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Thanks for the corrections on the Lough Swilly Lifeboat Station page. I wanted to point out, the occasion of 'the the' errors on my behalf, seems to be an auto error correct, its happened three or four times now. If you find any, it should usually read 'to the', so please check the context before deleting what appears to be a double entry.

Also, Lifeboat Numbers have hyphens, not Endash, as its a number 13-08 (the eighth of type 13), not a range. I know its something wiki picks up, and it didn't see the other fve numbers, all 47-XXX.

But we're all good, Best wishes

Martin Ojsyork (talk) 08:03, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ojsyork: Thanks for the heads-up, and thanks for fixing those up in the article. It is a good reminder for me to take more care next time.--Gronk Oz (talk) 11:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Gronk Oz

I am pretty new at editting WP. I would like to add a book cover image of the book "Growing up in the Ice Age: Fossil and Archaeological Evidence of the Lived Lives of Plio-Pleistocene Children" for Susan Gerbic's article. However, there is no image in the Commons for this book. I see you added an book cover image for her article "Mind the Science: Saving Your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry". Where did you get that image from? Can I take a screencapture from the Amazon site?

Thank you.

Joel Neutron jf (talk) 05:20, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Neutron jf. I am happy to help you through this process, because it is a bit fiddly but not hard if you do it right.

As you may know, Wikipedia is very careful about copyright, and this includes the images of things like book covers. They are not "free content" (which can go into Commons); they use a different process. You can read about it at WP:FAIRUSE.

The principle is that even though the image is not free, we can still make limited "fair use" of it. In particular, a low-resolution copy of the image can be used just once at the top of the article (typically in the Infobox) for visual identification of the article's subject. (Remember those words; they will come in handy later.)

Basically, your process will be:

1. Get a copy of the image, e.g. from Amazon, and convert it to low resolution. "Low resolution" is defined in detail here, but typically about 250 × 400 pixels.
2. Upload this to Wikipedia (NOT to Commons) using a "Fair Use" justification.
3. Update the article to include that picture.

Let me know once you have the first step, if I can help guide you through the next bit. Gronk Oz (talk) 05:55, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]