User talk:LawrenceAbel

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Hello, LawrenceAbel, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that you have an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

Did you know that:

Wikipedia has a very stringent image use policy?
Most images from Flickr, online news websites, and other web sources are copyrighted?
Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously?
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Watermark issue

I'll direct you to the pertaining Wikicomons policy on watermarks for images.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:EXIF#Watermark

If you have anymore questions, please direct your queries to the Wikicommons Village Pump: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump

--293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 03:39, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And this might also be relevant to the problem at hand as well: What if I change my mind? --293.xx.xxx.xx (talk) 09:33, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lawrence, it's wonderful that you want to contribute to Wikipedia and the New Bus for London article. Per WP:WATERMARK we don't allow watermarked images. I prefer the composition of your watermarked version, so the ideal would be to upload the unwatermarked original, and we can use that in the article. Lots of people contribute to Wikipedia, but it is not a place for advertising: credit is where credit is due, and is kept in the history and metadata. —Sladen (talk) 17:26, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]