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OTRS permissions queues

Hello UserB. You are receiving this message as a license reviewer. As you know, OTRS processes a large amount of tickets relating to image releases (called "permissions"). As a license reviewer, you may have the skills necessary to contribute to this team. If you are interested in learning more about OTRS or to volunteer please visit Meta-Wiki. Tell your friends! Thank you. Rjd0060 18:56, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Confirmation that I am meta:User:B

This is confirmation that I am en:User:B and meta:User:B and am requesting to usurp User:B here. --UserB (talk) 11:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Josiah Walls

Hi. I got the photo from the office of the House Historian. http://history.house.gov/People/Search/ 100.34.50.177 23:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

About my uploads

Hello dear

Thanks for the deletion requests you made on my uploads.. Actually, I want to have them deleted because I uploaded them into the wiki commons instead of using Non-free content page.. I really need to learn more..

All the images I uploaded are non-free content. I have the URL sources and I'll use them on wikiepedia articles that pertains to each.

So, when you have them deleted, how do I upload them as "Non-free content"... which link should I use?

Thanks a lot and God bless.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilumeoka2000 (talk • contribs)

@Hilumeoka2000: Are these images for the English Wikipedia? If so, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload is the form to use. IMPORTANT NOTE: photos of living people are never permitted under fair use. If the article is about a living person, then the only way it can have a photo is if the subject of the article sends one in or if a Wikipedian takes a photo of them. --B (talk) 17:34, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

About my uploads

Thanks a lot for the reply. Yes, the images are for English Wikipedia.. I'll use the form you provided to upload..

However, one of the images if for living person. You should the person should send the image to wikipedia.. How would he do this? Can he upload directly from his wikipedia account?

Once again, thanks a lot.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilumeoka2000 (talk • contribs)

@Hilumeoka2000: Please use four tildes - ~~~~ - to sign your messages. This makes it easier to see who it is from. Please see en:WP:CONSENT (or COM:CONSENT) for information about donating photos under a license that is compatible with Wikipedia. Wikipedia and Commons only accept donations of images with a permission that permits the image to be reused or modified by anyone. So if you are in contact with the copyright holder of the image, please ask that person to submit this statement of permission for the image. Please make sure that either (a) they attach the image to the email or (b) if the image has been uploaded to Wikipedia or Commons give the URL where it was uploaded so that we can find it. Wikipedia's preference is to have images under a en:free content license and if you are in communication with the copyright holder, that is the best practice. Under very limited circumstances, photos can be used under a claim of fair use. This is not what we would prefer and is never acceptable for living people. Wikipedia's non-free content criteria say that a fair use photo can never be used if have an expectation that we could ever receive a en:free content one and image donations without an acceptable license are never permitted. In other words, if the copyright holder wants to grant permission to only Wikipedia to use the image, we will only use it if we could have used it under a claim of fair use even without permission. --B (talk) 22:53, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Military bowl

Hi. I think the flickr upload tool added the categories - didn't notice until it was too late. I will try identify the subjects - shouldn't be too hard. Gbawden (talk) 11:50, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

File:Webcam-toy-photo6.jpg

Please rename the file to VHS tape reels.jpg Cccp3 (talk) 12:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

informing

Hi B, when you complain about somebody on a public noticeboard or even report to WMF (such as here), it is an elementary question of fairness to notify that person about your complaint/action. --Túrelio (talk) 08:44, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

@Túrelio: Don't be ridiculous. That's not a noticeboard. It's a user talk page where I was letting a user know that their block had been reverted so that they could re-apply it, and that the banned user in question had switched IPs. I'm not sure where there is "fairness" involved. Were the underlying facts - that an IP had been globally blocked and someone locally had overridden it - in dispute? Perhaps if Commons admins would get on board with en:WP:RBI, instead of continuing to treat this banned user with reverence, he would move on with his life. --B (talk) 12:35, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

If I lowered myself to your choosen level of communication, I would have to say: Don't be cowardish. You denounced another user (Denniss) to "the authorities" (aka WMF). As a result of your denunciation, this user has now been threatened by WMF. The latter fact has also been noticed[1] and not well taken by the :de community, surely again improving their relation towards WMF. So, if you didn't scruple to report Denniss, why didn't you have the guts to notify him? Even your beloved :en policy requires that. --Túrelio (talk) 20:12, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Oh good grief, you're being ridiculous. --B (talk) 22:23, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Section heading

Care to comment here? -- Colin (talk) 17:53, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Basement Kitty Barnstar
		For clarity of thought in the sock drawer. Ellin Beltz (talk) 15:18, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Scenic design photos by Dejan Miladinovic

An image you transferred from enwp is included in a deletion discussion, if you have a moment: Commons:Deletion requests/Scenic design photos by Dejan Miladinovic – czar 22:36, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Deleted content

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Hello B, the following content you uploaded violates one or more of our policies and therefore has been or will soon be deleted:

File:GT Buzz.jpg

The Wikimedia Commons (this website) only hosts media files with a realistic educational purpose and that can be used for any purpose, including:

• use in any work, regardless of content
• creation of derivative works
• commercial use
• free distribution

See Commons:Licensing for the copyright policy on Wikimedia Commons, and Commons:Image casebook for some specific examples. Some other Wikimedia projects have different licensing policies. For example, the English Wikipedia allows fair use of sounds and photographs. This is not the case on Wikimedia Commons; "fair use" materials are not acceptable here.

