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Welcome to Wikipedia, Boneheadmx! My name is Ryan, aka Acetic Acid. I noticed that you were new and haven't received any messages yet. I just wanted to see how you were doing. Wikipedia can be a little intimidating at first, since it uses different formatting than other sites that use HTML and CSS. In the long run, though, you'll find that the WikiSyntax is a lot easier and faster than those other ways. Here are a few links to get you started:

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There are a lot of policies and guides to read, but I highly recommend reading over those first. If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. Please be sure to sign your name on Talk using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, along with a link to your user page. This way, others know when you left a message and how to find you. It's easier than having to type out your name, right? :)

I hope you enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. We can use all the help we can get! Have a nice day. Sincerely, Ryan. 09:50, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I see that you've been actively patrolling recent changes, as well as making a lot of good article contributions. It's always good to have another infantryman in the trenches.

It would be a great help to other contributors if you could try to make use of the edit summary box when you make edits, however. For other editors who have articles on their watchlists and for those of us who are watching for vandalism life is a lot easier if you mention–very briefly–what you've done.

For an edit like this one where you reverted the edits made by a page blanking vandal, a short summary along the lines of rvv (revert vandalism) is sufficient. (Otherwise people see that 37 kB has been added to the article, and wonder if it's spam or other vandalism.) Many thanks for your future edit summaries, and keep up the good work.

Cheers, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 03:42, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I've decided to clean up Bowles Hall since someone decided that it needed it. Looking at two of the pictures, mainly Image:Bowles Hall Old.jpg and Image:Bowles Hall Crest.jpeg I'm not sure on the copyright status.

Can you tell me where you found Image:Bowles Hall Old.jpg? I think you're the one who uploaded it, you did on Commons at least, and I can't check the history here. The picture may be old enough to be public domain, but it's also very possible it isn't. It needs to get tagged with the correct info or it's going to get deleted it looks like, and it's a very nice picture.

As for Image:Bowles Hall Crest.jpeg, again it's unclear. I'm really not sure if it’s tagged correctly, as a scan of a work is not an original work and therefore you may not be able to release it’s copy write. However, I think the following may apply regardless, and so it should be fine to keep:

Anyway, any help you can provide would be much appreciated! I'll look for your reply here.

Go bears! --Falcorian | Talk 22:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I'll tag Image:Bowles Hall Crest.jpeg with coatofarms then. If you could try to find out more about the old picture, that would be great, as I'm not sure it's usable currently. --Falcorian | Talk 23:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]