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Wikipedia Locks Zara Larsson’s Page After TikTok Plea Over Profile Photo

Site moderators imposed temporary semi-protection after a day of rapid image swaps triggered by her video.

Overview

  • Larsson posted a Feb. 18 TikTok asking users to stop reverting her page to a performance shot and vowed to keep replacing it with a preferred portrait.
  • The page’s edit history recorded roughly 70 revisions in 24 hours as users repeatedly changed the lead image, with some edits described as vandalism.
  • Administrators placed a temporary lock on the article, marking it semi-protected from further changes until next week.
  • The disputed photo was a cropped 2024 Isle of Wight Festival image by Raphael Pour-Hashemi, while her preferred choice is a Creative Commons–licensed shot from her 2025 Midnight Sun tour uploaded Jan. 31, 2026.
  • The flare-up highlighted Wikipedia’s use of freely licensed images and its discouragement of subjects editing their own pages, and it paralleled recent complaints from Perfume Genius about outdated photos.