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Good Shepherd Community Church Scarborough
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The Honourable
One only has the title "honourable" for life if one's been inducted into the Privy Council for Canada. Harris and Evens haven't been so their honorifics expired when they left office. Reggie Perrin (talk) 15:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank's for the heads up. I hope they NEVER get in, because they are two of the most dishonourable people in Canadian History. haha AllanVS (talk) 16:31, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of Famous Players theatres
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Help with citing the Star Trek: The Music article
I copied this from my talk page. This is what you do to cite articles properly and easily: first install WikEd by following the instructions in this link. After that, there should be a button that shows as above the edit window. Create a references section and add there. I did just that in that requested article. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 18:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * In other notes, I added a wikilink to that article in the main article, as well as in its template. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 18:42, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Removing warning messages
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Need Permission to use your contribs: reply
This is taken from my talk page.

For the Star Trek: The Music article, I need permission to use your contribs at Memory Alpha. Please, go to the talkpage and let them know if it's ok... Thank you! AllanVS (talk) 21:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, I decided to devote my contributions to Wikipedia and Veropedia. However, you can use my contributions on the Memory Alpha wiki, as long as you use your name.  I am not part of the Star Trek WikiProject.  Just make sure that you use the entire web page for the wiki, since it is not part of Wikipedia by adding en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(the article in Wikipedia) to the link, but replace the italics with the Wikipedia article.   Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 21:32, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Logos
On May 31, you added the Interac, Visa, Inc., MasterCard, and American Express logos to List of Toronto subway and RT stations (see diff). I want to tell you that those images are not free. Each use must have a detailed "non-free use rationale" as per WP:NFURG. I'm going to take it upon myself to remove each use of these images from that page. I have to ask you to double check every time you think about using an image on any page. If it has a boiler-plate non-free image template, you have to create a new rationale for the article you just placed the image in. Thanks. Cavenba (talk • contribs) 15:28, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * As edits were made that conflicted with the original, I wasn't able to undo the adding of the images. And I am sorry if it left the article in a rather poor state, but if it had been a bot (which it eventually would've been, the same outcome would've been the result. I don't really have time to make major changes to articles, but upholding one of Wikipedia's... no, Wikimedia's policies is extremely important. Thanks. Cavenba (talk • contribs) 01:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Unspecified source/license for Image:Treo650.jpg
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File:080620-017.jpg
Just a note that I've tagged one of your uploads, File:080620-017.jpg, for cleanup due to the huge watermark on it. Thanks, §hep  Talk  02:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

File:080620-017.jpg listed for deletion
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File permission problem with File:Windows_Live_messenger_Chat.jpg
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 * The issue is that Microsoft owns the rights to the Messenger interface, so only Microsoft can re-grant those rights. In limited circumstances, an image can be used under a claim of fairuse, as described at WP:NFC, but that is an individual circumstance for each image.  MBisanz  talk 05:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Mobilicity logo.jpg
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St. Joseph's Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital is a disamb page. See St. Joseph's Hospital, St. Joseph's Healthcare London — London, Ontario. May be you could start the article. Peter Horn User talk 19:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Greg Cravens (cartoonist)
Hi, I'm Wgolf. AllanVS, thanks for creating Greg Cravens (cartoonist)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. More info about him

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Wgolf (talk) 15:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Greg Cravens (cartoonist)


