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I have moved this page to User:Actia Nicopolis/Postcards by Aspiotis because it does not conform to the requirements of a Commons Gallery. The page, as it is, would probably be useful at WP:EN or WP:GR. Or, you could transform it into Commons gallery format, see, for example, Lighthouses in Maine. Once that is done, simply copy it to the same place I moved it from.
I have deleted Καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη. We do not keep two different galleries that are identical except for language. If you with to create a bi-lingual gallery, you may, but the title must be in one language or the other and a redirect for the title in the other language. The reason for this is simple -- having two versions of the same gallery makes it much less likely that both will be maintained -- you may plan to do this, but where will you be 10, 20, 50 years from now?
Thank you for directing me to create a gallery for Aspiotis' postcards. Your advise is much appreciated and useful. I will reform the page and upload it when ready.
It was not me that recreated Καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη.
I was advised to move w:el:Κατάλογος καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη to the Commons Gallery, and I did so by creating Καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη. This page was speedily deleted for good reason. The user who advised me to move my article w:el:Κατάλογος καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη into Commons as a gallery, created the page Καρτ ποστάλ Ασπιώτη again. So, please, do not blame me for recreating this page in Commons. I hope you will realize the whole story if you look carefully into it.
In anyway, your advice has helped me understand how a gallery should be formed in Commons.
Thanks again and wish you a very happy new year!
Yes, with the modification I made I think it is fine, thank you for your effort. The reason for the change to default gallery size is simple. For 80% of all users, it doesn't matter, but for the others, having the default size means that the images will show up on their screens at the size they have specified in their preferences. This is important for user of small screens -- it will allow them to see whole images, rather than having to scroll. More important, it is important to vision impaired people who use very large screens and who want to see only one gallery image on each screen, so they specify their default size as the whole screen. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:17, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You uploaded some amazing pictures of Ottoman revenues, really nice.
Prevesa postmarked Ottoman revenue (Sul. 4513)
The Ottoman Empire 10 paras brown and yellow, proportional fee fiscal stamp was intended for usage in the Constantinople administrative area according the handbook by Suleymaniye. The issues in same design and same year but in blue and black were for use in provinces (10pa no. 4544). Prevesa is clearly not in the Constantinople administrative area. This makes me doubtful about the postmark. Any sources backing that its genuine? Suleymaniye could have the usage area of two designs mixed up too, which seems unlikely to me.Arno-nl (talk) 17:07, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Although intended for usage in the Constantinople administrative area, i found another revenue (Sul. 4513) which was used in Alexandria, the cancel looks genuine to me. This rules out sole use in the intended area. Alexandria postmarked Ottoman revenue (Sul. 4513)Arno-nl (talk) 10:18, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Nicos, is this 1890-1891, 3 piaster revenue stamp watermarked or not? Unwatermarked: (№ 594), watermarked: (№ 600), each value 5 euro. Arno-nl (talk) 18:05, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, harmonizing file names is a good job, but please don't do it without asking authors in the examples of slovakian towns and villages. Yes, it's true that the slovakian is the official language in Slovakia, but not the only one. So (not only in bilingual cases) if the author of the photograph titled the photo in hungarian, please do not harmonize it to slovak name, because it's not authors mistake, but the title what he/she wanted to give it. If you want to harmonize something from Slovakia, here is something what would be great (for better traceability): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ciconia_ciconia_nests_in_Slovakia (of course I mean files in subcategories). Thanks a lot! Taz (talk) 14:15, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
A request: Would you happen to have (a long shot) any photo of philhellenic clocks ? I am asking because we have the relevant article in elwiki: el:Φιλελληνικά ρολόγια
An idea: Should we make a category of Philhellenic objects? Is this a good title? We have one more plate and playing cards
In a recent auction catalogue you could pick some up. Look at lots no. 113-116. They are in the public domain, so there should be no problem upolading any of those.
I shall add a category that you suggest. Many thanks for the suggestion and making me get involved in the Greek Revolution Project !
