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Master System is region-free?

Hi, I just saw your edit of import gamers, and was wondering if you knew more information on this. From what I heard, the North American Master System was incapable of playing Mark I, Mark II, or Mark III games, and had a different cartridge shape than Japanese Master System games. I do not have a Master System yet, so I have no personal experience in this matter. Could you please elaborate?Alcy 05:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, you're quite right. I've expanded on that slightly in the article. Also, I've clarified that it's not the case that Japanese or European/American MD carts are wider, but they're mutually incompatible shapes. Simple "Honey Bee"-style adaptors were available for either shape of slot, and squareing the slot also works either way.boffy_b 08:56, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Your Opinion Please!

Hi Boffy, I have another series of FP I would be grateful if you could have a look and tell me what you think. If you don't want to be part of my little sub FPC voting, could you please tell me? Thanks --[[User:Fir00 == 02|Fir0002]] 01:13, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• And again. Thanks! --Fir0002 07:57, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Your Opinion Please!

Hi, Boffy

For quite some time I have been uploading multiple images of the same subject as a Featured Picture Candidate, and, unknown (until recently) to me, this was causing considerable problems in the promoting/not promoting stage of the Featured Picture Candidates.

Recently Solipsist informed me of the problem and came up with the suggestion of holding my own semi Featured Picture Candidates page.

I would like you and several others (User:Sj, User:Solitude, User:Solipsist, User:Chris 73) to be the people who vote in this.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions on the photos.

The link to the page is User:Fir0002/FPCandidates

Thanks --Fir0002 08:29, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Slope

Please check my change on Slope for accuracy. orthogonal 21:48, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)

G5

Thanks! I'd been wanting to split that for a while but was waiting for an article on the processor; didn't realize it had been made until the other day. - Hephaestos 23:07, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

IBM PC

Re the IBM PC picture: you're welcome, glad you didn't mind. I thought the books and stuff in the background, but I did think the presence of some other computer was distracting. It's a nice picture, you can actually make out some of the text on the screen if you squint a bit... Dpbsmith 12:20, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Videopac pictures

Thanks for responding. I was worried that they were company-produced pictures. RickK 14:51, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Russian Blue

RE: Russian blue picture, I did not receive the owner's permission. I offer you my humblest apologies, I simply believed that any photo published on the internet was acceptable. This will not happen again. Sincerely, --Cormac Canales 05:33, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Christophe(r) Lambert

I changed all references to Christopher Lambert to "Christophe Lambert" a few months ago, as that is his real name(although in the peak of his career he was usually credited Christopher), did you change it back to Christopher on Highlander for a specific reason, or did you think Christophe was a typo?
Regards
Boffy b 21:59, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)

A bit of both. You're right; I did think it was a typo. But I'm also thinking that 99% of the people who ever heard of him know him as Christopher Lambert. This is a quibble, though....

Incidentally, there is (or was) a typo on the Christophe Lambert page: you had "sometimes rendered as Christoper Lambert" -- I corrected this to "sometimes rendered as Christopher Lambert"
(Linguistic corollary to Murphy's Law: You will inevitably make a spelling error, grammatical error or typo in any post complaining about a spelling error, grammatical error or typo)
Best,
HarmonicSphere

Re: Game of life board

Yes this photo was taken by me, as was the one on the Milton Bradley page. It is a good photo, my only kick against it is that one of the white houses has a little halo of light reflected from the flash. Thanks for your comment. --Fir0002 21:28, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirect you created at "Videopac G7200"

Hi, you created a redirect from Videopac G7200 to Philips Videopac G7200, but there is currently no article at Philips Videopac G7200. (It may have been deleted since the redirect was created.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Videopac G7200 on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Philips Videopac G7200 (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for Videopac G7200. Thanks! Noel (talk) 04:42, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm sure I had some master plan to fill in all the pages I made redirects to, but that was months ago and college has taken up most of my time since. Feel free to get rid of them. Boffy b 12:39, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

No problem, sure, thanks! Noel (talk) 14:57, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Copyright

Image:Blender screenshot.png is GFDL. I forgot to put the copyright status on when I uploaded it; it's there now. Thanks for pointing it out :-) -- Wapcaplet 20:21, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Image:Pull-down pull-up.png, a file you uploaded is missing an image license tag. Could you specifiy one for it please. [[User:Norm|Norman Rogers\^talk]] 12:51, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

reply

Please see Talk:East Village Other ike9898 22:59, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons

