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Nomination of Lad Vampire for deletion

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The unusually small size of the warhead is apparent

You got away with it :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.149.45.141 (talk) 07:42, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dörfler & Jörka (September 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

needs more reliable sources

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Theroadislong (talk) 08:52, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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the pregnancy test picture

Dear user Nabokov,

I apologize in advance -- I'm a first-time user of Wikipedia editor and I am sure I'm violating 20 netiquette rules (I don't understand any of the commands, too clunky for me), but I'm completely legit: I'm a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington (Seattle), and my name is Albert Folch (hence user name Albertff), albertfolch@gmail.com. I'm writing a book about microfluidics (entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight", to be published by MIT Press) where I would like to feature the nice picture of the pregnancy test that you posted, PositivePregnancyTest.jpg. However, MIT Press told me that the CC BY-SA 3.0 license is not suitable for commercial printing.

Would you mind issuing me a permission to use this image in my book? The image caption would be followed with a credit line where your Wikipedia user name, or your real name, whichever you prefer, could appear, for ex.: "Image courtesy of Wikipedia user Nabokov". If you agree, please state the exact wording that you'd like in the credit line.

I am not sure how to check back if you do give me permission on Wikipedia (on this page? Or do you know how to send notifications? I tried to send you one, to no avail). Ideally, MIT Press would like to see an email (albertfolch@gmail.com).

Thanks in advance,

Albert Folch. Albertff (talk) 21:20, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

June 2024

Hi Nabokov! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Kenneth Leighton that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 02:02, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]