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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1marshill.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 18:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conflict of interest

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  1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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If you have a financial relationship to Herbalife,[1] you should not be editing Herbalife-related material.

Thanks, --A. B. (talk) 19:14, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Operation-usa.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Operation-usa.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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[edit] Talk page signatures

If you are going to edit without logging in, you need to sign the account with the IP address using the standard method. You may add your logged in signature as a second signature. It is far to easy for someone to forge a signature. Dbiel (Talk) 20:31, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Note: the best way to add or to replace the signature is to log in and add a comment that you are the original author. Simply adding your user name while not logged in make the signature look like a forgery and there is no way to validate it. So please log in before changing an IP signature. Dbiel (Talk) 20:34, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I do not know what this is in reference to. Where did I edit without leaving my signature? Wattssw (talk) 22:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have left the referece http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mars_Hill_Bible_School&diff=prev&oldid=217429521 Note: it may be that your name was being forged. Edit was done by User:71.228.189.5 but signed manually with your user name Dbiel (Talk) 22:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Not done by me, these kids want to add youtube videos of their class playing the guitar with a teacher and this is what has occurred. Can you clear this up?Wattssw (talk) 00:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

I spent some time cleaning up the talk page, repairing the various forged signatures and restoring deleted content. Content from article talk pages should not be deleted but they can be archived to remove them from the active page. As far as dealing with edits for unregisted users, there is not a lot that can be done except to revert those that are not acceptable. Blocking users only happens if they are making multiple bad edits at the current point in time. If it is only a few edits a day, administrators are reluctant to block IP addresses. Dbiel (Talk) 01:09, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks so much, it would be great to archive that conversation so this isn't a mountain out of a molehill situation. I will leave the page alone, it is in a pretty finalized state.Wattssw (talk) 01:43, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Some of the edit are really to new to archive. If there are no more edits to the topic in the next 7 days, then I would say that it would be fine to go ahead and archive it. I will start the archive to make archiving easier by archiving the image warning. Dbiel (Talk) 02:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the assistance, I am simply trying to maintain the integrity of an article I created and have researched. Wattssw (talk) 02:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Your are welcome. Keep up the good work Dbiel (Talk) 02:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quick Question

Dbiel, I am working on the article Operation USA and use the ref cite web tag for citations. If multiple citations come from the same source, how do I indicate that without the site multiple times in the reference list? If this is not your specialty, I understand, but thought I would ask since you are helpful. Thanks, Wattssw (talk) 02:41, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

by using ref name=
I did the first one for you, since I have alway found it easier to follow an example than an explaination. See Help:Footnotes for a detailed explaination Dbiel (Talk) 03:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
Great, thanks so much for the example, which I agree is easier than trying to explain, and for clearing up the image problem. Your the man (or woman)! Wattssw (talk) 23:20, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Operation-usa.jpg

I cleaned up the licensing issues with this logo Image:Operation-usa.jpg Dbiel (Talk) 03:36, 7 June 2008 (UTC)