Identified the van purely on the garden wall brickwork as well as the house brickwork/windows, (Isle of Dogs being a tiny area I knew it couldn't be hard to find :)): Ford Transit front and rear
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I have been editing Wikimedia Commons for over 4 years and have learnt a lot in that time. I categorise images, upload images from Flickr and upload my own images in Category:Photographs by Sahaib. I have made mistakes, one of the most recent examples being when I reverted too much (see here) which I regret very much as I should have known better. That being said, the vast majority of my almost 200,000 user contributions are positive which can be seen by the relatively small amount of talk page messages I have received. Sahaib (talk) 18:13, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Hello, I will be withdrawing my nomination, thanks everyone for participating. I'm still going to be just as active, and hope to improve the errors mentioned. Sahaib (talk) 21:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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Weak oppose i dont wanna break his spirit here. yes, he did so much work in small time, he uploaded so many files. but after i checked his user talk page(many and recent deletion notices) and that mentioned com:an/b discussion here i oppose this request. but i willing to change my vote through this request page if answers/comments satisfies me. good luck. modern_primatඞඞඞ ----TALK 21:34, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
I would not hold the deletion of Disney costumed characters against them (I was the deleting admin). As mentioned, there is an ongoing RFC, which I did a second call for in VPC. Abzeronow (talk) 17:33, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Neutral, leaning oppose, per modern primat. Queen of Hearts (talk) 04:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support seems like a trustworthy user. Many good and valuable users have had a lot of deletion notices on our talk pages. Bastique☎ let's talk! 15:50, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Weak support basically because the concerns raised are valid but Bastique makes a strong point. --Bedivere (talk) 16:40, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support --Yann (talk) 08:57, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Strong oppose I checked their participation in DRs and half of them are from this year.Sahaib didn't create any DR this year, an admin did. The reason on all of them is the incorrect usage of {{No permission}}. The most perplexing case is perhaps File:Bola de Nieve.png, a photo taken in the 1950s depicting a legendary musician from Cuba where copyright protection for photographs is 25 years. Apart from their misjudgment Sahaib doesn't notify uploaders when tagging their files with {{No permission}}. Does Sahaib expect people with a handful uploads to check their watchlist every week? Günther Frager (talk) 14:01, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
@Günther Frager: the user who uploaded the image User:ÑuÑuX, hasn't made any contributions since 21 April 2021 so I don't think notifying them would have made a difference. The photo also doesn't state when it was taken. Sahaib (talk) 14:23, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
It was not only with :ÑuÑuX, as I wrote you didn't notify any user (> 100) this year. Inactive users are not second hand citizens. If you tag their files you must inform them, it is even written in the tag you used. Your justification is rather cynical if you checked their history and consciously decided not to notify them. Günther Frager (talk) 14:50, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
@Günther Frager: I did a quick check of some of the discussions and all of the images were uploaded by now inactive users but I can still see, how it is problematic so I promise to notify users going forward. Thanks. Sahaib (talk) 15:08, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Weak support as I believe they will improve the issue pointed out by Günther Frager. --Tmv (talk) 07:12, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
Weak support per above and comments below. ToadetteEdit (talk) 08:40, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Oppose the talk page is full of successful DR notices from 2020 until as recently as October 2024. So the talk page is not as empty as the candidate says. We do not need admins on commons that don't know what is free of copyright.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 13:42, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
@Paradise Chronicle: please see my response above to Modern primat. Whilst the discussions are recent the images in question are were uploaded over 2 years ago in the vast majority of cases which shows I have been very good at knowing what is free of copyright. According to this, I have uploaded 7,385 files, I quickly counted the number of images deleted on my talk page and got about 140 which would be about 1.89%. If excluding the images as part of the aforementioned Disney costume discussion (about 67), then that number falls to about 73 or 0.98%. Sahaib (talk) 17:01, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Oppose. I share the issues raised by Günther Frager. I've only seen admins converting Sahaib's no permission tags to a regular DR, and there's been no recent activity there (except this DR which was created after this nomination). Ratekreel (talk) 17:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Notice that Sahaib didn't notify the uploader form the DR mentioned by Ratekreel. The DR was made at 15:47, less than 45 minutes after their promise to notify users. Günther Frager (talk) 18:50, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I've manually notified the uploader. Sahaib would do well to install AjaxQuickDelete gadget (in Preferences). Abzeronow (talk) 20:25, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Oppose, the candidacy is premature. In order to ensure uniform application of policies and compliance to guidelines, communication between users in the community is mandatory for Commons to work. The point raised by Günther Frager is prohibitive for a candidateship; one have to show knowledge the mechanics of checks and balances between lambda user operations and the powers given to the sysops (e.g. deletion procedure) before receiving such powers. The user has unfortunately not shown they master the workings. Webfil (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Weak oppose The issue Günther Frager raised and is apparently still an issue signals they aren't ready for the mop yet. If they improve on notifying uploaders, I could support candidacy in a year. Abzeronow (talk) 20:30, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I contested the first one. Second one I'd have notified of a copyvio since it looks like a netcopyvio. And I turned one of the third into a DR. Abzeronow (talk) 21:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Comments
Please add Babel to your user page. Thank you and best of luck.FitIndia 19:59, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
A few questions for the candidate.
