User talk:Angie.Scott

Illustrating articles
Hi Angie

For starters, let me recommend the Illustrating Wikipedia handout. There's a lot of useful information there on how to upload images and add them to articles. Also check out Eryk's blog post on copyright.

The bigger question though is how to find articles in the first place. Most images that you find online or in articles can't be used in Wikipedia articles. Our licence, which allows free reuse of content, requires us to only use content that can be freely redistributed to other users, even for commercial use. Generally journal articles are going to be copyright, as as the images and figures within them. Look for images that are specifically licensed under Creative Commons share alike licenses. Ones that are tagged as -NC (non-commercial) or that have a $ with a line through it as not acceptable. Similarly, once that are tagged as -ND (no derivatives) are also not OK. CC0, on the other hand, is fine, since that means that the owner of the copyright has surrendered all rights.

Hope this helps. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:39, 5 November 2014 (UTC)