User talk:Sandy Fortingal

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 12:49, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

File:Sir Frank Mears.jpg

File:Sir Frank Mears.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!

Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Please do not recreate deleted content

 

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--bjh21 (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

File:Sir Frank Mears.jpg

File:Sir Frank Mears.jpg is considered to fulfill the criteria for speedy deletion and has been marked on its page. The following reason has been specified:

CSD G4 (recreation of content previously deleted per community consensus): Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sir Frank Mears.jpg

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--bjh21 (talk) 17:21, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

File copyright status

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Yann,

Your reply does not address my request to have the file [Sir Frank Mears.jpg] re-instated.

I resent the implications that I have provided false information about the photograph and that more than one of my contributions may be the subject of concern.

Sir Frank Mears died on 25th January 1953 while on a visit to his son in New Zealand. He had travelled to New Zealand in 1952. The photograph [Sir Frank Mears.jpg] is therefore clearly over 70 years old and by my reckoning no longer subject to UK copyright. I don't have a precise date for it, but as it shows Sir Frank in his later years and posed in his professional capacity, it was probably taken in Scotland between 1945 and 1952.

I would be grateful for your guidance on whether copyright has expired on this image and, if not, why not. If you consider that copyright has not expired in relation to [Sir Frank Mears.jpg], I would be grateful if you would tell me on what date you consider it will have expired and can therefore be considered a commons image.

Kind regards,

Sandy Fortingal (talk) 11:34, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Source of derivative work is not properly indicated: File:Greenockflats.jpg

This file may be deleted.

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Belbury (talk) 12:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)