Aslan's Mane

Welcome

Hello Aslan's Mane, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on Talk page. Again, welcome! You 21:27, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. I've noticed you keep adding your signature again to SeeDs. I am afraid to say that you do NOT own your contributions, all contributions are licenced under the GNU Free Documentation License. That is why I keep removing your signature. See section 3 of Wikipedia:Ownership of articles for more information.

Yes, this means that no page you write you can accredit yourself with, not so much because of the GNU license but also because Wikipedia pages are a collabrative effort and your articles will certainly be improved upon and expanded at some point in the future. Also, the talk feature is the main way to communicate through Wikipedia. Use individual user's pages to talk to them directly, or the talk page for an article to talk about revisions to an article. The only other way is the link on the left side of all userspace pages (such as user pages and user talk pages like this one) that says "E-mail this user" to E-mail a user through Wikipedia without knowing their E-mail address (although I rarely check the E-mail that I signed up for Wikipedia with so in my case use my talk page, in general, this is used more often for all people.) If you have any more questions, etc. feel free to ask me! You 23:44, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

I should clarify. You do hold the copyright on your submissions, however, all submissions are licensed under the GFDL, meaning that anybody is free to make their own changes as long as those changes are also GFDLed; there is no ownership of articles. There is no need to sign your contributions to articles, as the page history feature automatically keeps track of who did what. Signatures are meant for comments in talk pages and other behind-the-scenes areas, when there is a need for people to see at a glance who said what, which is not the case in articles (which should read with a single "voice"). It doesn't make sense to use them in articles.

I hope this helps. Happy editing! — Gwalla | Talk 00:30, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Andrewdecandia.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Andrewdecandia.jpg. Wikipedia gets hundreds of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

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• Wikipedia:Image use policy
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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 22:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Andrewdecandia.jpg

Thank you for uploading Image:Andrewdecandia.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you created this image yourself, please look at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#For image creators, select one of those tags, and add it to the image. To do that, simply go to Image:Andrewdecandia.jpg, click "edit this page", and add the appropriate tag. Be sure to remove the current tag indicating a lack of licensing!

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at User talk:Angr or at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. —Angr 19:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Female Pirates

A tag has been placed on Female Pirates, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Excirial ^{(Talk,Contribs)} 06:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)