Talk:Samantha Sepulveda

As a courtesy...

Sepulveda asked the NY Post reporter not to include the name of the small community on Long Island where she works as a cop. But the reporter did so anyway, looking it up in NY state's public records. I chose to disinclude that item of information from the article, as a courtesy. While it is now trivial to find, it is also a trivial detail that doesn't really enhance the article. She mentioned she has already had a stalker. I thought it would be best not to make it even more trivially easy for a new stalker to try to locate her home.

If anyone thinks the name of her town should be included, after all, I request they discuss that issue here, first, as a courtesy to someone likely to trigger the attention of stalkers. I request a {{ping}} please.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 19:05, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Her home town was introduced into the article. Yes, some of the news sources explicitly name that town. Most do not. If there were strong reasons to include it, I would have no concern with doing so. But I think that this is an instance when we should follow the examples of those newspapers and tv channels which honor Sepulveda's request to not publish that detail. Let's be frank, her beauty, and independence, make her a likely target for harassment. By making potential harassers do some homework we eliminate at least the laziest and stupidest.

So, as I wrote above, I trimmed her hometown, at least until this important issue is discussed. Geo Swan (talk) 00:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

I've asked Misclesjones to come here and explain why he or she thought it was important to include the hometown. Geo Swan (talk) 01:24, 11 February 2017 (UTC)o

• This discussion is just hilarious, from the first reference "Freeport mayor backs officer's underwear modeling business" to the caption of the first large pic in the referenced article "Freeport Police Officer Samantha Sepulveda, a seven-year veteran of the force, also has 119,000 followers on Instagram, where she has photos of herself modeling lingerie and bathing suits. Photo Credit: Taken by @jpaullphoto" and then from a linked website from her Instagram account "She soon graduated and joined the Freeport Police Department in her native Long Island, New York". Seems like she no longer cares about this information getting out.
• Also her website seems to have been reclaimed by a search service. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.68.173.124 (talk • contribs) 23:42, 2019 June 6 (UTC)
  • I just checked, Ms Sepulveda seems to have shut down her twitter feed as well. Geo Swan (talk) 04:28, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Question...

I have a lacrosse question. I wrote: "She was the seventh highest goal scorer in the team's history." The source said: "At midfield Sepulveda ranks third all-time in career draw controls with 76 and is seventh all-time in career ground balls with 92."

I suspect I may have misunderstood the lacrosse terms. Help please! Geo Swan (talk) 19:14, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

No, u were correct on the lacrosse stats..thank you...sorry for the delay in answering...still learning how to use this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unicornofengland (talk • contribs) 05:11, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

infobox

I used the {{Birth year and age}} template when I created the {{infobox}}. The {{Birth year and age}} template, and related templates, emit the birthdate in a machine readable format, so it should be prefered over simple text representation. Some people argue that, for living people, we should not use the exact birthdate, because it exposes people to identity theft.

Someone replaced the template with a text version, specifying an exact birthdate. I reverted this for the reasons stated above. Geo Swan (talk) 15:10, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Geo! We appreciate you!!!!! Still learning over here. Samantha has a website we are currently building so when it is launched we can attach pictures I assume and they will stay? Looks like someone took it down due to verification requirements?! Thanks again Geo! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unicornofengland (talk • contribs) 20:08, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

If Samantha is thinking of an image, or some images, she thinks would be good choices to illustrate this article there are a couple of simple ways to make them available.

With a few exceptions, every image used on the wikipedia, and its sibling projects, has to have had the person who owned the intellectual property rights explicitly allow anyone to re-use the image. Personally, I have put every image I take into the public domain, at least so far. But lots of people release their image under what is called a "creative commons" license. It makes it available for re-use, but it requires every re-user to explicitly credit the owner, and to only re-use it if they also note it is being re-used under that creative commons license.

There is a site called flickr.com, where people upload their photos. It is as simple to sign up as to signup to facebook, or twitter. When one uploads an image it is easy to choose to put it in the public domain, or to release it under a creative commons license, like "cc-by". Once Samantha has chosen to put a couple of photos there, under the right license, any wikipedia contributor can re-use them here, with no further effort on her part.

