User talk:WitchOneTwo

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lizzie Lape has been accepted
 Lizzie Lape, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:23, 14 November 2014 (UTC) ==Speedy deletion nomination of File:Lizzie Rogers Lape Huffman Larzelere DeWitt DeWitt Veon Shetler France, Shelby, Ohio circa 1903 - copyright 2014 Debra Lape.jpg==
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A tag has been placed on File:Lizzie Rogers Lape Huffman Larzelere DeWitt DeWitt Veon Shetler France, Shelby, Ohio circa 1903 - copyright 2014 Debra Lape.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free file with a clearly invalid licensing tag; or it otherwise fails some part of the non-free content criteria. If you can find a valid tag that expresses why the file can be used under the fair use guidelines, please replace the current tag with that tag. If no such tag exists, please add the Non-free fair use tag, along with a brief explanation of why this constitutes fair use of the file. If the file has been deleted, you can re-upload it, but please ensure you place the correct tag on it.

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You cannot upload a file with "Copyright" marked right on it
Hello, I have proposed the photo for deletion since it has "Copyright" marked right on it, rather contradicting the claim that it's Creative Commons. Are you yourself Debra Lape? If so, be aware that "copyrighting" something and releasing it under Creative Commons are quite different. Secondly, I'm not entirely sure you can copyright a 1903 photo.

Though, regardless of whether Lape can or cannot copyright a 1903 photo, you can't upload one to Wikipedia that's watermarked with a claimed copyright. Whether you're Lape or no, if there is to be a photo of Lizzie in the article, it needs to be free of modern additions to it, a clean copy of a pre-1923, and thus out-of-copyright image. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:30, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Matthew! I have removed the copyright note from the photograph and reloaded. Hope everything is in order. I am the owner of the original photograph. Really appreciate your help with this as I'm very new. Best wishes, WitchOneTwo (talk) 20:51, 15 November 2014 (UTC)