User talk:Waltmorton

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==Welcome== Hello Waltmorton and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you've chosen to join us. This is a great project with lots of dedicated people, which might seem intimidating at times, but don't let anything discourage you. Be bold!, explore, and contribute. Try to be civil by following simple rules and signing your talk comments with ~~~~ but never forget that one of our central tenets is to ignore all rules.

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[edit] Gion article

Hey Waltmorton, I removed your contribution to the Gion article as they recounted a personal experience and were not really befitting of an encyclopaedia article as they were written in the first person. Since you've been there, you have a wealth of experience the rest of us don't have. Would you mind re-writing it in a third-person narrative? I guess an example would be instead of using "In a recent tourist visit to the Gion, 4/18/2006, as I walked the twilight streets I saw a few older geisha", one might consider something along the lines of "even today it is not uncommon for a tourist visiting Gion to encounter geisha..." Hope this helps... and thanks for the contribution!

Ntk53s 10:47, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Van marcke.jpg

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[edit] Copyright status of Vera Jordanova

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[edit] June 2007

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from articles you have created yourself, as you did with Vera Jordanova. Please use the {{hangon}} template on the page instead if you disagree with the deletion. Thank you. WODUP 19:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


[edit] AfD nomination of Superoptimism

An article that you have been involved in editing, Superoptimism, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superoptimism. Thank you. Anarchia 11:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Ice movie 1still.jpg)

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