User talk:A baba t

Don't copy and paste text from other websites into Wikipedia, because this constitutes copyright infringement. Thanks. Postdlf 20:05, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You seem determined on the same course of action, so I blocked you to force you to stop and consider what you're doing: Wikipedia cannot accept text that has been copied from other websites. Those sites can be used as references for your own original article, but you have to rewrite the factual information. Copying and pasting is copyright infringement. Read Copyright for a fuller explanation of this site's policies. If you continue to ignore these requirements, you will be blocked permanently rather than temporarily. Postdlf 20:20, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

In response to your e-mail, in which you said you were "intending to edit that article," if I understand you correctly, you were planning on using the pasted text as a starting point? You're probably not in any danger if you do that on your own computer in a Word document, for example, just for the purposes of your own personal notes. However, as soon as you copy and paste it into Wikipedia, you've just copied and distributed it all over the internet without permission. Plus, it remains in the edit history of the article even if you edit it. No copyrighted text is permitted at any stage of an article's development; the first thing you post has to be your own writing.

As for your question about the image, you first have to understand that unless you took that photograph of the ambassador (which I doubt), you don't have the right to claim that it's released into the public domain. While fair use may apply to certain uses of certain copyrighted images, I'd prefer if you just stuck to photographs you actually took yourself until you're familiar with Wikipedia policies and copyright principles. Anyway, this is the text you use to add an image to an article:


 * [[Image:filename.jpg]]

To make it a thumbnail,


 * [[Image:filename.jpg|thumb]]

or to control the size it appears more precisely,


 * [[Image:filename.jpg|200px]], which will make the image appear 200 pixels wide.

To add a caption,


 * [[Image:filename.jpg|thumb|This text can explain what the image is.]]

Please let me know if you have any additional questions. Postdlf 01:07, 21 October 2006 (UTC)