User talk:Adkison

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Hello, Adkison, 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:

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Hello. Concerning your contribution, Image:Alicia keys.jpg, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from either web sites or printed material without the permission of the author. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://secondcitystyle.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/04/alicia_keys.jpg. As a copyright violation, Image:Alicia keys.jpg appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Image:Alicia keys.jpg has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. For text material, please consider rewriting the content and citing the source, provided that it is credible.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at [[Talk:Image:Alicia keys.jpg]] and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
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However, for text content, you may want to consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you, and please feel free to continue contributing to Wikipedia. NrDg 23:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi
Sorry, but I removed your image from the Nicole Alexander article again. The image you uploaded is copyrighted, and fair use can't usually be claimed for images of living persons (See WP:NONFREE#Images_2 for the guideline). I would love to have a picture in the article, but it really needs to be a free picture.
Thanks & Cheers, Amalthea^Talk 03:02, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is not permitted to upload images to Wikipedia that you find on Google or a random website. They must be available under a free license or usable under the very narrow non-free criteria. If you upload any more images without complying with the image use policy, you are liable to be blocked from editing. Stifle (talk) 11:12, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]