User talk:Lurdiak

Welcome to Wiki / Miki Sawaguchi

Hi Lurdiak. First, welcome to Wikipedia. There are some rules, and some frustrations involved in editing here, and they are sometimes hard to find, and harder to figure out how they are actually put into action here. This link may help to start with: Wikipedia:Welcoming committee/Welcome to Wikipedia. Once you become acquainted with them I hope you find editing here as fun and interesting as I have. I appreciate your interest in the Miki Sawaguchi article, and I agree with you that the article loses a LOT of information by not having an image of the subject. Unfortunately, it's become pretty much official policy here to ban all fair-use images of living, active subjects. I learned this the hard way by having dozens of "fair use" images of models, including Miki Sawaguchi, deleted. The alternative is to get a "free" image. User:Videmus Omnia/Requesting free content is an excellent essay on how to do this from an editor who has been successful in obtaining many free images. I don't have the heart to remove the image or put it up for deletion myself, but you can expect someone else to do so, soon. Thanks again for your contribution, and happy editing! Dekkappai 18:32, 2 November 2007 (UTC)