User talk:Grunnah

File:Attorney Stephen P. Karns.jpg
excised File:Attorney Stephen P. Karns.jpg from the article where it is used. Our rules require non-free images to be deleted, if they go more than seven days without being used in an article.

I looked at your non-free use rationale. I saw you said Karns supplied the image for you to use here. Well, if Karns, or a staff member, or family member, took that image, and are willing to release it under a license that allows it to be freely re-used, you can change this image from a non-free image to a free image. I'll help you navigate this process.

This has several advantages:
 * 1) if this were a free image it could be uploaded to the wikimedia commons, the image server for all the wikipedias.  The English language is the largest, German the second largest.  There are approximately 100 wikis for 100 languages, plus some other companion projects.
 * 2) If this were a free image we could retain the 2205x2505 resolution you uploaded.  Because you uploaded it as a non-free image a robot reduced the resolution to 296 x 336.

The Creative Commons Share Alike license is probably the most commonly used license. It allows third parties to re-use the image, and to modify it, but it requires all re-users to attribute the image to the copyright holder. Personally, I have put all my images into the public domain.

We are supposed to show consideration for newcomers. I am sorry the image was excised without any effort to explain these issues to you.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 03:33, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Attorney Stephen P. Karns.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Attorney Stephen P. Karns.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:31, 29 June 2019 (UTC)