We cannot use recent photos of three dimensional objects. The copyright of the photo belongs to the photographer, while a photo of two dimensional object does not have any added characteristic from the photographer, but an excellent idea, thank you! --FocalPoint (talk) 20:09, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hello @Actia Nicopolis: sorry to disturb you but can you please change the name again to " File:Coat of arms of the Philippines (1943-1945).svg "? I accidentally used the wrong dash on the renaming request, it is to match the other coat of arms that use a regular dash, the flags meanwhile use nbsp dashes. I can't seem to request a rename once again since I think it already redirects there, it is the only one out of the Philippine coat of arms to have that nbsp dash and it will be nice to match it up with the others citing Criterion 4 and Criterion 6. Many thanks! PyroFloe (talk) 18:58, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, thanks for helping me to harmonise the naming scheme for the new Paris transit icons that are starting to appear on the transport network. I think we may be able to also rename the following files that represent the new Paris tram icons under Criteria 4, before the other Wikipedia projects start to use them: at the moment only the Esperanto project is using them:
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Hello Actia Nicopolis, can you translate the projectpage of COM:WPPC into Greek. At begin of January I make some changes, so that we can easy translate the page into many languages. Best regards -- sk (talk) 15:41, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Geographical distribution of placenames of Greek origin.svg
Hi
You moved this file file:Geographical distribution of placenames of Greek origin.svg for those reasons: Criterion 3 (obvious error) · The map of which this file is based on, doesn't speak about renaming (see page 56). The source speaks about "places" without mentioning what is renamed and what is left untouched
As a graphic worker I can't discuss the actual content as it's out of my knowledge.
Did you discuss with the Requester or other people before moving this file?
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As the photo is from the "Photograph collection of Actia Nicopolis Foundation", I would regard it as "previously published" as understood in the Commons:Volunteer Response Team (VRT) guidelines, and thus you should confirm your rights to license the photo, and your chosen licence, by an e-mail as instructed on that page.
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There probably is no need to do anything at the moment, just have a look at the history of a file before renaming to check for any obvious issues. --Didym (talk) 08:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm currently working on a article about the aqueduct of Nicopolis for the German Wikipedia. Unfortunately, Nicopolis is very baldy represented in the German Wikipedia. A lot to do for the future!
The grand tour of Donaldson was made in 1820 and it was then that he produced the plans of Nicopolis. W. M. Leake used them in his publication, printed in 1835.
Several files that you uploaded from the collection of the Actia Nicopolis Foundation have unknown authorship, but have been uploaded under a Creative Commons license. There is currently no evidence that the copyright holder of these files, which will usually be the photographer or perhaps their employer at the time of making the photo, has agreed to this licensing. Do you have any such evidence that you could provide to VRT? Felix QW (talk) 19:02, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Felix QW,
The photographs that we upload from the collection of Actia Nicopolis Foundation are either in the public domain, 70+ years after the creator's death, or images of unknown creator which were created more than 50 years ago, or photographs of my own (Nikos D. Karabelas).
If you find any images that are not in any of these three categories, please let me know to correct the information.
Thank you very much for your swift reply! The issue is that in the EU (and that includes Greece), anonymous works enter the public domain 70 years after they were published rather than 50 years. There is also the additional issue of the URAA restoration, which led to all works that were not in the public domain in 1996 to be recopyrighted in the US. In conjunction with a change in the law in 1993, this means that anonymous Greek images should be from before 1943 to be free in both the US and Greece as required. Similarly, works with named authors should have a date of death before 1943 for the same reason. Felix QW (talk) 21:00, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Since their upload seems to have been based on a misunderstanding about Greek copyright terms, I have now opened a deletion request for the post-1953 images that were not marked as being made by yourself. Best wishes, Felix QW (talk) 08:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Felix QW,
My knowledge was that the copyright for an anonymous creator work lasted for 50 years after the work was created.
I think part of the issue is the confusing text at {{Anonymous work}}, which suggests that copyright may last 50 years. If you look at the tiny note at the bottom, though, it has a note saying that This template does not apply to works from countries that extended the Berne Convention or that did not sign it. In particular, this includes the European Union. You can always find the actual terms at Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Greece (or analogous for other countries), which clarifies that copyright for anonymous and pseudonymous works lasts 70 years from 1 January of the year after the year when it was made lawfully accessible to the public, as long as the author is not identified in that period. As far as I know, the term was extended from 50 to 70 years in 1993, for all those works whose term had not yet expired at that point. Felix QW (talk) 13:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Felix,
This is trully confusing.
So, does this mean that images after 1954 will be deleted?
Please, give me some days to copy the files and discriptions, so to have them ready when they become copyright free.
Is there a way that they stay "idle" until the become common (70 plus years) and then automatically be uploaded again? I remember discussing this with some older wikipedists in the past.
They will be "deleted", but that does not mean they disappear from our servers. They will be undeleted as soon as they are copyright-free in both Greece and the US.
I am sure you will have enough time to copy the files and descriptions anyway, since those deletion requests often stay open for months before an administrator gets round to actioning anything at all. Felix QW (talk) 14:43, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Felix,
Could I, also, ask you if there is a way that the images mentioned above, will automatically be available in commons pd, after 70 years of the date of their creation? Or would one need to upload them again?
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