User talk:BrianMSweis

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! And a special welcome as a fellow neuroscientist! Please feel free to get in touch with me any time if you have any questions at all about editing here. --Tryptofish (talk) 16:31, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis.png

Thank you for uploading File:Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis.png. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Ankit Maity ^{Talk • contribs} 06:47, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Rotating brain colored.gif

Thank you for uploading File:Rotating brain colored.gif. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

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Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ankit Maity ^{Talk • contribs} 06:57, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Rotating brain colored.gif

A tag has been placed on File:Rotating brain colored.gif requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F9 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image appears to be a blatant copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted images or text borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Ankit Maity ^{Talk • contribs} 07:05, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Stress

I have to confess that the normal reaction on seeing a lot of new text added to an article (as you have done at Stress (biology)) is to wonder if a copyright violation has occurred! However, I see that you are well qualified and have kindly authored a lot of new material for the article. Excellent! My comment should be at the article talk page, but as it is concerned with a couple of issues that would be easy for a new editor to overlook, I thought I would mention them here (no reply is necessary, but I will see any reply here).

The lead of an article (the text before the Table of Contents, see WP:LEAD) is a summary of what follows. Any material in the lead must be a summary from a suitable section in the article. I don't know if you plan to restore some of the section headings that you removed, but something needs to be done because the article currently has a very long lead, including material that is not in the article.

Level 1 headings (for example, "=Biological background=") are never used. Headings should be level two ("==Example heading=="), with subheadings level three ("===An example subheading===").

Generally, an article should not be treated as a draft, so there should not be dummy sections that will be filled later. Instead, a user subpage can be created to hold a draft, where the material can be developed and later copied into the article. There are a couple of rules about copying material within Wikipedia: please ask here if interested (in essence, edit summaries with links to the original need to be used). I say "generally" because Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy and anything that leads to a good result is welcome.

Unfortunately the above notices show that there is a big problem with the image uploads. Everyone finds the upload process to be a total mystery, and very few get it right without practice. Image copyvios are very common and that is one area where Wikipedia does operate as a bureaucracy: an image without evidence of a suitable licence will be deleted. I know very little about this topic. I think you can ask a question at WP:Media copyright questions or at WP:HELPDESK. If you get an incomprehensible response, mention it here and I will try to interpret it. Johnuniq (talk) 07:24, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

I really appreciate your time and comments! I have indeed been doing a lot of writing, but have been spending much more time reading Wikipedia etiquette and protocols and, as made obvious by those copyviolations above, spent a whole lot of doing trial and error.

I already attempted to correct some of the points you brought up (level headings beginning at level 2, dummy sections taken out temporarily, and updated image copyright information - from what I gather, the few images I uploaded should be fair game). I will definitely rework the article's lead, making sure to include what exactly is in the article - I guess I wrote it as sort of a very general introduction to the concept of stress with a "hook"........much of what the intro talks about (ambiguity in the definition of stress) however, is an important theme throughout the article and will hopefully get its own subheading within the article. BrianMSweis (talk) 08:37, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

License tagging for File:Rotating brain.gif

Thanks for uploading File:Rotating brain.gif. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

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