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October 1
[edit]audio cd cover -- BLueFiSH 01:24, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted as copyvio. --Panther 06:17, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
The image is copyrighted. Reasons for deletion request 24.87.12.169 02:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Picture from a TV show
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyrighted image Reasons for deletion request 24.87.12.169 02:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:08, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Invalid license. No source and the file cannot be visualized. It has password. I notified this to the uploader. --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 11:28, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete useless. -- ３２４７ (talk) 15:26, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
igospel.com is a commercial site wich is under copyright (© Todos os Direitos Reservados)
noting indicated this site give permission for a free usage of their documents. Oxam Hartog 20:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Copyvio. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 21:55, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:Gian Lorenzo Bernini - The Rape of Proserpina.JPG, Image:Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Apollo and Daphne.JPG, Image:Cassandra flees the carnage (Attic red figure cup).jpg, Image:Hecuba (Athenian amphora).jpg, Image:Hercules and Kerberos (Caeretan Black Figure Hydria).JPG, Image:Hercules and Kerberos (Caeretan Black Figure Hydria) - detail.JPG, Image:Orestes slaying Aegisthus while Klytaemnestra looks away (attic red figure pelike).JPG, Image:The Death of Priam (Athenian black-figure amphora).jpg, Image:The Death of Priam (Kleophrades painter, Attic red figure hydria).jpg, Image:The Sacrifice of Polyxena (Athenian black-figure amphora.jpg
[edit]Copyvios: these 10 images are tagged PD-old or PD-art, but are non-self reproductions of 3D objects. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 00:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, no sources who can verify that the photographers have been dead for 70 years. Thuresson 02:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- and also Image:Antifa1.jpg
In Germany there is a huge controversy about the usage of images which contain nazi symbols - even if they are crossed out. Judges have come to the conclusion that showing this symbol cannot be seen under the condition of {{Nazi symbol}} and showing makes the hakenkreuz socially acceptable. The boss of a German company which sold clothes and buttons which contain this symbol was sued for 3,200 €.
So I don't think that this image should be shown in the commons --Frumpy 18:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep The controversy is that most people don't think that the verdict by those judges is socially, politcally and legally acceptable. It is not yet binding and will probably set aside in the next instance (maybe the German criminal code will be amended to clarify that using anti-nazi symbols is not the same as using nazi-symbols). Of course, if we delete this logo, we have to delete everything with {{Nazi symbol}}. The court did not say that crossed-out nazi symbols are less acceptable than normal ones; it said that commercially selling products with nazi logos is not acceptable even if they are crossed-out.- For most Wikimedia projects, this does not matter anyway as there's a clear exception for using the logos in educational context. (BTW, you should have notified me on my talk page, and you should have added a {{Delete}} to Antifa1.jpg and notified the uploader of that image) -- ３２４７ (talk) 08:39, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Bitte mal nicht übervorsichtig sein. “ Im Frühjahr wurde ein Tübinger Student, der einen Button mit dem Hakenkreuz im Verbotsschild trug, vom dortigen Landgericht freigesprochen.” [1]
- Auch interessant: Zypries erwägt Gesetzesänderung
- rough translation : A lot of people think that the judgement is silly. The Federal Minister of Justice thinks about changing the law. In a similiar case the accused one wasn't found guilty. Therefore Keep --84.141.8.70 19:46, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep German law is for germany only (why do that point seems to be so hard to understand?) --Jollyroger 09:04, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep For Wikimedia/pedia/Commons will apply §86 (3) StGB which allows - very roughly translated - the publication of such symbols for educational purposes. Not even a problem with german law.--Wiggum 12:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Wait. This jugdement will go into revision, until final decision WP should not be faster then German jugdes. --Ulz 19:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep. German law applies to Germany not anywhere else. If we have to exclude images according to German law, then we logically have to exclude any image which is outlawed according to any legal system in the world. Such a position is absurd, e.g. religious law applies in several jurisdictions in some cases outlawing all images, AFAIK. Valentinian (talk) 17:11, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep, das Bild kann bleiben. Ich habe es auf der w:de:MediaWiki:Bad image list eingetragen, so dass es in der deutschen Wikipedia nicht mehr gezeigt werden kann. ...I posed ist on the MediaWiki:Bad image list, so it can't be shown on the deWP anymore. --Steschke 16:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- Kept, images can be controversial. That is not a deletion criteria. --Cat out 10:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
www.footflyer.com says: All Contents Copyright © 2006. GeorgHH 12:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- I see no statement that this has any non restrictive copyright, just the bare assertion. absent other text, obvious Delete to my thinking. ++Lar: t/c 23:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
kept: Image was uploaded by en:User:Jeffgoin, the webpage is hosted by him according to the user page and the information on the web page. --Matt314 21:19, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
There is no permission to publish this picture from the person shown. -Samulili 18:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
- hi, samulili
- i´ve taken that picture at one of the dna-mass-screening tests that take place in dresden right now. this means i went to that public gymnasium there with my camera, asked the spokesperson of the police there if i may take pictures of the process of the mass screening. (no chance to take a picture at this place without permission of the police).
