User talk:Smac02155

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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Maitland Jones, Jr. 3 SWIM 4 How to list an article for deletion 5 How it works 6 Image copyright problem with Image:MaitlandJonesJr.jpg

[edit] Welcome!

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maitland Jones, Jr.

Thanks for your message. I wasn't sure what "he makes a point of recognizing his former students" meant; looking at his Web page I now see what you were getting at. Is that unusual in your field? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I haven't sorted out who left the various messages (was it all from you? remmeber to "sign" your comments, as explained above), but the indexing problem wasn't — it was a result of creating the article with the U.S. full stop after "Jr", and then searching for the article wothout it. I've now created a redirect to deal with that.

I've reverted some of your edits, I'm afraid, which reverted to non-Wikipedia style. There were also a lot of external links to sections of the same site, which is deprecated here; one link to the index page is usually enough. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SWIM

I read through the article on the Southeast Unitarian Universalist Etc, and - although it's a very nice article - it started to sound too much like a brochure. Accordingly, I (to use my own phrase) "trimmed massive amounts of puffery". Keep this in mind for your next article (and I do hope there will be a "next article" from you). Good luck. DS 15:17, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

• Ah, okay. I see that you've replaced the fact that the nature trips exist, but not the lengthy advertising-like descriptions of the nature trips. That'll do. DS 13:45, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to list an article for deletion

Page-deletion privileges are limited to administrators; otherwise there would be chaos (think about what vandals could do with page-deletion privileges).

If you make a silly test page, and then want it deleted, you add the following to it: {{db-test}}. This will add it to the list of pages to be deleted; the admins read this list constantly.

Thanks for asking.DS 12:46, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

• ...actually, I just re-read your request; it seems you're asking about doing a page-move instead. Page-move privileges are restricted during your first month or so as a registered user (again, because of vandals abusing them), so I'll do it for you. DS 12:52, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

• • ...okay, the lesson is, don't leave messages on talk pages before you've had breakfast. The article Anne Hutchinson already exists. Here's what I suggest.

First, compare the two articles, and if there's any information in the yours that isn't in the correctly-spelled version, add it. Then, instead of listing yours for deletion, replace the content of the article with the following: #redirect [[Anne Hutchinson]]. DS 12:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How it works

Deletion is not automatic; however, we have hundreds of admins, of whom dozens are probably reading the Speedy Deletions page at any time. I'd be surprised if it's still there within an hour. To be honest, though, I would have just made it into a redirect, since it's a not-unlikely misspelling. DS 16:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:MaitlandJonesJr.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:MaitlandJonesJr.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, or ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. --Hetar 04:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Please don't replace the image in articles until a source and copyright license have been provided. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:28, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

You need to place the relevant information on the image page, with evidence for permission to use (an e-mail address for him (altered to guard against spambots) would be useful). Then the image can be replaced in the article. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that {{pd-self}} would be right (unless you're the photographer, but from what you've said you're not). Wikipedia:Image copyright tags gives a list of tags, but which one is correct depends on who took the photo (the e-mail that you quote gives permission to use anything that he took, but he obviously didn't take this one...).

When you've worked out which tag to use, place it on the image page in place of the current template, and give a link to the Web page where you found it, together with an explanation that the subject gave permission for its use under Wikipedia conditions (remember that Wikipedia material can be used by other people in many different ways, including commercially). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd go for {{Fair use in}}. The copyright-owner is the photographer (not the subject), and I think it's therefore safer to go with this template (unless you can contact the photographer and get permission in line with one of the other templates). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:20, 27 May 2006 (UTC)