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There is no proof that they exist by law. All incorporated cites in Nevada are Cities. the CDP's have town boards, but they are not incorporated as a town, which there is not just thing in Nevada. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

They do not exist on state law. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

Saying that thee are towns exist in Nevada violates WP:OR. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home 12:26, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

They problem is what is a definition of a town? By state law there is no clear definition of a town. Maybe the category should retiled Category:Places in Nevada with town boards? Most CDP's in Nevada and some unincorporated places have town boards or homeowners association. Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

Fair, but User:Nyttend said that the town of Indian Springs is "A CDP, not a town". Leave Message, Yellow Evan home

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Audio theatre

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Thanks for your message. I've given up on beating my head against the brick wall of Wikipedia's system for getting images accepted. The image in question was was made available by the copyright owners for public usage and I also emailed the copyright owner and got an email back confirming permission to use the image in Wikipedia. I forwarded the email to the appropriate department in Wikipedia but it still wasn't sufficient to be accepted. I guess if somebody has decided to be obstinate about it then no amount of authorisation is ever going to be sufficient. I certainly have better things to do with my time than keep repeating over and over that usage of this image is permitted by the owner.

With no animosity whatsoever but a great deal of regret,

Sincerely,

--wayland (talk) 01:36, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

It was insufficient because of WP:CSD#F3 - "for use on Wikipedia" isn't sufficient authorization, because Wikipedia licenses itself under {{GFDL}} and/or {{cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated}}. The idea behind Wikipedia is that anyone can copy it and use it for their purposes. If we have an image that is OK "for use on Wikipedia," then people aren't allowed to copy and use it for their purposes. Magog the Ogre (talk) 01:48, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

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Do you want the stub moved to draft space? Otherwise either I or someone else may nominate it for deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:42, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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History of the Marranos in England

Hi Wayland. Just to let you know that I have tagged History of the Marranos in England as a copyright violation. I am supposed to notify the editor who created the article, which is you, but that was way back in 2004, and your edit summary suggests that you were just moving the text from another article, so I won't issue a warning but thought you might want to know. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:07, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Actually, it looks like the source might be in the public domain. See Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2017 November 10. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:33, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

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No worries, a bit more research and I found a source that seems sufficient to allow us to keep this as a stand-alone article (). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:29, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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LA freak scene

The information you added to LA freak scene is completely unsourced. I moved it to Freak-out (slang) since there is no correlation between the info you added and the LA freak scene, but still the information is unsourced. Not sure if it should be removed for trivia but I preserved it on that page. There are many 1960s songs that reference "freaks", which is why I made the freak-out page, it's a neologism that was big in the counterculture back then. The freak scene page had been messed up with OR for years with none of the info correlating with the actual SoCal freak scene that inspired Frank Zappa, and more so just using these disparate uses of the term "freak" from the counterculture. Aradicus77 (talk) 02:38, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Of course it has a source. For goodness sake read the thing. The information is sourced from Tom Wolfe's book. The source is clearly stated. You simply need to read the book and count the number of times he uses "freak", "freaking" and other forms and conjugations of the same. The Joni Mitchell material is sourced to a commercially published gramophone record of the song in question. A thing doesn't become unsourced when you simply ignore the sources. That's the thing here.

The reason for placing that information onto that particular page was because the page was originally about the Freak Scene in general, not about Los Angeles. Aradicus77 (yourself) moved the page from "Freak Scene" to "Los Angeles Freak Scene" on the 20th of January 2026 (this year).

When I noticed that the entire history of the Freak Scene, so fondly remembered by us older people now in our 70s, had been inexplicably relocated to the West Coast of the U.S.A. I felt it was appropriate to include a little reference to the Ken Kesey source material which proves that not all of us freaks were in any way connected to Los Angeles.

Of course, you are free to go on rewriting history if that's your thing but I suggest that you ought to check your facts a little more carefully. Punk may have tried to bury the history of the Freak Scene but they failed. Some of us are still here. wayland (talk) 14:40, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

There is no such thing as a "Freak Scene" in general. You have been adding all kinds of original research with disparate sources. Your edit here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freak-out_(slang)&diff=prev&oldid=1346057732 is ludicrous for someone who has been on the site for decades. You just make up half of what you are adding here. There is no correlation to any source. Also I was not referring to the Tom Wolfe book at all in your edits. I'm referring to adding trivial information like random songs that used the word freak. It was accompanied by no source. None of your sources even say "freak scene" verbatim. I will report you if you keep doing this because accusing me of rewriting history when it's actually you doing so it's also insane. The way you are speaking as well "noticed that the entire history of the Freak Scene, so fondly remembered by us older people now in our 70s", implies you have a bias and strong connection to the subject. Remember Wikipedia is about what RS says not what your own anecdotal lived experiences say. Even then everything you are adding is pure BS. Aradicus (talk) 17:24, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't "make up" any of the data I add. I remove data added by other people when it turns out to be false. I removed false citations which were claimed to be from a couple of books which did not contain any of the quotes attributed to them. wayland (talk) 20:14, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

You added no source that ever mentioned the word "Punk" or "Alternative society". You seem to just be writing what you feel should be on the page rather than what Wikipedia:Reliable sources reflect. It is your edits that are taking the page from being accurate to just being original research. I did like your etymology edits for the origin of the phrase though the sourcing was a bit shoddy, but a lot of your big paragraphs are insane. Aradicus (talk) 01:39, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freak-out_(slang)&diff=prev&oldid=1346620966] This edit reads more like an essay than an Encyclopedia. Are you seriously not seeing any issue with this? This is my main issue with this website, disruptive editors who have been around for years who seem to have slipped through the cracks and never been spotted for what they are doing which in turn ends up ruining information for niche topics like this. Aradicus (talk) 01:42, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

There are other ways of communicating y'know mate. Realise that I am in the process of writing, adding references, identifying sources and fixing links etc as I go. If you wanted to be polite you could simply add a code saying something like "needs more citations" or "lacks a reference" or something and I'll fix it in due course if wasn't already going to anyway. Try to keep a cool head on. wayland (talk) 01:51, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

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I realise it's been a couple of months, but responding to your comment at the CfD about emptying the category out of process ("since this is a very recent creation (by me) I reserve the right to change my mind"), please see the policy on Wikipedia:Ownership of content. If a category is being discussed, changing the contents of the category derails the discussion. Even if you made the category, that doesn't mean you can unilaterally decide to unmake it. Just let the CfD play its course, and if you decide you also want it to be deleted, weigh in on the discussion. Other editors may come to a consensus to take a different course of action. Mclay1 (talk) 07:56, 4 June 2026 (UTC)