User talk:Angel Bill
Angel Bill
We've got a couple of important quirks for a Wikia wiki, so let's get them out of the way first.
British English, please
We generally use British English round these parts, so if you're American, please be sure you set your spell checker to BrEng, and take a gander at our spelling cheat card.
Spoilers aren't cool
We have a strict definition of "spoiler" that you may find a bit unusual. Basically, a spoiler, to us, is anything that comes from a story which has not been released yet. So, even if you've got some info from a BBC press release or official trailer, it basically can't be referenced here. In other words, you gotta wait until the episode has finished its premiere broadcast to start editing about its contents. Please check the spoiler policy for more details.
Other useful stuff
Aside from those two things, we also have some pages that you should probably read when you get a chance, like:
- the listing of all our help, policy and guideline pages
- our Manual of Style
- our image use policy
- our user page policy
- a list of people whose job it is to help you
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Thanks for becoming a member of the TARDIS crew! If you have any questions, see the Help pages, add a question to one of the Forums or ask on my talk page. -- CzechOut (Talk) 16:33, 2011 December 27
Images
Please do not upload images that have a visible network logo in them (i.e. BBC, CBBC, Ten). This is a cause for image deletion and will get your pictures deleted. Thanks. MM/Want to talk? 17:03, December 27, 2011 (UTC)
Reply
Because I have not got round to deleting them yet. Nor will I for some time. I have spent several weeks going through all the unused images and deleted about 500 odd - with about half of them being because they had network logos in them.
It's not just you that have upload photos and had them deleted, so don't play that card - several Users have upload photos for pages and I have had to delete them since they had network logos in them. It's not just yours. Thanks. MM/Want to talk? 13:57, January 2, 2012 (UTC)
- I am not deleting any current images that are in use at this moment in time. I will at some point in the future. Both those images are in use. MM/Want to talk? 14:28, January 2, 2012 (UTC)
Eleventh Doctor's Companions
The Template:Companions of the Eleventh Doctor page needs editing to include Madge Arwell and her children from the christmas special. This is a problem you see, as the page has been locked from editing. If anyone's reading this, please do something about it.
Simon Fisher-Becker photo
Hi :) Thanks for trying to improve the article at Simon Fisher-Becker with a photo. However, please do not ever again choose a license you know is inaccurate. It doesn't do any good to choose a license just to avoid automatic deletion. It's especially worrying that you chose public domain, as it cannot possibly be in the public domain.
We cannot accurately assist you in choosing a license after the fact. We don't know where you got the image. It might be a publicity image from Fisher-Becker's website for the purposes of illustrating his resumeé — in which case the license would be {{promotional}}. Or it might be a personal picture on his website under "family photos", in which case it shouldn't be uploaded at all.
If you have questions about a picture, please put a URL to the photo on an administrator's talk page and have them make a determination. Again, please do not just choose something and hope someone will later correct your work.
Remember that we have illustrations on this site only through the grace of the copyright holders (and "fair use" laws). We need to show that we are trying to care about their copyright interests, by representing the copyright situation as accurately as we can.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">21:10: Sun 01 Jan 2012
- Sorry, but another wiki isn't a valid source. The Harry Potter wiki doesn't own the image, therefore they can't license it. I went back through their licensing system and found that it originated, as far as they were concerned, with the http//:actorsandwriters.org.uk page. However, that page clearly states that copyright is retained by other parties. So we can't use it, unless you can establish that it is his headshot from his agent, because that would be a legitimate publicity shot. My advice, if you really want to use that image, is to definitively establish that it's the headshot on his agent's webpage. (Chances are that it's exactly that.) Basically, you need a link to the original source of the image, and that source must be trying to publicize him.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">22:32: Sun 01 Jan 2012
