User talk:Slmacphail

A belated welcome!


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! User:Ivanvector (talk) 22:24, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello Slmacphail, welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your contributions. You recently uploaded a photo of Wade MacLauchlan which does not seem to be published under a free license. The Global News website where you retrieved the image has an "all rights reserved" copyright notice, which means they do not allow their content to be reused. We have rules about when we can use non-free content in Wikipedia articles: we call this "fair use" (as opposed to "free use") but images must meet all 10 criteria to be eligible for fair use. One of those criteria is that there is no free image available which serves the same purpose, and your upload fails that criterion because there was already a free image of Mr. MacLauchlan in the article.

You are allowed to upload fair use images to English Wikipedia as long as the 10 criteria are met. However, you uploaded your image to Wikimedia Commons, a website associated with but separate from English Wikipedia, which only allows free use content to be uploaded. For that reason your image will be deleted shortly.

Also, note that when you add an image to an infobox, the proper way is to just write the filename of the image, without File: or Image: and without square brackets. The infobox template will then format the image automatically.

If you need any more help with images or with editing in general, see the links in the welcome message above, or ask at the help desk. Cheers. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 21:59, 4 January 2021 (UTC)