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Speedy deletion nomination of Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club

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A tag has been placed on Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, society, or group, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of FFNC 1961

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on FFNC 1961 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Draft:Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club

Just a friendly heads up. I've moved Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club to Draft:Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club to give you a chance to work on it. However, you've got a long ways to go before it has any chance of being an article in main space. Please read up on the notability guidelines and how to write your first article.--Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:31, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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Orphaned non-free image File:North Coast Representative side that played New Zealand in 1923.jpg

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Help me!

Please help me with... adding images. Don't take it personally, but the guidance on adding images is appalling :-) I added an image to Wikipedia which has now become an orphan because the instructions are so complex and confused.

For example this is the nonsensical advice I received: 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.

All of which is incorrect. The image was free and I received permission to use it on Wikipedia ;-) MarkPringle (talk) 07:44, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Regarding the use of the image on the article, the WP:Picture tutorial will likely be helpful.

Regarding the licensing, you wrote on the file page that the copyright holder is "Unknown". How then can you assert that the image was free and you had received permission to use it on Wikipedia? The copyright holder cannot have been the one giving you that permission, and no one else's "permission" is relevant.

Also, a Wikipedia-only or non-commercial use-only license would not be considered "free enough"; we need images to be released by the copyright holder under a license that allows everybody to re-use and modify the image for any purpose, including commercial purposes. And we'll need evidence of that licensing; the easiest way to provide such evidence is to have the copyright holder send a note via email to permissions-commonswikimedia.org. You can find a standard release form at WP:Declaration of consent for all enquiries.

In this particular case, the image indeed is free, but not for any reason you mention, and not due to any permission you may have received. Rather, it is a photograph taken before 1955, and according to Australian copyright law, all such photos are in the public domain (which in particular means that whoever gave you that "permission" was not in a position to deny you permission because they don't have any rights regarding the photo). I'll upload a copy of the photo on the Wikimedia Commons and add the appropriate tags. Huon (talk) 14:58, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Here you are: File:North Coast Representative side that played New Zealand in 1923.jpg. Huon (talk) 18:39, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Huon for confirming in my mind that the people who provide help are self-righteous know-it-alls. You don't seem to understand that you are part of the problem; you make it soooo complicated that mug users like me find it impossible to actually use. And when you explain something it's so long-winded and complicated that I just glaze over. So much for the so-called democracy of Wikipedia ... free and equal access for everyone and all that hey old chum.

Appreciate you restoring the pic. So how do I add it to the text? I want it at a decent size. Last time I tried to add it, it ended up as a useless low resolution thumbnail. That was not what I wanted so I removed it. Cheers. MarkPringle (talk) 09:48, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello Mark. As you will note from the warning below, which while somewhat premature, illustrates our lack of tolerance for these sort of comments. First and foremost, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and writing an encyclopedia is frankly not a task which mug users are very capable of. We explicitly don't guarantee free and equal access to editing privileges, and in fact competence is required. Huon made a number of matter of fact statements, which while terse, were perhaps brought on by the impression you were being intentionally misleading about the author of the image (saying that it was unknown and then saying you had permission). Wikipedia editors are volunteers and often provide assistance to tens of thousands of people. You are encouraged to keep this in mind when commenting in the future. TheDragonFire (talk) 12:40, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

For help adding images, I'd point you towards User:Yunshui/Images for beginners, which explains the process in pretty much the simplest way possible. If I hadn't already written that essay, mind you, I'd have passed this help request by; your response to Huon above is not acceptable in a collaborative environment such as Wikipedia. You'll find people are a lot more helpful if you avoid calling them self-righteous know-it-alls. Yunshui ^雲_水 16:19, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

March 2018

Please stop attacking other editors. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. 331dot (talk) 09:49, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not claim to be a democracy, see WP:NOTDEMOCRACY. 331dot (talk) 09:49, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 05:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Glasshouse Districts Cricket Club. Thanks! Legacypac (talk) 06:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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