Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Wikimedia Giphy stickers 2019

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Files in Category:Wikimedia Giphy stickers 2019

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All these indicate that they were created by Idil Keysan. I'm not sure who that is, but it does not appear to be User:Selsharbaty (WMF), as they identify as Samir Elsharbaty on their meta user page. I don't have reason to doubt that these were made for the WMF, but we still need evidence to very that these have been properly released under a free license, and "made for" the WMF is not sufficient to demonstrate that the WMF owns the intellectual property rights in order to release them.

GMGtalk 13:06, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @GreenMeansGo! Sorry for the delay in getting back to you and for the confusion caused here in the first place. My name is Samir Elsharbaty, I work with the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department. The Giphy stickers uploaded by me recently are the work of the Turkish illustrator Idil Keysan for the benefit of the Wikimedia Foundation. You can read more about this on the Wikimedia Foundation website here. I'm sorry. I had to upload the files as my own work then change the author name and remove the self-published category as Idil is not a Wikimedia user and because the work was directed by our team. Please feel free to ask me more questions about this situation. I will be happy to give more context if needed. Thank you so much for reviewing the media copyrights which is something we appreciate and value and take very seriously too. --Selsharbaty (WMF) (talk) 15:38, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: I have responded to Samir Elsharbaty on my user talk page. GMGtalk 15:40, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I just read the blog post. Idil said "My favorite GIF is the brain character eating books, therefore I have no doubt that Idil talk about the nominated files, and therefore has agreed for their publications. And I also trust this blog post for to be not a falsification of the words of the artist. Usually we need a permission via com:OTRS, however for this precise case the blog post is IMO sufficient proof of the acceptance of the artist, and it is very credible that there is no copyright problem here. Christian Ferrer (talk) 07:16, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: as per my comment above. --Christian Ferrer (talk) 07:17, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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