User talk:Patches.OHoulahan
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Hello, Patches.OHoulahan, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.
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- ...Wikipedia has a very stringent image use policy?
- ...most images from Flickr, online news websites, and other web sources are copyrighted?
- ...Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously?
- ...freely-licensed images should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, a central location for images where they can be used on all Wikipedia projects?
- ...we recommend that new users use our "files for upload" process - at least until you get the hang of things?
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Non-free image use
[edit] Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to a page, specifically Ethnic flag, may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:14, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
Non-free image use again
[edit] Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to a page, specifically List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols, may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:47, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
- Adding a non-free use rationale does not mean that the way you want to use the file complies with Wikipedia's non-free content use policy as explained in WP:JUSTONE. The way you are trying to use these files is almost always never allowed per WP:NFLISTS in general list articles such as List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols because such usage almost always fails to meet WP:NFCC#8, and this does not appear to be an exception to that common practice. A link to the file's can be added using the colon trick if you wish, but they should not be displayed per item 6 of WP:NFC#UUI.
- If you want other opinions on this you can ask for them at WP:MCQ or WT:NFCC; you can even start a discussion about these two file's non-free use at WP:FFD as well explaining why/how you feel their non-free use in the Candian article is justified. While I appreciate you at least trying to add non-free use rationales to the files' pages for the articles, any such rationale needs clearly explain how all ten non-free content criteria are stisfied for the particular use, and such a rationale cannot be really written for this type of usage. -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:11, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
Re: Non-free image use again
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Speedy deletion nomination of Hiawatha Playfield
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A tag has been placed on Hiawatha Playfield requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://seattleolmsted.org/parks/hiawatha-playfield/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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I also removed most of your edits to North Admiral, Seattle. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 17:20, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
I also removed most of your edits to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church (Mount Angel, Oregon). — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:02, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
July 2019
[edit] Your addition to North Admiral, Seattle has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. SounderBruce 00:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
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