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We all tend to take Misplaced Pages much too seriously. It's certainly important to provide a free first-class online encyclopedia for the public, and no one can dispute how central Misplaced Pages has become to people searching for accurate, unbiased information, but there's little excuse for the bitterness, in-fighting and bitchiness with which many people approach editing here, which makes the experience difficult and unpleasant at times. I am generally in favor of removing the worst of those transgressors permanently, which, of course, leaves me open to the charge of not assuming good faith. Actually, I have little trouble assuming good faith, I simply refuse to keep the assumption alive in the face of evidence of misbehavior.

"Beware of the 'innocent' man who plays his part too well."

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File:Pierre-Jules Boulanger.png licence information

Hello Beyond My Ken, thanks for updating the licensing information for the photograph File:Pierre-Jules Boulanger.png. You added as the source http://foter.com/photo/pierre-jules-boulanger/. I have a concern with this source. Note the similarity between the current version of the file, uploaded by you on 28 February 2012, and the photograph at Foter. They are visually the same, with exactly the same dimensions. Because of this, I am convinced that they got the photograph from Misplaced Pages and assumed that the licensing information was correct.

I got the original image from http://www.designmuseum.org/design/flaminio-bertoni and my claim that it is in the public domain was based on assumptions about its publication that I now feel are not justified. The photograph may well be in the public domain, but nothing I have seen so far proves this claim. --Joshua Issac (talk) 09:36, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't upload a new version, I just cropped and cleaned up the version that you uploaded. I got the address I added from this TinEye search, since it indicated the image was PD. You may well be right that they got it from us, that actually makes a great deal of sense.

So, what I've done is to revert my changes to the file's information (except I left off "db-author" since it's not applicable once someone else has uploaded a new version). This means that the file should be deleted in a few days. Sorry for having gotten in the way. Best, BMK (talk) 10:34, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Redlink

Hi, Beyond My Ken, I noticed your edit. In fact I did not create a red link. There was already a (red)link to the Rev. Henry Eglinton Montgomery Memorial in New York. . Lotje (talk) 04:26, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't believe that's the case. Here is the diff to your edit. On the left, before your edit, the words prsent are "Recor Rev Henry Eglinton Montgomery." On the right, in your edit, are the words "by ],". By surrounding "Rev. Henry Eginton Montgomery" with doubled square brackets, you created in that article a Wikilink to a non-existent article, which shows up red, instead of blue. BMK (talk) 08:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Pedro Martinez

BMK ~

Check the facts on Pedro Martinez before you unilaterally decide to revert edits. Editing just because it strikes your fancy is not putting truth first, but your ego.

xP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.33.108.146 (talk) 13:01, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Your edit was, and remains unsourced. (1) Sources go into the article, not in the edit summary. (2) Misplaced Pages articles cannot be used as sources. The information you added may well be valid, but it must be sourced to remain in the article. Thanks. BMK (talk) 19:01, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

National Museum of the American Indian

Thank you for the advice, I detected a lot of errors on the first chunk--Leglish (talk) 04:52, 16 May 2014 (UTC).

No problem. I think if we work on it together chunk by chunk, I'll be clearer about what you wanted to do, and (hopefully) the result will be a better article. BMK (talk) 04:54, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

That's great to hear, we definitely need a spot check on a lot of museums... ChrisGualtieri (talk) 05:05, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

The Rules of the Game

This is a completely polite message and merely meant as a courtesy. How I am writing my contributions is so far organized as follows: Plot, Cast, Production (Subsections: Background and pre-production, casting, filming), Initial editing and previews, Release and reception, Re-discovery, Themes, Style, Legacy.

I think I may find Initial editing and previews to be too short and may make it a subsection with Release and Reception. This is not a challenge or hostile in any way. I am telling you this ahead of time out of courtesy and to see if you had any objections. If I could have sent you a private message I would have.--Deoliveirafan (talk) 05:36, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't see anything in your plan of action that seems objectionable at first glance, but, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so I'll see what my response to it is after you make your edits. I suggest that you use the {{inuse}} or {{underconstruction}} tags at the top of the article, to let myself and other editors know that you are still working (as long as you don't string it out too long). If so, I will hold off until you are finished, and then make changes or adjustments as I see fit.

I appreciate your letting me know in advance so there is no chance of an unwarranted mistake being made between us. Good luck with your edits. BMK (talk) 05:56, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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Archive

I thought you had agreed to leave the Kumioko saga alone? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:35, 16 May 2014 (UTC).

None of your business, really, but I agreed to stop the behavior that Fluffernutter found objectionable, and I have done so, meticulously. If you think that restoring your unwarranted re-opening of the archive falls into that category, you are mistaken, but, then, you have never been any good at recognizing what is and isn't permitted by a sanction, have you? All the best BMK (talk) 20:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC)