User talk:Damion

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them; *How to edit a page *How to write a great article *Naming conventions *Manual of Style If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Alexandros 02:56, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Edits

Hello and welcome. Please begin with a complete sentence not a dictionary-style definition or the like (see my editing of Ludwig Binswanger). Michael Hardy 15:47, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Plantagenet

Howdy! You've done some nice stuff, so try not to be offended when they get edited - that's the way we get things done here. I popped by to encourage you not to use "Plantagenet" as a surname for people who didn't use it as one (that is, before about 1460: see Angevin for a fuller explanation). I didn't move any pages, because that just gets confusing, but I wanted to give you a little food for thought before you create too many "Plantagenet" articles! -- Binky 07:37, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Dresser Industries

The article Dresser Industries appears to be a wikified copy of [1]. Please explain why you believe it isn't infringing their copyright. Jamesday 04:24, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Substantial changes have since been made.

[edit] JFK

Hi! I was wondering, do you have a source for "where it is said he began to emulate President John F. Kennedy, even signing his papers, "J.F.K."." on the John Kerry page? I've read the opposite, although I can't remember where. Thank ya! jengod 08:32, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kerry and Kennedy

Jengod, the statement about Kerry emulating Kennedy was found in the entry "John Forbes Kerry," of Biography Resource Center Online, Gale Group, 2001, which cites an article in the Christian Science Monitor, July 1985. -- Damion.

Thank ya! :) jengod 23:44, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kerry external links

Dear Damion, your stuff is great--but could you try to avoid putting external links in text whenever possible, outside of "sources"--it's just considered bad practice. Like the link to Kerry's Senate testimony is linked in external links, and even though that is Wiki[Source] it formats like an external link and is kind of icky. Here's the manual of style Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Position_in_article on this topic. Apologize for the nagging. And keep up the good work. (P.S. You're not David Rumsey, are you? Because I have the suspicion that you might be. And if so: Your map site rocks. I'm a genealogist and I lurve it!) jengod 05:33, Feb 16, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Jen, thank you! I'm definitely not David Rumsey. On the Kerry senate testimony I thought it would be important for it to be linked at the point it's mentioned in the text as it's a rather long speech and the portions which have been excerpted, here and in the news, are rather unrepresentative. I want people to read the speech itself if they're interested in what was said, rather than the exceprts which make it look like 1) Kerry was admitting to raping and torturing people or 2) he was accusing all Vietnam vets as being rapists and torturers. -- Damion

Hi, Damion. Welcome to Wikipedia. Some excellent, well-written additions. Why don't you edit User:Damion and tell us about yourself? RickK 20:13, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work

on the various Forbes family articles. Been meaning to work on them myself, but haven't had time to dig into it, since it's not something I'm very familiar with. older≠wiser 16:08, 22 May 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 19:59, 10 December 2004


[edit] Harold Bloom image

Hello, I took your pic from Harold Bloom and used it for the German Wikipedia's version of the article. Now it was brought to my attention that there's a similar problem with it, as described above. What is the copyright status of this picture? Thanks, LeoGFischer 09:32, 10 July 2005

[edit] Sharon Stone images

Hi you need to add a tag to these images Image:StoneNewsom.jpg.JPG, Image:Stone1.JPG. Please see this page Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators for an explanation of license tags. Users who create their own photos are encouraged to use the tags {{GFDL-self}} GNU Free Documentation License, or {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}} Creative Commons which mean they can be uploaded to Wikipedia Commons and used in worldwide Wikipedia articles. Please note you must be prepared for images to be used commercially for these tags. Thanks Arniep 12:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Users who upload their own images are not encouraged to use a free license, they're required to.--Fallout boy 17:26, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Iranmap.jpg

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Thanks for uploading Image:Iranmap.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Nv8200p talk 23:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging Image:Vreland.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Vreland.jpg. The image page currently doesn't specify who created the image, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created the image yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the image on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the image yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the image also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture then you can use {{GFDL}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the image qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other images, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of image pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. -- Carnildo 07:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Halston

Hi! I'm contacting you because you once contributed to the Halston article. Unfortunately, this page has been discovered to be a likely copyright violation from its creation, and will be deleted if no one can write a temporary article to replace it. I'm not sure how much you know about this subject, but feel free to create a new temporary article if you know about the subject. Thanks for your time! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 03:16, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Cormacmccarthy.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Cormacmccarthy.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Shyam (T/C) 21:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sharon Stone images

Can you verifiy that you are the author of these images?--Fallout boy 23:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Nevermind, I just saw earlier on this page you did identify yourself as the author. Just forget I ever dropped in. :) --Fallout boy 00:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Union Banking Corporation

Hi! What is the significance of the newspapers that reprinted the story? I'm afraid I don't understand. --Dhartung | Talk 13:25, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The significance is that it is the only newspaper account of the event, and as such people may be inclined to doubt its existence or think it a hoax. By showing that it was reprtined in other newspapers, people can dee that it was indeed a real article, and can also see if the news had any national interest at the time. It's important for context. -- Damion

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