User talk:Hirstp

Welcome to Wikibooks
Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally.

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BTW, I also want to give you a personal welcome to Wikibooks. Seriously. Every new contributor is valued and I hope that you will continue to develop content for Wikibooks and help this project succeed.

One point I wanted to bring up is that you uploaded an image to Wikibooks that already existed on Wikimedia Commons. It is unnecessary to do this, and counter productive to Wikimedia projects. If you want to add an image from the Wikimedia Commons, all you have to do (now) is to simply put the name of the image as it appears in commons. That also gives the proper copyright attribution for the image (which for Image:Ford escape hybrid.jpg is not public domain... please be careful about copyright notices like that... this image is copyrighted). The Mediawiki software (the computer software running Wikibooks) automatically brings in the image from commons if it can't be found on Wikibooks.

If you do upload an image, please make sure you do note where you obtained the image, or make it clear that you were the original photographer and have given permission to Wikibooks to use the image. It is strongly recommended that you upload most images to Wikimedia Commons instead unless there are special circumstances about the use of those images.

Please, have fun here on Wikibooks, and I hope that your Wikibook is going to be a success. --Rob Horning 02:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)