User talk:Trish Barbara

Replaceable fair use Image:Haru Mutasa reporting on Al Jazeera.png
Thanks for uploading Image:Haru Mutasa reporting on Al Jazeera.png. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:


 * 1) Go to the media description page and edit it to add, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
 * 2) On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace this non-free media by finding freely licensed media of the same subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or similar) media under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on [ this link]. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Esrever (klaT) 06:06, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

replaceability
The image you've uploaded of Haru Mutasa on Al Jazeera is a copyrighted image, meaning Al Jazeera owns the image and can govern its usage. Wikipedia allows the use of such images (non-free images) under a very limited set of circumstances, which falls under the policy on non-free content. That policy says that copyrighted images of people still living&mdash;like Haru Mutasa&mdash;aren't generally going to be usable on Wikipedia because they are replaceable. Someone, somewhere, could take a picture of Haru Matasa and release it free of copyright restrictions. See #12 here. If the image you were using of Haru Matasa were of historical significance, meaning if it showed her in the midst of some historic event that could not be recreated, then you could possibly still use it to illustrate her article. But merely indicating that it shows her on Al Jazeera is not sufficient.

You also aren't allowed to remove the "speedy deletion" tag from an image. If you disagree with my assessment of the image&mdash;that is, if you feel it's not replaceable&mdash;you'll see there's space underneath the template code for you to use a new template:. At some point an administrator will come along and make the final decision. However, you mustn't remove the existing tag at any point. Cheers! Esrever (klaT) 13:34, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem, of course, with arguing that the image shows Al Jazeera reporting during an historical event is that that's not the purpose you're actually using the image for. You're only using it to illustrate an article on Haru Mutasa, not an article on Al Jazeera or an article about the historical event supposedly depicted here.  If all it does is show an image of a living person, then it is, by definition, replaceable.  Cheers! Esrever (klaT) 18:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)