User talk:Billybowden211

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Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by LukeSurl ^{t c} 18:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template).

Welcome Billybowden211!

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Hello, Billybowden211. Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions! I'm W.carter, one of the other editors here, and I hope you decide to stay and help contribute to this amazing repository of knowledge.

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Sincerely, w.carter-Talk 09:17, 20 January 2015 (UTC)   (Leave me a message)

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January 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to History of the Romani people, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions.
Do not change sourced content with the intention of misrepresenting the sources in order to promote your own WP:POV. This is known as tendentious editing. Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:45, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at History of the Romani people. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed.

• If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor then please discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
• If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, please seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:07, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on User talk:Iryna Harpy were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved by another user. In the future you can use the "New section" link in the top right. For more details see the talk page guidelines. Thank you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:09, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Billybowden211. You have new messages at Iryna Harpy's talk page.
Message added 04:09, 1 February 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:09, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

A summary of some site policies and guidelines you need to observe

• Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~, found next to the 1 key), and please do not alter other's comments.
• Don't edit war. Except in cases of clear-cut vandalism, do not revert more than 3 times within a 24 hour period.
• Vandalism is defined as a deliberate attempt to mess up the site. It does not include real accidents (although competence is required), nor does it include someone trying to improve the encyclopedia in a way you disagree with.
• Assume good faith as much as reasonably possible, and then about half-way past the border for unreasonable possibility.

Iryna Harpy is not going to be banned for asking you to demonstrate on the article's talk page that the source cited does not support "and now Pakistan." Iryna's edits were not vandalism as Wikipedia defines it. If you continue to remove "and now Pakistan," your actions can be interpreted as edit warring, which could lead to you being blocked. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

This is your only warning; if you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory content into an article or any other Wikipedia page again, as you did at Katrina Kaif, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. KRIMUK90 ✉ 14:49, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 16:21, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Billybowden211. You have new messages at Iryna Harpy's talk page.
Message added 05:11, 13 February 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Iryna Harpy (talk) 03:29, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Billybowden211. You have new messages at Iryna Harpy's talk page.
Message added 23:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

No need to apologise. Iryna Harpy (talk) 23:22, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Images

Please don't upload images of living people. They will almost always end up being deleted. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:55, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Images of living people must be free. It's all pretty much covered in Wikipedia:Image use policy. The ones you see in other living people will be free images. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:18, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Most of it is covered at Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright especially Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright#Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else?. Basically the page that the image is hosted on must state that the image is free to use. Look at Creative Commons license#Types of licenses the second box shows the type of free images. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:34, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately as the image isn't free I can't upload it either. In fact because I know what the rules are I would be in a lot of trouble if I did. In your case you are not in trouble as it was just a error. Sooner or later someone will find a free image and upload it. Don't worry about the article not being authentic as there are plenty of articles missing images. The important thing is to have sources for the article. By the way there is no need for the sources to be in English. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 23:55, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 23:38, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Important work.jpeg

A tag has been placed on File:Important work.jpeg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 22:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Important work.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Important work.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 22:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Ahmed work.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Ahmed work.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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. Stefan2 (talk) 22:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Important work.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Important work.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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. Stefan2 (talk) 22:49, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

Administrators' noticeboard notification

Please see the administrators' noticeboard page for a discussion involving you. You can find the discussion by running a search for the text "Sock of blocked user?". Nyttend (talk) 00:38, 10 March 2015 (UTC)