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help D: edit

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Is there a place where i can get someone to...'review' my article before I submit it? The article that is on Wikipedia lacks a great deal of info and has also been subject to frequent vandalism.

Hi there,
Yes, there is. It's called Peer Review, request here.
I hope this helps!
The Helpful One (Review) 17:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

{{helpme}}

I want to add someone's marital status in their wiki's info box...what is the exact code for this?

{{Infobox Person}} uses a |spouse= parameter, however without knowing what article you're referring to, I'm afraid I can't help too much. Hersfold (t/a/c) 17:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

{{helpme}} Can you add marital status on a musical artist infobox? if not, how can i? :/ thanks again~ the article im talking about is Ryan Tedder UnkEdit (talk) 18:06, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, that template doesn't have the code to handle that. You may want to ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians to see if there's a reason why, or if someone could add it in for you. Hersfold (t/a/c) 18:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

{{helpme}} hey guys :>

im about to start an article on zachary filkins. he's the guitarist in OneRepublic but he was a model before he was in the band...should i put 2 infoboxes? is there some sort of cross between the 2? or should i just pick one?

thanks~ :D

Nope, you don't want to use two infoboxes - pick the one that's most relevant. So basically, I suppose it's the one you can fill in more information about. Hope this helps, Alex Muller 08:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Image tagging for Image:Ryancanalroomny.jpg edit

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Replaceable fair use Image:L a8675b63a04b55b1ab90fb145a3bfc21.jpg edit

 
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Image copyright edit

Hey, thanks for leaving a message. Couple of things - first, with the Ryan Tedder photo, if you say you took the photo and it doesn't look like you copied it from some website, it's usually fine. I've removed the "no source" information tag. Fair use is a little more complicated - basically, you're saying "This technically violates someone's copyright, but it's necessary for this article and if you replaced it with another picture or with a text description, it wouldn't work." How much fair use is allowed is open to interpretation, but on Wikipedia, the basic policy is that if a person is living and appears in public, then it wouldn't be hard for a Wikipedia member to snap a picture. Generally, there has to be some significance to the image itself - for example, it's hard to talk about the painting Mona Lisa without the picture, but you can talk about Leonardo Da Vinci without a picture of Mona Lisa. Does that make sense? If I'm still not making sense (it really is a complicated subject and plenty of experts disagree on it), please check out Wikipedia:FU#Images, which might do a better job than I can. --Mosmof (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for Image:Zachglasshousepamona.jpg edit

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Image copyright problem with Image:ZACKFILKINS5B.jpg edit

 
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:ZACKFILKINS5B.jpg) edit

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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