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Fair use rationale for Image:Lovat Crest.gif

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Fair use rationale for Image:Lovat Arms.gif

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Lovat Crest.gif)

Thanks for uploading Image:Lovat Crest.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Unitarian Universalism work group

You may be interested to know that there is now a work group for all things UU. It's at Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/Unitarian Universalism work group. --Devin Murphy 04:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

--1bookfan (talk) 23:13, 16 December 2007 (UTC) adopt-a-user ==

I am a new user that needs some help around Wikipedia.I am very interested in the United Kingdom an different religions.I am also interested in stamps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1bookfan (talk • contribs) 23:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Scottish national identity

An article that you have been involved in editing, Scottish national identity, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish national identity(2nd nomination). Thank you. BJBot (talk) 01:44, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Saltoun_Lovat.jpg

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Rettetast (talk) 20:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia

I have nominated Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Tagishsimon (talk) 15:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthrosexual

Since you are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality, i would appreciate it if you could voice your opinion on the article Anthrosexual, which is currently up for deletion.--Cooljuno411 (talk) 06:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Cameron_Crest.gif listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Cameron_Crest.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Kelly ^hi! 00:43, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Play party (BDSM) (2nd nomination)

Since you are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality, i would appreciate it if you could voice your opinion on the article Play party (BDSM), which is currently up for deletion. --Simon Speed (talk) 22:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Atenco protests 2006.JPG

Image Copyright problem

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Image:Riot Folk large.jpg listed for deletion

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Image:Marcos Atenco 2006.jpg listed for deletion

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Image:Marcos Atenco 2006.jpg listed for deletion

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Image source problem with Image:General Simon Fraser of Lovat.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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Image:Riot Folk Logo.jpg listed for deletion

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Image:Fraser Arms.jpg listed for deletion

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Possibly unfree Image:15th Lord Lovat Marriage.jpg

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Greater Glasgow

I am currently proposing a wikiproject on Greater Glasgow if you are interested in providing support please add your name to the support sectionhereAndrew22k (talk) 20:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject California roll call

Hello from WikiProject California!

As part of a recent update to our project main page we are conducting a roll call to check which members are still active and interested in working on California related content. If you are still interested in participating, simply move your username from the inactive section of the participant list to the active section. I hope you will find the redesigned project pages helpful, and I wanted to welcome you back to the project. If you want you can take a look at the newly redesigned:

• Main Page
  
• Talk page
  
• Cleanup listing
  
• Template list
  

As well as the existing pages:

• Assessment
  
• Article Worklist
  
• Deletion sorting
  

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, and add it to your watchlist, if it isn't already.

Again, hi! Optigan13 (talk) 00:10, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem

Thanks for your uploads. You've indicated that the following images are being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why they meet Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page an image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check

• That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's description page for each article the image is used in.
• That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

• Image:Fraser Arms.gif
• Image:Fraser Philorth arms.gif
• Image:Fraser Strichen arms.gif

This is an automated notice by FairuseBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. --10:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Image:Fraser Hunting.gif

An image you uploaded, Image:Fraser Hunting.gif, is not displaying correctly. -- Suntag ☼ 23:13, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

AAU reminder notice

A friendly reminder from the Adopt-a-User project =)

Hey there Canaen! This is a friendly reminder to update your status at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoptee's Area/Adopters whenever it is appropriate in order to provide new users with the most up-to-date information on available adopters. Also please note that we will be removing adopters who have not edited in 60 days. If you become active again (and we hope you do!) please feel free to re-add yourself. Cheers!

• Notice delivery by xenobot 14:08, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Message from WikiProject Punk music

Hello!

You may be interested to know that WikiProject Punk music has recently undergone a major revitalization. Please visit the project page to see our new look and check out some of our helpful new features, such as the Assessment Department and the Collaboration of the week. There are also a number of tasks on our Things to do page that you may be interested in helping with.

We are currently holding a roll call to help gauge how many active project members we have. Please visit the project's talk page and add your signature to the roll sheet to express your continued interest in the project. Also, if you have not already done so, please take a minute to add your name to the Participants page along with a brief summary of your punk-related interests, so that other project members will be better able to collaborate with you. If you do not add your signature to the roll sheet by November 30, 2008 your name will be moved to our list of inactive members. We may also take the liberty of removing the project userbox from your userpage if it appears there, to prevent you from automatically appearing in Category:WikiProject Punk music members. Of course you are free to rejoin the project and re-add the userbox at any time if you would like to become active in the project again.

Thank you and we hope you will continue to support WikiProject Punk music!

