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License tagging for Image:So fresh autumn.jpg

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Hello

Hey sound of white, its oops i did it again here :) Oidia 12:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:So_fresh_winter_2007.jpg

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Prince Caspian

The official synopsis is the copyrighted writing of the studio about the film. The way it's been included, seems to make it look like Wikipedia's own synopsis, which is plagiarism. Quoting the synopsis at that length, additionally, would be a copyright violation. It is best to rewrite the story in an individual manner, without any of the promotional phrasing, such as the "incredible events" of the first film. Take a look at Speed Racer (film) for a sample rewrite of the official synopsis, seen here. Hope that helps. I'll be removing it until a true rewrite can be placed. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:03, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh alright that makes sense. Sorry about that. I didn't know. I won't do that again. —Sound of White

No worries. :) It's not a well-known procedure. It's just that basically that Wikipedia is supposed to be freely written and to minimize copyrighted information, including images and text, as much as possible. Give it a try to rewrite it in your own words. Ideally, you should read it closely, put it out of sight, then try to rewrite it from a neutral perspective. Usually, the result will be pretty distanced from the copyrighted paragraphs. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hey mate, and welcome to the Australian music project. It's great to have more music fans on board :) Giggy ^{Talk | Review} 01:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Sound of White

It's Oidia here. You promised to say hi to me in my talk page ages ago! And you still haven't done it! Anyway can you please help me keep an eye out on the Britney Spears article? And ensure that Maddyfan doesn't do any disruptive edits to it. Thanks. Oidia (talk) 05:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New reference guide

Hello Sound of white, it's Oidia here. I removed the old reference guide because I want to redo it. So here it goes.

Citing websites

The bolded text is what you need to type in, note that this is for citing websites ONLY:

<ref>{{cite web | url= | title= | author= | publisher= | date= | accessdate= }}</ref>

Now, you need to type in things after each of the equal signs:

url means you put in the exact url.
title means you type in a title for this reference.
author is the person who wrote the source, you can leave this out if it's not available.
publisher is the website or organisation that published the source.
date is the date, or the year that the source is written, leave it out if it's not available.
accessdate is the date that you found the source.

For example

<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wiki.riteme.site | title=The best online encyclopedia | author=Jimmy Wales | publisher=Wikipedia | date=01 January 2001 | accessdate=2007-10-13}}</ref>

Using the same reference more than once

If you want to use the same reference in several place in an article, there is an easy way to do it. So this is what you'll do:

<ref name=BritneySpears>{{cite web | url=http://www.britneyspears.com | title=Britney's official website | author=Britney Spears | publisher=britneyspears.com | date=01 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-10-13}}</ref>

As you can see, all you need is to add a name for the reference as indicated at the <ref name=>

Now, when you want to cite that reference in any other parts of an article, you just need to type:

<ref name=BritneySpears/> and you're done.

Citing books, newspaper or magazine

In this case, you'll use what they call a footnote.

<ref> name of the author, name of the text, page number or chapter number, name of the publisher, year or date </ref>

For example

<ref> Sophie Panos, The Sutherland Shire Leader, page 27, Fairfax Newspapers, 10 October 2007 </ref>

You are set to go

If you have excess time, WP:CITE has all the detail information you need for citing and references. Hope this new guide clarified things a bit more. Oops!...I did it again (talk) 07:40, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sydney edit-a-thon invitation

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