User talk:Rickyjames

Thanks for your work at James D. Watson. If you have a general interest in the discovery of the structure of DNA, please think about visiting and editing some of the other pages linked to from the Watson article, such as Rosalind Franklin. --JWSchmidt 22:23, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Duplicate images uploaded
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Moon landing
I've reverted the change you made to Moon landing. Language like "abject and humiliating failure" flies in the face of WP:NPOV, one of our foundation policies. - C HAIRBOY (☎) 13:09, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Image:OneSmallStep.jpg
Image:OneSmallStep.jpg - thius image appears to be of Aldrin, not Armstrong. See Image:A11v 1094228.ogg, for comparison. What was yor source? (This is required on the image description page.) Rmhermen 20:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:AuroraBorealisFromSpace.JPG
Hi. Would you please comment on the source for this image (which you uploaded nearly six months ago) at ? Thanks! — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 12:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Ranger3.jpg
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Image copyright problem with Image:Aleksei Leonov & Andrei Sokolov - InTheOceanOfStorms.jpg
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Image copyright problem with File:RedWhiteAndBlueCross.jpg
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File:SO-102 Orbital Plot.jpg
Hello, for File:SO-102 Orbital Plot.jpg, I am unconvinced that this satisfies our requirements, because the image is replaceable. Instead we need an update on File:Galactic centre orbits.svg. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:53, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:AvaInExMachina.png.jpg
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Orphaned non-free image File:Aleksei Leonov &#38; Andrei Sokolov - InTheOceanOfStorms.jpg
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Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution
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Proposed deletion of File:EarthAndMoonToScale.jpg


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