Manoflands

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Hello, Manoflands! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 18:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

See WP:IMAGES. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 18:15, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Start slowly and work your way up. Have a look at the links in the welcome message above - particularly the tutorial. Then, if your image is not on Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons already, you need to upload it - but you can only do that if it's freely licensed (e.g. not copyrighted). Then, you just type [[File:IMAGENAME.EXT|thumb|A caption goes here]] to insert it in the article, replacing IMAGENAME.EXT with your uploaded image's filename. However, only free images are allowed (and free doesn't just mean you don't need to pay money for them) and they should only be uploaded for use in articles - Wikipedia is not a webspace provider, or a social network - this is not a place to post stuff about yourself or create a homepage. Your user page is intended for you to tell other editors about yourself as an editor, not as a social profile. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 19:40, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi - I noticed you trying to add this image to your userpage. You pasted in the address of the image (the \Users\olivertaubman\... part) on your own computer into the page. That is the address on your hard drive of the image file on your desktop - you haven't uploaded it to Wikipedia, so it can't appear on your userpage, because it's still only on your computer. See Wikipedia:Uploading images for help on how to upload your image and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for how to insert it in a page. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:39, 7 June 2009 (UTC)