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Orphaned non-free image File:Seymour, Children.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Seymour, Picasso.jpg

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File:Freud, girl-white-dog.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Freud, girl-white-dog.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. Sven Manguard Wha? 06:59, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Responded here and here. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Xenia Tchoumitcheva page

Dear Cactus.man, I was trying to edit this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_Tchoumitcheva and adding "Myriam Girard Lingerie" under the list of brands Xenia works for. But unfortunately it has been deleted. I am not sure I understand why. What is the difference with the other brands mentioned there? I am a small lingerie brand and Xenia modeled for my latest lingerie campaign: http://www.myriamgirard.com/video.htm. You can also see my pictures on her website. I would greatly appreciate your help. Best regards Myriam myriamgirard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Myriamgirard (talk • contribs) 19:54, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Please Userfy NTEC, Inc.

They just deleted my page and I would like it back or emailed to me, put on my user space, whatever. I worked really hard on it. Oodleday (talk) 21:05, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but apart from being unacceptable promotional material, it's also a copyright violation. The article content has been substantially copied from this source. I'm therefore unable to fulfil your request. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:10, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Auerbach, Head of Julia.jpg

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Files listed for deletion

Some of your images or media files have been listed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2011 November 15 if you are interested in preserving them.

Thank you. Angr (talk) 19:17, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Cactus.man,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 21:14, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Cactus.man a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 00:02, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

File:ScoPortal2.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:ScoPortal2.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. Cloudbound (talk) 23:04, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Red Pocket Mobile page deleted

Hi I got a message from Wikipedia to contact an Administrator and I selected you from the list. I created the page Red Pocket Mobile because Wikipedia did not have information about this company which is listed in the category under : MVNOs in the US. CAn we repost this page? Thank you. Deanywong (talk) 06:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your message regarding the deletion of the Red Pocket Mobile article. It was deleted under the Speedy Deletion policy, specifically CSDA7 because, as written, the article does does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. I would agree with the assessment of the deleting administrator that this is the case.

You are free, of course, to challenge the validity of this deletion at Wikipedia:Deletion review, but my advice to you is that would be a fruitless exercise and a waste of your own time and that of the many other volunteers who take time to comment on these reviews.

If you can find further information that does assert the importance or significance of this company, supported by reliable sources, then this can be added to the article. Should you wish to work on the article to bring it up to standard for inclusion in Wikipedia, I would be happy to recreate it in your user space or email a copy to you for you to work on as required. Please let me know if you want me to do either of these for you.

To avoid the risk of deletion of further articles you may create in the future, please read the Wikipedia policies relevant to article creation, including:

Wikipedia:Notability

Wikipedia:Verifiability

Wikipedia:Reliable sources

I hope this helps you better understand our policies regarding suitability of articles. Let me know if you need any further information. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:41, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

request for not speedy deletion

Hello Cactus.man,

I would like to request you to prohibit to delete my page due to some error. I will rectify errors as I get chance ones.

Thank You. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masscorp India (talk • contribs) 19:05, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

User indef blocked 19:39, 9 April 2012 (UTC) --Cactus.man ✍

Cirex

Regards. Hope you can help. I submitted an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Cirex two months ago, is very simple, I think it qualify but is not me to decide. Help?Carlalune (talk) 04:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Regarding your query about the above, the article was missing the necessary template to place it in the correct category for review. I see that a template was added by an IP user (not sure if that was you) but it still wasn't quite correct, so I've now fixed it for you. I also see from your talk page above that this was declined for acceptance on 24 March, but there have been a significant number of edits since then including addition of some new references, so adding it back to the list seems reasonable in the circumstances. Approval of articles for creation is not an area in which I work, plus I'm not very active on WP right now so don't have the time to check the references and assess it properly myself, but on a cursory glance it doesn't appear to have addressed the concerns of the previous reviewer, so don't be surprised if it is declined again. Take time to read the comments of the reviewer and carefully read the links they provide to Wikipedia policies which will explain in detail why your submission may have been declined. I hope that helps. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

not vandalism

i added all accurate things to bangin on' wax. the members and history. that was not vandalism at all just me trying to make the article more informative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.80.171.138 (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Robert Stirling Newall.jpg

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Updated the image, as the original seems to be somewhat inaccurate. Also updated the image summary and added source accordingly. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:48, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

HighBeam

Hi Ocaasi

I got your details from the Highbeam Round 5 Applications Support page, so I'm hoping you can help. I posted a question to the Applications talkpage, but it's probably not on too many watchlists so I've copied it below:

The watchlist notification states that there are: "250 HighBeam Research 1-year accounts available."

