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Just wanted to say what a fine job you've done on that article - I was very surprised to see that it's your first. I've marked it as reviewed and the only thing I could find to change on a first viewing was one broken URL. Keep up the great work! Gonzonoir ( talk) 11:07, 21 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Hey Jane! I'm working on illustrating the Mikulovská wine article and was wondering if you would take a look at these pictures from Wikipedia commons [1] [2] and see if they are of any use. Also, great work on several Czech wine-related articles. We could sure use your help over at the Wine Project and would be thrilled if you considered joining. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. :) Agne ^Cheese/ ^Wine 07:10, 22 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Hi Agne - yes, as a matter of fact I had some pictures in mind to put on the page that would very much typify the region, and am in the process of requesting permission from the owners to use their photographs so there would not be copyright issues. If you don't mind, I would rather not use those two pictures from Wikipedia commons. One is actually from a neighboring wine region (Znojemská). I found a really good vineyard photo showing a castle in the background, a map showing the four wine regions in Moravia, and a picture of the Renaissance wine barrel that would go well on the page. I am new to Wikipedia so I am unfamiliar with many standard practices, such as "How many pictures are suitable on a page before it gets 'too cluttered'?"

Thank you for the invitation to join the Wine Project - I would love to help out in any way that I can, just let me know what you need help with. Also, I am not sure exactly how User talk works. In responding to your message by editing my User talk page, I am unsure if you get notified automatically that I have responded, or if you have to manually check my User talk page? Or is it better for me to copy your message and paste it into your User talk page along with my response? Janeverston ( talk) 19:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC) reply

I believe the default setting for most users is that if you edit a page, it automatically appears on your watchlist. The watchlist is a link either on top right or in the panel to your left depending on your settings. A lot of editors create a short cut or bookmark to their watchlist on their browser for quick review. Ideally when an editor starts a conversion on your talk page, proper etiquette is for them to follow that page and respond to you there rather than have you hopscotch throughout Wikipedia to reply back to them. However, replies can get lost within lengthy watchlists (after being on Wikipedia for over 4 years I have over 8000 pages on my watchlists :P). So if someone doesn't respond back to you in a couple days it is okay to go to their talk page and leave them a little note saying they have a reply waiting for them on your talk page.

As for pictures, feel free to replace any of the pictures I added to the article with better pictures that illustrate the topic. Due to our Free Use requirements it can be difficult to find the most ideal images and sometimes we just make due with whatever we can get and hope that eventually something better will come along. So again, if you find something better, don't hesitate to replace an existing image. It is ultimately a judgement call on how many pictures are too much and there really is no set standards.

If you're getting pictures from an individual, I recommend encouraging them to upload the pictures to Flickr with either the attribution or the sharealike Creative Commons licenses that Wikipedia accepts as long as they put no restriction on commercial use or derivative use. Then I would make sure you have an account on Wikipedia Commons which will allow you to use the EXTREMELY handy Flick bot tool to upload the photos. This makes it very easy to find Flickr images for use on Wikipedia and confirms that the license is acceptable. It also protects the image if the original author latter tries to "revoke" or change the license to something that Wikipedia can't use.

For the Wine Project, you can sign up on the participant list on the front page and can add the {{ User WikiProject Wine}} tag to your user page. Then just watch the WT:WINE talk page and you will see any edits or conversions that are taking place. (We currently have several ongoing topics and you are welcome to just dive right in. One of our current initiatives is the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine/Wine Improvement Drive 2011 where each month we have a set topic and actively work to improve our coverage in that area through article creation, stub-killing (taking a small already-existing article and expanding it), cleaning up articles with improvement tags and adding images to unillustrated articles) This month it is North American wines, next month it will be French wine and in July we will focus on Central European wine regions. Of course you are free to continue your excellent work on Czech wine but if something in the Wine Improvement Drive topic for the month interests you, we always welcome contributions which we log on the Project talk page.

I apologize for the long reply but I hope some of this information will be useful. A lot of it is details that folks like me learned through hard knocks and trail and error :P Agne ^Cheese/ ^Wine 20:23, 22 January 2011 (UTC) reply

Oh and definitely poke around the Wine Project page for info about how wine articles are usually produced. Some important pages include WP:WINEGUIDE and WP:WINERY. Agne ^Cheese/ ^Wine 20:26, 22 January 2011 (UTC) reply

On 30 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mikulovská wine, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that wine historians theorize that, during the Roman occupation of what is now Moravia, Grüner Veltliner and Welschriesling may have been introduced to the Czech wine region of Mikulovská? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:04, 30 January 2011 (UTC) reply