User talk:Montana.mcbirney

Sara Foster
If you are a representative of the subject, and have a request, you need to go through WP:OTRS – that is the "official" process for this. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 21:50, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * That is not the correct course of action. We do not verify identities of random individuals who work for subjects because we do not allow subjects or their representatives to dictate content. We only verify identities of notable people. If an individual who has a conflict of interest wishes to make a change, they need to disclose as per the policy and request changes on the talk page. Praxidicae (talk) 22:47, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It's the job of OTRS to work this all out. It is not the responsibility of garden variety editors to figure it out. What else would you suggest?... And, from what I've heard, in the past, OTRS has worked with representatives of article subjects on issues like article images. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:50, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No, it is not the job of OTRS to work any of this out. COI is the relevant policy here. They can provide a photo and donate it via OTRS but we do not verify identity of every Joe that has a COI. Praxidicae (talk) 22:53, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, which is exactly what I meant. So, in fact, OTRS was the correct place to send them, and in fact doing so would avoid the COI issue as well. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 22:54, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No, you told them to make requests via OTRS - that is not appropriate. They can follow WP:DCP for the image. In particular, for this case, verifying their identification as a representative serves no purpose. The only thing we would verify for an image is whether the copyright holder has given permission. The subject of a photograph isn't the copyright holder unless the rights have been transferred (or for example, purchased or it's a selfie.) Praxidicae (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with...my boss (Sara Foster) wants to change her photo on Wikipedia. The photo that exists is super old/doesn't look like her anymore. Can I please send you what photo she wants instead? I'm her assistant, I work for her and her sister, Erin (who also I would love to add a photo to hers if possible too!)

Montana.mcbirney (talk) 21:56, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Montana McBirney Assistant to Erin & Sara Foster


 * First of all, publishing personal information such as a phone number on Wikipedia is not a good idea unless you want to get lots of prank calls.
 * Secondly, please review WP:PAID - while you of course are open about your conflict of interest, the Terms of Use require that you disclose your employer and client. You have done the latter, but you should also do the former. There is a nice template, Template:Paid, that has code you can copy-paste to your user page and fill out.
 * That said, Wikipedia only accepts freely licensed images of living persons, so we'll need the copyright holder (that's the photographer unless copyright has been transferred to someone else) to allow everybody to re-use and modify the photo for any purpose, including commercial purposes. If the copyright holder is OK with that, you can upload the image to the Wikimedia Commons via their Upload Wizard, and Wikipedia has a declaration of consent that you can ask the copyright holder to fill out and email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. When that's done, you can propose the change of image (with a link to the uploaded image) at Talk:Sara Foster; you can add the code to the proposal to raise awareness. An uninvolved editor will review the request and, if they agree that the new image indeed is an improvement, change the article. Huon (talk) 23:43, 17 March 2020 (UTC)