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- Seconded! Unlike Fire Star, I'm not part of the welcoming committee but I wanted to welcome you and thank you for your excellent contributions since becoming a member. I've just done some work on the format of your fine piece on Kennard Baker Bork and it includes some great research. I'm fairly new too, but wanted to share a few tips I've picked up in the last six months.
- About links: for links within Wikipedia ("Wikilinks") there's no need to give the full address - just give the title surrounded by double square brackets. If there is a Wikipedia page it's normally best to link to this than an external site.
- About references: these are best done with the "ref" and "references" tags, as I've done for Prof Bork. (Other methods can becoming confusing - see Alligator Effigy Mound (Licking County, Ohio) which now has two systems of footnotes!)
- Categories: it helps others to give pages a category. For example, Prof Bork now falls within the category "living people".
- Edits: to aid tracing the history of an article its a good idea to put a few words as an edit summary.
- There's much more for me to learn (for example, images are a mystery to me!) and Fire Star's links are useful, but I hope this helps. One of the best ways to pick things up is to check the codes and tags of an existing article. All the best. Wavehunter 19:15, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with File:Coveredbridge.jpg
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Image copyright problem with File:Coveredbridge.jpg
editThanks for uploading File:Coveredbridge.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.
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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:John Boggess.jpg
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