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Because of their length, the previous discussions on this page have been archived. If further archiving is needed, see Misplaced Pages:How to archive a talk page.

Previous discussions:

• Archive 1 (September 2 2005 to November 7 2005)
• Archive 2 (November 7 2005 to January 8 2006)
• Archive 3 (January 10 2006 to March 10 2006)
• Archive 4 (March 11 2006 to May 1 2006)
• Archive 5 (May 2 2006 to June 23 2006)
• Archive 6 (June 23 2006 to August 5 2006)
• Archive 7 (August 5 2006 to October 31 2006)
• Archive 8 (October 31 2006 to January 30 2007)
• Archive 9 (January 31 2007 to March 21 2007)
• Archive 10 (March 13 2007 to December 1 2007)

AfD nomination of John Diefenbaker

An editor has nominated John Diefenbaker, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Misplaced Pages is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Diefenbaker and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 04:14, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Rum Sodomy and the Lash Pogues album cover.jpg)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:The Waterboys Album cover.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 02:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:U2 Zooropa.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 02:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:This Is the Sea film poster.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 02:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Best Of The Waterboys 81 90 Album Cover.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 04:38, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Karma To Burn Waterboys Album Cover.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 22:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Can you help me?

Catholic user Cuchullain continues to censure the article Religion in the United States. --Esimal (talk) 19:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

He censures also advices in his talk. --Esimal (talk) 19:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

help

cna you help me with something? how do you make icons? Can you teach me how to make a simple icon?--S.p.p.g.c.f.block (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean a thumbnail? WP:Thumbnail. Stwalkerster 19:08, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Tabla Taskforce

Hi jkelly. I've proposed a Wiki Tabla taskforce to help clean up the tabla related pages and construct those that are missing. Your participation would be much appreciated. You can see the proposal at this link. Simon Ives 00:38, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Indef block on User:Condolence

Hi, I noticed that a newbie user, User:Condolence, has been blocked indefinitely, the reason given being that he's not here to create an encyclopedia. I'm just trying to find out a little more about whether such a block is reasonable, since it doesn't fit any of the criteria in the blocking policy.

Condolence has never edited an article, but he has made suggestions on talk pages. He's obviously not used to scholarly work or research, or the inner workings of WP, but he wasn't being disruptive, and I've seen nothing to suggest he was acting in bad faith. I think what happened is he applied to become an admin, and some of the other admins assumed he was mocking the system. I asked the blocking admin at User talk:Ryulong#Indef block on User:Condolence to clarify how this block fits with WP policy, and didn't get a very enlightening response. I'm particularly surprised at the block being indefinite, since this is supposedly reserved for extreme cases of vandalism and disruption.

Condolence has since returned as User:Condalence, and is currently struggling to create the article Gray magic; he was previously told that the only way to redeem himself was to create an article with references, a somewhat arbitrary requirement, I think. I believe he's just a newbie user who has been too timid to start editing pages yet, but is excited by Misplaced Pages and wants to learn how to contribute. So what if he's made lots of edits to his user page? It's giving him practice at editing, and it's hardly a load on the servers, is it?

Just looking for another opinion, since Ryulong has failed to satisfactorily answer my questions. Thank-you kindly, Fuzzypeg★ 05:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)