User talk:Avram Fawcett

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Notable Rock Albums
A tag has been placed on Notable Rock Albums, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:Notable Rock Albums. An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page, and then immediately add such material.Diez2 22:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Avram. I have deleted this album as Diez2 notes.  Lists tend to start giant arguments as people can never agree what should be on and what shouldn't.  You might be interested in browsing categories like Category:Grammy Hall of Fame Awards or other categories using a specific criteria.  Thanks, BanyanTree 01:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Quanahbusiness.GIF
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Kiss images
If you want to add images to Kiss articles, they must have specific sources, copyright info, and fair use rationales. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 20:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:1974kissin.JPG
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Love the tags!!!
I see that you do not appear to have a love for image tags. Please consider that all images must have tags or they can be deleted. And we don't want that. Please - tag your images!

There are links in that OrphanBot comment above that can help you understand stuff about image tags. If you need any help whatsoever with image tags (or anything, really...I can at least redirect you to someone else...) please leave me a message on my talk page.

As for the 1974 image, I need more (lots more) information to be able to tag it and for it to be Wikipedia-friendly. What website did you get it from? who took the photograph? if you didn't take the photograph, and it doesn't say that it's a free image, do you have any reason to think that you're definitely allowed to use it? Any information at all, even if it's just a web link, would be helpful. You image is listed under Possibly unfree images under January 21. Let us know on that page if you have any information that can help. Obviously, if you think the image was important enough to upload, we'd like to keep it if possible - but even the great Wikipedia is subject to U.S. Copyright laws...sigh...

Leave us a message - happy editing! Verloren Hoop 05:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, that's not really enough to keep the image. If it's very important, keep looking - consider maybe asking the uploader where he/she got it from. Also, it depends on where you're going to use it. If it's for an article, you might be able to see if it's a promotional image, so you could possibly use it. You can also consider just using another image that someone has already uploaded (although I do like this one :) ) Also, you could ask someone who is involved a lot in KISS article projects. Although I'm a fan, I really don't know much about which photoshoots were done when (this looks like it was a photoshoot)

On another note, it would be great if when you leave a comment, you could sign your name. Just put four of these: ~ Verloren Hoop 04:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC). Thanks!

Unspecified source for Image:Acefrehley.JPG
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George IV of the United Kingdom
You need to make sure to check for sources for the paragraph you added to the article. It's under Featured Article Review and unsourced material will likely be removed pretty rapidly, or contribute to the article's being de-listed as a featured article. - Mocko13 03:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Templates are your friends
Great job on Roman and Byzantian emperors! They ask to be in a template, don't you think? Please see m:Help:Templates or feel free to ask me or WP:HELP. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, it seems that you have created all the HTML for the template on each Roman emperor page. This is a problem because someone could edit the version on one page but not the others!  What want to do is create a single template and then add  on each Roman emperor page, ensuring that there's only one version of the template. --Jfruh (talk) 14:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Egbert of Wessex
Hi -- a while back you added this to the Egbert of Wessex page. I'd like to get this article to featured status, and I'd need a source for this. Can you tell me where you got the information? Thanks. Mike Christie (talk) 00:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * P.S. I'm referring to the paragraph about the bones, not the bretwalda notes. Thanks.  Mike Christie (talk) 00:47, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Let_There_Be_Rock.gif
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Alfred the Great
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Ddhome.PNG)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Main Line Riders
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Proposed deletion of This Is It (Bride album)


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Proposed deletion of Skin for Skin


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Proposed deletion of Oddities (Bride album)


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Proposed deletion of Tsar Bomba (album)


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