User talk:Ilovechoclate

Welcome!

Hello, Ilovechoclate, 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:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! The Mark of the Beast (talk) 02:12, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Your edits

Hi. You don't need to link to Wikipedia articles with a full URL, just put the word between brackets: [[Rumor]], not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/rumor]]. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 02:12, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Referencing

For some hints on how to reference Wikipedia-style, please take a look at Referencing for beginners. Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 00:47, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

October 2011

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Jayne Mansfield, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 00:54, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Jayne Mansfield. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 02:01, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Please

• Use the minor edit box correctly:

Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor.

• Do not edit-war.
• Follow the general rule of one editor, one account.
• Do not remove sources themselves or sourced content from articles.
• Follow the accepted community guidelines for Manual of Style, including article text should have an encyclopedic tone instead of an informal tone.
• Do not remove images without discussing them on the article's talk page.

Please consider going through the complete Wikipedia:Tutorial before you return to editing. Thank you, Shearonink (talk) 03:36, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 00:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Jayne Mansfield Publicity Photo.jpg

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License tagging for File:Jayne Mansfield's death car.jpg

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Jayne Mansfield Publicity Photo.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Jayne Mansfield Publicity Photo.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sumanch (talk) 02:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Jayne Mansfield's death car.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Jayne Mansfield's death car.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sumanch (talk) 02:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

February 2012

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Jayne Mansfield, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 02:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Help request

why did my pictures get deleted off of the Jayne Mansfield article? I went to the "Talk Page" of the article and talked about my changes like you guys said and my pictures still keep getting deleted and I tried to sign my signature but it will not work! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilovechoclate (talk) 02:51, 6 February 2012‎ (UTC)

Greetings. I looked at the article and think I may be able to offer some insight. First of all, you're apparently adding photos that do not have the proper licensing applied. Wikipedia has very strict rules regarding the use of non-free images, which can be found here. We also try to keep the amount of non-free content to a minimum on articles, preferring instead to add free images. In the case of Ms. Mansfield, I admit that will be nearly impossible to add, unless someone has an old photo in their home collections.

As to your signature, the way to best sign your name in a talk page is to add four tildes (~~~~). On most keyboards, the tilde is on a key next to the 1 key on the keyboard (well, it is on my MacBook and on my Windows desktop). Also, at the top of this edit window you'll find an icon with a pencil (the fourth one from the left, next to the icon with the photo). You can click that and it will append your signature.

Lastly, regarding the talk page. When you want to start a new discussion, create a new subhead at the bottom of the talk page. The best way to do this is to click the "New section" tab at the top of the talk page. I hope this answers your questions, but please feel free to ask again if you need more assistance.

--McDoobAU93 04:32, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

I am trying NOT to edit war but I added the photos again to the Jayne Mansfield article this time with the RIGHT license like you just said for me to do and I changed the main photo to the Jayne Mansfield article and I put the right license for it (A snapshot from a movie) it was from the movie Kiss Them For Me and it got deleted and then I added the thumb photo again to the section of the Jayne Mansfield article where it says 1960's I put in a photo with it saying The Fat Spy VHS Movie Cover 1966 and that got deleted and I put the right license for it too (A cover from a video tape movie) sense it was the VHS movie cover than after I was done editing the page and I went to the "Talk" page of the article and DISCUSSED my changes and I signed my username too THE WAY YOU SHOWED ME HOW TO DO IT! please help me with better information on how to fix that problem and why my photos got deleted AGAIN and when I added the RIGHT license to it and when I went to the "Talk" page of the article and discussed my changes and signed my name too like you said for me to do thanks it would me a lot bye!

Okay, if you're doing everything you said, then yes you are doing things the right way. However, now comes the big part of working on Wikipedia ... working with others. There are many other editors who follow this same article, and they have reasons for doing what they do. For example, they have said that the reason they reverted your alteration of the infobox photo was because you were replacing a free image with a non-free one; in almost every case, a free image will trump a non-free one, even if a proper fair-use rationale is used.

As to using the talk page, I'm looking at your edits there and you're adding things to a closed discussion, the work to bring the article to GA-status. To open a proper discussion, click the "New section" tab at the top of the page while on the talk page, fill in the section name (something descriptive, like "Image questions") and post your points, making sure to sign your post when you're finished. Other editors will respond in time and give their reasons; some may even agree with yours. Ultimately, consensus will form for one idea or another ... and it's quite possible that it won't be yours.

