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broil 18:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Please don't upload images to Wikipedia without understand Wikipedia's image policies. You cannot upload images from a website without their permission being explicitly stated with the image. I have undone your edits to the Tony Stewart and Aaron Fike articles. Both changes to the article resulted in problems with their articles (infobox and hatnote). The Fike image was particularly bad, because uploading his mug shot is not necessary for the article and it shines a dark light on him. We strive to be neutral, not negative. Please talk with me before uploading any more images, except if you took them yourself. I'll explain the policies in more detail if you're interested. Royal broil 18:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The article talks about his arrest. It talks about his drug use the day of races. The mugshot shows the story.
Negative was he did herion. Should the article be cleaned of the truth?
- No, Fike's article needs to state the facts of his heroine arrest and banishment from NASCAR. Sometimes the truth hurts. That doesn't mean that we have to post that picture so that everyone pictures him as a criminal either. There are only a few examples of articles where a fair use picture is required, and almost never is it for a living person. Images taken from smokinggun.com are not compatible with Wikipedia's licensing. We almost always use pictures that someone took themself or that someone specifically used a license that is compatible with Wikipedia. For example, those pictures that you uploaded today are okay (as long as you specify which license should be used). Did you take that picture of Tony Stewart yourself? Photobucket does not allow its contributors to license images using Creative Commons or GFDL, so pictures posted there are not able to be legally transferred to Wikipedia. You definitely did not take that picture of Fike.
Royal
broil 01:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't know that you took journalism courses and talked about copyright issues. I like to keep the explanation simple for the general population except if I know they understand more. If you want to read the policy, see Wikipedia:Image use policy. I can't think of any mugshots that remain - even Nick Nolte's mugshot has been removed.
- Please address the copyright issues from below so the images could be kept. I recommend adding {{
CC-by-SA}}, which is Creative Commons Attibution ShareAlike. That is the most stringent copyright license allowed on Wikipedia. While anyone could use the image, they are required to attribute you (in the attribution part) and they are required to use the same Attribution/ShareAlike license if they do a derivative work (the ShareAlike part). You could use a
GDFL license otherwise. Public Domain gives you no license.
Royal
broil 13:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- To add a license to the photograph, you need to go to the image page by following the links below. Then you click edit. Add a section called ==License== . On the next line down, you add the license tag that you want applied to the photograph. So you would add {{CC-by-SA-3.0}} if you use the latest version of the license that I recommend above. For GFDL, you add {{GFDL-self}}. Most people go the CC route. Most people need help with understanding the really complicated image licensing on Wikipedia. How about you leave me a message when you take care of the licensing on these images so I can verify that everything is right? By the way, I saw Fike race at
Angell Park Speedway's weekly show and a USAC midget show at Dodge County Fairgrounds show this year as you can tell by my picture at the bottom of his article.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- And I wish we could have kept that Tony Stewart picture. It's great to have pictures of a driver throughout his career. I hadn't thought that you were trying to be a jerk. Image licensing on Wikipedia is really complicated. If I had a dime every time that I had to write someone about images issues... I don't think that you were trying to be mean spirited with the Fike image either, but
WP:BLP requires that we look at things in the light of the person whose reputation can be ruined if we don't get articles right. Of course it kinda late for that, but Wikipedia doesn't need to kick him when he's down either.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- Yea, it's too bad about those pictures that you bought and were given. Buying a picture doesn't give you copyright to the image which is retained by the photographer, so you can't upload purchased or donated pictures. I look forward to viewing your pictures. I do have contacts at flickr who are posting pictures there with a Creative Commons license. It's been great. I've been looking long and hard for a picture of Alan Kulwicki. I have plenty of pictures of his cars, but it's been elusive to find pictures of him. I improved the article to pass Good Article status and tried Featured Article. It was close to passing FA. Royal broil 18:36, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- And I wish we could have kept that Tony Stewart picture. It's great to have pictures of a driver throughout his career. I hadn't thought that you were trying to be a jerk. Image licensing on Wikipedia is really complicated. If I had a dime every time that I had to write someone about images issues... I don't think that you were trying to be mean spirited with the Fike image either, but
WP:BLP requires that we look at things in the light of the person whose reputation can be ruined if we don't get articles right. Of course it kinda late for that, but Wikipedia doesn't need to kick him when he's down either.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- To add a license to the photograph, you need to go to the image page by following the links below. Then you click edit. Add a section called ==License== . On the next line down, you add the license tag that you want applied to the photograph. So you would add {{CC-by-SA-3.0}} if you use the latest version of the license that I recommend above. For GFDL, you add {{GFDL-self}}. Most people go the CC route. Most people need help with understanding the really complicated image licensing on Wikipedia. How about you leave me a message when you take care of the licensing on these images so I can verify that everything is right? By the way, I saw Fike race at
Angell Park Speedway's weekly show and a USAC midget show at Dodge County Fairgrounds show this year as you can tell by my picture at the bottom of his article.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- Please address the copyright issues from below so the images could be kept. I recommend adding {{
CC-by-SA}}, which is Creative Commons Attibution ShareAlike. That is the most stringent copyright license allowed on Wikipedia. While anyone could use the image, they are required to attribute you (in the attribution part) and they are required to use the same Attribution/ShareAlike license if they do a derivative work (the ShareAlike part). You could use a
GDFL license otherwise. Public Domain gives you no license.
