User talk:Liam mcb19

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Hello, Liam mcb19, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:41, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

St Matthew Passion

Thank you for adding to the chorale "Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden". You will have to format the entry "A minor", not "a minor", and you will need a reliable source, or someone will remove it as "original research". - Happy Bach's birthday" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:01, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for checking my work! I've fixed the copy-editing error and provided a source on the chromaticism/intensity of the setting. As for the emptying key signature, isn't that apparent from a very brief glance at the score (i.e. isn't the musical score my reliable source)? Or do I need a source specifically addressing that detail beyond the score? I'm new to Wikipedia and although the training modules have helped somewhat, I don't have a lot of experience to see how the "real Wikipedia" works in action, so I appreciate the help! Liam mcb19 (talk) 12:34, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi Liam! You can definitely use the book to back up any claims on the plot and characters, such as any major plot points or quotes. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Book cover

Hi! I wanted to reply on this - basically, there's a specific way we can do book covers on Wikipedia despite them being copyrighted. We can justify uploading a book cover to Wikipedia directly (not Wikimedia Commons) as long as it's only going to be used in the live article for the book and in no other articles on Wikipedia. The catch is that the article absolutely has to be live, as otherwise we can't really justify fair use. In any case, here's how you'd upload the image:

• Go to this page and click the option to start, which will bring up a page with many fields.
• Choose the file, enter a name (like "The Transmigration of Bodies cover"), and add a description. This will be a very basic description, such as "This is the cover art for Yuri Herrera's The Transmigration of Bodies". If this is the first edition for the book (ie, the original Spanish version), you'd make a note of this. In general you should try to use the earliest cover you can find. In cases with translated books, it's preferred that you get the cover for the very first edition in its native language. For example, the article for Sailor Moon shows the cover for the first Japanese volume. It's OK to use the publisher website for this. Goodreads isn't typically a usable source, but it's fine for the book cover.
• Scroll down to step three. You specifically want to choose "This is a copyrighted, non-free work, but I believe it is Fair Use." This will bring up a lot of content, however you'll only need to worry about a few specific parts.
• This will ask for the name of the article you will be adding it to, which you'll need to add. So you'd add The Transmigration of Bodies once it's moved live.
• You will then need to select "This is the official cover art of a work.", as it's a book cover. There will now be the following fields to fill in:

• A drop down field - select that it's a cover for a book, which should be the first option.
• Author field: You can put in Herrera's name, as well as the publisher's name if you like.
• Date of publication: This doesn't have to be very specific - just the year of release is fine.
• Source: This will just be a link to the place you took the book cover from. A publisher page is fine to use for this, as is Goodreads.
• Check box: This is just you stating that you're only going to be using it for visual identification at the top of the article, ideally in an infobox.
• You will then fill out the first box, which will be marked with a red asterisk. This is just to show how the cover's use will be minimal. I typically use the following statement:

This book cover will be used to identify the book and its author, as well as central themes that cannot be done with words alone. It will also help to distinguish it from similarly titled or themed works.

• Click for this to upload - the image should pop up, but if not there will be a link with the image name. If you don't see the image, try opening the link up by right clicking the link and selecting for it to open in a new window.

After it's uploaded, you can add the image to the article. This may all sound complicated, but a lot of this is just filling out fields with information about the image in question. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:34, 23 April 2019 (UTC)