User talk:Rebecca Rincon

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September 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page AlloSphere has been reverted.
Your edit here to AlloSphere was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://vimeo.com/27194304) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy, as well as other parts of our external links guideline. If the information you linked to is indeed in violation of copyright, then such information should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file, or consider linking to the original.
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Welcome!

Cool, you're making good progress on the article! I'd be happy to help if you have particular questions. For making infoboxes, often a good strategy is to find a different article of this type with an infobox, copy it, and change the information to fit. You can also look up the help pages for infoboxes, which will give you parameters to copy and paste (Wikipedia:List of infoboxes has the whole big list of types of infoboxes). In this case, it looks like Template:Infobox organization could work. Try copying and pasting that template (into "edit source" mode instead of visual editor mode), filling out the lines you need, and removing the lines you don't need. (I see there's a way to add infobox templates in visual editor mode, through the "insert" option, but to me that interface seems more confusing than filling out the template.) Dreamyshade (talk) 06:42, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Issues with images

Hi Rebecca! You'll likely want to check out the deletion discussion for the Commons image and add any information you may have about its copyright status. For File:AlloSphere Top View.jpg, it's likely that a reviewer won't consider that rationale valid, since "The image was created and published by the same author who also holds the rights to the original object, and no alternative depiction could be suitably created" is unlikely to be true - it looks like the photographer isn't the creator of the AlloSphere, and it's likely that another person with permission to visit the AlloSphere could take a similar photo. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:45, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

The person who owns an image can give formal permission to Wikipedia via email - check out Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for a guide to getting this permission. (It's important for Wikipedia to have some proof of permission, so that random people can't just say they have permission.) If you speak to the AlloSphere staff, the staff can only give permission for images that they own (usually images that they've created). The photo of the AlloSphere looks like it was taken by the Independent's staff photographer, so for that photo you would have to get his permission instead of permission from the AlloSphere staff.

Alternatively, you could ask AlloSphere staff to upload a few images to the official AlloSphere website (or some kind of official social media presence, like Flickr if they use that) and explicitly indicate in captions that the photos have a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Then you can upload those images to Wikimedia Commons and link to the source page that indicates this license, as proof that the AlloSphere staff gives permission for this kind of use. Dreamyshade (talk) 06:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi again! In most cases, if the copyright holder for an image hasn't given explicit permission to Wikipedia to use the image, Wikipedia can't use the image, even if the subject of the image publicly uses the image on her own website. There are some exceptions if you have a strong justification for the use being fair use (Wikipedia:Non-free content), but generally for living people there is not a strong enough justification, since theoretically people could find/make a freely-licensed photo of the person (or get permission from them). Emailing her to ask for permission is a great step! Dreamyshade (talk) 23:28, 18 September 2015 (UTC)