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I've removed your speedy deletion tag. Note that "utter rubbish" is not one of the speedy deletion criteria. May I suggest you use WP:PROD? The article may well BE utter rubbish, and many would agree with you, but speedy deletion isn't always the best solution. Cheers! Mango juice talk 20:30, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
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I have just noticed, with some horror, of your posting a 'copyvio' on the above page. As my contribution to the article was the most recent, I hope that your action - perfectly justified, in retrospect - does not reflect too badly on me. My recent contribution was merely to try to clean up the Billie Anthony page, and make it more 'wikified'. The inclusion of the link to the [1] website, came about through my google search to find a suitable site to link to. What I did not do - as in hindsight, I should have - was to cross check the information I was working on. You have clearly done so, and found the possible copyright violation. Well done, and a sharp lesson for me for the future. I must stress that the basic wording of the wikipedia article was not of my doing - I was merely sub editing the text as I found it. Am I forgiven ?!
Derek R Bullamore 11:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Sir, You posted a copyright violation on my article about Julian of Eclanum. This article was from a book that had been published in 1914 and was in the public domain. I am uncertain as to why the article was removed.
Reply posted at Talk:Kite_(toy)#Images_and_Copyright_Violations. Cheers Clappingsimon talk 12:19, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I've copied a question of yours from Talk:Fair use to Wikipedia talk:Fair use; the former is to discuss an encyclopedia article (where your question was off topic); the latter is a to discuss Wikipedia's own fair use issues. - Jmabel | Talk 17:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
The artcle Joseph Strutt of Derby First I must apologise for any misunderstanding. As the author of the original article I was not unaware of any copyright violation. However I now see that I had actually violatd my own copyright. Having severely repremanded myself, I have now re-edited the article so that it reads differently from my original text whilst retaining the historical accuracy. Please accept my apologies and thank you for highlighting my error.
I think you posted a copyright violation on this page. As I'm new to this, I followed the instructions and rewrote the page without any copyrighted material under the Temp link recommended. However, the original page has since been deleted. I have therefore moved the rewritten page to its original location. Hope you don't have a problem with that. Dan 10:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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Thanx for that pic, the request has been sitting there for ages... 68.39.174.238 04:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
After I blocked the vandal, he used a sockpuppet to vandalize my own user page, and Koweja ( talk · contribs) fixed it. So we're all part of a vandalism-correcting chain. Or something. — Josiah Rowe ( talk • contribs) 07:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I've been thinking about adding a picture of that, just hadn't gotten around to taking the camera over there. Good job! Since you appear to be in the area, there may be a meetup somewhere in Broward County in March (in the early talking stages). -- Donald Albury 13:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh, and you can reply back here, I've got a watch on this page now. -- Ebyabe 19:05, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the photo to Rolfs Hall! -- buddhagazelle 28 Jan 2007
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