User talk:Rascalb

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Re:When to use flags
Athletes in the Olympics are to represent their countries and to compete under their countries' flags, so having flags next to their names is approprate. The Olympics are political in nature. However, the national flag has no bearing or relevance on the population of a city. When we list countries there, we do so mainly for geographic and not political reference. --Jiang 06:58, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

About the world city page
Hi Rascalb:

Sorry, but I'm reverting your additions to the "World city" page. If you look at the extremely tortured history page and the discussion page, you'll see that trolls have repeatedly vandalized all lower levels of the full copy of the GaWC list on the "World city" page practically every day for almost four months.

Randwicked took most of the list off the page to bring such nonsense to a stop, and I suspect most people who keep this page on their watchlist have acquiesced in his decision because we're all sick and tired of reverting vandalism on the page.

Of course, if you're willing to patrol the page every day to guard against such vandalism, then feel free to revert back my reversion and then add a notice of your intent to the discussion page.

--Coolcaesar 12:47, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)



1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics Logo
I have replaced the 1980_wolympics_logo.jpg which you uploaded with 1980_wolympics_logo.png. Guest458 11:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Pauley perrette.jpg
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Spelling error
With regards to Image:1952 wolympics logo.png, I assume this is a recreation done by yourself. It is really nice, but there is a spelling error. It says "VINTRLEKER"; it should be "VINTERLEKER". Is it possible for you to change this? -- Egil 12:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Image:1964 wolympics logo.jpg listed for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image (Image:ASWWC Logo.gif)
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Fair use rationale for Image:1936 Winter Olympics logo.png
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Orphaned non-free image (Image:IWFL logo batonrouge.gif)
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Replaceable fair use Image:Lamb_band.jpg
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Orphaned logos
I have tagged the following images as orphaned fairuse. In order for the images to be kept at Wikipedia, they must be included in at least one article. Bigr Tex  21:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
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Image without rationales
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Replaceable fair use Image:Jaques_rogge.jpg
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Unspecified source for Image:1948_wolympics_logo.jpg
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Image:Trygve_Lie_Bio_Photo.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Lamb best kept secrets.jpg
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NFL Player Infobox
What is the weight taken from? Present weight? Rookie Year weight? And what if they're retired? Is it the last weight? Leobold1 (talk) 20:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:IWFL logo ny.gif)
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program in Houston
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Proposed deletion of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists


The article General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "When I did a Google search I found almost no third-party references, this proves to me that this article is not notable."

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