User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/2024/October

Possible typo at HelpDesk

Hi, can you, please, see again your comment here Special:diff/1250228697...?
I suppose there is some verb missing right after "people might start to". Best regards, CiaPan (talk) 07:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I left out the verb. Thanks for catching it. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:06, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Please help

Hello Marchjuly, I have a question about image copyright, hope you can help. This photo and this one are both in the Gardiner, Arthur Z. collection. The author says that the US government has copyrighted this material, I'm not sure if the General Lê Văn Kim.jpg file has the correct image tag; if so, then similar photos like this one and this one — also in the same collection — can be uploaded with the same PD-USGov tag, right? Thank you. CalCoWSpiBudSu (talk) 05:20, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

This might be a good thing to ask about at c:COM:VPC. I'm not sure whether content published by presidential libraries automatically is in the public domain because I think such libraries are often run by private foundations or other organizations and not necessarily the US federal government; for example, the Wikipedia article about the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum states it was built using private funds even though it's being administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. So, it's possible (I guess) the library is hosting photos taken by persons who weren't working for the US federal government. If, however, the photos were taken by a US federal government employee as part of their official duties, they probably would be within the public domain regardless of where they're found online. Finally, even though the library seems to be selling prints/files of such photos, they also don't seem to be claiming copyright ownership over them because of the statement "The Library is unaware of any copyright claims to this item; use at your own risk." The library seems to be essentially just charging a fee for sending out of files/copies of the photos and perhaps some associated documentation, but not for a license to use the photos. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:02, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Information regarding uploaded pictures

Hello. Recently I uploaded a picture of Subhasree Ganguly in the infobox album on her Wikipedia page. I took the picture from her Twitter handle. But I am unaware about what should be the licensing if I upload a picture in this manner. Can you please inform me about the Wiki policies and the licensing if I upload a picture on any Wikipedia biography page of a living person from his or her social media handle.

Thanks BhikhariInformer (talk) 10:42, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi BhikhariInformer. You can find out some more about this at Wikipedia:Image use policy and c:Commons:Licensing, but the provenance (e.g. who took the photo, when it was taken, where it was taken, etc.) of the photo needs to be clarified to determine its copyright status. Wikipedia can only host the photo if its copyright holder has agreed to give their WP:CONSENT, and the copyright holder of the photo is generally the person who takes it. Did you take the photo yourself? If you did, then I can provide some guidance as to what you need to do next. If, on the other hand, you didn't take the photo, I can also provide you with some guidance on what your options are.

Just for reference, I took the picture from her Twitter handle kind of sounds like you found the photo on her Twitter account, which most likely means it was taken by someone else. If that's the case, the photo is going to be treated as non-free content since photos found online are going to be presumed to be under a copyright license that's too restrictive for Wikipedia unless it can be clearly shown otherwise. Furthermore, non-free photos of living people are pretty much never allowed per non-free content use criterion #1 Wikipedia's non-free content use policy; so, there's going to be no way for Wikipedia to keep this photo without obtaining its copyright holder's consent. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:36, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Okay. Now I understand it clearly. Thanks for your guidance. BhikhariInformer (talk) 02:12, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Rawvandom (13:10, 28 October 2024)

hi, draft:Bigil Toks This page is not showing publish opts why? --Rawvandom (talk) 13:10, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

@Rawvandom: Draft:Bigil Toks was submitted for review to Wikipedia:Articles for creation several times and it was declined each time before finally being rejected by the Theroadislong on April 16, 2022. When a draft is "declined", it means that the AfC reviewer feels that the draft isn't ready to be upgraded to article status just yet but can possibly be improved enough to someday be approved as an article. However, when a draft is "rejected", it means that the AfC reviewer feels that the draft is not only not ready for article status now but will also unlikely be ever ready for article status since it's unlikely ever going be able to be improved enough to meet Wikipedia's standards. If you feel that this isn't the case and would like the draft to be reviewed again, I think there are two things you could try. The first one would be to post a message at User talk:Theroadislong to see whether their opinion of the draft has changed since April 2022. The other thing you could try would be to ask for a re-assessment of the draft by posting at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk. For what it's worth, it would probably be better to discuss things with Theroadislong first, even if only as a courtesy, and see what they have to say. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:47, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from Panford delicia on User:Panford delicia (11:31, 30 October 2024)

Can I create an article on Wikipedia? --Panford delicia (talk) 11:31, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi Panford delicia. Anyone can, in principle, create a Wikipedia article but only if the subject of the article meets Wikipedia:Notability. For some more information on this, you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything, Help:Your first article and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. -- Marchjuly (talk) 12:09, 30 October 2024 (UTC)