User talk:DC-wiki-2020

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 15:52, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Please do not advertise on Commons

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Wikimedia Commons has an educational purpose, and is not the place to post promotional links or to advertise. Creating articles, userpages, templates, etc. with promotional text is not permitted, nor is the posting of links anywhere on the Commons in an attempt to advertise a website, product, company, person, or organization. Uploading of company logos, press images, and the like in order solely to advertise or use them in promotional material on other wikis is also prohibited, and such images will be deleted if they are found to violate our policies. Recreation of deleted content or continuing to post links or promotional text or files after this warning may result in a block. Thank you for understanding.

  — Jeff G. ツ _{please ping or talk to me} 04:17, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

File:Web041119-ArchbishopGregoryPortrait 001-8x10-edit.jpg

File:Web041119-ArchbishopGregoryPortrait 001-8x10-edit.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Farragutful (talk) 12:40, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, this photograph seems to clearly be professional or semi-professional photograph.I think from the archdiocese of Atlanta or alternatively the DC one. If you are that photographer, we need more information to confirm it's you. Please see COM:OTRS for how you can privately provide that information. Thanks. Nil Einne (talk) 15:11, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

One more thing I should mention. If you connected to the Archdiocese of Washington or the Archdiocese of Atlanta in some way, we'd likely still welcome your contributions of some photographs, especially those of people for which there are articles on Wikipedia or elsewhere. We may or may use them in articles, but provided you contact OTRS and confirm your ability to licence the images, and listen when people tell you what stuff you aren't allowed to do or is inappropriate, you should be fine here. Note in particular, while you uploading images may be fine, you shouldn't generally try to add them to any articles on Wikipedia or elsewhere yourself. You should let other editors decide whether to use them. (If you do decide to edit any Wikipedia or other project besides Commons, note that many of them have strong policies on editing with a conflict of interest including mandatory disclosure if you are Commons:PAID in any way.) Also because you may not understand what images are useful on commons and which aren't that well, I'd suggest you go slow with any uploads. Just upload a few and take on board any feedback about whether those are appropriate for Commons. While I understand some of this may be confusing or seem like a fair amount of work, there are various reasons why it needs to be that way. 12:42, 18 January 2021 (UTC)