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Confirm Involvement in WikiProject Disney

Hello Srm gunner! I'm a new member of the Disney WikiProject. I'm trying to confirm who is still interested in the WikiProject in hopes to build a team of that can revamp the project. Please let me know if you would like to stay on the list of active members, or if I can go ahead and move to you the list of inactive members. You can do so by replying to this message and including the {{reply to|GeekInParadise}} tag. Happy editing! GeekInParadise (talk) 03:46, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File source problem with File:Eagle Athletics.jpg

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Live Oak High School and others

Hi! As one of the coordinators of WikiProject Schools, I'm happy to see your interest in school articles. I noticed your work due to your nomination of Lone Pine for GA review. Frankly, you should withdraw that. That article is nowhere near a GA. It's full of puffery and weasel words, it is way out of conformity to school article guidelines, it's sourcing leaves a lot to be desired and it is missing big pieces. I appreciate your enthusiasm, I really do; but GA and FA school articles are rare. It is a very high bar, and regardless of editor skill, there are very few schools that have sourcing (found and unfound) that can support the detail and quality needed to reach GA or FA. Most that can are located in large cities and are pretty old. Modeling articles about schools on a biography of one of the most written about men in US history is a bad choice. There are lists of good and featured articles on schools at WP:WPSCH. I'd strongly suggest that you review the school article guidelines and then choose one of those articles to use as a template. Writing about social geography topics (cities and other political divisions, significant buildings, schools, roads etc) is very different than writing biographies. There are different guidelines for one, and conforming to guidelines is part of GA review. I'm not trying to discourage you, but you should probably set less lofty goals until you get the hang of things here. Until you've been editing long enough to know and understand the nuances of WP:RS, WP:MOS, WP:NOT, WP:V and hundreds of other policies guidelines and unwritten traditions, GA is simply not a realistic goal. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I'll leave you a link to a Q&A forum just for new editors that was lots of help for me when I first started. If you have questions about editing school articles (or settlement articles too...I work on those frequently also), feel free to drop me a line. John from Idegon (talk) 09:15, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 09:18, 14 June 2019 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 09:18, 14 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Flood live oak hs.jpg

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A tag has been placed on File:Flood live oak hs.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_f8b91252-624e-11e6-a196-4385fc9a3415.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Your GA nomination of Live Oak High School (Louisiana)

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Hello, I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I am glad to be reviewing the article Live Oak High School (Louisiana) that you recently nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. This is actually my maiden-voyage as a reviewer for a Good Article candidate, so don't hesitate to speak up if my interpretation of the guidelines doesn't match what you've seen in other GA reviews as you were preparing for this one; I'm always glad to examine things under a new light if at first I didn't succeed. Take care, and I'll be in touch shortly with the initial comments from my review. — ⚞ 🐈ℛogueScholar ₨Talk🗩 ⚟ 09:01, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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2019 US Banknote Contest

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November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

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Your GA nomination of Live Oak High School (Louisiana)

The article Live Oak High School (Louisiana) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Live Oak High School (Louisiana) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of RogueScholar -- RogueScholar (talk) 04:41, 19 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]