User talk:Scmccray18

Welcome!
Hello, Scmccray18, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Elysia and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Images
Hi, I saw your post on my talk page about images. You should review our training about uploading media here. Because you do not own these images, you cannot upload them. Think of uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons as "donating" them. You cannot donate something that is not yours. What you can try to do is contact the person whose photograph you want. They can ask someone who has photographed them in the past to upload an image to Wikimedia Commons. Importantly, the subject of the photograph cannot donate a photograph of themselves unless they also took the picture. Photographers own the rights to the images they take.

The same rules apply for uploading to Wikipedia as they do for Wikimedia Commons. You can only upload photos that you own the rights to, or you have proof that someone else has already licensed it in a way that is compatible with reuse on Wikipedia.

The specific reason your upload failed was that you are not "autoconfirmed", meaning that your account is not yet both "4 days old" and accumulated more than ten edits. But even if you had succeeded in uploading this file, it sounds like it would have been promptly deleted, as you do not have the rights to this image. Again, please review the training linked above! Thanks, Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:39, 25 February 2020 (UTC)