1. A user uploads a photograph from Flickr of the entire Louvre courtyard. I.M. Pei's Louvre pyramid is near the middle of the photograph, but it only takes up 10% of the photograph. What would be your process in license reviewing this photo?
OK, would this be the only part of your process or are there other steps involved? Abzeronow (talk) 21:25, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
The first step would be to ensure that the license is compatible with commons (Commons:Flickr files). Sahaib (talk) 21:39, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
User answered this correctly in my opinion. Abzeronow (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
2. A user uploads the 1924 sound recording by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, is this OK for Commons, why or why not? Abzeronow (talk) 20:13, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Per Public domain music, which states that "recordings made between 1923 and 1946 will be protected for 100 years after publication", so presumably the recording is still copyrighted until 2025. Sahaib (talk) 09:30, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Yes, that is correct. Abzeronow (talk) 16:45, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/commons.wikimedia.org/Sahaib i checked here. and your contributions really got high when 2022. in other years they are relatively normal amount of contributions. my question is, how did you manage to reach these numbers in 2022? i cant believe you did such a work in 2022 with "hand on your mouse". did you use code or something else... i just wonder. thank you for apply here. modern_primatඞඞඞ ----TALK 21:27, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
In 2022, I created a lot of categories. To create categories and subcategories, I used a combination of what you described as "hand on your mouse" edits as well as Cat-a-lot to move images into subcategories. I used tools such as flickr2commons if I was uploading a large amount of Flickr images. Notable examples from that year include:
Creating Sidemen collage images which can be seen in Category:Sidemen and on the Wikipedia page.
Creating a lot of subcategories in Category:Photographs of New York City by date. Other users have created more subcategories such as Howard61313, DanielPenfield, Tdorante10, J.-H. Janßen, etc, so I can only give myself partial credit.
Moving Times Square images from year categories to month and year subcategories (which I mostly created) such as Category:March 2020 in Times Square.
Capable, consistently well-intentioned, even-tempered, even-handed, and respectful of existing consensus even when it might not be exactly what she personally would choose to do. Those are pretty much the characteristics we need in an admin. Probably a bit less broadly experienced than a typical person we make an admin, but I would completely trust her to stick to tasks and areas she understands: I've never seen her do otherwise. Jmabel ! talk 19:35, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
the candidate should "accept" with a short statement and sign it... that timestamp is when the candidacy starts... - Jmabel ! talk 19:35, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Candidate acceptance: Thank you, Jmabel. I accept this nomination. If elected, I will do my best to help with the tasks I currently understand and feel capable of, and to learn other tasks with time. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:56, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
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couple of admins is OK, that makes me Weak support. modern_primatඞඞඞ ----TALK 23:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
Support, although shouldn't this have only been transcluded once Ao6 accepted? Queen of Hearts (talk) 04:10, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support as nominator. - Jmabel ! talk 05:29, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Strong support Definitely. I have known them for a very long time, and they are very competent and level-headed. Jianhui67T★C 06:11, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support sure thing, and since Jianhui67supports strongly. Regards, Aafi (talk) 07:54, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
SupportGPSLeo (talk) 12:44, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Strong support I would make you an administrator for years ago. Taivo (talk) 13:58, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support. No concerns. --Ratekreel (talk) 15:12, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support why not? Iwaqarhashmi (talk) 15:37, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support Good experienced gnomish user. Also would have considered co-nominating. Abzeronow (talk) 16:34, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support Would do fine. --Bedivere (talk) 16:38, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
I want to note that I thought they were an admin already. Bedivere (talk) 21:17, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Neutral I am a bit worried about the candidate's indefinite blocks on wikitech.wikimedia.org for impersonation / abuse of multiple accounts. --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 16:57, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
