User talk:Howcheng

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Thank you ...

for ignoring all rules in favor of common sense[1]. --The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 20:56, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

image oddity

Hey there...

wonder if you could have a look at somehting and see if you can tell what the issue is. I came across Image:John-Paul-Jones.jpg and noticed that there is a duplicate copy at Commons. As I have done countless times before, I was going to swap out the link in the articles to the commons version and then nominate the local copy for deletion. When I went to change the image in Charlottesville, Virginia article, when I saved it it came back as a broken link; I have checked the spelling and things and it is fine. I started playing around in my sandbox and when the images have no critera on displaying, ie thumb, right, size etc, both images appear, see User:Jordan 1972/sandbox1 but when I copy the context from the article and simply change the image name, it comes back with the broken image link, see User:Jordan 1972/sandbox. I can not figure out why and wonder if you can shed any light on it. Thanks very much.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 23:47, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, must be just your browser. I tried it in FF 3, IE 7, and Safari on Windows and I can see both images on both your sandbox pages. howcheng {chat} 23:50, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Very weird; now its working fine on the sandboxes and article... I even tried the Ctrl+F5 on IE. Oh well, thanks.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 00:37, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

C'est la vie

I guess I really should have done it myself by then, heh. Nothing personal I guess, somehow I knew that picture was a goner when I really couldn't think of anything to justify its presence.

By the way, I put an entry in the Barack Obama talk page FAQ (Q18) about the picture. There were some folks who were looking for it in the discussion and are quite eager to bring it back, hopefully this might raise their understanding on why it cannot be used in the Wikipedia.

Cheers.

--Aeon17x (talk) 00:53, 10 November 2008 (UTC)