User talk:Cesweaver96

Imaging instructions
To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it.


 * If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload.
 * If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways;
 * A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr)
 * B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like:
 * "Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached."
 * -Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out)


 * -And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, please refer to Help:Files and to Help:Contents/Images and media for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links.

Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 21:17, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of American Women's Role in The Cold War for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article American Women's Role in The Cold War is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/American Women's Role in The Cold War until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. The Bushranger One ping only 18:34, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi friend
I see that you're a newcomer to Wikipedia and have had your work sucked into the "Articles for Deletion" pipeline. Please drop me a line if you need help interpreting this process or if there is anything that I can do to help you learn the ins and outs of the editing software. You may either communicate with me by clicking the TALK link which follows my signature before, or feel free to email me directly if that is more comfortable for you: MutantPop@aol.com.

While the popular conception of WP is that it is like a giant whiteboard, on which anybody can write anything with erasable markers, in reality there is a fairly huge number of volunteers who dedicate their time to quality control issues. In general, original essays are frowned upon — although there are certainly essays present as part of the encyclopedia. The work of new WP contributors is watched particularly closely. Your piece on American Women's Role in The Cold War seems to have run afoul of the prohibition of so-called "Original Research." You can find information on this policy at this link: WP:OR.

As a Wikipedia editor you do have a right to defend your work at the Articles for Deletion debate, which is found here: Articles for deletion/American Women's Role in The Cold War. In my estimation this would be an extremely difficult defense, however, unless you can muster the titles of monographs or journal articles dealing explicitly with Women's Role in the Cold War. Finding three such substantial published sources is generally sufficient to "win" a deletion debate; two MIGHT suffice; four is better yet. Essentially that is what deletion debates are about, proving that an article is an "encyclopedia-worthy topic," as I like to characterize these things.

Anyway, I'm sorry your excellent work has ended up where it has ended up, please don't let it discourage you, please do continue to contribute to Wikipedia. As a suggestion, you might identify one or two prominent women of the cold war era and write (or improve) their biographies in such a way that the story of women's role in the cold war is told through their life stories. This is generally a safer way to contribute, assuming the information you write or add is sourceable to published works — journal articles, newspapers, books, or substantial websites.

Again, thanks for your efforts. I just wanted to stop by and let you know what's going on. We Wikipedians do a poor job of communicating with newcomers sometimes and I just wanted to let you know that we do care, regardless of the outcome of the Articles for Deletion debate. —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR /// MutantPop@aol.com /// Carrite (talk) 06:13, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Hiya. A heads-up that I have left a further message for you at the deletion debate. Carrite (talk) 17:48, 2 January 2012 (UTC)