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I have removed the questionable movie poster and inserted my personal photograph. Let me know if this is acceptable. Thanks for your input.

RailbirdJAM

Pool stuffs

Great first stab at a major article with Keith McCready.

Images question: Where are these '70s images coming from, of McCready and Mataya? Did you take those photographs yourself? If you did, I would advise that you add an explict personal statement to that effect to their description page, like "I took this photo in Fresno, at Jim's Pool Hall, in I believe August of 1979, with my Nikon F1" or something, to prevent others from challenging them as possibly copyright violations. Original Wikipedia editor-created photos of celebrities are both rare and rather suspect... Also, the date information would be useful anyway, in the captions of the images as used in articles.

Good work on Jimmy Mataya, too. How about Mitch Laurance to complete the circle? (Category:Pool non-player personalities could use some more people in it anyway.) Given how many pool mags you cite, I imagine you're aware that he was the recent "cover guy" of Pool & Billiard mag. Update: I just checked; it's the March 2007 issue, and has a big article on him. I'd do it myself, but my to-do list here is huge, and very backlogged. 10:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, given your interest, I think you'd make a valuable addition to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports team. I've also added a standard "Welcome" tag to the top of your talk page, which has links to a lot of useful info on getting up to speed on WP policies and so forth. It's a bit of reading, but well worth it in the time it will save avoiding common problems.

PS: Re: movie poster stuff above - any apparent-user with "bot" in their name won't read or respond to replies you leave for them. They are automated robot accounts. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 01:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

PPS: If these really are your own original photos, please upload them to http://Commons.WikiMedia.org instead of to Wikipedia itself (this allows them to be used in all WikiMedia projects, including all of the foreign-language Wikipedias, instead of just the English-language Wikipedia itself. At this point, the only reason to upload pics to en.wikipedia.org in particular is if they have some kind of licensing issue that limits them to US-only usage for WP:FAIRUSE purposes. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:42, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

PPPS: I actually now added the "Welcome!" header I said I was going to add. I forgot yesterday... — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:47, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Photos

I am experiencing trouble meeting the encylopedia guidelines with the photos I have contributed. I do not understand why, but I will try to read more and then resubmit my photos when and if I understand the encyclopedia guidelines better, so that I can meet them. RailbirdJAM 15:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hi

Hey RailbirdJAM. As you probably already know, SMcCandlish and I are the most active WP:CUE participants up until now, so welcome to the fold! I was wondering: are you the proprietor of Railbird Videos? Just curious. Great start on Keith McCready. Since you apparently have a lot of personal photographs, do you perchance have any of Irving Crane or Jean Balukas? (both article are sorely lacking in that department). Feel free to drop by my talk page for any reason.--Fuhghettaboutit 01:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Speaking of photos, you needn't remove the ones you've uploaded at all. As far as I can tell, the only issue is that a few of them (3? 4?) weren't entirely filled out on their description pages, and simply need the pd-something template added to them in a ==Licensing== section. NB: You might want to use a Creative Commons (or GFDL, or both) license instead of public domain (e.g. to require that you be credited or that your photos not be used by others for commercial purposes without permission.) Public domain means anyone anywhere can use them for any reason. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 08:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

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I know this is a "bot" message, and so it is useless to respond, but I think I fixed it!

I am still learning my way around Wikipedia, and I hope I can continue to contribute and LEARN all of the necessary procedures to avoid this, and newbie-associated problems like this, from happening in the future. RailbirdJAM 10:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

RailbirdJAM 10:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Sadly, the Vilmos Foeldes pic was deleted before you could fix it. Please do add it back; just remember to include the ==License== section and an appropriate license tag (and upload to commons.wikimedia.org instead of en.wikipedia.org so the non-English Wikipedias can use it too). A few others might have been deleted as well; I'm sure we'll figure it out. No one is "after" you on these images; they are just robotically deleted after a spell if the license tag is missing. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 06:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

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I've posted what I believe is a plausible fair use rationale on its talk page. Shouldn't be a problem any more. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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If File:Torbjörn Blomdahl.jpg was your upload, please upload it again and restore it to the article; if it was yours it was deleted only because it was missing that pesky license tag in a ==License== section on its description page. :-( — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 17:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

It would be really nice if you restored this image, with the licensing tag so it doesn't get trashed by the copyright-patrol bots again. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 23:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Kevin Trudeau

If you wish to create an article about the IPT you are welcome to do so. The IPT section of the Kevin Trudeau article offers a summary. Should you choose to create/edit an article about the IPT you may provide a link to it within the KT article. Please DO NOT make countless trivial edits to articles sections/sub-sections which due nothing more than detract from the primary topic. TheDevilYouKnow 20:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

I did not make "trivial" edits to the Kevin Trudeau article, as you have stated it.

