User talk:DarkNight0917/Archive-2022

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Paul Sandby Munn
Regarding your recent edit here, please bear in mind that articles on British and Commonwealth topics are written in British and Commonwealth English by default. Ficaia (talk) 00:25, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

Shark images
Hi there. Could you please demonstrate how the images from shark-references.com that you have uploaded to Commons satisfy the licensing requirements? I can find no indication on the page that they have any Creative Commons attribution, as you claim. In fact the site states: The picture rights are known for all the pictures used. The holders of the rights to all the external pictorial material have given their consent to reproduction. Should you nevertheless feel that your rights have been infringed, please contact info@shark-references.com.

If you can't show this, I will have to remove them from the article and put them up for deletion on Commons. Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)


 * And a different but related issue: when adding an image to an infobox do not use the "file" syntax, just state the image name. That is, don't use


 * image = image.jpg


 * but rather


 * image = image.jpg

-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I thought the site meant that they've also given their consent for their files to be reproduced on other sites, like Wikipedia. Yeah, they can be deleted. However, on the second issue, Help:Infobox says, "The  parameter sometimes requires the Extended image syntax; other times it requires only the image file name depending on the tastes of the editor who created the infobox.  An editor can determine this either by experimenting (using the "preview" function) or by consulting the infobox template documentation." DarkNight0917 (talk) 16:29, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'll put those up for deletion. Please make very sure that internet sources specifically provide a CC-BY license before uploading material to Commons. Re box images, has your experimentation shown you that using "file:" and "thumb" in taxboxes produces a shrunken picture in a superfluous frame? Please use the image indicated above for those. I'm not ruling out that there exist some special infobox variants that do require more syntax, but taxoboxes definitely do not. Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:17, 27 July 2022 (UTC)