User talk:Blairhe

Welcome!
Hello, Blairhe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Thank you for your work on Yannima Tommy Watson, and it is particularly good that you have been able to provide a free image of the artist. Such images are often hard to come by. Unfortunately, all of the text you have added is a quote of a copyrighted source. This is not plagiarism, as you have properly identified it as a quote and provided the reference, but it does not meet Wikipedia's guideline on non-free content and is probably therefore a copyright violation. To be freely available text, editors need to summarise sources without close paraphrasing. It also needs to be limited to encyclopedic content, and there is much in the quoted text that would be regarded as not relevant, as it involves too much detail about hos non-artistic life (the thing for which he is notable). i have removed the text, but you would be most welcome to summarise the relevant points and add them in. Regards, hamiltonstone (talk) 03:59, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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Images
Whoa with the images. Any pictures of Watson's work are in copyright, and cannot be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The ones already there will have to be deleted. A limited number of low-resolution images may be used if they directly relate to discussion in the article text, and these must be uploaded to Wikipedia, not on Commons. See WP:NFCC. Speaking from experience, it is a rather painstaking process of defending their use, but I have done so in several articles, such as Makinti Napanangka and Danie Mellor, so you can look at those images to see what's involved. The only way a photo of Watson's paintings could be on Commons would be if Watson himself released the image into Creative Commons under a licence that allowed others to reproduce the picture, including commercially, and allowed derivative works. I've not seen that done before, but he could be asked. hamiltonstone (talk) 06:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

File: listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Images of Tommy Watson's paintings hamiltonstone (talk) 06:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC)  hamiltonstone (talk) 06:22, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Still an issue with images
Hi there. I see you've added another image to the article. This is also an image of a painting by the artist. It is in copyright, so it can't be loaded to Commons, as i explained above. I'm very appreciative of your desire to make this article better, but if you keep loading non-free images at Commons, eventually you will get blocked from editing because of the seriousness of copyright violations. I'd rather you stuck around and made the article better in other ways (for example with free images, or original text). Please do not load any further images of works to Commons. If you need help with non-free use, check out the links i suggested or leave a message on my (or another) talk page. hamiltonstone (talk) 04:31, 11 August 2014 (UTC)