--IllaZilla (talk) 23:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia

I have nominated Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia (2nd nomination). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. MBisanz ^talk 23:11, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Oatcakes

Hi Canaen, I'm not sure if you're still active on Wikipedia, but we could do with your help. Somebody noticed that the text you added to the Oatcakes page (yes, way back in 2005) is exactly the same as the text on a box of Walker's oatcakes. We're trying to figure out who wrote it first! There's every chance that you wrote it and Walker's picked it up, but it would be useful to have your thoughts. Thanks GyroMagician (talk) 09:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:YRUU Districts

Template:YRUU Districts has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. RL0919 (talk) 07:00, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Clan Fraser

Template:Clan Fraser has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 03:50, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

File:YRUU.jpg missing description details

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If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.

If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 18:04, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Erracht Modern.jpg

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File source problem with File:Erracht Ancient.jpg

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File source problem with File:Erracht Old.jpg

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Possible Creation of WikiProject Tayside and Fife

Hi! You stated at WikiProject Scotland that you have an interest in Dundee. I have proposed the creation of WikiProject Tayside and Fife to improve the quality of all of the articles which fall into the scope of the project. I would hope that you would like to indicate your interest in the project. If you would like to join please add your name on WikiProject Council/Proposals/Tayside and Fife. If the project gets a reasonable amount of interest I will create a draft of the WikiProject (after consultation with editors who are interested) in my userspace and then will create the WikiProject. Thank you. Andrewmc123 15:50, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:YRUU

Template:YRUU has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. The Evil IP address (talk) 10:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Clan Fraser page

Back in 2007, you requested a link to the MacLean of Ardgour v. MacLean ruling by the Court of Sessions on the limits of authority of the Lord Lyons. I don't know if you ever got it. I replied there, but I see now that page is no longer on your watch list. So here it is, just to make sure information flows where it is useful.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/lyondocs.htm#Maclean of Ardgour

Enjoy. - JesseChisholm (talk) 18:26, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

File:Simon Fox.gif needs authorship information

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The media file you uploaded as File:Simon Fox.gif appears to be missing information as to its authorship (and or source), or if you did provide such information, it is confusing for others trying to make use of the image.

It would be appreciated if you would consider updating the file description page, to make the authorship of the media clearer.

Although some images may not need author information in obvious cases, (such where an applicable source is provided), authorship information aids users of the image, and helps ensure that appropriate credit is given (a requirement of some licenses).

• If you created this media yourself, please consider explicitly including your user name, for which: {{subst:usernameexpand|Canaen}} will produce an appropriate expansion,
  or use the {{own}} template.

• If this is an old image, for which the authorship is unknown or impossible to determine, please indicate this on the file description page.

If you have any questions please see Help:File page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 00:51, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Clans of Scotland

Hello there I'm a fellow Scot who would like to join the Clans of Scotland WikiProject how should i go about doing this ? can i just put a user box on my page if not how can i join your group ? please leve me a wee mweage on my talk page thanks a lot. Ps i really like the paragraph on your User page I'm a Celt !!--Cormag100 (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

File:Fraser Hunting.gif listed for deletion

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How can you be both Scottish AND Irish ?

I take it you're a Scottish person claiming Irish "descent". Can I ask what exactly this even means ? You are aware of human history ? If you were you'd understand surely that Ireland was not even inhabited by humans a mere 6,000 years ago. So how exactly can you be of solely Irish ancestry ? You'd also need to add in ALL the other countries your ancestral line had passed through since humans first migrated out of Southeastern Africa.

You'd also understand that by this logic of ancestry everyone in Ireland could claim Scottish descent if they went back far enough. Not to mention descent from various other surrounding countries. Did you think your ancestors just sprung up out of the ground in Ireland or something ? I mean no offence here, truly. I'm merely trying to enlighten you on how illogical the concept of claiming a single ancestry such as Irish is. This isn't America or Australia. Scotland is one of the oldest nations in Europe and is a hell of a lot older than Ireland, the Kingdom of Ireland not having been formed until around 1542 whereas Scotland was formed in 843. Not to add as I mentioned Scotland was settled at least 2,000 years before Ireland.

So why try and claim some blood attachment to one individual country. You are allowed to like other countries and be interested in their history/culture etc. without trying to claim illogical blood bonds with them (already explained the lack of logic, even if both your parents were Irish).

Please do get back to me on this, I'd like to try and understand your logic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.203.0 (talk) 20:56, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County

The article Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

There's no indication that this particular congregation is notable.

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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland

I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at the WP Scotland noticeboard. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:59, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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) 12:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge

Hi, at Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge we're striving to bring about 10,000 article improvements and creations for the UK and Ireland and inspire others to create more content. In order to achieve this we need diversity of content, in all parts of the UK and Ireland on all topics. Eventually a regional contest will be held for all parts of the British Isles, like they were for Wales and the Wedt Country. We currently have just over 1900 articles and need contributors! If you think you'd be interested in collaborating on this and helping reach the target quicker, please sign up and begin listing your entries there as soon as possible! Thanks.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:45, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Young People's Religious Union

The article Young People's Religious Union has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no evidence of notability

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WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks.

Proposed deletion of File:Erracht Crest.gif

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Proposed deletion of File:Fraser Dress.jpg

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