Royal
broil 13:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Soulhuddle.jpg
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- Yep, this image license looks good. I was going to comment about adding 4 tildas (~~~~) after your comments, but you already got the message from the bot. That James Hylton image looks good. That license would work on all of your images. Instead of uploading them again, you could just add == Licensing: == {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} on them otherwise. Uploading them again does work, as you found out. Cheers! Royal broil 18:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks about the Hylton pic. I worked for two seasons on the 48 ARCA team. That was a pic I took when we were trying to make the 1999 ARCA race there. Just wondering what about pics done on my camera and film with me in them with someone. (But someone else snapped it.) Just wondering I have a pic of myself and Benny Parsons in the ARCA garage together as well.
- Cool! Did you see this pic that I took? Technically you have to be the photographer to have license for it, although being the camera owner puts it in a gray area in my mind. There already is a nice picture of BP. Royal broil 20:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Nice, that was a old Cup car, AND also was used in the defunct NASCAR Sportsman series of the early to mid 90's. They ran retro cup cars at Charlotte and Pocono for a four race season. Guys kept dying in crashes at Charlotte so NASCAR dumped them late in 1995.
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Please don't overwrite images as you did at Image:DSCF0140.JPG. Your actions caused an irrelevant image to be displayed on a couple of articles. I have reverted your change to the image and commented out its use on Larry Brackins and Philadelphia Soul. Feel free to upload your image to a new name. Mr Stephen ( talk) 11:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Statues are protected works in the United States. So, you do not own rights to Image:Leftystatue.jpg. I've retagged it as a fair use image, tagged it as missing a fair use rationale, removed it from the Steve Carlton article since we do not permit fair use images of living people for depiction purposes, tagged it as orphaned since it's an unused image, and tagged it as a replaceable fair use image since Steve Carlton is alive. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:52, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Um why is the Statue of Liberty up. Is that not protected? And I took the pic so I own the right to the pic!
It couldn't have just as well been moved to another spot showing HIS (Calton's) statue?
- The Statue of Liberty is 122 years old. By way of age, it is in the public domain. Therefore, nobody holds rights to the 3D work of art. 3D works of art that are not in the public domain are copyrighted, and in the United States copyright holders of such works retain rights to derivative work of the 3D work of art. Therefore, even if you take a photo of a statue, you do not have full rights to the image. Sorry. --17:13, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've retagged Image:Conniemacks.jpg and Image:Drjstatue.jpg as non-free for the same concerns. These statues are not public domain, and copyright holders retain rights per above. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 17:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you re-upload File:Tugger45.jpg so that it is right side up? Kingturtle ( talk) 23:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
If you have information to add, please also add a good citation, or it will likely be deleted from such a high-profile BLP article. Bearian ( talk) 22:59, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- And further, I have removed the reference from Uygur. The material fails to satisfy the requirements set forth in WP:BLP. Please be aware that edit warring over defamatory material on a WP:BLP page is a serious matter. I suggest you seek consensus on the talk page before making this type of edit. Ronnotel ( talk) 16:57, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Tugger45.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 14:30, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Tugger45.JPG listed for discussion
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Welcome!
Hello, Eastonguy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- How to write a great article
- Manual of Style
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
discussion pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome!
