Flash-Gordon

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2 things

Hi Flash-Gordon,

A couple of minor points I noticed. One point, your user page is your own, but it's considered bad form and suspicious to blank your talk page. Second point, I noticed on a recent picture upload you said that you took the photo and gave permission for it to be used on Wikipedia, and also said 'no rights reserved'.

"Permission" images aren't allowed here because we have downstream users who might sell your content. (They still have to abide by the GFDL terms, but the fact remains that your work can be used by anybody in the future, not just the Wikipedia web site.) I would recommend you license it under the GFDL (and say so on the image talk page), or possibly use the pd-self tag to release it into the public domain if you really want 'no rights reserved'.

Thanks - Tempshill 23:46, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi - all you have to do is go to the image page, click "edit this page" at the top, and change the license to whatever you'd like. See Wikipedia:Copyright tags for an exhaustive list. One more thing - when leaving a person a message, you should sign it with four tilde marks (~~~~), which automatically puts your name and date inline with the text, so people know who's writing them. Thanks! Tempshill 23:54, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

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Alien vs. Predator (film)

Hello again! First of all, good to see you have registered. Second, one last comment on edit summaries. You were frustrated that we didn't even take the time to thoroughly analyse your edits. Well that's what the edit summary is for: explaining what you did in the edit (and not trying to convince everyone that you're doing the good thing, like you did in the beginning). Believe me, us, recent changes patrollers, have such suspicious edits flowing in every few seconds - we have no time to ponder on the edits' contents. All those explanations that you wrote on my talk page should have either gone in the edit summaries or the article's talk page (and then you should have referred people to there from the summary). I hope that you'll now understand our perception of the situation. Happy editing! --Misza13 ^{T C} 10:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Batman Returns

I've reverted the bot for the last couple of edits, it shouldn't revert me as an admin, so hopefully your version will stick. Thanks for the work. --pgk^(talk) 21:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think it was the page size matcher thingie filter that got triggered, I see its fixed now, sorry about that and thanks for the note -- Tawker 22:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Fails WP:GNG. Appears to be a family memorial, has been tagged for many years. Just a guy who ran a non-notable local business.

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