User talk:DebbieRochon

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Hello, DebbieRochon, 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, such as the ones to the page Debbie Rochon, show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

Did you know that ...

...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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Debbie Rochon image

Hi. I uploaded the image on the Debbie Rochon article, and I'm pretty sure it is an image of Debbie Rochon. Here is the full video, an interview with Count Gore De Vol. https://vimeo.com/135250942 While I'm no expert on these things, I'm pretty sure he is. --GRuban (talk) 22:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, here is an image of Rochon from her Facebook page, at that same convention, with that hairstyle, in that jacket, with that pendant, at that table, in front of that same poster. https://www.facebook.com/DebbieRochonNewsPage/photos/pb.212512005460194.-2207520000.1452031798./1036904383020948/?type=3&theater If you are, in fact, Debbie Rochon, hopefully you'll remember it, given that you put that photo on your Facebook page. --GRuban (talk) 22:13, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Violates copyrights

Not sure what you mean here. Our image, to the right here? No, Count Gore had the copyright to that one, and posted it under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which is why we can use it. Linking to the image on the Debbie Rochon Facebook page? No, a link does not violate anyone's copyright, any more than saying "there is such an image on the page" does.

If you are Debbie Rochon, and don't like this image being on the page about you, for whatever reason, we will be happy to replace it with a better one, but it needs to be properly freely licensed. Uncle Milty gave you a plethora of links about our image policies that you can follow above, but, in short, you need to show that you own the rights to an image, probably by sending

the image, or, if it's already up on your site, a link to the image
proof of who you are (using an official email address is most common), and that you do own the copyright to that image (if you're not the photographer, you need the photographer to confirm you own the rights)
a statement that you are releasing that image under a sufficiently free license (Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike is most common)

to one of our OTRS addresses, usually permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Or you can send it to an experienced editor, say, for example, me, and I'll do the necessary uploading, forward the necessary info to OTRS, and make sure other i's are dotted and t's are crossed.

We're not here to make you miserable, honest. We have no "malicious intent", we just want to have the best possible image for the article, but it has to be a freely licensed image, one that allows anyone to reuse or edit it, like the rest of this encyclopedia, and this is the only one we have found. We'd love to work with you to get a better one. But just deleting things, or saying it's not a picture of Debbie Rochon, or accusing us of violating copyright, when that isn't so, won't work. --GRuban (talk) 15:44, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent an email explaining everything to you in detail at the email you provided. Thank you.

Ah, thanks. I also sent you an email via the Wikipedia user email link, so you'll have my email address, if you prefer you can discuss it with me that way, that might be faster. Or, of course, permissions-commons will eventually work. --GRuban (talk) 16:11, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank YOU! I sent my email to you at permissions-commons@wikimedia.org I hope that's your email! :)

Not quite. That's one of our OTRS queues - a list answered by a group of volunteers. I've been one of them before, but am not now, so can't get to it directly. You'll get my personal email at whatever email address you registered when you made this Wikipedia account. Or, if you can't wait, you can go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/GRuban - that should get to me too.--GRuban (talk) 16:17, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I haven't gotten anything back, and suspect the Wikipedia email system may be broken. At least for me. :-(. Let me try to email you a different way. --GRuban (talk) 23:02, 6 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I sent a message via this site but I guess you never got it so please do email me!

I got an acknowledgment from general@debbierochon.com, then a bounce from some AOL address, which, I guess it was supposed to go to? Not our day! Here, can you email -- ? --GRuban (talk) 13:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't gotten anything yet; so I'm guessing you decided to work directly with whoever answers the permission-commons email? If so, I can't say that I blame you, this has been embarrassing. (I did file a bug about my Wikipedia email being broken, but that's not likely to help soon.) If you do get around to mailing me directly at that yahoo account, I'll still try to help. Sorry for the trouble. --GRuban (talk) 13:47, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PLEASE send me your yahoo email and let's get this sorted ASAP! thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.254.112.210 (talk) 22:58, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

- as above. --GRuban (talk) 01:50, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I gather you got through to OTRS? Great! Thank you for the better photo. --GRuban (talk) 18:27, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]