The application page states: "Because they do not have a strict limit on the number of free accounts they are willing to give us (they've initially authorized 1000), there is unlikely to be a problem of too many editors trying to get too few accounts."

Can anybody confirm definitively whether 250 or 1000 accounts are on offer in this round of applications? I've not been too active over the past few years but aim to get back to some content creation again. However, I wouldn't want to deny an account to somebody more active if there are only 250 accounts available.

Any clarification you could give would be much appreciated. Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:15, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Cactus.man! Thanks for your considerateness about applying. There are indeed 1000 HighBeam accounts available (I have the access code in hand); however, 750 of them have already been given out, leaving the stated 250 number. I have not spoken with HighBeam yet about moving beyond the 1000 number. The same company that owns HighBeam owns Questia and they have just expressed that we can give out 1000 accounts there as well. I will check in with HighBeam about the 1000 cap, but you might meanwhile consider whether WP:Questia would be a good fit for you. It's more focused on Humanities and Social Sciences, whereas HighBeam is really best in my opinion for news archives. Do what you think is best, and if you think that you can put HighBeam to good use, then I say go for it. Maybe it will spark your activity level. On the other hand, if the general direction we've been moving in continues, this won't be your last opportunity to sign up for a free research database. I hope that helps. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 14:13, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response Ocaasi, all makes perfect sense now. Cheers --Cactus.man ✍ 18:23, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Portal footer templates

Hi, I've commented on your multiple portal template renaming proposal here. In principle I support the proposed renaming, but I'm concerned at the potential damage that may ensue. How do you propose to deal with the collateral damage that would be caused by breaking the many thousands of template transclusions to the various portals affected by the renaming proposal. I would be delighted to hear that you have a working and approved bot in place to deal with this work. Please let me know that this is a fully worked idea that will not break all the affected portals. Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 20:09, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

A bot such as SporkBot usually performs mass updates resulting from a TfD closure - see Special:Contributions/SporkBot. DH85868993 (talk) 01:12, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I've changed my provisional Oppose to Support --Cactus.man ✍ 06:30, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Colquhoun, Woman with a young Goat.jpg)

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File no longer orphaned. The infobox was unexpectedly broken by an edit made by BG19bot --Cactus.man ✍ 05:59, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, this edit by BG19bot to the Robert Colquhoun page caused the infobox to become broken. Could you please check your bot for errors that may have caused this. Thanks. --Cactus.man ✍ 05:57, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

I sent in a bug report on this four months ago link and they said it wasn't AWB. Will re-report it again. Thank you for your message. Bgwhite (talk) 06:06, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. There seem to be a few infoboxes being affected. I did a very quick review of some articles around the Robert Colquhoun series of edits the bot made and discovered some more fairly quickly. Some of the changes are quite subtle and hard to detect, but introduce clear errors nevertheless (Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland for example). It looks like this may be serious enough to consider shutting the bot until the problem can be solved, or not allowing it to edit infobox data. Some sample infobox problems below:

Robert Tollast — Before After BG19bot

Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland — Before After BG19bot

River Alexander — Before After BG19bot

I see you've been working on fixing some already. Good luck, I hope it's not too big a task. Regards.--Cactus.man ✍ 07:07, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Bot usually runs in talk space. This past time, it was fixing a problem in article space and it has finished. This hasn't happened before when running in article space, but I won't run it there again until the problem has been solved. Thank you for your help. Bgwhite (talk) 07:17, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Your free 1-year Questia online library account is approved ready

Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!

Go to https://www.questia.com/specialoffer
Input your unique Offer ID and Promotional code. Click Continue. (Note that the activation codes are one-time use only and are case-sensitive).
Create your account by entering the requested information. (This is private and no one from Wikipedia will see it).
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Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot (talk) 05:02, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Saville, Closed Contact 10.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:20, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Blake, The First Real Target.jpg)

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Image reinstated. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:23, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Rodger, Nuba, Southern Sudan.jpg)

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Image reinstated. --Cactus.man ✍ 16:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Rodger, Nuba, Southern Sudan.jpg)

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Image reinstated, no longer orphaned. (Repeat content remover blocked) --Cactus.man ✍ 21:47, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Hello

I'm removing that picture from George Rodger's page because: 1. It looks too silly and inappropriate for wikipedia. 2. People might mistake it for a picture of the photographer, rather than a picture that he took, because there is no portrait of him, and that picture is at the top of the page. That would be highly embarrassing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElliotR1 (talk • contribs)

Scotland portal

Hi, I'm sorry if I acted inappropriately by changing the article on the Scotland portal. I don't know anything about the discussion you have mentioned but I did try to check to the best of my, admittedly very limited ability - and it appeared nothing had been amended for a considerable length of time by anyone.

