User talk:Tom/Archive1
Logos
Pray answer why you upload logotypes to Commons? They will probably be deleted? Thuresson 04:51, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- I get the wikis all mixed up. Sorry. :\ --Tomf688 04:55, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
Image sorting
Hello - thank you for providing images to the wikimedia commons. Please keep in mind that images uploaded to the commons should be useful to all users of wikimedia projects - this is possible only if the images can be found by other people. To allow others to find the images you uploaded here, the images should be in some place that can be found by navigating the category structure. This means that you should either place the images on topic pages (galleries), or put the images directly into a category, or do both. Which of those possibilities is preferred is however a matter of debate, see here.
The important point is that the images should be placed in the general structure somewhere. There is a large number of completely unsorted images on the commons right now, see Commons:Really unused. If you would like to help to place some of those images where they can be found, please do! Thank you. -- Duesentrieb 00:51, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I occasionally create pages for my images, but I always categorize them with their copyright tags. --Tomf688 01:18, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Copyright tags aren't enough. Images need subject categories (see Commons:Categories). Dbenbenn 21:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
By the way, please use PNG instead of GIF. Dbenbenn 21:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Categories, sources
I see you've been adding subject categories; thanks! In addition, could you please provide your source (a URL) when you upload a picture from another web site? For example, a link at Image:Dutch Ruppersberger.jpg would be useful simply to verify who it is, or to find out more about the photo. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 02:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- That particular one seems to be unfree on further inspection. Thought I was looking at his official website, but it was his re-election committee's website. --Tomf688 02:45, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi, do you have a Library of Congress source for this photo? Thuresson 23:15, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg
Could you indicate at Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg where you got your larger version of that picture? Thanks, User:dbenbenn 21:34, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
RFA thanks
Thank you for your support on my recent successful request for administratorship! howcheng {chat} 15:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Image deletion notification | Image:John Warner on Meet the Press.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 image, 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. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. |
Adminship
Having noted my objection in May, I am certainly willing to support a bid for Adminship today. Cary "Bastique" Bass parler voir 19:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
...for bureaucrat
Thanks by your support. I hope my contribution as bureaucrat be useful for Commons users. Greetings --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 23:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I have passed my bureaucratship with 14 supports to 0 oppositions. Thank you for your support.--Jusjih 04:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
CheckUser
Hi Tomf688,
Per the CheckUser Policy, I have been granted the checkuser permission. Thankyou for supporting this request. Requests for checkuser can be made at the Administrators' noticeboard. Thanks, Alphax (talk) 01:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Re: Hurricane pictures
Okay I did it for the latest image of Isaac. I did not use commas or colons in the file name because Firefox does not like that. Good kitty 17:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments in Lar's recent RfA!
Dear Lar: I would like to thank you for your support in my recent RfA which passed 20 to 1. I really appreciate the trust you've placed in me. Please help me be a better admin by giving me feedback when you think I need it, and praise when you think I've earned it. Early supports like yours were particularly helpful in letting me know I wasn't crazy for wanting to get involved. Your work on images and templates is something I hope to learn from. All the best. ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC) | |
I chose LEGO to illustrate my thank you messagess, because LEGO is a system that we build things with. Commons holds the building blocks that other wikis use to make great things. Without Commons images and media, other wikis would be much poorer. Let's help build the greatest freely available intellectual collection the world has ever known... together. |
FPC
Congratulations, an image you uploaded, Image:Hurricane Katrina August 28 2005 NASA.jpg, hasbeen nominated over at Wikipedia:Featured Picture Candidates. You can come and participate in the discussion and vote on it here. NauticaShades 20:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I think the clouds in the new version are saturated with too much blue, especially towards the center of the photo. Wouldn't it be better to upload this into a new image file, especially because it looks so different from the one that was voted up as FP? Good kitty 02:12, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, are you certain that modification (derivative works) and commercial use is permitted for the G8 photos? Thanks Arniep 01:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hi- I wonder whether we better delete the image until you get a reply? Arniep 17:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Images from such occasions often have a condition that the image is not allowed to be modified or have derivative works made (as in the case of most British government images) in which case we may have already broken the usage conditions. Arniep 22:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
propaganda fake
Hi, i've corrected the summary about your Image:Frenchman weeps as Germans enter Paris, June 14, 1940.JPEG
picture. this is not paris but toulon, this is not june 14 1940 but somewhere circa 1940, and the portrayed people are not waving nor crying at the germans entering france -as suggests the post-2003 US francophobe cliché- but at the french troops leaving france. these troops were pushed in the south by the german blitzkrieg and they gathered in the french colonies where they will be organized as Free French Forces by a guy you may have heard of called General de Gaulle. the truth is this picture is a screenshot from the 1943 propaganda film directed by Franck Capra for the US army, its called Divide and Conquer, the 3rd film in the Why We Fight series. you might be interested to watch this picture moving in the actual source (http://www.archive.org/details/DivideAndConquer). a nice thing would be to rename your picture as it is currently mislabeled. proposed title is available in the image's page. for your information i would suggest this article by one of your fellow citizen who has its article in wikipedia. Shame On You 23:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- ok, i've replaced the obsolete image in your user page and i have made the old one available for speedy deletion. thanks for your support. Shame On You 01:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
You may be right - it doesn't really look like PD. I copied that from enwiki or plwiki a long time ago... Will have to look through all of my older uploads someday. TOR 01:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Administrator
Congratulations! You are administrator now. --EugeneZelenko 03:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations, Dear Administrator!
