User talk:Dennis Valeev/Archive1

Hello and welcome. I've moved your user page to the right namespace. Regards -- sannse (talk) 17:17, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It looks as though Elf's messages got lost in the page moves - so I've reproduced them below. Sorry about that -- sannse (talk) 17:21, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi Dennis, and welcome to Wikipedia.

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-- Elf | Talk 21:00, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Russian Black Terrier
I spend a lot of time working on the dog-related pages, so I'm always delighted when someone new pops in to help expand the breed pages. For this article, though, I had to remove the text because it's an exact duplicate--and therefore a copyright violation--of the text on the dogbreedinfo.com site. If you want to summarize & rewrite, possibly also looking at the standards from various kennel clubs (which now have links at the bottom of the breed table that I just put into the article), I'd be absolutely thrilled.

Also--the photo that you uploaded (Image:Russianblack.jpg) needs to be copyright clear, too; please add the source (e.g., who took it or from what web site), and under what license or rights it's available for use on Wikipedia. All of the Wikipedia text is available under GFDL, so either that or public domain material is best. If you know (for example, if you took the photo), you can add that info to the photo's description page using or. Otherwise, we might not be able to use the photo here.

Thanks again--lots of newcomers don't quite understand the copyright thing yet. Elf | Talk 21:06, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Testing
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