User talk:Ella Adaleigh

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Hello, Ella Adaleigh, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! --IllaZilla (talk) 19:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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Regarting your recent edits to Weep (band), I understand that the Comic-Con photo is not exactly a glossy headshot-quality portrait of Doc Hammer. However, it is not a disparaging photo in any way, and whether Mr. Hammer "hates that photo of himself" is not a reason to remove it. I have nothing but respect for Mr. Hammer, and am a huge fan of his work (which is why I took the time to research and write encyclopedia articles about his current band and their releases), but Wikipedia is freely-licensed encyclopedia and thus relies on freely-licensed media for its articles. Fair use images of living persons—such as promotional band photos and headshots—that merely show what they look like are not permitted under Wikipedia's non-free content criteria. We may only used freely-licensed photos, and there are only a handful of those currently available of Mr. Hammer (see commons:Category:Doc Hammer).

From your edit summaries I assume that you are an associate of Doc Hammer, or at least know him personally. If that's the case, and you are editing on his behalf, you may have a conflict of interest. Also, I suspect that you,, and are all the same person or closely associated, as you are all newly-registered accounts whose only activity has been to add or remove images from the Weep (band) article this morning. That being the case, you should be aware of Wikipedia's policy on sockpuppetry.

The bottom line is this: We do not remove images of people simply on the basis that the subject dislikes how they look in them (provided that the image is not obviously disparaging). The image is freely-licensed and depicts Mr. Hammer enganged in a common aspect of his work (speaking in public on behalf of his television show). If Mr. Hammer would like there to be more flattering photos of himself on Wikipedia, he can submit them to Wikipedia under a free license (this would be most welcome, as I would certainly like to get a decent image of the band in the infobox). Or, if you yourself have photos of him that you have taken, you can upload them under a free license yourself. Please feel free to contact me on my talk page if you have questions about images or would like help uploading them; I'll be happy to assist. --IllaZilla (talk) 19:40, 1 December 2010 (UTC)