- he told me i can take pictures of everything and all policemen who were taking the saliva sample tests with his permission. but i have to ask persons to be tested for extra permission.
- so of course i did. i told the persones i asked that these pictures are gonna be published in the news. the first three didn´t want to be fotografed but the person on the picture agreed that i may take pictures of him. Torsten 09:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- So you don't have permission to release it under a licence that allows the use for other purposes than "news". Sorry, but that means Delete -- ３２４７ (talk) 15:24, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- So you don't have permission to release it under a licence that allows the use for other purposes than "news". Sorry, but that means
- Keep of course and clearly state personal rights restrictions. Photos of prominent persons can be used only in about the same restricted fashion, too (ie., not in ads for example), so it would be absurd to require this for photos of unknown people. --Rtc 03:57, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Kept. For once I completely concur with Rtc. / Fred Chess 22:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
October 2
[edit]Reasons for deletion request: This is empty or broken page. Alex Spade 16:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 02:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:München U1.png, Image:München U2.png, Image:München U3.png, Image:München U4.png, Image:München U5.png, Image:München U6.png, Image:München U7.png, Image:München U8.png & Image:München U-Bahn Vorlage.xcf
[edit]superseded by SVG versions in category:line numbers of Munich U-Bahn. Note that the PNG versions also use an outdated design. -- ３２４７ (talk) 21:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
low quality, unable to recognize mushroom species from this picture A.J. 11:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Photograph of copyrighted 3d work -- Alphax (talk) 03:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
This image is probably a copyright violation. I don't trust the license as I don't believe that Krzycho0 is the original author of the NGE logo, which is copyrighted by Gainax. There's no other permission given. ３２４７ (talk) 08:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment This image might be uploadable under fair use to other Wikipedias, so no speedy. -- ３２４７ (talk) 09:27, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
I doubt that the uploader is the photographer. A) Why would the photographer have the document on which the photogrpah is used (drivers license, passport, visa?). B) I'm glad we have elderly users, but there are really few who are in their 80's old older. -Samulili 08:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:05, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Old unlisted request by User:MPF (11:54, 18. Mai 2006): copyvio from listed source GeorgHH 18:39, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I wrote en:User:Jclerman from english wp to send copy of the given permission from the copyright holder to permissions@wikimedia.org here. --GeorgHH 18:58, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
No reply by User Jclerman. --GeorgHH 17:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (unclear license, not used) --ALE! ¿…? 16:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
October 3
[edit]This image was originally created by me to replace a raster image on Template:User abolish Republika Srpska on en. Now the template has been deleted (and I don't think it will be re-created any time soon), and the only use of this image is in my userpage. It serves no purpose now. --Fibonacci 03:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, uploader request. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. --87.230.112.245 13:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC))
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 13:52, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. --87.230.112.245 13:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 13:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. --87.230.112.245 13:28, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 13:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. --87.230.112.245 13:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 13:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. --87.230.112.245 13:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 13:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I doubt, that the author has given his permission. The uploader submitted 6 pictures from different authors and claims permission. Perhaps(!) taken an cutted from [2] --87.230.112.245 13:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Paddy --ALE! ¿…? 12:56, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyrighted picture. (from website: 艾尔肯音乐网版权所有 2005-2006，设计维护：Nijat, translation in English: All rights reserved by the Arken Music Network, design and maintained by Nijat.)
我可以提供此图片的版权。
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
The category "Valkmusa_National_Park" is better solution for this.
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 14:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Free License is doubtfull, seems like BMW PR photograph. --MB-one 12:21, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- In doubt Delete --ALE! ¿…? 12:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
The source website doesn't say where it obtained the picture and nothing about it's copyright status [3]. The website's FAQ says: "Please note: some pictures in The Probert Encyclopaedia have been obtained from the public domain in good faith, but may have been released without the copyright holder's permission, while we never knowingly include any copyright images accidents can happen and we cannot guarantee the status of images you choose to copy." --88.134.44.127 00:59, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- This is Eddie Murphy in either Beverly Hills Cop or 48 Hours. Thuresson 02:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Pretty clear cut to me I think. ++Lar: t/c 01:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:36, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The flag is in wrong proportions and colours. The original movement flag was blue with aproximately the same proportions of the Brazilian flag, as in this image.
