User talk:W. T. Larkins

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We're so glad you're here! --GreenJoe 18:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WOW!!

THanks for your contributions of vintage inages to Wikipedia. I have placed the Douglas DC-4E image to the Infobox in that article, and added the XR6O image to the Lockheed R6V page. I saw that you had a little trouble coding the image in the Douglas DC-4E page, but don't let that bother you. Computer geeks like myself, or other experienced Wiki editors, will be glad to help fix minor details like that. I do hope you have more images to contribute, but even if these are the only two you have, there are still great contributions. Thanks again, and welcome! - BillCJ 23:29, 13 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Yes, this is the best way to contact me. I can answer here or on my page, whichever is easiest for you, but you don't have to answer on both pages. I'm not an expert on posting photos, but I will try to help you as best as I can. If I don't have the answer, I can probably find someone who can answer it. - BillCJ 01:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you can, check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft and Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation. Those are the projects I spend most of my time helping out on Wikipedia, and there's a lot of info there to help you get familiar with them. Thanks. - BillCJ 01:27, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you BillCJ. It's too late tonight to go into all of this but basically I am trying to find the easy(?) way to add a photo to pages that already exist. I have scanned a number of pages in the aviation section and note that they do not have a single photo to illustrate their subject. I have found this to be confusing so far. I should comment that I own and operate 50 Yahoo Groups, contribute to several websites (usually uploading by using photobucket or some such system) and have 1,800 photos posted on http://picasaweb.google.com/BillLarkins. Also as an introduction please check out http://home.earthlink.net/~wtl To answer your question above as to whether or not the two photos are the only two that I have the answer is probably 15,000. I will be happy to contribute to your aviation section once we can work out the mechanics of doing so. ````

15,000! I think we could find a use for a few of them. If you own all 15,000 pics, or even just a small percentage of them, it will be a great help to us in the Aircraft Project. We are all just volunteer editors who share a love for aviation and aircraft. As you noted, many of the aircraft articles, especially those of older aircraft, do not have photos because it's so hard ro find legall-usable pictures of them. The preferred type of images are those uploaded under the GNU Free Documentation License, as you did with the image I'm illustrating here.

This is the basic format for placing pics in articles: [[Image:filename.jpg|thumb}right|Caption]] Just copy the text between the 's, and place it in the article where you want to place the pic. THat'll be the easiest thing to do for now. Take a look at Lockheed R6V, and see how I placed your pic there. If you have trouble with a certain article, or any other questions, feel free to ask me, or another memeber on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft page. - BillCJ 06:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well BillCJ, I am still learning. I tried to follow your directions (although I had/have no idea what "nowiki" means) but didn't get the copyright etc. I thought - without thinking - that once you established the type of copyright that you wanted that it would automatically be added to every photo submitted. Obviously it has to be done each time. If you can change it to GNU Free Documentation I would appreciate it. Bill Larkins

Sir, I'm sorry, but I was trying to show you how to place a pic in an article that you had already uploaded. My bad! I misunderstood what you were asking. I don't have much experience uploading pics myself, so I have asked User:Bzuk to step in. He fixed a problem with the F8F pic you uploaded, so he may have a better idea of how to help specifically. He is an aviation writer from Canada, and is also a Bill. THanks again for your contributions, and I certainly hope we can get you set up and going soon. - BillCJ 05:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uploading picture files

Hi Bill; I would be happy to help you upload image files and place them in articles. I have done so many times and have a good feel for the process. Basically, go to the left menu and find the "upload file" toolbox. The first thing that will happen is that you will be directed to find the file for uploading, normally on a hard drive in your computer. Once selected, the file then is assigned a name and is given an extension (.jpg or .gif are the two most common image extensions that are added to your file name). The last and possibly most important step is to identify the image origin. Wikipedia has some specific protocols and very stringent rules as to use of images. Since there will be no copyright restrictions, my advice is to assign a

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

If this is not legally possible:

I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

tag and then write in the following: I, W. T. Larkins created this image and release it for use. This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, W. T. Larkins at the English Wikipedia project. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: W. T. Larkins grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."

I am now going to download an image of mine to go into this note. All my actions can be traced back through the history on this page. Use the history to see the actual tag code that I employed.

Please do not hesitate in contacting me for more details/help. Bzuk 06:02, 16 May 2007 (UTC).

BillZ: Thank you for your offer and I will be writing you with several questions shortly. I've got three things going on right at the moment so have to do it later. I read your interesting personal background and it encourages me to do the same. I was hesitant to do so previously because the few that I had looked at were off the wall sophmoric. It would be helpful to me if you could list a few names for aviation people that give a serious background such as yours. I scanned through the list and since they are 99% in a code name it was of no help. Bill L.

An exciting opportunity to get involved!

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis ^contribs 05:58, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]