User talk:Tjcjaj

Terry Robbins (DYK nom)
Hi. I've nominated Terry Robbins, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know, where you can improve it if you see fit. &mdash; Komusou talk @ 15:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Comment: If you didn't get my earlier comment Thanks for the nomination! This is for a school project and it will be nice to share with my professor.  Anyhow, can you point me out in the right direction on getting copyrights for a picture?  The only picture that I or my professor could dig up of him is the "Days of Rage" photo on the Weathermen Organization page.  Could you tell me how I can get the rights to add a that photo of him onto my bio? Thanks!Tjcjaj (talk) 03:57, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

About pictures, well: &mdash; Komusou talk @ 20:11, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Usually, you can't "get copyright" for inclusion on Wikipedia, or trying to do so means jumping through a lot of hoops and red tape – have a glance at Example requests for permission.
 * On the other hand, for *dead* people, Wikipedia works with "fair use" copyrighted material, without your having to ask anybody (just like journalists do). Doing it right is a small job in itself but quite doable, the full doc is at WP:FAIRUSE.
 * I did it once: the most important thing to understand is that you need TWO sections below your uploaded picture, a general one to credit the exact source and copyright holder of the image, and a second one just to provide a fair-use rationale expressely for inclusion on ONE given article. (Most people just upload a picture with a "fair use" tag, and inside of a month a copyvio bot has deleted their image.) See the copyrighted Image:KAJII, Motojiro (1901-1932) Japanese short-story writer.jpg where I did it for my article. Along with the WP:FAIRUSE guideline, you can use it as a model for your own fair-use page. (I had asked a copyright admin to vet my fair-use, and it passed, so it should be a decent basis.)

Hey, so ya know, the reason those references look like is so you don't have a ton of the same reference down in your references section. Doing it this way makes it so you have lots of links to one reference instead. It looks much nicer. Cheers! Murderbike (talk) 04:52, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment: I appreciate your help. I don't mind the changes, the only thing was the Robbins and Meisel citation was not coming out. It was reading Cite error, no text. I tried to fix it to be like the others but it was not accepting it. I thought it was important to have the citation info on there for now until I could figure out how to get it to look like the rest. Maybe you have any suggestions? Thanks for your help!Tjcjaj (talk) 05:28, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, sorry about that, I left an extra "/" in the original "ref name" tag. Fortunately, another user fixed it before I got to it. Sorry about that! Murderbike (talk) 19:35, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, When I first found out about the "ref name" consolidation thing, I asked around, and there wasn't a way to leave page numbers. But people seemed to think that it was OK to not have the page numbers, so I went with it. It seemed to be unimportant enough, that it was worth it to have a less ridiculous notes section in trade for not having page numbers. Murderbike 20:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)