Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Bech
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This part "Your site must not contain advertising in any form (e.g. Google ads, banner advertisings, pop-up windows)
You are not allowed to use Travian: Kingdoms contents for making money (neither your fan-site should be a commercial service nor charge any costs from users)" in the linked post contradicts the commercial use permission in the license template.
TFerenczy (talk) 08:10, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
- Well, there are strange things about Wikimedia licenses. The first time I uploaded a picture I did myself on Wikimedia, it was refused because a CC-BY-SA-NC license was not accepted. Few days after I met somebody who told me he was Wikipedia administrator and that the problem was due to NC clause. So I put it on CC-BY-SA license, but it did not prevent me to find unfair the choice of Wikimedia to impose people who do a work for free to allow them, or anybody else in the world, to make money with this work. I would certainly spend more time creating photos for Wikipedia articles if CC-BY-SA-NC license was proposed, and I would certainly not be the only one.
- Now for Travian screenshots :
- Travian Games allows to use pictures from their websites if there is an indication saying theses pictures belong to Travian Games, and if this websites don't try to get money by any way.
- Wikipedia and similar websites as vikidia.org don't oblige people to pay something to access their content and don't also contain advertising in any form.
- So, there should be a way to use pictures from Travian Games on Wikipedia and similar websites. I spent time to search a good license and as it is necessary to use a predefined tag, I found the {{Attribution|....}} one. But why does it includes this boring and liberticidal (because restricting authors choices) commercial use, and all other use is permitted. mention ?
- If there is an alternative tag only saying it belongs to ... without authorizing commercial use, just put it instead, or if you don't have the required write access, tell me what change to do. It will be a more clever attitude than for File:Cathode_ray_tube_diagram_fr.svg which was just a translation of File:Cathode_ray_tube_diagram-en.svg but was deleted because as I could not access the wikicode of the English file license declaration, I had to put one, a work I did honestly, but the result did not please somebody.
- If there is presently no tag available to give Travian screenshots the correct user license, the question is why. It is not a question for Wikimedia administrators who just have to apply rules created by others but for Wikimedia managers. Bech (talk) 17:23, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Bech I see where you are coming from but that's just the way Commons is I am afraid. Some Wikipedias allow hosting local files with more strict licenses locally (including the French one it seems) but others do not and can only use files from Commons. TFerenczy (talk) 15:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. Non-commercial licenses are not available on Commons. --Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:56, 1 September 2023 (UTC)