User talk:Kendr Atkins 21

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Hello, Kendr Atkins 21, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! We're so glad you're here! Nthep (talk) 09:40, 30 May 2014 (UTC) Nthep (talk) 09:40, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I see you're learning the hard way, unfortunately, about what constitiutes own work. Don't worry you're not the first to make that mistake and you won't be the last. But when you upload something with the statement that it's your own work that means you created the original image, not that you prepared the scan from a book or copied it from the internet to upload onto Wikipedia or Commons. If you take your camera and take a photo of the view from your window and upload that to Wikipedia then it is your own work because you took the photo. You upload an old image like the one of Robert Rattray then you have to say who created the original image that you are uploading and where you got it from. This is because it has to be established whether it's something that is out of copyright or is in the public domain for another reason or is freely licenced by it's creator. Depending on where you are in the world this can get quite complicated as the copyright in the country of origin and the US both have to be considered. So to take the Rattray example we need to know who took the photo and when an where and then assess it against US copyright law and (depending on where the photo was taken) Indian or Ghanian copyright law to establish whether or not it's use of Wikipedia or Commons meets the necessary criteria.

Please don't get disheartened, it can be very complex or it can be quite easy. If you ever want to ask a question you can always leave a note on my talk page or at Media copyright questions or at Teahouse/Questions. Nthep (talk) 09:58, 30 May 2014 (UTC)