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January 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Jigme Singye Wangchuck has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://bhutan2008.blogspot.com. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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Image editing

Hi, is it acceptable to improve images that are on Wikipedia by photoshopping them? I mean removal of color casts, cropping away empty spaces, etc, nothing that changes the meaning of the image. Allowed? Frowned upon? Thanks, SY

Location of DerivativeFX option in the upload form in Wikimedia Commons

While Fair use images are usually encouraged to be cropped or resized to a smaller resolution (to minimize the possibility of the copyright holder being affected by its availability), you can't make derivatives from them.

Free images (images fully compatible with all Wikimedia projects and usually hosted in Commons) can be edited as long as you comply with the license.

Images licensed under fully free licenses like Public Domain or CC-Zero can be used in any way you want. However, you should always give credit to the original author when making derivatives of images with licenses which require attribution (such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA). The best way would be to register at Wikimedia Commons and use the DerivativeFX app to ensure that you give proper credit to the original authors/release derivatives under the correct licenses. The location of DerivativeFX is shown to the right.

And yes, it is encouraged to clean up images, usually by removing things like datestamps or margins, but again, only if the images are not under fair use and making sure that the meaning does not change. Also, don't overwrite existing images when making derivatives, it's better if you upload it as a new file and then replace the files used in the article. For more information, see Wikipedia:How to improve image quality --Obsidi♠n^Soul 17:54, 27 March 2011 (UTC)