User talk:Normangrove

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Hello. Sorry, couldn't resist hacking the Darby Steam-Digger page. I'm not sure if it was for ploughing. please hack away at my text.

A word on images. Thanks for placing one on the Wikipedia. But the size of the image you uploaded is a wee bit excessive. I think the guidelines are about 100k or thereabouts. There's a FAQ somewhere; I may hunt it out. If you can, could I suggest uploading another version, perhaps smaller (say 800 pixel width?)

I hope you stay and contribute loads more. There is a standard form "welcome" chunk of text which I could paste here - and, indeed, may in a second or so - which provides links to all sorts of useful things. but I just wanted to say hi & welcome, since you might have been wondering who was playing with your page. best wishes --Tagishsimon

I am new to this and not sure on how to reply to your message
Ah. To do that, click on this here Talk link, and edit the foot of the page.
Here's the welcome page I was speaking of - at least, a short form version of it. --Tagishsimon


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[edit] Thomas Darby

Hello. The Derby Digger photo is a much saner size, though I agree it is still a wee bit big. I see you've run into a spot of bother at Thomas Darby. The text you put on the page has been removed by someone, who found it was a cut & paste from another website. Copyright law doesn't allow us take someone else's text ... if you want a Thomas Derby page, it'll have to be written from scratch - it is still okay, though, to base it on the information in the page. I hope the page being withdrawn doesn't put you off submitting more info on Mr. Derby and, indeed, on any other subject of which you have knowledge. I guess the photo must be from you personal collection: thanks for sharing that. best wishes --Tagishsimon

[edit] New images

Thanks for the new images; they're very good & very welcome. And very much smaller tha the last one ... yes, I'm quite happy (though it is not for me to approve or disapprove!).

One thing I must bring to your attention, though. The wikipedia has an ongoing programme of checking thast images have had licences attached to them, such as a GFDL licence. One aim of the wikipedia is to make all information shareable, and images, in particular, should be marked up to specify what licence you as the provider think they should be released under. There's more information on this subject at Wikipedia:Image use policy

I would advise that the images are possibly by now in the public domain; and if not, perhaps you would consider picking one of the licence types at [[1]], such as {{PD}} {{GFDL}} or {{cc-by}}, which allow other people to use the images so long as they credit wikipedia as the source.

Talk to me some more if I can help ... in essence, you would go back to the three images pages are type in something like {{PD}}. To this end, I've put links to the three pages below. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Let me just add (OT: good to see Tagishsimon again) that you don't add the copyright notice on the Darby Steam-Digger page. Add that to the pages that Tagishsimon had above me. If someone looks at that image (on the image page) that is where they would want to know the copyright status. You might also want to add a description of the image or something. Then on any article page, you (or someone else) would insert the images if the licenses allow it. Also, you might want to work on your user page a bit. If you're adding a few images here, it might be a good idea to create some sort of gallery so that people can see what you've added. Nothing too fancy, I mean. --Ricky81682 09:43, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Darby%20Steam-Digger

Because Wikipedia is published under the GNU Free Documentation Licence, anyone is free to take its content and republish it, so long as they acknowledge somewhere that Wikipedia was the source. Thefreedictionary people have chosen to do just they; they periodically come along and take a copy of the up to date version of wikipedia, and then republish it. Part of the wikipedia philosophy is that information wants to be free, which includes giving people like Thefreedictionary freedom to steal it and republish it. And that, by the way, is why it is important that images be provided under a licence which allows them to be stolen and republished. It's a concept which takes some getting used to! There is a note at the bottom of Thefreedictionary page which acknowledges that the content came from wikiepedia. --Tagishsimon (talk)