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A warm welcome from Bottesiηi

Hello, 1255, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay.
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Again, welcome! — ßottesiηi ^(talk) 20:21, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Oliver Jones

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Oliver Jones article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing! - ulayiti (talk) 13:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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Montreal music scene

Please stop reverting the changes. The Montreal Music scene pertains to current musicians enjoying recent fame. If you wish to expand the topic to the extent that you have, please discuss it first in the discussion page. Thank you. Trapper 02:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Montreals historic music scene. Thats better. But keep an eye on it because such topics tend to get really big. At some point it will have to have it's own page. Feel free to move it there now if you wish (just put a See also under the Montreal music heading). Trapper 18:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Trevor Williams (basketball)

Please do not remove dispute tags. Its vandalism. Instead try to correct what others feel is problemmatic with the article. Sort out differences with other editors by discussing on the articles talk pages. Regards. --soUmyaSch 09:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for experimenting with the page Gregory Charles on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Saaber 11:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Images

Hi. Saw that you asked about images. To use an image, you must first upload it to wikipedia. See the toolbox on the left hand side for the Upload file link. Once that is done, the image can be inserted as [[Image:<Image Name>|<options>|<caption>]]. <Image Name> is the name of the image file, with extension. <options> is optional and can have, among others, thumb if you want a thumbnail of the pic, right or left for alignment, <size>px if you want to give the image a specific size. <size> should be positive integer. Multiple options can be separated by a "|". Hope this helps. And please sign your comments with 4 tildes like ~~~~. And I would suggest that you move the Trevor Williams, member of the Canadian national basketball team artic le to just Trevor Williams, as that is how most biograpical articles on Wikipedia are named, with just the name of the preson as the title, and his notability is detailed in the article. On another note, if somebody puts a neutrality disputed tag on any article, and you make edits necessary to get rid of biasness, its better to invite the person, who put the tag, to review the modified version of the article before taking the tag off. Hope this helps, and happy editing. Contact [User Talk:Soumyasch|me]] if you need any help. --soUmyaSch 18:37, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

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1255 01:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)There already exists a Trevor Williams on Wikipedia but when I talk to Trevor I will get his middle initial. OK?

License tagging for Image:Dwight Walton.jpg

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License tagging for Image:Canada nash steve.JPG

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Image Tagging for Image:34pix.jpg

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1255 20:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC) the problem was corrected

Image Tagging for Image:Wennington.jpg

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See also additions

Please stop adding random see also sections of lists of actors with similar backgrounds to their subjects. See also sections should be used rarely, and only then to include lists directly related to the subject (see Mariah Carey). Staxringold _talk^contribs 00:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Images you have uploaded

Hello, 1255. I notice that you have uploaded several images and tagged them with the {{Eventposter}} tag, even though they are just photos of people, not event posters. An example of an event poster is Image:Edgefest 2005.jpg. Since these images have fair-use tags that are totally unrelated to their content, they are subject to speedy deletion, under the seventh speedy deletion criterion for images. If you have any questions, please let me know. —Bkell (talk) 23:52, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyrights

Hello again, 1255. I notice that on the image description page for Image:Charliebiddle.jpg, you made the claim:

The source of this picture was Justin Time records, and was copyrighted in 1996-2003, and therefore is no longer copyrighted and is therefore Fair use.

A copyright notice that says something like "© 2006 Brian Kell" indicates that the work in question was copyrighted in 2006. This copyright will last for a very long time, probably until 70 years after my death. A copyright notice that says "© 1996–2006 Brian Kell" does not mean that the copyright began in 1996 and ended in 2006; it means that the Web page (or computer program, or whatever the copyright notice applies to) is made up of several independently copyrighted works (such as images, text, and so on), some of which were copyrighted in 1996, some in 2006, and some in between. The copyright on everything will still last until 70 years after my death. So Image:Charliebiddle.jpg is still under copyright. If you have questions, let me know. —Bkell (talk) 00:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Abel.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Abel.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 17:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Question about copyright tags

So if an image is just a picture of a person and not an event poster what do I tag that is? 1255 16:44, 4 July 2006 (UTC)also if the picture is copyrighted 1996 to 2006, what do I tag it is?

You must choose a copyright tag based on the copyright status of the image, not its subject. There is no copyright tag that says "this is a picture of a person", because that gives no information about the copyright status of the image.

In most cases, the copyright for a photograph belongs to the photographer (or the employer of the photographer, such as a news agency). This is why Wikipedia cannot just take photos from Web pages and use them in articles—we would be violating the copyright of the photographer.

In order for an image to be used in Wikipedia, it must be released under a free license, such as the GFDL. If you would like to use a photo you found on the Internet, you should contact the copyright holder and ask if they would be willing to release their work under a free license (see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Free licenses for a list of acceptable licenses). Note that it is not enough to simply get permission to use the image on Wikipedia, because the goal of Wikipedia is to produce an encyclopedia of free content that anyone can use in any way; so images on Wikipedia must be free for anyone to use, not just Wikipedia itself. If you are going to contact the copyright holder, you can take a look at Wikipedia:Example requests for permission for some ideas of how to ask.

There are some cases which can be considered "fair use" on Wikipedia, in which Wikipedia does not need to obtain a license for a copyrighted work; take a look at Wikipedia:Fair use for details. The "fair use" clause in United States copyright law allows people to use copyrighted works without permission in strictly limited cases. Wikipedia uses fair-use images when the image significantly improves an article and it would be difficult or impossible to get a freely licensed image that would do the same thing. This is what the fair-use image copyright tags are for. For example, the {{Eventposter}} tag says that the image in question is a poster for an event, and makes the claim that using this image to illustrate the event in question qualifies as fair use, because it would be difficult or impossible to find a freely licensed image of the event. If none of the standard fair-use tags work for what you're looking for, you can say {{fair use in|Name of article}}, substituting the name of the article the image is to be used in. If you do this, you should also write a fair-use rationale, explaining why you believe the use of this image on Wikipedia qualifies as fair use. Fair-use images should be used as sparingly as possible, however, because they go against the goal of Wikipedia, which is to make a freely usable encyclopedia.

If I can help you, or if you have any questions, please let me know. —Bkell (talk) 20:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Abel Joseph

I've nominated Abel Joseph, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that Abel Joseph satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abel Joseph and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Abel Joseph during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Videmus Omnia 04:49, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Mambo.jpg

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Project FMF (talk) 03:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Leo Kolber.JPG

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