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Thanks, TheRingess! Very welcoming of you. I'll check out your recommendations. Penguin2006 01:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Jenny Saville edit

I'm not an expert, but I would say that you should wait for her permission. Remember that any content posted to Wikipedia is supposed to be freely usable in any way by any one. She might not agree to that. Perhaps there are images she wouldn't mind sharing. Take care. TheRingess 01:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

note to self:

Jenny Saville Images Links Trace (1993-94)

Shonibare link great 2002 interview

Shonibare image bank and interviews

Hi Penguin, thanks for your message. The image is being used in the article under "Fair Use" terms, because it is still under copyright. The whole copyright issue is very complex, and I am not a lawyer, but it is US copyright law that governs content on Wikipedia. As I understand it, art works published before 1923 are Public Domain in the US and can be freely used on Wikipedia, those published afterwards are still under copyright and images used in articles will have to rely on a fair use justification unless the copyright holder agrees to license it under the GFDL (or other non commercially restricted acceptable license). See Fair use and Template:art for the reasoning behind fair use of artwork images. Another handy copyright link I use, which is written pretty clearly, can be found here.
Nice work on Yinka Shonibare as well. If you have the image you want to upload, great. As long as it is reasonably small compared to the original work, a fair use justification is probably OK. You can upload it by clicking on the Upload file link in the toolbox at the left of the page. Enter a description in the edit box and mark it with the correct copyright tag (in this case it will be {{art}}). The template contains the fair use justification. If you are not sure what to do, edit the Jenny Saville picture, copy the text from there and modify it as needed.
See Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more help on uploading and using images. If you need any further help, let me know. --Cactus.man 09:55, 13 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
I meant to say, if you want me to upload the image for you I would be happy to do that. Cheers. --Cactus.man 10:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)Reply


Spam in SMART (Northern Irish Business Grant) edit

 

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WikiWomen's Collaborative edit

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages! edit

 
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Adding categories edit

Hi, just wanted to mention one thing. To add an article to a category type [[Category:category name]]. To mention/link a category but not to place the article into the category insert a colon after the initial [[ like this [[:Category:category name]]. It's the colon that now stops, for example Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions appearing in Category:Geology of Great Britain. The colon won't show on the screen, just in the edit field. NtheP (talk) 13:51, 5 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much! I'll try that out. Penguin2006 (talk) 13:54, 5 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
My pleasure. If you're going to be playing around with categories much you might want to enable one of the simpler gadgets available called HotCat. It can be found in the editing section of the Gadgets tab in your preferences page. Instead of having to open the whole document for editing just to add or remove cats, you just click on the ± buttons attached to the categories on the page instead. NtheP (talk) 15:54, 5 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

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I need an admin to move a page after I made a mistake edit

 
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Hello. I was trying to create a disambiguation page for columnar. So I created a disambiguation page at Columnar and moved the existing article at columnar to columnar (biology). Then I changed my mind when I found I could have Columnar (disambiguation). So I made the disambiguation page at Columnar (disambiguation). So now I want to move columnar (biology) back to just columnar. But Wikipedia won't let me and says I need an admin to do that.

Summary. I would like

Thanks in advance. Penguin2006 (talk) 14:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

  Done. Another time, if you specifically need an admin, {{adminhelp}} is a better template to use, but as it happens you got one anyway. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the help and the future tip. Penguin2006 (talk) 18:16, 26 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Award Barnstar(s)? edit

Hi Penguin2006, should we award a Barnstar to the participants of the BDSM etymology discussion, or at least to User:SailinStuff? I think that was quite a tough job and, since everyone stayed calm and commited, deserves recognition. Also, it helps with editor retention :-) Se'taan (talk) 15:49, 12 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Yes, sounds like a good idea. I liked User:SailinStuff's use of references. And User:RobinHood70 and User:AnonMoos deserve credit for level-headed work in a very long discussion. Penguin2006 (talk) 14:20, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

make up edit

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Hi! I'm currently trying to clear out the auto-populated maintenance category Category:Pages using death year and age template with unknown parameters. User:Penguin2006/sandbox is currently showing up on the list, but I didn't want to edit it without your permission.

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A kitten and question for you! edit

 

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