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Deleted redirect

I did delete that redirect, but restored it after another editor expressed their desire for it to stay. I must ask, you do realise the series name is "H2O" (H-two-Oh), not "H20" (H-two-zero)? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 01:46, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

User:Andrij Kursetsky worked on my page long ago, but he has not edited on Wikipedia for nearly a year, so no point in asking him for help. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 02:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"ize" is the American English method of spelling. Britain, Australia, and other locations typically spell words like this with "ise". See the Wiktionary entry to learn more. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 21:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an American of very recent British descent. Also, as a geopolitical lesson for you, the United Kingdom is comprised of Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Great Britain is comprised of England, Scotland and Wales. Here is a good descriptor map of this idea: Image:British Isles terms.gif, and here is an article describing everything in better detail: Terminology of the British Isles. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 23:54, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How to insert images in articles

Hi again. This may be helpful, I guess in response to your question. Cheers. CeeGee (talk) 18:20, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How to insert an infobox

Hi! Infoboxes are templates you can use in your article. You better check a similar article and copy the "infobox ......" template you needed. Happy wikiediting. CeeGee (talk) 19:33, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: H2O images

No, not at this time, because free images of the characters or actresses do not exist. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 09:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I said above, free images of the actresses do not exist at this time. I'm occasionally checking for them, but who knows if or when they will become available. Remember, that we cannot upload non-free images of living people, as this would violate fair-use rules. Also, the vertical line is right above the Enter key on most keyboards. Look for the key with the backslash (\), and just use "Shift + \" to make a vertical bar (|). — Huntster (t • @ • c) 00:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Finding free images

Generally the best way to get a free image is to take it yourself. (For example, if you look at my userpage, I have a gallery of images I uploaded, most of which are images I took myself during my travels.) An image you've taken yourself can be licensed under any license you want it to be (free, Creative Commons, GNU Documentation license, etc.).

Most images you find online are not free. (The upload page says: "The vast majority of images found on the Internet are not suitable for use on Wikipedia.") For example, when you do a google image search, almost everything you see will be copyrighted (images from news websites, people's blogs, etc.). Some images you find on Flickr may be free, but it depends; at the bottom right side of the flickr page there will be a little icon telling you if it's free or not (you can use the Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr page to interpret those icons and figure out if an image is free). Other than some flickr images, your best bet is to avoid any images that you've found through a google search.

Some images online qualify as "fair use." What that means is that they're images that are copyrighted (generally works of art: drawings, photos, comics, etc.) and there will never be a free replacement for them because they're unique. When an image is a fair use image, you may upload it to Wikipedia and use it, a tiny bit, and you may only use it in articles. For example, two of the images at Gunnerkrigg Court, an article that I recently got promoted to Good Article status are fair use images because they're pictures of webcomics. You can click on the images in that article to see what fair use images look like. The Catwoman and Passion images that you had on your userpage earlier are also fair use images.

That being said, by far the best place to find free images is at Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org). That site is like Wikipedia, but is nothing but a place for storing images, and all the images there are free. So if you're looking for an image to use for something, the first thing you should do is search Wikimedia Commons and see if they have it there. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 05:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading images

So that's all about finding images. Now let's say you have an image you want to upload (for example, a photo you took). The first thing to do is make sure you have a place to use it (an article that you want to illustrate, for example); this is because if you upload an image but don't put it on any pages, somebody might delete it.

Once you know what you're going to use the image for, you can go to Wikipedia:Upload, where it has step-by-step instructions for how to upload the image, depending on what kind of image it is. Once you get used to uploading images from there, you can also use Special:Upload, which is a bit faster, but at that page you have to know how to write the image description and licensing information (ie, whether it's a Free Image, Fair Use Image, GNU Documentation image, etc.), so it's probably better to use Wikipedia:Upload for your first couple images. I use Special:Upload, but by now I have gotten pretty used to how it works.

When you're uploading the image, you should include as much image as possible on what the image is and where it came from. The easiest way to put this information on the image page is simply to copy the formatting from another image page. For example, you can go to any of the images on my userpage, and at that image page click "edit", and from the edit page copy and paste the section that looks something like this:

{{Information
| description = 
| source = 
| date = 
| author = 
| permission =
}}

Once you've gotten that, go back to the image you are uploading (don't save the edits to the image where you got the information from), paste that in, and fill in all the fields with description, date, author, etc. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 05:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Another useful thing to do, now that you have all these links, is make a part on your userpage to store all of them. For example, on my userpage I used to have a section called "Useful links," under which I kept all the links that had useful information but I might not remember off the top of my head. If you make a section like that in your userpage, you can find all the information you need without having to remember the name of every single page. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 05:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

finding pictures

I'll use this picture (from my brother's flickr) as an example... Once you open that page, to the right of the picture you'll see a link to the person's photostream and to the set that the picture is in. Below that (and also to the right) is a column with This photo belongs to and a list of sets; below that is Tags and a list of tags. And finally, below that, on the right-hand side near the bottom of the page, is a section that says Additional information; in that section there is a gray "c" that says All Rights Reserved, and a green box that says "Anyone can see this photo."

After you've found that part of the page, open another window and go to Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr to check if the photo is usable or not. On this page you find the c with All Rights Reserved, and it shows that this particular photo is not ok to put on Wikipedia.

Anyway, if you just follow those steps with all the photos you find on flickr, you can find out if it's ok to upload the photos or not. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 01:13, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

downloading free images

You can download any image you want, but you cannot use them on Wikipedia unless they have free licenses (use that link above to search). As for downloading, just open the full-resolution (biggest size available) image and download it to your computer. Then use the "Upload file" link to the left to upload it to Wikipedia, following the appropriate guidelines about providing sources and licenses. I really don't know what you mean by "green check mark" and "Wikipedia download icon". — Huntster (t • @ • c) 01:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I said above, this link will allow you to search for images that are freely licensed and are allowable on Commons/Wikipedia (it is more complicated than that, but that's the easiest explanation). As I said above, just because an image is listed as free, doesn't mean the uploader is legally able to claim it as such. Re-read my previous comment, and look at the example I gave. That is a situation where the uploader claimed it was a free image, but almost certain is not. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 01:40, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, can you give me a link to the original image or page? — Huntster (t • @ • c) 04:46, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What, the one where she's sticking out her tongue? I'm not sure that would be a good image of Ms. Popplewell to use on the site, considering that either the second or third image is being used on her article.

In any case, the license information is on the image page, on the right hand side under Additional Information. In this case, it has the "Some Rights Reserved" line, and the "BY" logo means it is a CC-BY-2.0 license. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 05:06, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]