User talk:LX/Archive/2016: January to March

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Hi

We are the current owners of Strathmore at 74 Falls Road, Wentworth Falls. We have some more recent photos of the front if the house that we could send you, to replace the ones you have posted if you are interested.

Regards

Kate Kate Ryder (talk) 01:42, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Kate! I'm not sure why you've come to me about this. If I understand correctly, this is about the house shown in File:(1)Strathmore Wentworth Falls-3.jpg, File:(1)Strathmore Wentworth Falls-1.jpg, File:(1)Strathmore Wentworth Falls-2.jpg and File:(1)Strathmore Wentworth Falls.jpg. As far as I know, I've never participated in any discussions on this topic before. That said, you're of course as welcome as anybody to contribute to Commons. Please have a look at Commons:First steps. Thanks, —LX (talk, contribs) 18:40, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

The user files deletion

Hi LX,

I found out that there is a mistake in the query, I anticipated only 1 category on all of these files but that filter did not work thus a lot (40-50%) have another category besides the user page images category. Some of these might still be out of scope (due to unused user logo), but they are a bit more tricky. I'm sorry for the mistake on that, and of course willing to (help) clean that up. Basvb (talk) 19:56, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Basvb! No worries. I'll wait for you to see if you can get that sorted before moving on with any additional batches. I was planning on letting the first nomination run its course first anyway. As for the ongoing discussion, I think most of the files are still solid candidates for deletion. The main criterion is that they're not used on any pages, and lack of categorisation is secondary. Generally, files that are actually useful illustrations for a real content category shouldn't be tagged with {{user page image}}. Since those images seem to be a very small minority, we can just identify and strike them, as I did with File:Viivoja2.JPG. Cheers, —LX (talk, contribs) 20:08, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

this query shows the number of cats, it seems however that hidden cats are also counted, all of the images have several hidden cats and a lot are still out of scope even with a valid other category (categories such as user logos, english wikipedia, etc.). Basvb (talk) 20:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Hej

Hej, jag vet inte hur jag varit på denna hemsida så länge (ok, ints så länge, men ändå) utan att sett att du också kommer från Sverige. Ville bara säga hej :) Josve05a (talk) 16:32, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Hej hej Jonatan! Jo, vi har snackat svenska med varandra tidigare. Du har kommit långt sedan dess! :) —LX (talk, contribs) 18:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Omg, burn that archive with fire. Inte direkt ett av mina bästa stunder, men visar bara att man lär sig av sina misstag, om man bara vill. Josve05a (talk) 18:28, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Exakt! Jag tycker inte alls att det är något att skämmas över med facit i hand – tvärtom. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:32, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, jag skäms lite över det. Kollar tillbaka på hur "ociviliserad" och ovetande jag var då...jag framstår inte direkt på ett moget sätt skulle man kunna sammanfatta det.Får hoppas jag bevisat (och fortsätter bevisa) att jag förändrats en hel del sen dess. Josve05a (talk) 04:21, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Every week you find another set of sockpuppets. :-) Hedwig in Washington (mail?) 00:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I do seem to stumble over them quite frequently. —LX (talk, contribs) 07:53, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

I Need Help

It's my page and I can do what I want. (signatures) I was doing that because I seriously need help. I need someone who can send a message to Wikipedia admin Jezebel's Ponyo about WikiEditor905 would like to have a chat. Also, asking him/her to come talk to me on my disscusion on Wikimedia page. I need someone else to do this because I can't do anything on Wikipedia now. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ponyo) (WikiEditor905 (talk) 04:40, 6 February 2016 (UTC))

No, you may not do what you want. You may not move your user talk page into the main gallery talk namespace, and you may not distort other people's comments or signatures. And you may not bring disruptions from other projects to Commons. You are clearly not here to contribute constructively to this project, so please go away. —LX (talk, contribs) 08:51, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

I am not trying to be rude or mean here but I think some admins from any Wikipedia or Wikimedia are rude. Some edits I get but they do not have respect for other users edits. Admins think it is always about. No one wants to help me. The Wiki community are just meanie beanies. I cannot believe I was stupid enough to start editing on Wikipedia. I will just stick to the normal wiki. Whatever admins did to me made feel like crying or killing mnyself. (WikiEditor905 (talk) 04:40, 6 February 2016 (UTC))

Again, you are clearly not here to participate constructively to this project. I asked you to go away. Since it seems like you need help going away, I requested it. Bye, —LX (talk, contribs) 21:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Reasons Why I Donèt Edit Here

Sorry about è. Numbers lock is on. One reason why I donèt edit on here is because I donèt know how to. This is for pictures. Can you help learn how to upload picturesÉ — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiEditor905 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 07 February 2016 (UTC)

Number locks is on and I canèt do anything about it. (////) — Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiEditor905 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 07 February 2016 (UTC)

