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Hi Ww2censor, I saw that you left me a message. I'm not a regular wikipedia editor so I'm unsure of how to respond, I suppose this will do. Your message claimed that I removed a 'Biographies of Living Persons PROD', emphasis on living; I did not, as the man in question is dead. I'm assuming this action was automated given the speed of the revision.
I myself was looking for information on him as he is a name I recognise from the past, and the page here on wikipedia is the best source of free information available on him. The page serves a purpose to people like me and I believe it should stay. I'm therefore rolling back your rollback of my rollback (so much rolling, it's worth it just to be able to type that!).
You just follow the prod instructions as clearly stated in the notice at the top of the article page. I presume you can read them. Do not remove it again because you may be blocked from editing by an admin if you continue. ww2censor (talk) 21:22, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
I'm the one who suggested this article for deletion. As per WP:PROD "You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason." (taken from the page as I left it [[1]])
95.45.70.165 was ok to remove that message, as he/she dissagreed.
@Ww2censor: if you wish this article to be deleted, you can propose it for deletion as per WP:AFD
Well, yes you are strictly correct and I may have been hasty in restoring the prod tag but I don't see any action by the anonIP, though as you say none is actually really necessary, other than a drive by removal. I could not find anything reliable on the subject so, in that case will consider a nom myself. Personally I think your initial reaction was indeed correct. Thanks. ww2censor (talk) 23:28, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ww2censor,
Having recently deleted some flagicons on F1 drivers after spotting your edit on J-P Beltoise I then received the following message from another editor:-
"At the moment, after long discussions, there is no consensus that WP:INFOBOXFLAG applies to F1 drivers. The concept of sporting nationality was widely debated, but the upshot was that there's no agreement to remove flags from F1 infoboxes. Some other sports (tennis, golf) are in a similar situation. One point is that there was no real support for flags in articles about drivers who do/did not compete in F1, i.e. lower formulae drivers should probably not have flags."
@Eagleash and Bretonbanquet: I'm not going to get into a debate on this issue with you as it appears impossible to get past the entrenched position held, so if I happen to miss the fact that someone is also an F1 driver and remove the flag you can decide to revert it or not. It's a pity I did not know about the recent discussion though it seems those favouring the removal of flag are greatly outnumbered by the keepers.
However, what concerns me is that your arguments are not really totally honest because you don't really want or need to show the person's nationality with a flag appended but want to display their nationality as shown in FIA F1 Super Licence they hold. So my question would be, why not call a spade a spade? Instead of attaching a flagicon to the name of the country of birth, don't call it Nationality but call it what it really is FIA Super Licence nationality with a flagicon and leave the personal details section with place of birth free of the flagicon, as is usual. To me that might even be just about acceptable to the WP:INFOBOXFLAG enforcers. It would be similar to the Allegiance link and flagicon for a military person, such as we see for Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein that uses the template {{Infobox military person}}.
