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Talk: William J. Byron
WLMStud (talk) 16:54, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

How can you direct a link to a specific section of another Wikipedia article?WLMStud (talk) 17:34, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Like this; William_J._Byron. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:William J. Byron at the University of Scranton's 1982 Commencement.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:William J. Byron at the University of Scranton's 1982 Commencement.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:


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File:William J. Byron at the University of Scranton's 1982 Commencement.jpg
I've tagged this image as non-free fair use, and tagged it as replaceable fair use. Ok, this gets complex but bear with me. Wikipedia accepts images under two broad categories; free, and non-free. Our requirements for an image to be available under a free license is that the image must be allowed to be used for commercial purposes. See Image_use_policy for more information on this. The other broad category is images suitable for usage under our non-free content criteria. If an image does not qualify for use under the former, then it must qualify for use under the latter. If it can not qualify for use under either, then it can not be used here. Note that Commons only accepts images which fall under the former; it does not allow non-free images at all. Now, crucial to non-free images (among other crucial points) is that the image must not be able to be replaced with a free license version. Whether such a free license image exists now is immaterial. The question is can it be created. In the case of almost all living individuals, the answer is an emphatic yes. We make exceptions to this very rarely, and almost always it is a person who is incarcerated for life or is famous as being a recluse.

More specifically to this image; the image rights notes from the archive indicate it may be used for educational purposes, but otherwise all rights are reserved. This means use in commercial productions is not permitted. This does not qualify under our terms of use for free license images. Therefore, the use of this image for depiction purposes must qualify under our non-free content criteria. Sadly, it doesn't. While Dr. Byron is alive, using a non-free image of him for depiction purposes would not be acceptable. Therefore, we can not accept this image of him for the purposes of depiction.

You can request the University of Scranton to release rights to the image. The instructions to do this are located at Requesting copyright permission. While such requests are usually denied, it is worth asking.

If you have any questions about any of this, I'm happy to answer. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your response, it was very informative. However, I have been doing quite a bit of research about Wikipedia’s guidelines and requirements for images, particularly non-free images, and I feel that my image may indeed qualify. As per Wikipedia guidelines, there must be 10 conditions in place in order to use a non-free image in an article, as stated in the Wikipedia article on non-free content, there are ten criteria which must be met in order for non-free content to be used on Wikipedia. I believe that the image which I uploaded onto Byron’s page fits all of these qualities and should therefore be allowed to be used. The first criteria is that there is no free equivalent. Although in justifying the removal of the picture, the editor claimed that it was in violation of non-free content criterion of non-free image of a living person, they have ignored the guidelines on the Wikipedia page about non-free images, which states: “For some retired or disbanded groups, or retired individuals whose notability rests in large part on their earlier visual appearance, a new picture may not serve the same purpose as an image taken during their career, in which case the use would be acceptable,” which can be found here under Images. Essentially, the important word in the first criteria is “equivalent.” There may be pictures of Byron that are free, but their quality and the time period in which they were taken are not of the same quality and informative purposes that an image used at the prime of his career are. Therefore, because Byron no longer works as a President of a university and has largely retired from his work, serving only a [comparatively] minor role as a professor at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, an image of him during the height of his career as a President of a prominent and well-known university would be much more informative than a picture of him now, so there is no free equivalent to my non-free image. Now, all that being said, if another editor on Wikipedia is able to find a free image of Byron at the prime of his career, then it should replace my non-free image, as per Wikipedia’s rules. However, since there is not currently one and the article is entirely without an image, my non-free image currently presents the best option.

Regarding the rest of the criteria, I believe that my image fulfills those requirements. I have maintained a respect for commercial opportunities, used only one image of non-free content in the article, the image was previously published on the University of Scranton’s online archives, it would be used in a minimum of one article, it enhances the contextual significance of the article and helps the reader better understand who Byron is and what he looks like, it is used in an article not a disambiguation page, and there is [was] an image description page in which there is an identification of the original copyrighted material, a copyright tag, and a rationale.

Thank you, WLMStud (talk) 18:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Is Dr. Byron notable (with cites) for his visual appearance at some point in his career? If so, then an image depicting that visual appearance, if it is not a way in which he appears now, would be appropriate. Barring presentation of such, we must default to the requirement that any living individual (but for the exceptions I noted above) must either not have an image on their article or have a free license compatible image. Understand the exception you are seeking is very narrow; I've rarely seen it used. Even the most famous of the famous are rarely famous because of their visual appearance, but rather for other aspects of themselves, such as their accomplishments. That would seem the case here as well. Also, we do not use a non-free image while waiting for the presentation of a free license image when a free license image is presumed to be able to be produced. Since he is still alive (in fact a serving professor), a free license image of him could be created. If you have access to him, this is perhaps an opportunity for you to contribute a needed image to this project. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:22, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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Ways to improve W. Coleman Nevils
Hi, I'm Menaechmi. WLMStud, thanks for creating W. Coleman Nevils!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Great job on this! The only suggestion I can offer is that most of these sources are from the archives (and therefore can't be checked by anyone off campus). If you could find other sources it would be even greater!

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

menaechmi (talk) 16:55, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: University of Scranton Presidents (February 12)
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Gbawden (talk) 12:42, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:University of Scranton Presidents


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Sam Sailor 13:58, 12 August 2018 (UTC)