User talk:Peterwebley

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Hello, Peterwebley, 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 messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username 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! Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Your edits to Puff

I removed your edits to puff. Disambiguation pages should link only to articles (i.e. blue links, not red links); see WP:MOSDAB. Also, the external link you added probably was not acceptable per Wikipedia:External links. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I just saw puff model. I made a mistake: it looks like a good article. I'll restore the link I deleted. Sorry about that. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 03:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Webley

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Peter Webley, and it appears to include a substantial copy of http://avo.images.alaska.edu/source_eruption_wiki/index.php/User:Pwebley. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences.

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[edit] User Page

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at Peter Webley. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.)

I just moved it to your user page, 'cause I figured that's what you meant to do anyway--Nkrosse (talk) 05:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as Image:2d_Augustine_28_Jan_airborne_transparent.gif has been listed for speedy deletion because you selected a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case[1][2]. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

If you created this media file and want to use it on Wikipedia, you may re-upload it (or amend the image description if it has not yet been deleted) and use the license {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain.

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. ˉˉanetode╦╩ 07:19, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Also,

  • Image:2d Augustine 28 Jan airborne.gif
  • Image:2d Augustine 28 Jan contour transparent.gif
  • Image:2d Augustine 28 Jan contour.gif
  • Image:2d Augustine 28 Jan fallout transparent.gif
  • Image:2d Augustine 28 Jan fallout.gif
  • Image:2d fallout 3d plume Augustine 28th.gif
  • Image:Augustine Jan 14 0140 event.gif
  • Image:Cleveland Feb 2001.gif
  • Image:3d Augustine Jan28th.gif
  • Image:Etna 24 July 2001.gif
  • Image:Puff model1.gif
  • Image:StHelens May 1980 side.gif
  • Image:StHelens 1980 top.gif
  • Image:Puff redoubt.gif
  • Image:Puff model2.gif ˉˉanetode╦╩ 07:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Do you think it might be possible to create free license versions of some of these images using public domain NASA satellite imagery? ˉˉanetode╦╩ 07:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Why your Puff model article got revised and reformatted and how to avoid that happening again

[edit] Explanation of why changes were made

All of the photographs were deleted by Anetode because they had been Speedily Deleted for lack of proper licensing. All that was left then (other than the lead-in section and the history section) were the references and a jumble of extraneous headings. So I spent about an hour re-formatting and Wikifying (i.e., putting the article into the usual Wikipedia format). I also spent an hour in writing this.

Peterwebley, I would first like to welcome you to Wikipedia. Then I would like to give you some advice and pointers about writing Wikipedia articles. You and I and many others made the same mistake when we first came to Wikipedia: that of writing an article before we had spent a good many hours reading the tutorials, the help sections and looking at the Edit pages of other articles to see how they were done. Here are some of the places where you went wrong:

  • It is not proper to put links to one's email address in a Wikipedia article, which you did in your version of the lead-in section.
  • The title of an article is always included in bold in the first sentence of an article.
  • You must learn to use the Wiki Markup language rather than HTML. Your article was full of HTML and HTML tables which makes it difficult for other editors (like myself) who have become accustomed to Wiki Markup. It really isn't hard to learn and it is somewhat easier to use than HTML.
  • As you now know, you must license photos, diagrams or other images properly before uploading them into Wikipedia.
  • Your photographs were much too large and required a lot of horizontal scrolling. You can upload large images if you wish, and then use the image syntax in WikiMarkup which allows you to easily reduce their size when you insert them into an article. That means that you should study the help articles on images and how to reduce their size and how to place them on a page.
  • Your heading entitled "Google Search" could be interpreted as being very close to advertising and Wiki doesn't allow advertising.
  • Your should also study the Wiki policy on No original research being included in an article. That is important.
  • Your section entitled the "Redoubt Ash Encounter" really had nothing to do with how the Puff model works. It would be better to create another article to describe that volcanic event.
  • If you do obtain the proper licensing for the deleted images, then I would strogly advise you to include only one or two of the photos (reduced in size) in the article as examples of how the Puff model works. After all the article is about the Puff model ... it is not about volcanology nor is it about exhibiting the use of Google Search.
    • Alternatively, if you take the time to learn how to create a gallery of thumb size photos to be put at the very end of the article, that would be acceptable. Readers can click on those thumb size photos to see the full size images if they so desire. But learning how to do that will require more study on your part.
  • The main section headers of an article are made like this: ==Subject==, the sub-sections are like this: ===Subject===, the sub-sub-sections are like this:====Subject====, and so forth. Only the first letter of the first word in the subject is capitalized unless the subject is a proper name like say ==University of Alaska Fairbanks==.
  • Most articles have a ==See also== section (for links to relevant Wikipedia artciles, a ==Reference== section (and you should learn how to use <ref></ref> format for your reference citations) and an ==External links== section for links to Internet sites.
  • The lead-in or introductory section has no header. You do not start like this =Introduction=.
  • Finally, only the first letter of the first word in the article title is capitalized unles it is a proper name like United States Department of Energy.

I know the above seems overwhelming but a few months from now it will be almost second nature. Hope you find this useful. - mbeychok (talk) 08:51, 7 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Peter webley.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Peter webley.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 18:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)