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[edit] License tagging for Image:14 Herculis.gif

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[edit] Do not use SEDS as a reference

Do not use the SEDS website as a reference. Much of the material on the website is either poorly referenced or out-of-date, and much of it is horribly inaccurate. If you would like me to direct you to better astronomy references, please let me know.

Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 08:06, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Astronomy references

For scientific papers on astronomy topics, I suggest using the ABS Abstract Service at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html . This allows users to search through the abstracts from many scientific astronomy journals, including all of the prominent journals in the field. Articles from the journals themselves printed before 1996 are freely accessible, but newer articles may not be accessible unless you are at a university or research institution. However, preprint forms of the articles can usually be accessed from ArXiv website links that are also provided in the search results.

For data, I suggest using the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED; http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/) for things outside the Milky Way and the SIMBAD Astronomical Database (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/) for things inside the galaxy. However, not all of the data from these websites is useful. For example, the active galactic nuclei types given by NED are often inaccurate, and the distances given by NED are only calculated estimates that may not be accurate.

To see an example of how these references can be used in Wikipedia articles, look at Sombrero Galaxy.

Let me know if you would like more information. Dr. Submillimeter 13:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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Yeah, I couldn't think of a good name so I just took my name from Wookieepedia, in fact that's my name at all the Wikis except the German Wookieepedia were I traslated Derek Yoda's friend into Derek Yoda's freund. Nice talking to you. Derek Yoda's friend 17:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free content

Hi, I removed the screenshot from your userpage, and the Star Wars logo from the stub template.

Please check out Wikipedia:Non-free content. Wikipedia is a free content ensyclopedia so non-free material is only allowed as exceptions per a narrow set of criteria when they are nessesary to make articles more informative. Outside of articles (such as userpages or templates) they do not have the beneficial effect of improving the understanding of our content and so they are not permited there. Thanks for understanding. --Sherool (talk) 21:05, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Well it has to do with the non-free content policy. These sort of images can only be used if they meet all the listed criteria for eact spesific article, and have a rationale explaining how. So even if the image qualify for use in at least one article it doesn't automaticaly follow that it can then be used freely elsewhere on the site. It has to meet all the criteria every time it's used, and one of the criteria is that it can only be used in main namespace articles (some wiggle room can be given to things like a temporary draft of a new article beeing actively worked on as a user subpage though). --Sherool (talk) 10:53, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Bosconian 1.jpg

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[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Bosconian 1.jpg

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[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:ElmerFudd Tunes.jpg

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