User talk:Mike Hayes

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Contents 1 Welcome message 2 Linking 3 Copying from Wikipedia 4 Fair use images 5 Image licensing 6 Cookbook

[edit] Welcome message

Welcome, Mike Hayes!

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

You might also be interested to read our Cookbook policy page and talk to other Cookbook editors. Webaware ^talk 08:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linking

G'day Mike, thought you might like to know that you can link to Wikipedia via internal links by prefixing the page name with "w:". See Help:Link#Linking to Wikipedia for details. Webaware ^talk 01:32, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I tried reading the instructions in Wikipedia:Help but didn't succeed. I'll give it another go. Mike Hayes 01:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copying from Wikipedia

G'day Mike, great work you're doing on the Cookbook. Please note, however, that if you want to base a module on something out of Wikipedia, or another Wiki project, you should request an import so that we can maintain the edit histories for the information as required under our licensing provisions. I've tagged a couple of your new articles as being copy-and-paste imports for now, but you need to go back and list them on WB:RFI so that an admin can bring across the edit history. thanks, Webaware ^talk 09:01, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I left a message on WB:RFI. However, I decided the arab-cuisine article is not suitable for the basis of a cookbook and so I have deleted all the content leaving only the title and indices. I will start writing it from scratch. Mike Hayes 16:20, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, mate. I hope you don't mind, but I edited the listing a little to make it clearer to whoever does the import. cheers, Webaware ^talk 00:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use images

G'day Mike, when uploading images under the assumption of Fair Use, please tag them with the license tag {{fair use}} instead of the two non-existent templates you've been using. I'd appreciate it if you could go back over the images you've uploaded and fix that; I've already done some, but you keep uploading more with the old tags. cheers, Webaware ^talk 07:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Only with pleasure. Mike Hayes 19:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks mate, much appreciated. Webaware ^talk 06:22, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image licensing

G'day Mike, you can specify the license on your images more specifically by selecting one of the tags from this page. cheers, Webaware ^talk 01:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cookbook

I just wanted to let you know that I've been following along with your edits in the RC feed, and you're doing a great job. Each individual edit might be small, but they're adding up to something big. Good work! --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 16:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)