Vick fern

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Help request

hi there!i recently came across a site www.imfdb.org ,it has good images of guns which i wanted to add on wikipedia but it does not clearly specify if its legit to use its images but since it is a wiki i think i can ,can you check it out.Vick fern (talk) 05:41, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Darkwind, an admin here at Wikipedia and something of a copyright expert. Your fellow Wikipedia editors like myself really appreciate your desire to improve the encyclopedia! However, just because something comes from a wiki-type site doesn't mean that it's public domain or freely licensed, and we require images to be licensed under an acceptable free-use license to be used on Wikipedia in most cases.

In this case, any of the images that are screen captures from movies or TV shows are not allowed on Wikipedia (in general) because the underlying movie/show is copyrighted, so any still pictures from it are also copyrighted. Other images, like the side-elevation images of the individual guns, may or may not be copyrighted, but the original source doesn't seem to be given on their image pages, which means there's no way to know if the original copyright holder of the images allowed them to be distributed with a free license.

Basically, that entire website appears to a giant copyright infringement, and I'm surprised it hasn't been shut down yet. I seriously doubt any of the content could be used at Wikipedia except under our very stringent "fair use" guidelines (see the non-free image use criteria for more information). —Darkwind (talk) 07:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

HI Darkwind thanks for the info.Its a shame though those pics would have been a fine addition to wikipedia.-Vick fern (talk) 09:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

February 2013

Hello, I'm Jon C.. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Stephen Rea, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Jon C.^ॐ 11:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)