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Hello, Joelphotofix! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking   or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 16:49, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Regarding your last question.

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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

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

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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  There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.Light show (talk) 00:02, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply