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Replaceable fair use File:Districtscumberlandcounty.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Districtscumberlandcounty.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 or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

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Orphaned non-free image File:Sportlandlogo.JPG

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Orphaned non-free image File:Julienship.JPG

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Your input is requested at WikiProject Maine!

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  Hello fellow WikiProject Maine members!
 
I'm trying to breathe a little new life into WP:WP ME and as such I have posted a few questions on the project's talk page that I would like to get some feedback from all of the project's members on!
  1. There are apparently a lot of inactive members on our participants list (and even a user that has been blocked for years). What do we as a project want to do about inactive or blocked users? I have some ideas on the issue, but would love feedback from others.
    • Remove blocked users that appear to be no longer interested in participating in developing Wikipedia.
    • Users with zero activity at all in three years are unlikely to come back. I suggest that we remove them from the mailing list and deactivate any categorizing feature of a userbox on their page. When doing this, we must make sure to leave a note on their talk page explaining that since they have been off-wiki for three years that they have been removed from the list as a purely technical measure and they are more than welcome to add themselves back to the list if they choose to start editing again.
    • Users with zero activity on wiki for 18 months may come back, despite it being unlikely. I would suggest that we mark those users as inactive on our mailing list, and stop sending them messages like this one to prevent their user talk page from filling up with irrelevant notices.
    • Users with zero activity on wiki for at least six months should be marked as inactive in the mailing list template, but should still receive mailings.
  2. I'm also trying to gauge some interest in there being a Great American Wikinic in Maine! If you are interested, possible locations might include Portland, Augusta, and or Bangor, please make a note in the appropriate section on our talk page!
  3. We should create a template to use for mass mailings from this wikiproject so all we need to do is enter our message and signature and the general format of the box and image and title and stuff will stay familiar. What is your opinion on this idea? Do you have any preferences to what that may look like (because I think this looks horrible compared to some I've seen from other projects)?
This message was sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} (etc) at 17:26, 11 June 2014 (UTC). To remove yourself from this list, please remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiProject Maine/members, remove the WikiProject's userbox/category from your user page (rarely used for mass mailings), or alternatively to opt-out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Opted-out of message delivery to your user talk page.Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Info error on image Liberty ship Portland.jpg

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Hi, Atani here,

The description for the image Liberty ship Portland.jpg which you originally uploaded appears to be somewhat incorrect. This image shows Ocean Gallant and her four sister ships at the outfitting pier of the New England Shipbuilding Company's east yard subsequent to their launch on 4-Aug-1942. The photo date may well be correct, 16-Aug-1942, as these five ships were not delivered until September 1942. I obtained this information here: [1] - it may not be authoritative.

Oddly the image Ocean Traveller LOC fsa.8b07487.jpg shown along with this one on the Ocean Ship page does show the five ships as their construction basins are being flooded for their launch, but the description box seems to have the wrong date, as they all seem to have been launched on August 4th 1942.

New England Shipbuilding, South Portland ME, East Yard

Hull Name Class Launched Delivered Fate
20 Ocean Stranger Ocean 4-Aug-42 Sep-42 Sold private 1947, scrapped 1965
21 Ocean Traveller Ocean 4-Aug-42 Sep-42 Sold private 1947, scrapped 1959
22 Ocean Seaman Ocean 4-Aug-42 Sep-42 Sunk by torpedo off Algiers Mar-43
23 Ocean Gallant Ocean 4-Aug-42 Oct-42 Sold private 1947, scrapped 1967
24 Ocean Courier Ocean 4-Aug-42 Oct-42 Sold private 1947, scrapped 1960

www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/4emergencylarge/wwtwo/newengland.htm

Atani (talk) 23:49, 26 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Orphaned non-free image File:Smcc.jpg

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