Mabec

Copyright problems with File:Chantal Desjardins.jpg

Hello. Concerning your upload of the image File:Chantal Desjardins.jpg, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted images obtained from other sources, without the permission of the author(s). This image appears to be a direct copy from http://astral.s3.amazonaws.com/station/hosts/37_m.jpg. As a copyright violation, File:Chantal Desjardins.jpg falls under the speedy deletion criteria and has been deleted.

If you believe that the image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under a free license then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave me a message explaining the details and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the <pick a free licence> or released into the public domain leave me a message at my talk page with a link to where I can find that note.
• If you hold the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on [[Talk:File:Chantal Desjardins.jpg]].
• Or alternately drop me a note about this file if I have misunderstood something.
  - Peripitus (Talk) 05:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

First Article

Welcome!

Hello, Mabec, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, like Chantal Desjardins, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and may soon be deleted (if it hasn't already).

There's a page about creating articles you may want to read called Your first article. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Peripitus (Talk) 20:41, 23 January 2009 (UTC) - Peripitus (Talk) 05:28, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Image deletion

Thanks for clarifying the copyright issue, I was under the impression an image published on a public facebook page by the owner had an open copyright (not true). In order to add images to bio pages would one just need consent from the owners of the images, for example the publicists of the subjects of the biographies? Mabec (talk) 16:47, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

That is a common and understandable misunderstanding (pretty much the same issue with my first upload here). Whoever took the photo originally owns the copyright regardless of whether they publish it on a website or not, usually for the length of their life + 70years. To confirm that they release an image freely - Wikipedia:Contact_us/Photo_submission is largely the form that their release needs to be. Alternately you (or someone else) can take a photo of them and upload it. Flickr is sometimes a source of useful free images - though there are many images there with copyright issues for the same reasons we have them here.

File permission problem with File:Jeffrey Segal.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Jeffrey Segal.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{OTRS pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Redsky89 (talk) 06:08, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Chantal Desjardins for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Chantal Desjardins is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chantal Desjardins until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 17:36, 6 May 2017 (UTC)