User talk:KuroNekoNiyah

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December 2020

Hello, I'm Lord Belbury. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Drowning have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. "The water" is not correct grammar in this sentence. Lord Belbury (talk) 07:59, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

@Lord Belbury: Thank you for the heads up! I will try to keep that in mind in future. KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 22:47, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Your edits

Please stop making "Spellings and Grammatical fixes", because you are not sufficiently competent in English (or in Wikipedia policies like WP:ENGVAR) to do them correctly. Now someone (me in this case) will have to review them and fix them where necessary. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

I'll just add that I suspect you are using some sort of grammar checker tool. The problem is, the suggestions made by such tools are often incorrect, and grammar "rules" can not be applied in an automated fashion in English. You need to be able to understand the subtleties and nuances in every instance, and have the ability to distinguish only those suggested changes that you can be sure are correct. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Oh, and one more point. You should *never* change the spelling or grammar of the title of a reference. We need to state the title exactly as it is published, even if it is grammatically incorrect. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:59, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

And final point, never change the names of categories either, because they are defined elsewhere and if you change the names in articles they won't work. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:18, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for the feeeback. I am new to editing Wikipedia and still learning. And you have guessed correctly. I was using Grammarly (grammar check tool) to quickly edit pages that were being ignored. KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 23:52, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Also, please do not change the text in quotations, as you did in this edit. Some of the changes you made in that edit were valid, but you need to inspect Grammarly's recommendations more carefully, and choose only those that fix problems that should be fixed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:26, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you for the confirmation, but please stop using Grammarly. Grammar checking tools can not accurately identify errors, they can only make suggestions of things that *might be* wrong. It then requires expertise in English grammar to make the decision, and you clearly do not possess that expertise. I do appreciate your enthusiasm, but it is far more important to do things correctly than quickly. I'm sure there are many other areas where you can contribute. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 09:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

@Boing! said Zebedee: Thank you for the feedback! I will try to ensure to not make the same mistakes in the future. KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 01:49, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Adding an open-source image to Wikipedia articles

I was wondering if there are restrictions on adding images from open source non-license images (e.g. pixabay.com). KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 02:39, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Yes, images published on Pixabay from 9th January 2019 onwards are not fully free and therefore cannot be uploaded to Commons, also see c:Template:Pixabay. Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:55, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

@Dylsss: Thank you for the prompt response! Do you know of any open source image source I can use for Commons? Also, I don't know how to effectively search for existing images on Commons. KuroNekoNiyah (talk) 04:05, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Flickr is probably the biggest. There's also meta:Free image resources, but I'd stick to images that are explicitly released into the public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY or CC-BY-SA), do not upload CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-ND as these are not compatible. Use common sense to make sure that the uploaded image is likely to be own work and not c:COM:License laundering, e.g. screenshots of non-free software, TV series, movie posters, etc. Do not upload photos from Pixabay or Unsplash after a certain date as these and not licensed freely (see c:Template:Pixabay and c:Template:Unsplash). Dylsss^{(talk contribs)} 02:34, 23 December 2020 (UTC)