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{{help me}} Can you please tell me how to edit the title of an article? I found one with an obvious typo. Jdsteakley (talk) 16:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't think you are autoconfirmed, so you don't have permission to do that. Please tell me the rename you would like, and I'll do it for you. fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:42, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for offering to make the correction on an article title. It is: Whistling Woods International Institute for Films, Media, Animationa and Media Arts. There is an extra a on Animation.--Jdsteakley (talk) 20:49, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

To 'rename' an article, we use a process called WP:MOVE. Please read about it before trying! Thanks,  Chzz  ►  16:45, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Commons Ambassador barnstar

		The Commons Ambassador Barnstar
		I hereby award you the Commons Ambassador barnstar for all of your work classifying files on Commons plus making sure that images from English Misplaced Pages get transferred to Commons. Your work is noticed and appreciated! Royalbroil 12:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Images to Commons

Hi. I notice you copied a bunch of my images to Commons. At least I think that's what happened. I'm having a little trouble understanding how this works. The ones you did, a template says, "This file is now available on Wikimedia Commons as File:William Van Altena House May09.jpg." And I can still edit the image page, and it still has the Misplaced Pages categories, and such. But some others, that were done some time ago say "This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below." And I can't edit them or categorize. Can you explain this to me, or direct me to some resource regarding the "Commonizing" of images? I'd appreciate it. -Freekee (talk) 19:08, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

-- Hi, Freekee. First of all, thanks for photographing all those sites and uploading them. I want to go to work on Madison sites in the same sort of way. As for Commons, you probably already know some or most (or all) of what appears at <http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikimedia_commons>, which kind of explains the rationale for moving images from English-language Misplaced Pages to Commons. I'm not at all sure why you can't edit or categorize certain images that are now on Wikimedia Commons. Can you give me an example of one to take a look at? Jdsteakley (talk) 04:00, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

See File:Cedarburg-mill-pagoda.jpg. Notice there are no edit links. This was uploaded to WP, and then moved to Commons. -Freekee (talk) 04:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Oops, nevermind. I just checked my watchlist. After you moved the images to Commons, another user deleted the ones from WP. Okay, so what are the criteria for moving images there? Any free image? Should I be uploading them there in the first place? -Freekee (talk) 04:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Right, I think that generally it's better to upload images to Commons rather than to English Misplaced Pages. And if you've got the time and interest, it helps to transfer other peoples' images from English Misplaced Pages to Commons. (I initially got on to this because I've been a lot more involved with German Misplaced Pages than English Misplaced Pages since first becoming a Wikipedian last November.) Without looking back at the files of yours that have been deleted, I'm guessing it might have been royalbroil who did it, because he's an admin who can make such deletions. Yesterday he gave me a Commons barnstar for moving files to Commons. Quite a number of them were his images. Jdsteakley (talk) 12:54, 24 May 2009 (UTC)