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A tag has been placed on Trevor Malcolm requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Please help save Repo Man movie article

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yO Oydman,

This guy, Dædαlus, is in there trying to remove parts that you, I and many others contributed to the Repo Man article. Please add to the bottom of this thread on the Repo Man talk page that you think the "Notable Motifs" section should not be blanked (erased), but left as is since the Pulp Fiction article also has a "Notable Motifs" section that isn't being considered for removal at all (even by Dædαlus himself).

While I agree that the "Notable Motifs" section could use some work, it certainly won't help the article to delete the whole thing and erase all our work which consists of many multiple contributers over a course of years. I'm willing to work on it and better incorporate it into the article, he just wants to delete it all!

With consensus, we can stop this guy from deleting all our work soon!

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Dauphin Island

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  The Photographer's Barnstar
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Proposed deletion of Sterling Renaissance Festival

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yea i guess i was your tour guide when you went to the lost sea because you definitely posted a picture of me walkin down the yellow tunnel Ryanholmes1 (talk) 05:28, 3 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Images on commons

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Hi Oydman, thanks for uploading good, free images for articles on Wikipedia. Have you considered putting the images on Wikipedia Commons so that other projects (like Wikipedia in other languages) can use them as well? Thanks. --Amble (talk) 06:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Articles for deletion nomination of Sterling Renaissance Festival

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Speedy deletion nomination of Five Eight (band)

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Nomination of Five Eight (band) for deletion

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