Would you be so nice to load your good photos in Wikimedia Commons? If you load your photos in Wikimedia Commons, we could use your photos worldwide! Especial I would like to integrated your Image:5150-1b.jpg in german articel about IBM-PC. For an example please see the article DVD and Commons DVD. --ocrho 10:14, 2005 Jan 31 (UTC)

I have uploaded my IBM PC picture to the commons with the name Image:IBM PC 5150.jpg, thank you for telling my about the commons, as I didn't really understand what it was for before. -- Boffy b 00:09, 1. Feb 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks for your fast support. I'm very happy :-) --ocrho 00:46, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)

Portrait

What is the copyright status of Image:Morwen.jpg? Boffy b 20:39, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)

No idea. I didn't take it so I'm not the owner. If you look at the image page you will note it isn't me that uploaded it either. ;) Morwen - Talk 08:40, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I emailed Tim Starling(who has left Wikipedia), and he said:

Morwen showed us that picture on IRC, we asked if it was alright to upload it, she said yes. It's possible the photo was taken by a professional photographer who has retained the copyright. I would either ask Morwen or call it fair use.

-- Tim Starling

so shall I just tag it {{fairuse}}? Boffy b 13:58, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)

Probably. It definitely was just a friend who was attending the wedding, rather than the professional photos that didn't come through for months afterwards. Morwen - Talk 14:43, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Redirect

Please don't make a unclear redirect on meta. I hope you will delete it by yourself. --Aphaea* 23:21, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re: Your user page

You're quite welcome; I just happened to be patrolling at the time, and I remembered the IP from a previous incident. Unfortunately it's an AOL proxy, so blocking it would be problematic. With any luck it was a random occurrence and not the start of some vendetta. Cheers, -- Hadal 03:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

"Boffy"

I'm just wondering where you got your nickname from. I am also known as Boffy and its an unusual nickname and I'm surprised someone else has it.

Yours

Boffy(the other one)

You don't seem to be registered, so I'l reply here. I used to wear my hair in a boff, more correctly it grew of its own accord into what was apparently called a boff, and one of the many names slung my way for this was "boffy the barber slayer", which I quite liked, but it was too long for most messageboards, etc., so I shortened it to boffy_b in honour of boggy_b, one of the worms from Worms. You?

The original boffy_b(always lowercase) 21:30, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)

In primary school one of my friends read a book called Boffy and the teacher eater. The character "boffy" had the real name "Michael Smith" which happens to be my real name. That lead my friends to give me that nickname. It isnt used much by people talking to me in person but I use it most of the time online.

Woah! It is now my aim in life to find a copy of that book. It's kinda weird to meet another boffy, of course the real question is, where did the author take THAT boffy's name from? boffy_b 22:55, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC)

Hey, I'm French and my last name is Boffy. Isn't that cool? lol Frelaur 14:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Blackberries fir0002 semi FPC

Hope you can come vote on this selection: [User:Fir0002/FPCandidates#Blackberries] Thanks--Fir0002 06:18, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Voting fir0002 grape photos

Hi Boffy, Hope you can cast an eye over my latest gaggle of photos! Thanks --Fir0002 01:18, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hooray!

Thank you for the lovely welcome. Or thank Frankie. I wub yew. Proto t c 14:13, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Anything for a public-sector polylingual unorthodox AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD-type awesome-lovin' lady-cat.boffy_b 14:48, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Phishing image request

hey,

I don't suppose you can make some sort of image for this request made on the FAC page? --ZeWrestler ^Talk 15:44, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

need some info

Hi,

I was wondering if you knew any tool (web-based or otherwise) that can colour the countries (as input by me) on a world map? Thanks in advance!

Chand -- Darksideofchand 14:52, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Anti-climb paint

Hi,

This is about the edit you made by deleting reference to UK from anti-climb paint. I know that prima facie it looks biased and POV, but I have found that its true. I came to this conclusion by extensive searching the web (using Google). I encourage you to confirm it yourself. I will leave the decision to reinstate it or not to you ask ask you to do only if you are 100% convinced. I did it because I was. A quick google search would confirm this. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 10:34, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I just thought that the London reference didn't represent a global viewpoint. Also, it didn't ring true, as there's a lot of anti-climb paint here oop north. boffy_b 13:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Your wish. Its better to not write rather than write wrong. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 13:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Could I post one of your images into a personal website ?

Hi man, I am not much sure, but I think you are the rights owner of the image called something like IBM_PC_5150.jpg
I'd like to put it into a personal webpage I'm working now, better said it would be a very reduced image of that.
I haven't found another way to contact you, I don't know either whether this wikipage is intended to that purpose; if not, I'm sorry.
I have a doubt about Creative Commons licencing issues, that's is: supposing your agreement, Would I have to licence the whole webpage accordingly with the Creative Commons and those conditions that the image comes with?

