User talk:Elana678
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Bird scarer do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — Ksero 16:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Your questions
[edit]What should and shouldn't be covered in Wikipedia is a constant subject of debate among editors :). There are a few pages that provide a rough guide to the current consensus, see WP:Notability and WP:CORP. Basically, what they boil down to is that if someone wrote about it in the paper, you can write it on Wikipedia. Also, since a newspaper (or another reliable source) wrote about it, it's verifiable, another important "pillar" of wikipedia
Regarding trademarks, there's Wikipedia:Manual of Style (trademarks). If I read it correctly, you don't have to avoid using trademarked names. As for the picture, I don't think that would be inappropriate. In fact, that article could probably use a few more illustrations. Hope that helps! :) — Ksero 16:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
File permission problem with File:Terroreyes.JPG
[edit]Thanks for uploading File:Terroreyes.JPG. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
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