User talk:Mkirland

Moira Kirland ‎
It appears form your edit on Moira Kirland if so please read our guidelines on Conflict of interest. Also the easiest way to upload a new image of yourself is to take a new one and upload over on Wikimedia Commons using the Special:UploadWizard. Commons images can then be used on all Language Wikipedias. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 17:33, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
I am Moira Kirland, the subject of the page titled Moira Kirland and I am begging someone -- anyone -- to please remove that photo of me. I'm not sure who uploaded it but I absolutely hate it and spend a good portion of my life trying to erase it from the internet. I promise I'll upload a better one. Please do me this favor.

Mkirland (talk) 17:44, 19 October 2017 (UTC)


 * The image has been removed as a courtesy. I would appreciate if you could point us to another photo that we can use instead. The problem is copyright: This image apparently was taken by some employee of the US federal government and thus is in the public domain. Wikipedia requires images of living persons to be either in the public domain or released under a free license that allows everybody to re-use and modify them for any purpose, including commercial purposes. We thus can't just grab a photo from some random news report about you - that would be a copyright violation. See WP:Donating copyrighted materials. Of course you could also simply take a selfie (to which you will own the copyright), upload it to the Wikimedia Commons via their Upload Wizard and in the process release it under a free license. Please note, however, that editors may disagree with you on what image represents you best; in my experience plain images are preferred over overly "artsy" ones. In particular, other editors may also disagree with the courtesy removal, particularly when we don't have another free image available as an alternative. Huon (talk) 19:16, 19 October 2017 (UTC)