User talk:CubsFan2006

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Magazine covers
To be honest, pictures are not an area I deal with too often, so I'm not the best expert on "fair use". However, I don't see anything wrong with your cover on Terrell Owens (the fair use tag for magazine covers explains things well.) Different editors have different experience and opinions, so sometimes a few might disagree with you do on here while others find nothing wrong with it (at least until further discussion.) It's a part of the nature of Wikipedia. If someone keeps deleting your pictures, talk to them directly or bring it up on the article talk page. Grand master  ka  18:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
 * You might want to review this discussion regarding the "fair use" of magazine covers. My (limited) understanding is that they can only be used when discussing that particular issue of the magazine, but not as general images of a player. --mtz206 19:07, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I reverted some of your additions of the magazine covers. Not fair use as free images can be created. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 19:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

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Greetings. I wanted to address what you said on my talk page, to try to better explain what I was trying to do:

''They are fair use for pictures. A lot of the sports articles have them as pictures for the person being represented. So, therefore it is fair use.''

I respectfully disagree; I'm basing this on the actual template for magazine covers, Template:Magazinecover, which states that fair use for a magazine cover means:
 * to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question

...which I do not believe is the same as 'to illustrate the person or event a magazine cover depicts'...like the difference between a Sports Illustrated cover being in the article for Sports Illustrated, versus Peyton Manning. Please see Fair use (particularly, the counterexamples, example 6) if you'd like to know what I mean here...they're the reason I took the covers down in these articles.

I hope this helps make some sense of why I did that. I see you had a couple other responses here as well, which may have explained better than I could. Again, thanks! Skybunny 20:23, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

In light of the previous discussion on this page I reverted your edit of the Ahman Green article because of the SI cover. Grassferry49 19 April 2006

Second reply from Skybunny
Greetings...you wrote, ''They are fair use for pictures. A lot of the sports articles have them as pictures for the person being represented. So, therefore it is fair use. How is what I'm doing different than what anyone else is doing? I am just using them as pictures for the person. The same as everybody else.''

What I (and several people here, if my estimation is correct) are trying to explain is that the use of magazine covers to portray sports figures is not legally valid as fair use and shouldn't be done. Just because many articles are doing this, doesn't mean it actually being done is the right thing to do, and is an invalid syllogism:
 * Fair use can be used to put pictures in some articles and
 * Many Wikipedia articles about sports have magazine covers claimed as fair use therefore
 * Using magazine covers to portray sports figures is fair use

...which isn't necessarily true based on the first two points.

I've removed the covers from a few articles that I actively watch, and have left it at that. Thanks, Skybunny 20:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

In an effort to do the right thing copyright-wise I have further reverted your edits of the Ahman Green article after you continually change it back despite our attempts at persuading you otherwise. Grassferry49 20 April 2006


 * Hello CubsFan. I have also undone your readdition of the SI cover to Donovan McNabb. It is true that there are magazine covers being misused as portraits throughout the encyclopedia. Hopefully, we will eventually remove them all, but in the meantime, please do not revert the edits of people trying to make headway on the problem without first discussing it with them. Thanks. ×Meegs 19:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Concerning that fair use screenshot
The reason that I removed the image Dennis Rader 2.jpg from the biographical article about Dennis Rader is simple: as the Tv-screenshot says, it is - for identification and critical commentary on the station ID or program and its contents and can be used on the article on NBC, KSN or the program pictured, anything else is not fair use. I hope You understand. The reason that Wikipedia is allowed to use copyrighted screenshots is that We use them according to fair use guidelines. feydey 06:18, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Hot Babe.jpg listed for deletion
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Fair Use
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Your message at Michael Griffin (football player)
Why do you think an administrator needs to delete the article? Johntex\talk 01:04, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've expanded the article. Please let me know what you think. Johntex\talk 01:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but you're going to have to explain to me why it needs a new start. Due to the GFDL license, we have to keep a record of who contributed what.  That means we can't just delete people's contributions because we don't like them.  If you tell me why you think it needs to be deleted, I might be able to help - but I can't do anything unless you explain your concerns.  You can e-mail me if for some reason you don't want to discuss is on-wiki.  Thanks, Johntex\talk 01:39, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Protection of Justin Blalock
Why did you add a protection tag to Justin Blalock? There has been no vandalism, and the tag was not properly added in accordance with the protection policy. --mtz206 22:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Darren McFadden.jpg
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2007 NFL Draft Prospects
Somebody please send me a reply with a list of 2007 NFL Draft Prospects so that I can start making articles.CubsFan2006 02:37, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Sign your posts
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Image copyright problem with Image:LeBron James.jpg
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Copyright problems
Alright, this is starting to get old. Please read WP:FAIR for a description of what is acceptable for images. (I don't deal with images much, but that was helpful for what I could and couldn't use.) Repeatedly pushing copyvio images or improperly tagged images on here is a good way to get yourself banned. Please stop. If you are unsure about an image, please refrain from uploading it, or find something else to focus your efforts on. Thank you. Grand master  ka  02:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * To add, images must include the source information. Just because you acknowledge that the image is copyrighted, that doesn't mean that the image can be uploaded.  You can try looking for an image on Flickr instead.  Any image listed there under the Creative Commons license can be used if you list the correct copyright and source information. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 03:12, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Inappropriate reversion
This reversion that you made to A. J. Hawk was totally inappropriate. It undid more than 25 constructive edits made over the past two weeks, presumably for the purpose sole purpose of restore the image Image:A.J. Hawk.jpg (which, by the way, is not a publicity photo). Please be more careful in the future.

