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Regarding photos, if you wish to upload them to Wikimedia Commons where I first contacted you, here is the information that I think might help. I am an editor of biography articles for musicians. I opened up an account in Flickr, which is available to you in many languages. I usually contact the photographers there to request use of their photos. If they answer yes, I explain that we can not use any photos that are copyrighted. I ask the photographers to change the license from copyright to Creative Commons. There are six Creative Commons licenses, but the Wikipedia only accepts two of them: CC-BY-SA, OR CC-BY. Here is the chart we use to show them: For Polish

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The Family Corleone edit

I had no idea that there would be a new Godfather book coming out. =) I added a reference to your article to make it official-looking.

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Such that we can estimate the future outcome, we see the estimates of experts who have considered this question. An infobox is informative, the purpose of wikipedia. Deletion is seldom a contribution. If you don't like the risky inaccuracy or imprecision of such tables you should really delete the earliest table, from the precinct caucuses, those estimates are quite wild. If you delete this again with such a pathetic excuse, I'll have you banned from the page for edit war.50.132.91.194 (talk) 05:02, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Please check your recent edit to Iowa Republican caucuses, 2012 edit

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I looked back on my edit of Iowa Republican caucuses, 2012 and found that somehow I had changed the size of the article by 20,358 bytes when I had just intended to repair a bad link in the article. Sorry about that. I don't know how I got that wrong. The system somehow wouldn't let me undo my change, so I simply copied and posted the 18:28, 20 May 2012‎ revision (the revision that preceded my bad edit). So your edit at 18:52, 23 May 2012‎ had to be trashed. Please take a look at the most recent revision and see whether you need to redo your edit. Thank you, and sorry again for the inconvenience.CountMacula (talk) 11:49, 25 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

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There is no problem. :) Now, everything is OK. Wiki system has just counted badly the size of your edition. Greetings Bielsko (talk) 13:13, 25 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

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*The Family Corleone* edit

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