If you keep changing photos despite requests not to do so, technically you are edit warring because you're involved in a content dispute on the article. The other editors at this article are willing to work with you, if you're willing to work with them. I hope this helps! --McDoobAU93 15:40, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the help your awsome! Sorry from using disscusions that were closed I know what you mean by that now, I am new to wikipedia so I am still trying to learn how everything works and I now opened up a new disscusion of my own on the "Talk Page" of the Jayne Mansfield article titled "Image Questions" something simple like you said. But one more thing I have a question on if I uploaded a image on Wikimedia Commons would it be free and would I be able to use it without it getting deleted or removed from the article?

Yes, as long as it is a free image that you upload, you can do what you like with it, as long as you don't vandalise. :) --andy4789 ★ · (talk? contribs?) 23:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Free vs. non-free media

Aww thanks for the help but what I was asking you and the main problem is how do I determine if it is a free image or not? because I thought the images I uploaded were already free I do not get it and I am confused! please help me on that thanks! and why were my images deleted again off the Jayne Mansfield article again for the 3rd time! I thought I did everything right Help me please!!!!!!!!!!!! and how do I add a copyright tag like a free or non free tag for pictures?

First of all, you're very welcome, and I'm glad I've been able to assist you. Now, on to this question about what makes an image free or non-free. It's not whether or not you paid anything to get it. Instead, is the image something you created or something created by someone else that you're using?

Let's take the VHS box cover you're using on the Jayne Mansfield article. Someone working for the production company that released the video tape of the movie designed that cover. Therefore, they own the copyright to it. That would make it a non-free image. Now, let's say you had the good fortune of attending a movie premiere where Jayne Mansfield made an appearance, and you snapped a rather good shot with your Kodak Brownie camera (this is the 60s after all) ... that would be a free image, since you obtained it yourself.

As a whole, Wikipedia prefers using free, non-copyrighted images for its articles. For many of them, such as animals, plants and such, those can be pretty easy to obtain. With other media, such as movie posters and album covers, that's a bit more difficult. While an artist could do a pretty good rendering of a movie poster, that's asking a lot, and also it might be considered plagiarism. This is where fair-use comes into play. In general, it means that we can use copyrighted material within relatively strict limits (read the section on fair-use for more info); at the same time, we try to keep that use to a minimum.

Now, let's say you have a non-free image that everyone agrees should appear in the article. Again, that's where collaboration helps a lot. If you've got a question about a particular image, ask about it on the talk page (use a new heading) and see what the editors of that article think. Most are very helpful and will explain their reasoning. I'm not a regular on Jayne Mansfield, so I can't speak directly for them, so I would suggest asking them directly about it. When you upload the image, you're asked if it's a free or non-free image. If non-free, there's a pull-down menu asking you what type of media it is (screen-shot, album cover, movie poster, etc.). You can select that, and then it fills in a lot of the info you need. Also, you'll need a fair-use rationale for the article explaining why it's there and why we should use the copyrighted image. If the image is used in multiple articles, a fair-use rationale will be needed for each and every use. Free images don't have such restrictions, which is why they're so preferable.

I know this is a lot to absorb, so let me suggest you do some reading on the subject. It took me a while before I felt comfortable adding images, so don't worry if it's a bit confusing. Use the help desk, or ask on the article talk page where you're proposing an image when you have questions. Till then, I'd suggest you read this section on our fair-use policies, this section on how to do fair-use rationales and this section on how to work with images. Good luck!

--McDoobAU93 02:50, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks you, your the best! :) --Ilovechoclate 22:28, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) There are essentially three types of images we see here:

