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as much as I hate smoking, this is a POV site and should not be cited. Lordkazan 19:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Editing talk pages edit
Hi,
First off, thanks for your work on the passive smoking page - particularly fending off the latest bout of "OMFG you guys suck" posts on the talk page! One thing - please don't Americanise the spelling in my talk posts - when I say "summarise", I mean "summarise" and not "summarize", as that's how it's spelt in UK English! Minor quibble, but there it is! Ta. Nmg20 16:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks - it really wasn't a problem, so no need to apologise! To be fair to the guy, at least he tried to come up with some arguments for his position, and you got the impression he may actually go research the subject a bit now. But we'll see. Thanks again. Nmg20 01:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Picture of Alma Adams edit
Thanks for being interested and aware enough to ask the question! The complete summary is at Wikipedia:Image use policy.
In a nutshell, whether you can upload it freely depends entirely on who took the picture. If you took it, you may upload it under any free license you choose ({{cc-by-sa-2.5}} is my personal favorite; see Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#For_image_creators for more.) If you personally know the photographer, you can likewise ask them to license the image freely. If the photo was taken by members of her staff, or a professional photographer, you can try writing to them to ask permission (see Wikipedia:Example requests for permission), but that's always hit or miss.
Best of luck to you, and please don't hesitate to ask if you have more questions, or need more help uploading, tagging, or using the image. — Catherine\talk 04:09, 6 March 2007 (UTC)