User talk:JasonAQuest

English: Welcome to the Commons, JasonAQuest!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki ‒ it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (direct access). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page, write this: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], it makes this: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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— Manecke 21:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Overwriting images

Please don't overwrite images unless it's a really obvious improvement. Certainly don't do it for a different crop. Upload it under a different name and then provide a link under the "other versions" parameter in the description. Thanks...Chowbok 01:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't waste my time modifying images unless it is an obvious improvement. Why on Earth did you revert it? The contrast on that photo of Jerry Siegel was lousy, it was littered with specks, and a portrait that focuses more attention on the man's tie than on his face looks amateurish. Keeping the badly-cropped version around as you suggest serves no purpose, because the replacement is clearly a better-looking image, and the original one would just be orphaned when I finished substituting it on the other Wikis. - JasonAQuest 01:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia serves other purposes than just the Wikis. There's no harm in having both crops available. Thanks.Chowbok 03:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I was unware that it was a goal of Wikimedia to provide inferior and redundant - and therefore pretty much useless - images as well as the good ones. The "harm" comes from the time I'm going to have to waste going through the other Wikipedias, and from the accumulation of worthless cruft. - JasonAQuest 16:48, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Nixon greets POW McCain.jpg

Image deletion warning

Image:Nixon greets POW McCain.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this image, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. In all cases, please do not take the deletion request personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

This is an automated message from DRBot. (Stop bugging me!) 06:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, JasonAQuest!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 05:56, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

• Image:Peter Pan 1915 cover.jpg is uncategorized since 27 March 2009.

RE:Questionable copyright claim

In the book Holroyd doesn't specify the source of the pictures but he does thank James Strachey for "making accesible a formidable mass of unpublished material". I had never seen those pictures before and they probably belong to Lytton Strachey's personal collection. I emailed Paul Levy last year, he is co-literary executor (with Holroyd) of Lytton Strachey's estate and he is trustee of the Strachey Trust. He said that its hard to determine the owners of the pictures but that "The Strachey Trust has however no objection in principle to the images being stored in this way and, insofar as it has any authority in the matter, is happy to give its permission. The Trust however makes no claim and gives no assurance that it has such authority and it remains your responsibility to ensure that any permissions which may be required from third parties is obtained." If you're still unconvinced I suggest you nominate the pictures and open up a discussion. Have a nice weekend! --Yamanbaiia (talk) 22:28, 27 November 2009 (UTC)