This image was also badly named ("Brasilian" with s) and badly categorized as nazism - it's a fascist, not a nazist movement.
And I've already changed the image to the right one at the pl-wikipedia, the only site where it was used. --LipeFontoura 02:41, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Just because the flag is wrong doesn't mean it needs to be deleted. Since SVG can be easily fixed, just let me know of the errors and I can see what I can do. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 05:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, on second thought, is there a variant that uses the green shade? If that is the case, then we should at least mention it (as for the file name, it looks alright, since this is a multi-language project, there will be variant spellings for images). 
Delete. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 05:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- No, there is not that variant. It is considered fake, by the integralists, by the Brazilian history books and by the Flags of the World - and also by me. And, this "variant spelling" is wrong - if it had been written in Portuguese, then it would be Bandeira do Integralismo Brasileiro. But that was not writen in Portuguese, it was written in English. The right spelling, in English, is Brazilian, not "Brasilian". Delete LipeFontoura 14:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Tagged as speedy, but I'm not sure - can a board design be copyrighted? Deleted for having no source on enwp, but it looks pretty clearly like the uploader was the creator. -- pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:40, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think you can claim copyright on a general idea of a board with numbers and letters, but I wonder... This has double and triple point squares in the same position, same colour scheme etc. -Samulili 15:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment. Most board designs are copyrighted. Monopoly, for example, has copyright claims all over it. This probably is as well, since it's substantially identical to the copyrighted material. ++Lar: t/c 00:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- More commentary. See this search on Google... it clearly is a matter that other communities have struggled with. I am not a lawyer, and this should not be taken as authoritative, but here is some legal analysis to make your own mind up with... the conclusion that I came up with is that the writer of that document thinks that the board is trade dress. Meaning any substantially similar representation of the board is infringing on Scrabble(r) trade marks. If the representation is identical, it infringes on Scrabble copyright. I agree with that analysis although, again, I am not a lawyer. So I think a delete is in order here, the board would need to be a Fair Use image, not GFDL or PD. ++Lar: t/c 17:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per above reasoning. ++Lar: t/c 17:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: It is taken from en.wp, tagged as PD(so I can write article of ja:スクラブル: If it tagged as GFDL, I can't write the article because GFDL version imcompatibility). Now it seems local version on en.wp is deleted, I want to know why is it deleted(I think it is deketed because "Nowcommons-PD", but not?). --PiaCarrot 13:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Pia: it was once deleted for NSD (no source), and a second time for "Now commons". pfctdayelise (说什么?) 15:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Because of the restriction put forth here, it can not be considered public domain. / Fred Chess 23:17, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
No reason for PD. Peano died in 1932, the picture shows an elderly man, so i think it's most probably a late (>1920) picture. It's therefore unlikely that the photographer is dead for more than 70 years.--Wiggum 21:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm... shows up all over the place in a Google image search. According to this link, it was taken in 1930 (larger version of the image there too). This page says its version was taken from this book, maybe there is more source info there. It's also used on the cover for a reprint of one of Peano's books. I wonder if this qualifies as PD-old as an anonymous work being more than 70 years after publication. Hard to say when it was first published though. Carl Lindberg 15:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. The copyright status is too uncertain. / Fred Chess 23:20, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
October 4
[edit]superseded by SVG
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 14:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Reason for deletion request:
- The file has a low image quality/resolution (e.g. out of focus, too small).
- The file/page is redundant through a better but not identical one (we have tons of good material in cat:Ice hockey).
- The file/page is not potentially usable by any current or future Wikimedia project
--Xgeorg 06:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- The file has a low image quality/resolution (e.g. out of focus, too small).
- The file/page is redundant through a better but not identical one (we have tons of good material in cat:Ice hockey).
- The file/page is not potentially usable by any current or future Wikimedia project
--Xgeorg 06:54, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Boundary for Hong Kong is incorrect and the uploader won't fix it (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alanmak).--Minghong 15:18, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. Incorrect information per se is not a criteria for deletion. See Commons:Deletion guidelines. Thuresson 20:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep no copyright issue. --ALE! ¿…? 09:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Kept. I see no error with regard to the Hong Kong boundary.--Jusjih 14:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Depicted person died in 1960, so there is no reason for the PD-claim. Neither a source nor the author of the picture has been provided.--Wiggum 17:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete as per nom. --ALE! ¿…? 12:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Jusjih --ALE! ¿…? 09:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
No licensing information. No source for the image is given, and there is no reason to believe it is old enough to be in the public domain. 192.52.218.34 19:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Closed by User:Siebrand ([4]). --Kjetil_r 01:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
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Images from Brasilian Air Force
[edit]Image:2006FABGolSelva.jpg, Image:Legacy1 fab.jpg, Image:Legacy2 fab.jpg.
