User:Emcee47/images

Loading images and pictures is difficult because of all the red tape. Here are some notes and instructions. Andrew🐉(talk) 12:33, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Worked example
Marion Conacher was a missionary nurse. We just seem to have one picture in the obituary in The Scotsman. As this was taken after she moved to India in 1963, it's probably still in copyright. But it is feasible to load such pictures of deceased people as a fair use. Here's step-by-step details of how this was done:

1. The picture was downloaded to a local PC. This was done by viewing it in a browser, then using a right-click to get a menu option to save the picture.

2. The picture was then edited to auto-correct the brightness and contrast and then to crop the picture to the essential details. In this case, this was the subject and an evocative tiger. This is not essential but cropping helps with the claim of fair use. Google Photos was used to edit the picture in this case.

3. The photo file was then uploaded to Wikipedia using the Upload file option which appears in the leftmost menu under Tools. The Wizard provides many options and the option chosen in this case was Plain form for local uploads. This is much simpler than the full Wizard.

4. The options chosen in the form were:
 * a) The name of the local sourcefile containing the edited photo
 * b) The name to be given to the file on Wikipedia : "Marion Conacher.jpg"
 * c) A summary describing the picture. This was done using a fair-use-rationale form (FUR)


 * d) Licensing. This is selected from a long drop-down list.  In this case, the appropriate choice was "Deceased person"


 * Having entered these four items into the form, the upload button was pressed to complete the upload.

5. This then created the file on the English Wikipedia. Note that this is the right place for such fair-use images, as Commons will not accept them.

6. The name of the image file was then added to the article's infobox using the image and caption parameters.