User talk:Sebastianfrom

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Hi! Thanks for creating an account here.

I see you added a picture to the Minolta Riva AF 35 page; however, there were a few problems with that. You just added the code for the image itself, without a link to the Flickr page, or an attribution. Without seeing the Flickr page, I can't tell if we're allowed to use the image, so for now I've 'commented it out' (I put <!-- (image code) --> round the URL to stop it displaying).

Flickr's terms of service require that Flickr pictures included on other web pages link to the Flickr page, and it also helps us check things like copyright, and any details given in the picture caption on Flickr. Camera-wiki always gives attribution (we say whose picture it is), and a statement of rights (a note saying why we think we're entitled to use the picture). These are most easily done with our Flickr-image template. The template code looks like this:

{{Flickr_image
|image_source=
|image=
|image_align=
|image_text=
|image_by=
|image_rights=
}}

and you can insert that code by clicking the 'picture' icon at the right of the tool-bar at the top of the editing window.

Then you complete 'image-source= ' with the URL of the Flickr photo page; complete 'image = ' with the URL of the picture itself (the farm5.staticflickr...etc); it's nice to complete 'image_text= ' with a caption, comlete 'image_by=' with the Flickr screen name of the photo owner, and 'image_rights=' should be one of our copyright categories. All this is explained in Help:Adding_images.

Sorry to undo your first edit, but we have to take copyright quite seriously!

Cheers! --Dustin McAmera (talk) 15:45, 23 November 2013 (PST)

Hi again! Just to say thanks for persevering and adding your picture! Cheers! --Dustin McAmera (talk) 09:53, 1 December 2013 (PST)