User talk:Lilreader

Speedy deletion of Freckles and His Friends
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Freckles100429.jpg)
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Copyright problem: Freckles and His Friends
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 * If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on Talk:Freckles and His Friends.

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If you would like to begin working on a new version of the article you may do so at Talk:Freckles and His Friends/Temp. Leave a note at Talk:Freckles and His Friends saying you have done so and an administrator will move the new article into place once the issue is resolved. Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! samrolken (talk) 15:13, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:NUT BROS-400128.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:NUT BROS-400128.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free file with a clearly invalid licensing tag; or it otherwise fails some part of the non-free content criteria. If you can find a valid tag that expresses why the file can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the current tag with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the Non-free fair use tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the file. If the file has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it.

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ilovecomixarchive.com edits
Could you explain the purpose of edits like this? Please see External links. Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:58, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Regarding etc.: Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:11, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

I was just updating the many incorrect links to the user community "I love Comix Archive". Many of the external links we old and incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilreader (talk • contribs) 08:20, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * That's not what an edit like does, it just replaces one broken link with another one - the linked page contains no information about the article's topic. (The page http://www.ilovecomixarchive.com/ does not even contain the words "Flash Gordon".) See WP:LINKSTOAVOID:
 * "A general site that has information about a variety of subjects should usually not be linked from an article on a more specific subject. ... If a section of a general website is devoted to the subject of the article, and meets the other criteria for linking, then that part of the site could be deep linked."
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:31, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, i don't use wikipedia much. I was just updating the incorrect links. The website "I love Comix Archive" is just a user community of shared comic strips that have been saved over the past 20 years. It is not a site selling anything or for making any money. It is just a very large site where a community of newspaper comic collectors share their collection in an organised manor. lilreader (talk) 08:43, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * That's great, nothing against it as a project. But that doesn't change the fact that a link from a Wikipedia article should lead the reader directly to relevant information, not to the home page of some site that is vaguely related and where they can maybe with some luck and after some searching find relevant information. So, either we find a new working link that is specifically about the topic (here: Flash Gordon) as the old one presumably was, or we remove the link altogether.
 * PS: One may question whether an online archive that does not care about this advice is worth the name "archive". If it broke all its links once, it may soon do so again; so people might prefer other sites that are more reliable.
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:56, 6 September 2016 (UTC)


 * I need to ask, since Wikipedia can be held liable: Do you own the copyrights do any of the strips you're publishing? There is no copyright information anywhere on the site that I can see. Are you uploading strips without the permission of the copyright holders? --Tenebrae (talk) 21:19, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Just to clarify something, adding useful resources for readers and fixing broken links are positive contributions in general, so thanks for doing that. From what I can tell, there are two issues, one minor and one major. The minor one is the links should've been updated to their new comic-specific address rather than changed to the main site (links should be directly relevant to the topic of the article). The major problem, that's probably cause to avoid this altogether, is that it looks to be a big copyright violation. Wikipedia is really careful about copyright matters. If the owner of the site also owns the copyright to those comics (seems unlikely) or if the comics are published with a compatible free license (also unlikely) then that's one thing, but otherwise we should avoid it. Thanks for trying to improve Wikipedia, though. Hopefully you'll find other ways to contribute to comics-related articles! :) &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 13:53, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

September 2016
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