User talk:Jennyarata
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Why did you rv my edits to Sally Ann Howes without even contacting me?? She is a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means she is an American actress and singer, not an "English" one per se, although indisputably an "English-born" one. Rosemary's Baby 19:33, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Mrpolly2.jpg listed for deletion
[edit] Sally Ann Howes images
Hello. There are actually a few issues with the images used on the Sally Ann Howes article, not just the one I notified you about. WP:FAIR has more details, but in a nutshell:
- All images you upload must identify the source and copyright holder. This is just as true for publicity photos. If you got it from a website, you need to indicate the URL. If you scanned it yourself say so, but also indicate where you got the image. Wikipedia is pretty strict about the information that has to be included with images. Wikipedia:Publicity photos has more info concerning publicity photos.
- Images you upload should be tagged appropriately. In the case of the photo I notified you about, that copyright notice specifically states that it is only used for works created by the UK government. Since publicity photos generally aren't created by the gov't (except for gov't employees), that public domain tag is not applicable. I think you have some other images tagged the same way, so those will need to be changed as well.
- Any images that is used under a claim of Fair Use must be used to comment on or critique the object in the image. So including a photo from a play or a still from a movie is not fair use, unless you are commenting critically on the work itself. The general idea here is that images should not be used just to spruce up a page - they must be used for a specific purpose. Just saying "here's a picture of Sally Ann Howes appearing in XXX" is not fair use.
- Fair use doctrine limits the number of images that can be used in an article. Other editors may feel differently, but my take is that the sheer amount of images in the Sally Ann Howes article is much too high to qualify as fair use.
That's about it as far as the image issues are concerned. I would like to pass along a few other suggestions as well, and if you have any questions let me know:
- On your user page you state that, "Although I don't mind other wikiphiles making changes to the work I create on Wikipedia, please make sure you have something of added value to contribute to the articles. I spend months or years in research." It's great that you are dedicated to ensuring that articles of these types are of a certain quality. But please be careful not to cross over into ownership of articles. Any text you add to Wikipedia automatically becomes eligible for revision by anyone who contributes here. Obviously, if falsehoods are entered in an article you should correct them. Likewise, if someone blatantly vandalizes an article, that should be undone. But otherwise, we must always assume good faith when someone edits an article.
- Regarding your talk page - while there is no rule that states you can't delete the contents of your talk page, some may view that as hostile under certain circumstances. The more accepted method is to archive it instead. Help:Talk page has more details.
I hope this has been helpful, and please note that I am by no means trying to give you a hard time. It's clear that you are a very dedicated editor, so I want to see that you don't run afoul of any policies or procedures here. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 19:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re:image source information
To add source info, all you have to do is to edit the image page and type the source. There's no special field or tag for it. --cholmes75 (chit chat) 23:28, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
