Duckpatch

Welcome

Hello Duckpatch. I just discovered the articles you made for Firefly and Innocent Victim and realized that no one has welcomed you to Wikipedia. I'm especially happy to have another Uriah Heep fan here.

You've made quite a few edits already — making those great pages — but here are a few good links that are useful to newcomers and veterans alike:

• Editing, policy, conduct, and structure tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style
• Merging, redirecting, and renaming pages

By the way, one important thing is be sure to sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump, or ask me on my talk page. ×Meegs 11:49, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome Meegs! I will continue to add to Uriah Heep but I wouldn't mind touching Jethro Tull :P - Duckpatch

Uriah Heep

Hi Patch. I'm going to answer your email here so that I can use wiki links. For bonus tracks, try something like they have in Thriller (album). Keep the infobox contents dedicated to the original release, though. As for bootlegs, listing them in the band's article is definitely not a good idea. If you go to Bootleg recording and click on "What links here" in the left-hand panel, you get a list of the 230 or so articles that link to that article, and you'll see that none of them are lists of bootlegs either. Really, WP just isn't the right place to cover bootlegs. Search for "bootleg" on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums and its four archives for some past discussion on the topic. ×Meegs 05:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

I replied to your questions here. Also, I just noticed that you were the one that made the Uriah Heep disambiguation page. That's good, because it was sorely needed, but the future, follow these directions. The important part is that you begin by moving the established page to it's new parenthetically disambiguated title, rather than just copying and pasting the contents so that the page's history stays with it. ×Meegs 08:29, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

more here ×Meegs 08:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

So do I have to touch anything now? Or is it still OK? - Duckpatch 21:31, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I took care of it. ×Meegs 21:59, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

By that answer, I meant that I took care of the disambiguation page and restored the page history to the Dickens character page. I'm not sure if that's what you were asking about, though. ×Meegs 22:10, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Uploading images

Sorry to bother you with more details, but there are two things to keep in mind when uploading pictures like Image:Conquest.jpg and Image:FallenAngel(album).jpg:

• It's important that you label all of your image uploads appropriately so that they are not deleted for possible copyright infringement. In this case, these images are copyrighted, but you're claiming fair use. For album covers, it's simple to do: select album Fair Use / Copyrighted : Covers : Album cover from the License drop-down menu on the upload file page. Also, it's much more important to include information about the art's creator and copyright holder than about the web site you took it from (after all, all they did was scan it or steal it from someone else). In the case of album covers, stating that it's the cover of xxx's album yyy might be sufficient, but the more info, the better.
• Those images you uploaded are both smaller than the 200-pixel-width they're being displayed at in Template:Album infobox. It's usually best to find or make pictures that are exactly the right size or a little bigger than they're going to be displayed at. Pictures that are too big aren't good either, because they weaken the fair use claim, and because their file sizes are larger.

Keep up the good work. ×Meegs 12:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Jethro Tull a.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Jethro Tull a.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 19:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:FallenAngel(album).jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:FallenAngel(album).jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 06:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Firefly.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Firefly.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 20:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)