Commons:Deletion requests/File:Haley Lu Richardson 2020 Portrait.jpg
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This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.
selfie by a notable individual, uploaded by a new account with no other edits. According to EXIF, seems to have been copied from VSCO, dubious self-work claim FASTILY 10:05, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- This image (JPEG) was provided by the subject directly to the editor (vvaliquette) and specifically to update the former and older portrait. The image is wholly owned by the subject and was taken by her family with full consent and transfer. If the image appears on VSCO, it remains the subject's image and is under her control. The image is appropriate for Wikipedia use as provided and the edit (by vvaliquette) was performed with diligence. 68.110.8.14 21:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Fastily: Hi! I decided to look into this myself to see if this image was previously published elsewhere and then uploaded to commons. First, I usually use Google's Search by image feature to see if the image had been published anywhere else before and the only other versions were from other Wikipedia-related sites and one site that uses wiki commons image links. Here's what the search looks like. Unless the image was posted on a private account, it seems pretty likely that Commons was the first place this image has been published on the internet.
- I couldn't find a VSCO account belonging to Haley Lu Richardson, so I went to check her Instagram to see if it was published there as well and I couldn't find anything. But, from the wording in the EXIF metadata I believe that it could be possible that it was never published on the VSCO app only that the app was used to add filters to image. Notice how it says "Processed with VSCO with h3 preset". However, even if that isn't the case, VSCO says in their Terms of Service: "Some areas of the Services allow Users to post, publish, submit, upload, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Services (“Make Available”) content such as profile pictures or information, photos, images, music, videos, information, comments, questions, messages, works of authorship and other content or information (any such materials that a User does Make Available is referred to as “User Content”). You retain ownership of your User Content."
- I also want to make sure that the user Vvaliquette wasn't a dummy account. It isn't a new account, they joined Wikipedia in 2012 according to their Global account infomation page. They also were the original uploader of the previous Infobox image before it was transferred to Commons and were the one to provide the permission ticket for the image to be used. (Not really a relevant to this but in the File History it says that the user FastilyClone transferred the image, is this one of your bots that you created?). Because of the image transfer the file's history only dates back to 2016 this activity isn't listed there, but from looking at Vvaliquette's Talk Page, you can see that they were the one who was asked to email the permission for the photo and Vvaliquette confirmed that they sent the email on another user's Talk Page here.
- The main concern that I came across when looking at Vvaliquette's account is that it appears that they have a personal connection with Haley Lu Richardson. Their contributions on Wikipedia pretty much only consist of edits on Haley Lu Richardson and her father, Forrest L. Richardson's pages. According to their Wikipedia User Page they are from Phoenix, Arizona same as Richardson. Most of their edits occurred in August 2013 and also they were the one who created the Haley Lu Richardson article in the first place, and if you read the first version of the article, you can see from the wording that it is clear that the writer has a personal relationship with the subject. This goes against Wikipedia's guidelines as it is a Conflict of interest. I am unsure how to approach this because it looks like they realised this because the last edits they have made are uncontroversial like grammatical corrections, fixing formatting and adding citations or categories. Aside from the edits they made in August 2013, personally I wouldn't say they've violated any rules and I am not sure if it's worth reporting. But an important thing to note is that editors with a COI are encouraged to share images on Wikipedia.
- I think best thing to do is to add this template to ask for an email with permission from the owner, which I'll do after I've published this. In case that doesn't work out and the image ends up getting deleted because the permission hadn't been received or approved, I have uploaded a couple images that are a little less recent but are licensed under Creative Commons, one from 2018 and one from 2019.
- I know this was slightly long, I just wanted to make sure that I covered everything. Hopefully this all makes sense, if there's something I missed or you're confused about, please reply back.
- Thanks :)
- SINGmeAsadSONG (talk) 04:10, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
- The image was provided by the subject (Haley L. Richardson) to accompany her Wikipedia page. I am not sure why my initial reply comments were not taken seriously, but since have obtained a signed FREE LICENSE from the owner of the Work so this can be put to rest and there is no more debate about the image. The FREE LICENSE specifically acknowledges Wikimedia Commons and has been submitted. Thank you. Vvaliquette (talk) 16:33, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination, permission needed. — Racconish 💬 13:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
