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User talk:Bbsrock

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John Denver image
Bbsrock, I noticed that you uploaded a new image for John Denver. However, you didn't inlcude a source or any copyright information on the image. If you just lifted the image off the Internet somewhere, we can't use it. Images must be covered by fair use (such as a still from a movie), released under the GFDL or be in the public domain. Most images of celebrities aren't covered under these conditions. Please update the page where the image resides (here) with the appropriate copyright information. Thanks. — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:00, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

En-dashes
I see that you've been quite busy changing many properly formatted en-dashes into hyphens. Might I ask why? It's a violation of policy, and I'll revert them for you if you don't mind.

James F. (talk) 01:09, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Looks like he's still doing it as of mid-August 2005! How many has it been, I wonder?

67.173.240.27 11:44, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

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Dates
I'm afraid that I overrode your edit in an edit conflict -- but when I checked, I found that you'd only added a comma in the middle of a date. There isn't any point doing that, as the Wikipedia date engine shows the date with or without a comma depending on the User's preferences; I never see a comma, because in England we don't use one, but U.S. users always see commas (if they have their preferences set properly). --Phronima 21:49, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi, Bbsrock. I noticed your edit on Lincoln Chafee and just wanted to let you know that there's no need to rearrange dates in that way, even if it's an American subject.  As long as the dates are wikilinked, they'll automatically be arranged according to the user's preferences.  Hope this helps!  —Cleared as filed. 23:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Henry the Navigator
An article that you've edited before (Henry the Navigator) is nominated for Biography Collaboration of the Week. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 20:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Image and copyright sources
Hi, I've noticed that some of the images you have uploaded to Wikipedia have no source or copyright information. Under the Criteria for speedy deletion, if they are like this for more than seven days after being tagged as lacking source information then they can be deleted. Here are the ones I've found that could be deleted soon: Evil Monkey∴Hello 20:22, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Johndenver.JPG
 * Image:Friedan.JPG
 * Image:Martha.JPG
 * Image:Donadams.JPG
 * Image:Tucker.JPG
 * Image:Safavian.JPG

Dates
I realize that you are well-intentioned on this, but (for example) 4 October is correct Commonwealth English markup; there is no particular reason to change Commonwealth English to U.S. English in an article on Latin America. See Manual of Style. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Please don't reverse dates in this way. Set your own preferences to show the dates in the way you prefer. - Nunh-huh 21:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Dashes & Dates
Hello,
 * I'm new here, and I'm still learning. Most of my contributions to Wikipedia thus far have been birth & death dates. I'm unsure of the correct dash to use to separate the two. I read somewhere in the editing instructions to use the em dash not the en dash. I noticed on your Page you seem to prefer the en dash. Which is correct? Michael David 15:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Coretta Scott King birthdate/birthname
I noticed you changed my "(born Coretta Scott; {dates}." It seems to be common and logical to list birthname with birthdate: see, for example, Kathie Lee Gifford and Maya Angelou.

Image Tagging for Image:Bettyfriedan.JPG
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Request for edit summary
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Conan
The new main Conan picture (here) that you just added: it doesn't look like a screenshot, and if it was, then you need to identify from where it came. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

hyphens/dashes in dates -- what's the difference? (can't see it)
Hi there. On your user page you contrast and compare these two lines:

(October 23, 1923 - December 1, 2005) (October 23, 1923 – December 1, 2005)

But they look identical to me. The upper one is supposedly one you hate and the lower one is the one you favor. Please clue me in on the difference. I noticed your (minor) edit of Kevin Payne which according to page history entailed exchanging the hyphen/dash separating the birth/death dates; could not see the difference in my browser, and followed you to your user page. Is this something that renders differently for you, and not for me? Oh, and could you please use edit summaries? -- Mareklug talk  05:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:PMcCartney.JPG
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The Beatles pictures
Hey mate, we're trying to write an article there and not build a gallery :-) The thing is, the pictures were laid out in a neat order - John then Paul then George then Ringo, which you've upset rather :-) Do you think you could choose the one or two best pictures from your batch, and move them after the JPG & R individual pictures, and remove the rest? The pictures you remove can maybe go onto the talk page so other people can see what spare photos we have available. I appreciate you're adding some colour, but the pictures of the 4 guys in order is really too great a concept to meddle with don't you think? :) --kingboyk 00:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Would you mind doing that for me? I'm not great with the technical aspects of wikipedia--bbsrock

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 * Hi, images from magazine photoshoots aren't promotional images, they are images owned by the magazine or photographer and we don't regard those sort of images as fair use. Arniep 09:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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George Harrison image
Can you please tell me exactly why you prefer that ugly George Harrison image over the better one? Perhaps the better one is copyrighted (like is said in the image itself), but it is fair use and it is low-resolution for non-profit purposes. There are tons of copyrighted fair-use images on Wikipedia, just like the George Harrison image I propose that we use.