Another problem for me in this regard is that the link from the word Nationality to which a flagicon is appended in the F1 infobox, such as with Fernando Alonso, links to FIA Super Licence#Nationality of drivers which is a completely unsourced section, so we have no verification this is true. I think you should fix that. Anyway you have the numbers, so will no doubt continue on the same path a heretofore. Anyway that's my 2¢ worth, good luck. ww2censor (talk) 12:04, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
I basically agree with everything you've said there. I would prefer a separate field as you suggest, to show sporting nationality, replacing the existing nationality field. I like the comparison with the military personnel infobox. You're right about the unsourced nature of the superlicence explanation, and this has been brought up before. I did actually think it had been addressed, but apparently not. I hope you don't think I/we are just trying to steamroller our preferences here; but getting anything done in the F1 WikiProject is usually very difficult, particularly with regard to flags. I'm going on a Wikibreak but I'll start a discussion there and raise the points you've made. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 12:19, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Ww2censor @Bretonbanquet: I don't really feel I know enough to comment properly on the issue, (I was just passing on the info I received) but my twopenny-worth is to draw a comparison with Wiki football pages where a player's nationality is defined by the International team he is eligible for, rather than where he happens to be born. However I agree that there are anomalies there (& here) which probably should be addressed. For what it's worth I like the "flagicon" appearing in pages but wouldn't worry too much if it was discontinued...the nationality would still appear...and the debate would go on, on a slightly different level. Regards, Eagleash (talk) 13:05, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
@Bretonbanquet:, thanks for the info and please do drop me a post if there is a discussion on this some time in the future. Thanks for the citation with page number for the super licence @Tvx1:. I was pretty sure that did not just drop out of the skies. And @Eagleash: I'm not sure football compares directly. There are several UK born players on the Republic of Ireland national football team but I could not find any with flagicons, so I think the point is somewhat mute, however, I am sure there must be other examples around that compare with the F1 and military allegiance. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 17:54, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
That was fast. Looks interesting though I am sure you will need a bit more input before a final decision is made. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 18:17, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ww2censor. Agreed the International football teams pages do not show flagicons against players but club pages show the relevant nationality in the squad lists etc. so it's perhaps not entirely moot...just a comparison... (Crikey, never meant to start a major debate about this :P) Regards, Eagleash (talk) 18:09, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
I found a New Zealander, Michael Bent, playing rugby for Ireland but his was the only one with flagicons and they will likely be removed, so moot (oops above) seems appropriate. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 18:17, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
Yes that (Bent) doesn't make sense really. I was just making a comparison...if you check football *club* pages, e.g. CPFC all the players have flagicons next to their name. But the discussion is off & running now so I guess we await the outcome. Best, Eagleash (talk) 18:25, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Ww2censor, and thanks for adding the talk page to the new article. Just a small remark: infobox & pics were already available, so I fixed the template.--Pampuco (talk) 20:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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I reckon that you were correct, about excluding the name from the list of notables. The only notability, that I can see, is the sports scholarship. trinity give 60+ scholarships [2] and then there are other colleges. So, imo, the article should not exist. However I'm not going to do anything about it, when there are far worse articles. Example: Leprechaun traps - regards Lugnad (talk) 16:49, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
@Brianhe: I assessed the article and expected to find a suitable engineering type infobox template that would apply. Having a look around I surprises me that could not find one easily, so I suppose it will have to do without unless your search is more fruitful then mine. Perhaps there should be one to cover mechanical or engineering design products. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 13:16, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Good morning,
Sorry, my english is a bit rusty.
I just check your changes on this page. Due to family reasons, I know Agen quite well. Visited some hundreds of times. The picture you assess being from Angoulême shows many elements that perfectly match to Agen's local geography, being :
the picture is shot from a spot of which coordinates, according to Google Earth, are 44°12'33.58"N 0°36'56.47"E, alongside the road to the port. This road runs alongside the hill overlooking the city.
On the foreground, the river-like green ribbon is in fact the Canal du Midi.
At the foot of some trees, you can see (difficlut), the railtrack, the main Station of Agen being a few meters on your left.
In the background, on the left are shown the hills north of Agen and Bon-Encontre, east of the small city of Pont-du-Casse.
On the right of St Caprais church, at the horizon line, you can see the slopes of the region of Caudecoste, Dunes,...
across the river Garonne's plain, which yiu can guess in the middle.
On the other hand, I know nothing about Angoulême's topograpĥy, unless, it is notably steeper.
Hope this is clear enough to you, so that I can ask you to please check the origin of your many changes around this picture, as I feel the original one is most likely to be wrong. Thanks and regards, et Hop ! Kikuyu3 (talk) 10:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC) (apologise again for poor level in rusty english speaking).
