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Welcome

Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Editing tutorial
• Picture tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Naming conventions
• Manual of Style

Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia:

• Respect intellectual property rights - do not copy and paste text or images directly from other websites.
• Maintain a neutral point of view when editing articles - this is possibly the most important Wikipedia policy.
• If you are testing, please use the Sandbox to do so.
• Do not add troublesome content to any article, such as: copyrighted text, advertising or promotional messages, and text that is not related to an article's subject. Adding such information or otherwise editing articles maliciously is considered vandalism, doing so will result your account being blocked from editing.

The Wikipedia Tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! DougsTech (talk) 19:45, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Making our articles worse

If you edit means the article is worse than before then we will treat as deliberate vandalism, given your history. Blanking your talk page of prior warnings does not mean they go away. If you cannot edit articles without damaging them then Wikipedia is not the place for you and the next block will be much longer term I'm afraid. Theresa Knott | token threats 19:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Please don't vandalize. DougsTech (talk) 19:51, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps if you hit preview instead of save? Try it. Theresa Knott | token threats 19:54, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with File:Lukas podolski 7.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Lukas podolski 7.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. 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 made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like {{PD-self}} (to release all rights), {{self|CC-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} (to require that you be credited), or any tag here - just go to the image, click edit, and add one of those. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

• Wikipedia:Image use policy
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

March 2009

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. Just a reminder, in case you didn't know to do it. DougsTech (talk) 20:09, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Help with pictures

The best help i can give you is to advise you to stay away from pictures for the time being. You have just uploaded a picture claiming it was your own work when it clearly came from here You simply can't do this. I now have to delete the photo as a copyright violation. Theresa Knott | token threats 20:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)