User talk:JohnHope91

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Thanks for uploading File:Michael Bastian EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF GANT.jpeg. However, it needs some more work before it is okay to use on Wikipedia.

Please click here and do the following:

1. Add a description of where the image comes from (not what it is) and who the creator is. Please be specific, and include a link if you can.
2. Find the appropriate license from the list of free, non-free media, or public domain options. Copy the license template and paste it in the file's page, and save.

If you follow these steps, your image can help enhance Wikipedia. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the media copyright questions page.

Thank you for your contribution! --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 20:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There's a link to the source present and the link also contains the copyright information. Is that enough? JohnHope91 (talk) 14:43, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's enough to make it clear that the image violates

the non-free content rules and needs to be deleted, but other than that, it's not good enough. The purpose of license tagging is to let people know the copyright status of an image simply by looking at its description page, rather than needing to run all over the Internet looking at websites that may or may not still be up. --Carnildo (talk) 23:14, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply

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Is there anything I can do to solve this issue? JohnHope91 (talk) 21:48, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Since the subject of the picture is still alive, Wikipedia policy requires that any image of him be free content. You could try contacting him or the person who runs the website and request an image be released under a free-content license (see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission#How to ask for permission), or you could look on websites such as Flickr for existing images that are already under a free license (but be careful: people on those websites sometimes falsely claim that an image is free when it isn't). --Carnildo (talk) 03:09, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'll give it a go. JohnHope91 (talk) 15:23, 11 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]