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Sabika

The image was image licensed as "for non-commercial use only" or "used with permission". neither of these are considered free enough for use on wikipedia thus the image was deleted.Geni 02:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

you are now claiming the image is GFDL. can you provide evidence that it is?Geni 02:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

You claimed GFDL. Are you withdrawing that claim? what about the other images you have uploaded?Geni 02:10, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Copyright is important. What is the real copyright status of the images you have uploaded?Geni 02:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Original contributions are welcome. It's just that mistakes in copyright statuses can cause problems. I need information in order to fix the problems.Geni 02:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

is Image:Cand.jpg really gfdl? and if so could you give some details on how?Geni 02:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok first please stop claiming images as GFDL when they are not. What you are talking about are fair use images. Fair use is a rather complex area of US law (see Fair use). Pictures "depicting a notable individual" are not automaticaly fair use and under wikipedia policy we will generaly only consider them when the person is dead. The short version of this is that it is likely that there is no legit way to include the images in wikipedia.Geni 02:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Can't. Wikipedia fair use policy (see Wikipedia:Fair use criteria) generaly does not allow for fair use images to illustrate living people.Geni 02:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

As I said fair use is complex and there are various violations of our policies that have not been found yet. I hope you get well soon.Geni 02:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Geni

It seems to me that you are acting in an uncivil manner on User talk:Geni. Please remain civil and don't resort to making personal attacks or instigating edit wars. -WarthogDemon 02:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Uploading Images

Hello, Lashonda! I notice that you've recently brought a couple of images to Wikipedia, so that you can illustrate how something looks -- with pictures. I appreciate that you're really trying to make Wikipedia better, so that people who read the articles you've edited can understand what the article is about better.

However, you obviously couldn't take a book and copy it into Wikipedia. That would be plagiarism: stealing something that is someone else's rightful content. In the same way, you can't just take pictures off of the internet somewhere and put them on Wikipedia. If someone put some pictures on the internet, they're doing everyone who is looking at those pictures a favor by showing them what something looks like. If they're being nice like that, you can't just take the pictures from their website without permission. On Wikipedia, we need to know where you got the picture from: and you've supplied that. However, you also need to say if the website explicitly gives you permission to put the image elsewhere -- in this case, on Wikipedia.

Someone might give you permission to use an image anywhere, under certain copyright licenses. If an image is copyrighted by a government, or you don't know the status, you're really not allowed to use it. If an image is copyrighted under Creative Commons, you can use it, but only in the manner that the person who created the image says is okay. Usually this involves showing the image, but not altering it. If an image is licensed under the GPL, you can do almost anything with the image you want, including changing the image, showing it on Wikipedia, and almost anything else imaginable.

In all cases, you have to give a source, which is what you've done. But you gave an incorrect license: and because of that, your image can be deleted. In the future, if you're taking an image from a website, check out that website's policy about taking images from it and showing it elsewhere. Wikipedia is non-profit, so that allows it to show many images.

Often, you can use something that's copyright under the Fair Use Agreement. Basically, if you have to use a picture to illustrate a point, make the license Fair Use Agreement and not GPL. Thank you very much, and please help make Wikipedia better!

Gracenotes ^T § 02:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:Iwansinger.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Zainab_Al3askari.jpg

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Wael.jpg)

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Regarding edits made to Ahdeya Ahmed

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Image:Iwansing.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Iwansing.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

1. Go to the image description page and edit it to add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}}, without deleting the original Replaceable fair use template.
2. On the image discussion page, write the reason why this image is not replaceable at all.

Alternatively, you can also choose to replace the fair use image by finding a freely licensed image of its subject, requesting that the copyright holder release this (or a similar) image under a free license, or by taking a picture of it yourself.

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Unspecified source for Image:Nada-hafadh.jpg

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 23:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Iamunknown 23:16, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Sabah.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Sabah02.gif

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Anghaam.jpg

I have tagged Image:Anghaam.jpg as {{replaceable fair use}}. If you wish to dispute this assertion, please add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}} to the image description page and a comment explaining your reasoning to the the image talk page. Iamunknown 23:39, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Wael2006.JPG

I have tagged Image:Wael2006.JPG as {{replaceable fair use}}. If you wish to dispute this assertion, please add {{Replaceable fair use disputed}} to the image description page and a comment explaining your reasoning to the the image talk page. Iamunknown 23:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Candyandjeremiah.jpg

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Unspecified source for Image:Candyandjeremiah.jpg

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Zuhair Murad

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Zuhair Murad, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. --Darkwind (talk) 08:30, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Zuhair Murad

I find the comments you left on my talk page offensive and uncalled-for. Saying "no offense" doesn't make your words any less offensive. I strongly suggest you review the civility policy and the no personal attacks policy as you violated both of them in those comments.

As for the article, I did not delete anything; I do not have that ability. I merely proposed the article for deletion, during which time you had five full days to dispute that deletion. You did not, nor did any of the other members of the Wikipedia community. The admin who performed the deletion must have concurred with my reasoning, since it was indeed deleted.

Please note that notability is NOT the same thing as popularity. It doesn't matter if Mr. Murad's clothing line is the most popular in a million different countries or if every celebrity in Hollywood and/or Bollywood wears his designs if we don't have any PROOF of it. I tried and failed to find reliable sources to back up the statements in the article. If you have sources to prove that he meets the notability criteria for biographies then by all means recreate the article and cite those sources in it. Also note that Mr. Murad's own website is not a reliable source in the sense of the biography policy—sources written by the subject of the article cannot be used to establish notability. --Darkwind (talk) 07:03, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Souad-index.jpg

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Marammain.jpg

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Image source problem with Image:Cand.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Image:Aktar.jpg

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Souad-index.jpg)

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Proposed deletion of Iwan (singer)

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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Lashonda! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 903 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Queen Sabika bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Grace Deeb - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
3. Sheikha Hala bent Daij Al Khalifa - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Speedy deletion nomination of Maram (singer)

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A tag has been placed on Maram (singer) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Madeline Matar

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A tag has been placed on Madeline Matar requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion," which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Epeefleche (talk) 06:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kubra Al Qaseer

The article Kubra Al Qaseer has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not notable, sorry. Lack of sources in Google News (only found passing mentions) or on Google. While it's a shame to lose the only Bahraini fashion designer on the site, the article fails WP:BIO and WP:GNG.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Mabalu (talk) 11:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

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Nomination of Madeline Matar for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Madeline Matar 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/Madeline Matar 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. Scottyoak2 (talk) 02:16, 28 June 2016 (UTC)