Royal
broil 18:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Please don't upload images to Wikipedia without understand Wikipedia's image policies. You cannot upload images from a website without their permission being explicitly stated with the image. I have undone your edits to the Tony Stewart and Aaron Fike articles. Both changes to the article resulted in problems with their articles (infobox and hatnote). The Fike image was particularly bad, because uploading his mug shot is not necessary for the article and it shines a dark light on him. We strive to be neutral, not negative. Please talk with me before uploading any more images, except if you took them yourself. I'll explain the policies in more detail if you're interested. Royal broil 18:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
The article talks about his arrest. It talks about his drug use the day of races. The mugshot shows the story.
Negative was he did herion. Should the article be cleaned of the truth?
- No, Fike's article needs to state the facts of his heroine arrest and banishment from NASCAR. Sometimes the truth hurts. That doesn't mean that we have to post that picture so that everyone pictures him as a criminal either. There are only a few examples of articles where a fair use picture is required, and almost never is it for a living person. Images taken from smokinggun.com are not compatible with Wikipedia's licensing. We almost always use pictures that someone took themself or that someone specifically used a license that is compatible with Wikipedia. For example, those pictures that you uploaded today are okay (as long as you specify which license should be used). Did you take that picture of Tony Stewart yourself? Photobucket does not allow its contributors to license images using Creative Commons or GFDL, so pictures posted there are not able to be legally transferred to Wikipedia. You definitely did not take that picture of Fike.
Royal
broil 01:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't know that you took journalism courses and talked about copyright issues. I like to keep the explanation simple for the general population except if I know they understand more. If you want to read the policy, see Wikipedia:Image use policy. I can't think of any mugshots that remain - even Nick Nolte's mugshot has been removed.
- Please address the copyright issues from below so the images could be kept. I recommend adding {{
CC-by-SA}}, which is Creative Commons Attibution ShareAlike. That is the most stringent copyright license allowed on Wikipedia. While anyone could use the image, they are required to attribute you (in the attribution part) and they are required to use the same Attribution/ShareAlike license if they do a derivative work (the ShareAlike part). You could use a
GDFL license otherwise. Public Domain gives you no license.
Royal
broil 13:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- To add a license to the photograph, you need to go to the image page by following the links below. Then you click edit. Add a section called ==License== . On the next line down, you add the license tag that you want applied to the photograph. So you would add {{CC-by-SA-3.0}} if you use the latest version of the license that I recommend above. For GFDL, you add {{GFDL-self}}. Most people go the CC route. Most people need help with understanding the really complicated image licensing on Wikipedia. How about you leave me a message when you take care of the licensing on these images so I can verify that everything is right? By the way, I saw Fike race at
Angell Park Speedway's weekly show and a USAC midget show at Dodge County Fairgrounds show this year as you can tell by my picture at the bottom of his article.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- And I wish we could have kept that Tony Stewart picture. It's great to have pictures of a driver throughout his career. I hadn't thought that you were trying to be a jerk. Image licensing on Wikipedia is really complicated. If I had a dime every time that I had to write someone about images issues... I don't think that you were trying to be mean spirited with the Fike image either, but
WP:BLP requires that we look at things in the light of the person whose reputation can be ruined if we don't get articles right. Of course it kinda late for that, but Wikipedia doesn't need to kick him when he's down either.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- Yea, it's too bad about those pictures that you bought and were given. Buying a picture doesn't give you copyright to the image which is retained by the photographer, so you can't upload purchased or donated pictures. I look forward to viewing your pictures. I do have contacts at flickr who are posting pictures there with a Creative Commons license. It's been great. I've been looking long and hard for a picture of Alan Kulwicki. I have plenty of pictures of his cars, but it's been elusive to find pictures of him. I improved the article to pass Good Article status and tried Featured Article. It was close to passing FA. Royal broil 18:36, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- And I wish we could have kept that Tony Stewart picture. It's great to have pictures of a driver throughout his career. I hadn't thought that you were trying to be a jerk. Image licensing on Wikipedia is really complicated. If I had a dime every time that I had to write someone about images issues... I don't think that you were trying to be mean spirited with the Fike image either, but
WP:BLP requires that we look at things in the light of the person whose reputation can be ruined if we don't get articles right. Of course it kinda late for that, but Wikipedia doesn't need to kick him when he's down either.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- To add a license to the photograph, you need to go to the image page by following the links below. Then you click edit. Add a section called ==License== . On the next line down, you add the license tag that you want applied to the photograph. So you would add {{CC-by-SA-3.0}} if you use the latest version of the license that I recommend above. For GFDL, you add {{GFDL-self}}. Most people go the CC route. Most people need help with understanding the really complicated image licensing on Wikipedia. How about you leave me a message when you take care of the licensing on these images so I can verify that everything is right? By the way, I saw Fike race at
Angell Park Speedway's weekly show and a USAC midget show at Dodge County Fairgrounds show this year as you can tell by my picture at the bottom of his article.
