User talk:Gridirony

Welcome
Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you've been trying to add an image and some additional personal information to the Lisa Daugaard article. Since those edits have been reverted, I thought I'd explain why. First, the image: Wikipedia has specific attribution and license requirements to remain compliant with copyright law. That's why the direct external linking to Facebook didn't work (it's not allowed), and why your upload to Wikimedia Commons was deleted (it was clearly copied from the subject's Facebook profile without evidence of license or permission). If you own an image and would like to license it for use, please read the instructions [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS#Licensing_images:_when_do_I_contact_OTRS? here] to take the next steps.Second, the year of birth: Wikipedia has a policy about information added to biographies of living persons. You can read the policy here, but the important bit is that we don't add personal information about living people to articles unless it can be cited to a reliable source. "Reliable source" has a specific meaning on Wikipedia, which you can read about here. This can be really frustrating if you know that a fact is true! The policy is in place to protect subjects from people posting unconfirmed or generally unpublished information. Oddly, this means that a person is not a reliable source for information about themselves, unless that information is also published elsewhere in a reliable source. (You can probably think of an example of a celebrity subject who might want to lie about their age, for example.)Finally, if you are the subject or a friend, family member, co-worker, client, employer, or other role with a personal or financial relation to the subject, you need to disclose a potential conflict of interest on your user page and on the article's talk page. You can find the policy on that here and instructions for disclosure here.Please take a look at those policies. It's a lot to digest for "the encyclopedia anyone can edit", but I hope you can find a way to contribute within the boundaries of those policies. We can always use the help! Indignant Flamingo (talk) 22:11, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Copyright issue
Your addition to Lisa Daugaard has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of 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 material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions 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 very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:MacArthur_Foundation_Images_of_Fellows for details on MacArthur Foundation license issues. Indignant Flamingo (talk) 18:27, 27 October 2019 (UTC)