Kchang99

Welcome!

Hello, Kchang99, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing.

Handouts
Choosing an article to edit Editing an article • Add images to articles Citing sources on Wikipedia
Additional Resources
You can find answers to many student questions on our Q&A site, ask.wikiedu.org

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 08:07, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Questions

When creating an article, make sure that you follow the recommendations in the Editing Wikipedia brochure. Pay close attention to the advice on layout on pages 7-9. For example, your sandbox draft starts with an Introduction, which is something that Wikipedia articles don't have. As for images - things you find online are probably not usable; you need to make sure that they have been released under a free license by the copyright holder. You might want to check out this training module.

Let me know if you have more questions, or if I missed something in this response. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:02, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Copyright of images in journals is differs from journal to journal. Only ones that explicitly say that they're released under a Creative Commons "share alike" or similar license are usable. Even then, you need to check that the images don't have separate copyright statements (which happens rarely, but it does happen).

If you re-draw the images, the copyright is yours, provided that your drawing is sufficiently original. Tracing the originals doesn't create a new copyright, but reproducing the layout too closely can infringe copyright. If it's a graph, you can always redraw it if you have the underlying data. That's perfectly acceptable. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:35, 10 March 2017 (UTC)