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Hello, Dmoney$, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.
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October 2016
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Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Jeremy Strong (actor), did not appear constructive and has been undone. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Please do not replace the photo. Wikipedia doesn't accept images which are copyright violations. If you have problem, please discuss. Lemongirl942 (talk) 18:30, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Jeremy Strong (actor). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 18:50, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
- How is adding a more up-to-date and appropriate picture of someone considered "vandalism" and "non-constructive"? The rights to that photo have been licensed so I fail to see why it cannot be used to replace a two year old photo.
- Where can we verify that the image has been released under a free license? —C.Fred (talk) 19:07, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
- Yes, I would like to know that as well. I had tagged the image as copyvio because I found it on multiple websites who had uploaded it long before today. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 19:14, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
I have licensed it to IMDb to use on their website. How do I prove a license? What do you need for it?
- We need an email from the copyright owners, which based on the exif information in the image is Steve Granitz/WireImage. I take it you are not Steve Granitz/WireImage and so I take it that the current licence you've assigned to it, which makes that claim that you took the image, is false. It is up to you consider what proof - by way of your identity / affiliation with the subject & photographer / permission from the photographer - can be adduced ... the people to whom you need to be speaking are the Commons:OTRS team at permissions-commons@wikimedia.org ... the page I linked to provides more info. Clearly you'll need to indicate the URL of the image you're talking to them about. As it stands right now, the image may well be marked for deletion because the evidence we have leads to a conclusion that the licence used is bogus. I have, btw, contacted Steve Granitz to ask if in his opinion its a copyvio; whether he'll get back to me I don't know. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:03, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
This picture is way better, thank you. -sjgarone — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjgarone (talk • contribs) 21:56, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
Agreed. - Akallow — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akallow (talk • contribs) 22:09, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
- Creating new accounts to create a false appearance of support is strongly discouraged; it's deemed to be abuse of multiple accounts. —C.Fred (talk) 01:43, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
edit Hello, Dmoney$. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Jeremy Strong (actor), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:
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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Lemongirl942 (talk) 01:31, 12 October 2016 (UTC)