User talk:Gary Dorman Wiggins

Welcome to Wikibooks, Gary Dorman Wiggins!  First steps tutorial Wikibooks is for freely-licensed collaboratively-developed textbooks. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing and assume good faith about the intentions of others. Remember, this is a wiki, so you're allowed to change just about anything, and changes can be made easily. Come introduce yourself to everyone, and let us know what interests you.

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To resolve the above, please send an email to permissions-en@undefinedwikimedia.org that confirms you are the owner of the original content and that you give permission to publish it to Chemical Information Sources. – Adrignola talk 18:52, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I took off the notice but just so that nobody has to worry about Indiana University having any issues, would you still happen to have access to email provided by Indiana University to be able to send a letter such as the form letter shown at this page? Doing so will get one of the licensing verification volunteers to post a note on the discussion page for the book you created assuring all involved that there are no copyright issues to worry about. If not, I won't push for deletion myself and you shouldn't worry, but if so that will make things nicely kosher. – Adrignola talk 20:02, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I've just sent an e-mail to permissions-en@wikimedia.org with the info you need. Please let me know if that does the trick. I am anxious to get the work onto Wikibooks, so it can once again be accessed.


 * Excellent. Feel free to continue working on the book.  I will place a notice on it that permission for the material is pending. – Adrignola talk 20:30, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm confused by the sentence above that deals with forbidding copyrighted images that are to be loaded under fair use: "Files must be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, unless they are copyrighted and need to be uploaded here under fair use." There are a lot of such files (screenshots of copyrighted works) that I need to use in the Wikibook Chemical Information Sources. I saw that I can request permission to do so. Is this what is required: Can some type of global permission be granted by Wikibooks to use these screen shots, or will each one require separate permission? I assume that I will have to include on the page this tag:

non-free software screenshot Gary Dorman Wiggins (talk) 18:51, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * The above two tags will need to be included on the description page for any copyrighted files. You can request permission to upload such files at Requests for permissions.  As long as each file has those tags and is used on a single page each, you should be fine and the only permission you must request is that needed to upload fair use files locally (all others should go to Commons). – Adrignola talk 05:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm still not certain what it means to upload a fair use file "here". Where does the file go on Wikibooks when it is not uploaded to the Commons? Or does that mean that I need to put all fair use files on a local server at Indiana University? That is what I have done for several images in the chapter Chemical Information Sources/Computer Searches. Please look at those, (SciFinder links toward the bottom of the chapter), and let me know if I need to fill out any forms at Wikibooks in order to make use of such images. Gary Dorman Wiggins (talk) 14:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Instead of clicking the "upload file" link at left, you'd visit Special:Upload, where you fill out a form similar to the one you may have used at Commons. The difference is that any files uploaded via that page are only available for use here at the English language Wikibooks.  Files uploaded at Commons can be used here, at Wikipedia, other language Wikibooks projects, or at any other project you see shown at the bottom of our main page.  That's why we direct people to upload files to Commons.  But if a file is copyrighted and the owner of that copyright has not made the file freely usable for any purpose, Commons will not accept it.


 * The only recourse then is to upload it via Special:Upload here, because you can't link external images the way you can images at Commons. That page should only be used for the aforementioned "non-free" files.  You can read more at Media, specifically in the "non-free use" section.  Files uploaded "locally" rather than at Commons will use the exact same syntax for displaying them.


 * This is really just a legal maneuver, saying that there are no free alternatives and we're just using these images at one project and on one page each, so cut us some slack and don't sue us for copyright infringement. If you have contact with the copyright owner of that SciFinder software and can get permission from them for licensing screenshots under (for instance) the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, then you could actually upload to Commons.  They'd just have to send verification of this to permissions-en@undefinedwikimedia.org.  Feel free to make use of the Boilerplate request for permission if you so desire.  If that is not successful, you can request the ability to use Special:Upload here for non-free files so that you will not have to be reliant on any server of your own for hosting files. – Adrignola talk 16:39, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Where to from here?
You have a good understanding of the templates needed for non-free files, though it will be good to use information as well. If you've read through Media, please note that at WB:RFP, then that will likely reassure others that you will only use such files when necessary. You'll be able to upload files using the method I described above and will be able to redirect from the unreliable server to the pages here (which will make the ones here show up higher in search engines, which is desired since they will be the updated versions). I apologize for any frustration you've had to deal with. I notice that many of the images state that they are used with permission. If the copyright owner is willing to license those specific images under acceptable licenses, you can actually follow the instructions at Commons:OTRS and upload to Commons right away. That will actually be an even better situation as there won't be anything for people to worry about then. It is my hope that this will soon be resolved through either of these means. – Adrignola talk 14:13, 2 December 2010 (UTC)


 * You should now be able to upload files here at Special:Upload. There is a cheat sheet on the page with copy-paste sections you can use for the summary and non-free use templates and a drop-down menu to indicate whether it's a software screenshot or something else.  Please let me know if you have any questions. – Adrignola talk 03:29, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

That's really great! I very much appreciate the support you have given me.Gary Dorman Wiggins (talk) 13:56, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

User page
I was wondering if you'd consider creating a user page at User:Gary Dorman Wiggins with a little blurb about yourself to better provide yourself with credit when people look through page histories and see your name as the predominant editor. – Adrignola talk 15:46, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, I've put a little information about myself there and linked it both to my home page and CV at IU. Thanks for the tip and Happy New Year!Gary Dorman Wiggins (talk) 16:30, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Is there any way I can see statistics on how frequently the various pages of Chemical Information Sources are being used? Gary Dorman Wiggins (discuss • contribs) 18:00, 20 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I have only found site-wide statistics. We don't have the various tools to query database reports the way Wikipedia has them.  For instance, there's Wikitrends. – Adrignola discuss 19:15, 20 January 2011 (UTC)