User talk:Joelphotofix

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Regarding your last question.

I close the discussion at ANI because it was not being productive and did not need administrative intervention. I saw that you asked: "That being the case, what are the rules for adding photos to be additional to those already there (again, assuming they add to the page's usefulness of course). Is that ok? If so how does one go about it? "

The quick answer is you go to the article talk page and create a new section. You show your picture and the existing picture, you explain why you think the new one is better. If nobody comments, or if people agree with you go ahead. We work through the consensus model here. This goes for almost anything here from article content to our very policies. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 02:40, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I just noticed you said it was copyrighted. We try not to use copyrighted photos for living people at all, we prefer to use images under a free license. HighInBC ^{Need help? Just ask.} 02:41, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Image use policies

Hi, there are basically two sets of policies for images used in English Wikipedia (enwiki).

Wikimedia Commons stores the vast majority of media used among different language Wikipedias & Wikimedia projects. This media must be either in the public domain or freely licensed using something like a CC0 (no rights reserved), CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA Creative Commons license. You can find a more thorough explanation at Commons:Licensing. Essentially, all media on Commons must be free.
enwiki accepts fair use of copyrighted material. This is highly constrained, & the policy is detailed at Wikipedia:Non-free content. Non-free content must conform with the policy outlined at Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. There is also a Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline.

I would recommend reading through both enwiki's & Common's policies & guidelines.

Note that one of according to WP:FILESIZE, a non-free fair use image must be as low-resolution as possible consistent with its fair-use rationale, to prevent use of Wikipedia's copy as a substitute for the original work. This latter point means that even if you cannot find a free image, you still cannot upload a high resolution image of a fair-use copyrighted image. You can find a formula for determining the proper resolution for non-free fair use images at https://web.archive.org/web/20160202074403/http://tools.wmflabs.org/image-resize-calc/

As HighInBC indicates, we prefer public-domain, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA images over those images that have more restrictive copyrights. Peaceray (talk) 04:08, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks both for your answers, most useful. The images are copyright of the photographer but on CC BY-SA 2.0 and on flickr (and Wikimedia Commons). Assume this means they're ok regards high/low res? I didn't know about making the suggestion on the talk page, that's the bit i needed most really. Many thanks again. Joelphotofix (talk) 09:02, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If the copyright on a Flickr photo is CC BY-SA 2.0, then you can upload it to Commons. See commons:Commons:Flickr files & commons:Commons:Flickr files/Guide. The first link has a section, commons:Commons:Flickr files#Uploading images on how to upload files from Flickr, including semi-automated tools. Peaceray (talk) 15:56, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Peaceray, this is what I've been doing in the main, url linking to flickr to upload. Good to know I've done the correct thing :) Joelphotofix (talk) 16:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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