User talk:Shentosara

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[edit] Welcome to Shentosara's User Talk page! Please do not spam, or leave your comments without stating why you left them.You are not allowed to edit or delete your own posts.Please leave your name and talk page link(if applicable) at the end of your message.You must click the + symbol besides the 'edit this page' button and so ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CLICK 'edit this page'..

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[edit] Your edits

I have noticed that you have been copying material from an outside website to articles about guns, and I have to ask you to stop doing that. It is protected by copyright, and to use it without an author's permission would violate the copyright laws and Wikipedia policies. (A permission which only extends to Wikipedia is not sufficient, either; all Wikipedia text is under the GFDL license, which permits third-party use, including commercial one.)

In addition, please don't add your personal opinion to articles. Wikipedia has a policy of neutrality and verifiability; contents of articles must be written in a neutral, objective way, and should provide references to reliable sources.

Regards, Mike Rosoft 08:51, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

 Reply to Mike Rosoft:

I am sorry that I did not realise that the info that I copied was copyrighted... 2nd, not all the things I write are copied. I put in my own research as well. Lastly, whats the link to your talk page?(Im a beginner)

• Your own "original research" is not appropriate to add to articles, either; see above. Regarding copyright, in fact every work is copyrighted (unless the protection has expired, or the copyright holder has released it into public domain); copyright laws of most countries do not require a work to contain a copyright notice in order to be protected by it, and in fact the website you took the material from did contain one.

  My talk page is User talk:Mike Rosoft; there is a link to it at the top of my user page (the one labelled "discussion"); in addition, there are several "talk page" links in the user page. Finally, you can sign your responses by adding ~~~~ after them.

  Regards, Mike Rosoft 09:17, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh.Right. Err after I "upload" an image how do I make it appear as an Image? I know its something like [Image:Example] but everytime I do that it appears as Example.png or something like that.Please help! =(

• You didn't upload any images. (And you can't add images which have not been uploaded to Wikipedia or the Commons to articles, because of copyright and vandalism concerns.) If you want to add the file Image:Czechguards.jpg to an article, the basic syntax is [[Image:Czechguards.jpg]]; if you just want to link to an image (for example, when referring to it in a talk page), it's [[:Image:Czechguards.jpg]]. For more details, see the image use policy and manual of style. - Mike Rosoft 09:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USS Iowa (BB-61)

Greatings. Allow me to welcome you here, and to state that I do hope you like the place and decide to stay. I am leaving this message here to inform you that two of the four tags you placed on the article USS Iowa (BB-61) have been removed by me after being certified as non-aplicable in the circumstances. They are {{copypaste}} and {{verylong}}. The article, as you sumerized, is nearly exactly copied from one source: the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, or DANFS for short. DANFS material has been flagged by the Wikipedia community for being to pro-US, and thus requiring a rewrite to comply with our Neutral Point Of View Policy, but by the same token DANFS material is an official publication of the United States Navy, and thus is automatically released into the Public Domain, thereby allowing the material to be copied and pasted here since copyright laws do not apply to it. On the issue of length: ordinarily the "verylong" template would only be used to call attention to an article that exceedes about 70 kilobytes of information, but at present Iowa is well within length requirements becuase there is no warning bar that appers at the top to warn editers of the size of the article (by comparison, our World War II article is surrently at 154 kilobytes, and the message there advise editers to place new material elsewhere if at all possible). More information about the accepted length of articles can be found at WP:LENGTH, if you would like read up on this. TomStar81 (Talk) 19:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)