Welcome! edit

Hello Rey fresco, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. John Vandenberg (chat) 09:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

December 2009 edit

  Your addition to Liawenee has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. 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 article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Bidgee (talk) 11:01, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add content (particularly if you change facts and figures), as you have to the article Liawenee, please cite a reliable source for the content you're adding or changing. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Bidgee (talk) 11:34, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

{{helpme}} Rey fresco (talk) 12:20, 28 December 2009 (UTC) I need help on how to expand on my article Liawenee and make it not a stub and also find reliable sourcesReply

WP:WELCOME should give you links to all the information you could need. Thanks,  GARDEN  14:14, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

RE: Liawenee edit

For the climate you will need some thing like this to use as a cited source rather then just basing it on data/numbers (as you did here) as it's called original research. Also you may have created the article but it doesn't give you ownership of it. With http://www.australianweathernews.com/snow/Snow%20days%20descending.htm I would deem as unreliable as even the red note in the page states that it's not reliable. Bidgee (talk)

I was only stating just in-case you may have not known. ;) Nothing on the Bureau of Met on the climate nor has a Google search been of any help. You could look at a local library which may have some books on the history and may the climate if you're lucky. I have a resource (A regional library and archive) for my area (The Riverina district) but I just don't have the time to do the researching anymore! You may want to also checkout http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ which has a large online archive (still growing) of newpapers dating from the 1800s to 1950s. Bidgee (talk) 12:40, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

RE: Photo Formating or Coding edit

Hey there - this guideline will go into more detail, but the essence of it is [[File:Example.jpg|thumb|right|250px|CAPTIONTEXTHERE]] where "Example.jpg" is the filename it has been uploaded to Wikipedia under and "CAPTIONTEXTHERE" is the caption text. If you plan to upload, please ensure it is free use (i.e. your own work or work released under Creative Commons) or, if copyrighted, it meets our fair use criteria. Thanks!  GARDEN  10:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)Reply


File copyright problem with File:Dovereagleseyeview.JPG edit

 

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In reply to your message on my talk page: If you can provide me with a link to the website you got the image from, I'll try and figure it out for you. --NickContact/Contribs 00:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
The image actually comes from this page. Google images just indexes images from web pages all over the web. Taking a look at that website, I cannot find any statement of their copyright policy. Under Wikipedia policy (and U.S. law), images are assumed to be fully copyrighted unless the creator of the image specifically releases the image under a free license or into the public domain. The only suggestion I can give you would be to contact the operator of the website and inquire about releasing the article in such a way. Keep in mind though, many organizations are only willing to release an image under the terms that it be used for "non-commercial" or "educational" use only. Those types of releases are not acceptable on Wikipedia, as they are incompatible with the GFDL and CC-BY-SA 3.0, the licenses under which content on Wikipedia is released. Specific questions about this can always be brought up on the Media copyright questions page. --NickContact/Contribs 20:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Since this site is the work of Australians it is automatically copyrighted (Much like the US), even without the copyright marks or policy on the site. When you see a file that was created in 1955 and onwards (IE: 2010) then unless it states that it's in the public domain or Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike (though be careful with some site as people can tend to rip off copyrighted work and claim it as there own) but if it was created before 1955 then it is in the public domain (Use {{PD-Australia}}, but also note that sites such as the National Archive of Australia, Victorian Archives ect will claim that it is copyrighted since they digitised the image however this is some thing that is being debated not just here in Australia but also a few other counties overseas). Bidgee (talk) 00:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Chris slatter edit

 

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Hobart area articles edit

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