User talk:Smerlinare

Smerlinare, welcome to Train Spotting World

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Hi There. Glad to see you're getting busy!

Can I just point out a few basic ground rules please.

1. Image licencing. Very important. You MUST add a suitable licence template to indicate the sourcing of your images. This is something that they are VERY hot on here. BG7's picture had a GFDL licence (I think) indicating that he had taken the photo. You can probably use the same for your pictures. Pictures without licences are likely to be deleted within 24hrs (faster than WP!)
2. Pages copied from Wikipedia are permitted (it's how most of the site was started) but must be identified as such. Again, there's a template to do it. Have a look at the 9F talk page and there should be one there.
3. Keep reality and fiction separate - There's already a large section 'Fan Fiction', but model railways don't really belong there. The only ground rule is that you can link from your model railway articles TO main space articles (such as the 9F page) but please do not link back from them to your page. This allows the main articles to remain purely factual.

Beyond these it's mainly about being courteous and non-disruptive - the box above gives a good starting point for what we do here.

Have fun! Cheers -- EdJogg 10:50, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

PS - the addition of your pic to the 9F page is fine, as you did not link back to the ATR. I hadn't looked at the page before making the above comments. EdJogg 10:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Well I will try to follow these rules, but if i make a mistake please point out where I'm wrong because I am new to wikipedia (well i've only just started making pages.

--Smerlinare 11:02, 19 June 2008 (UTC)