Commons:Administrators/Requests/Red-tailed hawk

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 Support = 30;  Oppose = 2;  Neutral = 0 - 94% Result. Successful. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:32, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Red-tailed hawk

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Hello!

I'm Red-tailed hawk, a VRT permissions agent and license reviewer. I've been helping out on Commons over the past few years, during which time I've made just over 12.5K edits. Most of my work on Commons has been related to copyright review; I regularly patrol new files to ensure that they are compliantly licensed, and I participate in related deletion discussions. I want to become an admin on Commons for three main reasons: 1) I want to help work on reducing the several-months-long backlog of deletion requests, 2) I want to ensure that files that are tagged as copyright violations (and thereby listed in Category:Copyright violations) are swiftly actioned, and 3) I want to undelete photos for which we have received valid permission via VRT. I have previously worked in an administrative capacity on issues related to copyright on the Uyghur Wikipedia, where I was a temporary admin in order to remove copyright violations present within the encyclopedia's locally hosted images and to bring the Uyghur Wikipedia in line with the global licensing policy.

I am familiar with the policies of Wikimedia Commons and I am generally familiar with copyright laws. In cases where I am unsure about how to interpret Commons policy or have questions about particular applications of copyright law to a file on Commons, I will consult other administrators or open discussions rather than taking direct action myself.

— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:13, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  •  Question How do you decide whether a file should be tagged as {{Copyvio}}, {{No permission since}}, or be nominated for COM:DR? -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    With respect to each of the three tags:
    1. In general, I have used the {{Copyvio}} tag for what appears to be a fairly unambiguous copyright violation where there is no evidence that the copyright holder has released the file under a suitable free license. I don't tag files with this if there are possible arguments that the file is PD, if there could be reasonable good faith disagreements around whether the file is over or under the threshold of originality, or if the file could reasonably be the uploader's own work. As such, I try to only slap this on when I can find previous publication of the material where the rights to the file are (implicitly or explicitly) reserved. For example, when reverse image search finds that an image uploaded as "own work" is actually an Associated Press photograph from 2022, i would tag as copyvio.
    2. The {{No permission since}} tag gets used by me when the file appears to have been previously published online elsewhere without a free license but there is a non-trivial possibility that the uploader is the copyright holder. For example, if a photograph by a professional headshot photographer named "Manuel Arroyo-Flores" is uploaded by an account named "ManuelAF" as own work in medium quality and without EXIF, I would probably tag as no permission.
    3. I send files to DR when issues are present and either non-obvious or may reasonably draw good-faith disagreement. There are also times where an uploader simply removes one of the "copyvio" or "no permission" tags I've placed without stating why, in which case I send it to DR so that a discussion on the file's copyright status can be had.
    Overall, I think I'm fairly conservative on my own use of the {{Copyvio}} tag relative to sending things to DR, and I use the "no permission" tag in the special case where the uploader might plausibly be the copyright holder but we lack evidence (such as high-quality and/or full EXIF) that they indeed are. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 11:20, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question You were involved in requesting restoration of one of images that is now nominated for deletion. How hasn't this affected your adminship nomination? --George Ho (talk) 13:07, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As evidenced by the participation of multiple experienced admins in the original undeletion discussion who disagreed with each other, and while I have articulated my reading of policy clearly, I think this is one of those edge cases where reasonable people can disagree about the appropriate action to take in light of Commons policy. As I expressed in my comments in that deletion discussion, I think a COM:VPC discussion around how to handle these sorts of edge cases would reduce friction going forward and would provide for clearer guidance—both to uploaders and to file patrollers. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 01:00, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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