In fact, I referenced comments made by IPT members about the impact that the IPT had on pocket billiards, and the players stated their gratitude to Trudeau for initiating the IPT.

You have once again removed my references. It seems unfair to me that your opinion is paramount over those of other Wikipedia contributors like myself.

I have invested a great deal of time attempting to fatten up the American pool players category, but if contributions are going to be deleted because of one person's opinion, it does not seem fair to others whose opinions may differ from yours.

I do have a lot to contribute to the CueSports and American Pool Player categories, but I do not desire to participate in Wikipedia with someone who thinks their opinion is the only opinion and then continues to delete another's contributions just because their opinion differs. RailbirdJAM 00:15, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Is this being resolved in any way? — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I've looked into the matter and suggesting a clear way to resolve this dispute; see new "Proposed resolution" subtopic on the article's talk page. The short version is, I think both sides of this debate are simultaneously right and wrong, on different levels, but this is actually quite easy to work around. PS: Please do not threaten to leave WP just because you get in an annoying dispute with someone. I (and the community) wouldn't want to see you go, and saying things like that without meaning it are a bit too melodramatic.  :-/ PPS: PLease remember to sign your posts with four, not three, ~'s; I had to use {{unsigned}} on at least two of your posts today to indicate attribution. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 23:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the sign-out etiquette. I will remember to use all four thingies in the future. :>) There is one contributor who seems to believe that only his contributions are Wikipedia-worthy, and all others who do not agree with his opinion are not valid, and then he deletes them. It is frustrating to take the time to contribute, only to have this one person delete them EACH and EVERY time. Thank you for the suggestion about the "Proposed Resolution" subtopic. I will definitely look into this. Kevin Trudeau did invest MILLIONS of dollars into pool, and though his contribution to the sport seems to not elevate pool in mainstream America, it did bring many pool players from around the world out of the woodwork. For that and that alone, his contribution via the International Pool Tour (IPT) should be documented. The person who keeps deleting contributions in this regard only wants to contribute NEGATIVE Trudeau-isms, and I think this is not fair, and I know Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, as an example of what Wikipedia is all about, would not like this type of dictatorial practice occurring on Wikipedia. JMHO, FWIW! RailbirdJAM 17:22, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Proper reference citations

When adding a new ref citation to an article, as at Rodney Morris, please use Template:Cite web inside the <ref>; simply pasting in bare URLs does not make proper reference citations. {{Cite web}} takes a little time to fill out, but the details are important; encyclopedia readers should not have to follow an offsite link to even find out what one of the cited references is. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ

Thanks for the helpful info. I will try to adhere to the Template:Cite web, though when I just reviewed it, I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out which one would apply. There are many examples given. FOUR THINGIES BELOW for RailbirdJAM which doesn't work. RailbirdJAM

Now I cannot even create a new topic on My Talk page, as well as not signing it properly with the four thingies. RailbirdJAM

I see that the 4 tildes problem is fixed. Anyway, a typical reference citation to the kinds of online stuff we cite would be something like <ref name="AZBilliards1234">{{Cite web| last=Jones| first=Jane| title=Buddy Hall Sweeps 2007 Reno Open| work=AZBilliards.com| publisher=| date=[[2007-08-15]]| accessdate=2007-08-23| url=http://www.azbilliards.com/blah/foo/whatever/1234.html}} last and first (names of author) can be left blank if the piece doesn't mention a specific author; publisher can be left blank if no particular publisher is identified (many web sites are sort of "self-identified" as the publisher, while others name a corporate publisher, like BBC News Online (bbc.co.uk) is a publication of the BBC, thus work=BBC News Online| publisher=[[BBC]]. I have no idea why the date field requires wikilinking and the accessdate one does not. <shrug> If no specific date is know, just a year, you can simply do year=2007 instead of date=2007-08-15. For magazines and newspapers, {{Cite news}}, and for books, {{Cite book}} work about the same way, though some of the fields are different (like there is an ISSN/ISBN field, the url field usually doesn't apply, and the publisher field is almost always filled out, because it is easy to identify. Also, the order of the fields is not important at all. The point of this stuff is to fill in as much info as possible to make identifying and verifying the source easier, and because it is done with a template, the formatting in the references section is always consistent. Looks nice and professional. Hope that helps. Feel free to ask any questions that arise about such stuff over at User talk:SMcCandlish. I am here to help. :-) PS: Many of these templates support other fields as well, but they are not frequently used and can be ignored if you don't need them. See {{Cite episode}} for an example; when I use that to cite a TV news report, I probably only use 1/5 of the fields, because the rest of them simply don't apply. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

