User talk:InsteadOf

Just because some quixotic anglocentrics have had a rush of blood to the brain and renamed the soccer article, it doesn't mean that we need to follow suit. The name used by FFA is "football". The common name in Australian English is "soccer". Few Aussies would ever had heard of Association football. Grant |  Talk  12:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * To second this, your edits adding 'Association football' to the articles confuses the reader. I had no idea what 'Association football' was and had to look it up. Please change it back. Since when has association football been the common name for soccer or football? Rimmeraj (talk) 06:44, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Highmarking.jpg
Hi InsteadOf. You might not have realised it, but this image whihc you uploaded is licensed for "non-commercial" use only, and Wikipedia policy is to avoid images with this sort of license as much as possible. I am going to delete this image - it can be uploaded again if the photographer agrees to change the license, or perhaps we could find a similar picture with a free license. If you have any questions, please ask me - image policy can be a little bit confusing at first! JPD (talk) 13:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I noticed some other images in the same situation: Image:Mathew stokes.jpg, Image:Portkick.jpg, Image:Hawkscheersquad.jpg, Image:SCG football old stand.jpg. Another image, Image:Telstrastadiumfootball.jpg has a license whihc allows commercial use, but is still not free because it does not allow derivative works. The other images you have uploaded from flickr are fine! JPD (talk) 16:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, two of the licenses on that page are ok. There are many different creative commons licenses, which mix and match different conditions that the copyright holder puts on the photos. For Wikipedia, some of the conditions (attribution, "share alike") are not a problem, but others (non-commercial, no derivatives) are. So images with either the attribution license or the attribution-sharealike license are good. Hope this makes sense! JPD (talk) 20:38, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of AFL Dream Team
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Proposed deletion of File:Kangaroos 27.JPG


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