User talk:Erikjones

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, Erikjones!

I noted that you've made some significant contributions to the article on United Church of God. You're off to a great start, but I wonder if I can offer you a few suggestions? Firstly, be sure that edits are verifiable and conform to a neutral point of view. I don't think there's a problem with the edits you've made in this realm-- certainly not more than a minor problem, if indeed there are any-- but it's handy to keep these in mind with topics on which you're passionate. (On a personal note, it's a lesson I remind myself when editing Marcionism and other articles on religion.)

Secondly, concerning uploads: We have to ensure that the images and other media files we use are in the public domain (or at least covered by open source copyright protection, such as the GNU General Public License). Simply attaining the permission of the copyright holder won't do: Wikipedia warrants that its intellectual property is free for anyone's use, even those who would create derivative works from it. I'm not sure that this is an acceptable condition for the United Church of God to release its seal for our use, but I could be wrong.

While we're on the subject of images, you might take a moment to review the tutorial on using images. Unfortunately, this is a topic on which I'm not expertised; the tutorial would be of much more assistance, I suspect, than I can hope to provide. The article in question could certainly use some images, and I applaud your efforts. Best of luck to you! -- SwissCelt 03:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:UCGIASeal100dpi.jpg
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Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. You can get help on image copyright tagging from Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags. -- Carnildo 05:14, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Church of God, an International Community
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Speedy deletion of Church of God, an International Community
A tag has been placed on Church of God, an International Community, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

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