User talk:Rcroberts777

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Pictures in Loudonville, Ohio article.
Hi Rcroberts. Say, I saw that you uploaded a couple of pictures for the Loudonville, Ohio article. They're great pictures, but I don't think we can use them. You got them off a website, and their copyright is probably held by the person who took them, or the owner of the website (the town of Loudenville or whomever). And Wikipedia can't use copyrighted material, as a general rule. This is partly because our policy is that any material is Wikipedia is (more or less) free for anyone to take. Therefore pictures on Wikipedia basically lose their copyright protection (to simplify).

It kind of stinks, but that's the way it is. So the pictures will probably be deleted soon, unless you yourself actually do hold the copyright, or they are not copyrighted, or something like that. If that is so, you should go to the pictures and say that. In future -- when you upload a picture, you'll see a pull-down list of all the various ways a picture can be allowed (copyright expired, fair use, etc.). If the picture you are uploading doesn't fit in one of those categories, it's probably not alllowed to be used on Wikipedia. This page explains it all: Image copyright tags.

Anyway, too bad about that, but I appreciate your work on the article. Wiki on! Herostratus 10:11, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:CS_14_150.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:CS_14_150.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see User talk:Carnildo/images. 19:44, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Pg_12a.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Pg_12a.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see User talk:Carnildo/images. 10:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Pg_26a.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Pg_26a.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see User talk:Carnildo/images. 12:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Vanity articles
Hello. I have moved the short article you created about yourself to your user page. Cheers. The JPS talk to me  21:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:7a45.jpg listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:7a45.jpg, has been listed at Images and media for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. OsamaKReply? on my talk page, please 02:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)