PPS: The very uniformative "References" section at Thorsten_Hohmann#References is a great case in point for why its important to use {{Cite web}}. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:44, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for not using the correct Wikipedia reference format. When I look at other articles, I copied the way they were done in those articles, which is exactly how I did them. Now you are stating I must use a new template format. Unfortunately, I contributed some references in the past several days which did not use this format, and for that, I apologize. I will try to do so in the future for reference links. I read the pages describing the instructions. I may not be able to contribute any more data in the articles until I understand this format. As an aside, I see many references on Wikipedia the same way I have done. Is your suggested template something new that we should all be adhering to? If so, I will attempt to do so in the future. Again, I apologize for the recent contributions I have made with references not in the format you state is proper. Thanks again for your help. RailbirdJAM 16:20, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

You needn't be so apologetic! It's very, very good that you are adding references; the above is just a format that you do it in the most reader- and editor-helpful way. And indeed there are many articles to which people just plunk in a URL and call it a reference citation. When I notice this, those editors get notes like this too.  :-) Trying to raise the bar. Oh, and no the {{Cite web}} and other Cite-family templates are not new at all, it's just that it takes an extra minute to use it so many editors don't both and figure "oh, someone else will clean it up later", seemingly not realizing that every "someone else" on the system has better things to do that clean up after someone who thinks they have better things to do. >;-) I hope my above explanation of the format is clearer than the template's own documentation, which goes into every field. If you like, you can use vertical formatting on these things. Like, to reformat my example above:

A statement in the article text about to be sourced.<ref name="AZBilliards1234">{{Cite web

|last=Jones

|first=Jane

|title=Buddy Hall Sweeps the 2007 Reno Open

|work=AZBilliards.com

|publisher=    or just leave it out since it is blank in this case

|date=[[2007-08-15]]    or use |year=2007 if full date not given

|accessdate=2007-08-23

|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/blah/foo/whatever/1234.html

}}</ref> More article text, blah blah blah...

Many editors use that vertical formatting. Oh, also in my original example (which I just corrected above) I had wikilinked the accessdate field, which I shouldn't have, as my note about date vs. accessdate inconsistency mentioned. "Duh". I guess I wasn't paying attention. If you can't wrap your head around this, don't worry about it. It's better for you to add sources and not format them, than to not add sources. But please try it. After doing 10 or so of these you'll simply have the format memorized, as I do. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 19:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Response to helpme tag

Hi, in order for some of us to help you better, perhaps you can be a little bit more specific about when the problems occur. When you try and create a new topic on your Talkpage, what happens? Does it go to a new screen where you start the topic, or does it give you an error? When you sign with the Tildes(~), what happens? You can also try 3 tildes (~~~) which gives less information. Please try respond on the page where the helpme tag is. Rfwoolf 11:58, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind reply. What happens is that I cannot create a new topic on My Talk page. It seems to say in this one, that you and I are writing in. Also, when I type in four thingies, it does not reveal my name, only four tildes. Let me try the three tildes, which I have called "thingies." Thank you for your help. RailbirdJAM 12:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

NOW it works. Thank you very much, Rfwoolf! You are the best!RailbirdJAM 12:02, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, you're welcome. As you might tell from the history, you'll see I had to nowiki-fy a template. You're welcome. Hope it all works. Rfwoolf 12:05, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my fault; I forgot an important "/" character. D'oh. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 00:36, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

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I fixed this; see the image page now. You can use the boilerplate fair use rationale text I put in there next time you upload a logo. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, scratch that. That logo is outdated. I uploaded a more generic one here; that page has the fair use rationale stuff you may need for future logo uploads. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:ADOPT

