User talk:Mu301

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Philosophical Question #3: Is the individual greater than the community?

"That depends on the nature of the community. In a combat unit fighting for material gains, it is customary to sacrifice a chess piece for the sake of winning the game. In a spiritual community, saving the individual is an overarching goal. In an educational community, the dilemma is comparable to the one faced by Mrs. Zajac in Tracy Kidder's book, Among Schoolchildren. In that story, the teacher spent an enormous amount of time and energy trying to save two problem children (Clarence and Robert). In the end, Mrs. Zajac failed to reach them, and so everyone lost, including the other children in the class who were neglected while Mrs. Zajac spent so much time on a futile effort to reach Clarence and Robert."
—User:Moulton, 15 September 2008

Candidate for Custodianship

Latest comment: 8 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Mike,

Just dropping you a note re Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/MathXplore and wondering if you would be able to take a look some time and close if/when you see fit? I nominated MathXplore, so ideally you could close. Dave Braunschweig on a wiki break.

Hope you're well.

Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 09:45, 15 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Jtneill: Yes, I'll review this weekend. I'm doing well. Thanks for asking. --mikeu ^talk 22:19, 15 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done @MathXplore and Jtneill: See [1] --mikeu ^talk 14:36, 24 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can we save this depression-era photo?

Latest comment: 7 months ago12 comments3 people in discussion

See File:Untitled-91274a-1024.jpg, [2] [3]. The latter two claim (insinuate?) that it is a PD loc image. Is this good enough to get it on Wikiversity? If this does not satisfy "fair use", I don't know what "fair use" is. Come to think of it, I don't know what fair use is. Period.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:16, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

The most suitable license on commons is {{PD-USGov}}. See, for example: File:Spark_gap_transmitter_bandwidth_-_2.png. I recommend that we move the image to commons and delete the local copy. We should probably give it a more descriptive file name. I'll take a look at this in a short while. IMHO, there's no point in us hosting a PD. On commons it can be fairly used here and cross-wiki. --mikeu ^talk 20:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done - I've moved the file and deleted the local copy. The resource that uses the image looks fine. --mikeu ^talk 22:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done - To clarify - my previous post was the move of File:Depression-overview.jpg. I've just now moved File:Untitled-91274a-1024.jpg. Most of the archival images in the Federal Writers' Project are likely {{PD-USGov}}. By definition, these photos were commissioned and/or published by the US Gov't and are PD. I wouldn't trust a bot to automatically move them. They need to be checked by a person to verify the status. --mikeu ^talk 03:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

If you want, I can delete these images, but need someone with more knowledge of copyright and WV policy than I to verify. All or most of the scientific images are essential to imported PLOS articles, so we might want to delete the PLOS articles if we delete the images. The photo of two men are on of user:Jtneill's resources and are likely not essential to the page. Let me know and I will be happy to delete.

Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 21:41, 31 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'll take a look at this. --mikeu ^talk 22:26, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Bayesian.png was a duplicate already on commons. I've deleted it and update what links here resource pages. --mikeu ^talk 00:37, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 01:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Update: I'm still working my way through these files. I'm not sure what the copyright status is for many of them. --mikeu ^talk 01:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I've had trouble tracking down the specific image sources. In general, PLOS uses CC BY, CC0 Universal, or Open Governmental License.[4] So, the issue is not so much fair use. It is attribution. It is reasonable to assume that the authors of the PLOS articles that we host created the images included in the article (unless otherwise stated.) This does create a bit of a mess in that there is no clear link from the image back to the creator. --mikeu ^talk 14:23, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I agree that the LoC files should be moved to Commons and I moved some of them. Sadly the PLOS files have a bad source and we do not know which license creator have chosen. If it is one that require attribution we need to know the creator. So I think the files should be deleted. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 20:12, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm generally in favor of keeping files that appear to be free. In this case I support deleting due to the uncertainty of authorship. If we can't be sure that we are correctly attributing the creator then they should not be hosted here. I support deletion. --mikeu ^talk 02:49, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikiversity:Requests for Deletion#Module:No globals

Latest comment: 8 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

You might be interested in it, as a subpage of your userpage has a link to that module. Liuxinyu970226 (discuss • contribs) 11:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, that module is deprecated. It appears unused. A deletion is appropriate.[5] --mikeu ^talk 01:27, 12 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Deleted.[6] --mikeu ^talk 03:24, 12 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Should I delete these pages?

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I am 90% confident that these pages should be deleted, and I can do them quickly with my touch screen. But there are so many files that I would appreciate verification. Could you take a look at Wikiversity:Requests_for_Deletion#Unused_files_uploaded_by_Katluvdogs?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

I support deletion of all these unused files.[7] --mikeu ^talk 01:22, 12 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikiversity:Candidates for Custodianship/Dan Polansky

Latest comment: 3 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Hello, a Wikiversity contributor has been nominated for curatorship by one of our bureaucrats. The discussion is open for more than 2 weeks. Another bureaucrat has supported custodianship (Special:Diff/2642118). There are some discussion participants who made edits after the opening of the discussion (Special:Diff/2641936, Special:Diff/2645506), but there are no major objections. Please consider the closure of this discussion to grant (temporary) curatorship or custodianship. Thank you very much for your attention. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 03:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the heads up. I will take a look at this over the weekend. --mikeu ^talk 23:41, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi Mike, Wondering if you could close this nomination when you get a chance? Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 01:10, 9 September 2024 (UTC)Reply