User talk:Jholman

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Thanks for welcome - what a great community! I've been reading wikipedia for a few months, and am excited about contributing to this amazing collection of knowledge.

--Jeff 05:03, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome, I'm glad you decided to join the project! With regards to the language links you asked me about, I looked around and found Wikipedia:Interlanguage links which states: "it is required to put the language links at the bottom of the page." I'm not sure exactly what space you're talking about (I assume you mean in the edit box itself not in the article), but, either way, the links are supposed to be at the bottom. I suppose if this was a major issue someone could have a bot go around and move all of them, but I'm not sure if that's necessary. If you have suggestions, Wikipedia:Help desk and Wikipedia:Village pump are good places to start. HTH – Jrdioko (Talk) 19:17, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The extra line is in the published article --Jeff 20:29, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I'm not sure if I've seen that before, can you give an example of an article that does that? – Jrdioko (Talk) 20:56, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

See: Landslide (then move the lang options to the bottom to see the difference --Jeff 21:42, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, now I see what you mean. I don't think it's a huge issue, but feel free to bring it up at the help desk just to see what others think about it. I'm curious now if that was an issue before the changeover to MediaWiki 1.3 or not. Good luck! – Jrdioko (Talk) 22:06, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Format for image desc page changes?

Are you making your image description page changes in accordance with some standard? If not, it might be neat if you write one up ... —Morven 07:11, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for asking! I am indeed using a standard which I proposed over at Wikipedia_talk:Image_description_page#Suggested_Standard_Format. It would be good to get some feedback on it before I post it to the actual page; or should I just be bold and stick it in there? The idea is that it (a) looks clean and organized, (b) standardizes information about images, and (c) ensures that the photographer is creditted and the copyright status is documented (so that someone doesn't have to investigate it later if a question comes up). Let me know what you think. --Jeff 07:20, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)

Image copyright tag

Hi Jeff. The UniversityofOxford2.jpg image was taken by Derek Parfit and it is presumably copyrighted by him. I had thought about contacting him directly to ask for a release under GFDL (in case the picture was not already in the public domain), but then I realized I was unsure about how to proceed: I'm not acquainted with GFDL and I don't know how is the author supposed to express his agreement (is an informal email message enough?). That's why I didn't link to the image from the University of Oxford article --which was my original intention when I uploaded the picture. Sir Paul 13:23, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)

It would be a nice addition to the article, so if you are interested in asking for permission, here are a couple resources to start with:

The GFDL would essentially require the individual to allow any noncommercial or commercial of the image, where credit must be given to the author, and derivative works must also be licensed under the GFDL --Jeff 19:20, Jun 2, 2004 (UTC)