Slinnger

Hi Slinnger, and welcome to Wikipedia! I've written some advice for past students in your class at Longy School of Music which you might find helpful. You'll find it here. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page (User talk:Voceditenore), or place {{helpme}} here on your talk page, ask your question, and another editor will come along to help. You might also be interested in WikiProject Classical music, WikiProject Composers, and WikiProject Opera. They have various guidelines for articles in this area and talk pages where you can ask advice from editors experienced in writing articles on classical music and related subjects. You'll find these guides particularly useful: WikiProject Composers: Guide to online research and WikiProject Composers: Copyright guidelines. Happy editing and best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 18:14, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Richard Wernick and Citing Personal Correspondence with Composer

Hi, Slinnger, just a quickie as I'm on a hotel computer in the US and won't be back to London until the 28th. Your article idea sounds great! Re your question here, unfortunately personal correspondance which has not been published cannot be used as a reference. This is particularly important in the case of biographies of living persons. However, the information he's filled out for you, e.g. film music, may be cited somewhere, if nothing else on IMDB, so have look. If he has a website or official biography which lists the information, you can also use that. Note that reliable sources do not have to be online, as long as they have been published. Material which has been published and exists in libraries and archive collections is a valid source. This can include program notes, newpaper cuttings, liner notes for recordings, academic papers etc. Hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:39, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Richard Wernick – Hats off!

What an improvement from its pre-Slinnger state, hats off to you! As you can see, I took off the stub template. I made some formatting changes for you and added a few more independent refs, as it's always better to reference awards from completely independent sources. You'll notice that I removed the External links as they are already present in the article as references. I also modified the Works section somewhat as links to another site like that don't go inline in the text. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 20:12, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:RichardWernick.tif

Thanks for uploading File:RichardWernick.tif. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
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If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-enwikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. We hope (talk) 05:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

In order for this to be used, it has to go through OTRS-please follow the instructions above. We hope (talk) 05:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:RichardWernick.tif

Thanks for uploading File:RichardWernick.tif. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 01:24, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Advice on image permission

Hi Slinnger, I just saw your message this morning. There are two issues here. One is fair use. You can't use a picture of a living person under fair use if it's replaceable or potentially replaceable by a freely licensed one (as this one is). The other issue is adequate permission from the copyright holder for us to to use it under a free license. Such permission must be under a compatible license. The most usual one is CC-by-SA. The music publishers have to state in writing that the image can be used by anyone, even for commercial purposes and can be altered by anyone. All that is required of re-users/re-publishers is that they attribute the image to the copyright holder and that they re-publish it under the same license that it had on Wikipedia. We cannot accept images which have permission only for use on Wikipedia or or only for non-commercial use. Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission has more on this and Wikipedia:Declaration of consent for all enquiries explains how the letter of consent from the publishers needs to be worded to avoid any problems with their permission being accepted. Hope that helps. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 11:33, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

File:RichardWernick.tif listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:RichardWernick.tif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 20:38, 8 March 2012 (UTC)