User talk:Big ambrosia

Hello Big ambrosia! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I think it's very important for you to browse through some of the links below so as to become familiar with how Wikipedia works. If you need any help you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and another Wikipedian will show up shortly. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you're already loving Wikipedia and plan on becoming a Wikipedian you might consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor, just paste {{Adoptme}} into your userpage and you will gladly be adopted! You might also consider joining a WikiProject so as to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! --Mike Cline (talk) 09:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Unique opportunity to contribute to Fly fishing related articles

Big ambrosia - Thanks for declaring your clear relationship to the film link you posted to the Fly reel article. If your contributions to Wikipedia are purely to promote the film and its producer, then you should weigh very carefully the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia when doing so. However, should you decide to contribute to Wikipeda to expand and improve its article content, I believe you are in a unique position to contribute a wealth of useful and needed content to fly fishing related articles. Clearly your access to media and bibliographic materials on the subject is greater than most through your filmmaking endeavors.

Wikipedia needs contributors like you with access to quality images and bibliographic sources that can be moved into the public domain and used to enhance articles. Although the film trailer you linked is interesting, it would be far more useful to Wikipedia if you extracted relevant images from the film, uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons into the public domain and incorporated them into related articles. In words, use your unique access to fly fishing related images and bibliographic data to improve coverage of fly fishing topics in Wikipedia.

Here's an immediate request should you desire to contribute along these lines. The article on George Edward MacKenzie Skues lacks an image of him. We all know one exists in the public domain as it appears on many websites. However, we've been unable to find the image properly attributed to a source that would allow it to be loaded into Wikimedia Common and thus included in the article. Being in the UK, I suspect you could accomplish that task.

I encourgage you to get familar with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. As a new contributor you will take some missteps. It happened to all of us and still does on occasion. The more familar you are with guidelines and such, the smoother the waters will be. But remember, if your intentions are sound, then all your contributions are welcome and mistakes are nothing to worry about as the Wikipedia community will always be there to help.

On a final note, if your interest in contributing to fishing related articles in extensive, then you should consider associating yourself with the Fishing Project as that will help keep you informed of what's going on. Thanks again for your contributions, I hope to see more of them and especially the Skues image.--Mike Cline (talk) 10:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Big Ambrosia - Thanks for the note. I think you will find a lot of opportunity to work with your passion for UK Fly Fishing History in Wikipedia. On the COI side, I've been through a bit of that when I first started in WP two years ago. Here's how I view the situation for you: On the Hardy Film - Anything you say about it or attempts to link it to WP probably can be legimately viewed as COI and POV. Why, you are the producer. That said, using your knowledge of Hardy and stuff, you can't legitimately make contributions to a wide range of fly fishing content related to Hardy or other subjects, as long as you provide reliable sources. Your ability to research and provide reasoned and verifiable content on Fly fishing is where your strength lies. It takes a while to understand fully what you can and can't do relative to your personal and professional interests--but it becomes easier and easier as you contribute.--Mike Cline (talk) 17:15, 15 January 2009 (UTC)