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=== Pictures, Sources, and Copyright ===
Before adding any picture to the site, please be sure that the owner of the picture is happy for you to do so. The Quite a few images online will have a free-use license specified (for example, all images on Wikimedia Commons and many on Flickr), and in cases where a license isn't available, the vast majority of people will respond kindly to a simple request, as long as they are acknowledged as the picture's author. If you are unable to get permission for a picture you've found online (e.g. because the author's account is no longer active), an easy solution is to create a link to the page with the picture on , rather than using the image on this site - it's slightly less pretty than having the picture itself, but it does avoid copyright issues!
You should avoid copying text from a source such as a website, book, magazine, or so on, and definitely shouldn't do so without acknowledging where you got it from. If you do need to copy a section, you should make it very clear that it is a quote (e.g. by italicising it), and by crediting the source. Otherwise, you should attempt to rewrite the information in your own words - this often makes for a better quality page anyway - and mention your source. This also means that anyone wishing to research a subject in more detail then knows where to start looking, and often a source of information for one page can be used as a source for another.
