User talk:Lowee

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[edit] Welcome!

Hi Lowee, WP:WELCOME to Wikipedia!

I noticed you are adding lots of Whitlams-related stuff. That's great, but when you are adding info to WP you need to be careful about copyright. Wikipedia is available under a "free license" (the GFDL), which means in general all the text and images on it have to be too. Free license basically means anyone can use, redistribute, and edit the image for any purpose, including commercial. (Optionally, they might have to attribute the original image or text to the creator/s, and/or license their work under the same license.)

Basically stuff like album covers, book covers, etc, are rarely if ever going to be available under that kind of license.

However there is a clause called "fair use" whereby the copyright holders of images (for example) retain all their rights, but we (Wikipedia) agree to use the image only for a very specific situation. This is where album covers etc come in.

Long story short... please don't tag images with {{somewebsite}}. All that means is that someone will have to come along after you and figure out what the license should be (and in the worst case, it will just be deleted). For album covers, there is a special tag you can use: {{Albumcover}}.

Please have a look at Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags for more information about this. Also, read Wikipedia:Image description page for information you should provide when uploading an image.

I know this is really overwhelming, but it's important. If you have any questions please leave me a note on my Talk page. This goes for any FOWs who are interested in contributing to Wikipedia, I am more than happy to go through the basics!

There's a whole lot of other "welcome" info I could've given you, but I guess this will do for now. Cheers, happy editing!

--pfctdayelise 15:28, 27 November 2005 (UTC)