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Hi, You put my picture on Wikipedia, under the diving article, 3+ years ago. I was wondering why you picked that particular picture? Especially when there are so many by professionals and of professionals/olympians/etc.

Thanks.

Megan Barnet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.79.174.30 (talk) 11:32, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I chose that image because it was a U.S. government photo and hence in the public domain. Minesweeper (talk) 07:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the Tedford page. You did a good job improving the page format and content.[[User:calbear22]] (talk) 19:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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hello. i just found a pretty big error in one of your edits. in future, please make an effort to be more diligent. ....lol, just kidding, i found this just today, and thought you might find it as humourous as if found it. cheers! --emerson7 18:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Minesweeper,

I am working in The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. In the Science and Society Department, we publish 'Science for Children' popular science magazine for the children whose ages are between 7 and 12 per month. Our science magazine is a non-profit educational magazine. Our magazine's web site is: http://www.biltek.tubitak.gov.tr/cocuk/

In this month issue, towers is one of the topics. While searching in the Internet, I saw your photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sather-Tower.jpg

If we use the photo in our magazine, we'll be very glad. When your photo is published in the magazine, we want to send a copy of the magazine to you :)

Thank you very much for your interest. Best wishes from Turkey

-- Hande Kaynak TÜBİTAK Science and Society Department e-mail: [email protected] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.140.86.3 (talk) 13:14, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I "borrowed" your pic here for Energy law, thanks! Bearian (talk) 14:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

G'Day Minesweeper I found a picture of yours that I want to use.

See www.hybriped.com

I can't figure out how the copyright license system works for images. Could you let me know how to acknowlege Commons pictures?

Many thanks for your involvement in the Wiki project.

Greg C

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Hi, I was just wondering if (since you got the 2002 one on) you could post the other years for the DJIA. If you can't, can you please tell me where you found the picture of the DJIA's performance in 2002. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.113.79.227 (talk) 15:34, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.171.137 (talk) 20:14, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,

My name is Bruce Waters and I have been teaching Astronomy for almost 30 years now.

I came across your lunar phases diagram at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Lunar-Phase-Diagram.png and found it to be one of the better lunar phases explanation diagrams out there. I was wondering if I could use it in my non-commercial freely made public Astronomy presentations?

Please advise and kind regards,

Bruce

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Dear Minesweeper,

today I came across your really nice picture "I-80 Eastshore Fwy.jpg" at Wikipedia! Would it be ok for you if I show your picture in a German project handbook? If so, do you happen to have that picture in a better resolution? (data size around 600 kb would be fine)

The reason for my request is that I have to design our project handbook on "Mobility patterns and alternatives of families in rural areas". For this handbook, I would like to fill and illustrate a page with interesting world-wide facts and figures about transport. And I think, your picture would be great for that!

Of course, I would mention your nickname or (if you tell me) your real name as the source, and you can receive a copy of our handbook, if you're interested (it'll be entirely in German though). For further information about our project on families and their mobility in rural areas, please feel invited to take a look at: http://www.verkehrsplanung.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg93/Forschung/Projekte/Laendlicher_Raum/Flyer-english.pdf

With kind regards, Melanie Herget

Melanie Herget

Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr Fachgebiet Integrierte Verkehrsplanung Salzufer 17-19, SG 4 10587 Berlin Germany Tel. +49-30-314-28160 Mobil +49-178-197 13 05 [email protected]

Dear Minesweeper,

today I came across your really nice picture "I-80 Eastshore Fwy.jpg" at Wikipedia! Would it be ok for you if I show your picture in a German project handbook? If so, do you happen to have that picture in a better resolution? (data size around 600 kb would be fine)

The reason for my request is that I have to design our project handbook on "Mobility patterns and alternatives of families in rural areas". For this handbook, I would like to fill and illustrate a page with interesting world-wide facts and figures about transport. And I think, your picture would be great for that!

Of course, I would mention your nickname or (if you tell me) your real name as the source, and you can receive a copy of our handbook, if you're interested (it'll be entirely in German though). For further information about our project on families and their mobility in rural areas, please feel invited to take a look at: http://www.verkehrsplanung.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg93/Forschung/Projekte/Laendlicher_Raum/Flyer-english.pdf

With kind regards, Melanie Herget

Melanie Herget

Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Land- und Seeverkehr Fachgebiet Integrierte Verkehrsplanung Salzufer 17-19, SG 4 10587 Berlin Germany Tel. +49-30-314-28160 Mobil +49-178-197 13 05 [email protected]

Dear Minesweeper,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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Sincerely,

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