User talk:Unreadablecharacters

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[edit] Your edits to Littlewoods Shop Direct Group

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Littlewoods Shop Direct Group. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. -- Jza84 · (talk) 15:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, fairynuff. I don't suppose you'd happen to be an admin, would you? I'm sort-of on the lookout for one to give me a hand with something. Cheers --Unreadablecharacters 17:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
In response both to your query here and on your main userpage; I'm not an admin, they are found at WP:ADMIN. To your points on your userpage, you're probably better taking your concerns/suggestions to particular article's talk pages, or look for a specific dedicated user group to whom you share an interest (found via WP:PROJ), or even at the Wikipedia:Village pump.
Wikipedia can be a frustrating and tightly kept place at first, but if you take a look through some of the links provided within your welcome message, you should soon get the hang of things. Best of luck, -- Jza84 · (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:A.A.Gill.jpg

Replaceable fair use

Thanks for uploading Image:A.A.Gill.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

  1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
  2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

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[edit] Image

Yeah, we generally don't use fair use images of living people. The goal is to create a free encyclopedia where possible, so if it's possible a free image could be created, we don't use them. There's very rare occasions when a fair use image may be permitted, for example see here. One Night In Hackney303 20:42, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:A.A.Gill.jpg)

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