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How long will it take for this message is removed from an article "This page is a new unreviewed article. This template should be removed once the page has been reviewed by someone other than its creator; if necessary the page should be appropriately tagged for cleanup. (July 2014)"
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Stone2ypr (talk) 01:22, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
- Hi: The message should have been removed in this edit 6 minutes after you placed this here, when someone tagged the article as needing cleanup. I see you have now removed all the tags. I'm going to do a bit of added cleanup on top of what you did, but I have to say that on first examination, the sourcing doesn't look very good. Are there any other articles about him from newspapers or magazines that you can add? They do not have to be online. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:17, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Image copyrights
editHi again Stone2ypr: I was glad to get a look at that Bronx News article (if only to confirm how it capitalized AIDS), but I've had to remove it from the article and to tag it and the pic of him with the other Progress for America award winner for deletion on Commons. Please read the applicable copyright rules. In a nutshell, unless you physically operated the camera to take the picture (not a scanner or a camera used to rephotograph a flat photo), if it doesn't have a tag on it saying it is copyright-free, you probably don't have the right to upload it to any Wikimedia project. Wikipedia has a very limited exception for copyrighted images that are the subject of discussion in an article - known as "fair use" - but in that case the image can only be used in one article, and the upload rationale must spell out where it will be used and why it is necessary. This is not allowed, for example, for pictures of living people, since it will be possible to get a new, copyright-free image of a living person at a convention or other public event. Commons is totally strict - no fair use. The newspaper image fails the free use criteria and in any case, yuo uploaded it at Commons. The award image is simply taken from the America for Progress web page - if you were actually the photographer there, it would be allowed, but since it has been previously published, you would have to send an e-mail to Comons OTRS explicitly stating that and giving up all rights to control future use of the image. See the welcome message on your Commons user talk page. Note that Wikimedia projects have a stricter standard than US law with respect to copyright, because the mission of the projects - especially of Commons - is to provide material that any reader can reuse in any way, including republication for profit. I haven't touched the first image, the one in the infobox, but if you got that off the internet, you need to replace it with a free image, since he is a living person. Sorry about this, but copyright violation is a serious legal matter. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:20, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Yngvadottir I appreciate your helpful insights and all you've done with helping getting things straight, I totally understand and will continue to learn the wiki world. Thanks for taking it down.--Stone2ypr (talk) 15:54, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
The article Devin Gibson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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I appreciate the concern, after looking over the article once more and revisions from other wiki contributors, I found no promotional material and all statements to be properly cited thank you--Stone2ypr (talk) 16:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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Nomination of Devin Gibson for deletion
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with respect to edit at my talk page
editIt's just possible you didn't follow the links in that conversation and thought it was about you. It wasn't. Now I am afraid I must go to bed; but chin up, find what sources you can, remember what I told you about general notability as opposed to notability for an artist. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:20, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Indeed thanks so much again for everything, it's my first article so can't really take it personal have a good night --Stone2ypr (talk) 22:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
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