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Please get rid of your seagull on the class ring page. We are having enough trouble as it is.

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.152.240.70 ( talk) 16:04, 14 June 2008 (UTC) reply

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The images contain stitching that is characteristic of Google Street View. If I am wrong, I am sorry. Would you please give the latitude/longitude of where some of those photos were taken? They still show characteristic signs of being taken from street view to me. —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 13:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

I meant the latitude/longitude, not the links to the images. I do not tag all images that are photographs, especially since I take such photographs myself. The issue is that all of those images show characteristics similar to Google Street View photographs, but it is entirely possible I am wrong (and I am doubting it now, but it seemed obvious at the time). —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Please desist with your personal attacks. I'm willing to discuss this, but not whilst you make such attacks. —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:16, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

After some research, it would appear that I was completely and utterly wrong, and I am nothing if not apologetic for my mistake. Please accept my sincere apologies, and my assurances that my actions are not representative of Wikipedia - I made a mistake which is unlikely to be repeated. Thanks. —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Almost all of them will not be deleted now, a few of them still have issues which weren't flagged by me. Did you meant to tag all of the images you uploaded under the same license? If the answer is yes, I can fix the problem. Again, sorry for the mix up. —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:31, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

You licensed most under {{ cc-by-sa-3.0}}. Is that alright to add to the ones missing it? —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:35, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

It's no problem, and I'll get right on it. Thanks for staying calm, especially since I was being such an utter imbecile. :) —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Okay, that's all of them sorted. Thanks again for not being too angry, and hopefully there are no hard feelings. —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:40, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Okay, I'll keep a look out, and if there are any issues I'll drop you a message. :) —  neuro ^{(talk) (review)} 14:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC) reply

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In particular, an actual identification of the fossil may protect the image from future deletion proposals, as there are many high quality fossil images already available on Wikipedia which are clearly identified. Best wishes, -- Haruth ( talk) 11:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC) reply

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Hello, thanks for uploading File:ChrisLitherlandHeights.jpg. If this is your own photograph, and you want it to be used here, can you please license it under a free license? If it remains tagged as non-free, it will have to be deleted. Since it's your own, there shouldn't be any problem about putting your own license on it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:14, 19 August 2012 (UTC) reply

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A tag has been placed on File:ButlerCountyChrisLitherland.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I've deleted the image because I didn't see solid evidence that you're the same person as the Flickr uploader with this username. If you've published evidence that you're the same person as the Flickr user, please point me there, and I can easily undelete it. If you've not published evidence in the past but you'd now like to do so, it's easy — on your Flickr user profile, say "I am the same person as Photolitherland on Wikipedia", or expand your Flickr profile with a link to this talk page and call it something like "My page on Wikipedia", or do anything else on Flickr that clearly connects the two accounts. Feel free to leave any questions at my talk page if you're like help; I'll do my best. Nyttend ( talk) 04:26, 2 August 2013 (UTC) reply

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