Sometimes somethings

Archive of my talk

Photos of Living People

{{helpme}}

What's the deal with photos of living people? If I find a photo on Flickr.com that the photographer has released under CC and it is of a really famous person can I upload it to wikipedia?Sometimes somethings (talk) 04:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it depends exactly which flavour of CC. Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#For image creators suggests some acceptable variants, with the key being that "the license must not prevent commercial reuse or derivative works". You might want to post your question at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions if this wasn't helpful. Bovlb (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. Must it really be on CC allowing commercial use? Sometimes somethings (talk) 04:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

One of our objectives in building Wikipedia is that others may make broad use of the content, so we have to allow for the possibility of commercial reuse. For example, suppose someone (perhaps the Wikimedia Foundation) wanted to sell "Wikipedia on a DVD", would that be commercial? Our copyright rules may seem overly paranoid and unnecessarily restrictive, but I'm afraid they are what they are, and there has been a lot of thought put into them. Bovlb (talk) 04:59, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

“ Our copyright rules may seem overly paranoid....there has been a lot of thought put into them. ”

I don't find them at all paranoid. They are rational and well reasoned; I would like to find a good resource for learning all of them without my head spinning off! I don't doubt there has been a lot of work put into them. I certainly appreciate that work and all the work that you and others do. In actuality, I'm very fussy about sticking to copyright law for anything that will be seen by others. I flagrantly ignore copyright law when it's for my own enjoyment—which I know is still illegal—but I don't care; there are lots of things I don't like about copyright law, and it's my bit of civil disobedience. That doesn't mean I'm not committed to maintaining legality elsewhere. (wikipedia and publications for work, for example) Sometimes somethings (talk) 05:13, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't find our copyright rules to be as clearly-explained and well-organized as I would like, but you can find most things by following links from Wikipedia:Copyrights. Bovlb (talk) 05:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Photo hosting for es.wikipedia

So I'm fairly high-functioning in Spanish, and I was over on es.wikipedia, and I'm wondering, are all the photos in es articles hosted at commons? Their how-to for adding images to articles says to upload them to commons, and I can't find anyplace to upload photos directly to the wikipedia. Does anyone know what this is about?Sometimes somethings (talk) 04:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi there! It does seem that over at es.wikipedia they only accept images uploaded to commons (i'm not very proficient in spanish, but believe this to be true). To upload an image at commons, go to the upload page and follow the instructions there. You do need to create a user account there, but it's pretty much the same as creating one here. Be sure to check out First steps before uploading your images to be sure they meet common's requirements. If you have any other questions, feel free to re-add the {{helpme}} tag, write here, or on my talk page. Happy editing! --omtay38 05:01, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

{{helpme}} See your talk page.

I'm pretty sure that it would. I don't know the actually policy, but i'm almost sure cropping a picture already on commons would still qualify as commons worthy. Best regards! --omtay38 05:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems

Hello. Concerning your contribution, Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png, please note that Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images obtained from other web sites or printed material, without the permission of the author(s). As a copyright violation, Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png appears to qualify for deletion under the speedy deletion criteria. Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message.

If you believe that the article or image is not a copyright violation, or if you have permission from the copyright holder to release the content freely under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) then you should do one of the following:

• If you have permission from the author, leave a message explaining the details at [[Talk:Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png]] and send an email with the message to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia (dot) org". See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for instructions.
• If a note on the original website states that re-use is permitted under the GFDL or released into the public domain leave a note at [[Talk:Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png]] with a link to where we can find that note.
• If you own the copyright to the material: send an e-mail from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en(at)wikimedia(dot)org or a postal message to the Wikimedia Foundation permitting re-use under the GFDL, and note that you have done so on [[Talk:Image:Yankees cap in Panama modified.png]].

However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you.

If you review Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags#Guidelines, you will notice that in order to host an image such as the above, it needs to be licensed for commercial reuse. ~ BigrTex 00:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Commercial use of Image:Ancient roman aqueduct turkey detail.png

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Image:Ancient roman aqueduct turkey detail.png, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Image:Ancient roman aqueduct turkey detail.png has a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission, which was either uploaded on or after 2005-05-19 or is not used in any articles (CSD I3). While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case[1][2]. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

If you created this media file and want to use it on Wikipedia, you may re-upload it (or amend the image description if it has not yet been deleted) and use the license {{GFDL-self}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} to license it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, or use {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain.

If you did not create this media file but want to use it on Wikipedia, there are two ways to proceed. First, you may choose one of the fair use tags from this list if you believe one of those fair use rationales applies to this file. Second, you may want to contact the copyright holder and request that they make the media available under a free license.

If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. This bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion, it did not nominate Image:Ancient roman aqueduct turkey detail.png itself. Feel free to leave a message on the bot operator's talk page if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot. If you have any questions about what to do next or why your image was nominated for speedy deletion please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thanks. CSDWarnBot (talk) 01:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Safety equipment listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Safety equipment. Since you had some involvement with the Safety equipment redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Quest for Truth (talk) 03:17, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:18, 23 November 2015 (UTC)