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Thank you very much indeed for the filtering it is so very much clearer -

But now like the image above it it has either been stretched vertically or compressed horizontally. I asked at Wikimedia about this and the pundits all said there is nothing wrong with the image! Because the change has just happened to this other image with your revision I wondered if you might know what is going on. If its any help I use a Mac running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5. Thanks and best regards,Eddaido (talk)08:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know much about Macs as I use Windows.

Are you saying the problem only appears on the new (revised) version? It's been saved as a "Gray" mode JPEG which might cause a problem with your Mac.

Does it appear twice as high as you'd expect normally?Ubcule (talk)19:21, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ubcule,

I wanted to let you know that I just taggedSmurfing (online gaming) for deletion, because it seems to be an article that was previously deleted by aconsensus decision.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you cancontest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note onmy talk page if you have questions.Hama Dryad (talk ·contribs ·email)14:13, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HiH.dryad; Contested because- as described atTalk:Smurfing (online gaming)-"Content isn't mine (I just moved it while tidying up a dab page),but I wouldn't have recreated a previously-deleted page if the same issues had applied. In this case, the "not notable,no sources" used in the discussion against the old versiondoesn't apply. This incarnation one has at least one reputable source".Ubcule (talk)17:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was going mainly for the fact that it had been deleted by consensus before. If you think this no longer applies, then you're good. Cheers!Hama Dryad (talk ·contribs ·email)18:01, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem; further discussion atTalk:Smurfing (online gaming).Ubcule (talk)18:53, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Are you suggesting that it's a G11-type of spam, or if not, can you give me a bright-line definition of when it's blatant misuse? The policy specifically says thatAdministrators should take care not to speedy delete pages or media except in the most obvious cases, and this doesn't look obvious to me.Nyttend (talk)13:57, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(Replied atUser_talk:Nyttend where conversation started).Ubcule (talk)14:27, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ubule thank you for your comments ion the image of Charlie Wood. I suspect that your copyright comments are completely correct about the Charlie Woodsimage. I have had it for many years in a scrap book because Charlie Woods is actually member of my family!Regards Gairderek— Precedingunsigned comment added byGairderek (talk •contribs)

@Gairderek: If I remember correctly, that was an image I marked as non-free because it appeared to have come from a newspaper, but still appeared recent enough not to be out of copyright?

Yep; unfortunately in cases like that the newspaper usually owns the copyright in the original image, regardless of who copies it (even if it's someone you know).Ubcule (talk)18:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm Iazyges. Ubcule, thanks for creatingPrince regent (disambiguation)!

I've just tagged the page, using ourpage curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Good job.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment onmy talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers atthe Teahouse.IazygesConsermonorOpus meum00:39, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Iazyges:; I'd normally reply here, but in this caseI've left a longer explanation at your talk page instead.

To keep it short; the lack of links aren't a problem, because it's a disambiguation page, not an article- we try to avoid linking directly to those excpet where navigationally useful.Ubcule (talk)17:54, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that edit was a long time ago. Totally forgot about that. I know it was a bit unorthodox for a disambiguation page, but I remember looking into WP policies then (and now, that you mentioned it), and couldn't find anything about not including additional info, like the description or picture, that might be helpful or interesting. Since it didn't obscure the purpose or function of the disambiguation page, I didn't really see why it shouldn't be in there. Is there a policy that I missed?Korossyl (talk)02:24, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please monitor theEMI Records article as it's being vandalized with false info. Thanks.Steelbeard1 (talk)02:18, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Steelbeard1:; Thanks for drawing this to my attention. Due to the risk of letting misinformation slip through, it has currently been reverted to the last version I edited.Ubcule (talk)12:27, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Using Fair Use images on a list item is not an appropriate use of them. They would only normally be used where the image is the subject of the whole article.SpinningSpark23:05, 10 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I think these logos are for STV and ITV respecively. Please ADD the ITV and STV logos, please.--2607:FCC8:6242:B500:F51D:E0A:FAD8:5218 (talk)19:06, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@2607:FCC8:6242:B500:F51D:E0A:FAD8:5218:; They're for the ITV and STV *companies* respectively. Please stop trying to force them into the article for the network- it's already been made clear why they don't belong there.Ubcule (talk)20:24, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ubcule Please stop trying to force the edits into the article for the network- it's already been made clear why it's there. --2607:FCC8:6242:B500:DD2A:1C7A:33DF:5E9 (talk)23:08, 3 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Stop harassing me. You don't get to continually paste my words all over Wikipedia. If you want to begin anew conversation on an article talk page feel free but you do NOT get to use my text to harass me all over Wikipedia. If you do it again I will report you for harassment.ThaddeusSholto (talk)21:37, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@ThaddeusSholto: Why haven't you done so already?

