User talk:Carangil

Carnil
Welcome to Wikipedia! We could really use your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Carnil) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Diez2 18:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Sofa-icon-400.jpg
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Sofa-icon-400.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.  RΞDVΞRS ✖  ЯΞVΞЯSΞ  22:50, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyrights and so forth...
Hi Carangil! Okay, lets get your Wikipedia experience off the the right start... belatedly... with the welcome message we try to give all new users and fail dismally to manage to deliver on time! This template has some really useful links, and not just for newcomers to Wikipedia - I've been here for ages upon ages and still refer to it!  RΞDVΞRS ✖  ЯΞVΞЯSΞ  18:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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Moving on...
With that out of the way, let's talk about your copyright problems.

Here's what happened with your image: you initially tagged it for use on Wikipedia only. Whilst that might seem reasonable, in reality Wikipedia content is heavily syndicated across the internet and in print. We make the content freely available (you'll have seen the message when you edit about agreeing "to license your contributions under the GFDL" - that's what this means). All our content - your content - must be available to be used anywhere and everywhere, including commercial sites, newspapers, altered to make attack or parody versions and even, sadly, co-opted by political extremists for their own versions.

When it was deleted, you re-uploaded it; that's fine, but even deleted things leave a trail behind that allows us to see what the original licence was. The new copy was licensed as "PD-Self" - meaning you created the image and you are making it completely freely available to everybody. Now, because the original licence said someone else created it and it wasn't allowed to be freely used, the inconsistency between the two licenses was flagged up.

You've now said that someone else created it, but they've let you release it freely. That's cool, but we've got some steps to go through to make certain of this (sorry about this, we have to do all of these things because people lie to us - all the time - about owning the copyright on something they've pinched, so we have to make it awkward for everybody!).

First things first, we need to see permission from the copyright holder. The instruction for what to do with that permission are here.

Then we need the correct licence attaching to the image - pick one from this list that covers exactly what the copyright owners have told you they want to do. Got to the image's own page (not the article) and put the tag (the bit in { {curlybrackets} } including the curly brackets themselves) on the page and save. It'll decompress into a full licence template.

After that, we're sorted.

Sorry this sounds complicated, but we need to protect both Wikipedia and you from accidentally committing an offence under the copyright laws in your locality.

If you need any advice about this - one Wikipedian to another - go to my talk page and start a new thread (instructions on how to do this and how to format it are on the top of that page). I'll do my best to help out!  RΞDVΞRS ✖  ЯΞVΞЯSΞ  18:57, 20 March 2007 (UTC)