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A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Tommi Uschanov, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Does not seem to meet notability guidelines, and has not been updated to meet guidelines within a reasonable amount of time.

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Aaaatu, I responded to your concerns on my talk page. Please let me know what you think. Ryanthewebguy (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Wow, that was an officious one. Hold your horses for a while so I can explain where we are with the actual state of affairs.

The template you are using sets a condition for "appropriate and verifiable licence". Please see the license that has been used on releasing the source content:

"Public Commons License

You are free: to copy, distribute, or display the content of the work, and to make derivative works. Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute any original work to Ron S. Filion. If it is not an original work, you must clearly indicate that a copy of the work resides at sfgenealogy.com. You may not: duplicate the web page and/or content and declare authorship or copyright, or

make commercial use of the work without prior permission."

The license can be seen at the bottom end of the source web page. I would especially like to highlight the parts "you are free: to copy" and "Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute any original work to Ron S. Filion". The original writer Ron S. Filion was attributed properly by referring to the source per his request. The source reference was properly prepared by carefully following on Wikipedia practices. Being free to do something means in another words being not forbidden; being allowed. Using similar phrases was authorized based on that. Does the license need to be somehow even more better expressed and highlighted?

The amount of ships you took a privilege to correct also was based on the map that can be seen on the lower end of the source web page. Up to 500 ships has not been revealed or proved that full quantity would have been sunk on the area. It was the total quantity being anchored at 1850's.

I am kindly requesting you to calm down and I preach in favour for accuracy for your future decisions with quite wide jurisdiction especially when threatening with chance of blocking from editing. You should really give necessary time for yourself and carefully go through the source material before performing such decisions and laying false accusations. Honestly, the used template was an overkill and I am expecting proper apologies on that. I am glad that there was another user who was willing to rephrase important and interesting detail of the history of San Francisco not to keep that silenced until the end of time. Aaaatu (talk) 01:57, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have seen Ron Filion's excellent research articles before but they were copyrighted, so this one having commons license is a surprise. I note that you did not give credit to Filion as required by the license. Binksternet (talk) 03:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well noted there sir. Couldn't you just admit that you were doing things way too fast. Do not be surprised. Be awake. Aaaatu (talk) 05:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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