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Hello again! i have written the article about the Murder Of this poor child and submitted it for inclusion. I would appreciate your feedback, and also, if you could possibly either explain to me how to import photographs from another site for inclusion, or if it is easier for you, would you possably be able to do it for me? there are pictures that come up on google showing the ward where she was taken from and the rows of fingerprints. If you could insert what you think would work best, i would really appreciate it. many thanks Markdarrly (talk) 01:46, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey Mark. About images, the image use policy says you can use images if they are
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If the photos were created by the UK government, I guess they are probably OK to use (see WP:Crown copyright). You can upload them to Wikimedia Commons using the upload wizard. If you're not sure about the license, you can post questions to Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Can you send me a link to the images you had in mind?
As for the the draft article, I'd be happy to take a look. If I can find some more sources, would you mind if I added them to the reference section? I want to make sure it's OK with you before I go editing pages in your userspace. Cheers. Braincricket (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
hi there! I would not mind at all if you added your "magic!" to the page i wrote. With it being the first article I have written I am sure I would have fallen foul of one or the other parameters required for wiki!. The pictures the ones that appear on the google results page after "june anne devaney" has been searched for. I have put 5 referances in, but this tale is allover the internet so there is no shortage of refs. Whatever you think best, il leave to you, after all, input from other people is what this is all about?! In advance, many thanks.Markdarrly (talk) 16:57, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for mopping up the mistakes I made on June Anne Devaney, I think the article would be better with a picture of Either the ward of Griffiths or maybe even both. I would appreciate it if you could place a picture in the article whenever you get chance, many thanksMarkdarrly (talk) 11:40, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Oh, it was my pleasure. Congratulations on your first article! I did search for free pictures, but wasn't able to find any. The Cottontown source has some sweet pictures, but the author doesn't give credit (so I can't find their original source) and I don't think we can use them as-is. Braincricket (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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On 2 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article C/2012 S1, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that when the newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 reaches its perihelion on 28 November 2013, it may appear brighter than the full moon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/C/2012 S1. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 3 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Death of June Anne Devaney, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that police fingerprinted over 45,000 men to find the killer of June Anne Devaney, the first time mass fingerprinting had been used to solve a crime? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Thanks for the nomination BC!! I never thought the first article that I wrote would provide a fact for DYK, once again, thank you.Markdarrly (talk) 10:21, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the links. I added the Amplifier reference because it also supports the sentence about the track "It's Rugby". Maybe I was being a little anal about the track listing thing. Braincricket (talk) 23:54, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Anomie! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. That was the first time I'd removed blacklisted references en masse, and it it totally slipped my mind to look for other named references in the articles. Thanks for cleaning up my mess. I'll be more thorough in the future. See you around! Braincricket (talk) 17:35, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
It looks like spam to me. From the reference: "DISCLAIMER: This site is for entertainment purposes only." Also, I'm not convinced that "panic sex" is even germane to the article. At any rate, a blurb about it needs a source that is more reliable than panicsex.com. Braincricket (talk) 18:59, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks-I'll look for a better ref. Panic Sex is a pretty big warning term in Survival lingo ("Is it panic-sex time yet?") and I didn't want to link to forums or message-board resources. I think that I can find a better non-spammy citation24.0.133.234 (talk) 19:15, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
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Hi. Can you offer your opinion on which photo is more appropriate for the Infobox in the Scott Allie article in this discussion? You don't need to know anything about Allie; I'm contacting you because you've worked on matters pertaining to photography. I tried contacting lots of editors who work on comics-related articles, but every time I do so, we wind up with the sentiments split down the middle, and no clear consensus. I'm thinking perhaps that people who work on matters dealing with photography might be able to offer viewpoints that yield a consensus. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 15:41, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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