User talk:AlfLandonFan

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Happy editing! KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 19:15, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi AlfLandonFan, I'm Kevin. Thanks for your help on Charles Evans Hughes; the article had been vandalized by another user before you stepped in and fixed the worst of it. It should now be back in its former glory . If you're interested in learning more, the links above should be helpful. Should you be interested in editing more, I look forward to working with you. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 19:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Copyrighted images

Hello AlfLandonFan, I'm Koopa. As someone who likes adding images to Wikipedia articles of topics relating to US politics, I'm glad you have an interest in this sort of thing. However, I just want to let you know that images shouldn't be added to Wikipedia unless you are confident in the given file's copyright status. I say this because I noticed your edit to the article about the 2022 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, where you added Nick Begich III.png to the infobox. If you find an image that has the rights needed to be used on Wikipedia, the license (public domain, Creative Commons, etc.) should be added to the file itself so that it can be easier for Wikipedians to tell if an image can be used, where it came from, and what permissions come with it. Pulling straight from a campaign website usually isn't safe, unless licensing info is also displayed on the same page.

Don't let this discourage you from editing, though. Copyright can be a confusing thing to understand and work around, but don't let that stop you from contributing. You just have to know where to look. Flickr is easy as uploading an image from there can be easily streamlined when uploading to Wikimedia Commons, as long as you filter to "Creative Commons only" and check to make sure the license can be used on Wikipedia. If you use Google Images, you can sort through Creative Commons licenses only, too, just make sure you attribute it right.

Happy editing, and best of luck out there! :D KoopaDaQuick (talk) 05:40, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

I understand. Hopefully a good public domain image of Begich III exists because the lack of an image is really bothering me lol. AlfLandonFan (talk) 13:58, 29 September 2022 (UTC)