Royal
broil 17:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
- Please address the copyright issues from below so the images could be kept. I recommend adding {{
CC-by-SA}}, which is Creative Commons Attibution ShareAlike. That is the most stringent copyright license allowed on Wikipedia. While anyone could use the image, they are required to attribute you (in the attribution part) and they are required to use the same Attribution/ShareAlike license if they do a derivative work (the ShareAlike part). You could use a
GDFL license otherwise. Public Domain gives you no license.
Royal
broil 13:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Image copyright problem with Image:Soulhuddle.jpg
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We thank you for uploading
Image:Soulhuddle.jpg, but there is a problem. Your image is currently missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes
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- Yep, this image license looks good. I was going to comment about adding 4 tildas (~~~~) after your comments, but you already got the message from the bot. That James Hylton image looks good. That license would work on all of your images. Instead of uploading them again, you could just add == Licensing: == {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} on them otherwise. Uploading them again does work, as you found out. Cheers! Royal broil 18:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks about the Hylton pic. I worked for two seasons on the 48 ARCA team. That was a pic I took when we were trying to make the 1999 ARCA race there. Just wondering what about pics done on my camera and film with me in them with someone. (But someone else snapped it.) Just wondering I have a pic of myself and Benny Parsons in the ARCA garage together as well.
- Cool! Did you see this pic that I took? Technically you have to be the photographer to have license for it, although being the camera owner puts it in a gray area in my mind. There already is a nice picture of BP. Royal broil 20:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Nice, that was a old Cup car, AND also was used in the defunct NASCAR Sportsman series of the early to mid 90's. They ran retro cup cars at Charlotte and Pocono for a four race season. Guys kept dying in crashes at Charlotte so NASCAR dumped them late in 1995.
Thanks for uploading
Image:Soulfield.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate
copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like {{
PD-self}} (to release all rights), {{
self|CC-by-sa-3.0|GFDL}} (to require that you be credited), or any tag
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For more information on using images, see the following pages:
This is an automated notice by STBotI. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI ( talk) 01:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to
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SineBot (
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Please don't overwrite images as you did at Image:DSCF0140.JPG. Your actions caused an irrelevant image to be displayed on a couple of articles. I have reverted your change to the image and commented out its use on Larry Brackins and Philadelphia Soul. Feel free to upload your image to a new name. Mr Stephen ( talk) 11:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Statues are protected works in the United States. So, you do not own rights to Image:Leftystatue.jpg. I've retagged it as a fair use image, tagged it as missing a fair use rationale, removed it from the Steve Carlton article since we do not permit fair use images of living people for depiction purposes, tagged it as orphaned since it's an unused image, and tagged it as a replaceable fair use image since Steve Carlton is alive. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 15:52, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Um why is the Statue of Liberty up. Is that not protected? And I took the pic so I own the right to the pic!
It couldn't have just as well been moved to another spot showing HIS (Calton's) statue?
- The Statue of Liberty is 122 years old. By way of age, it is in the public domain. Therefore, nobody holds rights to the 3D work of art. 3D works of art that are not in the public domain are copyrighted, and in the United States copyright holders of such works retain rights to derivative work of the 3D work of art. Therefore, even if you take a photo of a statue, you do not have full rights to the image. Sorry. --17:13, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
- I've retagged Image:Conniemacks.jpg and Image:Drjstatue.jpg as non-free for the same concerns. These statues are not public domain, and copyright holders retain rights per above. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 17:20, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Can you re-upload File:Tugger45.jpg so that it is right side up? Kingturtle ( talk) 23:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
If you have information to add, please also add a good citation, or it will likely be deleted from such a high-profile BLP article. Bearian ( talk) 22:59, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- And further, I have removed the reference from Uygur. The material fails to satisfy the requirements set forth in WP:BLP. Please be aware that edit warring over defamatory material on a WP:BLP page is a serious matter. I suggest you seek consensus on the talk page before making this type of edit. Ronnotel ( talk) 16:57, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Tugger45.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. – Drilnoth ( T • C • L) 14:30, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
File:Tugger45.JPG listed for discussion
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This bot DID NOT nominate any file(s) for deletion; please refer to the page history of each individual file for details. Thanks, FastilyBot ( talk) 01:03, 26 January 2021 (UTC)