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January 26, 2010
Vanity Posting
Could someone who knows how to do it, kindly replace my photo on Wikipedia with a more flattering one?
I am very grateful to the person who took and posted it, but at the time I was standing on a train while stooping to speak into a microphone tethered on a short lead three feet from the ground, As a result I look stunted and a very strange shape (no offence meant to anyone who is a very strange shape).
Pure vanity, and I am sorry :-)
Posted by craig on January 26, 2010 8:46 PM in the category Life
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Craig, according to Wikipedia at the moment, "Image uploads, deletes and restores are temporarily disabled while we upgrade our servers".
Perhaps if you could post here a more suitable picture then I or someone else will try to do the business once the service resumes.
Posted by: MJ at January 26, 2010 9:19 PM
That article could probably also do with a paragraph on The Catholic Orangemen.
Posted by: Ed Davies at January 26, 2010 9:35 PM
This is a cool one if you can get permission to use it:
http://www.independentworldreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/craig-murray.jpg
That's a thinker one, which I think has been artworked, a tad.
The other alternative is to use one where you're actually doing something like giving a lecture etc.
Smiling to camera, or passport style doesn't really do it in my book. Too vain.
Posted by: ediot at January 26, 2010 10:07 PM
Craig
this off topic but have see this story about Uzbekistan in Aljazeera today.
“A photographer in Uzbekistan has said she has been charged with slandering the dignity of the Central Asian state through her photographs and a documentary film portraying of life in the isolated state.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/20101261519466990.html
Posted by: Talat at January 26, 2010 10:08 PM
good idea. That photo makes you look like a tourbus guide for Saga.
Posted by: ed hall at January 26, 2010 10:09 PM
ed
LOL. Exactly.
Posted by: Craig at January 26, 2010 10:22 PM
Talat
Thanks - yes I've known about it some time. Will do an Uzbek roundup soon
Posted by: Craig at January 26, 2010 10:23 PM
So of course I had to go look at it -
It's much better than Juan Cole's.
There, that should start a few daft arguments ...
Posted by: Richard Robinson at January 26, 2010 10:36 PM
If I can upload I will - Craig I owe you bundles
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Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 26, 2010 11:04 PM
This is the time, this is the place, this is the moment.
Posted by: Mark Golding - Children of Iraq at January 26, 2010 11:11 PM
If nothing else could be uploaded, can the current one be removed?
Posted by: Craig at January 26, 2010 11:48 PM
Craig -
In order to to edit that picture one requires at least a class of user named "autoconfirmed", the account needs to be at least 4 days old and needs to have made 10 edits to other pages, none of which have been disputed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels
My own account is less than an hour old. But I'll make the 10 less serious edits (which do not involve changing the main image, for example) to something innocuous, which won't raise disputes, over the few days. Hmm... now to try and think of 10 things I actually know something about.
I downloaded Ediot's reference, but could not upload this as your signature picture until this probationary period as a Wiki editor has been fulfilled.
Please confirm the picture for my upload which you would like to represent you - you have 4 days to choose one.
Posted by: glenn at January 27, 2010 1:54 AM
Glenn
Wow! Thanks for all that trouble. Just any picture in which I don't look like a Saga tour guide!
Posted by: Craig at January 27, 2010 5:51 AM
I haven't got time to search for photos of you, but if you can post, on this thread, the URL of a suitable photo I can do this for you as soon as I see it, subject to one VERY IMPORTANT proviso:
When it comes to images, Wikipedia is super-hot on copyright - the image MUST be available under a "free" license (roughly: one that allows the free use of the image by anyone, for any purpose (including commercial use), without payment, subject only (if required) to the author/copyright holder being acknowledged.
The easiest way of doing this is to post a copyright notice on the web page containing the image. The recommended license is the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. A good example of how to do it is on the Christian Peacemaker Teams website:
http://www.cpt.org/
http://cpt.org/website_policies
(There are other ways of dealing with the copyright issue, but they involve a lot of time-consuming wiki-hassle)
Posted by: Neil at January 27, 2010 6:18 PM
I see someone else has now posted a (very small) pic from the Univ of Dundee website (many thanks), but of course it is now slated for deletion because it lacks copyright info (and there is no copyright info on the Univ site that I can see).
Posted by: Neil at January 28, 2010 1:43 PM
Ah, that's fine then. My admin rights don't take effect for another 2 days, so I was beaten to it, but at least I'll have edit abilities shortly.
Posted by: glenn at January 28, 2010 6:45 PM
Sorry, it isn't all right, because the image is going to be deleted. Someone needs either to provide an appropriate copyright release for this image, or to provide another image which does have acceptable copyright status.
Sorry to keep going on about copyright, but there's no point uploading an image which is just going to get deleted.
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Posted by: SallieDoggers at February 6, 2010 12:37 AM
Pic has duly been deleted from Wikipedia for lack of copyright info (Wikipedia allows 7 days for copyright info to be produced, if not then pic gets deleted).
As I said above, I'm happy to add a pic to Craig's Wikipedia article as soon as I see it, but it MUST, MUST, MUST have copyright clearance.
Posted by: Neil at February 6, 2010 6:51 PM
Pic has duly been deleted from Wikipedia for lack of copyright info (Wikipedia allows 7 days for copyright info to be produced, if not then pic gets deleted).
As I said above, I'm happy to add a pic to Craig's Wikipedia article as soon as I see it, but it MUST, MUST, MUST have copyright clearance.
Posted by: Neil at February 6, 2010 6:52 PM
Craig - please refer me to a picture of yourself you'd like on Wikipedia for which you own the copyright. I have editing rights now, and need a suitable picture. How about the one from this website?
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