User talk:MealMachine

JamesBWatson (talk) 18:21, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Highbinder Tong Wars
I responded to your addition of Chinatown, San Francisco on the talk page. I do appreciate your enthusiastic entry. But we shouldn't titillate or spoon feed. The bare facts are amazing enough.  Will Beback   talk    13:28, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:SF Chinatown Library.jpg
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File:SF Chinatown Nights2.jpg listed for deletion
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 * Also File:SF Chinatown Lady Shaw Center.jpg and File:SF Chinatown Moon Festival Costume.jpg. —Bkell (talk) 05:49, 17 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I've deleted these images, and many of the others you have on your user page, because their Flickr pages said "All Rights Reserved" or indicated a license that included a "non-commercial" or "no derivatives" clause. Please pay more attention to the licenses of the files you upload. Let me know if you need help or have any questions. —Bkell (talk) 06:46, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:SF Chinatown Nights.jpg
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 * Also the following images:
 * File:SF Chinatown Peking Duck.jpg
 * File:SF Chinatown St. Mary's Square.jpg
 * File:SF Chinatown Tin How Temple.jpg
 * File:SF Chinatown Apothecary.jpg
 * File:SF Chinatown Portsmouth Square.jpg
 * File:Kobe Nankinmachi Steamed Dumplings.jpg
 * File:Kobe Nankinmachi Morning.jpg
 * File:Kobe Nankinmachi Food.jpg
 * File:London Chinatown Lisle Street Evening.jpg
 * —Bkell (talk) 07:13, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:SF Chinatown Buddhas.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:SF Chinatown Buddhas.jpg, which you've attributed to http://www.flickr.com/photos/trumanlo/1121159356. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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