User talk:Laurel L. Russwurm

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Union Station

Hi. I left you a reply on my talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:09, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

== Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video ==

Hi, for your vote, I see you left quite a long comment, verging on being a small essay. Perhaps it would be good to move this to be its own comment, or collapse it using the {{Cot}} template (or asking others to add it)? --Fæ (talk) 15:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, Fæ. I didn't realize a comment could be collapsed, and it never occurred to me to post my comment somewhere else. Although I am a longtime Wikimedia user I'm only an occasional WM editor, and my comment did not fall into the "Other proposals" category, so it would have seemed presumptuous to post it as a stand-alone. O don't think I would have chosen the option to collapse my comment because of my experience with collapsed comments in microblogging, as I am well aware many people skip over them and I worked really hard on this. While it may look like a small essay to you, there are other long individual comments on the page; mine may appear longer because I made use of formatting in aid of readability. As it is, I worked on it over a period of days, and spent the better part of one slashing it to the bone. Because I was mindful that it was a comment, I did not include every argument I have, instead paring it down to the arguments I feel are most compelling. I prefer to keep it as it is and where it is, both because I want it to register in the opposed count, and because moving it now disrupt the links I've posted where I've cited the number of my opposition comment. I do appreciate your information, and will consider them for next time.Laurelrusswurm (talk) 23:05, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

No worries, your call. --Fæ (talk) 23:11, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

DRs

Could you give me a reason on why you are nominating so many art files for deletion with the rationale This is not in the Public Domain in Canada (which has a copyright term that goes for 50 years after the death of the author) The Canadian Group of Seven artist A. Y. Jackson lived from 1882–1972, which means his work will not be Public Domain until 2022? Thanks. DLindsley ^{Need something?} 19:43, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't know about anyone else, but Wikimedia Commons is the first place I look to determine PD status. Art files that are not in the Public Domain should not be marked PD on Wikimedia Commons (or anywhere else). The Wikipedia "Group of Seven" page said A.Y.Jackson died in 1972, which would mean his work would not be Public Domain until 2022. In fact, further research showed he actually died in 1974, which would only put his work the Public Domain in 2024. (I have since edited the Group of Seven Page to reflect that. )

I was not aware A.Y.Jackson's war work (WWI) had been created under Crown Copyright, so I was mistaken in marking those files for deletion (and went back and noted this on the deletion requests). However, there were other posted images that were dated both before and after the Great War that are certainly fully copyrighted at present. Laurelrusswurm (talk) 21:36, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2015 is open!

You are receiving this message because you voted in R1 of the 2015 Picture of the Year contest.

Dear Laurel L. Russwurm,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the tenth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2015) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images. There are 56 finalists in Round 2, comprised of the top 30 overall as well as the top #1 and #2 from each sub-category. In the final round, you may vote for just one or maximal three image to become the Picture of the Year.

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-- Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee 09:44, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

OTRS

If you can it would be helpful for you to send an OTRS email to WikiCommons proofing that you are the copyright holder of your image. The email template you need to fill out and the email to sent it to is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates This would be helpful to make sure the images never get deleted. — Kbq430 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbq430 (talk • contribs) 02:03, 30 April 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kbq430 (talk • contribs) 02:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

User gallery

Hi Laurel, I moved your user gallery to User:Laurel L. Russwurm/Gallery per guideline page Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories. Cheers 4nn1l2 (talk) 10:11, 18 August 2018 (UTC)