User talk:James.DC

License tagging for Image:SantoroSanto.jpg
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Grayson
You are making wholesale reversions and edits to the article without any discussion at all on the talk page, please stop and open up a discussion to see if there is any support for your edits, 00:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Again I am asking you to join in on the discussion page and to stop reverting without discussion, edit summaries are not places for discussion.

Would you also please explain to me this indefinate block on a userpage attached to your page? here. Off2riorob (talk) 19:20, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for commenting, discussion is very important here, the article was locked recently for revert warring, and if the reverting continues it will be locked again, at the moment there are multiple reverts occurring and it is better to ask on the talk page for opinions as from other editors for what you want to add or remove. Try to apprecate that there are other editors that hold the opposite opinion of this guy to you and both sides of the story should be included in the article. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 15:53, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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Edit warring warning
It looks like you have been involved in a long term edit war at Edward Wyckoff Williams. You should be aware of the three revert rule which prohibits editors from making more than three reverts to the same page within 24 hours. Violation of this rule can lead to you being blocked from editing. You should also be aware of the more general policy surrounding edit warring. Even if the three revert rule is not being broken directly, editors can be blocked for engaging in edit wars.

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The article Edward Wyckoff Williams has been fully protected for 1 week in an attempt to defuse the edit war taking place there. Please do not engage in further disruption when the protection expires. As you have now been made aware of the policy, you can and will be blocked if the problems persist. --GraemeL (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I've made a suggestion over at Talk:Edward Wyckoff Williams, which you might like to consider addressing while the article is protected from editing. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:44, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I see you're working on the talk page of the article to get a consensus going, that's good. The other user, who was impersonating your account with the addition of a 2 had been blocked in case you didn't know. They will probably come back as an anon IP again, or as a newly created account once the autoblock expires. Another place to post for help if you run into problems like this again on a biography of a living person is the biographies of living people noticeboard. It's a good place to get uninvolved people to help build a consensus on biography articles where there aren't enough editors to the article to sort one out without additional input. --GraemeL (talk) 20:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for this information. I completely support the Wikipedia guidelines and will pledge to follow them. James.DC (talk) 20:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Heidi Albertsen, Lower Eastside Service Center, May 2009.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Heidi Albertsen, Lower Eastside Service Center, May 2009.jpg, which you've sourced to Heidi Albertsen. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Replaceable fair use File:Photo of model Heidi Albertsen.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Photo of model Heidi Albertsen.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that this media item is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails the first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media item could be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media item is not replaceable, please:


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Orphaned non-free media (File:Photo of model Heidi Albertsen.jpg)
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Geoffrey Thomas concern
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Your article submission Geoffrey Thomas


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