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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:VADM Russ Crane, RAN.jpg

Problem addressed (I hope). Pdfpdf (talk) 14:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to WP!

Hi,
Welcome to WP! I hope you enjoy it here, but be warned, it can become addictive.
I approve of what you've been doing, but like any "society" there are those who are not only dead-set-keen on making "rules", but there are those pedants who are even keener on enforcing those "rules". (Personally, I find this rather weird given "Jimbo"'s intentions, but I guess human nature is such that these two groups will always surface in every society ... )
Anyway, the point of this is to say that although I approve of what you've been doing, there are members of these two groups who wouldn't. e.g. The Russ Crane photo. This is an area full of uncompromising pedants. Just because you didn't mention specifically in the right field, in the right format, that you were putting this picture on the Russ Crane page, there is an absurdly large number of people who will have severely twisted nickers. With luck, I have changed it to defuse their amunition, but to mix metaphors, you're treading on thin ice and sailing close to the wind.
If this is all too cryptic and obscure for you, feel free to ask me questions (user talk:pdfpdf). Best wishes, Pdfpdf (talk) 14:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I also bid you welcome, and suggest you may want to get in on a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Australian military history task force‎#Ribbons before adding more awards lists to military bio articles. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 07:46, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:ADM_Mike_Hudson,_RAN.jpg

An image that you uploaded, Image:ADM_Mike_Hudson,_RAN.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems because it is a suspected copyright violation. Please look there if you know that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), and then provide the necessary information there and on its page, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 17:05, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, you can't say I didn't warn you ...

I must admit that I'm surprised you didn't get the same reaction with the Crane photo.

Had you addressed this photo the same way you addressed the Crane photo, this outcome may not have occurred. However, you can't go around making copies of other people's copyright work and displaying the copy in public without the author's permission - it's against the law in most countries. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 02:37, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use Image:VADM_Russ_Crane,_RAN.jpg

Replaceable fair use

Thanks for uploading Image:VADM_Russ_Crane,_RAN.jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:

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