I was the one who'dsuggested you do exactly that in the first place. (*) Not because I agree with your allegation- quite the opposite, I consider it baseless. But it's a serious accusation, and if you genuinely believed that I'm somehow "harassing" you, I would rather have this matter aired and resolved properly, and given a proper chance to defend myself.

While I have no interest in interacting with you more than necessary, I also have no intention of being "scared off" from the content dispute which sparked this problem merely because you took (what I considered) legitimate criticism and discussion as an "attack" and started making accusations of "harassment" in response to my attempt to move an increasingly partisan discussion to a more neutral venue.

(*) You must have been aware of this comment since youremoved it from your talk page before posting here. So what *exactly* is your point?

Ubcule (talk)23:06, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion atWikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.ThaddeusSholto (talk)18:58, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Massive thanks for your improvements toAlba (brand). It's a much better article now. Cheers!Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk)20:54, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thank you for your earlier work too!Ubcule (talk)20:57, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I saw you created redirects for Storm Corrie and Storm Malik. However, you misspelled #REDIRECT as #REDRECT on both of those. Are you copy/pasting something, because if so, you should fix that typo before creating more redirects. Thanks!Skarmory(talk •contribs)23:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Skarmory: The only thing that was cut and pasted was the manually-typed first redirect for the second and third ones; if it had been taken from elsewhere, or any of my previous edits, it wouldn't have had that mistake in it(!)

Thanks for spotting that and making the corrections.Ubcule (talk)12:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for creatingStorm Malik.

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@SunDawn: - Thanks, but I can't take credit for it, as I didn't create the article itself. While I technicallycreated the *page*, it was only as a brief redirect to another page.

It wasMobius Gerig (talk ·contribs) who did so when theyconverted the redirect into a proper article (and deserves the credit).

Thanks anyway, and all the best!

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@TheWikiholic: - Good grief, I was literallyright in the middle of moving someone else's inappropriately-placed content elsewhere and tidying it up so that it *does* meet the standards for an article and you had to jump inthree minutes(!!) after its creation, during which time it had already been edited (and- by implication- was still being worked on).

Yes, perhaps I should have signposted that more blatantly in the edit summary, but it's almost never been a problem in the past. Most people in your position usually exhibit common sense and don't jump on stuff like this until it's clearly been left as-is (i.e. editor has moved on, several hours have passed, etc.)

Or are you suggesting that no newly-created articles are permitted to be worked on in stages (i.e. as multiple edits)?

Perhaps you could try being a bit less overzealous next time, and avoid wasting your time and mine.Ubcule (talk)13:53, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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This is probably more a discussion for the talk page, but I don't think it's our place to say what is "inaccurate" or not.Kombucha has nothing to do with the original Japanese kelp tea, do we need a hatnote on the page here to say so?Jpatokal (talk)02:55, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Jpatokal:(Replying here as the discussion was transferred from your talk page to mine and I prefer to keep it in one place)

My main concern was with the existence (or otherwise) of the dab hatnote full stop. If it's there and sufficiently clear, that's probably okay.

While I'm not sure that I agree with you over that aspect of the wording, it's a minor detail and not one I feel strongly enough about to bother disputing(!)

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