User talk:173.77.205.167

Jordan Tannahill image removal
Any particular reason you removed this image? --GRuban (talk) 14:58, 9 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The photo is nearly ten years old, and not representative (I am Jordan Tannahill, the subject of the article). 173.77.205.167 (talk) 16:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Aha. I'm afraid we strongly discourage people from editing articles about themselves, that is described at Conflict of interest. We would be glad to replace the image with a more recent image, but we need an image that has been released so that anyone can freely reuse and edit it, like the rest of the Wikipedia. By default, an image is copyrighted and can't be freely reused and edited unless the photographer releases it, so we can't just grab any image off the Internet.
 * The easiest way for you to do that is to put an image you own the copyright to (one you took, i.e., a selfie, or one the photographer explicitly gave you the copyright to) up on a website you are known to own with a free license like Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, that is where this image came from, https://flickr.com/photos/wltonline/22182382169, notice the "Some rights reserved" link there says that. Or if you don't have a public well known website, you could fill out the form at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikimedia_VRT_release_generator and email it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Get the photographer of the image to do it if it isn't you. If you CC me gruban.wiki@gmail.com, or just email me directly there, I might be able to help out more. I'm not any more special than any other of the thousands of Wikipedia editors, but I have done this sort of thing a few times. You should also ask me, or any other editor without a conflict of interest, to make any other changes you want made to the article about you, since, again, as in that first link above, you probably shouldn't do it yourself. That first link goes into details.
 * For the meanwhile, though, I'm afraid I'll be restoring the image to the article, as even if it is nearly ten years old, it is a much better picture of you than no picture at all. --GRuban (talk) 14:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello, thank you for your kind and clear reply, I will follow your instructions. Best wishes 173.77.205.167 (talk) 16:13, 27 May 2024 (UTC)