User talk:Michael IFA

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Edits to Free Zone article
Dont' be surprised if one of the OSA people revert you. The SP League is an OSA front and its whole purpose is to attack the Freezone.--Fahrenheit451 (talk) 02:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Fahrenheit451,

Last I heard is that the Church IPs addresses have been blocked from changing wiki content, but of course they can always get more Ip addresses.

It has been deleted for copyright infringement of the IFA no less (don't laugh) So I will fix that and repost.

Michael IFA

June 2009
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 * My mistake Mfield. As you say I should have read the relevant policies. I have sent you a message on your board.


 * I will redo the page properly and resubmit. I am the President of the association and tried to keep the posting as nuteral as possible with :just facts and no opinions.


 * Is it permissible to quote from the Association? I see that I have been quoted elsewhere on similar subjects [scientology free zone].


 * Thanks for the heads up.


 * Michael
 * IFA —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael IFA (talk • contribs)
 * Yes you can use relevant quotes sparingly - normally only for direct comments from persons - where the content cannot be included in any other way - you can use "Put quotation here" - (you will see the relvant tags below the edit window if you change the little pulldown menu to Wiki markup then you can highlight your quote and click on the tags to insert them around it). Mfield (Oi!) 17:08, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Logo-_International_Freezone_Association.jpg
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Reason for the speedy deletion of International Freezone Association
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December 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page List of international professional associations do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. This looks also a problem with Conflict of interest. Thanks, SchreyP (messages) 08:25, 18 December 2011 (UTC)