Cardriver

Welcome

Hello, Cardriver, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• Community Portal
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Manual of Style
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Picture tutorial

I hope you will enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! You can sign your name on talk and voting pages using four tildes, (~~~~), which produces your username, the time, and the date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump, or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! — getcrunk what?! 18:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello!

Thanks for uploading some pictures to Wikipedia. I wanted to make sure you were aware of some of the requirements and good practices for uploaded images.

• Pick an image name.

When uploading an image, pick a file name that is descriptive, and unique. Remember that many images may be uploaded about the same topic, and remember that names are case sensitive.

• Source the image.

On the image description page, explain where the image came from. If you created the image yourself, then say so. If it's from the web, give a URL. If it's a screenshot of a movie or game, or a scan from a book, give the title.

• Provide copyright and license information.

This part is a little bit trickier, but it's very important. The copyright of the image generally belongs to whomever created it.

If it's a photograph you took, or an image you created (modifying an image that already exists doesn't count) in software like Photoshop or GIMP, then you own the copyright. To upload it to Wikipedia, you must agree to license it under the GFDL (which allows anyone to use it, but requires that they give credit to the original author and requires that any further edit to the image be licensed under the GFDL as well) or release it into the public domain (which allows anyone to use it for any purpose without restriction.) Do this by placing an appropriate tag on the image description page, like {{GFDL}} or {{PD}}. Be sure to mention that you created the image. If you're using {{PD}}, you may also want to use {{NoRightsReserved}}, since there is some dispute as to whether one may grant items into the public domain.

If you didn't create the image, or the copyright somehow belongs to another party (like a screenshot, which you might "create", but the copyright belongs to the author of the movie or video game), then you need to find another tag that describes the copyright status of the image. Images used on Wikipedia need to be free for our use and the use of sites which reproduce our content. This means that images cannot have a restriction such as "only for use by Wikipedia", or "for non-commercial use only", or "for educational use". Images without a free license may be usable in certain articles under fair use, but such a use should be justified on the image description page.

• Describe the image.

To another reader, the image may not be immediately understood. A caption in an article doesn't explain the image to a visitor who sees it on its image page. Put a brief explanation of what is in the image on the image description page, similar to what you might include in a caption on an article.

Some links to Wikipedia pages on this subject:

Copyrights, Copyright tags, Fair use, Image description page, Public domain, Images for deletion, Possibly unfree images, Copyright problems, Uploading images

Thanks again for your contributions. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at my talk page. — getcrunk what?! 18:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Oprah Winfrey has been called the most powerful woman in the world.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Oprah Winfrey has been called the most powerful woman in the world.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the source and creator of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the source and creator of the image on the image's description page, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided source information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 19:08, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Please sign your posts.

As a courtesy for other editors, kindly observe Wikipedia guidelines and sign your talk page and user talk page posts. To do so simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments and your user name or IP address and the date will be automatically added. For further info see: Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks. — getcrunk what?! 17:31, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Poor format

You may not realise it, but Wikipedia has its own house style defined in Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Please be careful to follow its advice. All edits that don't will be changed to match what our MoS recommends. — getcrunk what?! 19:45, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Alleged meatpuppets

I don't know what your relationship to these other users are; can you please explain? I'm willing to assume good faith here, but how do apparently "new users" become involved in an edit war so quickly? Anyway, you should read through the core Wikipedia policies, listed at Template:Policylist. Thanks — getcrunk what?! 22:14, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

3RR

Please familiarize yourself with the 3-revert rule at WP:3RR if you make a fourth reversion you will be reported and probably blocked. --Strothra 18:49, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Separating black people

I have suggested breaking it up into a number of articles several times. I would hope this would help with the rancor. However it might be best to discuss it first on the talk page.--Filll 18:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok then I will make noise about it on the talk page and see if we can build support. If you see EO around, try to convince him or her that this is a good idea. I appreciate that some people want to have just one article, but I think there is too much fighting with one article. I also think that we have too much material for just one article.--Filll 19:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)