User talk:Normangrove

Hello. Sorry, couldn't resist hacking the Darby Steam-Digger page. I'm not sure if it was for ploughing. please hack away at my text.

A word on images. Thanks for placing one on the Wikipedia. But the size of the image you uploaded is a wee bit excessive. I think the guidelines are about 100k or thereabouts. There's a FAQ somewhere; I may hunt it out. If you can, could I suggest uploading another version, perhaps smaller (say 800 pixel width?)

I hope you stay and contribute loads more. There is a standard form "welcome" chunk of text which I could paste here - and, indeed, may in a second or so - which provides links to all sorts of useful things. but I just wanted to say hi & welcome, since you might have been wondering who was playing with your page. best wishes --Tagishsimon

I am new to this and not sure on how to reply to your message

Ah. To do that, click on this here Talk link, and edit the foot of the page.

Here's the welcome page I was speaking of - at least, a short form version of it. --Tagishsimon

Welcome!

Hello, Normangrove, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!

Thomas Darby

Hello. The Derby Digger photo is a much saner size, though I agree it is still a wee bit big. I see you've run into a spot of bother at Thomas Darby. The text you put on the page has been removed by someone, who found it was a cut & paste from another website. Copyright law doesn't allow us take someone else's text ... if you want a Thomas Derby page, it'll have to be written from scratch - it is still okay, though, to base it on the information in the page. I hope the page being withdrawn doesn't put you off submitting more info on Mr. Derby and, indeed, on any other subject of which you have knowledge. I guess the photo must be from you personal collection: thanks for sharing that. best wishes --Tagishsimon

New images

Thanks for the new images; they're very good & very welcome. And very much smaller tha the last one ... yes, I'm quite happy (though it is not for me to approve or disapprove!).

One thing I must bring to your attention, though. The wikipedia has an ongoing programme of checking thast images have had licences attached to them, such as a GFDL licence. One aim of the wikipedia is to make all information shareable, and images, in particular, should be marked up to specify what licence you as the provider think they should be released under. There's more information on this subject at Wikipedia:Image use policy

I would advise that the images are possibly by now in the public domain; and if not, perhaps you would consider picking one of the licence types at [[1]], such as {{PD}} {{GFDL}} or {{cc-by}}, which allow other people to use the images so long as they credit wikipedia as the source.

Talk to me some more if I can help ... in essence, you would go back to the three images pages are type in something like {{PD}}. To this end, I've put links to the three pages below. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Let me just add (OT: good to see Tagishsimon again) that you don't add the copyright notice on the Darby Steam-Digger page. Add that to the pages that Tagishsimon had above me. If someone looks at that image (on the image page) that is where they would want to know the copyright status. You might also want to add a description of the image or something. Then on any article page, you (or someone else) would insert the images if the licenses allow it. Also, you might want to work on your user page a bit. If you're adding a few images here, it might be a good idea to create some sort of gallery so that people can see what you've added. Nothing too fancy, I mean. --Ricky81682 09:43, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Darby%20Steam-Digger

Because Wikipedia is published under the GNU Free Documentation Licence, anyone is free to take its content and republish it, so long as they acknowledge somewhere that Wikipedia was the source. Thefreedictionary people have chosen to do just they; they periodically come along and take a copy of the up to date version of wikipedia, and then republish it. Part of the wikipedia philosophy is that information wants to be free, which includes giving people like Thefreedictionary freedom to steal it and republish it. And that, by the way, is why it is important that images be provided under a licence which allows them to be stolen and republished. It's a concept which takes some getting used to! There is a note at the bottom of Thefreedictionary page which acknowledges that the content came from wikiepedia. --Tagishsimon (talk)

File source problem with File:Diggerv3.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Diggerv3.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 15:14, 25 July 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 15:14, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Diggerv2a.jpg needs authorship information

Dear uploader:

The media file you uploaded as File:Diggerv2a.jpg appears to be missing information as to its authorship (and or source), or if you did provide such information, it is confusing for others trying to make use of the image.

It would be appreciated if you would consider updating the file description page, to make the authorship of the media clearer.

Although some images may not need author information in obvious cases, (such where an applicable source is provided), authorship information aids users of the image, and helps ensure that appropriate credit is given (a requirement of some licenses).

If you created this media yourself, please consider explicitly including your user name, for which: {{subst:usernameexpand|Normangrove}} will produce an appropriate expansion,
or use the {{own}} template.

If this is an old image, for which the authorship is unknown or impossible to determine, please indicate this on the file description page.

If you have any questions please see Help:File page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 12:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Darby Digger 1.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Darby Digger 1.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 12:26, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:Darby Digger 1.jpg

Do you remember where this one was uploaded from? Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:01, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]