User talk:Urthgoddess

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— Dismas|^(talk) - 06:32, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Juliette Fretté

Please leave the weight info as is. It is cited. If you'd like to add a comment about it in the prose of the article, that's fine but the infobox is not meant for such wordyness. Dismas|^(talk) 06:32, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dismas, Juliette did not put her weight on her Playmate data sheet for a reason, because she did not want to share it. Additionally, she has said in interviews that the previously cited weight of 120 pounds was inaccurate. Please allow her weight to remain blank. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Urthgoddess (talk • contribs) 13:52, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If she's said so in interviews, then cite them. If you don't have a source, then my source is what should be used. Back up your claim. I'm not trying to be difficult but you have not given a single reference for her disavowing that figure. Dismas|^(talk) 22:09, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't need to pick it up. I have it. I own a collection that goes back about 20 years. The source for the 120 lbs in the article is NOT the magazine though. The site is reliable for most everything else that I've checked it against, so I have no reason not to believe it in this case. They don't just copy the info from the magazine itself, they get various missing data (e.g. info on playmates from the 50s and 60s before there were Data Sheets). The fact remains that the source provides a weight. I've cited that site. You have the responsibility of disproving their info on your shoulders. You're the one who says that there's an interview out there somewhere where Frette denies the 120 lbs figure. I've asked you before and I'm asking you again, where is this interview? In what periodical/website/etc? Dismas|^(talk) 04:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Now that you've come out with the truth of who you are, we can move forward more constructively. I'm just a regular editor here and am not in the position of confirming identities. Granted, I've been here several years and have made a few acquaintances who probably trust my work here but "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" still holds true. I hope that you realize that I am just going by the rules around here, specifically WP:V. The first paragraph is worth reading. As for confirming who you are, please see the "Problems in an article about you" section of Wikipedia:Autobiography.

And finally, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. My schedule is not always conducive to keeping up with correspondence in a timely manner. I generally have time for smaller edits but longer replies take some time. Dismas|^(talk) 18:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and just a P.S. If/When you are confirmed as being the real Juliette Fretté, please consider uploading a photo so that we can have that in the article. Just a headshot would be great! Dismas|^(talk) 18:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since it's been two weeks and there hasn't been any confirmation as to who you are, I've put the cited weight back into the article. Dismas|^(talk) 04:05, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Photos and such

This is going to be lengthy but I hope it's a bit more straight-forward than what you've read thus far.

First, you, and not your photographer, should own the image. If your photographer owns it, then that's fine too but you'll have to get their permission to use it.

You're correct, uploading an image here can be a bit confusing and I often get tripped up in all the legal red tape that goes with various licenses. Though, things get easier when you own the rights to whatever you're uploading. So, you have a choice. You can either upload the image here at Wikipedia or upload it to the Wikimedia Commons. By uploading here at WP, the image can only be used for the English language version of the encyclopedia. By uploading it to the Commons, it can be used on any language encyclopedia as well as other Wikimedia projects like Wikiquote, Wikinews, etc. The advantage here is that if the Juliette Fretté article is translated to another language, the same image can be used and the editors of that language don't have to hunt down a photo. A good example of this is Jayde Nicole. The image that is on the English version is also used for the Italian and Swedish versions of her article.

So, to upload to the English version only: Go to WP:UPLOAD, scroll down to where it says "What kind of image or multimedia (audio or video) file is it?", and choose one of the first two options. NOTE: To ease the process, the image should be released under a "free" license such as GFDL or Creative Commons. I normally release my own images under the GFDL but the decision is up to you as to which you use. So, once you've chosen one of those first two options, just fill out the appropriate fields near the bottom of the page and upload your photo.

To upload to the Commons, if I were you, I'd follow the steps to create a unified login. Basically that just means that you will have the same user name and password for all the Wikimedia projects. So if you speak French, German, Italian, etc then you would be able to log in once here and you would automatically be logged in on every language version plus the Commons, Wikiquote, etc. There would only be one Urthgoddess account, yours. The instructions for that can be found through a link near the top of WP:UPLOAD where it says "If you have a unified login, you can use it at Commons." If that doesn't appeal to you, and you still want to upload the image to the Commons, you can just create an account there (it can still have the same username and password) and upload your image. So, to upload the image there, go to WP:UPLOAD and where it says "Uploading a free image or media file?", click on the words "uploading it there". That will take you to the Commons upload page and there you will need to choose the first option, "It is entirely my own work". Fill in the form, upload your image, and that's that.

Now that you've uploaded the image, go to the Juliette Fretté article, click on "edit this page", and near the top of the article you should see where it says "image = ". Remove everything after the equal sign and put in just the name of the image. Add an edit summary for your edit, hit save, and you're done.

And now just a couple other things...

If you want to sign your comments on a talk page, just put four tildes after whatever you say like this: ~~~~ Those will expand out to your username and the timestamp. If you look at my talk page, you'll see that all your comments have small text that says "Preceding unsigned comment added by..." and then your username and the timestamp. In order to avoid this, simply "sign" by placing those four tildes. NOTE: This is not to be used in an article, just on talk pages and other discussion type pages like the help desk.

Also, on my talk page you said "The majority of this page was created by others . . ." If you're referring to my talk page, that's because those messages were left by other people, like yourself, to me. I occaisionally talk to myself when wandering around my house but I don't leave myself messages on my own talk page. ;-)

Oh, and it's not necessary to start a new section on my talk page every time you want to leave a comment. You can click on the "edit" link on the right side of the page to edit the discussion that we've been having without having to start a new section every time. This way, the page doesn't fill up with a bunch of sections which are all titled "Juliette Fretté".

And finally, don't forget to confirm who you are like I suggested. It will make things easier if I can be sure who you are and what knowledge you have about Ms. Fretté. (Yes, yes, I am a bit of a cynic.)

Anyway, if you have any more questions, just let me know and I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability. Dismas|^(talk) 09:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April 2013

Hello, Urthgoddess. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Juliette Fretté, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 04:43, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]