Elisteele 97

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Hello, Elisteele 97, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:24, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for giving me a warm welcome and for the helpful tips. I very much appreciate it.Elisteele 97 (talk) 18:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:HeatherPurserX633.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:HeatherPurserX633.jpg. However, it is currently missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. – Train2104 (t • c) 22:49, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the warning and it will not happen again. I was unfamiliar with the image uploading and if I decide to re-upload the photo will be carefully cited. Again my apologies for improper citing.18:09, 16 October 2017 (UTC)Elisteele 97 (talk)

Heather Purser

Hi Elisteele 97, the image on this page is actually a copyright violation because it was never released under a compatible copyright. All content, whether it is an image or written content, is considered to be copyrighted to the website/content creator unless there is something that explicitly states otherwise. As such, this image has to be deleted from Wikipedia.

I would like you to review the Plagiarism and Copyright training module and Contributing Images and Media Files before proceeding further. Thanks. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:48, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

• The page is also written in an essay-like tone - it needs to be written in a more neutral tone. Avoid writing in a persuasive tone. While Purser is amazing, the article should not be written to showcase this, as writing in an essay-like tone can make the article come across as promotional. I'm going to try to tweak the article to be a bit more neutral, but it would be good for you to come through and work on this as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
• I'm going to write some notes as I go along on the talk page of the article as well explaining my changes. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:55, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Shalor, thank you for looking over my article and giving me very useful feedback. I was unfamiliar with the image uploading and I meant to cite properly, but due to my unfamiliarity I cited incorrectly. I appreciate you taking the time to review and explain your changes. Additonally, I will remember to carefully cite an image in my future edits.Elisteele 97 (talk) 18:16, 16 October 2017 (UTC)