User talk:SDawley

I've been trying to add an image to the W. Brett Wilson page but have ran into a lot of problems! The image was taken with Brett's camera himself and there is no copyright on the image at all. He is willing to release it into the public domain - whatever needs to be done to get the picture up!

I'm pretty sure I've uploaded the picture like 5 times by now...I'm quite lost. :(

SDawley (talk) 18:02, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't see any image uploads in your contributions history. Were you uploading by clicking the 'upload image' button to the left? See also Help:Images. // roux    editor review 18:03, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I uploaded it to the Wikipedia page as well as in Commons...

Any suggestions on where to go with the copyright issue if the picture was taken by ourselves personally?

SDawley (talk) 18:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You need to fill in the information on the copyright status. If you took the image yourself, that needs to be noted on the image page. You did add the image to the page--sometimes they don't show up immediately due to lag between servers. I've re-added it. I'd also like to ask you to use informative edit summaries when you edit articles--it lets people know what you're doing.


 * On an unrelated note, if you do know him, let him know he has a fan! // roux    editor review 18:33, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! I hope I did it right...

I will definitely let him know! We do his PR and publicity. :)

SDawley (talk) 18:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


 * ...oh dear. Please be very, very careful with your edits then. Please read our policy on conflict of interest. The short version: you are not forbidden from editing his article, but you are strongly encouraged not to. You are interested in promoting him, and will--this is not a value judgement on you--likely glide over anything negative. We are here to build an encyclopedia, which means we must adhere rigidly to a neutral point of view on all articles. // roux    editor review 18:48, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

For sure, got it. I was in charge of getting the basic page up, but will try and refrain from editing it as much as possible from now on. Brett was recently named the Business Person of the Year from Alberta Venture Magazine (see here - http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2860). Is it appropriate for me to add something like that?

SDawley (talk) 19:12, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Wbrettwilson.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Wbrettwilson.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.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:
 * Image use policy
 * Image copyright tags

This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 00:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)