User talk:Kobus Opperman

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Meintjes
Hi, You added a nice bio of this painter. It is not in Wikipedia's style. In particular, you claim a copyright on the text. Please remove the copyright and try to condense and format it in the style of Wikipedia's other articles. Thanks! Potatoswatter 01:03, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for the note. I will try my utmost to get it up to standard! Will remove copyright stuff asap. Unsure about the desired format; also how to load images. Could you kindly advise with 'idot-proof' examples? :)

A bit late however (03:00 over here) so will try and fix this tomorrow. Your help will be much appreciated.

KO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kobus Opperman (talk • contribs)


 * Your enthusiasm is refreshing! Good style can be found in any of the featured articles. Of course the style guides in the welcome message above will help tremendously if you can sit through them :v) . You can learn the basic markup by reading source, such as just on this talk page, clicking the buttons above the edit box, and fooling around in the sandbox if you're really curious. Images can be tricky, but there's still a photograph icon above the edit box you can click. To reduce the size, you can add a parameter like this: [[Image:Example.jpg|thumb]] . There's lots to learn, but you'll be most of the way there with a table of contents. It looks the most work will be in reducing the length and helping readers look up information within the article ("encyclopedic style"). Happy editing! Potatoswatter 01:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again and thanks for the prompt response. The copyright stuff has been removed, adn I will try the rest a bit later. Since Meintjes was a painter, it would be super if one could load some images... say 10 or so. (Although I have 400+). He is, in a sense, a 'forgotten' artist and this might be a great opportunity to publish some stuff on him. Also published 30+ books, some of them highly admired biographies. I will be in touch once I have studies the examples. Thanks again. KO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kobus Opperman (talk • contribs)


 * Hmm, it looks like someone thought the copyright was still in there. Hopefully you didn't lose too much work... re-creating the page without the word "copyright" should be fine :v) . Potatoswatter 06:08, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Re-creating the page without the word "copyright" is totally insufficient - see below. -- RHaworth 14:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * For one, it was copyright himself in the first place. For two, he was talking about doing whatever editing was necessary for Wikification, which would make it a new original work in the public domain - see above. Potatoswatter 08:34, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyright issue with Johannes Meintjes}}}
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