User talk:Serial Comma

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Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:01, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Sydney Tar Ponds aerial.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Sydney Tar Ponds aerial.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Elizabeth May

Hi Parker:

You actually know who I am, we sat shiva together recently in CB. Please don't delete Elizabeth May from famous Cape Bretoners. Even though I and probably you think that her politics are meshugana, she is still a famous person whether we agree with her politics or not. Abebenjoe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.11.26.157 (talk) 03:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Response from Parker: No dispute there. Elizabeth is famous. But she's not from Cape Breton. She was not born in Cape Breton, and she lived on the island only briefly more than 25 years ago. She has been a resident of Ottawa for more than 25 years. It suits her self-constructed public persona to portray herself as a Cape Bretoner, but it's bull. Serial Comma 15:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]