Please make sure that you only upload educational content you have created yourself, those which are out of copyright, or those for which you have the required permission for the work to be used in all the ways described above. Please note that derivative works of copyrighted material are also considered copyrighted. Again, please read through Commons:Licensing, which is quite crucial, to understanding how Wikimedia Commons works. Thanks for your contribution, and please do leave me a message if you have further questions.

Yours sincerely, Hedwig in Washington ^(mail?) 05:36, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

File:Georgia Hairy Dawg.jpg

File:Georgia Hairy Dawg.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Hop on Bananas (talk) 20:46, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Copyright of Nazi images

Hi B, you seemed knowledgeable about copyright during a deletion discussion about Nazi German images, so I wondered whether you could help with something.

It's about this poster, currently fair use in the Holocaust, published in the 1930s to promote a Nazi publication, Neues Volk. Designed to promote the magazine and the Nazi eugenics policy, it shows a disabled man and says: "60000 RM: this is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime."

I've looked at the Hirtle chart to try to work out whether this is PD, but I can't figure it out. It comes under "Works Published Abroad Before 1978". Do you know how to narrow it down? SarahSV ^(talk) 03:17, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@SlimVirgin: It's hard to prove that this is public domain worldwide ... my gut says probably PD-USonly (not free enough for Commons but PD in the US). [2] is a 1936 list of periodicals "received in the Library of the United States Department of Agriculture". It lists Neues Volk. So assuming that the USDA didn't fly to Germany to buy it, that counts as "publication" in the US, since they offered it for sale to someone in the US. They most certainly did not renew their US copyright for obvious reasons, so I think we can safely say it is PD in the US. That eschews the whole "trading with the enemy" thing mentioned on the image description page. It's PD because it was published in the US and they did not comply with our formalities. It's probably copyrighted in Germany so it can't be used on Commons. --B (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

User:OceanAtoll

OceanAtoll (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) (assign permissions)

This person may be banned from some Wikimedia sites—Wikidata, what else?—but we can’t find him among the globally banned people. Please, make your allegation more specific. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:27, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

"Allegation"???? Good grief. It's a point of information that can be easily verified by looking at the pink bar at the top of Special:Contributions/OceanAtoll. --B (talk) 18:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, still am not accustomed to the new formation of Wikipedia sysops who have hard time to learn what their own site says about bans. So, which of the authorities listed banned the notorious Wikidata sock puppeteer from anywhere except Wikidata itself? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 18:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I have no idea what in the world you're talking about. The uploader has very few edits on the English Wikipedia so I'm not sure what their banning policy has to do with anything. The uploader's global account was locked by a steward so if you want to fight over the distinction between "banned" vs "indefinitely blocked", please go find someone who cares. The purpose of my statement was only that whatever use the original uploader might have had in mind for this image, he/she isn't coming back to tell us about it. --B (talk) 18:44, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

OA flap images

Apologies for not replying earlier, and I see that one image has already been deleted because of my delay.

These images were taken by me, and the patches are from my personal collection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadle (talk • contribs) 20:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Shadle: The scans are still a derivative work of the patches themselves. Unless the patch itself is public domain (published prior to 1978 without a copyright notice OR published prior to 1989 with neither a copyright notice nor subsequent registration), your photo is a derivative work of a copyrighted patch and thus we cannot have it on Commons. --B (talk) 21:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Please help reviewed the picture.

I have sent an email to permissions-zh-hant@wikimedia.org and permissions-commons@wikimedia.org granting permission for the use of this file. I represent the copyright holder and creator.

• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (9).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (2).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (3).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (4).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (5).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (6).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (7).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA (8).png
• File:BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA.png

Please help reviewed the picture. Appreciate your help. AM4721AM (talk) 14:13, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

PR in Brazil

Hi B, for some reason I just get in touch with your massage, PR is Public Relationship, we use in English... or in Portuguese RP. So when you see someone with PR is that, not President ;) -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton ^m 19:33, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Deleted Photos

Hello,

I've just noticed that three photos that I uploaded a few months ago were deleted. I'm talking about these photos:

• File:Zhivko Vasilev.jpg
• File:Райна и Живко Василеви - Аутентик.jpg
• File:Outhentic-trio-zhivko-vasilev-rayna-vasileva-viktor-dzhorgov-guitar-kaval-vocal-bulgaria.jpg

Dmitriy Galyov Photography is not the photographer who made them. I don't even know him. Martin Midolesov bought his camera 2 years ago and he hasn't changed the name of the camera. So, I can't send to you a permission from Dmitriy, because he was just a seller. I ask you to restore the photos, if possible. Thank you, Rayna --Rayna Vasileva (talk) 06:10, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Important message for file movers

A community discussion has been closed where the consensus was to grant all file movers the suppressredirect user right. This will allow file movers to not leave behind a redirect when moving files and instead automatically have the original file name deleted. Policy never requires you to suppress the redirect, suppression of redirects is entirely optional.