I'd also like the echo the points made in the preceding topic. Please carefully read each of the following pages before uploading any additional copyrighted images: Also, understand that goal of Wikipedia is to create a free content encyclopedia. As such, we strongly discourage the use of copyrighted images of any kind when there are free alternatives available. In the case of contemporary athletes — who perform in public on a daily or weekly basis — there is ample opportunity to produce or procure free images for the purpose of identification, and no excuse for using nonfree images from commercial sources. Consider that while adding nonfree images to articles may appear to beneficial in the short term, their presence hides the fact that free images are needed, and reduces the likelyhood that ones will be added in the future. ×Meegs 15:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
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Barry Bonds
Please go back and add your edits. You changed a vandalized version by accident. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 22:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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Copyright violations
I reverted your edit at Ryan Cook becuase it is a copyright violation of this. Please do not post material protected under copyright to WP --mtz206 21:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've done the same for your edit to Max Jean-Gilles, taken from . This is very serious. You've been warned many times about uploading copyrighted photographs. Adding copyrighted text, even with you own changes, is equally unacceptable. ×Meegs 21:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Final warning
Cubsfan, looking though your recent edits to verify that you have not contributed copyrighted text to articles other than the two listed above, I discovered that you have continued to upload copyrighted images, unsuitable for Wikipedia, despite many warnings. Because you have made some valuable contributions, I have not blocked you from editing, but you must not upload any additional copyvios. Aside from video game screenshots, it looks like few to none of the images that you have uploaded have been properly tagged. For example, is for Publicity photos from press kits (which may not exist for most athletes), and  is for promotional posters of events, not posters of athletes that are being sold like Image:Sean May.jpg. Just because an image depicts a certain individual does not grant us the right to use it under fair use.

More important than the tagging, however, is that Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia, and allows copyrighted material in only a few particular circumstances. One of our criteria for the use of a copyrighted photo is that there must not be free alternatives available. This is not the case for any of the active, contemporary athletes that you have been uploading pictures of; they perform in public on a daily or weekly basis, providing adequate opportunity for free images to be produced. Part of the reason we do not allow copyrighted images in these cases is because their presence in the articles hides the need for free images, and decreases the chances that WP contributors will produce or procure free replacements. When a copyrighted image must be used, it should be accompanied by a rationale that makes clear the reason the image is needed in the article, the image's copyright holder, the reason the copyright holder is not being harmed by its use, and the reason why a free alternative is not possible.

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 * So, if I use a screenshot for a videogame console to promote it, then it's fair use? CubsFan2006 23:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, unlike Reggie Bush, there is no free alternative to a screenshot of Super Mario Brothers. You can use a small number of screenshots (preferably one), provided they are used in an article about the game. It does not matter whether the image promotes the game (in fact we try not to promote anything here on Wikipedia); what matters is that the image is critical to the written commentary about the game. ×Meegs 23:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Blocked
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user accounts
So, are these all your accounts: User:MP123, User:Microphon200, User:CubsFan2006? As you were advised above, please edit using only one account. The use of sock puppets is discouraged. --mtz206 (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Michael Bush.jpg
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