• Files that are not subject to copyright protection at all but which are in the public domain. The images you uploaded appear to be copyrighted and note that the burden is on the person wishing to use an image to show it is not; an image is assumed copyrighted unless a person shows otherwise in a reliable way. So, public domain does not appear to apply to these images. You claimed public domain for a number of images that you don't appear to have any authority to make the claim. For example, the photograph of Mariska Hargitay. Unless you took the photograph, what were you thinking when you claimed you owned it?
• Files that remain copyrighted but bear a free copyright license that is compatible with the free licenses Wikipedia's content is licensed under. There is no indication that any of the images you have uploaded are anything but fully copyrighted. Again, you would have to show that they are freely licensed, or it is assumed they are simply copyrighted and cannot be used under such a license. I don't know but I get the feeling you may think just applying the right license will solve the matter. That is not the case. The license has to actually reflect the images' copyright status. If the license is incorrect as to that status, the image will be deleted. Note also that only public domain and compatibly freely-licensed files can be uploaded to the Commons.
• Files that are used under a claim of fair use. Fair use is a doctrine that allows use of fully copyrighted media for certain educational uses under strict conditions for that use. This appears to be the only ground under which any of your image uploads could possibly be properly used. To be used here, in addition to a non-free copyright tag, you need to place a properly filled out fair use rationale template explaining why the image constitutes fair use in the manner you are using it. The criteria you must meet for fair use are set out at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. Among other reasons, I can tell you that since Jayne Mansfield already has a number of suitable free images in it, I don't think you can make a proper claim of fair use for any of your uploads.

Hope this helps.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:53, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, you both I appreciate it!

OK! I am about to quit wikipedia! why did my photos get deleted off the Jayne Mansfield article for the 4th time!? I did EVERYTINHG right this time I added the source information because that was the reason of why last time my photo got deleted and I did everything else right I believe and I added the description information and I went on the "Talk" page of the article and same as always discussed what I changed and than I signed my user name! please write me back and may you please give me the information IN ORDER on how to add images to wikipedia so they will not get deleted off the article and why my pictures got deleted off the article for the 4th time and whatever caused it I will go back to the article and TRY to fix the problem of why my image got deleted so the images will not get deleted off of the article again and stay on there thanks!

I understand the Wikipedia's copyright policies can be a little confusing if you're not familiar. I see you did attempt to put information on the images (e.g. Too Hot To Handle VHS Cover.jpg). However, taking a photograph of a copyrighted cover does not mean you fully own it. Essentially, you are copying the cover using your camera. Thus, the movie studio (or whoever owns the cover copyright) owns it.

There is sometimes a way to use copyrighted material (such as the cover) on Wikipedia without a license. As discussed above, that is fair use. You need to read Wikipedia:Fair use to find out the procedure. However, such images probably would not be acceptable on Jayne Mansfield. As Fuhghettaboutit mentioned, there are already free images, so non-free images probably can't be used even under fair use. Superm401 - Talk 06:34, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok I just got done reading the section "Images" in the article Wikipedia:Fair use so what should I do now to add a image to a wikipedia article so it will not get deleted please give me the insturctions in order on how to do that thanks and thank you for the help! --Ilovechoclate 13:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

In terms of how to add the image, you're doing it right. Here's the problem, though. Fair-use and the usage of any given non-free image on Wikipedia isn't a cut-and-dried or check-list procedure. But, let me see if I can make it one, or as close as possible.

The first and most important question is this: do you own the image and/or its contents? We'll use my examples from a while back. If you scan a copy of a VHS tape cover, you don't own it, because the image itself is copyrighted by the company producing the cover. You may have generated it, but you'd be using someone else's work as your own if you claimed you owned such an image. Now, that pic you snapped of some actor/actress at a red-carpet premiere that looks so great? That is a picture you own and that you created. You can freely license that picture to Wikipedia without needing to claim fair-use.

Let's assume the answer to the first question is no; that is, you've created an image scanned from something copyrighted (such as the tape cover). The next question: does the image's use fall within Wikipedia's fair-use policies? Again, let's use that VHS box cover. If you're using it for an article on the film in question, it might indeed qualify. However, if you're using it to illustrate the actor/actress on the cover for the article about them, it might not, unless that article includes specific commentary on the film.

Now we get to the last and most important question regarding fair-use images: can the image be replaced by one that is free? Non-free images are intended to be temporary, ultimately to be replaced by some free image of the same thing. In a lot of cases (such as album covers and movie posters for articles on their respective albums or movies), that won't happen. But in the case of an actor's appearance on such a cover, that's easily replaced by a public-domain image or, again, someone taking a picture of the person in public. In rare cases, it may be possible to use such an image to illustrate the person temporarily, but as soon as that free image is found, it will be replaced by the free version. In the case of people who are alive, the project prefers to not use a fair-use image to simply illustrate what a person looks like, even if that means the article has no image of the person at all.

