User talk:Levanbay

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Hello, Levanbay, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Line art

When there's already a photograph in an article, adding a line art drawing does nothing to enhance our understanding of the subject.

Further, there are two other potential problems:

You have not provided evidence that the article has released them under a free license, so Wikipedia may not be able to use them.
If you are the artist, then your behaviour gives the appearance that you are trying to, in a broad sense, promote your work.

Please advise on what you're trying to accomplish by adding the line drawings and how you think they add to the encyclopedia articles. —C.Fred (talk) 19:06, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fred,

I would like to contribute the line art of Clint Eastwood. I owned all rights of this piece of art. Please let me know how and where I can place this art on the Clint Eastwood pages. I came back from the early day and I forgot how to post/edit the content on the Wikiwpedia.

Please advise. Thank you very much. lvb Levanbay (talk) 19:19, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a repository for fan art. I don't see how it adds to our understanding of Eastwood, so it should not be in his article.

The same applies for the other articles you've tried to add art to. —C.Fred (talk) 19:22, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So, do you think I could create a page to hold my works on the Wiki for others to use? Thanks for your time. Levanbay (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Not unless you can demonstrate that you are a notable person. —C.Fred (talk) 19:30, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from an uninvolved editor... Levanbay, you may find there are other websites whose purpose is dissemination of free artwork, such as Flickr and Deviantart. You may wish to get an account with a site like that and post your work there. Wikipedia is primarily am encyclopedia hosting artwork is simply not part of its mission, except to the extent that it supports the central mission of providing the encyclopedia.

Another difficulty with putting it on Wikipedia is copyright issues. Even if you drew the work yourself, if it is derived from another work, such as a photo, it may be infringing of that work, and ineligible to be hosted on Wikipedia. For a very famous case of an issue like this, see Barack Obama "Hope" poster. TJRC (talk) 20:49, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi C.Fred,
Thank you very much for your time. I already have my page at: http://www.khktmd.org/kyhoa_nd .
I love Mr. Clint Eastwood so much and I just want to have my art included in his articles. I painted and drew a lot of his pictures.
Have a good day, lvb -- Levanbay (talk) 21:16, 26 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]