User talk:Dackjor

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Copyrighted images
Hi,

I marked the orphan, porn, copyrighted photo you uploaded as a speedy deletion candidate. Please see Copyright problems. Thanks - Tempshill 00:02, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding pictures on Tawny Roberts article
I looked at your edits on the Tawny Roberts page, noting your insertions of many images which poses a copyright problem on Wikipedia. (These images don't qualify as fair use, given that only one image of Ms. Roberts is necessary for encyclopedic purposes.) Furthermore, the placement of such images are disruptive to the page flow and make the page look like something ripped right off a porn site-gallery. In this regard, I would ask that you, please, please refer to the Manual of Style for Wikipedia regarding image placement. It helps your fellow contributors (and Wikipedia readers!) a lot, particularly since your edit makes Wikipedia, in my view, look unencyclopedic and horribly unprofessional.

Also, please cease uploading pictures that do not qualify as fair use. By that, I mean do not upload images that are high resolution; this automatically makes an image's fair use questionable. Again, Wikipedia is not a picture gallery or your personal webserver. Also, when uploading pictures (that Wikipedia can actually use safely, without fear of copyright infringement issues), you should probably change the file names so that they make more sense. For example: An image of Tawny that is named 0585838383_09-03-59.jpg should probably be renamed to Tawny Roberts (promotional image).jpg.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to address them to me here, or to your fellow Wikipedians at the Village pump. Thanks! :-) -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 00:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem RE: Image:TawnyRoberts4012.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:TawnyRoberts4012.jpg. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law. We need you to specify two things on the image description page:
 * The copyright holder, and
 * The copyright status

The copyright holder is usually the creator. If the creator was paid to make this image, then their employer may be the copyright holder. If several people collaborated, then there may be more than one copyright holder. If you created this image, then you are the copyright holder.

Because of the large number of images on Wikipedia, we've sorted them using image copyright tags. Just find the right tag corresponding to the copyright status of this image, and paste it onto the image description page like this:.

There are 3 basic ways to licence an image on Wikipedia:
 * An open content licence
 * Public Domain
 * Fair Use


 * The copyright holder gets the best protection of his work by licencing their work under an open content license like the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. If you have the express permission of the copyright holder to licence their work under the above licence, use the image copyright tag: cc-by-sa-2.5.  The GNU Free Documentation License is another choice for licencing one's work.  Again, if you have the express permission of the copyright holder, use the tag: GFDL.


 * The copyright holder can also release his work into the public domain, see here for images released into the public domain.


 * Images from certain sources are automatically release into the Public Domain. This is true for most governments like the federal United States government. (See   here  for images from the government of the USA and here for other governments)  However not all governments release their work into the public domain, such as the UK government (See herefor images from the UK government).  Non-free licence governments are listed here.


 * Also, in some cases, an image is copyrighted but allowed on Wikipedia because of Fair Use. To see if this image qualifies and then how to tag it, see Fair use.

For any other sources of for more information see Image copyright tags. Please remember that if you don't tag your images, they will be deleted.


 * P.S. If you have uploaded other images without including copyright tags, please go back and tag them.  Also, please tag all images that you upload in the future.

If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 00:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)