User talk:Streetlamp30

Seamus O'Regan

Please note that you can't just replace the existing infobox photo with a new one just because you want to. You need to provide a reason why your new photo is preferable to the existing one (e.g. "the existing photo is actually the wrong person", "the existing photo is inappropriate because a topless woman's boobs are visible in the background behind him for no relevant reason", "the new photo is better because it's higher resolution", etc.) before you're allowed to remove the existing photo. His appearance hasn't changed enough in the past few years for the fact that your photo is newer to be relevant either way, so don't try "my photo was taken two weeks ago" as the reason — there needs to be a substantive reason why the existing photo is not suitable before it can be replaced. Bearcat (talk) 18:45, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Firstly, the existing photo isn't low resolution — it may not be as high resolution as photos can go, but it's not low enough to be unusable, and in fact according to their respective EXIF data the existing photo is actually higher resolution (96 dpi) than the one you uploaded (72 dpi). Secondly, we do not have any requirement that our photos be recent, or that they reflect one particular occupation over another one in his career background — his physical appearance has not changed enough in the past few years that the existing photo is somehow no longer representative of what he looks like. And furthermore, the thing is that the photo was tweeted out by Seamus O'Regan himself a couple of weeks before you uploaded it here — but under Wikipedia's WP:COPYRIGHT rules, you can't just upload any old photo of a person that you happen to find on the internet and call it Creative Commons. If we find any evidence that the same photo has ever been used anywhere else prior to being uploaded here, then the onus is on you to prove that you had the necessary copyright permissions to upload it here in the first place — if you don't do that, the photo has to be deleted for not complying with our copyright rules. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 16 July 2018 (UTC)