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Now the talk page is blank, and we cant have that. I dont often do this, but here goes:

		All Around Amazing Barnstar
		For being the sickest chick on the block ;) Much love and respect sis, Nableezy 17:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shukran akhoui ... much love and respect right back at you. Tiamut^talk 18:15, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Tiamut. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Contributor copyright investigations concerning your contributions in relation to Wikipedia's copyrights policy. The listing can be found here. For some suggestions on responding, please see Responding to a CCI case. Thank you. GabrielF (talk) 08:44, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re your query at CCI, the article is still there, the termplate just uses a CSS class to make it non-visible. Just view the history, and click on the diff link before the template was added to view the article.

FWIW, I don't think you've got much to worry about. I'd recommend leaving it to the copyright experts for now, and staying cool (but I know you'll do that anyway!). Regards,

--NSH001 (talk) 17:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation NSH001. There are places in the articles listed where I could have one a better job summarizing and synthesizing information from the available sources. Making them non-visible seems a little harsh, but I trust that things will be worked out with more eyes. Thanks for the reassurance. Its a little embarassing, that's all. I pride myself on making valuable contribs, not half ass ones, but Its possible I can when I'm short of time and running on empty. Oh well ... I'll just have go atone by making them much better. Tiamut^talk 17:20, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll make a first run at Defence (Emergency) Regulations, I have some good sources. Incidentally I discovered that I have access to an almost complete set of the Palestine Gazette (where the British administration published all laws and other official stuff). These 1945 regulations go on for about 40 pages! They could have saved a lot of paper by summarizing it as "The High Commission can do whatever the *^$!@ he wants.", which would have been more or less the same. Zero^talk 00:58, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In democracies, many pages are required for that kind of license; the essence of the legislation is hidden behind reams of text that mot people won't bother to read (see the PATRIOT act for example). Anyway, thanks for your changes there. I'm going to have my hands full the next few days and won't be around much, so I appreciate your help in resolving that one. Would have been nice if GabrielF chose to spend his time fixing the articles, rather than filing a report. No matter though, as more eyes means the possibility for more editors to improve what was there. Happy editing. Tiamut^talk 14:58, 10 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Tiamut,

I don't have any problem with you personally - I have disagreed with you on several occasions, but I've respected the style in which you argue for your viewpoint. I felt that the compromises reached in several cases (Faris Odeh being one) were quite good. I believe the explanation that you offered on the CCI page that you are closely following sources in order to avoid controversy. I understand the difficulty, but you do still have to follow the standard practices. The CCI process is not designed to be punitive. I AfD'd Nissan Rilov as part of the process of fixing these issues - since there appears to be only one source available, which is a personal tribute to a friend, I'm not sure how to rewrite the article. I don't want to make this a personal dispute. If you would feel more comfortable I will abstain from working any further on this issue and leave it up to others who have experience with copyright issues. GabrielF (talk) 16:54, 11 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please could you advise as how best to get Palestinian costumes back into the encyclopedia? Do I just go into edit and re-word anything that is close to the PCA article? It does seem exceptionally petty - particularly as someone claiming ownership of the PCA material actually edited the page after your contributions... best wishes Padres Hana (talk) 16:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I have uploaded a scan of a French-language interview with Nissan Rilov as requested by User:RolandR at the resource exchange. You can find a link to the scan there. Best, GabrielF (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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