General1234

On the Help Contents page you list this: Talk page – At the top of every article is a "Talk" tab. Click on it to discuss the article

OK. That led me here with no place to click to start a new topic, except to click on EDIT somewhere. So I clicked on "Edit" here.

MY QUESTION: Is there a way to restrict who can and cannot edit a page? PLEASE: Yes or NO. I can't take any more of these circular instruction pages. I've combed your archives. IF YES, then how? THANK YOU General1234 (talk) 17:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Shearonink (talk) 06:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Imaging instructions...

To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it.

• If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload .
• If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways;

A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr)

B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like:

"Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached."

-Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out)

-And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, please refer to Help:Files and to Help:Contents/Images and media for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links.
Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 06:05, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Some more links...

...that should help you work on your drafts:

• Your first article
• Referencing for beginners
• Notability (musicians)
• Reliable sources

Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 06:07, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! General1234 (talk) 18:53, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Harry Hepcat article resubmitted General1234 (talk) 18:53, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! General1234 (talk) 18:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Harry Hepcat article resubmitted General1234 (talk) 18:55, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Harry Hepcat, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation.

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Hallows AG (ask your question about your article here) 11:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)