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  Please do not add copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. §hepTalk 04:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi there. I've sent you an email through your rafting website to confirm your identity. Thanks, §hepTalk 04:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
No response? §hepTalk 05:33, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for your email. I'll forward it to our OTRS team and they should be able to take care of everything else. Sorry for being a bit abrupt earlier, so many people upload copyright violations. §hepTalk 07:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
I was wondering if you could fill out descriptions for the images you've uploaded. If you don't get to them soon a bot will more-than-likely plaster you with more templates like {{add-desc-I}}. For adding images to articles you should make sure they comply with our Manual of Style subsection on images here and the 4 links at the top of that section. To avoid image overloads in articles we generally link to a category at Commons. You should really consider uploading any future files over there, that way other language projects can use you photographs as well. Due to all of the warnings here you might want to archive them to a subpage. §hepTalk 08:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Editing tips

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Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group could do with some simple cleanup. The article needs to be referenced by multiple reliable third-party. You can do this with footnotes and citation templates. These sources will help prove that the "Clutha Mata-Au River Parkway Group" is notable and falls under our extra organization notability guideline. Remeber that we can only add information that is backed up by other sources, we cannot publish our own original research. Per our overlinking policy, words should only be linked once within an article (there are some exceptions, though). If you need any help in the future please drop by my talk page. §hepTalk 08:10, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

March 2009

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  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page File:On the Clutha River at Albert Town.jpg. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. -- Tyler D Mace (talk · contr) 04:58, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

About your talk page archive

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Greetings! Archiving your talk page is a good idea: I do it myself. However, the archive should be a user page. The title you chose, Cromwellgap / Archive 1, is in article space. Accordingly, I've moved the page to User talk:Cromwellgap/Archive 1. —C.Fred (talk) 23:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

To display your archives, you can use {{archive box}}. It has a good documentation page on all of its functions and a lot of people use it. §hepTalk 00:13, 22 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks

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Hi C.Fred and thanks for your help. I'm trying not to make mistakes! I appreciate the help from yourself and also Shep. Cromwellgap (talk) 23:40, 21 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

NowCommons: File:Alberttown1500x1011.jpg

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File:Alberttown1500x1011.jpg is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Commons:File:On the Clutha River at Albert Town.jpg. This is a repository of free media that can be used on all Wikimedia wikis. The image will be deleted from Wikipedia, but this doesn't mean it can't be used anymore. You can embed an image uploaded to Commons like you would an image uploaded to Wikipedia, in this case: [[File:On the Clutha River at Albert Town.jpg]]. Note that this is an automated message to inform you about the move. This bot did not copy the image itself. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 14:06, 23 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

File permission problem with File:Clutha River from Halliday's Bluff at Albert Town.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Clutha River from Halliday's Bluff at Albert Town.jpg, which you've sourced to Lewis Verduyn. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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