Again, let me state that this is an over-simplification of how fair-use images work, but I'm trying to get you to look at the images you're attempting to add to determine their true free/non-free status (a/k/a respond to the first question). You then work with the editors on the articles you're attempting to illustrate on the second and third questions.

I know this is frustrating when you're trying to make the encyclopedia better and it seems nobody wants what you're trying to add. But there are reasons for doing so, and it's never meant as a personal sleight against you for trying to add them. The other editors are willing to work with and learn from you, if you're willing to work with and learn from them, too.

--McDoobAU93 16:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

@McDoobAU93 Aw thanks! you're the best!

Your so so awsome! thanks for the help again! but like what you were saying before in one of my help request you said to me that if it was a picture that I took a snapshot of that would be a (free image) and it would be my own work since I obtained it my self and that is what I did their was a part from the movie trailer "Primitive Love" (a Jayne Mansfield film) that I took a snapshot of and I change the photo to the Jayne Mansfield article and I added the trailer image to the Jayne Mansfield article the name of it was: Blonde_Movie_ Actress_Jayne_Manfield_In_Primitive_Love_1964.jpg and that got deleted and at first I thought like you said if it was something like the movie cover I previously added or any other movie cover that would be considered Non-free because it is copyrighted and someone else owns it because they made it their self but then at the same time I thought again like you said if I took a snapshot of something it would be free for me because I took a snapshot of it and I obtained it my self so it would be free for me to use on any article that I wanted to add it on to and that is what I did I took a snapshot of it with my screen capture software Hypercam the Hypercam3 screen capture software and then I clicked on the "Toolbox" and then I clicked "Upload File" after that it showed me a number of things for me to click as usual like: entirely my own work, the work of someone else, who has given permission to release it under a free license, a work from a US federal government source, a work from Flickr, and much more and then I clicked on "entirely my own work" becuase like you said before if I took a snapshot of whatever it is then it is a "Free Image" and "My Own Work" since I obtained it my self and so I clicked on "entirely my own work" then after that I uploaded the image to wikipedia then I put the image under a "Free License" I think it was either Creative Commons Attributtion 3.0 or Public Domain either one I think or something similar to the two of those after that when it was done uploading and all I copied the title of the image and went to "Edit" on the Jayne Mansfield article and I backed out the image title of the article and I hit paste and I typed in the image captions and all of that then I typed in what I was changing in the small bar at the bottom of the editing page and then I clicked the "Save" icon at the bottom of the page then after that I went to the "Talk Page" of the article discussed my changes and signed my username and I clicked save and then after that I waited a while and then the next thing I saw was that the image I uploaded got deleted and was replaced back with the image that was previously on the Jayne Mansfield article before I uploaded my image and I do not get it because I thought that image was a free image and entirely my own work may you please tell me the reason why that image was deleted thanks and I know I can always count on you your awsome! :)

Hey again ... I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by "you made it yourself". When you use software for a screen capture of a film, you're creating an image of a copyrighted work, as the studio that produced the film owns the copyright to it. When you scan a video-tape or DVD cover, you've created an image of a copyrighted work, as the distributor of the film (maybe or maybe not the studio that made the film) owns the copyright to the design of the image on the cover. If you were to physically see the actress (I know it's not possible now, but assume you could for argument's sake) in public and take a picture of her, that would indeed be your work. In the first two cases, you may well indeed have created the image file (the .JPG file), but if what's depicted in the image is covered by copyright, then it's a non-free image.

Lastly, please make sure you sign your posts, even on your own page, with four tildes (~~~~). This not only adds links to your user page and your talk page, but it also time-stamps when you posted it. Also, you don't have to post a {{help}} tag whenever you post something in this thread. If you make a change, I'll see it! :)

--McDoobAU93 21:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Aww thanks you're so supportive yeah I get what your saying about I do not have to post the "help" icon all the time only when I need help I just do it because other users help me quicker that way.