That Wikitech account is not attached to the SUL account. That makes sense because, citing Wikitech, "[it] is the only wiki using the LDAP authentication backend, since a Wikitech account was actually a Wikimedia Developer Account. From a technical administration point of view, it has been a uniquely configured wiki, requiring special casing when performing infrastructure migrations and updates". So, that Auntof6 is not actually this Auntof6. Bedivere (talk) 17:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
I think there might be a misunderstanding here. Probably someone else created an account to impersonate Auntof6 on Wikitech as that account in question is not attached to Auntof6's main account. I would appreciate an explanation from Auntof6 though. Jianhui67T★C 17:04, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
(Edit conflict) That's strange. I have never impersonated any other account or abused multiple accounts, but people have tried to impersonate me (possibly related to my being an admin on Simple English Wikipedia). I also don't think I've ever been on Wikitech until just now when I went (without logging in) to see what you were talking about. I see that the listing of "my" account on Wikitech is noted as "not attached"; are Wikitech accounts linked to the usual Wikimedia unified login? -- Auntof6 (talk) 17:07, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Support O.k., thanks for the explanations. All the best --Robert Flogaus-Faust (talk) 17:46, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
You might want to try contacting WMFOffice or visit wikitech:Wikitech:Rename_requests for this. Although it isn't you, it still isn't nice for "you" to be blocked for abusing multiple accounts. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 12:17, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Support Per nominator and many others. Thank you for accepting the nomination Auntof6. -- Ooligan (talk) 05:10, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Support per wquar and ratekreel. All the Best -- ChuckTalk 00:35, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Support per above. --A1Cafel (talk) 03:35, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Strong support --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 06:53, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Support - I actually promised a co-nomination but didn't make it here in time! Auntof6 has long been a voice of reason in CfDs and other gnoming areas, and clearly has the temperament for the mop. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:30, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Neutral With only a handful of own uploads is difficult to support for me --A.Savin 10:22, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Support never heard of the editor, but many good editors support him. Go for it.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 13:45, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Support Ao6 has been great to work with at simplewiki and I have no doubts they will do fine as an admin here! Ternera (talk) 16:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Support more admins needed and per nomination Bastique☎ let's talk! 16:27, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Support. Auntof6 knows their stuff and has a long history of doing unglamorous work. - Eureka Lott 17:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Comments
I'll vote when the nominee says they accept or not. Abzeronow (talk) 23:54, 28 November 2024 (UTC)
@Abzeronow: The candidate has accepted the nomination. --A1Cafel (talk) 05:40, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping, A1Cafel. Abzeronow (talk) 16:36, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Useless bit of trivia Every successful RfA in at least the last three years has been a self-nomination. That has absolutely no bearing on this RfA; I was just surprised to see a non self-nom on this project. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 10:15, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Although I'll note that CptViraj's successful RfB was a non self-nom as well. Abzeronow (talk) 16:49, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
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Reason: Hi! i'm an italian user active on Commons and it.wiki as wikigraphic and here i'm also active in non-live image patrolling (especially those one regarding italian heraldry and other cases of general licensing policy). I often check images with potential licensing issues tagging them, when necessary, with {{Nsd}}, {{Npd}}, {{Dw-nsd}}, {{Logo}}, {{Copyvio}}, etc. or opening DRs (e.g. for COM:TOO discuss or for US-copyrighted images due to URAA). Being active on it.wiki as graphic, it is not uncommon for me to come across images that may require copyright attention. Therefore, i would like to apply for LR rights to be able to help the community reviewing freely-licensed images from external websites. Thank you for your attention :) --Arrow303 (talk) 09:07, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Scheduled to end: 09:07, 4 December 2024 (UTC) (the earliest)
Thank you for volunteering to become a license reviewer. Could you please answer the following questions:
Explain the licensing policy in your own words, and how you would explain it to a new user who doesn't understand copyright, if diffrent.
User:Celebrityfan01 uploads photos of Taylor Swift with EXIF of a talent agency, claiming "found on the internet, so public domain". How do you respond?
