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Redirection of this talk page

A recent edit redirected this talk page to the corresponding user page. For the reason given below I don't believe this is a good idea. Nor does it appear to be justified by any Misplaced Pages policy or guideline. The justification cited for the redirection in its edit summary was an essay—not a policy or guideline—devoted to opinions on how to deal with vandalism. Moreover, it's at least disputable whether Jagged 85's activities constituted vandalism as it's defined by Misplaced Pages policy, and I would, in fact, dispute it. I have therefore reverted the redirection.

There are many links to discussions (mostly now archived) on this talk page in the Jagged 85 Rfc, its associated evidence page, and other pages devoted to the subsequent cleanup. As an occasional contributor to the cleanup effort I have many times needed to consult this talk page or its archives to check up on some item of information. I would presume that other, more active contributors to the cleanup effort would have done so as well. They should not be put to the entirely unnecessary inconvenience of being redirected to the user page, having to click the link at the top to get back to the talk page, bringing up the talk page history and only then finally getting to the page they originally wanted by clicking on the appropriate link in the history.

On the other hand, if Jagged 85 himself were to request that his talk page be courtesy blanked and redirected to his user page (has he?), then I believe his wishes in that respect should be followed. In my opinion, that would provide sufficient justification for disregarding any inconvenience the redirection might cause other editors.
David Wilson (talk · cont) 06:24, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Agreed, though I think all but the latest threads should be archived. bridies (talk) 06:41, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Agreed. I archived the old talk. The banned notice is in that archive, here. Johnuniq (talk) 09:07, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Late_Harappan_script.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Late_Harappan_script.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Misplaced Pages's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sreejith K (talk) 17:12, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

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