I think now I know how to add a image to a wikipedia page and another thing if I happend to take a picture of the part in the trailer that I tooked with Hypercam3 with a Kodak Camcorder/Digital Camera would it sill be copyrighted and Non-free becuase I forgot you also said if I took it with a Kodak Brownie Camera even though I think that type of camera was from the 1960's but anyways thank you. :)

It's not the device used to capture the image, it's what the item in the image is that determines if the image is free or not free. I really don't know how else to simplify it, so you may need to not post images until you fully understand how free/non-free works. I know you're trying, and I wish I knew the magic word that would make all this make sense for you. --McDoobAU93 03:13, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Thats ok I know you're trying hard to help me out :) and that is all that counts and matters I should be thankful just for that sorry if I wasted any of your time and I know you and the other wikipedia administrators are busy all the time trying to help the other wikipedia users so I will try to not ask that much from you since you're trying to help me out so much and you're like the only wikipedia administrator who has ever been nice to me! but I already think (maybe or maybe not) I know how to add images now to articles and I see what the other users are doing that i'm not to my images they're adding templates to their images in the information box of their images in the section "Permission" and plus I added the wrong "Date" of the trailer image that I added I wrote today's date when I was supposed to add the year of when the movie was released. Like what I was saying about the templates the templates to the other users trailer images say: This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation or This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation and it depends on what the year was of when that image was taken and when the film was released (If it was a movie trailer image) than you try to add the right template to your screenshot image but anyways still thank you and I appreciate it!

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 02:35, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Jayne Mansfield's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Jayne Mansfield's Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 04:05, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:In The Fat Spy 1966.jpg

Hello, Ilovechoclate!

It was really helpful of you to upload File:In The Fat Spy 1966.jpg, but in order to keep new images, we need to know their exact source and copyright status.

If you can edit the description page and add that information, that would be great. If you're not sure how or would like some help, please ask us at the media copyright questions page and we'll be happy to assist you.

Thanks again! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 04:06, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure anytime! I found out how to pick the right license to the photos I add now

February 2012

Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires: 1)No review and 2)Could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Shearonink (talk) 05:28, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. Shearonink (talk) 02:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Imaging instructions and help

Imaging instructions

To use a picture on Wikipedia, we need permission from whoever owns it.

• If it is your OWN picture - then you can just upload it yourself, at "Commons", saying "It is entirely my own work" - at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Upload .
• If it is NOT YOURS, then the owner can give permission in two ways;

A) They could put it on a website (flickr, or their own site) with an appropriate licence, such as "Public Domain" or "Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike" (that is an option in flickr)

B) They could email us permission. You could ask them to do that, by sending them an email saying something like:

"Hi, I've written a page on Wikipedia, and I'd really like to add a picture - but as Wikipedia is FREE, we can only use freely-licenced pictures. If you have any which you can give permission for, please send me an email back with the text below, and the picture(s) attached."

-Then add a copy of this: http://enwp.org/user:chzz/help/myboilerplate (having filled the form out)

-And send the email (attached picture file + completed form) to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org

If any of your questions about how to insert images into an article aren't answered in these instructions, please refer to Help:Files and to Help:Contents/Images and media for a master-listing of all pertinent image-use links.
Hope this helps, Shearonink (talk) 02:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Contributing your own images

Please refer to Commons:Contributing your own work for some additional instructions on contributing images to Commons. Good luck, Shearonink (talk) 02:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

File source problem with File:The Fat Spy VHS Movie Cover.jpg

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Non-free rationale for File:The Las Vegas Hillbillys VHS Movie Cover.jpg

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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 on 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. Eeekster (talk) 04:08, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:In Kiss Them For Me 1957.jpeg

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Thanks for uploading File:In Kiss Them For Me 1957.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 07:13, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Notice on misuse of minor edit check-box

None of your recent edits are minor edits. Please stop clicking on the Minor Edit check box when you are changing an image. Thank you, Shearonink (talk) 00:28, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

More information needed about File:The daughter of Jayne Mansfield (Mariska Hargitay).jpg

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File source problem with File:With Tony Randall In Will Succes Spoil Rock Hunter.jpg

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In response to your feedback

It looks as though it was deleted due to a copyright issue. Our Image use policy can assist you in understanding the proper use of non-free material. The Help Desk is also a good resource. Good luck!

--Non-Dropframe _talk 17:30, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

 

Your recent edits

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Why?

