User talk:Zorkovsky

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Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! mattbr30 23:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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Image:Lol1.jpg and Image:Loleatta Holloway.jpg
Hello, Zorkovsky, both of these images are a copyright violation from http://hem.bredband.net/funkyflyy/salsoul/holloway.html, which clearly states at the bottom of the page: © Maria Granditsky February 1997. All rights reserved. No part of these pages may be reproduced or published without the prior written permission of the author. Do not save, link to, or in any way use the images on Miss Funkyflyy's Web Pages, without first obtaining a written consent from the Webmistress, Maria Granditsky. therefore the licence is not "ok", and I doubt the creator of this page holds the copyright for the images (this would be the photographer). Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and these images will be deleted unless you can claim fair use, then the images must meet the fair use criteria (as images of a living person, these would therefore fail fair use criterion number 1 and would be deleted). Please ask if you have any questions. Thanks, mattbr30 23:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Loleatta Holloway.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Loleatta Holloway.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as or , you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jkelly 02:33, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Your message on my talk page
Hello Zorkovsky, due to the licence the site uses, the GNU Free Documentation License, all contributions to the site must be freely copyable (under the licence) for others to use (this is why you see Wikipedia content on other sites). This means that copyrighted material can only be used under fair use laws and must meet the fair use criteria, with the key criterion being that no free alternative could be found. In the case of images of living people, copyrighted pictures cannot be used as a free image could be taken by anyone (as was the case for your image).

As for my 'magical powers', people are constantly uploading images and people often do not include enough information, if any, or make false claims on the source or the copyright status of the image. To avoid Wikipedia being sued for breach of copyright, uploads are checked by other users of the site to ensure they contain the right information so they can be used, and the software generates a special page with a gallery of new images uploaded by users to make this checking easier. There is a similar page for checking edits to pages, called recent changes.

Regarding the messages, the welcome message is a standard message (in the form of a template) used to welcome new users (there is one at the top of my talk page from when I joined) to help point new users in the right direction and provide a point of contact. The copyright notice I wrote myself, but there are also templates available for other situations (such as the one used by Jkelly). I personally don't post that many messages, but other users post lots!

Finally, I am just a regular Wikipedian just like you. Let me know if you have any more questions, and happy editing, mattbr30 19:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

PS. When leaving a message on a talk page, type ~ which produces your signature and a time stamp, so other users know who has posted a message and when. For me this leaves: mattbr30 19:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC) :).