Its occurred to me that I've basically been unofficially WP:ADOPTing you, because you clearly care about these articles and are making very substantive contributions. I want you to be a badass Wikipedian and stick around; at this point you are one of the most active members of WP:CUE, especially since User:Fuhghettaboutit became an admin and has been doing admin things more and more. We need you. If you're keen on it, I'd like to officially "adopt" you per the WP:ADOPT program (basically this means any time you have a question about WP and how it works, you can ask me, and I commit to answering or helping find an answer, and I offer guidance if I think it's needed; pretty simple really. I also get the impression that much further down the road, having been through a WP:ADOPT as a new-ish user, as well as going through later programs like admin mentoring, are helpful at WP:RFA.) In return, I'd like it if you reviewed WP:CUESPELL and WP:CUENOTE and provided any feedback you might have about them (each has its own talk page); I haven't had any input on those in a long time, and will need consensus at WP:CUE on them before they can be advanced more broadly as actual WP guidelines. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:51, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the great information. I will definitely check into this, as well as give a review of the WP:CUESPELL and WP:CUENOTE areas. I usually do my work on weekends, which is when I will be the most active. Thanks for the strong guidance. Very much appreciated! :>) RailbirdJAM 08:59, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Keen. No hurry. I'm most active on weekends myself. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 10:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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Jimmy Wetch

Great picture! Thanks!--Fuhghettaboutit 15:35, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure. Thanks for all that you contribute to the American pool player category. We need to populate it to document all of the great legendary players in history of American pool.

Do you know how to fix the link on Ralph Greenleaf page for his picture? I can't seem to get it to work. It used to be there, but now it is not.

Also, would you be so kind as to help me create a Ronnie Allen (pool player) page? I've got the article begun, but I don't know how to start the page, as there is another Ronnie Allen article in existence who is not THE Ronnie Allen (pool player). I read how to do it, but I am afraid I will make a mistake and erase the original Ronnie Allen page. Thanks in advance! Eye for an eye, as they say! ;>) RailbirdJAM 10:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with the markup. The problem is that the image itself was deleted. Here's the deletion log entry. The reference there to "speedy I4" refers to section 4 of the criteria for speedy deletion for images, which means the image had no proper licensing tag and was tagged as needing such a license for seven days or more.

With regard to Ronnie Allen, click here: Ronnie Allen (pool player) and start writing. As was discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cue sports/Archive 1#Ronnie Allen Pool Player, once you do that there are two options. First, you can simply add to the top of the existing Ronnie Allen article the following code: {{for|the pool player|Ronnie Allen (pool player)}} which formats as

For the pool player, see Ronnie Allen (pool player).

. The second option is to make the existing Ronnie Allen page into a disambiguation page. But neither option stops you from creating the article with the red link I have provided above. Creating that article will not erase the other page:-)--Fuhghettaboutit 12:27, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I now have a weekend project to look forward to. I can't wait! :>) RailbirdJAM 18:39, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

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If you reupload that with a license tag it will probably "stick". — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:54, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Pool player category

You're absolutely right about the category being legitimate, and I have no idea what you're talking about. I created the category two years ago, and have not touched it since. Nor would I, as it's a necessary category. I don't see any activity on the page for almost a month. So what do you think happened?--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I've just tried to answer your question back on Mike Selinker's talk page. Take a look, and let me know if I haven't. ×Meegs 13:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Yep, what is said over at Mike Selinker's page explains it. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 15:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Ronnie Allen (pool player)

What happened to your plans to create a Ronnie Allen (pool player) article? You'd brought the idea up at WT:CUE back in August I think, with some questions about what to do in cases where there is already a Ronnie Allen article about a different person. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I have begun gathering data to create the Ronnie Allen article. In fact, some of it, like exact birthday and where, I was able to ascertain from Ronnie Allen himself. However, finding REFERENCES, i.e., magazines, books, newsapapers, and things like that from Ronnie Allen's era has proven to be difficult. I would like to have enough material when initiating the article, rather than just having a few lines. I also have several photos for the article, which will be great. One is an younger Ronnie Allen shooting pool, and another is more recent. Anyway, the Ronnie Allen article is still a work in progress! :>) RailbirdJAM (talk) 12:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Any news on this front? — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 01:03, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I have a lot of pool-related data to contribute to Wikipedia, to include Ronnie Allen. I am hoping before I endeavor to create a new article that I can figure out this picture licensing problem and other Wikipedia rules. It seems that I'm getting hit with either the bots or editors. Even my own pictures that I have taken with my own camera have been deleted from Wikipedia. LOL! Just spoke to Ronnie Allen the other day, and he is going to provide me some photos, dates, articles, and other data that will be useful to do the article. When I do create it, it will be HUGE, with everything all at once, rather than a little here and a little there. I want this article to be ACCURATE, to include enough references, and especially when I load up the pictures, I want no licensing problems. It is hard to believe that Vilmos Foldes' photo, one that I took with my own camera, was deleted. It is frustrating to spend hours trying to contribute to Wikipedia, only to have your work deleted unfairly. RailbirdJAM (talk)

