Talk:Jennifer French (politician)

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Just a note here to remind people about how Wikipedia's image policy works. You don't have to like the current image, or believe that it's sufficiently reflective of her political role — but until we have a properly licensed image to use in its place, you do not have any right to simply remove the current image from the article entirely. The only person who's previously attempted to upload a replacement image, for the record, uploaded her official Legislative Assembly headshot — which is not acceptable and had to be deleted, because it is not licensed for GFDL, Creative Commons or public domain use. Meanwhile, other attempts have tried to replace the image with an offsite link to an image on another website, which does not work — an image has to be hosted on our server, which is precisely why it has to comply with our copyright rules, and it's not even possible for a link to another server to even work. We cannot simply upload or use any image that's already under somebody else's copyright — to be usable on Wikipedia, an image must be licensed under a free content model: GFDL, Creative Commons or public domain. Basically, that means that the only acceptable choices are to (a) take a new photograph of her yourself, (b) find an existing image whose holder has already released it under GFDL, Creative Commons or public domain, or (c) have the original copyright holder file a special permission through WP:OTRS for us to use their copyrighted material. So if you want the current image gone, then you must find and upload another one to Wikipedia that's properly compliant with our copyright rules — until that's been done correctly, the current image goes nowhere in the meantime. We'd be more than happy to replace it if and when we have another image that's been released under the correct copyrights for us to use — but until that happens, nobody (not even Jennifer French herself) gets to dictate that we're not allowed to use the only image of her that we currently have. If you don't like it, then put in the effort to get us another one that we can use in its place — until we have another image that we can use, the existing image has to stay regardless of who does or doesn't like it. Bearcat (talk) 19:31, 5 December 2017 (UTC)