User talk:Jonchaplin

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Hope to see you around the Wiki! And if you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact me on my talk page! - Elf

Charles Chaplin article
I moved your article to Charles Chaplin (artist) to conform to wikipedia heading styles and added a note at Charlie Chaplin (which is where Charles Chaplin points to); longterm perhaps Charles Chaplin shd become a disambiguation page, but at the moment it still redirects to the more famous Charlie.

Also, the images you uploaded need to specify where they came from (source) and under what license or copyright you're releasing them to wikipedia. Since all text at WP is under GFDL, it's best if images were also either GFDL or public domain. Since I assume that you're related to CC and wrote a book about him, I'm guessing that you're probably a good authority on whether these images could be released under such licenses. :-)  If, however, they're copyrighted and not for free use, they might have to be removed from wikipedia.  There are other options, though GFDL and PD are best.  YOu can read more about them from the file-upload page.  Meanwhile, I've tagged them with the standard tags for unsourced/unlicensed images.

And you can edit the picture descriptions by clicking on the images in the article and then clicking Edit this page for the image.

Feel free to ask on my talk page if you have more questions. Elf | Talk 22:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Here's some standard text about uploading images:

Hello!

Thanks for uploading some pictures to Wikipedia. I wanted to make sure you were aware of some of the requirements and good practices for uploaded images.


 * Pick an image name.
 * When uploading an image, pick a file name that is short, descriptive, and unique. Remember that many images may be uploaded about the same topic, and remember that names are case sensitive.


 * Source the image.
 * On the image description page, explain where the image came from. If you created the image yourself, then say so.  If it's from the web, give a URL.  If it's a screenshot of a movie or game, or a scan from a book, give the title.


 * Provide copyright and license information.
 * This part is a little bit trickier, but it's very important. The copyright of the image generally belongs to whomever created it.
 * If it's a photograph you took, or an image you created (modifying an image that already exists doesn't count) in software like Photoshop or GIMP, then you own the copyright. To upload it to Wikipedia, you must agree to license it under the GFDL (which allows anyone to use it, but requires that they give credit to the original author and requires that any further edit to the image be licensed under the GFDL as well) or release it into the public domain (which allows anyone to use it for any purpose without restriction.)  Do this by placing an appropriate tag on the image description page, like &#123;{GFDL}} or &#123;{PD}}.  Be sure to mention that you created the image.  If you're using &#123;{PD}}, you may also want to use &#123;{NoRightsReserved}}, since there is some dispute as to whether one may grant items into the public domain.
 * If you didn't create the image, or the copyright somehow belongs to another party (like a screenshot, which you might "create", but the copyright belongs to the author of the movie or video game), then you need to find another tag that describes the copyright status of the image. Images used on Wikipedia need to be free for our use and the use of sites which reproduce our content.  This means that images cannot have a restriction such as "only for use by Wikipedia", or "for non-commercial use only", or "for educational use".  Images without a free license may be usable in certain articles under fair use, but such a use should be justified on the image description page.


 * Describe the image.
 * To another reader, the image may not be immediately understood. A caption in an article doesn't explain the image to a visitor who sees it on its image page.  Put a brief explanation of what is in the image on the image description page, similar to what you might include in a caption on an article.

Some links to Wikipedia pages on this subject:

Copyrights, Copyright tags, Fair use, Image description page, Public domain, Images for deletion, Possibly unfree images, Copyright problems, Uploading images

Thanks again for your contributions. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me at my talk page.