User talk:Yorick8080

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Image copyright problem with Image:Soskin_pig.JPG

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Talk pages

Hi, in case no one has mentioned:

Usually we don't erase things from talk pages even our own user talk page. With your own user talk page, that's not a hard-and-fast rule, but it's a strong custom, and it helps other people get a sense of what your dealings with other editors have been like.
The one that brought me here (from Talk:Uncle Tom's Cabin): As a rule, unless you are specifically responding to something, new remarks go at the bottom of a talk page not the top (I've moved yours). One of the main reasons for this is that if someone decided to archive the part of the talk page prior to a given date, remarks placed at the top are liable to be accidentally archived when almost no one has had a chance to see them. - Jmabel | Talk 01:37, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: User:198.53.106.160

He's been warned, and he hasn't been active since then. You should know, though, that IP numbers are sometimes not so good for blocking, because some people don't have static IPs. It's possible this vandal has moved on to another IP number. But in any case, if you see someone else vandalizing that needs to be stopped, you should report it to WP:AIV, not me (I'm not even an admin. ;) Cheers! Mango juice^talk 17:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

linguist assistance

You are listed in the linguist by profession category. Would you please look at the discussion at Talk:Caron? It has been suggested that professional opinions are required to resolve the dispute there.

Dance capitalization

I noticed that you listed yourself as a linguist. There is currently a dispute at the Lindy Hop article the Dance WikiProject about the capitalization of dances that could use the expertise of a linguist. If you think you might be able to help, we would certainly appreciate your comments. Thanks! --Cswrye 05:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Linkspam

Yeah, that seemed to be his MO. IRC does tend to get a pretty quick response. :) Luna Santin 06:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spam?

I haven't added any spam! The last thing I put up was a quote in a Scratch Acid article from a public article in a weekly newspaper. It didn't go to any commercial or personal site. Since your last message I haven't put up anything in the Links or References section, just content itself as you described. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnybagel (talk • contribs) 22:33, 17 September 2006

The Department of Redundancy Department

Good work on the noticing and correcting the redundancy regarding the mainland of the People's Republic of China redundancy in the article about Chinese names. Wik on. -- House of Scandal 08:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:Soskin pig.JPG

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Lee Harvey Oswald

~~I have no idea which particular deletion you are referring to? Please provide a diff.~~ Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 18:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I did the research. I guess this is the diff in question. Sorry about that. It seems you got caught in the crossfire of an ugly edit war that has been going on for a year there. As a new tactic in this war an editor began placing unnecessary {{fact}} tags in articles, as a pretext to delete information. I thought it was this editor who added the marksmen info in an attempt to make a point that I only delete information with which I "disagree". So while I was cleaning up the article and noticed it, I figured I'd delete it to show my issue is not with the information, but with not using sources. I'll be more careful in the future, but just to be on the safe side, make sure to use sources on those articles in the first instance. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 18:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Wu Shu-chen. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. --Nlu (talk) 09:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Beans9383.jpg

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. User:Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr) 03:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Beans9383.jpg)

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you are right about getting real

Regarding your change, does this change solve the problem? (please leave any answers on my talkpage and on the talk page of the article, since I'm not watching this page) --Enric Naval (talk) 03:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Moon Shot

What, you didn't like "neizvestnyzh"? :) TJRC (talk) 18:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Haha -- I'm guessing the text that was in place was written in another language and software-translated. In an earlier version it said something about the film being about the quest for "boarding rights on the Moon" or something like that. --Bri (talk) 19:04, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit summaries

Hello, Yorick8080,

Please include a descriptive edit summary when you tag a page for deletion like an CSD, AfD or PROD. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:16, 16 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]