These image are made by the Brasilia Air Force but they have a license by Agência Brasil. This, I think, is a wrong interpretation of the license conditions given here, for example. -Samulili 16:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- Could you please elaborate on this? How is it a wrong interpretation of the licence conditions? I ask this with genuine curiosity, since I'm not well versed in the ways of Creative Commons, but the only licence information on that page is this [5], which I believe the template conforms to. I have contacted Agência Brasil regarding this matter and would like to ask that you wait a few days to see if they reply and what their stance on this matter would be. Thanks. Antiuser 07:41, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I should also add that Agência Brasil is an organisation under the federal government of Brazil, which distributes material created by many branches of the government and other government agencies. I'm not sure that the Air Force falls under that same category, but since the images are on the Agência Brasil image bank (whose sole purpose is to make images available for the media), I would assume so. Antiuser 07:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I also believe this is not a wrong interpretation of the licence – I have discussed this on Image talk:1939FABgol2.jpg. Fvasconcellos 20:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have received a reply from Shirleide Barboza, from the journalism department of Agência Brasil. She states all content posted on the Agência Brasil website is free as long as the source is mentioned - which these images do. Here is her full message to me:
Prezado Adriano, todo conteúdo produzido pela Radiobrás é de domínio público, devendo ser respeitada a Lei Autoral. Para obter informações a esse respeito, por favor, leia o link "quem somos" ao final da primeira página da Agência Brasil (www.agenciabrasil.gov.br). Atenciosamente, Shirleide Barboza Assessora da Diretoria de Jornalismo
Translation:
Dear Adriano, all content produced by Radiobrás is public domain, as long as Copyright Law is respected. To obtain more informations about it, please read the link "who we are" at the bottom of the Agência Brasil home page (www.agenciabrasil.gov.br).
Their web site states:
Conteúdo de Uso Livre: Todo o conteúdo produzido e distribuído pela Agência Brasil é de uso livre, mediante citação da fonte. As nossas notícias são licenciadas em Creative Commons, uma licença que surgiu em 2001 para tornar mais flexível a legislação de direitos autorais, criando um meio termo entre os direitos reservados e o plágio de conteúdos. Uma opção adequada à realidade da Internet e que protege a Agência Brasil e o nosso usuário.
Translation:
Free usage content: All content produced and distributed by Agência Brasil is of free usage, as long as the source is credited. Our news stories are licenced under Creative Commons, a licence that began in 2001 in order to make copyright legislation more flexible, creating a middle ground between all rights reserved and content plagiarism. An option more adequate to the reality of the Internet and which protects Agência Brasil and our users.
I believe this should settle the matter - the images are distributed internationally by Agência Brasil and thus are subjected to the same licence as all other content on their site. - Antiuser 21:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep the images are CC 201.81.54.202 06:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Request closed. Thuresson 16:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
October 5
[edit]The source website http://schmode.net/ restricts usage of the pictures, they are not PD. Distribution and commercial use is not allowed (see copyright stuff): For re-publication on the web including stuff such as usenet posts, file sharing services, blogs or e-mail stationery, please ask me beforehand because the zoo the picture was taken in may require prior information of your project. For the same reason, commercial use of my pictures is not allowed without my prior consent[...]--Wiggum 18:52, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- First of all, there are more pictures of this series, see Vulpes zerda (every picture except the last one), so if this will be deleted, the others should go, too. Actually, there are even more images from the same source, see Special:Linksearch/http://schmode.net/. There's also this link. Apparently, Ralf Schmode changed the wording on his homepage, disallowing commercial use of his photographs. This was not the case when these images were uploaded, so I don't know if we should keep or delete these pictures. I'd really be a shame if we had to delete them tho, they're great pictures. --Conti|✉ 20:26, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I closed this request because there is a pending request to obtain a release of the pictures. I will reopen it, if it fails.--Wiggum 08:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
http://schmode.net/ states, among others: commercial use of my pictures is not allowed without my prior consent -- Siebrand 08:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Also deletion requests for the following images that are from the same source:
- Image:Elenantilope.jpg
- Image:Vulpes zerda sitting.jpg
- Image:Vulpes zerda front view.jpg
- Image:Vulpes zerda yawning.jpg
- Image:Nyala m.jpg
- Image:Sitatunga w.jpg
- Image:Young leopard.jpg
- Image:Lying cheetah.jpg
- I've asked User:Wiggum if he got any updates on the pending request he mentioned above. --Conti|✉ 16:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Deleted. No response from the author. Samulili 11:27, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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Assumed that the film is PD, this poster isn't. It is not a screenshot from the film but an own work. The PD-US (published before 1923) is just crap.--Wiggum 19:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete film poster film. copyvio. --Rtc 01:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- deleted
- Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 01:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Duplicate of Image:Albrightmadeleine.jpg, but this one is brighter. Figured that nominating it for deletion was the best way to sort it out. -- Alphax (talk) 04:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think that we should definitely keep the original, however people seem to prefer the brighter one as it is being used on many wikis so recommend keeping both. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 12:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Useless. Unless you have article for image manipulation with Microsoft Paint. --Hautala 09:49, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete We don't even know if the depicted kid gave his permission. -- ３２４７ (talk) 15:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, outside project scope and copyvio since it's a derivative of a copyrighted work (it depicts the Nintendo character Mario). Alphax (talk) 06:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Commons:Derivative works --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 12:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Unused (the other images are local Mario.jpgs), low-resolution image that appears to have been taken from a screencap or other non-free source, not made by the uploader as claimed. --jonny-mt 05:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Deleted. Lewis Collard! (lol, internet) 13:21, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
