Jmorg123

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Help me!

Hi,

I want to add an image to a wiki page I created but have been having a lot of trouble. How can successfully insert a picture into the wiki page i created - this includes photos I've taken and photos that the artist has taken of themselves.

Jmorg123 (talk) 00:28, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

I suggest reading through WP:IMAGE. It will tell you about uploading images and copyrights etc, as well as describing how the File: prefix can be used to place an image on a page. If you want more help, change the {{help me-helped}} back into a {{help me}}, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 02:28, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Help me!

I read the article but it did't help. The issue is

Issue 1:

I have an image that I paid for but wiki will not let me post. What license would this fall under/what steps would i need to take to get this approved by Wiki?

Issues 2:

There's a picture that was posted to myspace that I would like to use. What license would this fall under/what steps would i need to take to get this approved by Wiki?

Jmorg123 (talk) 17:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

1. That depends on what exactly you bought. If you bought a copy of the image, the copyright likely still belongs to the creator. We would need evidence that the creator of the image is okay with releasing it under a free license such as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. See WP:Requesting copyright permission for details. If you bought the copyright along with the image, we'll instead need evidence that the copyright was transferred to you by the creator, and that you are willing to release the image under an acceptable license. Either way, the evidence, along with a copy (in electronic form) of the image can be sent to permissions-commonswikimedia.org; the volunteers dealing with that email queue will determine whether the evidence is sufficient, and if it is, they can upload the image for you and send you a link.
2. You'd need to find out who owns the copyright to the MySpace image and ask them to release the image under an acceptable license (see above). Unless we have evidence to the contrary, images "found somewhere on the internet" must be presumed to not be freely licensed and thus to be unsuitable for Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons. There are some exceptions to that rule, but they are highly unlikely to apply to something found on MySpace. Huon (talk) 20:56, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Help me!

Thanks again for the help. I want to submit my article for review. I have looked on the the site and various tutorials online but have not found how to get my article reviewed so it can go live on wiki. Could you help identify what steps I need to take to get my article to "go live" on the wiki? "go live" meaning people can search for the title of the article or the persons name "Robert Dorsey" and be sent to the page i created titled "Robert "LB" Dorsey"

Thank you for your response.

Issue 1:

To clarify I am the creator of the image. I paid for the photoshoot and the pictures. The pictures were taken for purposes such as the Wiki article and are free to the public as well. With that said what step do I need to take to add the image to the Wiki page I created.

Issue 2: The person who owns the picture Robert "LB" Dorsey is the person who owns the photo. He is who I'm writing the WIKI article for and has given me permission to use the photo. I read the links and I'm still confused on the process. Could you please out line the steps needed to add this to the wiki article?

Jmorg123 (talk) 01:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Whether you're the "creator" of an image someone else took as part of a photoshoot is debatable and would likely depend on whether that person was in artistic control or whether you used them as a glorified remote control. The details of what needs to be done depend on whether the image in question was previously published elsewhere. If it was, we'll need evidence that you are indeed the copyright holder and not someone who just got it on the internet and claims to be the copyright holder (that unfortunately happens rather often). WP:Donating copyrighted materials gives some helpful explanations. For the sake of explanation I'll assume that you did indeed buy the copyright along with the copy of the image, and for the sake of simplicity I'll assume that the image wasn't published elsewhere before. In that case you can use the Upload Wizard at the Wikimedia Commons. Personally I would expect that an image you didn't take yourself should not be considered your "own work", but the Commons will still let you upload it, release it under a free license, and explain how you came to own the copyright to the image. When that is done, you can check the picture tutorial for an explanation on how to display the image on Wikipedia.

Regarding Robert "LB" Dorsey's image, it's not enough if he gave you permission to use the image. For the image to be acceptable to Wikipedia, he (if he indeed is the copyright holder; agaib, by default copyright would belong to the photographer) needs to give everybody permission to use the image for any purpose, including commercial purposes. You can find a permission form at WP:Declaration of consent for all enquiries; Dorsey should send such a form, with the image attached, to permissions-commonswikimedia.org. The people who deal with that email queue will then upload it and add the appropriate tags to show that the image indeed is freely licensed. Huon (talk) 00:17, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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