User talk:Librefgirl

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 17:18, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Carnegie medal art
I can see you are a new user and trying to do a complicated task so I tried to help out. The first problem was the medal artwork is Copyright and not Creative Commons (as far as I can tell - nothing says Creative Commons at the ALA website) so it can't be uploaded to Commons, only to en.wikipedia.org with a Fair Use license and "logo" rationale. Second problem is having two images in the infobox, it needs to be one image. Third problem is the images had a Copyright watermark which doesn't look good. Finally the logos have to be low resolution to permit Fair Usage and the ones uploaded where high resolution. So I found images of the new artwork without a copyright watermark and combined them into a single low resolution image (as previously) and uploaded it as a replacement over the existing older artwork which had the proper Fair Use licensing and logo rationale already in place. -- Green  C  19:21, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

WP:Conflict of Interest
Since you have made it known you are associated with the ALA ("Version of page preferred by the American Library Association.") please take some time to read Wikipedia's policy on Conflict of Interest WP:COI. We don't edit pages based on what is best for ALA, rather what is best for Wikipedia and its readers. By deleting the list of winners and replacing it with the note:
 * "Visit the official Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction for lists of current and past nominees and winners."

..you are evidently trying to drive traffic to the ALA website and deny Wikipedia readers the ability to see the list of winners on Wikipedia. As COI says "when advancing outside interests is more important to an editor than advancing the aims of Wikipedia, that editor stands in a conflict of interest." It is the aim and goal of Wikipedia to list winners and finalists for every literary award article, as can be seen in the thousands of similar articles that exist. The ALA official website is listed at the bottom of the page in the External Links section as is the standard method.

Also the image doesn't need a copyright watermark, Fair Use is being claimed, see the image page for the Fair Use rationale. If you are trying to contest Fair Use, do so in the appropriate forum. If you win that case the image would be removed entirely. If you are the owner of those images, and want to release them under a Creative Commons license, please do so through Commons but use the OTRS system so that someone can verify your name and position and email address as the individual who is claiming ownership for the record. If you did that, the Copyright watermark would not be needed since anyone can then legally modify the image including removing the watermark. Personally I would not recommend releasing your logo under a CC license, make sure you understand the consequences. -- Green  C  06:24, 20 March 2014 (UTC)