User talk:Heritage S

Cameroon scaly-tail images
Hi, thanks for your substantial expansion of the Cameroon scaly-tail article! You will note I have removed all figures you added, though, because they very likely constitute copyright violations by Wikipedia's standards. To qualify for inclusion in WP, an image must have been released under a license that allows whatever reuse (attributed), even commercial, by whoever wants to do so; I very much doubt that these illustrations from the scientific literature have been so released, particularly as they are by a variety of authors yet have been uploaded by you as "own work". I would ask you to remove them from Wikimedia Commons, please, as that repository will not host copyrighted material either. (If by some arrangement with the original authors these images have indeed been released under a suitable license, please provide proof of that on Commons.)

-- Cheers! Elmidae (talk · contribs) 12:29, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your clarifying comments at my talk page! -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:55, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * You might want to consider integrating the images into the text, rather than having them in a gallery-type section at the end. Figure 1 & 3 might go under "Morphology", 2 under "Distribution and habitat", 4 under "Phylogeny". Also please don't put the attribution in the caption - that should be purely descriptive (e.g. "Localities of collection for the 14 museum specimens of Zenkerella insignis"). The attribution ("Figure 1 (modified) from Perez del Val, et al. (1995)") should be available for the reader when they click on the image to get the large version and the metadata, i.e. it should form part of the extended image description on commons. Cheers! -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:06, 26 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Alright, added the images back in - all four of them, since the PeerJ licensing allows for re-use regardless of authorship, if there is sufficient attribution. To that end I have added the full journal citation to the 'source' data on Commons, and it should show up when a reader clicks on the thumbnail for the full image. Thanks for your help! :) -- Cheers Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:31, 27 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Aargh, brain. Neglected that of course two of the illustrations aren't from Peerj but other journals with different licensing structures, and that you aren't the direct author of these. Removed these again from the article. Yes, the status of these two will have to be clarified further, ideally by a release statement from the article's authors. -- Cheers Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:26, 27 August 2016 (UTC)