Judge Dred Scott

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February 2012

Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Freedom, Inc. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. MikeWazowski (talk) 06:04, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

I have not attacked anyone. Judge Dred Scott (talk) 06:05, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on other people again, as you did at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. MikeWazowski (talk) 06:15, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for attempting to harass other users. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Tiptoety ^talk 06:25, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

48 hours is enough time to chill. Judge Dred Scott (talk) 06:26, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, and welcome,

I ran across Leon Jordan at the Articles for Deletion debate and immediately recognized that the article should be kept and expanded, not deleted. I have been working on it today, and hope that you approve of my efforts. I noticed that you tried to create Freedom, Inc. and that it was deleted. I see that you got into a tangle with another editor and got blocked for 48 hours.

My welcome to you is sincere, and I think that an article about Freedom, Inc. is appropriate, but it will need to be solidly referenced. I encourage you to avoid any personal attacks or accusations against other editors. Please assume that experienced editors are acting in good faith, unless you have excellent reasons to think otherwise. In particular, attempts to delete incomplete or poorly-referenced articles happen all the time here, on articles on every topic imaginable. This in not a sign of bad faith, but rather an effort to keep junk out of the encyclopedia. I usually work on a new article in a sandbox until it has several good solid references, then I move it to main space. You may find WP:PRIMER to be a good introduction to editing Wikipedia. Please let me know if I can be of assistance. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:15, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I just saw your latest efforts at Leon Jordan and went to email you, but see I needn't. My responses three nights ago represented impaired judgment, I accept your explanation that an attempt to delete an article on a noteworthy subject is not necessarily bad faith at all, but a good faith effort to keep Wikipedia sophisticated. I greatly approve of your work on the Leon M. Jordan article (possibly, the name of it should be changed to Leon M. Jordan btw), and plan to reintroduce Freedom Inc. with considerably more information than the rejected version. Judge Dred Scott (talk) 23:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:LucileBlufordPhotos1.jpg

Hello, Judge Dred Scott!

It was really helpful of you to you to upload File:LucileBlufordPhotos1.jpg. However, we need to properly format the image license information in order to keep and use new images.

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nice way of putting it, for a bot. Judge Dred Scott (talk) 06:26, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:LucileBlufordPhotos2.jpg

Hello, Judge Dred Scott!

It was really helpful of you to you to upload File:LucileBlufordPhotos2.jpg. However, we need to properly format the image license information in order to keep and use new images.

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Possibly unfree File:BlufordBust.jpg

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Hi, back. I'll leave these bot messages because they are polite and assume good faith. Props to their creators. Judge Dred Scott (talk) 13:54, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:LucileBlufordPhotos1.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:LucileBlufordPhotos1.jpg, which you've sourced to (poster). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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File permission problem with File:LucileBlufordPhotos2.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:LucileBlufordPhotos2.jpg, which you've sourced to (posters). I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-enwikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

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Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, at 12:30pm in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 22:20, 1 September 2012 (UTC)