My Best Shot

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Hello, My Best Shot! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already loving Wikipedia you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Notedgrant (talk) 14:59, 30 August 2009 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Michiko Hattori

I'll try helping you with this article,I've added categories please cross check them and remove any inappropriate edit Have a good day and thanks for giving me the opportunity to help you :))--Notedgrant (talk) 23:31, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

RE

Hi thanks for contacting me .For information about Images on WP try this link WP:IMAGE for uploading an Image go here. Internal links on WP are case sensitive example if you add a link michiko hattori it wont work while Michiko Hattori works.When adding references to articles see to it that you have a new section called references/footnotes with this {{reflist}} template for auto addition of internal links this can help .

To be frank I've never uploaded an image here because of the copyright restrictions you can get more information (if required) on uploading Images on the help desk WP:HD.You can also place {{helpme}}to call Admins on your page to help you (The admins out here are really cool :D). Try creating your user page and placing templates adding userboxes it makes pages look better :D .If there's anything you need just contact me on my talk page I'll try my best Have a gr8 day --Notedgrant (talk) 10:18, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Can I add help me template for you ?btw this is the new contributours help page-Notedgrant (talk) 10:45, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Please add your question below the template --Notedgrant (talk) 10:56, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added a hidden HTML below the helpme tamplate or tag on your talk page ask your question on your talk page isn't it easy and simple Yeah just below the big box with the help me message Thanks for asking me If there's anything I can do for you just contact me on my talk page --Notedgrant (talk) 11:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

OR just write your question here I'll post it for you --Notedgrant (talk) 11:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Added --Notedgrant (talk) 12:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Help with images

Here is my question: I recently contributed my first article to Wikipedia and would like to add two images, but am having difficulty with the upload process/licensing issue. If you do a Google Images search using Michiko's name the first two photos that come up are the ones I want to place in the article - here are the links: 1) http://image.alba.co.jp/tourpro/00229/235x270/regular/Michiko_Hattori.jpg and 2) http://www.topy.co.jp/english/social/img/img_001_007.jpg I would like the individual photo placed in the info box on the right of the entry and the image with Michiko and Mickelson in the same vicinity, perhaps following the introductory sentence? As far as I know both images have been in the public domain for some time (one photo dates from 1989 and the other is present on multiple sites). Can these images be added to the entry? Is there anything I need to do before they can be placed in the article?

Hi there.

I moved this to the end of your talk page; please add new comments at the end.

Also, When you leave messages, please remember to "sign" your name, by putting ~~~~ (four tilde signs) at the end. This will add your name, and the date and time.

I suspect that both of those images are copyrighted. Google shows me that the first picture was used on this website, and at the bottom of that page it says, "Copyrights (C) 2009 ゴルフ情報ALBA.Net All rights Reserved. ". The second is from here, which also has a copyright notice at the bottom.

Wikipedia can only use images with an appropriate licence, such as the 'creative commons' licence or 'public domain'. We cannot use copyright images (except in certain very special circumstances).

I have looked on flickr, on Japanese Wikipedia, and using Google, and I am unable to find a suitably-licenced picture of this person; I'm sorry. The only other suggestion I have is that you could email the person, their agent, or someone who has a picture of them and ask for permission to use it, using a Boilerplate request for permission  Chzz  ►  12:29, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your previous input; I have another question regarding images. At some point I plan on translating and posting a few articles currently present on German Wikipedia. I want to use the identical images from the German entries...given that photos are already present on Wikipedia I am hopeful there is a simple way of moving these to the English language version, when complete. Thank you for your additional assistance. --My Best Shot (talk) 04:43, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello again.

Most images are stored on "commons", which is a wiki for storing media that can be used by all Sister projects - ie all different language wikis, and Wiktionary, Wikiquote, etc.

For example, at the moment, the Featured Article on the German Wikipedia is de:Flughafen Wien, which has the picture Datei:Flughafenschwechat.jpg. If you look at the description page, it says "Diese Datei und die Informationen unter dem roten Trennstrich werden aus dem zentralen Medienarchiv Wikimedia Commons eingebunden. " - ie, the file page on the German Wikipedia is really just a 'place-holder', and it links to the 'true' location on commons, commons:File:Flughafenschwechat.jpg.

Commons images can be used on any project, with no special code - hence, here I have put [[File:Flughafenschwechat.jpg|thumb]], and the picture appears.

You may come across some images that are only stored on the local wiki, and not on commons - in that case, they can often be moved across. See Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons.

To answer your other question (on my talk page), to ask for help, all you need to do is edit this page, and at the end type in {{helpme}}, and then write your question.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  05:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks again. I want to move an image from commons to a new article. I have found instructions on moving from an entry to commons but I want to do the opposite. I tried to copy/paste from the edit screen of the German entry but all that did was place an empty image box in the English language version. --My Best Shot (talk) 06:59, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, in fact all the images that are on commons are directly accessible on Wikipedia as if they were directly uploaded here. That means that typing [[File:My Image.jpg]] will (usually) work if My Image.jpg is stored on commons. -- Luk ^talk 09:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)