Tom/Archive1, congratulations! You now have the the rights of administrator on Commons. Please take a moment to read the Commons:Administrators page and watchlist related pages (in particular Commons:Administrators' noticeboard and Commons:Deletion requests), before launching yourself into page deletions, page protections, account blockings or modifications of protected pages. The majority of the actions of administrators can be reversed by the other SYSOPS, except for history merges which must thus be treated with particular care.
Please feel free to join us on IRC: #wikimedia-commons @ irc.freenode.net.
Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 20:12, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
kind request
Hi Tom,
I noticed that you tagged Image:Ruth Ginsburg.jpg for deletion. However, it seems that you did not inform its uploader, user:FoekeNoppert, of this action.
Our Commons:Deletion guidelines say this should be done, and I would kindly encourage you to play by this rule. People get understandably angry when their contributions are deleted and no-one tells them about it.
regards,
TeunSpaans 16:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
My RFA: Thanks
Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Commons. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 15:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Deleted photo
Why the hell did you delete my uploaded photo (red man regular)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.56.194.141 (talk • contribs) at 17:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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I've created an SVG file based on this one. – Tintazul talk 14:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Image that you reviewed
Image:Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.jpg which you reviewed looks nothing like the image on Flickr that it's allegedly cropped from. Is it linking to the correct page, or was there some other mistake? 138.237.165.140 04:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Alter link to author of Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg
Hi! The link to the author of the picture Abraham Lincoln head on shoulders photo portrait.jpg should be refined to Alexander Gardner (photographer).
--Materthron 17:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
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The file you added will soon be deleted. If you believe this image is not a copyright violation, please explain why on the image description page.
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--Durin 20:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Image:Sarahvulva.jpg and Image:Sarahvulva crop.jpg
Hi. Yann restored Image:Sarahvulva.jpg at 11:33 on 9 March 2007 (UTC) with the explanation "13 revisions and 3 file(s) restored: licence & permission ok". Why then did you delete Image:Sarahvulva.jpg? Further discussion is at w:Talk:Vulva#Stolen image, w:Image talk:Sarahvulva crop.jpg#Possibility that the image was stolen, Image talk:Sarahvulva crop.jpg#Possibility that the image was stolen, and User talk:Yann#Image:Sarahvulva.jpg and Image:Sarahvulva crop.jpg, and log links are here and there. Thanks! — Jeff G. 05:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi again, perhaps you did not see the question above? An answer would be helpful. Thanks! — Jeff G. 22:51, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
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Jkelly 23:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Image deletion warning | Image:G8 2006 leaders 2.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 image, 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. If the file is up for deletion because it has been superseded by a superior derivative of your work, consider the notion that although the file may be deleted, your hard work (which we all greatly appreciate) lives on in the new file. |
Jkelly 23:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
- The problem is that we cannot assume that the license to republish includes a license to modify. Jkelly 00:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:US Government most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:US Government most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
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- Vandal 155.56.68.221 (talk|contribs) removed the source in this edit 7 hours 32 minutes previously (at 09:12 on 22 March 2007 (UTC)). I have restored the source. — Jeff G. 19:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- The basic problem still has not been addressed. See my note at Image:US Government most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.jpg.--Pharos 19:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:Hoover-JEdgar-LOC.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Hoover-JEdgar-LOC.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Yonatan talk 02:53, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Did U.S. News and World Report release this photo into the public domain or did they not renew the copyrights? If so, you can probably use {{PD-US}} or create a new template saying that since U.S. News and World Report didn't renew their copyrights in the 60's their work is in the public domain and use this link as a source. Yonatan talk 03:01, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Okay, thanks, you might wanna make a template for it. Yonatan talk 14:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
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grendel|khan 20:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
