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Copyright violation in Dominick Pezzulo

I appreciate your starting up the article on that hero of September 11, but you have committted a serious copyright violation. The Sept. 11 portion of the article is copied word for work from this article in Crimelibrary, which as you can see is a private website with the following at the bottom of the page: "©2005 Courtroom Television Network LLC. All Rights Reserved." Please be careful about this kind of thing.--Mantanmoreland 03:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I didn't start the article you're talking about, sorry! If you look at the history, it was User:Penfish. DE 03:35, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

WTF! My apologies. --Mantanmoreland 03:45, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

No problem--I guess you accidentally clicked the history for the talk page for that article, and not the article itself. I started the former, but not the latter :) DE 03:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Ha! I did. I just left a message for Mr. Penfish. I tried to cut out the plagiarized stuff but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. The emotionally charged character of the content makes it all the more annoying. If I have time tomorrow I will try to paraphrase. --Mantanmoreland 03:59, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Lancs Uni

Guess my user page was a bit out of date :P I'm a second year (graduating 2008), I did Philosophy in 1st year but I'm majoring in Computer Science. Last year I had Lloyd Strickland for my seminars though, what a legend :D. --Darksun 00:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, ok :) DE 01:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Jenna Haze

Do you have any idea what the hell this even means? -Mike Payne 16:21, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

The text you removed and reverted, that is... -Mike Payne 16:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Read the talk page, people have apparently vandalised the page with fake death dates before. She's not dead. DE 16:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool, I just didn't know that cross represented a death date, I've never seen it before. I thought it might mean the date of baptism or something, cause it was a cross, lol... -Mike Payne 16:27, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Spui

Hi DE, could you perhaps move your pic of Spui square in Amsterdam to Commons? I'm not too happy with the pics on the Dutch Wikipedia article and this pic would make a fine addition. Thanks in advance! Jvhertum 07:19, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Sure thing :) DE 13:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. I uploaded my Leidseplein image too, and will upload any more images from Amsterdam to the Commons too. DE 13:50, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I've added the pic to the Spui article on the Dutch Wikipedia. Btw, the Leidseplein pic is not actually Leidseplein but a side street, I think Korte Leidsedwarsstraat (can you say that 10 times fast?) Regards, Jvhertum 07:25, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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Replaceable fair use Image:XplodingPlastix.jpg

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Copying image to Wikimedia Commons

Could you copy the image "EuroPlug with UK adapter.jpg" to Wikimedia Commons please? I'm not familiar with licensing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BPK (talk • contribs) 20:42, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

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