User talk:Merchav1

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Merchav1!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 17:12, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Please sign your postings

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Click the "Signature and timestamp"-button to sign your talkpage contributions

As a courtesy to other editors, it is Commons:Signatures policy to sign your posts on talk pages, user talk pages, deletion requests, and noticeboards. To do so, simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments. Your user name or IP address (if you are not logged in) and the date will then automatically be added along with a timestamp when you save your comment. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). Thank you.

  — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 13:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Responding to your email

The email address you wrote me from bounced my response, so I am replying more publicly than I would have liked. I figured you would prefer this to the lack of a response, but I'm sorry if I guessed wrong. If you want, let me know, and I can soft-delete this response so that only admins can see it.

• One doesn't write a Wikipedia article in Microsoft Word. You use either the WYSYWIG editor (typical for beginners) or the wikitext editor, both on the Wikipedia site. If you have something already in Word, you can probably copy-paste a lot of the content.
• I assume we are talking about the English-language Wikipedia here, since you are writing me in English. Just to be clear:
  • The various language Wikipedias and Commons are run by the same foundation (Wikimedia Foundation) and are considered "sister projects", as are WikiData and several other probably less important sites.
  • Although one of Commons' main purposes is to be a media repository for the various Wikipedias, each of these is a separate project. I happen to be an admin on both Commons and the English-language Wikipedia, but writing to Commons with questions about Wikipedia is sort of like writing to GMC Trucks with a question about your Cadillac: someone will presumably try to help you, but probably grudgingly.
• Have you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Your_first_article ?

Jmabel ! talk 18:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Also, you might want to use an email address for your account here that is less "picky" about who it lets write to you. - Jmabel ! talk 18:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Portrait of Tuvya Ruebner.jpg

Copyright status: File:Portrait of Tuvya Ruebner.jpg

This media may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading File:Portrait of Tuvya Ruebner.jpg. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear. If you created this file yourself, then you must provide a valid copyright tag. For example, you can tag it with {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multi-license GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or you can tag it with {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. (See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of license tags that you can use.) If you did not create the file yourself or if it is a derivative of another work that is possibly subject to copyright protection, then you must specify where you found it (e.g. usually a link to the web page where you got it), you must provide proof that it has a license that is acceptable for Commons (e.g. usually a link to the terms of use for content from that page), and you must add an appropriate license tag. If you did not create the file yourself and the specific source and license information is not available on the web, you must obtain permission through the VRT system and follow the procedure described there. Note that any unsourced or improperly licensed files will be deleted one week after they have been marked as lacking proper information, as described in criteria for deletion. If you have uploaded other files, please confirm that you have provided the proper information for those files, too. If you have any questions about licenses please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright or see our help pages. Thank you.

This action was performed automatically by AntiCompositeBot (talk) (FAQ) 13:05, 20 December 2020 (UTC)