The bot messages seem pretty self-explanatory to me. When you upload an image, it a) must be your own and the upload needs to include a license suggesting this (the upload process provides links to license templates), or b) must be something used with permission for fair-use purposes, in which case you need to send something indicating that permission, to a specified Wikipedia e-mail address. It seems to me that the problems you are experiencing are largely due to uploading images and not providing any license information. I would suggest that you only upload your own material, and do so at commons.wikimedia.org rather than en.wikipedia.org, since Commons has a more helpful upload process than WP does. (Images uploaded to Commons are immediately available at WP, as if they had been uploaded to WP). — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 22:50, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Note

Replied to you at my talk page. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 12:07, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I read through the lengthy explanation of how to report unfavorable contributions to articles. I hope I can pick the right vehicle to report this type of activity. Check out the recent HISTORY page of Earl Strickland, as one example; the same for Keith McCready as well. RailbirdJAM (talk) 12:22, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I'll have a look. Anyway for dealing with editors like that, just remember WP:UWT (short for "user-warning templates"); it is pretty self-explanatory and easy to search for keywords. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 15:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

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The picture is mine. I took it with my camera. I have no idea what I am supposed to do to not have it deleted. Why would it be on the deletion list today when it was contributed to Wikipedia a long time ago? This is my picture. I took it with my camera. I don't get it. PLEASE ADVISE RailbirdJAM (talk) 10:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Ther eis no reason to get upset -- this can be worked through. First, follow the link in my notice above to the discussion. Once there you will see the reason I have nominated it for deletion is the following, "orphaned image, insufficent information to determine an encyclopedic use -- ie who is in the pic, where and when it was taken". Basially what this means is that the image is not currently in use by any article on wikipedia (ie orphaned) and there is no information provided on the image page that gives any information about the content of the photo (ie who is in the pic, and where and when the image was taken). I have not nominated because there is any issue with the claim its yours and you can relese it. The reason for the time between upload and nominationis that there is no connection between the two events. I came across your image randomly while searching for other images and have nominated quite a number of them. I hope this answers your issues. so two things you can do, 1 - follow the link to the discussion and explain why it should not be deleted, 2 - go to the image page and provide some information about who, what, where and when about the pic.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 11:11, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

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I fixed it. RailbirdJAM (talk) 12:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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I fixed it. RailbirdJAM (talk) 12:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

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This is so sad to have this happen. FWIW, Diana Hoppe, who is a friend of mine, asked me -- PERSONALLY ASKED ME -- to please put those pictures in Earl's article. She didn't know how to do it and knew I was a Wiki contributor in the Cuesports section. She also gave me Danny DiLiberto's picture. Danny asked her to ask me to please create a Wiki article about him, which I did. I explained to her the copyright issues, and she gave me full permission to insert those photos in the pool players' articles. It is a bummer to exert my time and effort into the Cuesports Seciton, only to have things deleted years later. I hope the editor who adopted me helps out in this. This is a shame. I give up. RailbirdJAM (talk)

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Thank you for your kind assistance. I only created the article this morning, and it took me a minute or two to add the refernces. I have two reference so far, and I am going to be adding more. I created the article before adding the references, which was my mistake. Thank you for your patience and kind assistance. ~~ RailbirdJAM

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I hereby affirm that Steve Booth is the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of RonnieFastEddieAllenHOF2005.jpg photo file. I agree to "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0" (unported) and GNU Free Documentation License I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws. I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related sites. I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed to have been made by me. I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project. Steve Booth - senders name Administrator, OnePocket.org February 17, 2013

You may contact the person who gave me this photo to put in thi article at onepocket@onepocket.org. RailbirdJAM (talk)RailbirdJAM ~~RailbirdJAM

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This is my photo that I took with my digital camera. What on earth is going on with Wikipedia lately? RailbirdJAM (talk) 13:56, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

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You are wrong. Sharing good content and data and photos on Wikipedia is a nightmare with people, bots, editors doubting the validity. Talk about a nightmare getting worse and worse. It is discussions like this that make people not want to contribute to Wikipedia. I usually donate each year. I gave up contributing new articles to the pool players section because of this kind of discourse. What a shame! I can vouch for the validity of this photo, and I am disgusted by this kind of discussion. It's things like this that are making people not want to contribute valuable content. RailbirdJAM (talk) 13:54, 27 November 2022 (UTC)