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Replaceable non-free use File:EvanFergusonCelebratingGoal.jpeg

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Yeah if I’m honest I don’t understand 4/5ths of what you just said. Sorry. Kalkvia (talk) 17:19, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Fair enough since what was posted above is just a general template which contains lots of boilerplate text. Basically, you uploaded a non-free image of a still living person, and such images are pretty much never allowed per Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. The reason why is because it's almost always deemed reasonable to expect that a freely licensed photo of the same person can either be created or found to serve essentially the same Wikipedia purpose as any non-free one. Even if such a freely licensed photo doesn't currently exist, a non-free one isn't going to be allowed as sort of a temporary fix as long as its reasonable to expect that a free equivalent photo could be created. There are of course sometimes exceptions made, but for the most part any non-free image of a still living person is never going to be considered OK to use. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:05, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

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