Talk:Alex Pettyfer

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Tenebrae in topic Birth date
Former good articleAlex Pettyfer was one of the Media and drama good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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DateProcessResult
September 23, 2006Good article nomineeListed
October 21, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
September 14, 2009Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Alex Pettyfer's Pic edit

what the hell happened to alex pettyfer's picture? i came to the page expecting to find a very nice very hot picture of alex pettyfer and i come and im like wtf? what happened to the pic? kk since for some unfathomable reason his beautiful picture was removed, i will generously supply one.

(well tht was my initial plan however i cldnt figure out how to insert said pics so it is up to u chose ur pictures wisely)

sincerely, (Peace555World (talk) 03:09, 1 January 2012 (UTC))  :)Reply

Picture added back. --Ebyabe talk - Repel All Boarders ‖ 18:22, 1 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Should we update his picture? This one seems a little old. --68.67.247.100 (talk) 11:06, 26 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

The problem is getting a freely licensed picture to use. Keith D (talk) 11:33, 26 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
I added 2 pictures yesterday from Wikimedia Commons. One to the Infobox, the other to the Career section. I hope this helps. AlaskaMike (talk) 03:28, 2 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
This is a clear misuse of WP:FAIRUSE. WP:FUR should be used in the cases of impossibility of finding any free image. — Bill william comptonTalk 05:05, 2 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
For clarification: We cannot use copyrighted images (such as a movie poster) when a free (not copyrighted) image can be found or created. In the case of a living person (such as Pettyfer), it is assumed that someone could take a photo of him. It may not be easy, but it is theoretically possible. The rare exception to this would be if the person were a complete recluse (think J. D. Salinger or Howard Hughes (when they were alive)). - SummerPhD (talk) 16:14, 2 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
Concerning about Alex Pettyfer's photo, I've searched through Flickr and have finally found a/an Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC-BY-ND 2.0) tagged photo, but the photo was actually "taken" (as stated on the photo's flickr page) three years ago also its not like an event or something, looked like some talk/game show and the shot's not very good as well. For the link of the photo click here. Nicholance (talk) 17:11, 23 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
Unfortunately, a license that includes a "No Derivative Works" condition is not considered free. For more information, see commons:Commons:Licensing. – Wdchk (talk) 14:24, 29 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

Category edit

Can this article be added to the category Category:Alex Rider? Stormbreaker is what he is most known for. Ollieinc (talk) 02:01, 1 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

We don't usually add a character category to an actor. Like David Tennant isn't under Doctor Who, or Dean Cain under Superman. I think in part b/c an actor could be under a potentially huge number of categories. --Ebyabe talk - Inspector General ‖ 14:26, 1 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Add alex pettyfer's picture please edit

When i came on this page i did not see any picture of alex pettyfer. So i tried to insert a picture of him but cant figure out how to. So please add a picture and please choose a good one Shehrin (talk) 10:06, 30 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Can you point to one with an appropriate licence? Keith D (talk) 12:09, 30 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Birth date edit

The claimed birth date was cited to an offline primary source, an England and Wales birth index. Wikipedia policy at WP:PRIMARY states that "sources that have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia; but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them." This birth index was not published — it is neither online nor in any cited book with ISBN etc. — and something someone went to some county clerk's office to look up is original research and essentially unverifiable. I've substituted a WP:SECONDARY that at least verifies an approximate year. Note that Wikipedia disallows the wikia IMDb to be used as a biographical reference citation. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:05, 21 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

I've found a date at the aggregator NNDB. I'll add that. --Tenebrae (talk) 18:07, 21 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
I must correct the comments on the non-publication of the index. The index is filmed and available in a number of public libraries in the UK. It is also available on some pay-per-view web sites. Keith D (talk) 21:11, 21 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Well, adding a link to its page, albeit paywalled, on one of those websites would be good, with a (subscription required) tag. That way we'll have both that official source and a freely viewable aggregator.--Tenebrae (talk) 20:46, 24 March 2016 (UTC)Reply