User talk:Tweedo

April 2012[edit]

Your addition has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 14:57, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. The basic rule of thumb with photographs of people is that you cannot copy it from other websites and put it on Wikipedia. With the photo of Walliams you uploaded, that was taken from Heat magazine, which is copyright, and is itself credited to ITV with a copyright. That means it cannot be used on Wikipedia at all. The only photos you can use are either ;

one you took yourself and are happy to license to Wikipedia under a Creative Commons licence
one that has already been published on a website with a suitable Creative Commons licence that allows Wikipedia to re-use it.

That almost always means you cannot use photos from celeb magazines or similar websites. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 16:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]