User talk:Dinodragon~enwiki

Does anyone have information about new discovery of Ediacaran creatures? I found some very interesting ones recently in central YunNan, China.

DinoDragon Dinodragon (talk) 11:47, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Chuxiongosaurus
Hello, Dinodragon;

Please reconsider your addition to Chuxiongosaurus before resubmitting it. It includes no sources (such as another publication; personal observations are not considered acceptable as sources), the writing style is too informal, and in order to get an image to appear, you'll need to upload it, either here or to Wikimedia Commons. If you could provide a source, it would certainly be a worthwhile addition, and someone else could help with the wording.

Thank you for your consideration; please contact me if you have any questions. J. Spencer (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Spencer;

Thanks for your reply. I do have a photo showing two museum specimen record cards. This is one of the most ludicrous cases I encountered recently. The lower jaw was Lufengosaurus. And the skull is very likely a Yunnanosaurus.

But the key point is not only this. On the museum record cards, it was clearly stated these two specimens were collected by two different persons at two different sites on two different times. How in the world the describer failed to check the record is beyond anybody's comprehension.

I want to upload and post in my revision. However, I really don't know how to following your statement "you'll need to upload it, either here or to Wikimedia Commons." How to do it 'here'? Is there a simple and straight forward way of doing that? Is that possible I email you the photo and have you post it for me?


 * To upload an image, you can go here, which is part of the English Wikipedia, or these sites on Wikimedia Commons, the main image repository. I would suggest either the second or third link; the second is probably simplest. As an editor on one Wikipedia site, you can automatically become an editor on any of them, including Commons. The most important part of the upload process is the rights and licensing: historically, photographs of museum specimens have been accepted as the photographer's own use, with a few exceptions, and I see no reason to mess around with precedent. You'd submit it as your own work, and then choose a copyright tag, of which there are dozens listed here; the simplest is PD-self, but I see that a lot of fossil photos have been listed under CC-by-2.5, which is similar but means that other people have to credit where they got it if they reuse it (this is speaking broadly, as I am *not* familiar with the ins and outs of copyright and licensing). The actual upload is similar to attaching a file to an email, or uploading it to a server. J. Spencer (talk) 01:53, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your elaborated explanation. However, I encountered a very annoying issue. I'm login already, but in order to upload an image file, after I go the the uploading page, such as Wikipedia:Upload|here, it asks me to login again. And I re-type out my login information, it won't let me login. Very frustrated. I just hope Wiki can make my life easier and for the rest of us. Is there a simpler way to do this?


 * It looks like you got it uploaded, because it's showing up on the article page. The next thing to do is to provide some kind of translation of the relevant sections of the cards. J. Spencer (talk) 23:17, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

I would like to rotate the photo so that it's vertical. How shall I do that?


 * I don't think you can do that here; you would need to rotate the original file with an image-manipulation program and then upload the new version over the old version here. For example, if you're using Windows, the pre-installed Windows Picture and Fax Viewer can do rotations. J. Spencer (talk) 15:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

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