User talk:Alanbuchanan

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Footballer infobox updates

Hi, when updating footballers infoboxes, can you remember to update the "pcupdate" field, which is effectively an "as of" field. You can add a timestamp by typing five tildes (~~~~~). Cheers bud, --Jimbo[online] 16:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of [[:David pratt (footballer born 1987)]]

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[[:File:Kit left arm test345.png]] missing description details

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[[:File:Kit body dons1011h.png]]

Did you forget to add a license tag for this image when uploading.?

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You may wish to read Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags/All and Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators which will assist you :)

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August 2015

File:Information.svg Hello, I'm Qed237. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person{{spaces|1}}on :Joel Ward (footballer), but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Qed237 (talk) 13:06, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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[[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[:File:Kit body dons1011t.png]]

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