User talk:Samsonsol

Your userspace

Please do not add non-free images to articles in your userspace, as you did at User:Samsonsol/Me. Per the non-free content criteria, such images can only be used in articles that are in mainspace. Also, non-free images cannot be uploaded to Commons. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:16, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The image of your book cover had no information to say that permission has been submitted to OTRS (in fact, there still is no information), so it is considered non-free until an OTRS member confirms that it can be used. Pages in your userspace are not articles, and non-free images cannot be used outside of articles.

Two other points:

Please stop making edits like this. There is no image called THB300K.jpg, as you would see if you actually looked at the article after you edited it (notice that it only displays as a red link, because there is no image).
Regardless of the copyright status of the images in your page User:Samsonsol/Me, I would suggest that you stop working on this article. Because it's your own book, writing an article about it puts you in a conflict of interest (please follow that link for more information on Wikipedia's policies regarding this) and your article would probably be deleted. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 00:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are confused. First of all, File:THB300K.jpg is a different image than the one that I said was non-free; it's the image you were adding to The Deep Below (see the link that I gave above). It simply doesn't exist: again, look what happens when you try to add an image link to the page, no image shows up. Again, there is no image uploaded at the name File:THB300K.jpg, so stop creating links to it.

About e-mail permission... per the clear OTRS instructions, after you send the 0TRS e-mail you are supposed to add the {{OTRS pending}} template to the image's description page on commons. That lets people know that you've sent the e-mail permission and are waiting to have it reviewed.

As for pages in your userspace: anyone can see these pages, and they cannot include non-free images. Non-free images can only be used in articles; using those images in any page that is not an article (including your userspace) is a violation of copyright. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:17, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

And if you want to learn how to do Wikipedia formatting, you can try the brief Wikipedia tutorial. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for File:TDBWK.jpg

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:TDBWK.jpg. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Stifle (talk) 20:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Samsonsol, I have started to repair the image page so it includes a use rationale. But you still need to add the source (i.e., the URL where you found the image originally) to keep it from being deleted. Please edit the image's description page and add the source (after the text Source = ). After you have done that I can remove the deletion tag. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 20:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I created such a fire storm. I have since gone back to the Owner of TDBWK.jpg and he has sent in an email with a license. Apparently all of the images were speedy deleted, because they couldn't find the emails, but Joe Daly (I guess he's a supervisor) took on the task and fixed everything. There shouldn't be a "fair use" license on anything now. They all have a license that requires to mention the owner if used.Samsonsol (talk) 00:40, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If the owner of the rights to the DVD cover really has given permission for its use, you need to forward that message to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 01:24, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The email was sent to "permssions" and I believe Jim Day has indicated that everything is now fine. Thanks Samsonsol (talk) 00:01, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]