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List of wikis wants wikipedia articles, though. Ah well. Someone else will revert you, too. I gotta go. Anomo 21:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Lois03.jpg
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Hercules
Sorry about that -- I clicked the wrong link. I've re-reverted the article. &mdash;tregoweth (talk) 02:46, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the spelling update. I haven't had time to look that up yet. I'd personally go with Perez also as he is most associated with the title and was responsible for re-introducing the character. The Contest is just my favorite WW story of all time so I remembered that version first. Artemisboy 19:46, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
Well, don't create new userboxes, per WP:GUS. You can put the template code directly on your userpage if you want. Adam Bishop 03:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)


 * They're on your page now. Adam Bishop 04:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Stop accusing me of vandalism
I removed original research. You disagree. That's fine; we'll go to the talk page now.

But do not accuse me of vandalism. It's rude and does nothing to create an atmosphere of cooperation.

From WP:Vandalism, for your edification:

"'Vandalism is any addition, deletion, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. ... Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Apparent bad-faith edits that do not make their bad-faith nature inarguably explicit are not considered vandalism at Wikipedia. For example, adding a personal opinion once is not vandalism — it's just not helpful, and should be removed or restated.'"

Please also read "What vandalism is not":

"Bold Edits - Wikipedians often make sweeping changes to articles in order to improve them — most of us aim to be bold when updating articles. While having large chunks of text you've written deleted, moved to the talk page, or substantially rewritten can sometimes feel like vandalism, it should not be confused with vandalism."

Vandalism is not an accusation to be taken lightly, and I'd appreciate an apology. --Chris Griswold (  ?  ?  )  21:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * My first revert on Superman wasn't in response to your edit. I reverted to a version from before your edit and you assumed my vandalism comment was for you. After my comment, you blanked out a section of text. And yes, blanking is a form of vandalism, whether your link mentions it or not. You don't blank out text just because you have an opinion on it. You bring up the issue on the talk page. —scarecroe 22:13, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Source for publicity image
Hi, Can you provide the source information for this image? We need some verifiable information to back up the use of the publicity tag. Let me know if I can be of any help. Best regards, --Abu Badali 01:33, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. But could you provide a link to the press kit or promotional site where this image was published? It's really important to have this information when using the publicity tag. Thanks, --Abu Badali 04:48, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Lois03.jpg listed for deletion
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Fair use on your user page
Hi, Scarecroe. According to item #9 on Fair use criteria, we can't claim fair use for images on our user pages. You may want to remove Image:Userbox-procreate.png and Image:Ishmael_logo.png from yours. Let me know if you need any help. Best regards, --Abu Badali 22:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Sesame Street
Please be more cautious when reverting vandalism (and honestly I do not think that what you reverted was vandalism). You also undid my edit removing an invalid link from the External links section (Google Video searches are not valid links as per WP:EL). Thanks for your efforts in fighting problem edits on Wikipedia. ju66l3r 23:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste moves
I noticed you made a cut-and-paste move of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace from F to f. Cut-and-paste moves result in the loss of edit histories and should not be done. You should use the move function at the top of the page, and if that does not work due to the article having a history, please follow the procedure on Requested moves in order to get the page moved. Thanks. └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 17:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I see. The history is still there, it's just harder to get to if you're looking for it. Next time I'll make the proper request. Thanks for your help. —scarecroe 23:26, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

A couple of reminders
Hi,

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Thanks! :)

Hbackman 23:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, yes. I sometimes forget the subst. Thank you! —scarecroe 01:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * No prob. Hbackman 01:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Phil-Jimenez.jpg)
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Oscar's "emu"
Thanks for catching that! A lot of the time 50 vandals and one good contributor come in a day of so of each other, and when trying to save the new, good information, I forget to revert everything. -- Zanimum


 * No problem! —scarecroe 18:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That's an amazingly quick reply. Was it just an orange bar that did it, or do you have Wikipedia set up to notify you when someone edits your talk page? Just curious. --  Zanimum 19:10, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, it was the orange bar. I can't seem to allow my preferences to notify me by mail when my talk page is edited. Wikia has that setting, but it appears to be absent here at Wikipedia. —scarecroe 21:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm just looking, and you're right. I discovered it at meta.wikimedia.org, and thought all projects had it. I guess we disabled it so that our servers don't explode!  --  Zanimum 14:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

re: Kermit vandalism
First of all, please use four tildes (~) to sign your messages. Secondly, this addition was NOT vandalism but a good faith addition. The video is real and can be found easily. It's inclusion is debateable certainly, but vandalism it is not. Please Assume good faith, don't label contributions vandalism unless it's obviously true. exolon 23:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I can see your manners are in line with a typical wikipedia admin. Your addition to Kermit the Frog is ridiculous: the video is an obvious parody, it's an illegal representation of a character owned by The Walt Disney Company and simply nonsensical. Please use more discretion when adding information to an article in the future. —scarecroe 23:30, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not an admin, so I've no idea what you're getting at there. As to my manners - I tend to get irritated when I'm labelled a vandal which is hardly surprising. The fact that it's a parody and an illegal use of the character is irrelevant. Parody is protected, and we're not here to enforce Disney's copyright over Kermit. My discretion is just fine, if you don't think it should be in the article, take it to the talk page, village pump or an RFC. exolon 23:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Judging by the content of your addition, it's easy to see why one would assume vandalism rather than a good faith edit. Again, please use better judgement in the future. —scarecroe 23:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