I apologise without reservation. I am still trying to tread the learning curve of Wikipedia. SagaciousPhil - Chat 19:23, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

No problem. The previous history of all entries is available via the "archive" link for each of the Article, Picture and Quote categories, going back to 2007. I try to generate entries that do not repeat previous ones, wherever possible, Skye was week 31 in 2009. The "archive" for each category also shows pending items that have not yet achieved current date status. I don't want to claim ownership of the portal, but it would be good if you could add any other items to the end of the archive queue rather than replacing existing ones, or discuss with the author who added the existing one first. That way any effort in researching and adding existing items is not wasted.

Good luck with your Wikipedia "career". If I can help you with anything just drop me a note.

All the best. --Cactus.man ✍ 19:45, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

file: Colquhoun,_Scylla mirror image?

sorry not used to edit/ contributing to wikipedia, but noticed that this file: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Colquhoun,_Scylla.jpg&action=history looks like the mirror image of the original http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T02/T02140_9.jpg and don't know what to do about it.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.241.235.86 (talk) 19:58, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

It looks like you are correct, the current Tate source does show it as a mirror image. This is not the first time I've come across an internationally renowned gallery displaying their online collections incorrectly. Consider this image by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. This was originally on the Tate website in the wrong oriention (90 deg counterclockwise), as advised to me by the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust who managed to convince the Tate to correct their online representation. I then subsequently corrected the image here at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Barns-Graham,_Linear_Abstract.jpg&diff=398291523&oldid=255042738).

Thank you for alerting me to this problem. As it seems pretty clear to me that the current WP image is wrong, I'll upload a new image to correct the problem in the next couple of days or so. --Cactus.man ✍ 22:14, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

Greetings Wikipedia Library members! Welcome to the inaugural edition of Books and Bytes, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of Books and Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. There's lots of news this month for the Wikipedia Library, including new accounts, upcoming events, and new ways to get involved...

New positions: Sign up to be a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, or a Volunteer Wikipedia Librarian

Wikipedia Loves Libraries: Off to a roaring start this fall in the United States: 29 events are planned or have been hosted.

New subscription donations: Cochrane round 2; HighBeam round 8; Questia round 4... Can we partner with NY Times and Lexis-Nexis??

New ideas: OCLC innovations in the works; VisualEditor Reference Dialog Workshop; a photo contest idea emerges

News from the library world: Wikipedian joins the National Archives full time; the Getty Museum releases 4,500 images; CERN goes CC-BY

Announcing WikiProject Open: WikiProject Open kicked off in October, with several brainstorming and co-working sessions

New ways to get involved: Visiting scholar requirements; subject guides; room for library expansion and exploration

Read the full newsletter

Thanks for reading! All future newsletters will be opt-in only. Have an item for the next issue? Leave a note for the editor on the Suggestions page. --The Interior 20:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Hockney, A Bigger Grand Canyon.jpg

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The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 15:16, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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Updating a wiki page photo

Hi There, I wondered if you would be able to use your wiki admin to update the photo on Scottish singer Emily Smith's page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Smith_%28singer%29 Currently it displays a live (and not too flattering) shot of Emily taken a while back. I was hoping to update it with one of her official photo's from her website: http://www.emilysmith.org/img/promo/promo3.jpg

I'm her husband and producer so hopefully that's ok :)

Many thanks, Jamie McClennan (talk) 08:20, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for your message regarding changing the photograph on the Emily Smith article. All content used on Wikipedia must not be subject to copyright restrictions and must be released under an acceptable free license. Please see Wikipedia:Image use policy and the list of acceptable free image licenses. Looking at Emily's official website, on the resources page, from which your preferred image is accessed, there is a request to "please credit Archie MacFarlane" in respect of the images. I'm assuming that he is the photographer and probably retains copyright on the images. In this case he would have to explicitly confirm his agreement to release the images for use on Wikipedia under one of the acceptable free image licenses. Or it may be that the terms of the photographer's commission transferred copyright to Emily or some other 3rd party (eg manager, record label, publisher etc) upon completion of the work, in which case the relevant copy right holder would have to do the same.

