User talk:Samismithla

can someone help me change a picture on a living person's wiki page?!? at their request. please and thank you!
 * Hy Samismithla. This is not question that can be answered very concretely in the hypothetical because it very much depends on the specifics and the copyright situation, which you have not explained at all. Image use is all dependent on copyright. We can only use an image of living persons if it bear a free copyright license that is compatible with the free copyright Wikipedia content is licensed under (or is in the public domain). Note that we do not allow images of living persons to be used under a claim of fair use, which we do for some other types of images. In turn this means that to replace an existing free image, we need another new and also free image. If the image to swap has already and properly been released and uploaded here or to the Wikimedia Commons, swapping is as simple as clicking edit and changing which image name appears in the code. If it has not, an image needs to be uploaded but it needs to be shown to be free in a verifiable manner. This involves either 1) showing that the owner has released it by pointing out a statement from the owner of the image that clearly and authoritatively states the free license or public domain status it bears (images are assumed full and non-copyrighted, so an image you find somewhere is assumed non-free unless the burden of showing it is not is met); or 2) having the owner follow the instructions at Donating copyrighted materials to provide a release of the image they own. Can you provide the actual information so either I, or the next person when you repost the helpme template, can address the specifics rather than giving a general dissertation?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:14, 31 July 2015 (UTC)