AMH1992

Pictures keep getting deleted

I have been trying to upload a picture of an actress (Sanaya Irani) but it keeps getting deleted. It is not my own but a picture I found from the internet. I put in the source and the author but it still gets deleted. I don't know how to upload a picture on her page without it getting deleted. I am using the Wikipedia Commons for this as my account has still not been confirmed. Should I do it after it has been confirmed? AMH1992 (talk) 18:58, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

If you found the image on the internet, it's almost guaranteed to be copyrighted and non-free. In that case, uploading it to the Wikimedia Commons is a copyright violation whether or not you give the source. Wikipedia itself allows non-free images only under very special circumstances, one of which is that no free image exists or could be produced. For living persons, that's practically never the case since someone could meet the actress tomorrow, take a photo of her, and release it under a free license. Thus, please do not upload non-free images of her, neither to the Commons nor to Wikipedia itself. We're better off without an image than with a copyright violation, and uploading copyright violations repeatedly will see you blocked from editing. Huon (talk) 19:19, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. One more question, if someone does meet her and then uploads the picture, will that be deleted as well? AMH1992 (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

That depends. The copyright holder, likely the photographer, must release the image under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify the image for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Our preferred license is the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License, though some others are also acceptable. If the image has been released under such a licence, it will not be deleted. If it hasn't, it would still be non-free and subject to deletion. Huon (talk) 20:31, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

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Misuse of Fair-Use rationale

Please do not continue uploading images of biography subjects and claiming them as fair-use. As Huon explained to you in two sections near the top of your user talk page, such images almost never qualify as fair use as it is expected that obtaining a free image is possible. You are claiming that the images are the "subject of sourced commentary" in your rationale, but that is not correct. The copyrighted files are not the subject of the discussion, they are simply being used to illustrate the article subject. I would suggest that you discontinue uploading any images files of biography subjects until you have a better understanding of Wikipedia's policies on copyright and image use; it is better that an article lack an image in the infobox than to have one that potentially puts Wikipedia in a position of culpability.--Jezebel'sPonyo^{bons mots} 17:17, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

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File permission problem with File:Sanaya Irani photoshoot cropped.jpg

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If there is a picture of a celebrity that we want to upload and the picture was published by a friend of theirs on twitter, can we upload it on Wikipedia? Will there be copyright issues with that?

AMH1992 (talk) 18:20, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Material posted on Twitter (or any other website for that matter) does not automatically fall into the public domain The person who took the photo still owns the copyright. So no, we cannot accept photos copied from Twitter. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:58, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Question about sources

When I update an article with information that has sources, it automatically gets deleted. I wanted to update the awards and nominations section for an actor but all of it got deleted and the reason was given us "not sourced". What more proof is required than video proof of the actor receiving the award? Wikipedia doesn't accept YouTube as a source so we cant put that in and not every time someone wins an award will there be an article saying he/she did so. Information that is not reliable gets deleted but even that which is reliable gets deleted too. When I update the date of birth of an actor, that also gets deleted saying its not a reliable source. There are videos all over of the actor celebrating her birthday. When information pertaining to the actor's career is included in the career section, it is edited with the reason "pure crap". Important information should be included in their biography but it just gets deleted every time.

I have copyright violations so I am not updating or editing from now on. But the page just keeps getting edited again and again and all the important information is being taken down with lame reasons presented. If video proof is required of birthday, appearances, awards, etc. I can give that proof. The article is Sanaya Irani. AMH1992 (talk) 21:19, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I have reformatted this talk page because new comments belong on the bottom. For biographies of living people, we need reliable sources. If you post information from an unreliable source, it can be removed. Reliable sources are typically newspapers, magazines, mainstream news websites, things of that nature. Basically, reliable publications that have a clear editorial policy. Gossip sites don't count, fansites don't count, blogs typically don't count, etc. I can't speak to why TRPoD called some content "pure crap", but I probably would have deleted it as well because the article is about Sanaya Irani, not about her co-stars. Adding this extraneous information to tables tends to invite more and more unnecessary information, which results in bloat. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:48, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. What about the date of birth, and awards? There are videos of her accepting her awards, can this be added to the page? There were editorial articles that were put in as references of her U.K. trip recently but even those were deleted. The reference was BizAsia which is a news website that reports only confirmed and reliable information. AMH1992 (talk) 22:03, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi, if you are responding to a specific user, you should contact them on their talk page instead of using a {{help me}}, which will bring by any random editor who happens to be checking. Date of birth should also be supported by reliable sources, as should award acceptances. There are other issues too, for example, Wikipedia isn't interested in every single award the subject has won. We want to focus on notable major awards, and notable major awards should presumably have major websites that have lists of winners. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:10, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

I've asked TRPoD to swing by. Hopefully some of your specific answers will be answered, as I don't have the familiarity that they do. Since you are confined to your account, if you have specific questions for another editor, you should use this template, which will help get their attention:

{{u|The Red Pen of Doom}} Hi, I have a question: blah blah blah...

You can substitute any user after the pipe "|". Don't include the "nowiki" text. Regards. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:19, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

If your questions are about the content removed in this edit,[1] i think the edit summary explains it all. The birth date has been contested and as a point of personal information about a living person, we need the highest quality sourcing, not random celebrity gossip websites. Tellychakkar is not a reliably published source, particularly for promotional items such a "awards" - they are the media wing of a PR firm whose business it is to pump their clients. It is an article about Irani, and actors have virtually zero influence about who their fellow co stars are, therefore name dropping "co-stars" is just an attempt to cling to fame by association and not worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia article about Irani (unless of course you have a reliable source that speaks about things like the Megasuperstar specifically requesting for her to be in their movie or a marriage resulting from having met on a particular set, or a pairing that spans multiple films and has commentary for the recurrence of the pairing - Laurel & Hardy, Bing Crosby & Bob Hope Road to ... movies, Kathryn Hepburn & Cary Grant etc.).-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 23:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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