Anyone else who has taken a picture of her could do this too. So, if you were on the same softball team as she was, and you took a team picture, you could upload it there, and that could be the image we used.

My best friend here, Sherurcij, started an article on Michelle Shephard, a beautiful and lovely Toronto Star reporter. It went unillustrated for a long time. But then I found that, when she visited Guantanamo, a GI took a photo of her: File:Author and jjournalist Michelle Shephard in Guantanamo.jpg, which I cropped: File:Michelle Shephard at Guantanamo, cropped.jpg. The US is different from every other country, in that every photo taken by a Federal employee, as part of their duties, is in the public domain. So I uploaded that photo. I've corresponded with her, and I know she found that photo unflattering. Anyone, with a wikipedia article, can be proactive, and make the first photo we can use for their article be one they chose, by uploading one to flickr.

Another way is by using our "one ticket" system. There is a committee of trusted volunteers, who handle corresponce with outsiders. They use something called a "one ticket" system to manage that correspondence. So, if Samantha emailed a photo to a contributor, like me, saying it was free to re-use here, she would then send an email to that committee of volunteers, who would ask her to confidentially confirm she really was authorized to use the photo. Alternately, if the photographer who took the glamorous photo were to send an email to [email:permissions-commons@wikimedia.org], they could establish that the photo was being used, with authorization.

The glamorous photo you initially put up looked like it came from a fashion shoot. If that was the case the rights owner was almost certainly the fashion photographer, or their employer. As a courtesy, the photographer may turn a blind eye when lovely models he or she photographs put the photos of themselves on instagram, or other social media. But, the wikipedia requires explicit permission.

Of course anyone, Michelle Shephard, Ms Sepulveda, or you or I, can give permission for a selfie.

Personally, because I respect Ms Sepulveda's brains, and commitment to helping others, if I had a choice of free photos, I would pick a non-glamorous one, maybe a graduation photo, or a casual photo from her time hanging out with friends, after work.

I hope this helps! Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 13:37, 16 February 2017 (UTC)

• Thank you Geo again on all of this information! I just found it. I have recently edited the page and attached Samantha's website. Can we now load pictures from the website onto Wikipedia, although I like the idea of a not so glamorous shot also but I will need to check with her what she would like to do. If she agrees on the selfie I will certainly submit it to you! Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unicornofengland (talk • contribs) 00:36, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
  • Can you upload images from her website? In general, not without having the photographer email permission to the confidential email address for that purpose. Ms Sepulveda may have images on her website, that were taken by the professional photographers she works with, where they only gave her permission to use the image on her own, personal websites. If her website contains selfies - images Ms Sepulveda took herself - someone would still need to have her send her permission to the confidential email address for permissions.
  • If you had a photo you took of her, or a selfie, you took of both of you, you would have the authority to upload that image, because you would own the intellectual property rights to it.
  • If Ms Sepulveda took a selfie of herself, after her makeup was perfect, just before, or after, a photo shoot, she would own that image.
  • Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 06:53, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
    • Thanks Geo! I currently have her working on getting me a selfie now. We will go that route until her next photo shoot in which than we will ask photographer for permission! Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unicornofengland (talk • contribs) 16:20, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
      • Hey Geo! I have that original pic for you to load up on wiki...just tell me how I should submit it or should I just post it? Thanks!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unicornofengland (talk • contribs) 18:30, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
        • Unicornofengland, I am sorry, I only returned here today, and didn't see your message until today. The short answer is to use Commons:OTRS. I'll send a longer reply by email.

          Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Current employer challenged and removed--

"but has refused to name her police department to avoid any negative association that might be made between her two careers." Please achieve consensus before adding it back. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Nationality

Her ethnicity is dominican, but as a US citizen, her nationality is American, not Dominican 192.82.10.251 (talk) 14:37, 25 May 2022 (UTC)