Best regards,

Daniel

P.s. I'm not registered yet in the Wikipedia. You can mail me to 4.magarzo @ gmail.com

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Join us in the "Terminator" Article discussion page...please...

If you are still a member of Wikipedia, please join user:TomTheHand and myself in a discussion of which terms should apply to the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Infiltration Unit in its various forms.

To be as neutral as possible, I will relate the views of TomTheHand as well as my own, as accurately as posible:

Tom believes that the term "Android" should apply to all of the incarnations of the Model 101, from Endoskeleton all the way up to the gestalts of flesh-and-blood and the combat chassis played by Arnold in the movies. He furthermore believes that the term "cyborg" does not apply to any of the Terminator's forms.

Thanos777 -myself -thinks that the Terminator is worthy of multiple appelations depending on which configuration (read: Type/Series) the Model 101 is configured as.

That is to say, I believe that the "Base" Model 101, just the endoskeleton with no cosmetic enhancements, is best defined as either a Humanoid Robot, Anthropomorphic Robot, or simply a Robot.

When the Model 101 is outfitted as a Type/Series 600, the endoskeleton covered by rubber skin, I believe that the Terminator is then most correctly classified as an "android."

And finally, when the Model 101 is equipped as a Type/Series 800/850, the endoskeleton with the living flesh-and-blood covering, I believe that the most correct term for the creatre is "cyborg."

Again, I respectfully ask you to come back to the "Terminator" Article and lend your input; those of us who are there in the Article's discussion page are engaging in a lot of back-and-forth regarding the different terms and the disagreements as to when they should be used.

Hope to "see" you there soon!!!

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Model #

Hey Boffy b, it appears from you image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sinclair_magnum_light_phaser.jpg that you own a magnum light phaser. I was wondering if you'd be able to tell me it's model #, probably located on the bottom somewhere. If you could, thank you --dotDarkCloud (talk) 17:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Image request

Hello.

My name is John Hodgman.

I would like to ask your permission to use this image in my forthcoming book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IBM_PC_5150.jpg

Unfortunately, I cannot CC-share-alike license my book, so I require you release for this specific use.

Is there a way that I can reach you?

That is all.

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Apt Pupil

LOL... thank you for your correction. For some reason, I had "Arthur Dent" stuck as a name in my head, even though I've read "Arthur Denker" in all the sources I've used to improve the article. Much appreciated! —Erik (talk • contrib) 23:42, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

No sweat. It's nice to know it was a mistake made in good faith :) boffy_b (talk) 01:38, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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One of your photos in Wikipedia for use in Documentary

Hello,

I am an associate producer on a piece for NOVA, the documentary series on PBS. We found a photo of an IBM PC on your page on Wikimedia that would be ideal for one image in our documentary.

It can be found here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_PC_5150.jpg

I saw that you have licensed this photo for public use, but that you have added a "Share Alike" clause to the photo. I would really love to use this photo, but I would need exemption from the Share Alike clause (PBS cannot legally use Share Alike images).

It is an educational, non-profit project, and we would give you full credit for your photo at the end of the episode if you so desire. However, we would need you to sign a materials release for the photo. We would greatly like to use it. If you email me at list.tobey@gmail.com, I can send one to you.

We would really love to use this photo. The release does not assume the copyright from you, but would simply say that you are giving us permission to use the photo.

Thank you so much!

Tobey —Preceding unsigned comment added by SeftelProd (talk • contribs) 21:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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Scanner

Hi Boffy!
I have a question for you. What kind of scanner is there in Scanner article? I mean the first picture was made by you.
Thank you for your answer! Tubybb (talk) 02:29, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I just edited it at some point. It was originally uploaded by User:Arpingstone, I hope he can help you :) boffy_b (talk) 19:28, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Geiger counter photo

Boffy,

We hope to used your Geiger counter photo in a book. Would love to have a copy of this sent to you--can you contact me? My details:

Frederick T. Courtright, President The Permissions Company, Inc. 47 Seneca Road P. O. Box 604 Mount Pocono, PA 18344 570.839.7477 - vox 570.839.7448 - fax PermDude@eclipse.net www.permissionscompany.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Perm Dude (talk • contribs) 15:51, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

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Hey Boffy b, you're Priestly Blessing hands pic has been used in over 25 articles now, and I think I may have detected an error, in all the other pictures and descriptions, the thumb is held away from the index finger to create the prayer stance. It's such a popular picture and you have such enigmatic hands, I was wondering if I could prevail on you to retake it? Trinkella (talk) 20:52, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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