User talk:Natachamerritt

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Important question for Natacha
Natacha, that image you submitted for the article on ''Halipegus eccentricus is very good. (I've been paying attention to your work on that article because I'm the one who wrote the first version.)

But there's a significant problem.

When you uploaded the image, you said it was your "own work". But the lower left corner of the image says "Illustrated by Jessica Tamburrini-Ross".

And you're not Jessica Tamburrini-Ross, you're Natacha Merritt. Which means that the image isn't your own work, which means that your description of it as "own work" is false, which etc etc etc means that the image is at risk of getting deleted.

I think it's likely you and Jessica are classmates who are doing this as a joint project, and that she produced the image specifically so that it could be included in the article. That's perfectly okay, but you have to supply proper provenance for the image. "Image produced by Jessica Tamburrini-Ross, who releases it under the terms of [whatever license]" or something like that (and make sure you get Jessica's go-ahead first, obviously).

I'll give you a few weeks to come back and read this notice, but if it's not fixed by... say, by New Year's or so... then it'll have to be deleted.

(But if you see this message too late and the image has already been deleted, don't worry: the image can be restored if you get the proper provenance information.) DS (talk) 15:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC)