User talk:Scartol
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- Yes, I apolgize for this. I forgot to select the PD-self tag when uploading the file. Sorry about that! -- Scartol 17:56, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:Balzac1820s.jpg
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Thanks for uploading Image:Balzac1820s.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
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Patstuart (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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dave pape (talk) 03:02, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Please link images
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Hello Scartol!
Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to Commons should be useful to all users of Wikimedia projects. This is possible only if the images can be found by other people.
To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should put the images into appropriate topic pages, categories, optionally galleries, or both of them (see Commons:Categories). To find good categories for your images, the CommonSense tool may help.
You can find a convenient overview of your uploaded files in this gallery.
The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There are a large number of completely unsorted images on Commons right now. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do!
Thank you. BotMultichillT (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- Image:Wikivoices 23Nov2008 controversy.ogg is uncategorized since 27 November 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- Image:Daniel Interpreting Nebuchadnezzar's Dream.jpg is uncategorized since 16 December 2008. BotMultichillT (talk) 06:18, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
- Image:RichardPankhurst1879.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
La Cousine Bette images
[edit]As you have copied them to Wikipedia (where it is safe for PD-US files), I have nominated File:La Cousine Bette Huard Steinbock.jpg, File:La Cousine Bette Huard Valerie Marneffe.jpg, File:La Cousine Bette Huard Lisbeth Fischer.jpg, File:La Cousine Bette Huard Marechal Hulot.jpg, and File:La Cousine Bette Huard Hulot and Agathe.jpg for speedy deletion. Jappalang (talk) 03:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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Harriet Tubman map suggestion
[edit]Hi Scartol. Your good map showing locations in Tubman's life is careful to show many U.S. state borders, even for those which don't figure in her life (uncolored). But for Canadian provinces, there are no borders shown. If the map is meant to reflect current boundaries (which I'm guessing it does, given that West Virginia is shown), the Ontario-Quebec line should be inserted, and areas in Quebec discolored. If the map is meant to show boundaries at the peak of the Underground Railroad's activities, West Virginia would disappear, the color across Ontario and Quebec would remain (since they were the United Canadas--Canada West and Canada East--from 1841 to 1867), but the reference would be "St. Catharines, Canada West" or "St. Catharines, C.W.". The name "Ontario" didn't apply until 1867, after the UGRR had finished.
In any case, it's probably best to show current boundaries and names, in which case "St. Catharines, Ontario" suffices. There's no need to add "(Canada)" unless you're going to add "(United States)" to the three U.S. locations. Yoho2001 (talk) 12:15, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
[edit]Hello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Scartol. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Scartol~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
22:57, 17 March 2015 (UTC)