Jennagc
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editHello, Jennagc, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:42, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Draft notes
editHi! I wanted to drop a quick note for you about the draft. I saw that the lead for this was very lengthy - you may want to reduce the lead some by creating a new section. Leads can be lengthy, but they should be reflective of the article as a whole and should not be longer than the largest section in the article. Other than that, just be careful that you're following Wikipedia's writing style guidelines. So far the work generally looks pretty good, but it's always good to take this into consideration. I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:34, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Shalor, thanks for your note. The History section that's currently at the beginning of the article isn't really intended to be the lead section. We were waiting to write the article before writing a lead, so that it could really be an introduction to what was coming. It was difficult to write before knowing what the article said, but we will add one soon. Jennagc (talk) 16:48, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Image copyright
editHello, I saw that you uploaded images to Wikimedia Commons, which were deleted as copyright violations. With images, always make sure that you are careful to attribute the image to its creator by providing the creator's name and a link to the site from which you took the image. Also review the image to ensure that it was released under a form of copyright that would be compatible with Wikimedia Commons - if the image lacked this information, always assume that the image cannot be uploaded due to a restrictive copyright. I would like for you to review the training module on uploading images and media, thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:49, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Shalor, On March 19th I contacted you through the "Get Help" feature to ask for appropriate ways of searching for ASL videos that met the Creative Commons license requirement. You replied on March 21st, which I received by email, with instructions that I followed. You directed me to the Commons: YouTube files link, which directs users to YouTube with search criteria designed to find videos that are under a Creative Commons license. This is the link provided in the instructions: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SearchText%2C+creativecommons. After finding videos using this search function, I ran the videos through the youtube2commons webpage as you instructed, which included the {{LicenseReview}} tag (as directed by the Commons: YouTube files page) in order to verify that they met the license criteria. If the YouTube search criteria and the video2commons webpages had kicked backed the videos as being in violation of copyright, I never would have added them to Wikipedia. Can you please explain what determined that the videos were in copyright violation? If the instructions that you sent aren't able to find appropriate videos, how are Wikipedia users supposed to find videos that meet the criteria that Wikipedia requires? If I cannot upload these videos, is it appropriate to link to them as external links from within the body of the article? I appreciate any insights you can provide. Jennagc (talk) 00:30, 23 April 2019 (UTC)