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Talk:Rock fish
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Piracy Portal
Hello! Thanks for creating the Piracy Portal. I would like to help with it and was wondering if you wanted the Featured stuff to rotate every week or every month? Thanks and good job so far!  Def lag ro  Contribs/Talk 13:54, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well the Piracy Wikiproject isn't the most active per se. I think I am the most active in the project out of the lot. The thing with Portals is you can set up a queu (however you spell that) so it will automatically rotate to whatever you have set up for it. If you look at how to make a portal it says how. This is my first time workin on a portal also. Good luck!  Def lag ro   Contribs/Talk 16:12, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well some of the stuff we don't have enough for for weekly! Like biographies and pictures. We may be able to shorten up the DYK and make that weekly and maybe also the Article weekly. The In the News part is sorta not worth it because there is so little news about pirates. We can keep it though. If you have not already, I really suggest you join Wikiproject:Piracy.  Def lag ro   Contribs/Talk 16:58, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That picture would be good. Black Bart I guess we can do. Redbeard would be somethin we might wanna look into since not many know about him. As for article, why not the old Jolly Roger? I also listed this in the Community Portal as a new Portal seeking Contributers. It comes off that in 7 days. Do you want me to go ahead and name all the featured articles for August or just go ahead and put them in?  Def lag ro   Contribs/Talk 17:26, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

We should probably start discussing this stuff on the Piracy Portal's talk, but while we are still sorting this out, I guess it's okay. If you haven't already you might want to look at Help:Variable for the date variables for changing out the articles and stuff. I created Portal:Piracy/Selected_article/Week_31_2007 but I think we might need to change that picture because it is the same as the top picture. What do you think? Also you didn't have to do Redbeard, Black Bart was fine with me. I was saying I think Redbeard should be one we do in the future. If you don't want to, I can change the coding Sunday to start of the new queue. After we do that I think we should have the discussions on the Portal's talk page.  Def lag ro  Contribs/Talk 19:02, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia
Are you the same guy from Uncyclopedia? I'm only asking because that guy is one of my favorite contributors.Ye Olde Luke 00:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Defend Moscow Poster
I thought the colours on the original version were better - the dark purple made it seem more epic rather than the green. Do you know whether the actual poster was purple or green?--Miyokan 12:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Image source problem with Image:Claire-Redfield-re2 render.jpg
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Potential great powers
Hi, could you please clarify your vote at the Talk:Potential great powers page on Mexico? If you are voting, please put your vote in the Support Removal or Oppose format that the other votes are in. This will help us tally the votes at the end. Thanks! (I copied your text :D) Felipe C.S ( talk ) 17:50, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Iceberg Hermit, The.jpg
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AfD nomination of John Bindernagel
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Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
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Proposed deletion of Jeffrey Meldrum
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Fair use rationale required for photographs of statues
Hi Mad Max - I unfortunately had to tag your excellent photos of the sailor sculpture in Kirkland as requiring a fair use rationale, as the statue itself is still under copyright, and the United States does not have a freedom-of-panorama law allowing free photography of statues installed permanently in public places. They will have to have a fair use rationale added or they will be deleted. They are: Additionally, the one not currently in use may be deleted anyway, as all fair use images must be in use in an article. Let me know if you have any questions. Dcoetzee 21:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * File:Sailor_sculpture_(Kirkland,_Washington)_crop.jpg
 * File:Sailer_sculpture_(Kirkland,_Washington).jpg

Conflicted licensing on File:Sailer sculpture (Kirkland, Washington).jpg
An image is either 'free' or 'non-free'. It cannot be both. The above noted appears to have conflicted licensing, It would be appreciated if you could re-tag the image you uploaded with a single license tag.

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Sailer sculpture (Kirkland, Washington).jpg
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Proposed deletion of Larry Scott (model)


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Unreferenced BLPs
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