Not meaning to be rude, but if my proposed image is still just not acceptable, any chance we could dig up some better image of George Harrison, that we can actually use? --Weierstraß (talk) 20:36, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Your births/death policy
I note you have removed details of the place of Karl Marx's birth and death. Could you please tell me what policy your formatting, as illustrated on your userpage is based on? I couldn't find anything in WP:SG. mg e kelly 07:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Having not heard from you, I'm rvving your edit. Please don't hesitate to contact me should you object. mg e kelly 10:13, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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 * P.S. Also Image:Murtha.JPG. – Quadell (talk) (random) 16:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * P.S. Also Image:Bettyfriedan.JPG, Image:Rhatch.JPG, Image:Mccourt.JPG, Image:Russert.JPG, and Image:Jamesqwilson.JPG. – Quadell (talk) (random) 16:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Senatorbarackobama1.jpg was previously identified as being copyrighted material. It's odd that the Obama Senate page doesn't identify it as being copyrighted, but the photographer contacted Wikipedia stating ownership and Obama's people confirmed it. I've tagged the image as copyrighted, so it should be deleted soon.--Bobblehead 18:07, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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hi- you removed a photo from John Edwards without any edit summary of explanation - I assume you had a reason? thanks Tvoz | talk
 * I wasn't the one who added it (and I don't think it's a great picture either) but you might say something on talk for whoever did post it. Just wondered what the problem with it is - some of the photo rules are kind of obscure to me! Tvoz | talk 03:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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I noticed you uploaded this image with an attribution-only template. Please be careful of the image copyright tag you use, as this does not seem to be correct. The Edwards campaign website is licensed under the fairly restrictive Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 license, which states that noncommercial use is restricted, as well as derivative works. See the bottom of the website, the clickable image that says "some rights reserved". Thanks. --Tom (talk - email) 02:54, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Obamaharvard.JPG
Hi, Bbsrock, I was curious where on Barack Obama's campaign website it indicates that Image:Obamaharvard.JPG is freely licensed. --Iamunknown 00:24, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Also (sorry for bombarding you, I have Barack Obama on my watchlist), the source for Image:ObamaSpeech.jpg indicates that it is an A.P., not a Senate, photograph. I don't that is free. --Iamunknown 00:27, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't believe so, I will list it at PUI to see what others think. The link is at Possibly unfree images.  --Iamunknown 03:25, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Free images
Regarding your email about freely licensed images ...

For anyone who is/was in the US congress, there is an official portrait that, as a work of the US federal government, is public domain. The official photo of John Edwards is already up there. You can also look at his old senate webpage using http://web.archive.org - most members of congress have photo galleries on their webpages and they are all public domain.

One cheesy trick is to use google image search with site:.gov. So, for example, if I wanted to try and find former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, I could go to. (Keep in mind that you will get some false positives this way - you need to make sure that a prospective image is really from the US federal government and not a state government website.)

As far as contacting the campaign directly, if they don't reply, there isn't but so much to do other than to try contacting a different person. (For example, you may have just used a generic "contact us" link, but you might want to look around for an email address/phone number for a media liason or something.) Also, it's important to make sure that your email clearly identifies who we are and what our licensing requirements are and that it is not just "can you send me a photo". Using language like "to help us improve coverage of your candidate" is a good idea because whoever you are contacting will share that goal. Requesting copyright permission has some decent sample letters of permission if you haven't already seen them.

Does that kinda answer your question? There's no magic potion or anything ... just be polite and ask nicely and often, they will help. --BigDT 18:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Note also that the Flickr account from which this was taken lists this image as fully copyrighted, and I see no evidence other than your statement that the creator of this work has released this image into the public domain. Rklawton 15:56, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

"Yes, you can use it for your article, just kindly give me credit for taking the picture." is NOT equal to the "PD-self" tag you placed on the image. First, you are not the creator of the work. Second, the creator only give permission for use in this article. Third, the creator required photo credit - a requirement not expressed in the "PD-self" copyright tag. This link should provide you with all the information you need to sort this out Example requests for permission - and thanks for efforts! Rklawton 19:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There is a problem I have with the photo. For it to be used, the author must relicense that photo with a GNU or Creative Commons license (it must be noted that Flickr does the CC licensing). Permission is not enough to be free according to Example requests for permission. Sorry about that. -- Oakster  Talk 21:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Non-free images up for deletion
Two non-free images you have uploaded are up for speedy deletion. Image:GovHowardDean.jpg has been replaced by a free alternative, and Image:Ronpaulspeaking.jpg lacks fair use rationale (no evidence this is a PD image). Thanks. --Tom (talk - email) 14:42, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Your image of Chris Benoit
Hi,

since you have a focus on images, I feel I should tell you to upload your images to Commons if they are under a free license... It'll save on the backlog, and provide smaller sister projects with images. Please remember to always upload free work to Commons.

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:11, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, GFDL images are welcome, as well as all Creative Commons images that are not non-commercial or no-derivates (so cc-by-sa-2.5 is welcome, cc-by-nc-nd-2.0) is not. If it's your own work, GFDL has the disadvantage that the license has been written for software and text and not for images. That is why more images are licensed through Creative Commons than via GFDL.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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I have emailed you though your Flickr account in relation to your recent request for permission to use a photo ask that you take the time to ensure you address the concerns I have raised for any future permission requests you make. Regards Adambro 13:48, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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Edit summary/talk page
I notice that you have changed or removed images from Barack Obama several times without any edit summary explanation or talk page discussion. If you have reasons, please share them so that consensus can be reached. Thank you. Tvoz | talk 06:34, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

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Are you following ? I am OK with the image staying, but you'll need to bring these WP:FUR people on board with your fair use rationale reasoning. If the image gets tagged again, I would rather it gets removed than remain for 10 days with the image tag "candidate for speedy deletion" replacing the caption. --HailFire 19:30, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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Non-free images
You re-added a previously removed image to the Barack Obama on January 3. I would like to remind you of Wikipedia's policy on using non-free images. All non-free images need a fair use rationale for each article they are used in. – Ilse@ 17:52, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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Ron Paul
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Editing survey
Hi Bbsrock. My name is Mike Lyons and I am a doctoral student at Indiana University. I am conducting research on the writing and editing of high traffic “current events” articles on Wikipedia. I have noticed in the talk page archives at Barack Obama that you have contributed to the editing or maintenance of the article. I was hoping you would agree to fill out a brief survey about your experience. This study aims to help expand our thinking about collaborative knowledge production. Believe me I share your likely disdain for surveys but your participation would be immensely helpful in making the study a success. A link to the survey is included below.

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