User talk:Gruesome Pet

Barnstar award
If I have one piece of constructive criticism, it is the need to cite where you got the material from. A reference section is crucial to a good article, coupled with some external links (if you have any); it provides people (i.e. me) to seek out more information on the subjects. Having said that, I enjoyed reading what material was there, it is excellently written. Thank you –MDCollins (talk) 22:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Non-free use disputed for Image:Jean Francaix.jpg
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 * The image hasn't been deleted yet, but it is now fair game for the first admin that comes along. Also, it's tagged as an album cover, but doesn't look like one (at least at first glance).   Could you please add a note to the image page and say where it's from, why it's not taking away from anyone's commercial use (ie that it's not from a picture library), and why it isn't replaceable with a free image.  Thanks.  Otherwise the image police will come in the night sometime soon, and take it away.  Jheald 18:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Farm Journal


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File permission problem with File:Cyril B Rootham.jpg
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 * I refer to the page commons:File:Cyril B Rootham.jpg, the image was uploaded 2 times under different authorship claims. I merged both uploads to this one file description page on Wikimedia Commons. --Martin H. (talk) 17:33, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

As the grandson of Cyril Rootham, I would really like to thank Gruesome Pet for creating the original article back in 2006. But I also have an apology to offer. Today I received a copy of a doctoral dissertation about Cyril Rootham's Op.51 "For the Fallen", and in this dissertation I am named as the author of the Cyril Rootham Wikipedia entry - which I clearly am not (nor ever claimed to be). In all other respects, the dissertation is really interesting, so I will be making it available on the rootham.org website. Of course I will accompany this with a disclaimer making it clear that I didn't author the original Wikipedia article. So I hope that you will accept this apology, and accept my thanks. And incidentally, I am happy to offer permission to use photographs of Cyril Rootham as explained on the Photos page of the rootham.org website. Dan rootham (talk) 00:23, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 07:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Daniel Sjölin -

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Proposed deletion of File:Cyril Rootham.jpg


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