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 Georgia 

Polbot doesn't seem to realize that there are two places in the world named Georgia.  Please teach it to link to Georgia (country) instead of to the disambiguation page.  Thanks.   (talk) 
Ah, good point. I'll fix that. –  (talk) (random) 

 Cooperative 

Hello, I have a question about one of your edit long time ago. It appears to me that you just slapped the article with a GA tag without any reviews or checklists posted on the talk page. It is important to have such messages left in talk page so that others can vertify if the article really satisify the criteria outlined. Please explain your reasons to me. Talk page 
Back in 2005, the ""Good article"" concept was brand new. It was encouraged at the time to simply find articles that you thought were ""good"", and slap the article with it (as you put it) to get the idea up and running. The instructions at the time simply read ""The process by which articles are designated as 'good' should be much simpler and quicker than that by which articles become featured. Simply add any articles here that match the criteria, and add  to the top of the articles' talk pages."" The criteria have been more formalized since then. I see you've only been around about a year; stick around, and you'll see lots of new projects change their criteria. All the best, –  (talk) (random) 

Deleted Riverboarding articles
Hi. Please see Robert Carlson's reply on my talk page. User_talk:Shawn_in_Montreal#Image_of_riverboarding_uploading_question. He explains that:
""The images I would upload are of me, but not taken by me. They are souvenier photos you can buy from photo services that sell photos of your river trip as mementos. When I buy the photo I assume I get the copyright to publish as I wish. What do you think? Is there a tag category for this type of ownershipthat would satisfy Quadell?""
I've checked the free use tags on the image upload page and I don't know what to tell him. Perhaps you could reply on the Riverboarding talk page? thanks,  

 Boerboel 

Thanks for the advice. I won't be the only one stewarding the article now, as it has been brought to the attention of several others.  (talk) 

 William Poundstone picture deletion 

hello, i am writing to inquire if someone from this profile had deleted the photo from the William Poundstone wikipedia entry. I had requested an received express permission from the author himself to use the photo of him on his wikipedia. What more authorization or documentation might I need to leave it posted on that page?   talk 

At Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission, the first paragraph states: 
To use copyrighted material on Wikipedia, it is not enough that we have permission to use it on Wikipedia alone. That's because Wikipedia itself states all its material may be used by anyone, for any purpose. So we have to be sure all material is in fact licenced for that purpose, whoever provided it.
If you read Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission, it should tell you everything you need to know. All the best, –  (talk) (random) 

okay, so i have the email requesting the author allow the picture and then i have his affirmation it is okay to post it. but now i am confused as to how to send this permissions request. i mean, it says to send it to: ""permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org""; but is that supposed to be an @ and a ""."" in there and sent via my personal email or what? the language is confusing to me as this is not something with which i am familiar, but one day hope to be. i just need to be prodded in the right direction, all i want to do i assist in affixing one of my favourite author's pix to his wiki. thanks, colin  talk 07:27, 31 July