User talk:Snicketts

Hello, Snicketts, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 09:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Replaceable fair use File:Sam Claflin 2012.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Sam Claflin 2012.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails the first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could be found or created that provides substantially the same information or which could be adequately covered with text alone. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

Go to the media description page and edit it to add {{di-replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original replaceable fair use template.
On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

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This applies equally to your other recent uploads - I'm sorry, but fair-use images are rarely acceptable on Wikipedia if their purpose is solely to illustrate a living person (because a free alternative could easily be made and uploaded at any time to replace it). Deceased persons are a different matter, because naturally they can no longer be photographed in public. Super Mario Man 03:28, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I had noticed that most infoboxes contained freely licened media but I didn't know that it was a rule that you couldn't use images on pages like these.... from now on I won't upload non-free media. --Snicketts (talk) 05:57, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Sam Claflin 2012.jpg)

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Kristen Stewart signature

You wondered "Added signature- dont know why you're all against having it". I quickly found the answer in the article history to see that the previous removal of your previous addition explained it with a link to WP:AUTOGRAPH. It sounds like you need consensus to get it included and/or secondary sources for it being published...things to discuss/address on the talk-page rather than simply redoing a disputed edit. DMacks (talk) 05:00, 27 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]