User talk:ArtNotes

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BUT: There's a lot to learn, and (like all of us) you'll make more mistakes before you've settled in. I hope that you're not put off by them, and that you stay and enjoy editing here. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) please don't add non-notable people to articles like List of drummers (only people for whom there's a Wikipedia article, or who are mentioned in an articles about a band);
 * 2) Categories aren't articles, and shouldn't be edited as if they were; they're places where articles appear in a list (automatically) if they have had the appropriate Category added to them;
 * 3) we try to keep external links to a minimum (for initial help, see External links).

Your messages
Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, we have a fairly strict guideline about not creating articles about oneself, and there's therefore a very good chance that the article will be deleted. As you can imagine, because anyone can edit Wikipedia, we get thousands of people adding articles about themselves, and though some of those articles would belong here, most of them don't. We need to have rules to make dealing with the problem easier for overstretched editors trying to deal with the problem.

One solution might be for me to create a new article under Soraya (dancer), using the information on the Web page and elsewhere. I can't guarantee that that will be accepted by other editors, but I'll try. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 10:36, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Drummers
Again, please stop adding red-links to the lists of drummers; as the instructions clearly state, and entry for which there is not article, or which isn't mentioned by name in a relevant article on a band, will be removed. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:June 26 2005 PA Upscale Egyptian Wedding Soraya.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:June 26 2005 PA Upscale Egyptian Wedding Soraya.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
 * make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
 * Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to , stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add OTRS pending to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to .

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Non-free content, use a tag such as or one of the other tags listed at File copyright tags, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in [ your upload log]. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.  Ron h jones (Talk) 23:34, 17 April 2011 (UTC)