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Blue Amber images

You should put the appropriate template on the images for Blue Amber. --Yath 07:45, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

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Vsmith 05:30, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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Do not try to pass off other people's work as your own, if you keep putting falce license info on your uploads you will be blocked. --Sherool (talk) 15:37, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Aerotrim image

Hi, sorry for the stern message, but it did look kinda bad from where I was standing. Anyway if you do hold the copyright for that (and other) images (if it was work for hire the customer often "buy" the copyright to the image, I don't suppose that was the case here?) then the copyright tags you used where in themselves ok. The problem was that you did not make it clear enough that you where the copyright holder. You should include a statement on the image page(s) saying that you are the copyright holder and if possible some details about when the image was taken and stuff like that, this statement is basicaly the "source", usualy we accept "I took this photo", but for professional photographs (especily ones that can be found around on the internett) the bar is a little bit higher as we want to make sure people are not ripping off other people's stuff. So basicaly just write enough info about the photo shoot to "prove" that the images are yours.

Oh and if you have other (or higher quality versions of the same) pictures that would defenently be great (preferably without the copyright notice or text superimposed on it), and would also go a long way in proving that you and not www.sz-erlebniswelt.de is the original source. Images can be resized "on the fly" by the mediawiki software so there is no need to resize the images to "web format" to be eable to use them, high resolution uploads of free content is encouraged.

The same goes for the other pictures, the problem was that rather than saying the pictures where taken by you you linked to websites that where using the images and that where labeled with the standard "Copyrighted all rights reserved" notice and then tagged them with the GFDL template without explaining why. This made it look like you had ripped the images from those pages and then put the GFDL notice on them, unfortunately this happens a lot (people tagging Star Wars screenshtos and all sorts of things as GFDL or even PD) so such images tend to get more or less shot on sight. Therefore it's important to properly explain that you rely did take those photos yourself.

Oh and one last thing, when uploading free licensed images consider uploading to Wikimedia commons instead, images uploaded on commons can be used on all Wikimedia projects directly (not just the english Wikipedia), inluding all the language Wikipedias, Wikibooks and so on directly (providing a "local" image does not share the same name at one of the projects).

Hope this answers your questions. --Sherool (talk) 16:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

^{Copied from my talk page. --Sherool (talk) 17:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)}

Thanks for the quick reply and kind words! I would say lets delete the image entirly (can you do that?) and I'll upload a high-res later. I will be updating the entire Aerotrim article anyway. And I hope to become a better Wikipedian in the future. Thanks for everything! --The Singularity 16:31, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Sure I think we can skip the whole 7 day deletion process in this case since it's your image and all. I'll get rid of it right away. Happy continued editing. --Sherool (talk) 17:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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D.R.

Hello, Singularity!

Is there another source saying that Dominican Sign Language has "official" status? I'm referring to this edit: [1] SamEV (talk) 20:42, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

• Interesting. They seem to have taken it down. I don't know of an online source yet, only whatever the Government has printed. As soon as they publish something online I'll correct it.

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