Someone uploads photos of a brick with a vandalistc summary, but before you can tag, Krdbot adds {{vrt-pending}} . What do you do?
Please describe how Italian public domain interacts with US law as applies to commons.
Thanks for volunteering!
All the Best -- ChuckTalk 18:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
@Alachuckthebuck: Thanks for your questions! Here are my answers :)
1) As a more complex explanation, I would say that only images with a free license are allowed on Wikimedia Commons and this happens when: (a) the image (or in any case the multimedia content) is in the public domain either due to the passage of time or for other specific reasons (e.g. {{PD-Textlogo}}, {{PD-Shape}}, {{PD-Chart}}, {{PD-Italy-EdictGov}}, {{PD-USGov-Military}}, etc.); (b) the image is released by the rights holder under a free license compatible with Wikimedia Commons. In general, Commons only accepts media that are freely usable by anyone, without permission from the author, for any purpose, including commercial ones. Such licenses must also be perpetual and irrevocable.
In particular, the most quantitatively used licenses are CreativeCommons licenses, but not all CC licenses are admissible here: licenses that contain NC and/or ND conditions are not allowed here (e.g. Any material from the site araldicacivica.it is not allowed on Commons, because here it's written that such materials are distributed under CC-BY-NC-ND, which is incompatible.
Another general principle regarding licenses is that any image, unless it has an explicit indication of having a free license, must be presumed to be covered by copyright (Copyright by default). In very exceptional cases, there may be inversions of this principle (for example {{Italy-CAD-OBD}}, but it is a very particular case that I would not mention to a new user, unless strictly relevant to his situation).
It's also important to check that when a user uploads an image that is not "own work" is adopting a valid license (in this case, the uploader should provide the source from which the image was taken and prove where the license he invoked is indicated (e.g. a legal notice section or similar). If this information cannot be found in the source, it is necessary for the rights holder to send a COM:VRT ticket confirming his intention to release the work under the indicated license. The VRT ticket is also necessary when the image is the uploader's own work but has previously been published elsewhere without a free license, this happens because it is necessary to verify that the uploader is really the image's rights holder and confirm his intention to re-license the work).
To explain this in a few simple concepts for a new user, in addition to linking to the help pages that may be useful, I would limit myself to saying that Wikimedia Commons only accepts freely licensed material and that any image found on the internet, unless otherwise specified, is protected by copyright and cannot be uploaded here. If you have the permission of the rights holder, you need to contact COM:VRT (the same if you are the author, but the work is already published elsewhere under a non-free license). To correctly upload the images, the uploader must indicate the essential information, to allow other users to verify the indicated license.
2) “Found on the internet” is not a valid source: unless otherwise indicated, every image found on the web is protected by copyright. If I find the source of the original image, and there's not a free license notice, I'd tag it as Copyvio otherwise I'd tag it as Nsd (if a source is completely missing) or Npd (if the source is indicated but information on the permission is missing). I then notify the uploader (or I use the automatic tool)
3) If an image is uploaded with the sole purpose of vandalizing or offending someone and itself has no useful purposes for the project, I see no reason to keep that image, even if it can be authorized via VRT. In cases of obvious vandalism with no other potential uses of the image I would treat it as COM:SPEEDY as G3. However, the final decision is left to a sysop. Instead, If there are more doubts about the respect of COM:Scope, a DR may be appropriate, after the vandalism has been obscured via COM:RevDel, if it's outside the image, and provided that the license is valid.
4) When an image is in the public domain and its country of origin is not the US (where the servers are located), then it is necessary for that image to be in the public domain in both the country of origin and the United States.
For example, some Italian photographs are in the public domain in Italy, but are not in the United States, because in that country the copyright has been restored by the URAA. The {{PD-Italy}} template specifies that it is necessary to add a second template to prove why the image is considered to be in the public domain also in the US. :According to Italian law, non-artistic photographs taken on Italian soil (art. 92 L. 633/1941) become public domain in Italy 20 years after their creation. However, they are in the public domain in the United States only if they were created prior to 1976 and published prior to 1978 (otherwise they must be uploaded to it.wiki). This, for example, is a case of an image dating back to the 80s that had been improperly uploaded to Commons, because it is not in the public domain in the US, although it is in Italy. Otherwise, this photo is allowed on Commons because is in the PD also in the US.
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