User talk:Biospeleologist

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Hello, Biospeleologist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome!  ElinorD (talk) 00:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Cavefish.jpg

An image that you uploaded, Image:Cavefish.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Mattisse 15:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your images

Hi, Biospeleologist, could you have a look through your uploads and sort out the image tagging, please. I see that you're a very new editor, so you may not understand our copyright policy. You have tagged images with the {{PD-self}} template. That suggests that you took the photos, and are now releasing them into the public domain. Yet you give http://www.cave-biology.org/gall as the source. I've removed the images from the article, so please don't add them back until the copyright status has been clarified.

You might want to take a look at:

Regards. ElinorD (talk) 00:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cave Research in India

A tag has been placed on Cave Research in India, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Neil916 (Talk) 07:30, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Dear Biospeleologist, I am afraid that I must delete this article. However the speedy deletion of the article because of lack of content does not carry any prejudice against the recreation of the article with content. I do hope that you do recreate this article, as it would be a interesting expansion of Wikipedia's coverage of caves, and on a topic that I am personally interested in. Dsmdgold 12:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Borracaves.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Borracaves.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 00:51, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

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

Thanks for uploading Image:Borracave.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Borracave.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Borracave.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 00:19, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your cave images

Hi, Biospeleologist. I answered the note you left at my page. It has now been archived here, just in case you missed it. (Since that page is an archive, you shouldn't post there, so if you have any questions, just use my talk page.) I'm afraid we can't accept images taken from some website where the uploader says he's the admin of that website and releases them into the public domain. We'd need verification of that, as it's easy for anyone to take copyrighted images from some website, upload them to Wikipedia under, put a public domain tag on them, and claim to be the webmaster from the website. If it turned out not to be true, it could land us in a nasty legal situation. Also, while you said you were an admin at the site, that doesn't mean, and you didn't clarify, that you took the photos yourself, or that the person who did had transferred the copyright to you.

If you took those photos yourself, and want to release them into the public domain, you should update your website to state that the images are public domain. Alternatively, upload them to Wikipedia, stating that although they come from a website, you took the photos and you are an admin from the website, and you are releasing them into the public domain (or under an appropriate free licence). At the same time, you will need to send an e-mail to permissions AT wikimedia DOT org, with verification that you are the copyright holder and that you release the images either into the public domain or under a free licence. Then, an administrator will tag the images to show that permission has been confirmed.

I hope this helps. Please understand that all this red tape this is for your protection as much as for ours, as it prevents people taking your copyrighted work and pretending that it's free for others to use, redistribute, modify, and sell. Best wishes, ElinorD (talk) 18:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Spam in Caves of India

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Caves of India, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Caves of India is blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person that would require a substantial rewrite in order to become an encyclopedia article.

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Caves of India, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 06:30, 4 September 2007 (UTC)