On the subject of Kermit "vandalism", I just wanted to say that I pulled the trigger a bit too quickly on that Southhampton reference. While I agree it should be out, I tagged it as vandalism because it was too hard to make sense of, and I couldn't see it in the provided link. Once I read it in context, it made more sense.--SarekOfVulcan 19:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I noticed the context provided by the anon, but there was still no citation outside of the newspaper title: no date or author. If someone puts it back, we should probably tag it with a 'citation needed' tag and make a note in the open conversation on the talk page. —scarecroe 21:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup here. -- Zanimum 16:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Musical artist infoboxes not being used for composers etc.
See discussions at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Composers. It's laid out very clearly.-- Kleinzach 23:22, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


 * See also . Andy Mabbett 09:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:SpiritSoundtrack.jpg)
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Image:CynthiaBreazeal.jpg
Please stop removing the "disputed fair use" tag from this image. The status is disputed (I dispute it). This image is not used to illustrate a point on the image itself, but on its subject. This does not qualify as "fair use".

Furthermore, it is specifically said in Non-free content criteria that photographs of living people can useally not be claimed as "fair use", since Free equivalent can be made (you go with your camera and you take a photograph).

Thank you. Rama

Sad Kermit
I've changed the text you added into a direct quote from the source instead. I've also added direct quotations from all the other major sources too - these range from positive ("online sensation") through to negative ("world's most revolting web phenomenon") so we have a range of views describing the critical reaction to this subject. exolon 02:52, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * That makes sense. —scarecroe 17:01, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sesame Street
What do you mean when you say breaks anchored tags? It certainly cleans up the article, and condenses the ref content. I love the tool. Could you explain what you meant so I know for the future if I should not re-reflist? I'm just not understanding? Hellswasteland 17:14, 24 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi. The reference numbers throughout the article ([1], [2] and so on) don't link to the corresponding reference footnote at the bottom of the page. I like the way it makes things look neater, too. But not at the expense of functionality. —scarecroe 17:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Hello. See the edit I made on the article "Don't eat the Pictures" (159 ip) 159.28.161.197 (talk) 16:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

update: Someone noticed that one of the characters in the film was spelled wrong. It is corrected now. 159.28.161.197 (talk) 03:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

LHC Safety Concerns
You undid my July 24th revision of the safety concerns section on the Large Hadron Collider page. I'm not sure why you did this: the old section was excessively redundant, contained irrelevant information and was incoherent in style. As a result I more or less redid my previous edit, with a few improvements. Please carefully consider and future revisons/undos.

Geepster 07:51, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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are you?
the person who used to do the site, "back stage left"? cuz your sn looks familiar...(also that site kicked some serious ass, you know.) Bouncehoper 03:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Deleted article
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RE: 1906
In response to the message you left on my talk page: You violated Wikipedia policy 3 times by removing the AfD tag from 1906 (film). That is not good faith editing. If you read the AfD notice, you would have seen: "'Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed.'"

Consider this your final warning. The next time you delete Articles for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages, as you did with 1906 (film), you will be blocked from editing. - Rjd0060 22:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Bad faith block warning. This user is bullying my good faith edits. See talk page discussion on topics in question. —scarecroe 22:57, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Please explain this to me: You removed AfD notices.  You removes a Speedy Deletion template on an article that you created.  Both of those things are not allowed.  I reverted them.  How is reverting them in bad faith? -  Rjd0060 23:07, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

RE: 1906
Again, replying to your comment from my talk page:

Actually, the first template you removed said "do not remove this notice from pages that you have created yourself." See that Here. So you shouldn't have removed that one either, since you are the one who created the page. Every template that you removed, said that you could not remove it. Feel free to see all of the revisions for that article. Again, I am not "bullying", but I am enforcing Wikipedia policies. You will not get a warning from me, if you don't deserve one. - Rjd0060 23:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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 * I've updated the fair use rationale using the non-free use rationale template, but I don't know the image's source. If you could update the source item, Scarecroe, we should be good. Thanks. Bryan H Bell 02:20, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I just updated with the source of the image. Thanks. —scarecroe 02:53, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

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