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Meeting for worship

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Since I'm the one who deleted the entry, let me explain the reasons.

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hi drini, just trying to get to the bottom of the problem here !

as well as being the original author of the page on wikipedia, i'm also the actual author of the text itself, & almost certainly the controller of the website or other publication you've seen which has the copyright/left notice which is causing difficulty.

i accept aphax's view that there probably needs to be some text editing to make it more suitable for wikipedia than its original usage, but i do think substantially the article is of use on wikipedia to expand its coverage of quakerism, so please let me know what needs changing, either here or elsewhere, to make that happen.

simon

I don't know about the content (neutral point of view, cleanup etc). My only concern is about the licensing terms, and you being aware that if you repost the content, it will allow commercial use too. -- (drini's page|☎) 15:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Birmingham

I changed your wording back for the article's introductory paragraph because I think 'many' is too vague. Being objective I think 'generally' is entirely fair - especially by reference to, for instance, references from any reputable news source. For example, see what a search for 'second city' brings up on the BBC (you'll have to ignore things such as 'Durham is the second city to consider implementing a congestion charge': http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=d&q=%22second+city%22&go.x=23&go.y=17&go=go Matthew 16:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify - I certainly didn't find 'second city' being used of Manchester except in reference to the MORI poll from 2002. In general parlance, 'second city' is used to refer to Birmingham only as far as I can tell. Matthew 16:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Page protection

Hi Star-one, I noticed your addition of a protection template to Kay Burley. Page protection is requested at WP:RFPP, but make sure you read the Protection Policy first. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 11:03, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, with regards to this article: please note Wikipedia's WP:BLP policy, which says that unsourced or poorly sourced negative material about living people must not be added to Wikipedia. All negative allegations about living people must have a reliable source; and YouTube is not a reliable source by our standards. Removing such BLP-violating material is not vandalism by our standards. Thanks for reading. Robofish (talk) 14:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

huh? are you saying a youtube clip of an individual doing something is not a reliable source of somebody doing something? Star-one (talk) 15:22, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No, he's saying its not a reliable source for statements about "the child's godmother", or putting anything under a heading of "criticism", which cannot be determined from the clip. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:00, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

the reference to the child's godmother had already been deleted; it appears that other people had already also provided the citations of the actual criticism on the talk page before robofish removed the section anyway. Star-one (talk) 16:06, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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