User talk:Rachristia1

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A thought

If you're setting about to address the review concerns on an article that's been not-ready'd, fix it and then submit it for review. When you submit an article for review, you're saying you believe it to be ready for review/publication in that form; so don't submit it for review before you've done what you mean to do to address the concerns. Just saying. --Pi zero (talk) 01:54, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Study finds underweight may carry more risk than obese

Review comments. --Pi zero (talk)

file names

I changed the incorrect file names "Dr. Reed" to "Terri Roth" in Wikimedia Commons but the changes haven't been approved yet.Crtew (talk) 02:38, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Your plan page

Hi there, I noticed that you created Username:/Plan. That's not the right place for it, so I've moved it to User:Rachristia1/Plan for you. Microchip08 (talk) 23:18, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate it. Rachristia1 (talk) 20:08, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Wikinews interviews Jacopop Buongiorno about floating nuclear reactor project

This looks really cool. Is there any reason why work appears to have ceased? I'm looking forward to seeing it published! :) BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 17:02, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

I am hoping to submit the article for publication today. I am trying to use a picture of the professor provided by MIT under fair use. I've never uploaded a picture to Wikinews, so I was wondering if you could help me? I've already submitted the photo to upload, but I'm not sure what to do from here. Thanks! Rachristia1 (talk) 13:25, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

There are documentation concerns about the interview, raised on the article collaboration page. Three reviewers (including myself) have weighed in, last I saw. --Pi zero (talk) 13:30, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Left a comment on the other page, so let me know. Rachristia1 (talk) 13:38, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

File:Buongiorno.jpg

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...uploaded "File:Buongiorno.jpg" ‎(http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/buongiorno.html This is a headshot of the professor, provided by MIT. MIT has a headshot database for all their professors. I am using it under fair use.)

Could you please ask the professor to ask photographer to upload a picture of him to commons:Special:Upload directly, they usually are very collaborative on this. :)

--Gryllida 13:26, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

It wouldn't be considered fair use? I can ask him, but I don't know if the professor knows the photographer/knows how to get ahold of him. He's a busy guy and I don't think he would do it. Rachristia1 (talk) 13:28, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Just try to ask him, the photographer would pick a free license and usually wouldn't object. (You can tell him that if he took a picture himself then he can upload directly as well.) Gryllida 13:30, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

It works as FU, but other interviewers in the past have achieved quite good results asking for freely released versions. BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 13:44, 26 April 2014 (UTC)