Difference between revisions of "User talk:Mythigator/Archive 1"

Revision as of 09:53, May 1, 2010

Welcome!

Hello, Mythigator, and welcome to Wikisimpsons!

Thank you for your edits to the Laura Powers article and taking interest in our wiki. If you have any troubles, feel free to ask questions on my talk page or any other any experienced editors' talk page. Also, you could look at a help page.

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Again, welcome!

---- Sgtcook (Talk) 18:13, January 29, 2010

Tips

Just a few tips, a shortcut to wikipedia is: [[wikipedia:Wikipedia article name|What text you want displayed]] Also, Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge and Maggie as well as various other recurring character first names redirect to their article so instead of putting [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], just put [[Lisa]] Thanks, ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 16:11, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

Also, with templates, you do not need the Template: bit, just the template name in the {{ }}. And, if you could include the whole infobox on pages, even if we do not have that info please as it can be added in at a later date. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 20:25, April 1, 2010 (UTC)

☆The Golden Homer Award☆

The Golden Homer Award

Congratulations! For your outstanding service to articles you have been awarded the Golden Homer Award for April 2010!

Feel free to put {{User Golden Homer|The Month and Year}} on your user page.

☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 04:53, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

Image Licensing

You have recently uploaded the image File:Saltire5.jpg, to this wiki; however, you did not add a licensing tag to it. Every image on Wikisimpsons must have the correct copyright status provided in the image's description within a day, otherwise it will be deleted. There are licensing templates provided which can be placed on the page to provide copyright status. The templates can be used through the drop down menus which you will find on the upload screen. See Wikisimpsons:Images for more information.Thank you.

☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 14:02, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, but HTH do I ADD the licensing info once it's been uploaded?? Mythigator 14:25, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

If you mean how, see MediaWiki:Licenses for a full list. The writing on the left of the pipe is the template name. Just type that in the template brackets. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 14:28, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

Well, here's the skinny ... I downloaded the saltire from a website YEARS ago, and I have no idea which site it was (after checking some possibilities, I think it no longer exists). The datestamp on the original file is October 16, 2001, which was two computers and several hard drive reformats ago. Since then I've modified it several times for use as a message board avatar, most recently to re-size it for the user image space on Wikisimpsons. Because it wasn't exactly bolted down to start with, I'm inclined to think that the "fairuse" tag applies, but how do I ADD that info to an existing image? Mythigator 14:43, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

Edit the picture location like a normal article and add the template. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 14:44, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

If the website no longer exists, just put that in source. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 14:45, May 1, 2010 (UTC)

Got it. I think that covers all the bases. Mythigator 14:53, May 1, 2010 (UTC)