Davidsausageface

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Making footnotes

WP:CITEFOOT has the basics - not much to it, you can just write <ref>http://yourreferencehere.com/whatever</ref> at the point in the article where you want the footnote to appear. --McGeddon (talk) 16:18, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Davidsausageface. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Craig Stone (author), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 16:12, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Just to clarify what's going on here - by uploading a selfie of Stone as your "own work", are you happy to identify yourself here as being Craig Stone? Or are you a fan trying to upload a photo of him? --McGeddon (talk) 16:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Not sure how to respond to this, so putting it in here? Hope it's OK! No, I'm not the author, but I am a fan of his work. I've taken this pic, and the previous pic from his blog, where he has a lot of pics from his experience. I checked the first photo on his blog, and it has the name of a photographer, so that's why I put it in. Then after reading your comment, I've changed the pic to one that he has released and is from him. I can probably contact him through his blog if any permission is needed for me to do this?? Thank you!

Yes, this will need explicit permission from Craig, as it's possible he may not want his photos uploaded to the internet CC-licenced as "attribution only" (which would allow press sources to use the photo commercially without asking or paying him, etc). I'll go ahead and flag them as lacking permission - if you head over to Wikimedia Commons you'll see some automated talk page messages telling you what to do next. --McGeddon (talk) 19:17, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you McGeddon! V. helpful. Please flag and I will contact him, his email is on his blog, so I will send him a message. Obvs he might not respond/could take a while. Thank you for flagging, and if he approves I will come back and add that he has approved as/when. Thanks again, new to all this! Merry Christmas McGeddon!