User talk:Gurney50

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I suggest you go to the talk-pages; before adding your changes. GoodDay (talk) 20:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

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It also has no fair use rationale; one should be added to explain why it qualifies for fair use in any articles in which it is used.

I've reverted the other image, File:This.jpg to the previous version; if uploaded again a more descriptive name is needed, and it should have the correct licence and source and a fair use rationale, as your claim of ownership of the copyright of a Disney film doesn't seem plausible. snigbrook (talk) 19:00, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Succession boxes for runners-up
Please note that your additions of succession boxes for "Runner up for the Democratic Nomination for President" is not a good idea. First, WP already has too many of these things, and some border on trivia. Second, there is no one good measure of who finishes second in a presidential nomination contest. It could be whoever won the second largest number of primaries, or whoever got the second largest number of popular votes, or whoever got the second largest number of delegates during the peak of the nomination battle, or whoever got the second largest number of delegates at the actual convention. In some cases it's clear, such as it's pretty obvious that Hillary finished second in the 2008 Democratic nomination. But if you use the 2008 Republican nomination as an example, your answers to the above questions would be Romney, Romney (I think, depending upon whose popular vote count you use – caucuses, banned states, and other problems make this hard to determine), Huckabee (depending upon when you take the count), and Ron Paul, respectively. So it's best to avoid this matter entirely in succession boxes. Wasted Time R (talk) 01:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

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