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March 2010

Your addition to Mary Fitzgerald (artist) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Beloved Freak 23:24, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mary Fitzgerald (artist)

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Hi - I'm happy to add sources but am having problems doing so...the artist is listed on numerous sites (Irish Museum of Modern Art, Aosdana etc.) but I'm new to Wikipedia and having a hard time editing and making links etc. Is there someone who can work with me on this?

The artist is a highly acclaimed Irish artist, in international museums and collections etc.

Hello Scmtowers. Have you had a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners? That might help a little if you haven't already seen it. One of the first things you can do is rather than put your links between square brackets, like [http://www.modernart.ie], put them between <ref> and </ref> tags, like this: <ref>http://www.modernart.ie</ref>

Then, to make the references show up on the page, you can put {{Reflist}} at the bottom of the page (but above the categories). That would be a good start, and then you can work on formatting the citations. I won't edit the article myself at the moment, have a go and see if you can make sense of it and let me know if you get stuck. --Beloved Freak 19:55, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK - thanks for your suggestions - I'm a bit of a newbie and I find Wikipedia strangely confounding!! Do you know is it possible to add images also?

Scmtowers (talk) 21:19, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I hope you don't mind, I moved your comment down here. It's not really the done thing, as this is your talkpage and you can have it how you like, but it's generally conventional to post messages and replies to the bottom of pages or threads, to keep threads together & easy to read, with more recent things at the bottom.

Wikipedia is definitely a steep learning curve at the beginning, but you'll get used to it! It might help to have a read over some of the links in the welcome message above if you haven't already.

As for adding images - yes that's definitely possible. Do you have some? They would need to be free images, that is, not copyrighted. Sometimes it's possible to use non-free images, "fair use", but not in biographies of living people, where it's technically possible that someone could obtain a free image. Do you have pictures taken by you? If not, it can be a bit of a minefield, but it may be possible. See Wikipedia:Image use policy for starters. If you do have some appropriate images, then have a look at Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial - but I can help you with uploading.--Beloved Freak 21:32, 22 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your help - it's quite a lot of effort! Do you do this for common good?! I did upload an image using creative commons license and I have a picture of the artist in her studio that I can use...but I can't seem to post...can I email you the images? The one I uploaded is called the world turned upside down (white piece of art with tree upside down). Didn't upload image of the artist yet. Thanks for all your help...I am learning! Scmtowers (talk) 23:04, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry just seen this. I see the image you uploaded got deleted. It looks like the problem was with the license you selected. Free images uploaded to Wikipedia must be licensed to use commercially - did you say that it had to be used for non-profit purposes or something? Unfortunately those images do get deleted. If you are prepared for your image to be used commercially, upload it again and make sure you choose a license from the drop-down box. It's hard to talk you through it exactly, as I can't see exactly what you're seeing, but Ithink that's the reason it got deleted last time. Make sure you specify where it came from too. (eg. "self-made") If it is a self-made image, ie. you took the photo, the best way to go is click the "upload file" link to the left, then underneath where it says "What kind of image or multimedia (audio or video) file is it?", click the "entirely my own work" link, or whichever one looks appropriate.

You could email them to me, but I'd rather try this way once more first, as if it is your own work, it's simpler for you to upload it as such, rather than me uploading someone else's work. if that makes sense. So just try that one again, and if it works, you can try the artist image. I'll try & keep an eye out to catch if there are any problems. If there are, and I don't seem to be around, you can always leave me a message at User:Belovedfreak too.

I do this because it's fun! (seriously...) It can be a bit of a nightmare at the beginning, working out all the technical aspects of Wikipedia, let alone all the policies and guidelines. But it's worth it!--Beloved Freak 12:25, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) might be of some use.--Beloved Freak 12:30, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 17:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Coolest Cooler ‎

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Have you looked at WP:COI yet? --Ronz (talk) 15:23, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(Keeping the discussion here so others can contribute more easily). You wrote [1]:

I saw your comment about conflict of interest - we were getting a lot of questions about the Coolest cooler so I put up a page on it. Pebble Watch has a page - I looked at it and tried to be neutral in the contribution on the Coolest cooler. If you think there is any bias please advise. I do work for the business but have also contributed to other wikipedia entries over the years and have worked in 3D printing and other areas... Based on the public interest, the questions we get from students and other interested parties, press, product designers, entrepreneurs, businesses, conferences etc. it seemed appropriate for the Coolest to have a page. If you think there's a specific edit that could / should be made, please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scmtowers (talk • contribs) 02:03, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. Please don't remove the tag again while we get this worked out.

I'm not sure I'm following. So you are from Fathom? --Ronz (talk) 02:44, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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