User talk:Justayukoner

Sandy Silver
Please be advised that any photos uploaded to Wikipedia have to be compliant with our WP:COPYRIGHT rules. That is, you may not upload any photo here that is already under somebody else's preexisting copyright — to be acceptable here, a photo must be under Creative Commons, GFDL or public domain licensing, and may not have any prior copyright claims on it. His "official" government headshot is not acceptable, because that's under the copyright of the government and not compatible with our image licensing requirements.

I'm presuming that you work in Mr. Silver's office, because that's pretty much always who attempts to do on politicians' articles what you're attempting to do here, so I assure you that we're perfectly willing to replace the photo with a different one if a properly licensed different photo is made available to us. But you cannot just upload any photo of him that already has a prior copyright claim on it — your only alternative is to take a new photo of him that can be released under Creative Commons, GFDL or public domain licensing, and we will delete any attempt to upload any photo that is already locked under prior copyrights. If I can run the photo through a Google Images search and find any website on which the same photo has ever previously appeared at all, then it can't be uploaded here if the photographer hasn't explicitly released it under CC, GFDL or PD. Bearcat (talk) 15:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)