Copyright

Just as a 'note' that you might find interesting, when we say things like 'granting a work into the public domain', or 'Creative Commons licenses are not revocable', we are not, in a very technical sense, telling the literal truth. I submit, for your (probably appalled) consideration, 17 USC 203. Not that telling people that you have a five year window to terminate your license grants, 30 years from when you made them, is particularly useful or helpful to us or them, lol. What's more, it's actually highly disputed, even under US law (which does not disallow an author from giving up their rights) if literally 'giving up a work into the public domain' has any legal meaning at all. Like John Bergmayer says, "The law doesn't say anything about how an author might renounce her rights. It is certainly possible that a court, if faced with a dispute about this, would find that there is some "inherent" right to give up your copyright. One no doubt arising out of centuries of the common law. But there's nothing in the statute that mentions the possibility."[1] (other lawyers have made the same point)

This isn't me telling you are wrong about anything, not at all. Just some interesting technicalities. Revent (talk) 22:54, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Sigh, if only legislators knew to stay out of things they obviously aren't competent to do, like legislating. Anyway, it looks like people far smarter than myself have written at length about this topic: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Reese-CC-Terminability-Draft-10_02_08.pdf. —LX (talk, contribs) 23:05, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Where you under the misapprehension that the skills required to get elected had the slightest thing to do with competence at the actual job? At least you can feel happy now knowing that there is actually something dumber than the URAA. Revent (talk) 10:53, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi, would you help me?

Dear LX, how are you doing?, I have just uploaded a file in WC: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_castas_y_mala_raza-_Claudia_Coca.jpg

It´s not my own work but I have the permission of the author to publish it under Creative Commons license. Could you please tell me if I have uploaded in he right way? I would really appreciate if you could help me in this affair. Regards from Peru. Yhhue91 (talk) 19:22, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Yhhue91! There are many Creative Commons licenses, and only some of them are appropriate for Commons. Did the author specifically mention the Creative Commons Attribution license (as opposed to, for example, Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial)? Also, when it comes to permissions from others, you need to follow the process described as Commons:OTRS to submit evidence of the permission. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:19, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Dear LX, many thanks for your response. I have a written authorization of the copyright holder for a CC-BY-SA license and I have just sent it to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org and they sent me a ticket number, so I guess I'm on the right path? Cheers! 15:52, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Hopefully, yes. I've edited the file description to correct the license according to what you've stated here and to note that verification of the permission is pending. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:31, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Venues

Thanks, I was not aware. -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 13:16, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

User:Blackcat: No worries. That whole part of the category structure was a bit of a mess. I did my best to untangle it, and I ended up having to draw a diagram to get it right. :) —LX (talk, contribs) 15:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Categories, Unwanted images

Hello, and firstly thanks for your response on the Help Desk that I left earlier this week. It helped out find images much faster. I have a couple of questions left to ask, though. Firstly, is there any categories that you can place on an uncategorized image? Like any general categories that all images should have? (Or basically any popular categories you can think of) Secondly, what do I do when you see an unwanted image that needs to be deleted? For example, I found this image that has no categories (since 2013), no related article (there isn't a "Kohinoor Begum" page on EN wiki, and a quick google search doesn't seem to indicate there's an article of that name anywhere), and I can't think of any way to use it. What do you think of this image? Electrico96 (talk) 18:08, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi again Electrico96! I'm glad you found my response at the help desk useful.

As for your first question, I'd say Commons:Categories#Categorization tips has a pretty good coverage of the sort of aspects that categories should cover.

As for your second question, if you find a file that you think should be deleted, you can find a link to start a deletion discussion for the current page or file on the left-hand side of the page under "Tools". For files that meet our criteria for speedy deletion, you can add an appropriate speedy deletion tag to the file page and notify the uploader. You may wish to enable the "Quick Delete" gadget in your preferences to make this easier.

The image you bring up as an example (and the other files uploaded by the same user) not only appears to be outside of Commons' project scope, but there is no evidence to support the uploader's claims that the copyright holder has approved publication under the stated license. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:52, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Category:Embassies in Montenegro

I agree that categories should be as specific as possible. However, the "buildings by function" categories are for more general categories than "embassies". I did find some other government buildings categories for Montenegro, so I made a category for them and put that in the "by function" category. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm not a fan of putting content in even more generic categories just because a more specific intermediate category is missing. The thing that embassy buildings have in common is their function (as opposed to their shape or condition). But creating the intermediate category is of course the best solution. Cheers and have a great weekend, —LX (talk, contribs) 16:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

You wanted details on the morgans mount image

This discussion has been moved back to User talk:Thursby16#File source is not properly indicated: File:Mm2.jpg. Please respect my request to keep discussions where they started. Don't continue discussions from elsewhere on this page, as this makes discussions harder to follow. Thank you. —LX (talk, contribs) 18:13, 21 March 2016 (UTC)