User talk:Johndrob

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Johndrob!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 20:06, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Public domain templates

Hello, and thanks for your contributions. I think some of your Public domain licenses may be incorrect, as US copyright law differs significantly from that of other countries. File:Dixon Ryan Fox-1932.jpg and File:Preserved Smith-1936.jpg for instance are marked with {{PD-old-80}}, which requires the author (and death date of author) to be known, and still does not demonstrate Public Domain status in the U.S. (see Commons:Copyright tags#United States). Additionally, while pre-1923 photos such as File:Allen Johnson-1910.jpg and File:Erasmus Haworth-1908.jpg certainly meet {{PD-US}}, I'm not certain they are legally considered anonymous works, and thus {{PD-anon-1923}} may not apply as it can be inferred that the university or a known photographer is the author, even if you or I don't know the photographer's identity. For the latter examples, the images are still Public Domain in their country of origin, and can be kept on Commons. For the former, unless they can be covered by a U.S.-specific license, they may not be Public Domain in the U.S., and are unfortunately subject to deletion. If you have questions about specific images, or which is the most appropriate license, a good place to inquire is at Commons:Village pump/Copyright. All the best! -Animalparty (talk) 18:24, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

File:Making Up The Numbers(1978).jpg

File:Making Up The Numbers(1978).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.) Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

 

--Krdbot 03:02, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

File:Narciso Yepes Spanish Guitar Music.jpg

Critically evaluate Flickr licenses

File:Narciso Yepes Spanish Guitar Music.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. You may have preserved the information shown on Flickr correctly when transferring the image here, but the Flickr uploader is not the copyright holder of this image. Either the image was created by someone else, or it is a derivative of someone else's work. As stated in Commons:Licensing, only the copyright holder may issue a license, so the one shown on Flickr is invalid. Always remember to critically evaluate Flickr licenses. Photostreams with professional-looking photographs, album covers, posters, and images in a wide range of styles or quality taken by many different cameras often indicate that the Flickr uploader either does not understand or does not care about copyright matters. See Commons:Questionable Flickr images for a list of known bad Flickr users.

Эlcobbola _talk 19:57, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

File:Mudd's Women with Spock and Kirk.jpg

File:Mudd's Women with Spock and Kirk.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!

A1Cafel (talk) 07:02, 2 February 2023 (UTC)