User talk:Lawrence of Italia

Welcome!
Welcome!

Hello, Lawrence of Italia, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits, such as the ones to the page Ship, show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

Did you know that ...
 * ...Wikipedia has a very stringent image use policy?
 * ...most images from Flickr, online news websites, and other web sources are copyrighted?
 * ...Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously?
 * ...freely-licensed images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a central location for images where they can be used on all Wikipedia projects?
 * ...we recommend that new users use our "files for upload" process – at least until you get the hang of things?

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Neutral point of view
Hi Lawrence, I noticed that several of your contributions appear to be boosting Italy, a great country to be sure. However, we editors are expected to follow this guidance: Neutral point of view. This means that in choosing images, we have chosen the one that best explains the topic in question. We should avoid choosing images simply because we prefer them! Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 19:58, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your message on my talk page, Lawrence of Italia. No worries, I love Italy almost as much as you do (despite being American), so I can understand your enthusiasm!


 * BTW, when we post in talk pages, we add our post to the bottom of what's already there in a conversation thread. Note that I used parentheses to indent, here.


 * Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 17:19, 27 December 2021 (UTC)