The uploader may not be the author (photographer) of this picture; therefore, the license listed here may be invalid. The original photo appeared in a photo journal titled “The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream[6]” in the Mainichi Daily News. I inquired the uploader to clarify if he/she is the author (photographer) but received no response so far.Californiacondor 04:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Copyvio from http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/040701ice/1.html. --GeorgHH 17:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:MesserWoland --ALE! ¿…? 09:21, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
The source website is copyrighted. The PD claim cannot be readily verified. Jusjih 07:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. The original content of the website is copyrighted, but the images in the archive are all works of the U.S. Government and thus public domain; see National Security Archive. Angr 19:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- The source URL http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/bcphotox.htm is broken. If anyone can find a working URL, I will agree speedy retention of this image. The source website asks for password log-in and may impede access.--Jusjih 03:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Try http://web.archive.org/*/http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/bcphotox.htm - the version archived on 6th February 2005 has the byline for that image as "East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961. Photo Credit: National Archives" which indicates that the claim is accurate. I'm going to update the source and say Keep. I'll leave this for someone else to close. Alphax (talk) 14:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for finding that. It is infuriating that the National Security Archive has decided they want people to register -- and pay! -- to view public domain photographs. Angr 21:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Try http://web.archive.org/*/http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/bcphotox.htm - the version archived on 6th February 2005 has the byline for that image as "East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20, 1961. Photo Credit: National Archives" which indicates that the claim is accurate. I'm going to update the source and say
- Kept. I have seen the image with an active link. I am withdrawing this deletion request.--Jusjih 16:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- The source URL http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/bcphotox.htm is broken. If anyone can find a working URL, I will agree speedy retention of this image. The source website asks for password log-in and may impede access.--Jusjih 03:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
This photo looks like it is a derivative work of a copyright map, so probably not eligible for GFDL. 82.152.197.3 09:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, unless the creator can prove that it was not copyrighted or definitely realeased into the GFDL by the people who created the board. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:23, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Because it's a photo from a map on a public place. --GeorgHH 16:50, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep de:Panoramafreiheit exists in the UK. --ALE! ¿…? 16:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 07:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
This photo looks like it is a derivative work of a copyright map, so probably not eligible for GFDL. --82.152.197.3 09:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete , unless the creator can prove that it was not copyrighted or definitely realeased into the GFDL by the people who created the board. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Because it's a photo from a map on a public place. --GeorgHH 16:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep de:Panoramafreiheit exists in the UK. --ALE! ¿…? 16:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 07:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Author died in 1956. Tagged with {{PD-Russia}}. Copyvio? / Fred Chess 09:30, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --Matt314 21:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Found among speedy delete candidates. Nominated because nothing proves that this image is old enough for Public Domain -- Fred Chess 09:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Current source URL is http://jeantosti.com/musee/pubs.html . Sure seems like something from the early 1900s, maybe as late as the 1920s. Wouldn't this qualify for PD-old as an anonymous work more than 70 years after publication? Carl Lindberg 15:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
in doubt delete --ALE! ¿…? 12:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
This image has a link to a permission page in Spanish Wikipedia, but it doesn't work -- Fred Chess 09:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- The permission page was deleted with the comment "autorización no válida". Google cache still has it, in Spanish, and translates it to "Of course I allow that you use my photos in Wikipedia, while you announce the link to my fotolog and you do not use it with malicious aims. If somebody has doubts, dejeme post in my fotolog. I hope to be able to collaborate with you. Pablo Silva". Effectively a Wikipedia-only permission. Delete if nobody wants to ask for a more free permission. --Para 10:19, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 12:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (not used) --ALE! ¿…? 12:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Derivative work. Note the one may insist that it's a work of applied art (it's a statuette for a social award) and might therefore lack a high level of originality but i think it's proteced.--Wiggum 19:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Please tell me, what „derivative work“ means. The photo shows a sculpture that was made by the Austrian artist Manfred Wakolbinger. The photo is not protected. I don't see what the problem with the photo is. The sculpture is given every year to the first three winners of SozialMarie, a Central European price for innovative social projects – like the Oskar statuette. Fritz, 11 October 2006, 12:50 p.m. (CEST)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:48, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
