User talk:Thegn

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Contents 1 Image copyright problem with Image:UK IT market.jpg 2 Image:Rest area.jpg 3 License tagging for Image:Fistral turn1.jpg 4 Welcome! 5 IBM article 6 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 7 Copyright 8 F. W. Sanderson 9 Colleen Arnold

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:UK IT market.jpg

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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. Dethomas 05:24, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I have updated this with a No-Rights-Reserved tag. Thegn 16-Feb-06

[edit] Image:Rest area.jpg

Hi, can you please clarify the copyright status of Image:Rest area.jpg, thanks. --lightdarkness ^(talk) 03:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Can you tell me where this image is used? I don't know how to find images easily. Thanks Thegn

[edit] License tagging for Image:Fistral turn1.jpg

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[edit] Welcome!

[edit] IBM article

Hi Thegn. I have reverted your edits to the IBM article again. These look like original research to me. You'll need to cite sources to include this material in the article. Thanks, Gwernol 17:53, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, I have now done so. Almost every paragraph is sourced. Thegn 17:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

I have spent much of this weekend trying to clean up the dreadful prose of David Mercer, who seems to have included much of his self-pitying autobiography in the IBM article, without any sources at all.

The IBM article as a whole is a bit of a mess, still very long-winded where Mercer's text remains, and quite feeble in its coverage of the period after Mercer left (i.e. the late 1980s). I suspect there needs to be a separate wikipedia article on IBM's history. Thegn 18:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Copyright

Please don't copy text directly from websites into articles, as with Lord Otho FitzGerald. Most of the information at thepeerage.com was already incorporated into the article. In re. his name, see the talk page there. Choess 20:52, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] F. W. Sanderson

It seems as though much of what you wrote on this article is copied from Prof. Richard Dawkin's essay The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oudle. This may be a breach of copyright law and the article may not be considered to be of encyclopedic quality at times. Just thought I’d tell you in case you wanted to clean the article up a bit. Thanks. Miller 15:00, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colleen Arnold

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Colleen Arnold article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

Feel free to re-submit a new version of the article. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. Kon-Tiki001 14:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)