User talk:Sam Francis

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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 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:

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)

Republics[edit]

Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:19, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject[edit]

Hi!

I wonder if this guild is anything that you may benefit from, and in that case, feel invited to sign in :)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Conspiracy: The World Conspiracy Guild

Have a good day :)

--Striver 01:35, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sam[edit]

Hello Sam. Listen, can you help me substanciate any Irish roots in Suger Ray's background? We'd be delighted to have him, but it would be nice to know exactly where they lay if we're going to include him under the heading Notable people of Irish descent (see Irish people). Cheers! Fergananim 15:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

I just came across some of your old contributions to Anarchism and related topics, and was pleased to see that you're still active. Thanks for all you do for Wikipedia. We're as good as we are because of editors like you. Cheers, -Willmcw 03:20, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Page deletion[edit]

Revolution within the form is up for deletion. I ask for a vote to transwiki. Thanks. WHEELER 00:28, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wolverhampton Varsity[edit]

Wolverhampton Varsity has been proposed for deletion. Please see the article for details. NickelShoe (Talk) 02:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Genealogy Wiki[edit]

Sam, if you still want a wiki for your genealogy, please see the completely free GFDL MediaWiki site Wikia:Genealogy, which started in December 2004 and now has over 7,300 articles (and 9,000 other pages) and an active membership. Robin Patterson 13:16, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update: now 34,000 articles and instituting Semantic MediaWiki for the really clever stuff. Robin Patterson (talk) 12:33, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Ani difranco - ani difranco.jpg[edit]

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Invite[edit]

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks!

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Freedom newspaper 13th september 2003.jpg)[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:Freedom newspaper 13th september 2003.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Ernest Hemingway project?[edit]

I am interested in starting am Ernest Hemingway project to improve content related to his life and works, and have proposed the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Wikiproject_Ernest_Hemingway_project. Please share your thoughts there! kilbad (talk) 16:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Sam Francis! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 1,090 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Simon Francis (artist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:23, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Simon Francis (artist)[edit]

The article Simon Francis (artist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Notability (WP:N). Can't find reliable secondary sources that provide significant coverage necessary to meet WP:GNG, unsourced for the roughly eight years of this article's existence.

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Proposed deletion of Collectivism (magazine)[edit]

The article Collectivism (magazine) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A non-notable magazine.

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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) 08:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Eldacar[edit]

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