User talk:Bveracka
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Non-free rationale for File:Jacob Miller playing soundblock.jpg
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Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:Jacob Miller playing soundblock.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under non-free content criteria, but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia is acceptable. Please go to the file description page, and edit it to include a non-free rationale.
If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified the non-free rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' 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 "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F6 of the criteria for speedy deletion. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem. If you have any questions, please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 21:25, 22 October 2017 (UTC)
October 2023
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Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Strashelye (Hasidic dynasty), disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Specifically, section headers are in sentence case, not title case: only the first word of a section header is capitalized, unless a proper noun or the title of a work appears in the heading. —C.Fred (talk) 12:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- Is there a reason you are flagrantly going against the Manual of Style in the Strashelye (Hasidic dynasty) article? —C.Fred (talk) 12:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- I did not receive this message before I made the subsequent edits. I was also not aware of this rule in the Manual of Style concerning the use of sentence case in section headers. It doesn't make sense to me, but if we want uniformity, then we must all agree on some standard. It won't happen again. Bveracka (talk) 12:12, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- Clarification: It doesn't make sense to me because if you open any textbook in English, all headers are always capitalized in the fashion I described in my first edit of that article. However, as I said, we must have some standard which is agreed upon by the community, otherwise uniformity goes out the window. Sadly, in this department there is a lot of work to do. There are easily hundreds of articles (that I've seen over the past year) that don't adhere to this capitalization rule in the Manual of Style. In fact, I imagine there are many contributors like myself who are not aware of this Manual of Style. Frankly, this website is a complete mess. I regularly come across entire articles written with poor grammar, punctuation, and even spelling mistakes. This all reduces the credibility of the site in the wider public eye. More importantly, it is showing kids—who almost invariably refer to this site when researching anything including schoolwork—that it basically doesn't matter if you use poor grammar. With that said, I'm willing to look on the bright side and hope that it won't be in the future. If we work together and are respectful to each other as contributors, then we'll get somewhere. Bveracka (talk) 12:25, 30 October 2023 (UTC)