User talk:Mwmdei

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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:46, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

November 1975, then December 1973?
Presumably you meant to say 1973 the first time?
Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 16:21, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

References; Linking

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photo

I may erase the comment you made — you in particular are not supposed to make any comments that talk page — due to objectivity concerns. The photo that you asked about, that somebody posted was identified as coming from a video that someone named Robert Patrick filmed at a place called Cafe Cino, and the person who posted it did not have permission from Robert Patrick, so the photo had to be removed for copyright reasons. Almondbark (talk) 20:04, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Mr. Mason,

First of all, thanks for your kind message. I was happy to improve your article, specifically the references, as many of them were poorly formatted and others were technically missing, so I had to search for them using Google and also archive.org; however, there is still more work to be done. Anyway, I'm sorry that the picture of you was removed. This is what happened: a very experienced Wikipedia editor named SuperHamster, who does a lot of patrolling as part of his work, found that the picture seemed to fail to comply with a certain criterion for fair use. You can find that editor's message HERE. He gave an opportunity to the editor Ashenderflickin (who uploaded the picture) to contest the decision, but the decision was either not contested, or the arguments provided were invalid. Then the Wikipedia Administrator Diannaa proceeded to delete the file, as can be seen HERE.

Keep in mind that this is standard procedure on Wikipedia. It is very difficult to succeed at getting a picture kept when a fair use rationale is used for non-free images. In such cases, 10 criteria must be met, which are listed HERE. The picture of you does not belong to you, and therefore it almost certainly belongs to whoever took the picture. It is not a free image. In theory, you can get that picture back on your article but you would need a declaration of consent from the owner of the picture, in which he or she agrees to release the picture under a free license. The standard template for a declaration of consent can be found HERE. If you can work that out, then the main hurdle has been cleared, but uploading a picture correctly is a tricky process, and therefore several Wikipedia pages with pertinent information should be examined carefully, or else the effort will almost certainly result in failure.

Nevertheless, if you cannot get permission to publish that picture, you can ask someone else to take a picture of you, and that process is a very easy one compared with declarations of consent. In fact, the picture of you was deleted because since you are alive, it is assumed that a picture can be taken of you and released under a free license, instead of relying on a fair use rationale for a non-free picture. So, if you prefer this option, the person who takes the picture of you has to follow this very simple step, HERE.

I must let you know, unfortunately, that the image of your book cover will probably be deleted as well. Criterion #8 stipulates:

Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding.

You are the article topic, not your book, so it's virtually impossible to defend the presence of a non-free image of your book in your article. You do not own the image, I must assume; instead, it is most likely owned by the publisher of the book or by whoever designed the cover. Now, if the book was being discussed in the article, using independent sources, then its inclusion could perhaps be defended, but all that I see is a statement claiming that you wrote the book. In its current form, the image of the book in the article seems to have purely promotional purposes, which is a tactic highly frowned upon by the Wikipedia community.

My advice, Mr. Mason, is for you to focus on getting someone to take a picture of you, and to then upload it to Wikimedia Commons, not to Wikipedia. Then your article will have a picture of you again that will not be taken down. That's what really matters, not the image of the book cover. Or of course you could try to find a way to contact the owner of the picture that was taken down, and hope that he or she would be willing to release it under a free license, but trust me, that entire process is very complicated. All the best, Dontreader (talk) 20:26, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I forgot to say that any past picture taken of you by someone who would be willing to release it under a free license would also work, of course. Have a nice day... Dontreader (talk) 20:38, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

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