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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Egg-man+q-mark.jpg}

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Your change to the non-free rationale probably won't fly. Non-free images (which includes fair use images) are not permitted on User pages at all, even if you are the one who created the image. Also, images that are only used on a user page are likely to be deleted as well. See Wikipedia:User_page#Images_on_user_pages and Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria. If you created the image and want to use it, you'll have to release it into the public domain (giving up any rights to the image) or release it under a free license from this page. If you do not want to release the image with a free license, I suggest leaving it off Wikipedia entirely.Dcmacnut (talk) 02:43, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

The change absolutely won't fly; All user images uploaded to Wikipedia must be licensed so that they may be reused by anyone for anything. Restricting use to Wikipedia only makes an image absolutely unacceptable to Wikipedia. —teb728 t c 03:51, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

As to this image, I'm going to lift the copyright claim. TEB728 responded also in Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. I continue there with some more questions. Thanks. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 07:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

MD-11's handling notoriety

I don't know why anybody had a problem finding cites to ("verifying") the proposition that experts consider the MD-11 difficult to land; it's all over the Internet, e.g., the AP report in question. It's pretty well known in the large-aircraft community.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:15, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Flag of Japan/archive2

I am glad to have a Japanese look at this article. Just for a point of reference, when an article is "stable", it means that there are no present edit wars and the content does not shift dramatically from one day to the next. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

However, I had people who opposed for not having information about the WW2 usage of the flag and demanded more, so I am not sure how that can be balanced. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hmm.... We have to mention the WW2 usage, and we also should avoid going too far into the WW2 history. I will make a reply on the FAC page. Thanks. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 14:29, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Can you take a look at http://www.pref.nara.jp/somu-so/jourei/reiki_honbun/k4010086001.html ? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 20:16, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

I also spoke to RangerSmith, who wanted a lot of the WW2 information. I am just wondering if I addressed everything you talked about or is there more that needs to be done? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 23:54, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The article is being copyedited, but I wonder if there is anything else that needs to be done. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 02:41, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Latest revert

Google Books does work for me and works for others (I just ran a link check) but they might not be available for those outside the USA. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 09:03, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Maybe accesses from a particular country are screened out due to a copyright problem. Anyway, to avoid full protection of this article and prevent a cooperative editor like you from being blocked, we'd better refrain from reverting unless the affected part lacks reliable sources or includes errors.

This article seems to have many to be improved or modified. I'm getting busy, but I hope this article will be bettered while I'm not engaged in editing it.

Thanks. --Dumpty-Humpty (talk) 11:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

• • We are not in an edit war, so we are fine. There is also no danger for the article to be locked. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 17:05, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

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