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I've also reported your image as an obvious copyright violation. On Flickr it's Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) but you've released it as CC BY-SA 4.0 Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:39, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Dear Jim, I have contacted the Photographer and She has granted permition to use the image by e-mail. MFErickson ( talk) 06:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC)MFERICKSON MFErickson ( talk) 06:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I'll reply to your comment on my talk page in due course, but let's deal with the copyright first. If you mean she has emailed you, rather than the Wikimedia Foundation, that's not enough. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. The simplest way to release the image for free use, as required here, is for her to change the licence on Flickr to CC BY-SA 4.0 or Public Domain. She needs to be aware that doing so means that anyone can use the image for any purpose, including commercial. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:09, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Hi Jim,

the photographer said she no longer has access to her Flickr account. MFErickson ( talk) 06:49, 27 March 2024 (UTC) reply

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You said Professor Mariella Herberstein is a notable academic on her field, and wikipedia had an initiated to diminish the gender gap on articles by creating more pages about women.... Both of those statements may be true, but that doesn't mean that you can just write what you want.

You said, This was not done on request by the person, and she is not even aware of the existence of it. That isn't quite the same as saying that you have no conflict of interest. If you write about yourself, your friends, colleagues or relatives, you must declare that in the interest of transparency.

Also read the guidance below:

• When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

• Most of your refs are her own papers, interviews with her, her own university profile and similar. Her publications cannot be used to reference themselves or anything else. You can have a list of significant publication with no referencing for the items in the list (see for example Emma_Louisa_Turner#Publications, where the books and articles are unreferenced in the lists; some link to full free text or have notes, unlikely to apply to Herberstein).
• Her notability as linked above depends on what other, independent, third-party sources say about her and her work. We are not interested in what she says about herself or what she has written
• I'm not clear why Eurovision and The Sound of Music are significant in making her notable, even though you put them in your lead section.

• You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

• You use her first name throughout, and give opinions such as She is known for her pioneering research in arachnology... Her contributions to the field have significantly advanced... well-reputed... with the aim to enhance how researchers around the world can use the historical collection data... Mariella is passionate about... and so on, all either unsourced or sourced to her own work.

• There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
• You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

• I didn't check, apart from the image.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. She's clearly notable, but we need proper sourcing and a neutral tone. If you are finding lots of refs easily, you are probably doing it wrong. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:48, 25 March 2024 (UTC) reply