InSearchOfTheTruth

Tony Alamo picture

Hi, welcome to wikipedia. I noticed that you replaced an image of Tony Alamo at Image:TonyAlamo.jpg. If you would like to upload your new image of Alamo, please do so, but do not replace the other image. You can just name the image you would like to upload as a different file name, such as TonyAlamo2.jpg. It's an interesting image, to be sure, and worth including in the article. However, there's no reason to remove the other image of Alamo, either. If you have any questions, let me know. Please just re-upload the image with a different file name (I thought it was rather hilarious). Thanks! · j e r s y k o talk · 22:29, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

External links

Hi InSearchOfTheTruth. Regarding external links in the Alamo article, all external link sections on Wikipedia must comply with our external links guideline. Several of the anti-Alamo links (as well as pro-Alamo links) that have been removed from the section did not comply with this guideline, unfortunately. I will have to disagree with you, though, that the links that remain are pro-Alamo. While I suppose the link to his official website could possibly be considered pro-Alamo, the rest of the links are not. The second link is merely an Arkansas encyclopedia, the third includes text from primary sources written by Alamo (I believe the text from some of his tracts is there, but the website doesn't support Alamo, and seems to describe him as controversial), the fourth is a catholic.com article opposing Alamo, and the last is the Department of Labor's decision against Alamo. Anyway, these links all seem to comply with the external links guideline, and I just can't agree that they're pro-Alamo in any appreciable degree.

If you are aware of links that do comply with the external links guideline, feel free to add them (or at least discuss them at Talk:Tony Alamo). Thanks! · j e r s y k o talk · 20:08, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you're headed in the right direction. My reading of "recognized authority" (and my interpretation is by no means authoritative) leads me to think that the ultimate goal is to ensure that the websites linked are or are based on verifiable reliable sources. A blog or personal website may not typically be acceptable as an external link, but, for example, a blog by a notable professor of Native American pottery about that subject might be an acceptable external link in an article about Native American pottery. The two websites you point out, particularly this one also might have problems with the second WP:EL "to be avoided" criterion. I would not say that the information contained there is inaccurate (hey, I'm not an Alamo fan, I only stumbled across his Wikipedia article because I found a ridiculous tract on my car), but the website certainly contains a lot of information that is unverifiable in reliable sources. · j e r s y k o talk · 21:51, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Pic wp.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading Image:Pic wp.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 19:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jusjih 19:38, 15 October 2007 (UTC)