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Link re-inserted - it's an important part of The Band's early history - is not a copyright vio (link is hosted by copyright owner. Link has been there for a long time as an external link but was reformatted as a cited reference. Citizensmith 21:26, 23 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

DO NOT ACCUSE ME edit

I only added this info because it was already all over several messageboards. This is only one of several examples. Sweetfreek 03:37, 18 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Did you notice my use of the word "accused"? As touchy and fickle as News Corporations policies are (especially given the already notorious activities described elsewhere in the article on MySpace) it's hard to imagine that wouldn't have already been reversed by now if it were true. Sweetfreek 22:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

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Baarskaagaard edit

Could you explain why their edits are vandalism? Certainly the one to The Don (song) does not appear to be vandalism although not actually needed either. Looks like a new editor needing advice unless I am missing something? Citizensmith 19:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

They've added information to several Calvin Harris articles which is hoax information. They claimed that a song was to be the next single when there is no information available anywhere to confirm this. The picture they added to Traffic Cops was quite clearly colabourated from calvin's other covers and the image added to the don is blurred and un-identifiable. I just thought all of this together meant the user was only intent on adding vandalism and worthless content to wikipedia. Chappy TC 19:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Mike Magee (journalist) edit

You don't seem to understand the quality of the sources needed to support this article. Please read WP:V and WP:RS. In particular, you need a reliable third-party source which verifies that the journalist and the occultist are the same individual. You can't use emails, blogs, or other self-published information. All sources must be published by a reliable third-party publisher. I took out several sources which did not meet WP requirements for a biography of a living person. The Indranushnut (sp?) page is probably not acceptable either but I left it for now. GlassFET 22:30, 27 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

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The View edit

Noticing you're having a bit of trouble controlling the old "fair use" bots (See above ^^^), i thought I'd come help you out with the old licencing tags, the first one i'm dealing with is The View EP image, just need you to tell me where you got the image first (ie, website link). Cheers --SteelersFan UK06 14:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I'm going to go deal with that image just now. I may report back in a while for some other information. --SteelersFan UK06 15:19, 16 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
I've added the appropriate templates/rationale to The View EP image. If you want you can copy these edits on to the other images used on the page as well? This saves them from being deleted. I'll handle some as well. --SteelersFan UK06 08:43, 21 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Even though it was I who started The View's article in 2006, I no longer wish to have anything to do with that article as I dislike the band these days. I just like checking up on the articles every so oftn. --User:Keenyfox 23:27, 29 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Magee edit

I've deleted the target so that you can do your move; it's been afd'ed before so you may find it may be nominated for deletion again. Carlossuarez46 02:52, 28 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

  • It was speedy requested by User:GlassFET to do a history merge with the version on your user pages, by entry of {{db-histmerge|User:Citizensmith/Mike Magee (journalist)}}, you should probably talk with him, but in the interim I'll restore it but that will preclude any history merge until it's deleted again. Carlossuarez46 18:14, 28 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
    • Article and talk page are restored. There are difficulties in re-creating articles from cut-and-paste; I made that mistake before and got chided about it: someone needs to do a history merge of the source and the target for GFDL purposes, so that the authors whose words are cut are given credit if they are pasted, basically. You should still talk with GlassFET to get this sorted out, but in the meantime the article is restored. Carlossuarez46 18:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sergeant (band) edit

I've restored this as per your request. No hard feelings, I trust; the only citation that could be traced was very unflattering and described them as mediocre (or words to that effect). I can't protect this against other editors but if I can be of further assistance, let me know. Accounting4Taste:talk 21:50, 17 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

I've added the cite you provided on my talk page and deleted the speedy tag, and made notes about why on the article's talk page, and I hope this will give you sufficient time to work on the article to your satisfaction. Again, if you need something further, just let me know. Accounting4Taste:talk 21:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

The Law edit

It had been listed for speedying by User:Lounds O'Ikes on the grounds of "absolutely no notability". (I would give you the diff but only admins could see it). I didn't see any sources in it to back up notability, so I deleted it. If you would like me to restore it and put it on AfD to settle this issue, I will. Daniel Case (talk) 22:06, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

After reviewing that user's edit history (short and dubious; he seems to have a thing for putting in badly sourced or unsourced negative info about Scottish radio personalities), I have restored the article since I don't think it was a good-faith nom. But it still needs sources, and I have tagged it appropriately. Daniel Case (talk) 22:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Upon further consideration and review I have blocked that user indefinitely as an apparent vandalism-only account. I am sorry for any consternation this caused. Daniel Case (talk) 22:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Why was the Saving Aimee edit deleted? edit

Just looking for clarification. Looneytooner (talk) 17:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Regarding the Saving Aimee image edit edit

I apologise for uploading work which isn't my own, but would like to thank you for going through the trouble of contacting the photographer and receiving the permission for the photo to be uploaded on Wikipedia.

Also I have tried my best adding additional citations for verification. I have made sure that everything on there is reliable and official. Any help on having it verified would be much appreciated. xpedrox (talk) 19:20, 18 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Dundee FA status edit

It was mentioned in the Dundee talk page that the article no longer met many of the criteria for FA back in 2007. I imagine the requirements have either changed significantly or the article has degraded through subsequent editing. It is therefore up for FA review. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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