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Question from Toolman97130 (11:14, 15 June 2024)

I created a user page but it got speedy deleted. What should I put on my user page? The one that got deleted was like an ad about myself. What is the purpose of the user page? --Toolman97130 (talk) 11:14, 15 June 2024 (

@Toolman97130: When someone's userpage gets deleted per speedy deletion criterion U5, it's almost always because of Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages?. If that's what happened in your case, don't worry about because it happens to lots of new users. You can find out more about what user pages are at Wikipedia:User pages. It's important to remember that while you'll be given a bit of latitude with respect to your user page, it's not really yours in the sense that you own the page and can do whatever you want with it. It's more like a rental that you're being allowed to use free of charge as long as you do so in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:39, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to reduce image resolution for I Think I

Hello Marchjuly, I saw you put a warning on I Think I album cover about reducing the image with a smaller version. Actually, this is the first time I tried to upload a non-free image for an album cover. Could you explain to me what I should do next? I am worried about copyrights and all. Should I just delete the original file immediately and try to upload with lower resolution or wait for the bot? Thanks! Ghazlan-airplanes (talk) 04:33, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ghazlan-airplanes: You don't need to do anything. There are WP:BOTs that look for such images, tag them and then other bots resize them accordingly, I just sped things up a bit. If you want to resize the image yourself, however, you can. For reference, this is related to WP:IMAGERES and generally 250px by 400px is what bots resize album covers to. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:04, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Marchjuly: I wanted to learn how to do it myself so that I know how to do this in the future. Regarding the "Summary (author, source, URL, fair use rationale if applicable, extra tags , etc.)", should I copy the credentials from the original file and would a 300x300 dimension satisfy the Non-free content's fair use? Ghazlan-airplanes (talk) 09:57, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's hard to tell how big is too big for the bots that reduce such files. You might want to ask about that at WT:NFCC. You don't need to reupload a smaller version of the same cover art; in fact, doing might just create confusion and extra things to clean up. You can just scroll to the bottom of the file's page and click "Upload a new version of this file". You won't need to change anything in the non-free use rationale as long as none of the information in the rationale changes. There are probably a number of ways to reduce the size of a file. I'm not sure how the bots do it. You could try asking someone running one of the bots that do that kind of thing (for example, User:DatBot). You could also try asking at WP:VP/T or WP:GL. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:24, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The bot reduce the file from 500 by 500 to 316 by 316, for reference. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
From now I'll reduce it to 316 by 316. Could you check the pictures I uploaded at One More Time (Otra Vez) and Sensory Flows (it's on the repackage album section in the infobox) and check if those have appropriate rationale? Thanks again Ghazlan-airplanes (talk) 02:40, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The {{Non-free use rationale album cover}} has a prarameter called |type= that you can set at |type=single to indicate that the file is for a "single" instead of an "album". I think you can also set the parameter to "EP" or other things as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 03:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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