User talk:Woodenpig/Archive 1

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Hello, Woodenpig, and 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 {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field with your edits. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ronz (talk) 22:17, 11 December 2017 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines 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 • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

An extended welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 22:17, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Famousbirthdays.com as a source

Hi Woodenpig. I noticed that you recently used famousbirthdays.com as a source for information in a biography article. Please note that there is general consensus that famousbirthdays.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. (See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_153#Is_famousbirthdays.com_a_reliable_source_for_personal_information). If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. --Ronz (talk) 22:17, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Ronz! Sorry for getting back so late. I don't know how I didn't see this. Thank you for all of the above messages and for sending this. I read the link you sent me and I agree about Famous Birthdays. Also, yes, I am working on a few articles in my sandbox while simultaneously doing small edits with the goal of making them more and more significant. Thanks for the tips. Woodenpig (talk) 16:05, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Citations in lead sections

Hello, I've seen you lately insert references in article leads even when they're already sourced within article body. Just so you know, this is redundant if the content has already been referenced outside of the lead. The lead is supposed to summarize an article's content, so we should opt to source details within other sections and go into further details there. Snuggums (talk / edits) 18:08, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi SNUGGUMS. Understood. Thanks for letting me know. Woodenpig (talk) 18:12, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Happy to help. Snuggums (talk / edits) 19:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Avery Lipman.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Avery Lipman.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a file licensed as "for non-commercial use only", "no derivative use", "for Wikipedia use only", or "used with permission"; and it has not been shown to comply with the limited standards for the use of non-free content. If you agree with the deletion, there is no need to do anything. If, however, you believe that this image may be retained on Wikipedia under one of the permitted conditions then:

• state clearly the source of the image. If it has been copied from elsewhere on the web you should provide links to: the image itself, the page which uses it and the page which contains the license conditions.
• add the relevant copyright tag and if necessary, a complete fair use rationale.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Majora (talk) 20:27, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Just a heads up. Non-derivative and non-commercial use only restrictions are not "free" enough for our purposes here. Our sister project Commons has a great chart for reference that you can use to see if the image is acceptable. Sorry, but we can't keep the above image. --Majora (talk) 20:28, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, Majora. I had a feeling this would happen. Can you take it down or is there anything I need to do? I'll read the link you sent now. Woodenpig (talk) 20:29, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

You don't have to do anything. An admin will delete it when one has a moment to look at it. If you have any questions about copyright or whether an image is acceptable I'd be happy to help in the future. --Majora (talk) 20:31, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! And yes that would be great. What's the reason for this one? Is it because Wikipedia is considered commercial use? Woodenpig (talk) 20:33, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't. But we allow unlimited outside reuse of most of our images (and text for that matter). In order to do this it would have to comply with a license that allows anyone to use or modify the material, at any time, and for any purpose (including commercial reuse). There are limited exceptions to this which is called fair use. But that topic is a tad complicated and has a lot of rules attached. We only allow it for certain things and only if a free image can't be created. So on and so on. --Majora (talk) 20:39, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Makes sense. Thanks! Woodenpig (talk) 00:08, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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