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21:14, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Collaboration of the week
Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article

Supranational organizations
I have remove the templates again. The SCAN is far from being a supranational organization, it has thus been decided that this template belongs on the "economy of..." pages and the SCAN template has long been on the Economy of Venezuela page. Mercosur is even less supranational. Venezuela is only an observer at CARICOM and that organization is in no way considered superior to the Venezuelan government. - SimonP 02:28, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Please stop readding the template, edit wars across multiple articles are not useful. If you feel the tempalte should stay please discuss it, do not simply continue reverting. Reverting four articles for the same reason can get you blocked just as quickly as reverting a single article four times. - SimonP 13:55, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Blocked for image vandalism
You have been blocked for 24 hours for downloading a "comedy" image (specifically, the Michael Jackson police chase on a tricycle image) for insertion into an article, and combining this with the insertion of many paragraphs of bogus text into the article. You should not need a warning to know that this is inappropriate behavior. -- The Anome 09:35, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship
Hello, AfC. I saw that you've just been nominated for adminship. I understand that you would like to become an administrator, but I suggest that you withdraw your nomination for now. The vandalism mentioned above is recent enough that it would probably cause a nomination to fail. However, with only 157 edits, it is almost impossible that you would gain adminship&mdash;most users don't even consider candidates with counts below 1000. I urge you to withdraw your nomination&mdash;it's no fun just getting a bunch of oppose votes. Keep working on Wikipedia, make good edits, don't vandalize, and consider renomination when you have more experience. Please let me know if you have any questions. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker দ 08:24, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * AfC, would you object to me removing your nomination? If it continues it will just lead to bad feelings. I would be happy to discuss the issues brought up on the nomination page, but leaving it open for others to comment will just lead to hurt, in my opinion. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker দ 09:04, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Very well; I understand your position. I would recommend answering the question first, although typically administrator candidates don't answer the questions in the manner you do; I don't know how long it takes you to write. &mdash; Knowledge Seeker দ 10:22, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Olvera Street image
Thanks for letting me know about the possible deletion of Image:Olvera_st_los_angeles.jpg. Unfortunately I am not prepared to relicense the image for unrestricted commercial use, so it looks like it will end up being deleted. --Ngb 08:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:CunningLinguist.jpg listed for deletion
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SoCal Wiki News
Since you are in Los Angeles, you might be interested in a couple of bits of SoCal news. One is the first ever SoCal Wiki Meetup planned for Monday, July 25, 2005. For more info, see User:Eric Shalov/Wikimeetup. There is also a newly created Southern California WikiProject and California WikiProject that you might want to take a look at. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BlankVerse (talk • contribs) 01:56, 16 July 2005

Image Tagging Image:El Salvador demography.png
Thanks for uploading Image:El Salvador demography.png. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Image:Dubai Metro map.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Dubai Metro map.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:


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