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Orphaned non-free media (File:LAEXPRESSLOGO.gif)

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File:OnyxTavernLavenderGym.png listed for deletion

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Nomination of HintonBurdick Grand Canyon Trophy for deletion

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Orphaned non-free image File:Hawaiioldlogo.gif

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Onyx Tavern

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Repost of Louisville–West Virginia rivalry

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FYI, a previous version of this article was deleted as a non-notable college football "rivalry" under the general notability guidelines pursuant to an Articles for Deletion discussion @ Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louisville–West Virginia rivalry. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 05:10, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

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Scope of WikiProject College football

Rick lay95, the the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject College football is clearly stated to be limited to "college football in the United States...". If you would like to discuss, please do so at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 15:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Elecom Kobe Finies

What do you mean by blanking?Xx236 (talk) 06:45, 15 October 2015 (UTC) I removed the redirect because it didn't provide any information on the team, I was going to try and add information to the page, but had more difficulty in trying to find proper translations.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Cal State Northridge logo.png

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Northern Arizona–Southern Utah football rivalry non-free images

Hi, Rick lay95. You need to have valid non-free-use rationales on the image description pages of non-free images for each use. This is not a matter of preference, it's an absolute requirement by the image use policy (WP:NFCC#10). See Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline. I have removed the images again. Do not restore them until valid non-free-use rationales are written on the image description pages. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 10:39, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Rickey Layman. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 00:51, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Rickey Layman

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A tag has been placed on Rickey Layman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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On the talk page you compared this article to two others. The usual answer to that is WP:Other stuff exists, but in both those cases there are many independent references, helping to meet Wikipedia's inclusion criterion known as Wikipedia:Notability, which looks for references showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject", see also Wikipedia:Notability (summary) and WP:ENTERTAINER.

In any case, people are strongly discouraged from writing about themselves, for reasons explained at WP:Autobiography.

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Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:14, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

User page

With this edit you added {{db-person}} to your user page. This caused the page to move into CAT:CSD. When I saw it there, I realised what you meant and did this careful edit. You simply reverted my edit which put the page back into CAT:CSD so I decided to take the db tag, which you had applied, at face value and deleted the page.

I have now restored but will you please observe the following rules in future: you user page should be kept for notes about you as a Wikipedian and written in the first person; since your bio has been deemed unsuitable for mainspace, it cannot be allowed in user space either; article drafts should be put in user sub pages, ie. user:Rick lay95/sandbox, etc. but they must not put the page into mainspace categories such as category:NFL player with currentposition parameter - hence my disabling of the templates. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 13:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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I noticed you had given some articles a Good Article class on their talk pages. This is not the proper way to do this. Articles always need to be nominated and undergo a Good Article review by someone other than the nominator. See Wikipedia:Good articles. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 22:44, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Tokyo Bowl

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Japan Bowl MVPs

Template:Japan Bowl MVPs has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:19, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Category:Defunct college football programs

Rick, I've nominated Category:Defunct college football programs. It's essentially a duplciate of Category:Defunct college football teams. Jweiss11 (talk) 07:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Onyx Tavern (April 7)

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JET Programme

I'm really confused about why you refuse to learn Japanese. How do you inspire Japan's youth to learn your native language if you refuse to learn theirs? = Mdriver1981 (talk) 07:34, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

• I don't "refuse" to learn Japanese, it is just difficult for me. I'm still learning and I know some, but I never said I'm not going to learn it.
  • I was not trying to insult, I'm just curious how you teach English to someone by only speaking English. The people who are teaching you Japanese, do they teach it to you by only speaking Japanese? - Mdriver1981 (talk) 04:04, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
    • The way the program works is that every class has two teachers. You have the ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) who may or may not speak Japanese. Then you have the head teacher, who is Japanese, and speaks English. Typically they want the head teacher to be fluent in English, but depending on the location and school, you don't always get that. I work at an Elementary school where on of the English teachers can barley speak English. So in a typical day, the head teacher will communicate to the students in Japanese their instructions and lesson, while my job is to pronounce words and correct the students. The teachers are required to speak English 75% of the time while in class, but that just doesn't happen. Additionally, any Japanese language lessons you do are on your own and not provided by your employer. The contracting company, the 3rd party between JET and the schools, does offer free online course work, but it is optional. Point is, that you don't need to speak Japanese to do this job. You get some help, but that's about it.

Black Hills Brawl

Hey, just wanted to check in with you on something concerning your edits to Black Hills Brawl. What source are you getting your edits from? It doesn't meld with official sources like this from SDSM&T, such as score differences and two new, completely unaccounted-for games. GreenRunner0 02:27, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Whoops, my bad; I just saw your ref you put in. Still, something's not quite right with these scores. I'll do some more digging.

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