User talk:Staus

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As a courtesy for other editors, it is a Wikipedia guideline to sign your talk page and user talk page posts. To do so simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments and your user name or IP address and the date will be automatically added. For further info see: Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks. Paul Cyr 13:59, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

If you're refering to my comment on the firedog discussion page, I did sign my comment. It might be confusing as there was a line break between my two points of discussion, however, I did sign my work. Thank you. Staus 14:35, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I was refering to your edit on Talk:Best Buy. Paul Cyr 20:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah. Well thanks then, my mistake. Staus 21:22, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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Unspecified source for Image:CCLogo.jpg

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Circuit City logo

IMO, the other version of the circuit city logo probably shouldn't be deleted (as long as the uploader gives source and creation information), just not used since it's of lower quality than yours. Although, yours isn't ideal either: really, it should include only the logo, not the slogan too, and as Jesse Viviano has said, you need to give source information (I imagine it came from Circuit City's website somewhere, so just say that on the image page) or your image will end up being deleted. Anyway, whichever one ends up not being used (once it's settled), the other one should be marked with {{subst:orfud}} because those images are all fair-use and we shouldn't keep images around that are fair-use only if they're not being used in articles: there's a speedy deletion criterion, {{db-i7}}, which can be used after a week. Mangojuice^talk 12:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:U3logo.jpg)

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Ccfiredog.jpg)

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Fair use rationale for Image:Howellcentral.gif

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Replaceable fair use Image:Stlmills.jpg

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