Well, I'm not the only one who understood, the person who left the original comment in his talk page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk: RickK&oldid=7921955#Teehee] said "I don't know if you realised, but at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion, you cut User:Vague Rant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vague_Rant's comment in half and declared that the first half of his comment was by an anon and was therefore not counted".
So, you're saying he made a careless mistake? That's the big deal?
Comments like RickK's are advisory to whatever sysop acts on the VfD. Unless he actions the item himself he doesn't control what votes "are counted." Secondly, if you advise a sysop to disregard half of a comment, even if the sysop accepts all of RickK's recommendations uncritically, that isn't going to affect the vote, is it? Third, VfD discussions are based on consensus, which means that exact vote counts are not supposed to be and usually are not important. It's not like we're talking about hanging chads. And, finally, the reason VfD discussions last for as long as they do is so that mistakes can be corrected.
How do you get from point A), an arguably careless mistake which _even if accepted uncritically by the acting sysop_ would not have affected the vote count, which isn't very important anyway, to point B), "up to no good" and "vote rigging?"
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Howdy y'all,
How do i do an interwiki link of a pic? For example if im working on something in wikipedia and the image that i want is on commons i say [[image:foo.png]] and all is peachy, but if im working on wikibooks (for example) and i want an image from wikipedia [[image:w:image:foo.png]] tells me there is a missing image, and all is not peachy. Is there any way to do this, or do i have to put all those images in commons first, and then use them from there, and IF that is the case, is it correct wikiquette to deleate all the images that i want to use off wikipedia (after i have moved them to commons), so that the articles on wikipedia will then point to commons instead of wikipedia or not?
paz y amor, [[User:The bellman]] rjs
Robin Shannon wrote:
Howdy y'all,
How do i do an interwiki link of a pic? For example if im working on something in wikipedia and the image that i want is on commons i say [[image:foo.png]] and all is peachy, but if im working on wikibooks (for example) and i want an image from wikipedia [[image:w:image:foo.png]] tells me there is a missing image, and all is not peachy. Is there any way to do this, or do i have to put all those images in commons first, and then use them from there, and IF that is the case, is it correct wikiquette to deleate all the images that i want to use off wikipedia (after i have moved them to commons), so that the articles on wikipedia will then point to commons instead of wikipedia or not?
No, there's no way to do it without copying to commons as you suggest. I wouldn't recommend deleting existing images on other wikis, just copy. Unless there's a policy on commons that says otherwise.
-- Tim Starling
Robin Shannon wrote:
Howdy y'all,
How do i do an interwiki link of a pic? For example if im working on something in wikipedia and the image that i want is on commons i say [[image:foo.png]] and all is peachy, but if im working on wikibooks (for example) and i want an image from wikipedia [[image:w:image:foo.png]] tells me there is a missing image, and all is not peachy. Is there any way to do this, or do i have to put all those images in commons first, and then use them from there, and IF that is the case, is it correct wikiquette to deleate all the images that i want to use off wikipedia (after i have moved them to commons), so that the articles on wikipedia will then point to commons instead of wikipedia or not?
No, there's no way to do it without copying to commons as you suggest. I wouldn't recommend deleting existing images on other wikis, just copy. Unless there's a policy on commons that says otherwise.
-- Tim Starling
I would also recommend adding interwiki links to the image's page at other wikis from the Commons - might be useful in the future (and also to easily find out where the image is used, until it can be done automagically).