User talk:Mjacoby1973

Recent edit to Orange High School (Orange, California)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Orange High School (Orange, California), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:42, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I took this photo personally; it belongs to me. Can you help me add whatever tag(s) or references it needs? I references photoshop because I removed some of the overhead wires and cleaned up the concrete. I can provide the original photo if that would help? Mjacoby1973 (talk) 07:24, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Mr. Ugog, can you help me? Can you tell me what tag(s) I need to attach to our high school photo? Mjacoby1973 (talk) 23:20, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
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License tagging for File:OHS Front01.png
Thanks for uploading File:OHS Front01.png. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

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 * I added to the photo; is this the correct tag for a photo that I took myself? Mjacoby1973 (talk) 23:29, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Your edit to Orange High School (Orange, California) has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. DanCherek (talk) 02:24, 9 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I helped create the content for Orange High, Union High, Chapman U history, and OUSD history notes. Do I need to reference each time or manually type it in? I went ahead and removed the last edit I added as well. My apologies; I will not longer update OHS, sorry. Mjacoby1973 (talk) 05:20, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The issue is that the content has been previously published under a non-free license and so per our policies, it can't be copy-and-pasted into Wikipedia without proper verification that the copyright holder has agreed to release it under a suitably free license. If you are the copyright holder, WP:DONATETEXT has information on how that can be done. DanCherek (talk) 15:08, 9 July 2023 (UTC)