Thanks for the feedback; your English is quite good. I assumed that someone might a comment if they disagreed but from the information I could find especially this other version of the image which was scanned from a book clearly identifies the image as Angoulême while File:Duhauron1877.jpg this does not use the town name in the title. Back in 2006 File:Duhauron1877.jpg was promoted to Featured Picture on the enwiki per Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Old Angouleme and I assumed that people would have been observant and check the actual location at that time but I suppose they went of faith. I also noticed this use fr:La Comédie humaine which even more convinced me Angoulême was correct. Obviously if I am wrong I will revert the changes. I can visit Agen in the near future and check out what you say but you do appear to be correct and the book the linked image comes from may be incorrect. It happens. ww2censor (talk) 10:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
I was able to visit Agen a few days ago and took a few photos as close as possible to the original image. Several of the foreground buildings are still there and you are correct. It was impossible to take any photos from the exact vantage point that Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron used because of the highly overgrown vegetation on the hillside. I will see how to proceed because even the Kodak George Eastman House records, where the image is housed, identified the location as Angoulême as far back as the 1950s. @Kikuyu3: thanks for pointing this out. ww2censor (talk) 16:38, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to you, Ww2censor, for this huge job you did. I'm very proud if I helped prevent Human being from a major mistake. Cordialement, et Hop ! Kikuyu3 (talk) 09:54, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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In September 2007 you requested an image for the above page. I have made a suggestion for such an image on the above's talk page - apologies I am not using the correct Wikipedia procedure to make this suggestion. May I seek your comments on the suggestion? Alekksandr (talk) 22:20, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
Assuming you are going to freely licence the image, then everything is straight forward. It's really quite easy. Just click on the "Upload file" on any page and in the resulting page choose the Commons Wizard because then the other language wikis that have an article about Mike Nelms will be able to use it. Otherwise, if you upload it here it can only be used here until someone moves it to the commons, so just do it there from the beginning. Then just edit the article and add the image to the infobox. Ask again if you need more help. you may want to read c:Commons:Photographs of identifiable people before you do the upload. ww2censor (talk) 14:48, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I'm surprised that the banner (with the yellow brush) is still displayed on the above page as I've already complied with the request in the banner.
On the matter of the uploading of the picture "Self Portrait with Cat". Am I correct in assuming that there is very little point in pursuing this method although I have some background knowledge of the painting (snowpatrol 20:49, 14 August 2015 (UTC)). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)
You don't make it too easy to help you because you did not link to the article you are referring to and you don't sign your posts as I clearly request (with details) at the top of this page when editing, which helps find you, Please follow all edit page requests. Why are you surprised? You have done nothing to fix the problem, so perhaps you do not understand the notification at the top of the Patrick Hennessy (painter) page. It provides links to guides on what needs to be done. Read WP:LEDE. BTW, in the article your references are rather poor especially because giving just the title of a book is not very helpful. You need to provide page numbers for the information it is claimed to verify so that when someone wants to check the references they can find it without having to wade through the complete book. Regarding the painting, I provided all the info you need on the media copyright questions page and I don't know how some background knowledge of the painting will assist in getting the painting image online here. It is non-free, still in copyright, so must comply with WP:NFCC as previously stated. Your knowledge, if used in the article prose, may be considered as original research and if it is not supported by third partyreliable sources you cannot use it other than personally to find and provide those reliable sources. ww2censor (talk) 08:28, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi
I found the tone of your response unhelpful and patronising. Please remember that some of us here are beginners and need encouragement not chastisement. As far as I was aware I had signed the the message correctly.
With regard to the notification at the top of the page. As I stated on my message yesterday all the necessary information is in that sentence. No more is necessary and to do so would only take away from the article.
I take on board your criticism regarding lack of page numbers and I will try and address this.I also take on your comments regarding the painting.
