User talk:ShayeandSarah

Welcome
Hello, ShayeandSarah and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.

If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Please also read this helpful advice for students.

Before you create an article, make sure you understand what kind of articles are accepted here. Remember: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and while many topics are encyclopedic, some things are not.

Your instructor or professor may wish to set up a course page, and if your class doesn't already have one please tell your instructor about that. It is highly recommended that you place this text:  on the talk page of any articles you are working on as part of your Wikipedia-related course assignment. This will let other editors know this article is a subject of an educational assignment and aid your communication with them.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Altamel (talk) 03:53, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

AP Gov: Health Care Policy in the United States
Hi ShayeandSarah. I notice you created an article named AP Gov: Health Care Policy in the United States. Is this for a class project? Altamel (talk) 03:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Questions
Yes, this is a page created for a class assignment. Will the page be deleted despite my page not being a part of an instructor's course page? And will it be deleted for not being an official encyclopedia entry? It is on significant historical events, and my partner and I were instructed to specifically create a wikipage on health care. Also, when adding images, is there a way to know if something is free in the domain or where we can get images we can upload without copyright problems? thank you for your help. ShayeandSarah (talk) 04:24, 31 March 2016 (UTC)ShayeandSarahShayeandSarah (talk) 04:24, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi ShayeandSarah. I have moved your article back into your userspace here as a draft. Generally, users are given more latitude with what they can have in their userspace (i.e. any page beginning with User:...) than a page that has been published to the article mainspace (any page that does not have a prefix). As an article, your page probably would have been deleted because it duplicated existing information in other Wikipedia articles, but the chances that it will be deleted now that it is in your userspace is low.


 * Where is your instructor's course page? It may rather difficult to create a new article on health care, as our coverage of existing health care law is rather extensive, but it may be easier to expand articles that have already been created.


 * Image copyright law in the United States is rather complicated. As a freely-licensed project, Wikipedia only allows the use of images that have been freely licensed, such as ones published under a Creative Commons License or are in the public domain (see Copyrights). Generally, images published by the U.S. government and published before 1923 are in the public domain. Other images on Wikipedia are uploaded by individuals who have given permission for reuse. There is one exception that allows using copyrighted images under a doctrine known as "fair use", but our criteria for exercising fair use is rather strict. Hope this answers your questions. Altamel (talk) 04:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Username policy
One other thing: Wikipedia's policy on usernames discourages usernames implying shared use. The reason is simply to hold each physical person accountable for their own edits: we don't allow two people to edit under one account because if the account started disrupting the encyclopedia, nobody would know which of the two individuals was responsible. This is not to accuse you of being disruptive, but this rule is applied to all accounts. Therefore, it would best to create separate accounts for each individual currently using this username and cease editing with this account. I'm sorry if Wikipedia has come across as a mess of confusing rules, but unfortunately that's just how the place works. I'll answer your other question shortly. Altamel (talk) 04:27, 31 March 2016 (UTC)