Possible acceptable uses of this ability:

• To move recently uploaded files with an obvious error in the file name where that error would not be a reasonable redirect. For example: moving "Sheep in a tree.jpg" to "Squirrel in a tree.jpg" when the image does in fact depict a squirrel.
• To perform file name swaps.
• When the original file name contains vandalism. (File renaming criterion #5)

Please note, this ability should be used only in certain circumstances and only if you are absolutely sure that it is not going to break the display of the file on any project. Redirects should never be suppressed if the file is in use on any project. When in doubt, leave a redirect. If you forget to suppress the redirect in case of file name vandalism or you are not fully certain if the original file name is actually vandalism, leave a redirect and tag the redirect for speedy deletion per G2.

The malicious or reckless breaking of file links via the suppressredirect user right is considered an abuse of the file mover right and is grounds for immediate revocation of that right. This message serves as both a notice that you have this right and as an official warning. Questions regarding this right should be directed to administrators. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

Delete three pics I uploaded because of potential problems

Hi, B, could you help me get three pics I have uploaded deleted? I was given word that the actual author was going to supply a letter to OTRS, but nothing has happened since I uploaded the pics. I have taken and uploaded my own pics now, so the original ones are not only unnecessary, but potentially problematic. These areː

• File:Daniely Ríos (PR) exhibiendo medalla de oro en los Panamericanos del 2019 en Lima.jpg
• File:Daniely Ríos (PR) exhibiendo medalla de oro en los Panamericanos del 2019 en Lima.jpg
• File:Melanie Díaz at the 2019 Lima.jpg

Let me know if this is possible. Thanks. Caballero//Historiador ^☊ 22:41, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Caballero1967: Please ask at COM:OTRSN if you have not already done so. I've been inactive with OTRS and don't presently have access. --B (talk) 13:28, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

ː @B: Thanks Caballero//Historiador ^☊ 00:58, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

CfD: College athletics programs

Hi, I have started a discussion to rename a large collection of categories, one or more of which you may have created or edited. Please see the discussion thread at Commons:Categories for discussion/2020/04/College athletics programs for details. Thanks, IagoQnsi (talk) 04:11, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Camp Randall Stadium aerial (cropped).jpg

And also:

• File:Camp Randall Stadium aerial.jpg Paul_012 (talk) 12:52, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

University and college yearbooks

University and college yearbooks has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

–IagoQnsi (talk) 04:41, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Category:Army-Navy_Game

Army-Navy Game has been listed at Commons:Categories for discussion so that the community can discuss ways in which it should be changed. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this category, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for discussion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it. If the category is up for deletion because it has been superseded, consider the notion that although the category may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new category. In all cases, please do not take the category discussion personally. It is never intended as such. Thank you!

Denniscabrams (talk) 17:09, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

File:Alumni Stadium panorama.jpg

File:Alumni Stadium panorama.jpg has been marked as a possible copyright violation. Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content—that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. Traditional copyright law does not grant these freedoms, and unless noted otherwise, everything you find on the web is copyrighted and not permitted here. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You may also find Commons:Copyright rules useful, or you can ask questions about Commons policies at the Commons:Help desk. If you are the copyright holder and the creator of the file, please read Commons:But it's my own work! for tips on how to provide evidence of that. The file you added has been deleted. If you have written permission from the copyright holder, please have them send us a free license release via COM:VRT. If you believe that the deletion was not in accordance with policy, you may request undeletion. (It is not necessary to request undeletion if using VRT; the file will be automatically restored at the conclusion of the process.) This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Crop of image #6 of 14 at https://bceagles.com/facilities/alumni-stadium/2 with the players erased from the field for some reason. If you ignore the field and look for the woman in the baseball hat to the left and the image on the big screen to the right, you’ll see that it’s the same photo. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

Adeletron 3030 (talk) 03:41, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

File:Alumni Stadium panorama.jpg

File:Alumni Stadium panorama.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Polarlys (talk) 08:13, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

ODU/Virginia Tech Images

I just wanted to say that I love your ODU/VT images. I appreciate them and will be attributing your work on the odumonarchists.com blog. 38.140.166.122 14:20, 1 May 2024 (UTC)