sxh.hu (stock exchange) has added a new restriction frame on their images, often adding additional restrictions aside from the one on the side ("Royalty free"). On this image, http://www.sxc.hu/photo/50716 , it now says "sdhargal [the author] must be notified and credited when using the photo for any public work.". I haven't seen this additional restriction window before, and I presume it wasn't there when this image was uploaded to Commons. What procedure should we take on Commons in regards to this? / Fred Chess 11:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Stock.xchng have always had the restrictions shown below each photo, and they have been discussed on Commons too. The "royalty free" on the side is always there since the point of the service is to be free (as in "free beer", not speech). Perhaps the site supports css skins or some such, and you have seen the restrictions somewhere else? Nevertheless, they have no doubt always been visible somewhere on the page. Consider this archived page of another photo from 2003 for example, from before this Kerala photo was uploaded here. It shows the availability of the same restrictions, although not visually framed like they are now.
- The file history shows that the photo was originally uploaded here saying "no usage restrictions", which may or may not have been the case on the source site at the time of the upload, but in that case the photo has the same issue as all the 5000 photos from Flickr with changed licenses, to which we have no solution.
- In any case, People In The Know have decided that "Any images sourced from Stock.xchng that were uploaded since 29 December 2005 should be deleted" as per Commons:Stock.xchng images, so this discussion is pointless really. Last chance to draft a separate permission request. --Para 14:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- That page says that User:Gmaxwell is sending out permission requestions for all Stock.xchng images posted between 29 December 2005 and 26 June 2006 (and this image is on that list, as it was uploaded December 30). May want to check with that user before deleting this. Carl Lindberg 16:06, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, as per Para. / Fred Chess 17:15, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
This image is a duplicate for the correct image of "Image:Trentino-Alto Adige-Südtirol provinces.png". I corrected the title and image because the older one does not have the complete and proper title and I would like to have Commons have the image with the proper region title and the proper province titles (as per the Italian government, not the "English" versions that are incorrect on the old map). Please help. Thank you. Rarelibra 15:16, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- This seems to be a naming controversy. See Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Attention#PLEASE_HELP for additional background. I'm inclined to support deletion of the two images that are superceded but I may be missing some nuance... withhold opinion for now. ++Lar: t/c 19:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. This is more than just differently named. This is several different versions of the same map using English names and Italian names. As this creates two distinctly different images, for use at different wikis, they should certainly be retained. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 19:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. Fact of the matter is, the "Trentino-South Tyrol Provinces.png" map is incorrect, because the names of the provinces are not "South Tyrol" and "Trento", they are "Trentino" and "Bolzano". This is in consensus in English wiki (the consensus is that the province name is and should be "Bolzano", this is from many users, including several who actually live in the area). "South Tyrol" is referencing the area that was passed from Austria to Italy after WWII. We have already stated on English wiki that the area deserves a page to explain the influence, but the actual province page should be "Bolzano". There is a huge list of references showing this region as "Bolzano", including the Italian government and UN. Rarelibra 20:14, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep of course POV pusher User:Rarelibra just wants to get rid of the word "South Tyrol" under all circumstances, see his pushing on the English Wikipedia, a notice on his behaviour has been posted on the sysop commons noticeboard Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/User problems#User:Rarelibra. Gryffindor 21:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Exactly where in my comments above does it have anything derogatory against you? Please refrain from using spiteful comments and accusations against me. Also, do not bring an argument from English wiki over to Commons. This request (and the other) is about an image on Commons that has a better, proper title with a shared Italian/German name (and does not have to fall to such "English only" demands). Rarelibra 21:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Each wikipedia project chooses the titles of their articles, as the matching captions. This image suits for the deutsch wikipedia, therefore we have no reasons to delete it. --Juiced lemon 20:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Kept, we can keep different versions of an image with captions in different languages. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 15:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
This image is a duplicate for the correct image of "Image:Trentino-Alto Adige-Südtirol provinces.png". I corrected the title and image because the older one does not have the complete and proper title and I would like to have Commons have the image with the proper region title and the proper province titles (as per the Italian government, not the "English" versions that are incorrect on the old map). Please help. Thank you. Rarelibra 15:16, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- This seems to be a naming controversy. See Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/Attention#PLEASE_HELP for additional background. I'm inclined to support deletion of the two images that are superceded but I may be missing some nuance... withhold opinion for now. (note I think both of these could be listed under one listing) ++Lar: t/c 19:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Kept, see Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Trentino-South Tyrol Provinces.png. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 05:01, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Gies-Adler
[edit]relisted from October 5 in order to get some more input. --ALE! ¿…? 14:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
This deletion request applies to:
- Image:Fette Henne.svg
- Image:Bonn Bundeshaus old Plenary Chamber.jpg
- Image:Bonn Wasserwerk Plenarsaal.jpg
- Image:Bundesadler1992.jpg
- Image:Bundesadler2004.JPG
It seems to me that according to this decision by the BGH (German supreme court), Ludwig Gies' eagle is protected by copyright. --Phrood 19:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
- I found threee more.
