User talk:Rgrochulski

welcome, and images
G'day Rgrochulski,

and welcome to Wikipedia! Good authors are always welcome on the project. I hope you like the place and decide to stick around! Sometimes new editors find it useful to review our "Five Pillars", the lowdown on "wikisyntax", or (of course) the new contributors' help page. I'm going to take a punt in the dark and say you're Australian. If so, great! Australians make the best contributors (just ask any Aussie). You may be interested to learn that we have an Australian wikipedians' noticeboard, where Australian contributors "meet" to discuss various wikithings.

The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is, you've uploaded a couple of images of everyone's favourite Raiders bad boy, Todd Carney. Wikipedia's copyright policy is unfortunately quite complex, but it can be nutshelled down into something like this: if we want to use photographs or text created by someone else, it must be public domain or provided under a free licence (e.g. the GFDL). There is an exception &mdash; fair use &mdash; which we can use as a last resort. In the case of Mr Carney, it's entirely possible for someone (perhaps you yourself) to take a photo of the chap, so we don't need to steal images of him from newspapers and whatnot. Every image we upload needs to have an identifiable source (e.g. "This flickr webpage", or "I took this photo", or something like that), and an explanation of why we're allowed to use the image. Cheers, fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 17:55, 9 June 2007 (UTC)