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You said, at the bottom, "Source: Encyclopedia Britannia, public domain".
Which version of the EB do you mean?
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I'm very sorry: The information was from the first google-hit and in the header was said, that information is availiable from the Encyclopedia Britannia.
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You took the information from a website, but not the wording. That's okay, then.
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I saw your article on Düsselthal. I've decided to give it a little copy edit (mostly for typo's), I hope you don't mind. That's what brought me to your page. Then I saw that you have a question on how to get the pictures from the German Wikipedia up for use in the enwiki. If you still want to know, let me know and I'll walk you trough it. (It's a little tedious but definitely worth it!) :) --Mmounties (Talk) 03:40, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Yes, that would be very nice!
It seemed like you were - at least - very familiar with the area. :)
Now, first off, I noticed that your post appeared in the middle of my talk page. I assume that you tried to find the right place to insert it. That actually is quite easy. If you just click the "+" sign on the tabs it will automatically put the new post in the right place.
Ok. To move pictures from the dewiki (short for the German Wikipedia) to the Commons for use in enwiki (similarly short for the English one) and everywhere else:
first you need to download the pictures to your hard drive. Click image for an example of an image pageI put them in a folder all by themselves and make sure I do not change the file name (otherwise it's a real mess). You need to watch out particularly that the extensions don't get changed from lower to upper case and vice versa so you need to make sure you check the "suggested new file name" carefully and change what's needed.
then you access the Commons from the main page. If you haven't yet, create a user there as well. Click image for an example of an image I moved from dewiki)(I just direct all to please post on my enwiki talk page - you may want to ask all to post on your dewiki page - and I place interwiki links to my enwiki page on my various project pages to help people find it.)
then you click the Upload file link in the Commons and select the picture you downloaded. In the description area copy and paste the information from the image page including the file history there and make a note of the license indicated there.
then edit the copied language to make sure that the original uploader's name is properly linked to a user page
then go to Commons:Copyright tags and select the corresponding license template and place it in the description section underneath the copied material.
add the category that the image belongs to
and finally save all that.
now take a look at the new image page and make sure it has all the necessary information.
Now, if you didn't change any part of the name of the image file, you're almost done. You just need to go to the image file in the dewiki and edit the image page by placing the {{NowCommons|<name of the file>}} tag at the top of the page. This will let dewiki admins know that the image is now available from the Commons under the same name and that they can delete the one in the dewiki.
To link to the image now in the Commons, all you need to do is place [[Image:<name of the file>|thumb|200px|right/left|<caption>]] into your article and you're all set. From the dewiki, it works the same way except that you need to specify "Bild" rather than "Image".
This is it. If you run into any trouble at all following these instructions, please let me know and I'll try to help you. Happy editing! --Mmounties (Talk) 19:14, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
I almost forgot: The reason you want to make sure that the image in the Commons has the same name as it had in dewiki is that you won't need to go back and fix the links in the German articles if they are the same name. If you modify the name even slightly (like change .jpg to .JPG, for example), the German article won't be able to find it there anymore unless you fix the link in the article. It's work no one needs. :-) --Mmounties (Talk) 19:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
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All the picture I gave to the Wikipedia yesterday, were taken by my own last year. I want them under the GDFL lincence. Coffeinfreak07:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks a lot. At the moment, I don't have enough time to work in the Wikipedia. But I can translate things from the German or may be some other Wikipedias. Let me know, if you want something to translate. --Coffeinfreak (talk) 11:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
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