One final point.If Wikipedia want people to volunteer their time and effort to increase the knowledge for the general public then a more benevolent tone might just help.(2.99.173.237 (talk) 12:58, 15 August 2015 (UTC))
Well I apologise if you thought my response was unhelpful and patronising, it was not meant that way. So let me address some of your issues and whatever words I use they are meant constructively. Firstly you did not sign you posts, either here or at MCQ, even though the very first notice given you on your talk page asks you to do so and tells you how and I placed another one recently. The reason is that we often need to review your talk page but if you don't sign then we have to search for it. The same goes for providing a link to the article your are discussing. Because "Patrick Hennessy" was not linked and is a completely different person, I had to look for it by first finding a link to your talk page and then looking up your contributions to find that the "Patrick Hennessy's" article you were referring to is actually named Patrick Hennessy (painter). So hopefully you understand how and why doing those simple things helps and leads to less frustration with editors, be they new editors like you or not. We all had to learn, sometime by mistakes and sometimes by omission. And so, secondly, please don't start a new section for a discussion that already exists, just add more text onto it and indent your comments by adding a colon in front of each paragraph, because I have done this and removed the header, it is now all together. BTW, you did not log in to your account when making the last post as can be seen by the bot's additions of a signature but the context implies it is the same editor but again doing so keeps all you contributions in one history and is not divided.
I really don't what this means: "With regard to the notification at the top of the page. As I stated on my message yesterday all the necessary information is in that sentence. No more is necessary and to do so would only take away from the article." I presume you are talking about the lede notice at the top of the Patrick Hennessy (painter) article. If you read the linked pages they tel you that you need to summarise the main prose in the lede s an introduction, so the one sentence certainly does not do that and will only improve the article. It should stand in its own right as a summary. What is needed is basically a precis of the article. So maybe 3 or 4 sentences doing so will suffice but as it stands the tag is valid.
Your point about volunteers is well taken and understood. I've been volunteering here for almost 10 years and also on the commons. It is great to get editors who can assist in writing or improving the encyclopaedia at all levels, so I hope you will stay around for a good while. I do notice that you have only bee editing the one article but I am sure you have knowledge of other topics where your contributions can be constructive too. BTW, I notice that sometimes you make several edit within minutes of each other. You can place an {{in use}} tag at the top of the article and work on it for some time without frequently saving and staring new edits. Sorry for being longwinded (it is one of my failing), but I hope I have explained clearly and more encouraging this time. ww2censor (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your response.
With regards to the tag at the top of the page which you say needs to be enlarged. I'm afraid I have to disagree with you in this case.This particular article and the way it has been constructed does not require any more information in the leader than is there.To do so would would conflict with the rest of the page.If you have an issue with this I would like to refer it to an adjudicator.(snowpatrol 16:21, 15 August 2015 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seascaper (talk • contribs)
You know it is no wonder editors get frustrated with others who just appear they cannot follow any given advise. Again you did not sign, AND you added a new section, both of which I specifically advised you about in my previous reply. I really wonder if you even read what I wrote. Don't bother replying to that.
