User talk:Greglief

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Hello Greglief! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —EncMstr 23:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Katr67 23:22, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forest photos

I noticed you attempted to add external links to the articles Mount Hood National Forest and Willamette National Forest. As Katr67 correctly points out, adding links to your own site is a no-no.

I see too that you have uploaded some photos such as Image:MountHoodNationalForest-OldSalmonRiverTrail.jpg:

• Thank you. That does nicely avoid the problem of linking to your own site.
• You might consider uploading media (such as photos) instead to wikimedia commons so that all languages of wikimedia may reference them.
• If you have higher resolution available, that would be preferable for upload.
• Your restriction essentially for personal use only conflicts with the ShareAlike license you selected ([1]).

If I can be of any help, please let me know. —EncMstr 23:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)