User talk:Willofmdr

Hoots & Hellmouth

Your recent addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Chubbles (talk) 19:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The picture you uploaded is not going to be able to be used on the Hoots & Hellmouth article because it does not qualify under Wikipedia's fair use guidelines.

I suggest you spend some time reading up on Wikipedia guidelines before editing further; otherwise, your work will likely be reverted again. Chubbles (talk) 20:10, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Chubbles (talk) 20:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hoots photo

Okay, so that's a promotional photo and is by default copyrighted; it can't be used (according to Wikipedia's rules about non-free photographs) without permission. If you have a picture that you took, you can release it for use under one of several different legal licenses (such as the GFDL or Creative Commons licenses), or you can release it into the public domain. What you will have to do for a promotional photo is determine who owns the rights to the picture and have that person contact Wikipedia through OTRS and assert permission to use the photograph under one of those legal licenses. Only then can the photo be used. This sounds like a pain in the ass, and it is, and it's supposed to be; it's much easier to take a photo yourself and just release it, if you can. Chubbles (talk) 20:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (File:Hoots Press Photo.jpg)

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Thanks for uploading File:Hoots Press Photo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 04:48, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]