User talk:Willec

Bob Ehrlich image
First of all, welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed, however, that you uploaded an image of Governor Ehrlich from the Maryland government website with the claim that it is in the public domain. This is incorrect. Like most state governments, the Government of Maryland copyrights its work and requires permission for re-use. The image cannot be used under fair use rationale either, since a free alternative is available. See http://www.gov.state.md.us/legal.html: "All information on this site is property of the State of Maryland. No one is authorized to reuse any part of this site without written consent. Copyright © 2004 State of Maryland". --tomf688 (talk - email) 18:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Please stop uploading images and misrepresenting them as your own work, as you did with those for Martin O'Malley and Robert Ehrlich. Also, do not replace free-use images with  ones that have non-free (i.e. fair use) licenses.  --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, I've tagged both O'Malley's and Ehrlich's photos for deletion, so your claims of a political slant are incorrect and not helpful. You are still new here and you may not be aware of what the official policy is on things such as photo portraits.  Please read the policy at Fair_use and note the first sentence of the first criterion for an image to be used as fair use: "No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information."  This means that your photos do not qualify because free alternatives can be created at some point in the future, or already exist (as with Ehrlich).  Furthermore, no written permission except for a statement along the lines of "this photo can be used by ANYONE, ANYWHERE, at ANY time, and for ANY reason" will override this policy, which is not the case for State Government photos or publications.  Finally, the photo of Governor Ehrlich speaking at a conference is from a U.S. Government website, and is in the public domain, so you would be incorrect in stating that it is copyrighted.  Please help the progress towards making Wikipedia a truly free encyclopedia; no picture is in most cases better than an unfree one. --tomf688 (talk - email) 21:49, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:GovEhrlichPersonal.jpg
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:GovEhrlichPersonal.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU ≈ talk 23:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

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