User talk:ColeOestreich

March 2015
Your addition to Kirk Cousins has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jay-gruden-kirk-cousins-eclipse-rg3-wash-s-franchise-qb-article-1.1950285  Dwpaul  Talk   01:29, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Kirk cousins 8.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Kirk cousins 8.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jay-gruden-kirk-cousins-eclipse-rg3-wash-s-franchise-qb-article-1.1950285. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website or image but have permission from that owner, see Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.  Dwpaul  Talk   01:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia's image use policy
Hi Cole and welcome to Wikipedia. You may not be aware of Wikipedia's image use policy and fair use policy. The vast majority of images on the internet are not acceptable to use on Wikipedia. Because one of the goals of the project is to encourage the creation of free content, we do not accept photos of living people under a claim of "fair use". Unless you, personally, held your camera in your hand and took the picture, it is probably not appropriate to upload.

If you have a friend who took a photo that you want to use or if you want to contact someone on Flickr or some other website and ask for permission, Requesting copyright permission has an article on doing so and Declaration of consent for all enquiries explains the type of permission we need. Essentially, we need for the copyright holder (the person who snapped the photo with the camera) to agree to a license that permits anyone to use the photo for any reason, provided that they give proper credit.

Sometimes this means that we simply don't have a photo at all of someone or that we have a lesser quality photo, but it is considered important toward Wikipedia's goal of a free content encyclopedia. --B (talk) 01:45, 5 March 2015 (UTC)