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Aus sport club template
Hi Tim,

Just wanted to explain my revert of your amendment to the Template:Infobox aus sport club template.

Although Collingwood's motto is famous, not all clubs have mottos and this will create problems with other sporting clubs which do not feature them. I suggest you work the Collingwood motto into the article, which shouldn't be difficult, rather than amending the infobox template and creating problems for all other articles using the template.

Thanks,

--The Brain of Morbius 05:42, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Arena (chess)
A tag has been placed on Arena (chess), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which 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 our the guidelines on spam as well as the Business' FAQ for more information.

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 * well, it's been deleted twice now. It has no independent sources to ensure that it meets the notability guidelines, and is written like an advert the availability and excellence of Arena has undoubtedly contributed and almost flawlessly . Basically just unsourced spam Jimfbleak (talk) 20:51, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Chipnet
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Editing other people's comments
Hi Tim. I noticed that you had edited the comments of another contributor to change their meaning. Please don't do this: it's a big no-no on Wikipedia. Instead, add your response separately underneath the comment that you wish to challenge. There are more guidelines for editing comments in discussion pages here. Thanks! Grover cleveland (talk) 16:15, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:EU vote calculator.xls


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Speedy deletion nomination of Australian Small Scale Offerings Board


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Business Source License moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Business Source License. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Significa liberdade (talk) 01:30, 14 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @Significa liberdade in the area of open source licences this licence is becoming quickly more prominent. for example the Linux foundation published an article today where the first sentence refers to this
 * https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/how-open-source-foundations-protect-the-licensing-integrity-of-open-source-projects
 * I do not know how notability is established. it sounds very subjective. I am happy to make editorial contributions to Wikipedia but I don't have time for what seems to me to be time wasting. Take it or not. but right now no one discussing this licence can link to a Wikipedia article. I don't understand how that is a good outcome. Tim Richardson (talk) 20:16, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, Timrichardson! Thank you for voicing your concerns. On Wikipedia, notability has a specific definition. Generally speaking, a topic is presumed to be notable if "it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". You can learn more about establishing notable using the following link: WP:NOTABILITY.
 * The most important task for your article is adding secondary sources that discuss the Business Source License in detail. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out here by pinging me as you've done here. 20:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC) Significa liberdade (talk) 20:34, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I appreciate your detailed and accessible reply. I will read the notability definition and take this as an interesting exercise. 119.17.157.218 (talk) 05:03, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Business Source License (November 6)
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