User talk:Till Oehler

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Hello, Till Oehler, 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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Great work!

Hi Till, great work expanding the Submarine groundwater discharge article! It is great to have an expert on board here. I'd strongly recommend that you join WikiProject Geology if you'd like to collaborate with other Wikipedians working on articles about that field. The talk page is very active, and is a great place to introduce yourself and ask questions about improving geological articles.

I've wikified the article and – among other things I added Wikipedia-style headings (made with "==" for a second-level heading or "===" for a third-level heading) and formatted the references a bit. The only thing I'm unsure about is the images; as it says on my user page, I'm totally blind, so I don't know much about how images are used on Wikipedia. I know that Wikipedia deals with fair-use images relatively strictly, so I'm not sure if uploading images from scientific papers is OK here. I will ask for somebody from the media copyright questions page to get in touch with you.

By the way, I know nothing about geology; the SGD article is only on my watchlist because I discovered that an editor had added a copyright violation to the article a couple of years ago. Graham87 15:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Per the reply from User:Ww2censor I received at the media copyright questions page, the images fail the first non-free content criterion, because they can be replaced by freely licensed images. Therefore, I have tagged them for deletion under criterion for speedy deletion F7, and they will be deleted in seven days if you take no further action. The best thing to do at this point, as far as I can tell, would be to either make your own diagrams that illustrate those concepts (but, as Ww2censor's reply indicates, not slavish reproductions of the images you uploaded) and upload them under the CC-by-SA 3.0 licence, or contact the authors of the diagrams and get permission for them to release the images under a free content license. In both cases, the images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a free content media repository for Wikipedia and all its sister projects, not this site. Graham87 02:27, 11 October 2012 (UTC)