User talk:Elred

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[edit] Images

Hello, Elred. I noticed you've uploaded a few images, and I had a few questions about them. (You can respond by editing my talk page and leaving a message there.) First, you uploaded what seemed to be two nearly identical images of the Texas Tech University logo (Image:Ttusticker.gif and Image:Ttusticker2.gif). However, they appear to be duplicates of Image:Texas tech university modern logo.gif, which had already been uploaded. Regarding those two images, you've tagged them as public domain; however, because the image is of a logo of an institution, they cannot be tagged for public domain - instead, they should be tagged with {{univ-logo}}, which the current logo is already. The other two images you uploaded (Image:Seal2.jpg and Image:TTUSeal.jpg) appear to be identical to each other. In addition, they appear to be either copied from a website or cropped from the image I uploaded yesterday - I cannot tell because of the small resolution of the images, but they have some striking similarities. If the images were copied from a website, then they cannot be tagged as public domain unless the site specifically says so (and you must provide the source, if this is the case); if the images were cropped from my picture, you should specify that on the image description page for licensing reasons, etc. For now, until these questions are cleared up, I'm going to go ahead and remove all the images from use from any articles (specifically Texas Tech University), given that the logo has already been uploaded and that we have another free image of the front already. I've also changed the licensing for the two university logos; once you respond, I will go ahead and delete them as duplicates of Image:Texas tech university modern logo.gif. Please clear up these questions regarding all four of the images. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Thank you for your understanding. Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, Elred! As a side note, you can sign all of your posts on user talk pages and discussion pages with four tildes (~~~~) or press the signature icon () on the toolbar directly above the text field when editing; this will automatically insert your username, a link to your userpage, and the current time and date in UTC. Now, regarding the logo: while it may not be an official school logo, I still think it classifies as such. Public domain is generally reserved for works you have created on your own, including the original design. Thus, although I'm not entirely sure of the classification of that logo, I do think it needs to be tagged with the appropriate fair-use tag. Now, since you uploaded two versions of this logo, I'm assuming that you would prefer Image:Ttusticker2.gif to be used in the article? If that is the case, then I will go ahead and delete the other two logos, being repetitive of that one. Our fair use policy only allows those images to remain if they are being currently used in an article, so once Image:Ttusticker2.gif is placed in the article, the other two must be deleted. (I can always undelete them if necessary.)

Now, to clarify with regards to Image:TTUSeal.jpg and Image:Seal2.jpg: were those two images derived from my original work? I don't mind (in fact, I wanted people to edit the image and improve it, seeing as I didn't take a level image) at all, but it's needed for licensing purposes and as a courtesy to the uploader/taker of the original picture. By all means please improve my pictures, but just let me know if it is or isn't derived from my upload, and I can tag the picture accordingly. (By the way, if it is, would you mind uploading a higher resolution? It's a bit small right now. You can upload over the current image, and the previous version will still remain in the history.) The two images also appear to be identical; let me know which one/name you prefer and I can delete the other one.

Finally, I encourage you to take more pictures! There's a lot of topics that still need illustration. You may be interested in uploading those pictures to Wikimedia Commons, our sister project and repository of free images. All Commons pictures must be free (i.e. no fair use logos), and they are automatically accessible to all Wikimedia Foundation projects, including this English Wikipedia. See the Commons page for more information.

Thanks again, and please don't hesitate to let me know if I can answer any more questions. Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions again, Elred! I've now deleted all of the duplicate logo and seal images - let me know if you need them undeleted for any reason. Everything seems to be in shape now, though I encourage you once more to look at uploading your photos to Wikimedia Commons. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?) 15:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Texas Tech

Hi Elred, I noticed you added scarlet to the section headings of the Texas Tech article. It does look nice and fits the theme, but unfortunately the Manual of Style discourages it. It would reduce the consistency with other articles that use plain black for their section headings. Another thing, take note of the capitalization rule. Only the first letter of a heading should be capitalized, unless the subsequent words are proper nouns. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. By the way - congrats on owning us in both sports this year. I guess the rivalry will get bitter next year, right? --Blueag9 (Talk | contribs) 06:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)