User talk:ToddC4176

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Hi ToddC4176, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a few important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 02:50, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Image copyright problem with Image:DD-850.jpg 2 CollegeFootball Project 3 Image:Pizzitola-Front1.JPG listed for deletion 4 Image:Pizzitola-Front 1.JPG listed for deletion

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:DD-850.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:DD-850.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) 14:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I think i have found some direct plagiarism on one of the pages and I'm wondering what should be done about it....

Hello, ToddC4176. What page are you refering to? GofG _|^|_| Contribs 18:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I have been attempting to clean up some of the college athletic facility pages, and I came across the one for Boone Pickens Stadium. It seemed pretty messy, but when i went looking for more information, I noticed that it includes most of the sections from this page, eight article down. THe information is almost directly taken from that article.

The tip-off was the line from the Wiki article, "Boone Pickens Stadium, formerly known as Lewis Field, is home to the Oklahoma State University college football program. Boone Pickens Stadium, the home of Oklahoma State Football, is a far cry from what the student body expected when they were renaming the field before the 1914 football season."

If you look at the page linked above from OkState.com, you'll see that its first line is, "Boone Pickens Stadium, formerly Lewis Field and home of Oklahoma State football, is a far cry from what the school's student body of 1914 ever expected when they named the "Athletic Field" after Laymon Lowery Lewis. " Whoever made this page just cut & pasted parts of it all over the place in the article....

Please sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~) As for the plagiarism... Technically it is allowed, as long as the site that the information is copied from is under the Public Domain, or the GFDL license. Of course, it is frowned upon. No action is necessary, really. You should definetly email the okstate.com webmaster and ask what license the data is published under, and if it is not GFDL or public domain, then confront the plagiarist and inform an administrator. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 20:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot. If he doesn't reference the site that he got it from, please do so or ask him to do so. GofG _|^|_| Contribs 20:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CollegeFootball Project

Hello, I noticed that you have edited a College football related article. You may be interested to know that there is a college football WikiProject which you can join if you like. We would love to have you! --MECU≈talk 19:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I have begun working on the table itself and the nicknames list on the portal. I'm attempting to do it a letter (or letters, depending...) at a time. I still need to finish a few more Sun Belt stadiums, but most have been at least started. ToddC4176 22:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

MECU≈talk 00:30, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pizzitola-Front1.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Pizzitola-Front1.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. YellowDot 02:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Pizzitola-Front 1.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Pizzitola-Front 1.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. YellowDot 02:09, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I did not accuse you of something wrong. And the rhetoric question on my user page has nothing to do with your images. The deal is simple: the two above images where orphaned (i.e. not used in any article) lower resolution copies of Image:Pizzitola-Front.JPG. So why Wikipedia should host three identical images when it really needs only one? The two lower resolution copies got nominated for deletion, leaving the third and the best copy alone. There is nothing in here, just basic housekeeping. Hope you understand now. YellowDot 23:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)