User talk:James Wesley, Rawles

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, James Wesley, Rawles. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article James Wesley Rawles, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Hi James, just want to note that I posted the above notice out of an abundance of caution. There's nothing that says you can't edit your own articles as long as your edits aren't biased, and I do not see anything wrong with your edits - so feel free to carry on as before, it's just standard to let people know the "conflict of interest" policies when they edit articles where they may have a COI. Fyddlestix (talk) 12:30, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Photo of James Wesely, Rawles.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Photo of James Wesely, Rawles.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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• Clarification has been added at the page where that photo is housed (https://survivalblog.com/media/ ) The note at the top of that page now clearly states: All of these files are intended for free use in book catalogs, book reviews, wiki pages, et cetera. They also qualify as “free” images per Wikipedia:Non-free_content)"