User talk:MikeShaw79

Horticulture in new Zealand
A tag has been placed on Horticulture in new Zealand, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. THE AMERICAN METROSEXUAL 20:50, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:PlantandFoodResearch logo.jpg
Thank you for uploading File:PlantandFoodResearch logo.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Closedmouth (talk) 09:10, 24 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I saw your note at New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research about the image. One option for you is to email WP:OTRS with details of the permission you have. However, Wikipedia requires that images be under a free licence, such as WP:CC-BY-SA. It is unlikely that any organisation will want to release its logo under such a license. It is not sufficient to have permission to use the image only on Wikipedia, since this restricts people from re-using Wikipedia material.


 * There is an exception to the requirement for a free image, which is the "fair use" concept under US law. Each image included under "fair use" requires a justification for each article it is included in. You can view examples of such justifications at File:New lcr logo 200.png and File:Logo-GNS.png


 * A further alternative is to illustrate the article not with the logo, but with a photo of the company headquarters, one of its research facilities, or something else which is representative of its work. If you take such a photo yourself, then you own the copyright and can release it under a free license.


 * You are welcome to ask me for further help on my user talk page, although I am not the most knowledgeable user on our image policy (or on fair use provisions of US law). If you need more detailed explanations of such things, you might be better posting at media copyright questions page as mentioned above, or placing a helpme template on this page with a specific question for someone to answer.- gadfium  02:59, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

External links on Maremma Sheepdog
Just wanted to let you know that I removed the links you added to the article, per Wikipedia's external link guidelines (in particular, items 10 and 11 of links to avoid). – anna  02:37, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:PlantandFoodResearch logo.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:PlantandFoodResearch logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk ) 06:20, 13 January 2012 (UTC)