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Pop Punk Revival Merge Discussion

Saw you on the Punk WikiProject list... Your input is valued! - Sir, please check out whats going on there Talk:Pop_punk_revival and add you opinion to the "Merge Discussion" Xsxex 23:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Punk music

Whats up? Hi, I'm trying to gather some more interest and support for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Punk music. Please check out the topics and lets get our WikiProject to function better. I've taken an interest in the Wikipedia:WikiProject hip hop and I consider that WikiProject to be better developed. Hopefully we can all work together to improve articles relating to punk. Also, I am trying to gather support and opinions concerning the punk house article and specifically the Theta Beta Potata article which is currently in AfD (x2) at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theta Beta Potata (second nomination). Please check it out and voice your opinion. Xsxex 06:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Snoopy.jpg)

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Hello

Haha well I did use it but I changed almost everything in it! I have an infobox for my about me page, its quite awesome. And I have a picture of an awesome mosquito or something!Coocooforcocopuffs 02:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes that is true. I am signing my name this time! Coocooforcocopuffs 02:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I saw it a few minutes ago it was quite awesome. 02:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)02:27, 29 October 2006 (UTC)~

Oh yeah and guess what. I made a page for Sonny Moore the lead singer of From First to Last and people are editing a lot all because of my good deed!! I feel happy in my soul. Coocooforcocopuffs 02:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I gave you a barnstar!

If you feel the need to give one back to me, go <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars">Here</a>!Coocooforcocopuffs 21:27, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Images on your userpage

Hello All systems go, I have removed the images on your user page because they were uploaded to Wikipedia under a claim of fair use, and these images can't be used on userpages. For more info see WP:FUC. You can find replacement images that can be used on the commons, a sister project of Wikipedia that gathers free to use images. You can link to those images just as you can images here. Thank you for understanding, Prodego ^talk 01:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually no, you are free to use Image:Anarchy symbol neat.png (but you should use Image:Anarchy-symbol.svg instead, it is a higher quality), I removed that one by mistake. However, the others were all album covers, and copyrighted by either the publisher or artist. Prodego ^talk 01:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

You mean like the little Wikipedia globe in the top of my userpage? Prodego ^talk 01:57, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

People put them there, usually to represent groups they are part of. In my case the Wikipedia globe with the mop is because I am an administrator, and the bronze ball because I am a VP moderator, and I couldn't find a better image to represent VandalProof (a program used in fighting vandalism). Prodego ^talk 02:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

They use use evil CSS hacks, and mess up some skins so beware, but use:

<div style="position:absolute; z-index:100; right:20px; top:5px;" class="metadata" id="administrator">{{click|link=Wikipedia:Administrators|image=Admin mop.PNG|width=25px|height=25px|title=This user is an administrator.}}</div>.

You need to change the numbers to use more them one, and obviously the title, image, link, and id. You may be more interested userboxes which offer an easier way to show these types of things. You can see them near the bottom of my userpage (but still in the green area). Prodego ^talk 02:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Certainly, go ahead. Let me know if you need any help, it is rather complex ;-). Alternately I could build a brand new one for you, just give me a design (or I could just come up with something if you don't care). Prodego ^talk 00:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

FOB and Barnstar

I know I was so it got deleted! Well thanks for the barnstar by the way!Coocooforcocopuffs 02:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It was "irrelavent information", but it's all true, and it's pretty interesting too!Coocooforcocopuffs 22:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Image:TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg

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Little context in RelaxA

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Hello

I think you hve some pretty cool userboxes.

User : DRThomson —Preceding unsigned comment added by Damian R Thomson (talk • contribs) 23:24, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use images in the userspace

I have removed the image Image:TheClashLondonCallingalbumcover.jpg from your userspace User:All systems go/Userboxes/User clash. Please be aware that images that are clamied as fair use have a restriction in location:

From the policy page Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria

9. Restrictions on location. Non-free content is allowed only in articles (not disambiguation pages), and only in article namespace, subject to exemptions. (To prevent an image category from displaying thumbnails, add __NOGALLERY__ to it; images are linked, not inlined, from talk pages when they are a topic of discussion.)

Placing image in the userspace such as User:All systems go/Userboxes/User clash is a violation and has been removed. Please do not restore this image without consoltation. Thank you. — Save_Us_229 15:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Message from WikiProject Punk music

Hello!

You may be interested to know that WikiProject Punk music has recently undergone a major revitalization. Please visit the project page to see our new look and check out some of our helpful new features, such as the Assessment Department and the Collaboration of the week. There are also a number of tasks on our Things to do page that you may be interested in helping with.

We are currently holding a roll call to help gauge how many active project members we have. Please visit the project's talk page and add your signature to the roll sheet to express your continued interest in the project. Also, if you have not already done so, please take a minute to add your name to the Participants page along with a brief summary of your punk-related interests, so that other project members will be better able to collaborate with you. If you do not add your signature to the roll sheet by November 30, 2008 your name will be moved to our list of inactive members. We may also take the liberty of removing the project userbox from your userpage if it appears there, to prevent you from automatically appearing in Category:WikiProject Punk music members. Of course you are free to rejoin the project and re-add the userbox at any time if you would like to become active in the project again.

Thank you and we hope you will continue to support WikiProject Punk music!

--IllaZilla (talk) 21:00, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of ¡Policia! - A Tribute to the Police

The article ¡Policia! - A Tribute to the Police has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable tribute album, non-charting, little media coverage of substance. Fails WP:NALBUMS.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

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