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November 2008

Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Misplaced Pages is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Miley Cyrus appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. NrDg 23:08, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits, such as those you made to Miley Cyrus, are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop. Consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. -MBK₀₀₄ 00:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, as you did to Hafnium, you will be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. NrDg 03:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Seriously, this user's edits on chemical elements seem ok - at least those on einsteinium and hafnium. Nergaal (talk) 03:21, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Misplaced Pages, as you did at Californium, you will be blocked from editing. A new name 2008 (talk) 13:03, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thank you for reverting your recent experiment with the page Praseodymium. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. In the future, please do not experiment on article pages; instead, use the sandbox. Thank you. A new name 2008 (talk) 13:07, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits, such as those you made to Antimony. If you vandalize Misplaced Pages again, you will be blocked from editing. A new name 2008 (talk) 13:17, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Hydrogen2.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Hydrogen2.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Misplaced Pages under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Misplaced Pages. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Misplaced Pages (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Misplaced Pages page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 05:23, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Geographical places

Hi just a heads up as I can see you are new to the process. Don't waste your time placing verifiable geographical articles (particularly when they have articles on at least 5 other wikipedias) at AFD because 99.9% of the time it results in a WP:SNOWBALL keep. I'll be the first to admit that there a thousands of geography stubs on here needing development but we are a working progress. Its best to help adding infoboxes and adding infoboxes yourself as it is inevitable that real world places, however limited the article will be kept. Hope you enjoy editing. Count Blofeld 21:18, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I closed the AfD nom. It was incomplete, and Geographical articles are inherantly notable. Please take the issue of length to the talk page first, and if it is determined this is a permastub, nominate. If you need any more help ask me. ~the editorofthewiki ~ 21:51, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Misplaced Pages pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 21:36, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Block

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Misplaced Pages as a result of your disruptive edits. You are free to make constructive edits after the block has expired, but please note that vandalism (including page blanking or addition of random text), spam, deliberate misinformation, privacy violations, personal attacks; and repeated, blatant violations of our policies concerning neutral point of view and biographies of living persons will not be tolerated. Vsmith (talk) 13:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Video Game Controller.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Video Game Controller.png. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Misplaced Pages's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

• Misplaced Pages:Image use policy
• Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Misplaced Pages:Media copyright questions. 08:21, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Windows XP Desktop.png

Thank you for uploading Image:Windows XP Desktop.png. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this image under "fair use" may not meet the criteria required by Misplaced Pages:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the image description page and add or clarify the reason why the image qualifies for fair use. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check:

• That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's escription page for each article the image is used in.
• That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

Please be aware that a fair use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for images used under the fair use policy require both a copyright tag and a fair use rationale.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it might be deleted by adminstrator within a few days in accordance with our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 12:03, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Templates

Hi, no worries it's kinda easy ;). The Edit Notice (which appears when you edit the page) works by creating User talk:Lucasbfr/Editnotice and User:Lucasbfr/Editnotice. That should then work automatically :). My templates are simply transcluded at the top of the page. There's a trick though: since I wanted something pretty, their code is hidden in the "please add your comments at the bottom of the page" box at the top (which in fact points to User talk:Lucasbfr/.-!**!-.\). Too bad I couldn't find a way to do the same to the Miszabot code :(. I hope this helps! -- lucasbfr 17:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Windows XP

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Windows XP. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. AussieLegend (talk) 13:09, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Please note, as the editor wishing to change the article it is up to you to convince others as to the value of your changes, now that they've been opposed by more than one editor. The changes that you've made are opposed for the reasons that I've outlined at Talk:Windows XP#Recent edits by User:Encyclopedia77. Most notably, the image that you've uploaded has an incomplete and invalid fair use rationale. Because of this it is a copyright violation to use it in an article. The image was tagged almost immediately after it was uploaded and you were informed at the same time. You need to address this before the image can be used. Of slightly less importance is that you have not explained why there is an npov issue with the article. The tag is useless without an explanation. Thirdly, you need to convince other editors as to why your image is a better image to use. Lastly, you need to convince editors as to why your claim about XP being hailed, which is not supported by citations and therefore subject to deletion under Misplaced Pages's verifiability policy, is relevant to a section dealing with criticism. Simply reverting the explained edits of others isn't going to force your edits into the article. That's vandalism and will just get you blocked (again). You need to discuss this issue. I'm going to fix the article now to address the invalid npov tag and the copyright issue. Please don't revert. DISCUSS. --AussieLegend (talk) 15:20, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:Misplaced Pages, the 💕 (Etch-A-Sketch).JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Misplaced Pages, the 💕 (Etch-A-Sketch).JPG, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. AussieLegend (talk) 18:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Talk:Windows XP. When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the text has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. - Josh (talk | contribs) 22:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)