User talk:Bedoyere

Welcome!

Hello, Bedoyere, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! JackyR 15:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS. Nice edits to Pepys and Evelyn! JackyR 15:54, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Odds and sods of Wiki-ness[edit]

Hi there, nice to see you've been out and about on Wikipedia, and have done a great job on Guy de la Bédoyère. A few bits and pieces to make life easier for you.

Notable Wikipedians[edit]

From your contribs and the personal photos you've added, I'm making the reasonable assumption you are indeed Mr G de la B. You may know that Wikipedia suffers heavily from vandals; among other things they may sign up in the name of a notable person and cause distress to that person, as well as deceiving others. I've looked for guidelines about this (I'm not an admin, just another contributor), and the best I can find is this, which suggests you state who you are on your user page (click red "User page" tab above). In addition, you might like to add a note on your personal website - which presumably only you or your authorized people can edit - saying, eg, "I occasionally contribute to Wikipedia as User:Bedoyere". That should head off any misunderstandings or accusations of cyber-squatting by being verifiable.

You can also add {{Notable Wikipedian|User:Bedoyere|de la Bedoyere, Guy|editedhere=yes}} to Talk:Guy de la Bédoyère.

Pics[edit]

Nice additions, these. But I noticed you've put the attribution in the caption, which WP doesn't do. Text contributions are not signed but recorded in the page History, and similarly attribution and copyright info for pics lives on the pic's own page - just as you've done at Image:WTC2000.jpg. I saw on your website you've had grief with people using photos without permission, so I hope you're OK with the licence on that pic - you've donated it to the Public Domain, which means anyone can use it for any purpose, commercial or otherwise.

By far the best guidance on licencing is on Wikimedia Commons, at Commons:Licensing. Commons is the central library for all the Wikimedia projects and different language WPs. If you're sure you're happy to have pics become public property, it's best to upload them there so all the projects can access them. And it has the added bonus of rather clearer help for the user! (Eg Commons:First steps and Commons:Upload.)

As a quickie, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License is a good one if you like to be credited.

Phew[edit]

Sorry this is so much. Dealing with Wikipedia often demands huge investments in understanding new bits of the system, and it can all be too much to bother with. I'm no expert, but will happily help if I can.

Good luck with the teaching, btw: I had to give up because it literally made me ill, so I'm hugely admiring of anyone who takes up the baton! Very best wishes, JackyR | Talk

Thanks for contributing and welcome to Wikipedia[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia Guy! I have edited your article a little bit in the past and it's nice to have you here editing it - interesting about the "RSR and INPCDA" coin initials! I enjoy your appearances in Time Team and if you get a minute to look over that and articles to do with your own specialism like Roman Britain, Roman currency, Roman conquest of Britain and starting points like Roman sites in the United Kingdom, I am sure your contributions would be widely welcomed!

Thanks again for taking part and we hope to hear more from you in the future - the contribution of experts makes Wikipedia more focused, useful and interesting for both the web population (for whom Wikipedia is now essentially the number one source of information after Google) and regular Wikipedia users and editors.

MarkThomas 15:52, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Messaging: a cunning trick![edit]

Actually it's in no way cunning. You go to someone's Discussion page, hit the "Edit this page" tab and start typing, just as in an article. The exciting, yellow "You have new messages" bar gets generated automatically. Next to "Edit" is the "+" tab, which is a quick way to start a new topic without wading through the page.

I've set up my signature so you can go direct to either my User Page or my User Talk Page (ie Discussion) with one click, but some signatures lead only to the User Page, and you then have to click "Discussion". Folk can get stroppy if some clueless newbie edits their precious User Page by mistake... :-) Have fun, now, and don't forget to sign your posts by typing "~~~~". Best, JackyR | Talk 14:25, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free use disputed for Image:KSHSlogo.jpg[edit]

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Non-free use disputed for Image:KSHSlogo.jpg Solution[edit]

Thanks for pointing this out. As a simple solution I have deleted the thumbnail and caption since the logo is also visible on the public domain image of the school sign, and there is no point in repeating this. Bedoyere 08:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Robin Bush (historian)[edit]

Hi, Can I first say how much I enjoyed your appearances on Time Team over the years. Also, do you have a picture of Robin Bush that you can upload onto the article about him I have just started? Any help you can provide with the article would be much appreciated. Thanks. --Jack1956 (talk) 08:50, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello![edit]

Hello, It's James: the person in Mr. Quinton's class who collects coins, you gave me an Australian 50 cents and a 1696 Bristol Halfcrown in December 2007 at St. George's College. I didn't realise you were on Wikipedia until I found you in the History section of a page on coins. Well thank you for the coins, I didn't say much when you gave them to me because I lost my voice with the flu that morning. I did exactly what you said and found out what they are - they now sit comfortably in one of my display cases! 95jb14 (talk) 16:22, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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