User talk:WikieWikieWikie
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[edit] Canute the Great
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I've tried to explain at Talk:Canute the Great why I think your addition is unsuitable. I agree that the previous version is not good but I think your changes haven't improved it. Haukur 22:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Canute again
I appreciate your enthusiasm but to get anywhere with Wikipedia articles you'll have to follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines, some of which are counterintuitive. Take this, for example:
"He was a Viking prince, with some connections to legengendary pirates of Jomsborg, known as Jomsvikings, and the Bretwalda of the Anglo-Saxons, maybe, England's only true one."
This seems to me like it is original research. I've never seen Canute called Bretwalda elsewhere, let alone the only true one. On Wikipedia we have a policy that we should not do original research. Read WP:NOR. Haukur 10:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] God's angels
"...Harald Bluetooth, his father, being the first Viking to accept the validity of the Chritian faith, and the belief in God's angels."
Try to avoid long literary sentences like that. Something more in Wikipedia-style would be "...Harald Bluetooth, his father, being the first Danish king to convert to Christianity". Haukur 15:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sigrid the Haughty
Hi there! Well, I must say that I, being not the native speaker at all, had large difficulties in understanding some of your changes. Could you please break them into single sentences, without digressions et al? Szopen 06:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
WikiWiki, PLEASE revise your edits. The sentences are too large and I can't understand them. Are you native speaker? Szopen 10:01, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I have ade some improvement which I hope are enough.
WikieWikieWikie 12:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image licencing
Please be careful when you upload images to Wikipedia. If the image is not in the public domain or licenced under a free licence (mostly GFDL or CC-BY-SA-2.X) then we most often shouldn't use it. And you can't assume that an image is in the public domain, you've got to be sure. The vast majority of websites out there do not have public domain images. A random Norwegian website is almost certainly not in the public domain. Images on the BBC website are not in the public domain. That a site doesn't explicitly specify its copyright terms or show the copyright sign is not an indication that it is in the public domain.
I know this can be tough and counterintuitive but to be effective at this you've got to read up on how things are done on Wikipedia. Otherwise you'll keep getting frustrated as you see your images deleted. Haukur 10:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- I forgot to mention one thing. Artwork is in the public domain if more than 70 years have passed since the author's death. Photographs of such artwork which aim at accurately reproducing it are also in the public domain in the United States if the artwork is two-dimensional. So the picture Image:E&C-WinchesterCross.jpg, which you uploaded, actually is in the public domain since the artist is long dead and the photograph only aims at showing his two-dimensional artwork. It's a nice image too and it belongs in the article on Cut, so kudos for that. Haukur 10:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter - Issue VI - August 2006
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[edit] This article may interest you
It is interesting. I think it is untrustworthy though, as the interpretations of the evdince precariously hinge on the assumption of Cnut as a teenage Viking interloper on English shores. I really want to get a full list of original sources together so I might comprehenively analyse their compilations, for a book, Cnutr and the Vikings. It is driving me over the edge with all these poor analysis. If anyone wants to comment on the era of Cnut the Great, it should be with entirely solid evidence, or simply not at all. It is the Ottar the Black poem Knutsdrapa which is the cause of so much mistakeness. It is the key.
[edit] re Image:Rune Stone the Viking Ship SigridStorrada.jpg
No images are allowed that are tagged as "for non-commercial or educational use only". Only images that are released for any use, either released into the public domain or under the GDFL license, are allowed on the 'pedia. Herostratus 09:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
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