- --Rtc 15:17, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
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Well, the decision actually permits the depiction of the Gies-Eagle extracts of the decision:
- "Das Berufungsgericht hat einen urheberrechtlichen Unterlassungsanspruch der Klägerin verneint."
The court of appeals has negated the proprietary claim of omission of the suitor.
- "Auch wenn das Urheberrechtsgesetz die beanstandete Verwendung des Gies-Adlers nicht gestatte, sei sie doch durch das Grundrecht der Pressefreiheit gerechtfertigt."
The basic law of the Freedom of the press justifies the use of the Gies-Adler, even if the copyright law does not allow the said use of the Gies Eagle.
- "Der aufgrund seiner exponierten Plazierung im (früheren) Bundestagsgebäude in der Bevölkerung überaus bekannte Gies-Adler sei für die meisten politisch interessierten Menschen mit dem Wappentier der Bundesrepublik identisch. Ihnen sei nicht bekannt, daß es sich lediglich um ein dem Wappen angenähertes Kunstwerk eines privaten Schöpfers handele. Der Gies-Adler sei somit zu einem Symbol für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland geworden und müsse auch in der Form einer unfreien Bearbeitung verwendet werden dürfen, um den Staat symbolisch darzustellen. Die Beklagte könne auch nicht auf eine andere Darstellung des Bundesadlers – etwa auf eine Adler-Darstellung, wie sie sich auf Geldmünzen befinde – verwiesen werden. Die Abwägung zu Lasten der Nutzungsberechtigten sei im übrigen gerechtfertigt, weil der Künstler durch seine Zustimmung dazu beigetragen und es bewußt in Kauf genommen habe, daß die Bevölkerung sein Werk mit dem Wappentier gleichstellen werde."
Because of its infamous placement in the Bundestag the Gies-Adler is recognized as identical to the Federal Eagle by most politically interested people. Most people are unconcerned that the Gies-Eagle is an artwork made by a private artist similar to the Federal Eagle. Therefore the Gies-Adler has become a symbol for the Federal Republic of Germany and may be used also in this form, to represent the state in a symbolic way. The accused can further not be obliged to use a different depiction of the Federal Eagle - for example the depictions on the coinage - The decision on account of the suitor is incidentally justified since the artist (Ludwig Gies) contributed with his personal consent to the fact that the population would equate his Eagle-Design with the Federal Eagle and consciously accepted it.
Further the "Panoramafreiheit" and the right of quote (Zitatrecht) applies.
--David Liuzzo 21:43, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
We do not apply the Zitatrecht here (that would correspond to something like fair use). Panoramafreiheit only applies to pictures taken from public streets or places. If I understand correctly, the BGH confirms the copyright status of the Gies-Adler and also confirms the suitor's right to sue copyright violations:
- "Keinen rechtlichen Bedenken begegnet zunächst die Annahme des Berufungsgerichts, die Klägerin sei aufgrund des abgeschlossenen Wahrnehmungsvertrages berechtigt, im Falle einer Verletzung des den Erben des Künstlers Ludwig Gies zustehenden Urheberrechts auch Abwehransprüche geltend zu machen."
