User talk:Davidbspalding/Archive/2007-Aug

June 2007 WP:FILMS Newsletter
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Fair use rationale for Image:2001_Floyd_publicity_still.jpg
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 * Thanks, I usually do so (especially for posters and screen shots), and will do so here. David Spalding ( ☎   ✉   ✍  )

Edit Warring
One revert isn't edit warring. Please look at situations before tossing warnings around. Phil Sandifer 20:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * You added some text (which I didn't think was all that awful), Nydas changed it, you immediately changed it back with comment "Revert Nydas's two edits. First one because it's just flatly wrong, second one because it's an important clarification in practice." I asked BOTH OF YOU to cease the reverting edits (both on the Wikipedia Talk:Spoiler page and on your respective Talk pages), so I'm not "playing favorites." You both clearly need to chill out (as I did, a coupla weeks ago). David Spalding (  ☎   ✉   ✍  )
 * More specifically, You added text here, Nydas reverted here, then you revertd it back.
 * Further indications that you and Nydas need to go to your neutral corners:   - David Spalding (  ☎   ✉   ✍  )

Invective edit summaries
Sigh. They're so full of themselves that it's hard to resist poking them every once in a while, but I'll try to refrain. Note, though, that by "weasel-ish", I meant in the sense of weasel words, and not in any metaphorical, poetic sense. "In the past" is a prime example of weasel words, and my "prior to June 2007" was a more accurate phrase. Besides, the point is moot: The text got modified severely when it became clear that we were placing the history of the guideline into the guideline. -Kieran 00:41, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I thought you mean the explicit guideline, WP:WEASEL. My mistake. David Spalding ( ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 03:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject James Bond
 SpecialWindler   talk  01:53, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:TheWickerMan USre-release Poster.jpg)
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 * Superceded by a higher quality image. It can go.... :) David Spalding (  ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 22:39, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject James Bond
 SpecialWindler   talk  01:19, 28 July 2007 (UTC)