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[edit] License tagging for Image:State Park Map.gif

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I received the following email from Richard Shearer (WebMaster) for the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources Website: "It is our Policy that anyone can use our images as long as they credit the image to us or whoever we have credited the image, however some images on the site are Copy Protected and can not be used. Images that are copy protected have the Right-Click disabled on the image." Dated July 13, 2006. --Mphamilton 19:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work

On those WV lists of... articles. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 11:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I am a WV State Park freak. I hope to get as many images as possible on each park/forest uploaded (with permission). --Mphamilton 21:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:WLSC.jpg

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:WhgCityHall.jpg

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[edit] Copyright problems with Image:EleanorSteber.jpg

feydey 21:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Faithdaniels.jpg

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[edit] Copyright problems with Image:WVSupremeCourt.jpg

feydey 21:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:WVNCC.jpg

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[edit] Unspecified source for Image:WPHSfront.png

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[edit] Copyright problems with Image:CapitolMusicHallInterior.gif

feydey 21:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your uploads

Please stop uploading copyrighted images with the template NORIGHTSRESERVED. Most images on the internet are copyrighted and are not appropriate for uploading to Wikipedia. Images found on websites or on an image search engine should not be uploaded to Wikipedia. Users who upload content with false license declarations, or who repeatedly upload images with no license declaration, may be blocked. Please see how to upload images. feydey 21:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I totally second that. - CrazyRougeian talk/email 15:25, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The images I uploaded are NOT copyrighted, were specifically granted for use in the public domain, or come from state/federal resources which hold no copyright. I seem to have tagged them in error, but wikipedia should figure that out for itself. --Mphamilton 19:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that only applies to the federal gov't. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 19:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

At your request, I have submitted a request to the Webmaster of the WV Supreme Court of Appeals website to seek clarification. Hopefully, these images of the justices and the court are in the public domain. If not, I have requested permission to post these images (and others from the website) to Wikipedia. Thank you for your patience.--Mphamilton 21:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Even that, in some cases, might not be good enough to satisfy the free license or fair use requirements of Wikipedia, but I am absolutely not an expert. Check out Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ for more. I think the Court Justices will fly, however, if tagged as fair use for now. A followup will uncover under what license WV release's its government-produced images. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 12:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Just so you know, if you have an image that you've specifically received permission for, you need to forward that permission to permissions at wikimedia dot org. If you don't forward the email along, the image will probably be deleted again. Also, please note that the person granting permission needs to specifically state that the image is released into the public domain or under a free license. Shell ^babelfish 18:39, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems with Image:WVSupremeCourtJustices.jpg

feydey 21:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Under the main edit text, you will see a box that says "edit summary." With each edit, try to remember to put a brief description of what you have done to the article with each edit. It helps out other editors and can help you keep track of what you have done on a given article. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 14:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I thought I had been to a great extent. Are you referring to any particular edit? --Mphamilton 14:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

You have been putting good explanations on the talk pages, but I am refering to the edit summaries, which are a bit different. Underneath the area where you type in edits, you should see something like this:

That is where you put edit summaries. For more information, check out Edit summaries. Cheers and keep up the good work. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 15:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Forgive my ignorance, but you're saying that for every edit made there can be an individual edit summary? I thought that it was one particular summary that covers the entire section or article. Thanks for your clarification. --Mphamilton 15:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Yup. You're getting the hang of it. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 15:20, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:016 13A.jpg

Actually, the picture was taken from the balcony of the room in former Best Western hotel (the hotel changed ownership, and I don't remember it's new name). Is there a restaurant there now? Just want to make sure there was no mistake in your description. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the misidentification. The Riverside Restaurant is on the first floor of the hotel which is now known as the Wheeling Inn. The Riverside Restaurant has been a part of that hotel for over ten years. It would have provided the same result from the restaurant's vantage point.--Mphamilton 16:10, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I think I remember the restaurant terrace, although the restaurant was closed at the time of my visit. The picture was taken from a room located one or two floors above the restaurant. I realize it wouldn't make a lot of difference. The only thing I regret is that damn balcony that ruined a perfect picture :(—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:57, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I have corrected the image description to include your clarification. Thanks, as always! --Mphamilton 17:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:WVCourtSeal.gif

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[edit] Ohio 2nd congressional district election, 2006

I've removed your comment on the talk/discussion page of this article. Talk pages aren't for recording that one did an edit on an article. The History page is sufficient for that. Put the information about what you did -- and you can be brief unless you think the edit is controversial, in which case, DO explain a bit -- in the edit summary (see above).

What WOULD be useful is if you would go back to the article and add a link to your source. Without a source, your information isn't verifiable, and if it isn't verifiable, shouldn't be in a wikipedia article. John Broughton 18:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, I did not know that the "discussion" page restricted certain content. I noticed that a number of the claims made in the article lacked sources as well. Now, I will certainly provide you with one IF you decide to post your sources as well.

Whenever I add something to an article, I try to always add a source, since that is one of the best ways to make sure the addition remains in the article (or that someone improves it by checking the orginal source. If you come across anything where that isn't the case, please let me know.

As far as the "discussion" page, people are free to put whatever they want on it. I removed your comment because I didn't want anyone new to wikipedia to get into that habit - it's a waste of the editor's time to do log entries on that page, and a waste of readers' time to read log entries. The History page is a log, and a much better one, since it allows comparisons of article versions to check that what a person said he/she did is what actually was done.

Finally, thank you for adding the source to the polling information - very helpful. John Broughton 14:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

P.S. It may seem odd to add a date/time stamp and your name when putting a comment on your own discussion page (using the standard four tildes), but that's also the norm in wikipedia.

[edit] Pages containing nothing but an image

Could you please stop making these pages, at least until you have more information? (The pages will probably be deleted per WP:CSD A1 or A3 for having no context or content, but you can recreate them as long as you have enough information to make a stub.) --ais523 08:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

These images are links from a list of places on the National Register of Historical Places in Wheeling, WV. I didn't know how else to display these images without direct links. I fully intend on providing information on the individual images, but they are properly linked, and I do not have the time at the moment to add the additional information. --Mphamilton 08:40, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

For the time being, there's probably no need to display the images. They're Public Domain, not fair use, so they're unlikely to be deleted. You could keep a list of them on a user subpage (for instance, User:Mphamilton/List of images from Wheeling) if you're worried about losing track of them. --ais523 08:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I have added links to the overall county list, itself. That should suffice for the time being. I ask for your patience in the matter. Thanks --Mphamilton 08:47, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] single photo

Hi. It is good that you are enthusiastic but a link is not enough. It needs at least some basic info of where it is. I have had not save a number of your articles from deletion by finding some quick info. James Janderson 08:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:HollyRiverSP.gif

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[edit] WV state park list

Thank you.

BTW, you can always check the history list to find out who made changes.

If you have any photos of any state parks (especially those without any pix), please upload them and display them in the SP article. WVhybrid 22:52, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] WV Legislature moves.

Let me take care of it. I have admin access, so I can fix things and preserve the edit history on the correct pages. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 19:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

That being said, thanks for the other moves. It was only the one that I reverted that had an error. Good work. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 19:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:BobWise.jpg

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Please specify the exact source, web link, and/or agency you got the image from. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 14:43, 9 December 2006 (UTC)