User talk:Guyzero

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Hello Guyzero! 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 someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. 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! –- kungming·2 (Talk) 01:36, 30 November 2006 (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 Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

[edit] Happy Editing!

No problem. :) I noticed that you are looking to be adopted by an experienced user, and if you'd like, I could "adopt" you. =) –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 01:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, then! Let us go into this world of Wikipedia together! I've changed my userbox on my userpage to reflect the "adoption" - you can place {{Template:Adoptee|Kungming2}} on yours. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and remember to "be BOLD!" Yay! (Cue the fireworks...) =D –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 02:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American -> English spelling conversions

Yup, you've just seen what of the most prevalent problems on the English Wikipedia, the dispute between the American and British forms of English. I got into a minor dispute over this, too, when I was new on Wikipedia (I tried to change a British spelling of a word to the American form). According to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English, use whatever form of English that is prevalent throughout the article. So, if it's written in a mostly British English tone, and someone suddenly changes it to American English, just restore the old version, and leave a nice note on the user's talk page about the issue. Watch out for edit wars, though! According to Wikipedia:Three-revert rule, don't revert back too many times (unless, it's vandalism). I suggest a 2RR rule - if there's edits back and forth both ways twice, just take a deep breath and put a note on the talk page. Everything will be okay in the end! =) –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 00:51, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How's everything?

Just a weekly checkup... How's everything going? =)' –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 01:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Ozomatli

Thanks for checking on Ozomatli photos. I must say I've become rather discouraged with fair use and my understanding of it. I've since researched photos for a couple artists, but otherwise resolved to only submit those I've taken myself. Regards, Dave C.^{talk | Esperanza} 20:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help request

The image, Ozomatli.jpg was removed. Please see [1]. I have had an ongoing e-mail communication with Ozomatli's management to receive fair use permission for that specific image (I reference the image URL on wikipedia.) Can this image please be restored so that the discussion does not get confused due to broken image links? TIA, regards, guyzero | talk 08:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Articles cannot be used on Wikipedia only by permission; it must satisfy fair use regardless of permission from the group. In order for the image to be used on Wikipedia, the copyright holder must license the image for publication under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license (see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/>) or other free license. —Centrx→talk • 08:15, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

If you want to dispute the deletion, you will have to list it at Deletion review, but that is solely for disputing whether or not a deletion was according to policy (i.e. not to re-argue the case for deleting or keeping). Unfortunately, it appears that the deletion was according to policy so it is unlikely that the decision would be overturned. You might want to e-mail Ozomatli a copy of the image under discussion (or link to it online if it exists online) as a reference. SWAdair | Talk 08:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice

Thanks for leaving that helpful note on a new user's talk page, User talk:Starofnuit. It's nice to see someone going out of his way to help another user. Cheers, -Will Beback · † · 21:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditto from me.

BTW: If you want to connect with some fellow Southern Californians, there is the Southern California WikiProject. ^BlankVerse 10:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

If you have any questions abou the SoCal WikiProject pr the Wikipedia in general, or want suggestions on how you can help, just holler. The Westchester, Los Angeles, California article looks reasonable good for a community article, although I'm sure that you can find things to tweak or add. ^BlankVerse 01:29, 11 January 2007 (UTC)