You deleted Image:Michael_Chertoff_head-on-shoulders_2005.jpg saying duplicate; replaced. Well it wasn't replaced everwhere. Would you mind telling me what image it is a duplicate of? Bawolff 22:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I cannot elaborate further than what I said. OTRS sometimes requires sensitive handling of duties. Your best action is to contact someone else who has access to OTRS and ask them to review the case and see if they agree with my course of action. They also won't be able to give any information, but hopefully their confirmation of my actions as correct will satisfy you that the image really did need to go. You can learn more about OTRS and see people to contact at Commons:OTRS. Thank you for your understanding. MECU≈talk 18:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- No, I'm not an admin on en.wiki (yet). I will get someone else to delete it for me though. Thank you for brining this to my attention. MECU≈talk 19:18, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Has this big red warning sign on it. you may wish to sort it out. Bawolff 02:02, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:John_Sarbanes,_official_110th_Congress_photo_portrait.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Siebrand 11:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:John_Sarbanes,_official_110th_Congress_photo_portrait_crop.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}} to release it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Siebrand 11:45, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
SN 2006gy
Hi Tom
You deleted: "Image:SN 2006gy, NASA illustration.jpg" (noncommercial and educational use only: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html)
If NASA published it, what does it have to do with the Harvard website. And how the heck was I supposed to know? How can I tell what random Universtiy wants to sink their hooks into an image? I mean Berkeley was the only University that NASA mentioned on the page with the image. And isn't Wikimedia Commons non-commercial? --SVTCobra 20:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry to be in this mess over these images, but I tagged a bunch of images from the supernova non-commercial as that is what they appear to be. - Image:Sn2006gy collapse ill.jpg, Image:Sn2006gy CHANDRA x-ray.jpg and Image:SN 2006gy, NASA illustration.jpg. Bawolff 23:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Could you please undelete this image. You deleted for non commercial licensiing but it is a NASA pic from http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/photos07-052.html i believe. Thanks N:User:Markie
- This is NASA image, and the credit clearly states from NASA also. DragonFire1024 21:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Regarding all future replies: these are not PD images. The original source is here and they only permit noncommercial and educational usages per this notice. --Tom (talk - email) 21:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Clearly the credit states: Image credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/N.Smith et al.; IR: Lick/UC Berkeley/J.Bloom & C.Hansen. Notice NASA in there? The illustration, the top image, is by NASA as the credit clearly states. DragonFire1024 21:29, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Not to mention the copyright of the site in general: Operated for NASA by SAO. This site was developed with funding from NASA under Contract NAS8-39073. From the bottom of this page. DragonFire1024 21:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Apparently you failed to read the above link: ''Operated for NASA by SAO. This site was developed with funding from NASA under Contract NAS8-39073. If they are funded by NASA, then they do NOT exist without them. DragonFire1024 21:55, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Regarding all future replies: these are not PD images. The original source is here and they only permit noncommercial and educational usages per this notice. --Tom (talk - email) 21:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Images Tom uploaded in 2006-7 that no longer exist, in chrono order
- Image:WashingtonDC Capitol USA2.jpg
- Image:US Government most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.jpg
- Image:P-61 Black Widow in flight, color.jpg
- Image:Looking down a street in Queretero.jpg
- Image:Mug shots of Seligmann and Finnerty.jpg
- Image:Carlos Gutierrez.JPG (replaced by Image:Carlos Gutierrez.jpg)
- Image:Richard Cheney as Secretary of Defense.gif
- Image:Caspar Weinberger official portrait.jpg (replaced by Image:Caspar Weinberger official photo.jpg)
- Image:Presidentcarter.jpg (maybe replaced by Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg)
- Image:Lincoln.png
- Image:Bob Dole, photo portrait, head and shoulders, facing front, February 9, 182.jpg (replaced by Image:Bob Dole, photo portrait, head and shoulders, facing front, February 9, 1982.jpg)
- Image:Secession Map of the United States, 1861.png
- Image:Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia CSA.png (replaced by Image:Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia CSA, 2005.png)
- Image:G8 2006 leaders 2.jpg
- Image:Testudo statue in front of McKeldin Library, August 21, 2006.jpg (already removed from User:Tom)
- Image:Caspar Weinberger funeral procession, April 4, 2006.jpg
- Image:Hurricane Gordon MODIS image, September 14, 2006, 1710 UTC.jpg
- Image:Frenchman weeps as Germans enter Paris, June 14, 1940.JPEG
- Image:James Schlesinger official DoDo photo.jpg
- Image:Tony Blair news conference, G8 Russia, 17 July 2006.jpg
- Image:Adam Smith WA-9.jpg.jpg (replaced by Image:Adam Smith WA-9.jpg)
- Image:Johnson surveys damage over New Orleans, 10 September 1965.jpg
- Image:United States Constitution, Page 2.jpg
- Image:United States Constitution, Page 3.jpg
- Image:United States Constitution, Page 4.jpg
- Image:Bob Riley greeting soliders in Birmingham, 19 Jan, 2004.jpg (replaced by Image:Bob Riley greeting soldiers in Birmingham, 19 Jan, 2004.jpg)
- Image:Skyline of Washington, seen from Saint Elizabeths, August 23.jpg (replaced by Image:Skyline of Washington, seen from Saint Elizabeths, August 23, 2006.jpg)
- Image:Robert Aderholt.jpg
- Image:Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.jpg
- Image:Jon Corzine, official Senate photo portrait.jpg
- Image:Baron Hill, 110th Congress photo portrait.jpg
- Image:Louise Slaugher, official Congressional photo.jpg
- Image:Sarbanes serves as Grand Marshall of the 2007 Baltimore Greek Independence Day Parade.jpg
- Image:Frank Lucas, official 109th Congress photo.jpg
- Image:Allyson Schwartz, official 110th Congress photo.jpg
Source: search of this log et al for redlinks