User talk:Thomasbp30

Hello, Thomasbp30, welcome to Wikipedia! I'm quite new(lol)but I know enough about Wikipedia to help a bit.

If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. (If you don't know what that template means, click 'edit this page' on the top of this page to find out!)Hope you can contribute more! If you need help on customising your userpage, if you want to, you may check out some of the other userpages by more experienced users. And bye! Ready4Victory 00:24, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Good luck, and have fun. Real96 00:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:874.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:874.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 01:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as Bretcetera) are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Jsc83 17:46, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright and William Hoffman (author)[edit]

Please do not copy-and-paste from other web pages into Wikipedia. It is great to use them as source material, but if you just dump another page in verbatim, you are likely violating someone else's copyright, which is against our policy. I have removed the offending passage. Please do not re-insert it. (ESkog)^(Talk) 00:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As I said above, even if you link back to the page from which you copied the material, such copying is still not allowed. You can't use word-for-word copies of someone else's work when you are trying to pass it off as your own, and you don't have the legal rights to release someone else's work under Wikipedia's public licensing. (ESkog)^(Talk) 11:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would prefer a "small, crappy page" to one which is completely copied from somewhere else. Wikipedia is not in the business of violating other sites' copyrights. (ESkog)^(Talk) 14:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:13131.jpg[edit]

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 05:05, 22 May 2007 (UTC)