User talk:Communications.tallgirl

Welcome!

Hello, Communications.tallgirl, 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:

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Conflict of interest

Hi. You claim to be employed by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. As such, it is a conflict of interest for you to edit the article on Fort McMurray, Alberta. Please see WP:COI and WP:NOT. Thanks! --Yamla 19:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to expand on that, you are still quite welcome to contribute pictures. However, you should not add these directly to the article. Instead, you should offer them to other editors on the article's discussion page. You are also free to offer suggestions for changes on the article's discussion page. Thanks! --Yamla 19:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, really. Please do not directly edit Fort McMurray, Alberta again. This is a conflict of interest and we will have to block you if you continue. This is not the best solution, though. --Yamla 20:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture of the sign on Fort Mac

Hi, welcome to wikipedia (assuming you = commons:user:Tallgirl). I saw your picture ( commons:Image:Welcome to fort mcmurray.jpg), and well I'm very happy you contributed it (It adds a lot to the article), I'm just wondering slightly about who took it/who owns the copyright of it. The photo page indicates that the Regional municipality is the author, however on the dropdown menu on the upload form you indicated that you were the author. Reading from above, it appears that you work for the municipal government. Generally stuff produced for the government (even the local one) is copyright by the government. Do you have permission from them to publish that image under cc-by-2.5 from its copyright owner? Are you the owner? Thanks, Happy editing. Bawolff 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. you should add

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To commons:user:Tallgirl so that people on commons know where to contact you if they have a question about any pictures you've uploaded there. I also would recommend enabling email in commons:special:preferences, and special:preferences so that if you leave wikipedia we can still contact you if we need to clarify the copyright situation of an image. No one would see your email, its all handled through special:emailuser. Happy editing. Bawolff 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I work for the municipal government and I have permission to use the photos. They are from our photo library. Thanks a lot for the tips -- I'm new here and always appreciate it. Communications.tallgirl 11:26, 14 March 2007

Ok, that's good

One last thing though. Could you forward that permission to mailto:permissions@wikimedia.org, so we have a record of them? thanks. Bawolff 00:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]