User talk:Giraffeboy

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Personal attacks
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Solo article.
I don't what attack page by which you speak. I just thought of it cool to give a small segment an article of it's own. This has been done in other pages eversince.

License tagging for Image:Efren Reyes.jpg
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License tagging for Image:Takeshi Okumura.jpg
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Re:Attack Pages?
Sorry, the page didn't have enough context to explain what it was about. You may want to propose splitting the section using and explain the article a bit more. --  p b 3 0   < c . t > 13:45, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Ingrid Giraffe (My Gym Partner's a Monkey), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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License tagging for Image:Ramil Gallego.jpg
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Images
Please stop uploading images with descriptions like "Got from disk"; that doesn't mean anything to anyone. Either they need to be pictures you took, pictures so old copyright no longer applies (i.e. before the early 1920s), or pics that are licensed appropriately. I'll be quite happy to talk with you in more detail about the licensing requirements if that would help. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 09:20, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Dennis Orcollo.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:Dennis Orcollo.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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 * There is also no copyright tag on Image:Lee Van Corteza.jpg, which I have marked for potential deletion. --Strangerer (Talk) 09:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I honestly don't know how to put on those so-called on the images I put on pages. I just know how to put images just to make the page look good. Like most the images I put, the one of Dennis Orcollo and Lee Van Corteza come from a photo gallery from www.worldpoolchampionship.com (2004 edition). This means those pics are rather old and it's unlikely that they still have any copyright.


 * 2004 is not rather old. Images published in the United States before 1923 are old.  The images you uploaded are probably copyrighted.  If the website you found them on does not explicitly say that the images are released under a free license or into the public domain, you have to consider them copyrighted and unavailable for use.  You could consider emailing the photographer and asking them to release it under the GFDL, though. Take a look at this page Image use policy, this page Image copyright tags, and this page Copyrights.  Your images will probably be deleted unless you can show they are free to use. --Strangerer (Talk) 11:24, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You cannot simply take images off of random disks or photo galleries you have. Someone owns those images (whether they are on paper or on a hard disk).  They do no belong to you, and they do not belong to Wikipedia. I realize you are trying to help by just, well, finding pictures and uploading them, but you are are not helping by doing that. You are directly wasting the time of many people who have to clean up after the mess you are making. Please just stop doing that.  And don't hesitate to contact me directly if you are really keen on contributing to Wikipedia but haven't figured out how yet. I can direct you to the right places for whatever you are good at.  As for the pool pictures, if you are not going to professional and taking photographs yourself, then you are not in any position to be "giving" photographs to Wikipedia from such events. I know you mean well, but you've been making a mistake. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 12:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

This is not a sports-fan magazine
Plase read WP:NPOV (just click on that link there). You simply cannot add language like "Okumura's sign of glory". This is not a fan magazine, or a TV show, or a newspaper. It is an encyclopedia, with a formal, even dry, tone, and nothing but the provable facts, never opinions. Ain't no blog. :-/ —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 12:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Willie Hoppe.jpg)
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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Rodolfo Luat.jpg)
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Unblock

 * Giraffeboy: If you can demonstrate that you understand the nature of this block and why uploading every other random image you come across is a Wikipedia copyright policy trangression, I'll be happy to nominate you for a rapid unblocking. Your textual edits have struck me as well-intentioned and good-quality contributions, although you need to read and understand WP:V and WP:CITE, our policy and how-to guideline, respectively, on proving reference citations for what you want to add. You don't yet seem to understand that this is an encyclopedia, not a blog, and has stringent standards.  If you absorb that, I have no doubt you'd be a quite able Wikipedian.  PS: It would help a whole lot if you not only noticed and read but communitcatively responded to posts on your talk ("discussion") page.  To date your only use of talk pages at all appears to be adding unblock to this page.  This is not a good sign around here.  Engage other participants.  Address their concerns (and feel free to raise those of your own); draw others in to help you, and help others get where they need to go with the articles they are working on.  Wikipedia is a collaborative effort (perhaps the largest of all of human history), and collaboration necessarily requires communication.  Consider my talk page always open for questions.
 * PS: I've added a big "Welcome!" template to the top of your talk page. It has many informative links about Wikipedia editing that are worth reading in detail. They can save you a lot of frustration and wasted time.
 * —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 10:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Please review and acknowledge our Copyrights policy and this block will be overturned in good faith. Thank you, Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 04:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:BWA.jpg
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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Karate Kat.jpg
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