Nikreations

A belated welcome!

SS Peter and Paul parish church, Church Hanborough, Oxfordshire

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Nikreations. As well as writing for Wikipedia I've been contributing photos to Wikimedia Commons for several years, including many of Oxfordshire churches. It's a huge task, so I look forward to improving Wikipedia articles by adding links to your panoramas on Google.

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Motacilla (talk) 13:57, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For adding links to panoramas in Oxfordshire churches that you have taken for Google. Motacilla (talk) 14:08, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Church interiors

I've reverted a number of your additions of links to 360 views of church interiors; while they're interesting, and valid on articles that are specifically about the churches in question, I think they're inappropriate for articles about the settlements in general, where they fail the WP:ELNO guideline: "one should generally avoid providing external links to...sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article. A general site that has information about a variety of subjects should usually not be linked from an article on a more specific subject. Similarly, a website on a specific subject should usually not be linked from an article about a general subject." (my emphasis). Dave.Dunford (talk) 14:32, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

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