User talk:Ratmuffin

Welcome

Hello Ratmuffin and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 03:53, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your message on my talk page

Thanks for the message. Don't worry about adding an image yet. Get the text written first. To do that please consider using the article creation wizard - we cannot give feedback (per your request at WP:FEED) unless you have written the article at least in draft. The following is a standard message about images.

If you want to add an existing image to an article, add [[Image:File name.jpg|thumb|Caption text.]] to the area of the article where you want the image to appear – replacing File name.jpg with the actual file name of the image, and Caption text with a short description of the image. See our picture tutorial for more information.
If you want to upload an image from your computer for use in an article, you must find out what the proper license of the image is. If you know the image is licensed under a free-license, upload it to the Wikimedia Commons instead of here, so that all projects have access to the image (sign up). If you are unsure what license the image takes, see the file upload wizard for more information. Please also read Wikipedia's image use policy. I hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 04:02, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gentle reminder...

Please use edit summaries. Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 17:13, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

Thanks for the message - I cleaned up the references a little, but you got it basically right. If you can add more references that would be great. As for images, see my message a little bit further up this page. The key thing to know is the copyright status of the image - ie where did it come from, how old it is etc. If you tell me as much about the image as you can, we can figure out if it is appropriate for uploading to Wikipedia. – ukexpat (talk) 01:20, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]