User talk:Autoplay91

Welcome!

Hello, Autoplay91, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! J Milburn (talk) 21:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree File:Mazahery Lily.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, File:Mazahery Lily.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. — neuro^(talk) 19:40, 12 March 2009 (UTC) --— neuro^(talk) 19:40, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio uploads

Please do not take images from other websites and claim them as your own work. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and a failure to do the same will result in you being blocked from editing. If you have any questions regarding image uploads or any other aspect of Wikipedia, you are welcome to contact me on my talk page. J Milburn (talk) 21:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The images were deleted because I found the very same files on other websites, and so I was assuming that you were taking them from elsewhere and uploading them as your own work- something we see far too much on Wikipedia. If the image was taken by your father, could you please explain why it is used on [1]&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a this website] (direct link)? J Milburn (talk) 21:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! I have been a huge admirer of Ms. Mazahery and her work for quite some time, and so has my dad (mostly because of learning about her through me :). When he had gone on a trip to Washington a while back, he had contacted her office and had arranged a meeting. He took several photos during the meeting to bring back to me. As a gesture of thanks, I sent Ms. Mazahery a couple of those photos, which she seemed to really like. This was approximately around the same time that she was being asked for bio and photos by various organizations, and she asked me (I think she might have been being nice at the time, but none the less!) if it would be ok to use one of those photos as a profile photo. I was so excited that she wanted to use one of MY photos of her, and happily asked her to please do so. And whether as a gesture of niceness to my feelings or whether she really was serious, the photo ended up being used where you have mentioned, as well as in other places since then. And I have been enjoying the bragging rights ever since!! :)))) --Autoplay91 (talk) 21:47, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense- congratulations! Annoyingly, a lot of people are eager to claim the ownership of photos by others that they have found around the 'net, and the Wikimedia Foundation generally takes a pretty "show me the evidence" stance with regards to Wikipedians claiming ownership of photos. Would it possible to upload some of the originals (perhaps ones not used elsewhere) rather than the thumbnails available elsewhere) so that it could be verified that you are the copyright holder? J Milburn (talk) 22:09, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but they have my dad in them! Is that ok? I have no problem with providing you with the proof, which I am so proud of myself for! But I would rather do it in a way that doesn't let everyone on the internet see all those photos. Is that possible?--Autoplay91 (talk) 22:42, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's great- thanks for doing that. Perhaps you should upload this one- it doesn't have your father on, is a great shot of Mazahery, and it's obviously not taken from another website. It would be worth mentioning on the upload form that the images are used elsewhere, and briefly explaining why! Sorry for deleting the images to start with- the vast majority of images I come across like this have been stolen from elsewhere (due either to lack of respect for, or lack of understanding of, copyright restrictions). Thanks for sticking with this- feel free to contact me if I can be of any help, and welcome to Wikipedia! J Milburn (talk) 12:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Q for you regarding changing stub class to start class and so on

Due to the length and the strong referencing, I have improved the article to B class. In future, if you're looking for a change in rating, it may be worth asking on a WikiProject talk page, or, if the article is ready, submitting for good article candidates. As the article is fairly high quality, that would be a good aim. If I can be of any more help, feel free to contact me. J Milburn (talk) 21:25, 15 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Question about whether this page meets Wikipedia guidelines

Hi. The article, although badly written, does not quite count as spam, and the fact that it has some notable supporters is a claim of notability, so it doesn't meet any of the criteria for speedy deletion. The next option would be to propose deletion or nominate for deletion at AfD as being not notable (see the guidelines for the notability of organisations but the fact that it does seem to have had some coverage from reliable sources means that it would probably be kept. As such, though it could certainly use some work, deletion is probably not the answer. For what it's worth, you're more than welcome to ask questions on my talk page- I'm glad I can be of help. J Milburn (talk) 20:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What is going on here?

Why am I blocked? This is my ONLY username. Please explain to me what is going on and how I can rectify the situation. Thanks so much.--Autoplay91 (talk) 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Autoplay91,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

Each casebook will have a subpage.

Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 04:48, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]