User talk:Hiroshi3 Higashijima3

Copyright
Hiroshi3 Higashijima3, when expanding Nort Thornton after his death in 2021, you appear to have simply copied the text of the announcement of his death by the UC Berkeley swim program (probably from SwimSwam, which had the same text credited to the university). Wikipedia is publication: copying someone else's text, whether off the internet or from a print publication, is a copyright violation, which is a legal matter. See Copyright violations. I have rewritten the article and have requested administrative deletion of the versions starting with your first edit. I have also nominated for deletion as a probable copyright violation the photo you uploaded to Commons, File:Nort thornton face.png; its being a 1974 photo published by a state university does not mean it is copyright free. Thank you for updating the article, but you must write all text in your own words, and images are also usually copyrighted. (Wikipedia allows fair use images with a detailed rationale stated, see Non-free use rationale guideline. Since Thornton is dead, it would probably be possible to upload the photo here on English Wikipedia with a fair use rationale. But fair use images are not allowed on Commons.) Yngvadottir (talk) 12:13, 18 January 2024 (UTC)