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Hello Orbituary. Ragearding your question here, the reason there is not an email address easily found to ask technical questions about Wikipedia content is because no single person, or group of people, makes decisions like that. The community of many, many thousands establish policy by consensus, then everyone tries to follow that policy. However, most individual users can be contact by email (there is an email this user link to the left of your screen). The other reason we try to do most things on-Wiki is because a record will then be kept of the communication that all can see. In future, any questions you have can be left at WP:HD, and someone will answer you as quick as possible. Or you can join the Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User programme, and you will be paired with an experienced editor who can help you and answer your questions personally.

Anyway, let me see if I can answer your questions for you. It would be extremely helpful if you could contribute images to out articles. The major conditions you would have to adhere to in doing so would be to ensure they are your own work, and thus not infringing the copyright of someone else. You would need to license the images using a free license (such as the GFDL and/or an acceptable Creative Commons license) or release it into the public domain (no license). The Wikipedia:Image use policy gives you more details and if and when you are ready to upload an image you can do it through this page.

You do not have to ask permission or approval to upload an image of your own creation, Wikipedia articles are not owned by anyone (see WP:OWN), they are owned by us all! There are administrators who may delete images that are not licensed correctly, and there are editors who may remove images from atricles that, they feel, are not appropriate (but this is rare in non controversial articles). I'm sorry you are finding it a technically trying to do this. I happen to agree that the image upload is among the most complex parts of Wikipedia, but that is borne out of the fact that we have to be very careful about copyright concerns. I hope this has been of some help, do let me know if you have further questions or if you need help navigating your first upload. Rockpocket 20:26, 20 January 2007 (UTC)