User talk:69.181.197.242

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[edit] welcome

Welcome!

Hello, 69.181.197.242, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] images

Hi, I'm not sure if this is a dedicated IP or floating one so I'll generalize my answer. I find the best way to add images is to actually sign up for another free account at commons.wikimedia.org known as WikiCommons. WikiCommons is a worldwide repository where various media, including photos, can be uploaded and licensed freely for anyone, anywhere to use for anything. This best meets an interest of offering free content to everyone. If you have images that you own and our willing to let anyone use for anything then that is the best place to upload them add take a bit of extra time to ensure you have the right license and detailed description of what is the photo and who took it. Once that is complete every wikipedia-related project can also use that image as it is freely licensed. To me this has saved more problems from developing so has been worth the extra effort. A caution, though, if you load a photo and then try to remove it it might be impossible so only load photos that are freely available, etc. As a suggestion less formal photos, like a personal photo at a book signing, seem to work well for biographies. Photos can often be cropped or otherwise improved as well. Benjiboi 22:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)