Commons:Administrators/Requests/Jasonanaggie

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Jasonanaggie

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Jasonanaggie (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 22:45, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

I feel I have shown that I care about the community here and feel I could be of benefit to the community further if I had the rights of an administrator, I have been able to improve incrementally the amount of files needing renaming, but this is all I can do with my renaming abilities. I greatly appreciate your consideration. Jasonanaggie (talk) 22:45, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Just to point out, I initiated most of those deletion requests, as the Flickr2Commons bot froze in a browser tab and kept uploading after I had thought it stopped. I moved to rectify the error immediately, before anyone would have even seen it. I am now waiting for an admin to approve these delete requests. Jasonanaggie (talk) 14:39, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per the above and below - I had never realized there were flickr-upload issues here and I probably should've checked before !voting but anyway - A) Everyone here uploads crap however 9 times of 10 we have them deleted under Author request which is what this user should be doing, B) Again not everyone has the time to categorize files however the next step would be to move them to a temporary category ... not just abandon them entirely, C) As noted below the editor hasn't actually helped with DR at all (well not that I can see anyway), In short I see many problems which I would prefer to see resolved before handing over the mop, Also unrelated but if the editor is mass-uploading shite then shouldn't they be banned/blocked from using the tool?, Anyway oppose. –Davey2010Talk 01:36, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You pointed out a few stragglers from my incident with flickr2commons bot, I did a batch delete but missed those couple plus a few more, it was easier to see now that the large mass was removed. I was trying to save the few good pictures that I meant to upload while still deleting all of the offending images at the same time. Thanks. Jasonanaggie (talk) 02:15, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - my first thought was 'never heard of this user'. Although on itself not a reason to oppose, it's a strong indication for me that a user probably lacks experience. Looking at the users contributions and deleted contributions, I noticed this user has not or hardly contributed to DRs, apart from nominating their own uploads for deletion and responding to DRs on their own uploads. I see problematic mass uploads, including a large batch in november of files without a valid license (example). Till now, this user has not shown any experience in our daily processes - Jcb (talk) 22:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm trying to see what this example points to, but it just brings me to a dead page. Is this something that you can see but I can't? Jasonanaggie (talk) 02:43, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That's true, only administrators can see deleted files. The example was your transfer of this Flickr file. Jcb (talk) 12:32, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Sure it was a misunderstanding between an administrator who was acting in good faith, but from what I gathered felt that I wasn't acting in good faith because I was asking for clarification on how to use of the VisualFileChange application for an obscure procedure (I honestly can't remember, what the specific issue I was having, but it was a real issue on my end), it was something that was viewed by the administrator that blocked me as being a question that was not logical. Other administrators saw that it was clearly a misunderstanding and told the person that had blocked me that they didn't feel that I was trying to be a problem, but was indeed the miscommunication that often happens when communicating by written text. There was no animus held by me or the administrator after this event and we agreed it was an honest misunderstanding. Thanks for asking for clarification! Jasonanaggie (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Question: Do you know COM:FOP? If so, please explain it in your own words. Is there FoP for buildings in the Philippines? For artworks in the United States? What kind of admin task do you plan to do if you are elected as admin? ★ Poké95 12:27, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely, it Is the principle that despite the common thinking among people that they can freely take pictures of buildings, monuments, paintings, etc. and that since their photograph was created by the individual that there are no restrictions on how the photograph is used, this fundamental misunderstanding by people is a lack of knowledge about recent legal rulings that cover architectural structures, paintings, sculptures and monuments in public locations are indeed covered by copyright law and that even if one's picture breaks the barrier of originality or creativity to make it another new work, it still is considered a derivative work of the architectural work that is covered by the copyright. This can become quite a confusing issue depending upon the prevailing copyright law in which the photograph was taken.

The Philippines does not have any case law (yet) providing for the Freedom of Panorama, and while photographs of buildings in the Philippines are fine for individual use under the principle of Fair Use but does not reach the level of free use that is needed for works on Commons. So a picture of a building in the Philippines would not be acceptable for publication on Commons as to be safe, the building would be a work covered by copyright as would the photograph of it would be as a derivative work of the copyrighted work.

In the United States, artwork on public display is not covered by Freedom of Panorama unless the display was installed prior to 1923 in which case the work would be in the Public Domain. Also, any work that was installed prior to 1978 and was not installed with a copyright notice at the time is likewise in the Public Domain.

If I am elected to be an admin, I hope to help clear the administrative backlogs needing attention. Commons could be of much greater use to everyone if it had another person watching over files being uploaded to the database, and to maintain the standards of all files available to users. Thanks for your consideration Jasonanaggie (talk) 13:16, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The United States and I live in Texas. Jasonanaggie (talk) 13:18, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

File naming is conventions that are considered to be the best norms for naming an image to begin with; giving a clear descriptive name to the picture. The guidelines of file renaming give a set of standards to what files need renaming and give good rules of the road as to how to best categorize images by what type of image is being described, a series of photographs taken sequentially should be named differently than a picture taken of a unique place at a unique time. Jasonanaggie (talk) 13:25, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If I am elected to be an admin, I hope to help clear the administrative backlogs needing attention, as that seems to be quite an issue. Commons could be of much greater use to everyone if it had another person watching over files being uploaded to the database, and to maintain the standards of all files available to users. I feel that there needs to be more admins to make commons a more organized place, giving structure to some areas where chaos reigns. If users are able to reach a file relevant to their needs without having to wade through large and obscure categories I feel not only would Commons be a more welcoming place but it would help everyone across all of the wiki projects. Jasonanaggie (talk) 19:56, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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