User talk:Diviness

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November 2011
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Thank you for this information. I am still learning how to edit in Wikipedia. The blog site is my site - and it is an authoritative website on the subject. I do not see this as a conflict of interest because my website is the only of its kind that addresses the topic of contemporary urban fiction. Thank you for your consideration. Diviness (talk) 02:53, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!
Glad to see you stopped by! There are experienced editors at the Teahouse question forum if you need some support with the images you are uploading. heather walls (talk) 06:25, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah! Thanks so much; I will visit that forum. Diviness (talk) 07:17, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Insuda's photo
It would be best to "send in" the permission letter, so the permission can be recorded and can't be challenged at a later date. The one thing they take seriously is copyrighted photos and they do scans to check for possible copyright problems. By "they", I mean the evil people at OTRS. They are the only people I hate dealing with around here. They are nice people, but they have a lawyer mentality to cross every t and dot every i.

Send an email with the permission to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org It will take some time to get what they exactly want. Hopefully everything goes well, but be prepared for misery.

Also, you should move the photo to Commons. If the photo resides there, then it can be used on any language Wikipedia. If you need help with that, I can move it for you.

All the instructions can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS Bgwhite (talk) 04:50, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

->>> You are golden. Thank you so much. I've been trying to get this photo approved for awhile because it is the same photo on the Russian version of his article (which existed before this English version). I originally uploaded the permission/consent letter onto a sub-directory of my website so that it had a url - but didn't/don't feel right about his signature on the web. I feel that's a bit much. So thank you, thank you for the email address of where to send it to because I did not see that anywhere on the local instructions or on the wikimedia commons instructions. I will be working on this - and thank you for the forewarning about "the misery". :-) 76.99.118.228 (talk) 05:48, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Inusa Dawuda Ibiza 2007.jpg
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