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Image tagging for Image:DanielBooneNativeGardens.jpg edit

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Wikimania in Atlanta! edit

 

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

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Image tagging for Image:Ss210Grenadier.jpg edit

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Image source problem with Image:Boone drugs logo.gif edit

 
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Fair use rationale for Image:2829AppstateFootball.jpg edit

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WikiProject North Carolina Newsletters edit

     
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Hello WikiProject North Carolina members! A few of us at the The Newsroom Team decided to get together and re-energize the project, through these newsletters. This newsletter is hopefully the first of many to come. We want this project to be active in creating and expanding articles related to our state. If you're a current or former resident of the state, we hope that you will help spread the knowledge of how much there is to learn about North Carolina.

  • A great way to expand new articles is by keeping track of the new articles list. Please add any new NC-related articles or older ones you come across that have not been tagged with the project banner. When you notice an article has been added to the list, read over it and check for citations, grammatical errors, and spelling. If you've written a NC-related article in the past 5 days, read the requirements for Did you know... and add your article to the DYK nomination list. It might be chosen for the Main Page!
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Image copyright problem with File:Ashe County nc seal.gif edit

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File permission problem with File:DanielBooneNativeGardens.jpg edit

 

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Ashe County nc seal.gif edit

 

A tag has been placed on File:Ashe County nc seal.gif requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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Proposed deletion of File:GrandfatherMountainProfile.jpg edit

 

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