User:MarkoDbello

MarkoDbello is a nickname my wife gave me; a handy pseudonym. A huge fan of Wikipedia Wikipedia, I recently was motivated to learn how to edit because I noticed missing and outdated information about a musical artist of note. I've worked over the years with a variety of content management systems and find this one above average, but some of the formatting tools and ways to set up footnotes/references remain a mystery to me, hence my taking this tutorial and filling out my user page.

I'm fairly familiar with fair use regulations in terms of quoting from news or journals that are copyrighted, but the Wikipedia policy seems a little fuzzy, so clarification on that would be helpful.

In particular, I'm not clear about how to upload images of record album covers since in theory they are copyrighted, right? I notice on well established musical artists, album covers are included, but not so much on recent releases, so perhaps there is a double standard as Wikipedia wrestles with how to handle such issues? Also, publicity photos pose a related problem. On the page I was working on, about the band The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the artist had left a note requesting updating the photo at the top of the page with their most recent photo. How to handle such issues when they seem OK with waiving whatever copyright they may have but haven't established a Creative Commons license.

Great fun but clearly I need to know more to master the potential.