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CorelDRAW screenshot

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Hi, I've listed Image:CorelDRAW.jpg, uploaded by you, for deletion and replaced it with a PNG version (Image:CorelDRAW.png) which is smaller and somewhat cleaner. Hope this is OK. Mysid (talk) 11:43, 19 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

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Blender-NumPad.pNg

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I see that this image has been uploaded by you, and I presume you created it. Please verify this, however, and change the liscense to an appropriate one at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:Blender-NumPad.pNg

Firefox2RC1.PNG

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Okay, this is not really your fault, but, just so you know, it says in the Firefox Discussion page that all screenshots of firefox displaying a web page should be displaying en.wikipedia.org/Main_Page (It looks more professional). Also, it would be greatly appreciated if all screenshots taken on XP be taken while the Windows theme was set to either Luna (default blue/silver/green) or Classic. Thank you for your understanding.

No problem ---AM088 01:16, 27 September 2006 (UTC)Reply
Also, if you have time, could you update the firefox 3 picture the same way (we won't be mad if you don't). And, I'm curious, (you don't have to change the picture again) what is the extension that created the icon in the bottom corner of the window? Thanks again ---KingpinE7
I've had bad experiences with Adblock in the past, and I understand your unwillingness to change the screenshot until Places is re-enabled. I was upset when I found out about its removal. ---KingpinE7

Image:Minefield-3.0a1-20060922.png

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Hello, I saw that you upload the picture of Firefox 3.0 a1. I would like to use it to but don’t know where I can get it. So I would ask you from where you have download it? Sorry for my bad English but I am from Germany. --Yoyo-josip 23:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

I wrote the answer is on your talk page ---AM088 19:34, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

AutoWikiBrowser

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Thank you for your recent application to use AutoWikiBrowser. Regrettably, I have declined your request as you do not have 500 mainspace edits. You are welcome to apply again at a later time. Feel free to contact me with any questions, Alphachimp 20:16, 14 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

500 mainspace edits reached and approval received! ---AM088 01:39, 16 March 2007 (UTC)Reply


March 2007

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Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from Phenomenon. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 00:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sorry about that. I'll pay closer attention next time. --Cremepuff222 (talk, review me!) 01:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

NaF

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I saw that you jumped into the discussion on sodium fluoride. I reverted your edit, so I wanted to explain because there is some context here that you might not know. The article sodium fluoride is about a chemical that is not even used much any more in fluoridation, it just happens to have a fluoride (thousands of similar compounds exist, starting with HF, of course). So instead of inserting redundant concerns about mass poisoning into all of these articles, we created Water fluoridation controversy, which is an ideal forum for your and User:78.86.90.144's concerns about fluoridation. Also User:78.86.90.144's contribution was misleading: NaF is not particularly poisonous, you gotta eat several grams of it. Again, if we included a long explanation of concerns about every chemical that is toxic at that level (recalling that the entire physical world is chemical), then the Wiki-Chem articles would be encumbered to the extent that their usefulness would be diminished. Thanks and best wishes, --Smokefoot (talk) 01:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image (Image:GoogleMars.png)

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Orphaned non-free image File:Ixquick.logo.png

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Graham Pierce listed at Redirects for discussion

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Orphaned non-free image File:GoogleMars.png

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