Regarding the lede, the Manual of Style clearly states that: The lead section should briefly summarize the most important points covered in an article in such a way that it can stand on its own as a concise version of the article per the very first sentence of WP:MOSINTRO but it appears you just want to ignore the established style conventions. The current one sentence does not do that and it clearly appears you refuse to fix it. These are the sorts of advIse one gives to new editors to help them become better editors so I sorry I 've tried to constructively help you because you just don't seem to want to follow even the simplest advise. Please don't bother me again. Goodbye ww2censor (talk) 17:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for asking @Jo-Jo Eumerus:. As I previously wrote in the archived discussion was that it might pass NFCC#8 but I felt that NFCC#1 would prevail because a freely licenced image could be made. I don't think there is more to be said. It is a complex image but someone could make a new version but maybe you will get away with it based on sourced critical commentary. ww2censor (talk) 19:26, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Oh, ok thanks for clarifying. I still think the same principle applies but I am not stuck on that opinion. I would prefer if others weighed in but I think my opinion is the most logical. ww2censor (talk) 19:32, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
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Major Moon Collection article is referred to in text and is highly relevant to article. No idea why you have deleted it. Does not fail free use policy as it is a book cover. In any case, an article page is not the place to question the validity of a widely used file.Tomintoul (talk) 17:28, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
Firstly I did not delete any image; all I did was remove the image File:Major Moon Collection Catalogue Cover.jpg from Prisoner-of-war camp for which it has no fair-use rationale which is contrary to #10c of our non-free policy. However you are incorrect that a book cover can just be inserted into the POW article. WP:NFCI#Images #1 specifically notes that covers only in the context of critical commentary of that item which means it is used in an article about the specific title. In that case all 3 current uses fail because those uses are in articles not about the book/catalogue. You claim the use of the image is highly relevant to article but clearly the existence of that book can easily be made in prose without any detriment to the reader's understanding of the article. There is mere mention that the State Library of Victoria exhibited work and this is the catalogue. The image is totally unnecessary. In fact if your argument is taken further, there are many books on POW that could, by the same reasoning, be added to the POW article. I'm sorry you are wrong so I will again remove the image because it has no rationale which policy requires and I will nominate it for deletion. Then you can make any arguments you have there. ww2censor (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
If there is any fault, it is in that the rationale hasn't been spelt out, which could easily be improved. The use of the file has been considered by multiple editors and so far you are alone in your view. I have reinstated the images pending achievement of consensus subject to your deletion nomination. Tomintoul (talk) 19:18, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
The Arthur Moon article was featured in DYK. It was therefore reviewed by multiple editors who did not share your view. Do not take unilateral action by again deleting images until the debate is concluded. Tomintoul (talk) 07:34, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
A DYK has nothing to do with the use of a non-free image in the article and there is no proof that any editors do, or no not, share my view. The image has no ratioanle for this use, so it immediately fails WP:NFCC and I have again removed it for that reason - it is against NFCC policy. It is that simple. Do not readd it again. If it is deleted, then there is no issue, but if it is not deleted it MUST have a rationale for each and every use as already explained. ww2censor (talk) 13:47, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
The rationale is there for the artist and only needs adjusting for Arthur Moon:
I've seen the 1 rationale, so there is no reason to post it here, and that is why it is nominated for deletion. The image was removed from the other articles because it has no rationale for those uses as I have already explained several times. If you want to refine the Ashley George Old rationale please go ahead. I still think you cannot write a good enough rationale for even that use. ww2censor (talk) 14:17, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Edit warring in Arthur Moon
The image in the Arthur Moon article is up for FfD, and as such there is no reason to remove the file until the FfD concludes. Please avoid further edits to the article until FfD completes, edit warring helps no one. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:48, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
You are correct but I hope you also warned the editor who was reinserting the image, before the FfD, even when it was removed because it clearly failed WP:NFCC. ww2censor (talk) 18:14, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
p.s. There is a little red gizmo that indicates replies will be placed here. That is very useful, but on this Chrome instance on Win7 it covers up the last part of the text area. It might need some tweaking to position it a little lower on the page, there's still lots of room below it could be moved to. Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:45, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
@Maury Markowitz: Indeed he was but seemed to ignore the very valid reasoning without doing anything about it. Anyway, about the gizmo, different browsers and OSs treat it differently and I have tweaked it a few times in the past. The current postion seems like the best happy medium compromise considering the different options. Thanks, maybe I'll play around with it again. ww2censor (talk) 21:38, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Actually I don't think the positioning is that bad when I look harder. The problem isn't the red bar pre se, but the way it interacts with surrounding widgets. It looks like its covering up the text, but it seems it's actually covering something unrelated at te bottom of the page - of course I can't see it so I can't tell! Grrrr, I wish Chrome let me blank it out so I could see under it... maybe in the debugger? Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:52, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
It appears to just cover up the categories at the bottom of the page so if I can tighten up the line height and reduce the font size it might also help. I've figured out how to reduce the font size and will try 80%. ww2censor (talk) 21:58, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Try this adjustment and let me know. It should have made a space between the bottom posted text and the bottom frame and placed the notice in that space not covering the categories or any of the bottom post. Thanks @Maury Markowitz:ww2censor (talk) 22:08, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Could you take a look at these articles on Australian murders that i helped create or heavily edit, just to make sure they are written right for Wikipedia?
