User talk:Toreau

Hello Toreau, welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed your comment at Iron Maiden - feel free to add their real names to the article too. Be bold in updating pages!

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I see that picture you uploaded of Bruce Dickinson has previously appeared in the Telegraph. Do you know what the copyright status of it is? In case you didn't know, images used have to be able to be used under the terms of the GFDL. See Wikipedia:Copyrights for more info. Angela

Actually, I just did a search for "Bruce Dickinson" on http://images.google.com/ and thought that this picture looked good. How in God's name am I supposed to know the copyright of every picture on the web? :-)

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Thanks. I guess I won't be able to find any pictures in those archives listed, so my question is: What about pictures made available from their web site? Aren't pictures like that supposed to be used by anyone?

You can always email them to get permission. See wikipedia:boilerplate request for permission. Martin 17:37, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

In my opinion, a FAQ wouldn't be suitable for Wikipedia in the format of a FAQ. However, you could try to refactor it into prose to match the style of an encyclopedia article. You might want to ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump for other opinions on this. Angela . 12:24, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Nightwish

Hi Toreau, I see you reverted my disambiguation of "The Carpenter". The reason I did this was to avoid the article appearing on a list of possible pluralisation problems, becuase the report thinks that what might have been meant was "The Carpenters". I'm not going to push this any further, however. --gadfium 21:16, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I see that as a problem with "the report that thinks ...", and not the article. There will also be written an article about this single, but I don't know when (and I don't know by who, either). --Toreau 06:46, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

Genealogy

Hello. I noticed you added some types of genealogy software to the page - great! I am not sure what is meant by web-based. I currently use Family Tree Legends which is used along with GenCircles. Would that qualify as web-based? Maybe you might add a definition for web-based?

No, because it's a pure web site, as far as I can see. Web-based software is software - or applications - which works purely on web technology, ie. uses the web browser as an interface to the functionality of the software. Hope this helps...? --Toreau 05:10, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for you help, I am new at this. I just took another quick look at one of the web-based sites on the list, phpmyfamily, and I think I get it.

Even though I have real-time updating on the GenCircles website, when I update my Family Tree Legends program at home, the data still has to go through a third party of some sort at GenCircles, to be viewable on the website.

With web-based, your are just using some type of html editor or notepad, uploading your file to the server and then the site is updated? Is this correct? The software that is offered on the phpmyfamiy site is just an text editor of some sort?

I like GenCircles very much...but now I am curious about the web-based site - it would be nice to be able to have a place to share information online.

--Debbie V. 18:26, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

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Article Licensing

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Image copyright status

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Hi

How have you found an image from Eddie which is in the public domain? Image:Eddie the Head.jpg is a recent drawing, and the character should be copyrighted. Where did you take it from, and how do you know it's PD? Ta --Erri4a 22:43, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Within Temptation.jpg

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Image:Eddie the Head.jpg

Hi, I created an entry for this picture at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. You marked it as public domain, but didn't explain why.

-- nyenyec ☎ 20:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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