Malissa875

File copyright problem with File:Simon'sNNClubST.jpg

Hi, thank you for contacting me. I sent this email yesterday to the owners of the website to ask if i could use the photo.

"My name is Malissa and I am a student at MCTC in Minneapolis. I am currently enrolled in an English class that required us to pick a Wikipedia article and edit it to become a more thorough article and the article that I chose was Speakeasy. Yesterday I obtained the N.N. Club photo from your Simon's website to use in the article and I linked the photo back to your website. However, I would like receive your permission to continue using this photo on the Wikipedia article.

If this is a possibility, please let me know and I will update Wikipedia image guidelines to show that I did receive permission from the author, otherwise I will have to remove the photo.

Thank you,

Malissa"

However I have not received a reply yet. If you could please allow me a few days to hopefully gain permission from this site I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, I will definitely remove the photo myself or if you must I completely understand. Malissa875 (talk) 17:08, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for uploading File:Simon'sNNClubST.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Slon02 (talk) 22:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

April 2010

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Speakeasy. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also helpful to users reading the edit history of the page. Thank you. ww2censor (talk) 02:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Flapper.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Flapper.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. dave pape (talk) 13:52, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page File:Flapper.jpg. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Tommy (msg) 14:48, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I am not purposely trying to make an unconstructive edit. I am an english student who has never used wikipedia before and one of our assignments is on wikipedia. I am merely trying to figure out how to put a license on these god for saken photos. I finally figured out how to upload to the commons but I made the mistake of titling the file the same as the file that I cant use and now the new file won't appear on the page. I appreciate your situation, but using the word vandalism is a bit far fetched and if you were to look at the history of the page the photo is being uploaded to you will see that i have done anything but vandalized this page. Alley (talk) 14:52, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Malissa875, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Blue Rasberry 15:12, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I have been watching you do experiments on the mainspace with your photo. This is against the rules because it makes article history difficult to track. Fortunately, there is a way you can play with whatever you want in your own private space. Check here in the sandbox! Have fun and happy editing. Blue Rasberry 15:15, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

My Speakeasy Edits

Hi.

Although I'm sympathetic to your position, Wikipedia is a public composite document, and is not a private area for you to engage in academic projects. Any article can be edited by any person at any time, and articles can't be set aside for just one user to edit. Your teacher should have known this, and advised you accordingly.

That said, I'm sorry I didn't realise that you were working on this article as part of a project. Had I known, I would likely have still made changes, but I might have concentrated only on the more obvious howlers. Unfortunately, I came to the article as an ordinary Wikipedia user, and when reading the article was moved to edit it when I noticed a single particularly egregious spelling mistake. Then, as I read on, I found myself correcting other mistakes more or less in the order that I read them (I skipped around and didn't read the paragraphs in order, as I was looking for a particular piece of information).

Although I'm sure you're pretty annoyed, there's a lot of scope for the article to be improved still further, so I certainly haven't finished your homework for you. (Just in the last sixty seconds I've noticed an edit that needs to be made in the first paragraph of the "History" section!) The article needs several additional sections to be fully comprehensive: "Economic Impact" (where the effect of speakeasies on the local economy is addressed), "Architecture" (with particular reference to concealment, alternative entrances and exits, control of entry through multiple doors, etc.), "Local Corruption" (discuss the effects, not just of bribing local police, but also of ancillary problems, such as brothels setting up nearby, hypocrisy of local clergy, etc.), and, no doubt, others. Some of these may already be on your "to do" list. Oh, and there needs to be a section on "The Speakeasy in Popular Culture", of course. So don't feel that I've done all the work: there's plenty to still be done.

One reason why your teacher probably encouraged you to work on this project is because working on Wikipedia teaches you how to write, but another reason is that Wikipedia also teaches co-operation and tolerance. Some of us are better at these than others! The better we work together, the better Wikipedia will be. (In this sense, you can think of Wikipedia as a metaphor for society at large.) I hope you understand that I made the edits I made to improve the article, as part of a process of working with you and many other editors; I wasn't trying to make life difficult for you.

Finally, I'm sorry if you found some of my comments "snide". They were meant to be more funny than snide, but I can see that you might have taken them that way, and I'm sorry if you were overly upset.

I hope that you will carry on working on this article, and on other articles in Wikipedia. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help with your project.

RomanSpa (talk) 11:43, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

I appreciate everything you said. This English assignment was suppose to be a three person collaboration, but the other two students assigned to this project never did anything and it has made me a little "hostile" over this assignment to say the least lol and I am ready for it to end. What is interesting, you brought up pop culture and I wanted to do a section about that as well; however, time will not be allowing me to do so anytime because the next assignment is starting.

Thank you for your words of encouragement and in the future I may come back and work on a pop culture section since I had already been researching it.

Alley (talk) 16:22, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

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