User talk:Starriddler

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Speedy deletion of Braingle
A tag has been placed on Braingle requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for web content.

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Edward Burger
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Edward Burger has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): [a-z][0-9]+\.photobucket\.com/albums/.*\.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|svg) (links: http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq101/blueflamemaster/edwardburger.jpg). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 16:28, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Starriddler. I noticed your recent attempt to add a photo of Edward Burger to the article. Thank you! It's great that you are taking an interest in that article and want to improve it. There are a few things you should be aware of though.

First, images need to be hosted here at Wikipedia, or better yet, if it is a freely-licensed image, upload it to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be shared by all the wiki sites. Linking to photobucket.com was seen as link spam (trying to spam this site with off-site links), which is why you received the above warning message. As long as you don't repeat that type of behavior, it's nothing to worry about--part of the learning curve here.

Second, the photo that you tried to link to is not a freely-licensed image. It comes from one of Professor Burger's videos, and is thus copyrighted. Copyrighted images can sometimes be used in English Wikipedia articles (but not most other languages or projects) under Non-free content criteria and fair use laws. However, photos of most living people do not satisfy the NFC criteria, because it's entirely conceivable that someone could take a picture of the person (one of his students, a fellow instructor, or himself) that can be freely licensed. With so many editors on Wikipedia (including many interested in math and who attend his university), the likelihood of someone eventually uploading such a photo is actually quite high.

I hope that helps clarify why the image was problematic. If you have any other questions or need any help, please leave me a message on my talk page, and I will be happy to respond as soon as I can. Have a great weekend! &mdash; Will scrlt ( “Talk” ) 16:52, 23 May 2009 (UTC)