RAM2018

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Hello, RAM2018, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Non-free image use

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload files. However, it appears that one or more of the files you have uploaded or added to a page, specifically User:RAM2018/sandbox, may fail our non-free policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted file of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:31, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi RAM2018. Just for reference, non-free content such as File:Yayori Matsui.jpg cannot be used in the user namespace per WP:NFCC#9 and WP:UP#Non-free files; so, please do not re-add that file to User:RAM2018/sandbox. In addtion for future reference, you should be aware that Wikipedia's non-free content use policy is considerably more restrictive than the US concept fair use, so WP:ITSFAIRUSE is never a good way to try and justify non-free use. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:35, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello! I merely copied and pasted the original article which had permission to use the image from Wikipedia. I am editing the article and just pasted it into my sandbox so I'm still not sure why you flagged something in a sandbox, especially since it is the same article, just edited, as exists on Wikipedia currently. RAM2018 (talk) 18:15, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Each use of a non-free file is required to satisfy all ten non-free content criteria. If a file is used ten times on ten different pages or ten times on the same page, then each of these ten uses needs to comply with relevant policy. The file's non-free use complies with policy in Yayori Matsui, but the use of it in your sandbox does not. This is because one of the aforementioned ten criteria is WP:NFCC#9, which states that non-free content may only be used in the article namespace. (Wikipedia has various namespaces; they are all part of Wikipedia, but they all have their own specific policies and guidelines in addition to the ones which apply to all namespaces; for example, WP:TPG applies to talk pages, while WP:UP applies to user pages, WP:DRAFTS applies to drafts, etc., etc.) So, this means no matter how many times a non-free file may be being used in the article namespace, it can never be used on user pages per WP:UP#Non-free files.

Also, if you're going to copy and paste articles into your sandbox, you should be aware of WP:CWW. Wikipedia content techincially can be edited by anyone, and it can even be copied and used externally (on other websites) and internally (on other Wikipedia pages) to some degree; however, Wikipedia's license requirements requires that proper attribution be given when copying and pasting content in such a manner. Just keep WP:CWW in mind if you've copied-and-pasted an entire exisitng article or large sections of an existing article into your sandbox for the purpose of wroking on improvements. It's best to say in your edit sum where the content came from so that it's not mistakenly assumed to be your own original creation. See WP:RIA for some more details. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:07, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Ah, now I understand. I misunderstood the policy and thought that, since the image was allowed in the original article, I could use it in my sandbox while I edited the article there. Sorry about using it incorrectly and thanks for the clarification! RAM2018 (talk) 01:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)