User talk:REMUDA

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Hello, REMUDA, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Huon (talk) 15:34, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Regarding your question in the live help channel: First of all, sorry that I had so little time there; I was doing stuff in real life that interfered. Uploading images is tricky due to copyright issues. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons generally only accept freely licensed images that everybody can use for any purpose, including commercial purposes. (There are some exceptions to this rule, but I don't think they would be relevant to your case.) You said the images in question were taken by yourself or your squadron mates. I assume these are private photos, not ones taken as part of your official duties (otherwise other, somewhat less restrictive rules apply). Those you took yourself you can upload to the Wikimedia Commons (a central repository for frely-licensed images that can be used on any Wikimedia Foundation project, not just the English Wikipedia) via their Upload Wizard and license them as needed. For those taken by your squadron mates you'd need to get - and provide evidence that you got - permission to release them under such a free license. The easiest way to provide that evidence would be to ask them, if they say yes upload the image, and then have them send an email with a release form and a link to the uploaded image to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org; Wikipedia has a standard release form they can use for this purpose. I'm sorry that there's so much bureaucracy and red tape involved, but Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and having the images deleted because of an unclear permission would likely be even more frustrating.
 * You also said you wanted to provide "data" about VAW-11. We already have an article on that squadron, and improvement would be welcome. There is one caveat, though: Wikipedia content should be based on reliable published sources such as books, magazines or newspapers reporting on VAW-11. Adding Wikipedia content based on your personal experiences, without a published source to back it up, would be considered original research, something that Wikipedia explicitly does not accept.
 * You may want to ask for more specific advice at WT:WikiProject Military history, the talk page of a project where people interested in military history topics come together to collaborate. There's a "New section" tab at the top of the talk page that you can use to start a new discussion; please sign talk page messages with four tildes ( - the software will turn that into signature and timestamp) to make it easier for others to tell who wrote what in a conversation. If you haven't edited Wikipedia before, you may also want to take a look at the WP:Tutorial or, for a more playful approach, WP:The Wikipedia Adventure. Huon (talk) 17:01, 5 November 2019 (UTC)