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I reinstated Chukie Nwokorie in the Lafayette, Indiana page. He and I both graduated from Jefferson High School, Class of 1995.--Leomyhero 05:37, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Heather Douglas article may be deleted

A tag has been placed on Heather Douglas (actress), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DoorsAjar 02:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:SnackBarAd.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:SnackBarAd.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Dethomas 02:36, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

• Can you fill in any more info on that image? Thanks! --evrik ^(talk) 21:16, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Units of Measurement

I noticed changes you made in Indiana, and I was sure I was right and you were wrong about MOS. Turns out I was wrong. You're a little wrong, too, but I was wronger (wronger?) than you. In any case, I thought you would appreciate learning what I found out.

When you writing 197 square miles, preferred coding is 197 mi² You were leaving out the  , and the MOS definitely recommends it, so that the number and the units don't end up on separate lines. (That's in Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Units of measurement). However, I thought that it said that you should use the superscript 2 in technical articles, and use sq. mi. in non-technical articles. I can't find a trace of that, anywhere.

In the proposed revision of that page, they recommend using ² instead of ² for the reason that the second formulation introduces additional leading in some browsers and the first version doesn't. I never saw ² before, but the argument won me over; I guess I'm going to use that from now on.

But in any case, thanks for teaching me a lesson (and thanks for doing nice work on the Indiana article.) ClairSamoht - Help make Wikipedia the most authoritative source of information in the world 05:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Recent edits

I notice that you are removing the word "originally" from many articles. Certainly there are some cases were this word could be used. Buddha24 (talk) 05:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

File:150px-INMap-doton-Lafayette.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:150px-INMap-doton-Lafayette.png, 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. Kelly ^hi! 08:49, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Heather Douglas (actress)

The article Heather Douglas (actress) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unref blp; doesn't appear to meet WP:ENT / WP:GNG.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Boleyn (talk) 13:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)