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Carlos Boozer edit edit

Your edit was reverted due to you not citing your references, taking into the account the nature of the wording of the statement you added. Please accompany edits with verifiable sources in future. --Downwards 21:40, 21 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

J.J. Redick edit

I'm not trying to keep you from editing this article, but please don't revert my changes. In addition to editing your text, I also footnoted all of your references, and I don't particularly want to do it again. Let me try to justify the changes I made. I took out the phrase, "the most famous incident," because your source never makes that claim. I took out "Perhaps Redick's most prominent legacy" because it's meaningless speculation. Again, I could keep it if the source maid that claim, but it doesn't. I took the quote marks off "50 to 75" because the source doesn't quote Redick, it paraphrases him, and I changed the wording because your sentence didn't make clear whether it was Redick or another source who made that claim. I'm reverting your changes, mainly because I don't feel like fixing the citations again. If you'd like to add back some of the information I took out, please do it without undoing my work. --Djrobgordon 02:37, 31 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Hu 061116gottliebbigten1v thumbnail big.jpg) edit

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Matt Wieters edit

Thanks for adding the comment ("It should be noted...") about Matt Wieters' MLB draft prospects on the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft page. I'm sure you must realize that the Wikipedia policies on verifiability, especially with regards to living persons, are quite strict about providing reliable sourcing for such comments, as the Wikipedia can be held liable for such remarks. It is conceivable that Matt's agent and attourney could even claim that the Wikipedia harmed Matt's draft prospects, to the extent that the Wikipedia would owe Mr. Wieters substantial damages for lost wages. I have added a "citation needed" tag on your comment. If you can please attribute that comment to a reliable source, with a link to the news agency or editorial where you found it, then please do so immediately. If you cannot, then we must remove that comment, post haste. Thank you for your attention. --T-dot ( Talk/contribs ) 22:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Fair use rationale for Image:Doug Gottlieb 920 AM.jpg edit

 

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Image:411webcrew.jpg edit

I have tagged Image:411webcrew.jpg as {{no rationale}}, because it does not provide a fair use rationale. If you believe the image to be acceptable for fair use according to Wikipedia policy, please provide a rationale explaining as much, in accordance with the fair use rationale guideline, on the image description page. Please also consider using {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. Thank you. MER-C 06:21, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikimania in Atlanta! edit

 

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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