If you have move rights there should be a move button at the top of the article page. If not let me know the existing name and what it should be called I'll set it up for you. BTW, please sign all your talk page posts by adding four tildes, like this ~~~~ to the end of your post. ww2censor (talk) 21:45, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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I believe this was the JPIG image of a stamp I owned and the photo of this stamp was not in the web page. I figured that since I owned the stamp and it is new and unused (MNH) I thought I would contribute to Wikipedia with an image of the stamp. I recently found another Wikipedia site containing fraction stamps and I have 2 of the fraction stamps that are not featured. I have chose not to post the 2 fraction stamps for fear of not following guidelines as happened before. The work to upload an image is time consuming and I want to make sure I am doing the correct procedure. How do we as editors get an image of a stamp that has been out of production for quite awhile? Orangecones (talk) 23:42, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Exactly what image are you talking about. Ownership of a stamp does not confer you with a copyright for that stamp or an image of it. US stamps pre 1978 are in the public domain but everything newer is copyright. Many countries have even longer copyright terms for stamps than the US though some are freely licenced. You should look at c:Commons:Stamps/Public domain and c:Commons:Stamps/Public domain templates to start with. We only accept freely licenced image of stamps so newer ones cannot be uploaded except in very rare cases. "out of production" is totally irrelevant to the matter of copyright. Tell me what you are trying to do. Good luck. ww2censor (talk) 00:02, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your help and guidance regarding the stamp issue. I did not realize there was a time frame for the copyright to fall off. I saw no stamp image and I thought that because there was no image maybe no one had an image and I did so I wanted to share the image with Wikipedia. My mistake, I am on a learning curve and I hope everyone will be patient with me. Thank you so much for all your help and teaching. Orangecones (talk) 01:56, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.
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German stamps deletion
Hi. I noticed your recent post on the french wiki. I shared the info in the RAW magazine (our Signpost). Its next edition should be released tomorrow. Meanwhile, you'll find my news here. Trace (talk) 08:18, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
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I thought I'd return the warning, as you are equally complicit in reverting what I regard as perfectly reasonable edits. In addition, you have not followed any of the advice given in this template: please use the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. I have. And I have made effort to engage in discussion about your objection. I have also given a citation with regard to the correct grammar, as appropriate in English relevant to this article's region. Please note that I will be looking to find assistance from a (hopefully) objective third party, just as soon as I work out what and where I have to type something. Bear in mind that the 3RR rule a) does not have to be enforced - it's just a policy, and b) it can also be enforced if fewer than three reverts are made in a 24 hour period. Presumably it can also be enforced if three or more reverts are made outside a 24 hour period, too. It is my hope that asking for assistance from someone who is more experienced in how to deal with this kind of 'warring' will result in neither of us being blocked or otherwise punished. As a final note, before delving into the crazy world of Wikipedia red tape, I will say that I am perfectly fine with standing down on this issue if it can be proven to me that my grammatical changes to the article are in error. But I see no reason to keep reverting my edit with no good or reasonable evidence to back up your assertions and accusations, and without an attempt to enter into reasonable diaglogue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.122.20.56 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 8 October 2015
A tag has been placed on File:Irl Weston aerodrome.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image page for a missing or corrupt image or an empty image description page for a Commons-hosted image.
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All the info is in the two new sources I added (Arago and the other). BF — Preceding unsigned comment added by BFolkman (talk • contribs) 18:30, 3 November 2015