User talk:Stco23/Archive1

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False blocks

Please do not tell users they have been blocked when they haven't been yet, as you did to User:Hammeler. Leave that to the administrators, if they decide to block a vandal they will add a blocking notice to their talk page themselves. Thanks. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 00:07, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

No real harm done. Now that he's been warned about his behaviour, report him the next time he vandalises and he will be blocked, probably indefinitely. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 08:27, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

"Your" Uploads

Wikipedia is not a host for your personal photographs for your own needs, especially when you make a public article for them. If you with to host your images on Wikipedia, please put them into proper context within articles. Otherwise, use other hosts such as Image Shack. They allow you to host images for free. I will now be replacing the Delete tag on your article. Thank you. --Chris 20:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Update There's no need for apologies, but if you prefer it, you are forgiven, at least for this one thing. Your other offenses are not my business. --Chris 01:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Your "My Uploads" page

If you want to create a page to link your own images from just so you know where to find them, you should do so here: User:Stco23/My Uploads. This is known as the "User Space" and is a good place to do any experimenting, or saving images like this. Nobody will complain about what you do within your own user space, because most of us won't even notice. The article My Uploads that you'd created is in the "Mainspace" however, which is reserved for Encyclopedic information only, so this page is completely out of place and will end up getting deleted. --Maelwys 20:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I see you've already been bugged about this issue, but actually you're not allowed to use Fair use images in user space, and you're not allowed to use them just anywhere in article space either. You can link to your images without showing them by putting [[:Image:nameofimage.ext]] (note the first colon). Images such as screenshots and covers of books and videos are fair use in the articles which are about them, but not just anywhere. Sorry. Mak (talk) 23:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

This issue has already been resolved a long time ago, So I want no request about this issue in the near future. Thank You.--Stco23 23:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

This issue clearly has not been resolved since [1] still contains copyrighted images. The images are not entirely yours to release, since they contain artwork done by living people, and either they or the people they work for own the rights to those images. Who took the photo is to a certain extent irrelevant. Some of these photos would be allowed in an article if they are used in order to illustrate the subject of the photo, and are used for educational purposes. Fair use images may not be used in userspace. Mak (talk) 04:30, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

In addition, you have been warned about adding copyrighted material before and have repeatedly disrespected Wikipedia's policies on them. This edit [2] makes me think you have some idea of what you are doing, as the first tag was accurate, and the tag you changed it to is a misrepresentation of reality. If you continue to flout wikipedia's policies, I will be forced to block you. I don't like messing with others' userspace, but I am changing the tags back to the appropriate tags, and will link to the images on your subpage, rather than having them transcluded as they are currently. Mak (talk) 04:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree that you should keep the right over the photograph of you as a child. The problem with the Garfield picture you took is that it cannot be in the public domain because the artwork on the DVD case itself is copyrighted, and changing the format of it from the actual DVD to a digital picture of the DVD does not change that. Mak (talk) 03:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you asking whether you may change the licensing on your school photo? I think you can, although it's a little complicated with the licensing on Wikipedia, but I do think you should at least try. What I was talking about before with the licensing was that it looked to me like you had the correct license at first, and then you changed it to a false one so that you could do what you wanted with it. If I were you, I would feel free to change the license on your own photo to say you don't want other people using it. Mak (talk) 03:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

The tag on the Garfield and Friends image needs to stay as it is, since it's accurate. Mak (talk) 03:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)