. At first I was sure that there was something wrong with the current layout of the articles, but when I began changing it I noticed that I couldn't think of a better way, so I just left it. Thanks for catching that other edit. I still don't really know what to do with the organisation, and at the moment I prefer sticking to areas where I am more knowledgeable. - snoyes 04:15, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Heya, I moved your old Wikipedians/ page to User:Dachshund/old. I think the content's all duplicated on your user page, but should the edit history thrill you immensely you can keep it, otherwise just delete it. --fvw* 15:45, 2004 Dec 10 (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 1000 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:

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:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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)

Semantic Security

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Thanks for your rewrite/expansion at Semantic security. I don't suppose you'd be able to dig up the references for the Goldwasser/Micali and Rackoff/Simon results? — Matt Crypto 18:32, 23 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hi, nice work on the Goldwasser-Micali cryptosystem article (and welcome to the Crypto Project and all that!). — Matt Crypto 15:24, 16 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Dachshunds and WWI

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Could you provide a reference for the claim that US citizens were encouraged to euthanize their dachshunds? Was it the government that was doing the encouraging? Where did you come upon this information? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just looking to see if this is verifiable. Roodog2k 02:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Rosicrucian article

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Dear user Dachshund, as I have seen editions of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Scientology and fair game

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Hi Dachshund, I ran into a question you asked in Scientology discussion: I was given to understand that the policy of "fair game" was not officially revoked, rather that Hubbard ordered his followers to refrain from using that term. Has the policy officially been revoked by the CoS? -D. Because I have a full set of curent policy letters and time to read them, I looked at Fair Game. For at least 5 years now (the church of sceintology says much longer) no policy letter uses the word "fair game." Many policy letters were just cancelled, a few were revised. The revised ones don't use the same tone the earlier ones apparently used. Specifically they state that under no circumstances is any scientologist to ever do anything which is "against the laws of the land." Further, it threatens that if a Scientologist does do something which is "against the laws of the land" then they are subject to justice by the Church of Scientology as well as justice by the Law in their particular land. 66.248.87.133 02:00, 12 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:Castorbeans.jpg listed for deletion

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Image:Shotgunpattern.png listed for deletion

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Image:Plagueflea.jpg listed for deletion

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MfD debate

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheeses has been nominated for deletion at WP:MFD, please feel free to voice your opinion their for us to reach consensus. Thanks - Tellyaddict 20:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Unspecified source for Image:DachshundEgypt.png

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Learningandlabor.png)

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WikiProject Cheeses

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Recently there was a tag for deletion of this project which did not pass and there was also a recent merge proposal as well to bring it back into WikiProject Food and Drink. In a hopes to revive this project I have done an excessive revamp of the main page as well as added many subsidiaries to it for organization. I have also created a member template which you can find a link to on the projects main page as well. The one thing I will be doing is including the members of this project along with the parent project WikiProject Food and Drink for the monthly newsletter currently sent to the parent project. If you do not wish to receive the link for the newsletter, just let me know. Hope to see you on the WikiProject Cheeses soon.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 19:47, 25 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Project Cape Cod

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I noticed that you worked on the Cape and Islands articles. I don't know if you know that there is a project encompassing the Cape. If you are interested on joining, click on this link: WikiProject Cape Cod. Feel free to join. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 00:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

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 14:38, 3 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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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

Speedy deletion nomination of Pilgrim Fathers

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Pilgrim Fathers requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Precious

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New England electronic music education

Thank you for quality articles in service from 2001, groundwork for Hudson river, Musique concrète, Clara Schumann, Sichuan cuisine, Dartmouth College and Oberlin College, for creating cheeses task force, for gnomish improvements such as page moves and adding images, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2282 of Precious, a prize of QAI. We miss you. Clara and Robert's wedding anniversary day, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 12 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Cheese

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  Contribution to cheese
You are the oldest recorded edit to the Cheese Wiki page! Nice! Ldan JustARandomSquid (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Good article reassessment for Appalachian Trail

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Appalachian Trail 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. Schierbecker (talk) 22:32, 18 August 2024 (UTC)Reply