User talk:Solo Zone

Image copyright problem with Image:WuZuoren.jpg
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Why "German Photography in America"?
With its capital "P", "German Photography in America" looks like the title of a book. However, I suspect that the article is merely about German photography in America. Am I right?

Whether or not a proper name is intended, is this article going to say anything independent of Sally Larsen?

I'd never heard of "The German Eye in America". (Actually I'd never heard of Larsen either.) Googling brought me to this page of Larsen's, where I read that it's the name of an art project of Larsen's that's in the making. Some aspects of the project seem potentially interesting, and I read that it will be available as a wiki. (I'm alarmed to read Needless to say, I have queried Google, Wikipedia, Amazon and ABE for bibliographical info; I hope she has also used LoC, Copac, and their splendid German equivalents. I particularly hope that the mistakes in Wikipedia aren't amplified.) However, until this new wiki of Larsen's is launched, and (since Wikipedia isn't a web directory) probably for a long time after that, "The German Eye in America" seems best treated as a subtopic of Larsen. -- Hoary (talk) 01:16, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

That is better: how do I edit the page title itself in order to use lower case on photography? Finished, this page will contain something like 280 potential links, one for each photographer included. This is a lot to keep track of so Sally Larsen is trying to refine it as well as one might prior to posting a Wikipedia List.

Unspecified source/license for Image:4cc008-.jpg
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Your post on Hoary's user page
Regarding your post on Hoary's user page, please read this Wikipedia policy page: No personal attacks. I'd like to remind you that Wikipedia is a collaborative effort - there is no place for proprietary behaviour. Also, please confine your messages to other users to their talk pages, not to their user pages. Pinkville (talk) 22:01, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Mother's motors
A tag has been placed on Mother's motors, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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Ray Jerome Baker
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Viriditas (talk) 13:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I contribute what I know about, Ray Jerome Baker, for instance. I am involved in a wide variety of activities. Since the early 1960s, I have gone into things in depth, I have kept track of resources, I have studied books, I have gone to museums, lectures and conferences. Now, at age 64, I am willing to contribute these gatherings of knowledge to Wikipedia, and I am willing to ask people to contribute images, as I have done with Ray Jerome Baker. What's the conflict? This discussion seems a red herring because I do not know one person who looks for commercial connections on Wikipedia. If you want to deprive the Wikipedia explorer of Ray Jerome Baker, you go right ahead.Solo Zone (talk) 18:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. First, let me thank you for your contributions.  You are doing important work in a field that is in need of expansion.  To briefly explain, I sent you the above notice when I became aware that your user account is linked to a commercial website, and that some of your edits were also linked to this venture.  Now that you are aware of the COI policy, everything should be fine.  Happy editing. Viriditas (talk) 22:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Mother's Motors
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April 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 Walter Gropius 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. Thank you. GcSwRhIc (talk) 21:11, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Josef Albers. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. GcSwRhIc (talk) 22:20, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. 5 albert square (talk) 22:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:A jizo02.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Caffe Trieste 1980.jpg
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File permission problem with File:A jizo01.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Wu Zuoren Portrait.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Wu Zuoren Portrait.jpg, which you've sourced to Sally Larsen. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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File permission problem with File:Vatican Spiral1983.jpg
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If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ron h jones (Talk) 21:57, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Radio-reactive Apples.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Radio-reactive Apples.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.  Ron h jones (Talk) 22:02, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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