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Wikipedia currently requires that images are licensed under a free license such as the GFDL. Free licenses are obviously very permissive, and if I upload a picture of myself under such a license, then it means that I among other things allow the image to be used in adverticements such as banner ads. For privacy reasons this is not very appealing.
If you are producing a banner and want it to be able to fit in a standard banner slot, it should match one of the sizes given at standard banner sizes. Please group by and give the size to make it easy for people to find the banner which will fit their space.
Correct misinterpretations of free images. One of the main complaints about free images is lack of quality when compared with a promotional images. That is not true: there are very good free images as shown by Wikipedia:Featured pictures. In the case of replaceable images, it is possible that a promotional image will look better than free versions.
-Close up or detail photos are typically not permitted if the image is Non-Free.-Non-free images should only be uploaded after your article is live as unused non-free images need to be deleted from wikipedia. The proper license for these kinds of images is {{Non-free 3D art}}. The template clearly states that a fair-use rationale must be used ...
You can use (free) images from Wikipedia on your own site, or anywhere you like. You can use images that are freely-licensed images, provided you comply with the individual image' s license terms. While all article text is licensed under the GFDL, free images have several free content licenses to choose from.
In short, Wikipedia media (with the exception of "fair use" media—see below) should be as "free" as Wikipedia's content—both to keep Wikipedia's own legal status secure and to allow as much re-use of Wikipedia content as possible. For example, Wikipedia can accept images under CC-BY-SA (Attribution-Share Alike) as a free license, but not CC ...
You still retain any rights you previously held, but you also give non-exclusive license under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
The article subject is less likely to give you a photo to illustrate their article if it's already illustrated. Non-free images of living people, used solely to show what the person looks like, are nearly always replaceable per the non-free content criteria, item 1, except in rare examples like Osama bin Laden.