User talk:PuzzledWaste

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Non-free content use

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload files. However, it appears that one or more of the files you have uploaded or added to a page, specifically User:PuzzledWaste/sandbox, may fail our non-free policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted file of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Please stop adding non-free content to your user sandbox. Non-free files such as File:2004dnc logo 150pix 03 04.jpg and File:2004 Republican National Convention Logo.jpg can only be used in the article namespace per non-free content use criterion #9, which means it cannot be used in your user sandbox as explained here. If you want to practice editing in your sandbox, please use a freely licensed or public domain file instead; you can almost find such a file on Wikimedia Commons. So far, you've added a non-free file to your sandbox four times and it has been removed each time: twice by a WP:BOT and twice by myself. An edit summary was left each time the file was removed, but perhaps you didn't notice them or didn't understand them; so, for that reason, I'm leaving a more detailed message here on your user talk page. It's OK to make a mistake once, maybe even twice, but not over and over again. So, if you've got any questions about this, feel free to ask them below or at Wikimedia:Media copyright questions. If, however, you continue to try and add non-free content to your sandbox, an adminstrator will likely eventually step in and take some action against your account to stop you from doing so. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:47, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

My apologies. I don't recall seeing the edit summaries, and I also wasn't aware of the non-free policy. I will make sure this doesn't happen again. Again, I apologize. -- PuzzledWaste (talk) 21:58, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

It's a "mistake" that many make, including editors who've been editing for years; so, don't worry too much about it. You can tell whether a file is licensed as non-free by clicking on it and checking its page. If you see anything on the page that refers to non-free use or even fair use, then it's probably best to not try and add it to your sandbox. Anything that says the file was uploaded to Commons should be fine to use as long as the file doesn't end up deleted from Commons for some reason. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:06, 20 December 2021 (UTC)