User talk:Parmelia

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Your submission at Articles for creation
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The Parmelia Race, Plymouth to Perth, 1979
--Parmelia (talk) 03:13, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

October 2013
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 * # Panasonic Western Australia, one-off ketch, 10.87 metres, Bill Lowe
 * # Bounty Western Australia, Hallberg rassey 41 ketch, 12.50 metres, Max Winkless

References and images
You asked at User talk:A930913/BracketBotArchives/ 5 about references and jpg images for the Parmelia Yacht Race article. I don't quite understand what kind of reference help you're looking for. The references you already have should be turned into inline citations (like the Sydney Morning Herald near the end of the list); see WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily do so. Uploading images largely is a question of copyright. If those images are copyrighted and not explicitly released under a free license that allows everybody to modify and re-use them for any purpose, they will probably not be appropriate for Wikipedia. For example, if the chart is a scan from some publication, it will likely be non-free and not usable. If you drew the chart yourself and are willing to release it under a free license, you can upload it to the Wikimedia Commons via their UploadWizard. For the tables I'd suggest not to use images at all but rather to re-create the tables; see Help:Table on how to create tables on Wikipedia. I'm not sure what you meant by "secure"; JPEG files are image files that contain no executable code and thus cannot contain viruses or the like. Huon (talk) 22:43, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Parmelia Yacht Race References & jpg files
Thank you for your comments.

I have tried to enter References but cannot get images to come up on screen and am happy to leave the references as they are.

The jpg files I wish to use are of my own making.

I drew the Course Chart which is based on the chart in The Parmelia Race Sandovers Souvenir Programme which, in turn, I created back in 1979.

Both Results Tables are copies of excel files I prepared which I believe would be too laborious to produce using your "Tables" instructions. They are based on data in the Royal Perth Yacht Club archives and I am assisting the Club in maintaining it's Parmelia Race records, and they are happy to see them used in the Parmelia Yacht Race page.

I appreciate once the jpg images appear on Wikipedia anyone can copy them. My "security" concern was regarding what happens when I download the images to Wikipedia. Are they stored in my "Parmelia" page or are they accessable to any other Wikipedia contributer?

Parmelia (talk) 08:01, 18 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Before images can be displayed on Wikipedia they must be uploaded to Wikipedia or to the Wikimedia Commons. The Commons only accept images that are in the public domain or have been released under a free license - in short, images that everybody can modify and re-use for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Since Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, it prefers such images if at all possible. There are some very strict criteria that govern the use of non-free images (which have to be uploaded to Wikipedia itself, not the Commons). In your case, both the map information and the information contained in the Excel tables could be re-created in a free version, so we wouldn't accept non-free versions of those. If you own the copyright for the course chart, you can release it under a free license yourself and upload it to the Commons via their Upload Wizard, though you may have to provide evidence that you're the original author if it has previously been published elsewhere. Such uploaded images are available for use all over Wikipedia (though non-free images would require a separate justification for each page they're to be used on) or even on other Wikimedia Foundation projects (such as foreign-language Wikipedias, if they have been uploaded to the Commons). Of course they can also be downloaded by users.
 * For an example of an uploaded image see File:Троїцький монастир.jpg; that's the Commons' image of the day; the Commons version is at commons:File:Троїцький монастир.jpg. Huon (talk) 22:54, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

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