Ultimately, any such permission will have to be recorded in the Wikipedia OTRS System. Please also see here for the procedure specifically relating to media such as image files. Sorry to make this seem complicated, but if the copyright holder permissions are not crystal clear, any such image upload is likely to be challenged and deleted very quickly. If you wish to proceed, I would be happy to help with an exchange of suitable emails with the copyright holder and submit the necessary information to the OTRS system on your behalf. You can leave a message on my talk page or I can be contacted via email by clicking the "Email this user" link in the sidebar to the left on my talk page. I hope this helps. --Cactus.man ✍ 12:49, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Rodger, Nuba, Southern Sudan.jpg listed for deletion

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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

City of Adelaide (1864)

As you are a previous editor of City of Adelaide (1864), you may be interested in the Style Proposal on Talk:City of Adelaide (1864)
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File:Wallis, Hold House Port Mear Square Island.jpg

Hi Cactus.man, do you remember the source of this file/photo? The painting should be in the public domain now, as the painter died in 1942. --Túrelio (talk) 09:47, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Túrelio, re: your enquiry, I can't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure it was from the Tate Gallery website:

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wallis-the-hold-house-port-mear-square-island-port-mear-beach-t01087.

Hope that helps. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. --Túrelio (talk) 06:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Bidlo-Not Pollock.jpg

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Thanks for your message, but you are mistaken to assert that the image is a copyright violation eligible for speedy deletion under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion. The image in question has been in place in the article, with a proper and valid fair use licence, since July 2007.

Your recent edits have removed the image from the article which means it is now a candidate for speedy deletion under section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. I know not all agree with the fair use doctrine, but I was active during 2006-2008 when the issue was discussed at length on WP and we settled on such use under strict criteria. I believe that the image is a good candidate for use in the article to enhance the subject matter and assist the reader's understanding of Bidlo as an "appropriationist" artist. Therefore, I am considering adding it, or others, back under a fair use licence before the image gets speedied.

Please take a little more time to consider all the factors involved and do not mistakenly place boilerplate template messages on my talk page which give the impression that I'm engaged in copyright violations. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:31, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

All of the fair use criteria must be met. They are not. That the copyright image has been inappropriately used for a number of years does not mean that we can keep improperly using it. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 19:19, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

You are mistaken. All the fair use criteria HAVE been met, even for all these years. It's unequivocally a fair use image, a 2D photographic copy of a work of visual art that US law recognises as valid "fair use", not copyright infringement, and Wikipedia has endorsed in policy since around 2008, subject to provision of a valid and policy compliant rationale for such use in aricles. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:54, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Friends (magazine)

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Hi there, thanks for the notification. I have to agree with your assessment of the article as it is now, that it makes no sense or is lacking in notability. I will therefore not be contesting the PROD. It bears no relation to the article that I started many moons ago, when I was working on a number of artist and photographer articles such as Pennie Smith which threw up oblique references to topics like this. I thought it was worthy at the time, but I can't locate my sources and they seem to be very thin on the ground now. Maybe a NN deletion is in order. Best wishes --Cactus.man ✍ 21:00, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Mike Bidlo for deletion

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Orphaned non-free image File:Bidlo-Not Pollock.jpg

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Files for discussion

See Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 January 29#Frank Auerbach. --Stefan2 (talk) 01:29, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Recover deleted copy of Vidan Lawnes article

Hello,

I have been told to contact an administrator to get my copy/page content back to make changes and update.

This was the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidan_Lawnes

Please can you send me the copy?

Thank you

Dsd1988 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsd1988 (talk • contribs) 19:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I have provided the content of the above deleted article for you in a user subpage at: User:Dsd1988/Vidan_Lawnes.

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Michael Masser

Hello, I am looking for help in locking my departed father's page: Michael Masser. I am almost certain that an obsessive ex who has been cyber-stalking me is the one who keeps signing in from different IP addresses in Portland, Oregon, and a couple user names that have only ever edited the page in question. He is incessantly posting a link to my recent wedding on a page devoted to my father's musical legacy which is spam as it is totally irrelevant and also he keeps changing my name. Please help me stop him. My father is deceased and therefore there need be no more edits to his page. My family is in agreement and requests assistance in locking his page. Thank you so much. This person has a history of stalking me and this is apparently his preferred method now and it has to stop. Thanks again for your help. Ananymity (talk) 09:00, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your message regarding the malicious editing to the Michael Masser article. I've had a look and can see that it has been placed under a month-long Pending Changes protection this morning by User:Lectonar. This effectively means that new and unregistered users will require their edits to be reviewed and approved by experienced users before being accepted and incorporated into the article that will be publicly visible. The process is explained here. See also Wikipedia:Pending changes. I think this will help resolve the problems you described.

Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 14:15, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Cactus Man - González.jpg

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Can no longer identify the original source (it was uploaded over 10 years ago!). --Cactus.man ✍ 18:40, 23 April 2016 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Visage01 González.jpg

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Source added. Copyright does not apply in the US to a faithful photographic reproduction of a public domain 2d Artwork - see: Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp, also:ibiblio.org --Cactus.man ✍ 18:40, 23 April 2016 (UTC)