User talk:StephanieJL

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

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Non-free image use
Hi StephanieJL. The licensing of each image you see on Wikipedia is determined by it copyright status and not every image file you see on Wikipedia is licensed the same. Some files are licensed as public domain or licensed under a free licensed suitable for Wikipedia and these are often collectively referred to as "free images". Other files are licensed as non-free content because of their copyright status and these file are commonly referred to as "non-free images". Non-free image use is highly restricted and each use of such an an image must satisfy Wikipedia's non-free image use policy. One of these restrctions is WP:NFCC, which says that non-free content can only be used in the article namespace. Non-free content should not be used on usepages or their subpages as explained in WP:UP which is why I have removed multiple non-free images from User:StephanieJL/sandbox. Perhaps you did not notice the edit sum I left the first time I removed the images; therefore, I'm posting this here to provide more explanation. Please do not re-add the image again becaue doing so is clearly in violation of relevant Wikipedia policy. If you have any questions about this, you can ask for help at WP:MCQ or WT:NFCC.

I see that you are a participant Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/College of DuPage/ENGLI-1102-HYB02 Research, Writing, and the Production of Knowledge (Spring 2017). I think it's great you're trying to use Wikipedia for educational purposes, but there are really no exceptions given for students when it comes to Wikipedia's policy on non-free use. You need to be very careful in copying images from articles into other articles, drafts, userpages, sandboxes, etc. In fact, you need to be very carefully copying any content you find on Wikipedia onto other Wikipedia pages as explained in WP:CWW. Anyway, I am going to ping, your project's teacher, and , your project's content expert, so that they can help advise you regarding this and perhaps make the other students in your class aware of this type of thing as well. Good luck with you course. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:44, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for bringing my use of non-free images to my attention and for providing an explanation of them. I am deeply sorry for making these mistakes, and not acknowledging your removal of the images in the first place was completely unintentional and an oversight on my part. I will make sure to be more careful moving forward, and I hope to only positively impact the Wikipedia community through my project. --StephanieJL (talk) 19:39, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem StepanieJL. Non-free images are a bit trickly and lots of editors add them where they shouldn't. You shouldn't have any problems as long as you check the file's licensing first. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:37, 21 April 2017 (UTC)