Please explain why you uploaded the same image of Jayne Mansfield more than a dozen times. Please upload the colour version, just once to the Commons and give it the same source and licence details as you gave to File:1964 Jayne Mansfield.jpg. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 19:19, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure thing I added a new image to the Jayne Mansfield article this time not in black & white just added a little 1960's editing to the image --Ilovechoclate 19:48, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

My images 1

({{subst:copyvionote|File: 1964, film, and Jayne Mansfield.jpg}})

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, such as on Talk:Jayne Mansfield, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 12:59, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Orphaned non-free image File:On the cover of Life Magaine in the 1950's.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 04:08, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

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Your signature

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More information needed about File:Jayne Mansfield Primitive Love.jpg

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Please sign your posts on talk pages

Here you did not, SineBot had to do it for you. What you have to do is put four tildes at the end of your posts.

• Look at the line of numbers at the top of your keyboard.
• Look at the 1 key, there will also be an ! exclamation mark on it.
• Now, look to the left of that key, there is a key with ` on the bottom and a ~ on the top.
• The curly thing on the top, the one that looks like a sideways s, is called a tilde. Again a tilde looks like this: ~ .
• At the end of your next talk page post, here or at Talk:Jayne Mansfield or wherever?... right after your post, put four tildes.
• Then, the Wikipedia system will automatically add a link to your user page and to your talk page.

(And this is the end of my post so I am now going to sign with four tildes that will then turn into links to my user page & my talk page->) Shearonink (talk) 03:41, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

I am typing in 4 tildes at the end of all of my messages and I know what you're talking about too: on the ` button of the keyboard there is tilde icon on top of it and in order for me to type in a tilde I would have to hit the "Shift" key and at the same time hit the ` button 4 times and that should be right and that is what I amexactly doing! when I am done typing in my messages I add 4 tildes and I do not know what is going on but I am doing it at the end of all of my messages :/

Ok, sorry if I misunderstood. It just took me a while to understand what a tilde exactly was when I first started editing Wikipedia (and I needed it all pretty much spelled out like I did above for you). I'm sure that everything will get straightened out. Shearonink (talk) 04:25, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

In that case, please go reread my message (#Your signature) above. Since your signature does not contain a link back to you, it is not in compliance with our guidelines, and will continue to draw questions from other editors and admonitions from User:SineBot. Your talk page is full of warnings about a number of issues, including this one. If you continue to ignore them, you run the risk of being blocked for disruptive editing ​—DoRD (talk)​ 04:35, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

thanks you too are nice.

Possibly unfree File:Mariska Hargitay in 2011.jpg

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Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 03:50, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Adding images to articles

Your current seeming fixation with adding unneeded images to the articles of 1950s film icons such as Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe seems to be getting you into daily trouble. Please accept that wikipedia is not an illustrated fan magazine or a collection of photographs - it is an encyclopedia and only a few images are needed in each article to emphasize a few particular points. The Mansfield article already has probably more images than most and almost certainly does not need more.

As you have discovered already the acceptance of non-free images and copyright issues is a difficult and complicated topic that is not best suited to a novice editor. Could I suggest that you cease these efforts for the time being and until you are more experienced at editing the wiki.

A separate issue is your spelling, grammar and punctuation which is not yet as good as it could be, or is needed within the encyclopedia. May I suggest that you write all text within a word processing programme such as MS Word and run spell and grammar checks before copy/pasting the text into any article. That will avoid further instances of your work being deleted. 21st CENTURY GREENSTUFF 14:04, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to upload media files with false or lacking copyright and source information, as you did at File:Mariska Hargitay in 2011.jpg, you may be blocked from editing. Please make sure you have read and understood our policy on copyright violations before making any further uploads. Eeekster (talk) 02:49, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Signing your posts on talk pages

After posting on a talk page, please sign your post using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. This should produce your signature, which you can customize at Special:Preferences. However, your signature must include a link to your user page and/or user talk page (see Wikipedia:Signatures for further detail). Thanks, benzband (talk) 14:29, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Ilivechocolate, given the large number of comments about your signature on this page, I'll explain this in the simplest terms I can:

1. Go to My preferences
2. Scroll down to the box labeled Signature:
3. Clear the box, i.e. make sure that it is completely empty
4. Make sure that the box below that, marked Treat the above as wiki markup, is not checked
5. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and select Save

Now your signature will be in compliance and you will stop getting so many messages about it. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 14:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Ilovechoclate (talk) 19:47, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you :) ​—DoRD (talk)​ 22:44, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

YAY! Shearonink (talk) 22:52, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure thing thank you both for your support <3 Ilovechoclate (talk) 13:48, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

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