User talk:JRyanCSP

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Happy editing! Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:05, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, can you tell me why you have removed several (apparently perfectly good) cover images from a number of articles on academic journals? I have restored them all and am trying to figure out why you deleted them. Thanks. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 18:09, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed covers of journals published by my company Canadian Science Publishing. These covers are extremely out of date - they are not good. I am sorry to hear that you restored them. As you know wikipedia images are often used by other sources or used to populate sites like Facebook. These outdated images are interfering with our branding. We are no longer part of the National Research Council and are trying to clear up confusion by linking only our new covers. I plan to update these images, once I figure out how. Unless you'd like to replace the ones you restored with current versions that are available here: www.nrcresearchpress.com.JRyanCSP (talk) 23:17, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:COI attentively and be aware that many people here on WP are acutely allergic against people wanting to use WP for "branding"... Meanwhile, I have nothing against updating images, but removing them from articles without any comment comes close to vandalism (I understand this was not intended as vandalism and I more or less expected this, which is why I did not immediately ask some admin to block you but came here instead). Instead of deleting the old images, what you should do is click on them. You will then get to the image file page, where you can click an "upload new version" link (or something similarly named). You can then upload new images. Please make sure that the versions that you upload are low resolution ones, we only need a thumbnail (20 Kb max, I'd say, probably even less). Once you have uploaded the replacements, they will automatically be displayed in the journal articles. As for other sites using these images, they most probably are not allowed to do so under copyright law, unless they also use them under a "fair use" rationale, as WP does. Hope this helps. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 01:59, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the help. It is certainly not my intent to vandalize only to clear up confusion. We are a not-for-profit organization and there is no commercial intent when I said "brand" rather only an attempt to clear up confusion between our former and current existence. I hope to figure out how to update these images, as time allows and I do thank you for your directions.JRyanCSP (talk) 16:03, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]