Talk:Adnan Khashoggi/Archives/2019

I changed images in the infobox...

I changed images in the infobox because I was concerned over the copyright status of the image we were using... Geo Swan (talk) 16:49, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

• IP contributor 98.173.52.117, who has made 20 edits, 17 of which were to this article, changed it back, with the edit summary "Photo reverted to original 10 year long on Wikipedia photo. No copyright issue raised."

  First, please only rely of explanations in your edit summary when an edit is simple and non-controversial.

  Second, see Commons:User_talk:Teddyyy#Clarification_please... Now Commons contributor Teddyyy contributed almost 100 portraits of politicians and celebrities. Teddyyy may have been able to take all those photos of celebrities because they used to work as a professional freelance photographer.

  Still, I thought it merited clarification.

  Until that clarification comes through, I am going to revert to the image that has OTRS confirmation. Geo Swan (talk) 05:31, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

  • I thought I had a valid reason to be concerned over the provenance of the image from 1980, so I wrote to the uploader, who satisfied my concern. Geo Swan (talk) 15:47, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

explanation

I made three small changes in this edit.

1. I restored the link to the article on Triad International. I do not regard this as controversial.
2. Yesterday, I restored a caption to the image. An IP contributor reverted it, claiming it was unreferenced. Clearly, if we trust that uploaders are honest over whether they own the IP rights to images, we can trust them for the date the photograph was taken, so this was an indefensible justification for reversion.
3. Yesterday, I restored a phrase describing Khashoggi as an arms dealer. IP contributor 104.249.228.168, a long-term wikistalker, violating a well-deserved indefinite block, as documented at [[Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Renamed user 49274c4c204245204241434b|this SPI], reverted it, three times [1], [2], [3], each with a bogus, deceptive, disruptive edit summary. Geo Swan (talk) 17:23, 24 March 2019 (UTC)