User talk:Dozens

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Dozens, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Newcomers help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Kukini 15:23, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Your recent edit to List of Dalhousie Alumni was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept our apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 16:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

As you appear to have already realized, the Move button would have been the proper way to handle what you wanted done. One of the key features of the Move button is that all history goes along to the new location. Not that big a deal on the page currently in discussion, as it only had a couple of revisions, but it can be critical on older pages. Also, keep in mind that blanking out a page is never the correct way to handle things. The project has proper ways to handle pretty much every legitimate reason you might think about blanking a page, and none of them actually involve blanking the page. Anyway, blanking out pages is a very, very common tactic of true vandals, so it is one of the things that the bot, Tawkerbot2, watches for. - TexasAndroid 16:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:Dkilgour.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Dkilgour.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Jkelly 01:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Jkelly 01:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

That's good news. Would you please add this information to to Image:Dkilgour.jpg, since right now it looks very much like a random image uploaded from the web and tagged as GFDL. Best practice is to have the copyright holder email permissions AT wikimedia.org about licensing terms. Thanks for clearing this up. Jkelly 19:27, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
If you want to take a look at what we have written down, you'll find it at Wikipedia:Image use policy, Wikipedia:Licensing and then there are some examples at Wikipedia:Boilerplate requests for permission. I suspect that if you simply write "I, Dozens, assert that the copyright holder of this image, Mr. John Doe, told me that the image can be licensed under the GFDL." that very few people are going to demand further evidence. Jkelly 20:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)