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February 2014
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Proposed deletion of Greg Craves (cartoonist)
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Possibly unfree File:Pic-038.jpg
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Photo
I have returned the photo after your request. But still the reservations remain that this was a photo taken from an online site. The photo is included in the Hubris website and is their property. Me, I am not overzealous, but eventually my feeling is that it will be disallowed. Inclusion of photos at whatever cost is not a good approach. Many of our articles don't have photos precisely because of this, even though the person may have had tens of photos online we could have used from blogs or events he was in etc. In my note, I had commented that if you are that close to the individual, the best approach is to wait for an occasion to take a photo of him yourself and use it after uploading it duly in Wikimedia. werldwayd (talk) 04:53, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * No. No need. I don'tneed to contact him. It is a matter of trust. I take your word for it. But truly, take my advice and arrange for an original photo that can be taken for Wikipedia purposes, unpublished in online media, and can be used for the article. It should also be a toned down photo. The photo taken here is not a particularly good photo for our purposes. It is an "action photo" taken sideways not a straight face photo. It shows him during a sports or leisure activity not related to his profession of cartoons. It sends in all the wrong message signals for the page and the artist. werldwayd (talk) 05:31, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Allan, that's all I want to say on this. My role is very detached and impersonal. Part of what I do, and this my involvement here, is that I check articles listed for deletion, if I find enough notability of the individual and worth our while to save a certain article, I remove most non-encyclopedic aspects of the article, try to add some references, standardise and maintain certain article requirements, and this way I try to save articles nominated by other colleagues from imminent deletion if possible. I have done tens of thousands of edits related to thousands of articles and I just have a feel how an article should be. I have no particular interest in any one article or any one subject. If my edits are reverted, I don't mind. I've done what I possibly could here. I still feel a straight face photo taken ideally for Wikipedia unpublished elsewhere is the best approach. In many occasions, an article with no photo is perfectly alright too. All the best to you. werldwayd (talk) 05:54, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Greg Cravens, surronded by books.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Greg Cravens, surronded by books.jpg
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 * If you'd bothered to look at all the history, I sent a copy of the email, that Mr. Cravens sent to ME, giving me permission to use said photo on Wikipedia. Of course, you're not an admin, thus, you don't have the ability to see the copy right info that I sent.  Leave the image, as it's valid. AllanVS talk contribs 21:53, 20 May 2014 (UTC)


 * The is nothing in the file history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Greg_Cravens,_surronded_by_books.jpg&action=history
 * I am an admin, and there's nothing else there.
 * Permission for "use on Wikipedia" is always insufficient. 'All Wikipedia free image are available for re-use for any purpose, including commercial.
 * Intensive searching at OTRS eventually found one letter (Ticket#2014030910007534), which was replied by the OTRS agent on 12/04/2014 01:57, and never replied by yourself. We must have permission to at least a CC-BY-SA license.
 * If you intend to furnish enough permission, then let me know and I'll remove the no-permission notice, but you must get the full permission from the copyright holder, or it will come up again for deletion.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 22:08, 20 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I sent an email, which was a forward from Mr. Cravens, granting me permission to use the file on here. If admin's can't find it, it's their fault, NOT mine.  I sent the permission, I'll try to send again.  This is ridiculous and why I've stopped coming to edit articles on here.  I feel 'why bother wasting my time.' ... AllanVS talk contribs 22:14, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll repeat it - the permission was not enough, as was stated in the e-mail sent to you. We have to have permission to CC-BY-SA as a minimum - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Most people will not allow that much release, as it allows the image to be used for commercial use with no payment. If you did not get the reply from OTRS, the let me know and I will send it again.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 00:36, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've sent it again anyway.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 00:38, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter - I'm done with the BS. Greg gave me - as you seen in the email - full permission to use the photo for any and all use.  The fact that you and the rest of the admin's don't understand "free and clear use" means you're not able to understand common language.  I'm done with the games that you admin's play, I'm down with your power tripping and childish behaviour.  I'm done editing wikipedia.  I'm closing my account, and not coming back. AllanVS talk contribs 00:58, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I have rechecked the ticket - the word "free" does not exist in the e-mail you sent (and I sent back yesterday). I also checked there was no other message from you - that ticket is the only e-mail with your e-mail address in it.  Ron h jones  (Talk) 19:23, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Greg Cravens (cartoonist) white water rafting - photo for bio page.jpg
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Martok
Thank you on behalf of Wikipedia and Star Trek fans for being a part of the Star Trek project. In case you did not see the article alert, Martok was put up for AFD today here. Lets try to avoid a repeat of Weyoun, which was deleted with one vote! Starspotter (talk) 18:13, 11 May 2021 (UTC)