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 ==  Image:Mouse in mousetrap.jpg == 

 Hi, we have a somehow controversial  whose nickname looks like the Russian word for Rat (КРЫСА) written in Cyrillic. The image is constantly used as an attack against him. Do you plan to use the image for an article? Maybe it is possible to delete it? Currently I put it into the BadImage list , but this is a sort of a kludge.   

 == Fair use in portals == 

 As you might know, I've created an amendment for fair use in portals after the discussion located at  Wikipedia talk:Fair use. It would be great if you could express your opinion, in support or against.   

 == David Dickinson Pic == 

 I agree with you in that the picture is not ideal, but we haven't got any others, and I don't think it can cause confusion or be PoV or anything like that. Thoughts?   

 I'll take that for a ""no"".   

 == Publicity stills == 

 Thanks for your contributions to celebrity articles. However using plain publicity stills of living celebrities discourages other users from acquiring free images and so is prohibited by our policy (""An image of a living person that merely shows what they look like ... would almost certainly not be acceptable as fair use""). Fair use is a last resort for unrepeatable images that are of particular relevance to the article, such as those of historical significance. Thanks,  •   
 :I am sure I am not the first person to say this, but I am mega confused! Firstly, I don't want to break the law/rules - but as with most areas of the law, there are grey areas, which Wiki has tried hard to define clear lines for all to keep inside - I want to do that. You will note from my edit record that I upload relativly few images for that reason - I want to be clearly inside the rules on licensing. However, perhaps you can educate me here. I have tagged all of the images in question as ""Promotion"" (as advised by another ""knowledgable"" editor on this subject), but having read through the various Wiki notes, perhaps I should be tagging them as Promophoto? I have been careful to load images where used in Bio's uploaded from mainly their agents websites - which having read the rules on Wiki again, would fall inside the Promophoto tagging. So my conclusion at present, is that I am tagging these images incorrectly as Promotion as opposed to Promophoto. However, your first point is my greatest confusion at present - agree that free use would be prefered over fair use (and that if that is the case, then all these images could be tagged with ""Fair use/replace with free"" tags). However, the ""discourage/remove/therefore to encourage"" piece seems a bit too righteous? I realise this whole license tagging area is fraught with difficulty, and I am just trying to get it right - but having had previous discussions with experts on this subject, another different view is most confusing. Best Regards, -   
 ::Basically it has been clarified what was meant by WP:FUC #1. That is images need not necessarily be existant on Wikipedia for them to be considered ""available"". See Wikipedia talk:Fair use#.22Repeatability.22_criterion. Obviously for dead or exceptionally reclusive celebrities this may not be the case but ""An image of a living person that merely shows what they look like ... would almost certainly