Lhamas
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editDear Lhamas: Welcome to Wikipedia, a free and open-content encyclopedia. I hope you enjoy contributing. To help get you settled in, I thought you might find the following pages useful:
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Regarding edits made during November 6 2006 (UTC) to Wikipedia:List of policies
editWelcome to wikipedia! I reverted your edits to Wikipedia:List of policies, because they didn't seem to fit with the page. Were you trying to warn a user about copyright infringement? If so, the place to do that is on the user's talk page. You can get more information on that at Help:Talk page. If you want to make a comment about an article, please post it to the article's discussion page, not the main article. Of course, feel free to edit articles as you see the need. A good guide is this: If your edit is something you'd say about the article, rather than something an encyclopedia would say about the subject, put it in the discussion page. Always be bold, and feel free to talk to me with any questions. AubreyEllenShomo 23:47, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
About using sections on user talk pages.
editHey. I saw you made a comment on my talk page, then changed it, and in the process deleted the header section. I just wanted to let you know that you usually should leave comments in place, and say never mind, etc, and shouldn't delete the ==Section Name== at the top of a section. It just makes it hard to read. No big deal. I know no harm was maent, and none was done. I just wanted to let you know about that. AubreyEllenShomo 22:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- I actually saw what was going on there. Adding and deleting stuff to leave a comment. I just put back in the image HOWTO request comment, and added a section for it. What I should have said is that it's always good to start a comment with a line like this: ==Subject==. Anyway, hope you're settling in. AubreyEllenShomo 22:19, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- And I just renamed this section, so it reads better, and reflects what I meant to say. AubreyEllenShomo 22:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Image HOWTO
editHey. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Haven't really been on wikipedia that much. A couple resources to get started are: WP:IMAGE about using images, and WP:UPIMAGE about uploading images. Remember that images (even on your user page) have to be uploaded to wikipedia, and have to be licensed by you for use (if you own the copyright) or have to be allowed for use under fair use or in the public domain. So, first upload the image to wikipeida at Special:Upload, make sure to tag it as allowed for use, then use the [[Image:imagename.jpg]] tag, with your image name. Hope that helps. AubreyEllenShomo 22:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyright problem: Short bigeye
editHello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Short bigeye, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material. This article appears to be a copy from http://www.gma.org/fogm/Pseudopriacanthus_altus.htm, and therefore a copyright violation. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted.
If you believe that the article is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:
- If you have permission from the author leave a message explaining the details at Talk:Short bigeye and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
- If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at Talk:Short bigeye with a link to where we can find that note.
- If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Short bigeye.
It is also important that the text be modified to have an encyclopedic tone and that it follows Wikipedia article layout. For more information on Wikipedia's policies, see Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Short bigeye/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Short bigeye saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Whpq (talk) 13:15, 20 April 2008 (UTC)