SiphoPhiri

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Proposed deletion of David Phiri

The article David Phiri has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no evidence of notability

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 22:10, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:1979 DARP and Queen .jpg

File Copyright problem

Thanks for uploading File:1979 DARP and Queen .jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status and its source. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously.

If you did not create this work entirely yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. You will also need to state under what licensing terms it was released. Please refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file.

Please add this information by editing the image description page. If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Eeekster (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

License tagging for File:DARP 2006.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:DARP 2006.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

To add a tag to the image, select the appropriate tag from this list, click on this link, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia. For help in choosing the correct tag, or for any other questions, leave a message on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 19:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Don't panic! (© Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

If you look at the Proposed Deletion notice above that you wrote to RHaworth about, you will see that it is dated 6 January 2010 - more than two years ago. A PROD notice like that may be contested simply by removing the notice; somebody did that, and it is now history. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:24, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

• On the other hand, the image warnings above are recent and require immediate attention. "Source=Phiri family archives" is not sufficient - we require evidence via OTRS that they release the image/s under an appropriate licence. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 20:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

A few bits of advice

Putting {{helpme}} on a page puts it in a list where many people see it, so it will probably be answered soon. You shouldn't put it on an article, as you did on David Phiri - put it on the article's talk page, with a statement under it of what help you want.

You can also put {{helpme}} plus your question at the bottom of your own talk page.

If you send a message intended for a particular user, as you did to RHaworth,

• You should add it to the bottom of the talk page, so that things are kept in order - that's where people look for new messages, so one added at the top may be missed if several have arrived
• you don't need to add "helpme" - he will be notified anyway that a new message has arrived.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:47, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

If you are related to David Phiri, please read these important guidelines:

• Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
• Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest

In the interest of maintaining a neutral point of view it is preferred that editors closely associated with a subject do not edit the article directly, but rather suggest changes on its talk page, so that uninvolved users can decide. You will understand that no one owns a Wikipedia article - see WP:Ownership of articles - other people can and will edit it. The COI marker I have added will encourage others to help ensure that it is properly neutral. This is not a criticism of your edits, just a normal precaution. JohnCD (talk) 20:18, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Image copyrights

... are a difficult and complicated question. You say you "own" File:1979_DARP_and_Queen_.jpg - in what sense? Unless you personally took the photograph, copyright belongs to the person who did, unless s/he assigned it to a newspaper or publisher, in which case they own it. Just owning a copy of a print, or a book or paper in which it appears, does not give you rights to republish it here. "Non-free" images are allowed only under a very restrictive set of conditions, see WP:NFCC#Policy, all ten of which must be satisfied. In the notice above, there is a link to Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, and I think your best course would be to ask there, explaining exactly how you came by the picture and who took it. JohnCD (talk) 20:26, 10 April 2012 (UTC)