User talk:Marco Polo

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Image copyright problem with Image:SithSpeeder.jpg
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Possibly unfree Image:Rebel Infiltrator.jpg
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Re:You reverted my edit!
This is a pretty trivial matter, but anyway... I reverted your "delightful" edit because the image you added looked tacky. It is hardly the custom for subject userboxes to contain pictures. and it looks terrible. Rest assured, however, that we're all just as amazed that you can use LaTeX. WOW! --Kronecker 09:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:2co-logo.svg listed for deletion
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ipa-N
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Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_August_26

Tobias Conradi (Talk) 02:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:Democratslogo.svg and Image:Republicanlogo.svg
You know, writing a tutorial on how this PNG&rarr;SVG conversion is done would be very useful, IMO. I am basically incompetent at graphic editing, but if I could take a high-res bitmap and translate it to vector, that would be cool. &mdash; ChristTrekker 18:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:-s-YMCAlogo.svg)
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Image:Image5.svg listed for deletion
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Fair use rationale for Image:1CdoRegt badge.svg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Democratslogo.svg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Democratslogo.svg
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Re: Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Democratslogo.svg
A separate fair use rationale is required for each article. Save-Me-Oprah (talk) 23:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Splitting space
It would be great to get your opinions on making space the disambiguation page for the subject. See here. Thanks Andeggs (talk) 21:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Simkin (character)
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NowCommons: File:Selection sort animation.gif
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Replaceable fair use File:Democratslogo.svg
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Secondary_cell_energy_density.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Secondary_cell_energy_density.svg

Do you have any sources for this diagram? They appear to have gone missing. Thanks. Kyle McInnes[citation needed] 17:22, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of Simkin (programming language) for deletion
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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JavaScript RegExp problem
I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:22, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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