User talk:Lwilliams3emu

This user is a student editor in Eastern_Michigan_University/CRM447W_Senior_Seminar_in_Criminology_(Summer) .

You have an overdue training assignment.

Please complete the assigned training modules. --DoctorKarpiak (talk) 14:48, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Lwilliams3emu, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:38, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright

Hello, I saw that you uploaded an image to Wikimedia Commons and marked it as your own work, however it looks like the image is the first page of a journal article. With images in general, but especially images of published works, always make sure that you do the following things:

Review the image to ensure that it was released under a form of copyright that would be compatible with Wikimedia Commons - if the image lacked this information, always assume that the image cannot be uploaded due to a restrictive copyright.

Most images and published works have a very restrictive copyright, as they want to protect the image/work from any unauthorized sales, use, or adaptations.

Always make sure that you are careful to attribute the image to its creator by providing the creator's name and a link to the site from which you took the image.

Unfortunately I don't see any indication that Social Justice releases their work under any Creative Commons license or into the public domain, so the image needs to be removed from Wikimedia Commons. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my user page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also saw that you published the cover of a book, The Jack-Roller. The book was published after the 1920s so the book's text is likely to be copyrighted. Even if it is in the public domain, however, the book's cover will be something that a modern publisher can copyright to themselves. As such, we should assume that the University of Chicago Press has the book cover licensed under a very restrictive license that would prohibit it from being uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. This means that the book cover also needs to be removed.

Now luckily the other image you uploaded, this one, was published on Flickr under a compatible Creative Commons license, so this one can remain. I have fixed the image information and tagged it for review.

It's incredibly important that you review the training module on uploading images and media before uploading any other media and to make sure that the image is one that can legally be uploaded. If you have questions about this, feel free to ask me. Your instructor, DoctorKarpiak, can also help with this as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:11, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]