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Thanks for these warm words :) Calamarain 13:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

DST associated practices are regional?

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Thanks for your recent comment on the discussion for Daylight saving time. I followed up there.

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I might look into it, thanks for the response. Calamarain 13:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
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Hi CattleGirl. On your user page there is a link to Angus Australia. The site doesn't seem to be working. I'm sorry if this is just a temporary problem. I hate to clutter talk pages. But I have to be bold, I guess :) Calamarain 08:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

No, no problem! Thanks for telling me, I fixed the link (wrong URL) :). Cheers- CattleGirl talk 08:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Help citing

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A cite on Speed_of_electricity is broken, but I'm not sure how to fix it. Please remove this tag after it has been fixed, I'm not sure when I have time to do it. Thanks!

I've removed the malformed citation altogether. Generally I don't think you should cite other Wikipedia articles, but to other literature. Although you probably want to take a look at WP:Citation templates for future reference. -Optigan13 (talk) 08:42, 16 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fair use rationale for File:GalacticCivilizationsIIMapViews v2.png

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I'm confused. The copyright information at the picture contains the fair use of a game screenshot. What else is needed? Calamarain (talk) 10:53, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

I believe a rationale is required for each article in which the image is used as an explanation for why the image is being used. Add the template below to the image page and fill in each field. You can find information on what is required on each field here. Have a look at the fair use rationale on another image from that article like File:GalacticCivilizationsIIColony.png as an example. I would add it myself, but I'm not sure I know the subject!
{{Non-free use rationale
| Description       = 
| Source            = 
| Article           = 
| Portion           = 
| Low_resolution    = 
| Purpose           = 
| Replaceability    = 
| other_information = 
}}

--Kateshortforbob talk 11:34, 3 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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