However, in this case the depiction of the Gies-Adler was freie Benutzung because the Focus used a copy of it that was sufficiently different from the original:
- "Der für eine freie Benutzung erforderliche Abstand zu dem benutzten Werk kann – selbst bei deutlichen Übernahmen – dadurch gegeben sein, daß das neue Werk zu den entlehnten eigenschöpferischen Zügen des älteren Werkes einen deutlichen inneren Abstand hält und deswegen seinem Wesen nach als selbständig anzusehen ist."
It does not seem clear to me how this decision can be extended to other uses of the work. --Phrood 07:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete The cited court decision relates to the use of a caricature/parody of the Gies Eagle by Focus, Germany's second largest news magazine. The images are no parody, so the court decision simply does not apply. The court decision also mentions that Panoramafreihet does not apply (the Eagle is inside the Bundestag).
Zitatrecht is fair dealing/fair use, which is not allowed on Commons. Well, the later is not completly true; I think we could Keep Bonn Wasserwerk Plenarsaal.jpg and Image:Bonn Bundeshaus old Plenary Chamber.jpg and - with a different name - Bundesadler1992.jpg as these images show enough other details. -- ３２４７ (talk) 14:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- I suppose you mean that we could consider the work as "Beiwerk" on those pictures? --Phrood 20:59, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, I had been thinking about citations. But it might qualify as Beiwerk, too. (It seems that no written exception to copyright in Germany's copyright law fits exactly; you probably have to interpret them in the light of the Grundgesetz here because the photos are interior views of the German Bundestag.) -- ３２４７ (talk) 16:35, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
please also read this where publishing pictures of another artwork inside the Reichstag were prohibited. -- Gorgo 22:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- 'delete all pictures incl. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bonn_Bundeshaus_old_Plenary_Chamber.jpg. Panoramafreiheit soes'nt apply nor does it Beiwerk. The Fette Henne is on all photos main subject which one cannot think away --Historiograf 18:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Bonn_Bundeshaus_old_Plenary_Chamber.jpg is a photograph permanently exhibited on the "Weg der Demokratie" and was taken from a public road. That qualifies as Panoramafreiheit, doesn't it? But I agree with you and disagree with User:3247 regarding the other images, the eagle is not Beiwerk and we do not accept citations. --Phrood 23:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- No, Panoramafreiheit does not result in that sort of "privilege escalation". If you are allowed to quote something, you can also put the quoting work on public display in the streets. But that still does not give you the permission to take the quoted work out of context and claim Panoramafreiheit. However, it is an indication that you are allowed to display the image without explicit permission from the Eagle's artist.
- It does not make sense to accept Beiwerk but no citations. I think we need a permission and an excuse. The permission comes from the law and determins whether we can accept an image; it does not matter where this permission came from. The excuse is for our policy, which determins wheter we want to accept an image. The excuse is not in legal categories (like "Beiwerk" or citations) but it is an assertation that the image is still "free enough".
- That said, Commons does not allow images, which, as a whole, can only be shown as of a quote. Being a separate media archive, Wikimedia Commons can't rely on legal exceptions that require context (no permission) and the image lacks essential freedoms if it can only be used in a certain context (no excuse).
- That's different with images that merly contain quotes: The image already provides enough context to invoke fair use/dealing (permission) and you can do a lot of things with the image that do not infringe the copyright of the small part that is quoted (excuse).
- It's often the case with photographs that they have some part for which there's no explicit permission. But it's still ok if they are shown in context. -- ３２４７ (talk) 21:45, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. Frivolous request. Mindelen 03:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted the two images that only showed the eagle. It appears that the eagle is a copyrighted artwork and its use is restricted by a sort of fair use clause. But I feel unsure about deleting the other photos. It would be like censoring out McDonalds logos on McDonalds buildings. I suggest Keep the remaining pictures. Of course one cannot "think away" the Bundesadler on those pictures (quoting Historiograf), but it should be noted that the decision by the BGH concerns independant use of the Eagle in a newspaper, not a picture of the Bundestag. / Fred Chess 23:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete The gies adler is by no means mere beiwerk on these pictures. --Rtc 17:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Keep. Bundesadler 4 was created by Sir Norman Foster and in the Image:Germany Bundestag east door with Bundesadler 4.jpg the eagle is to be seen from outside of the Reichstag. It is fixed there and not presented for only a short time. --Arnoldius 20:08, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- The result of the debate is keep, deleting these would - as Fred Chess points out - be like removing the McDonalds logo from McDonalds buildings, something which is not going to happen. Lcarsdata 23:06, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Reopened, because the argument is incorrect. The McDonalds logo is, contrary to the Gies adler, 1. not restricted by copyright (only by trademark law), 2. even if it were, it is still permanently placed outside of the building, so subject to panorama freedom. 3. even if it were not, on a photo that displays "McDonalds logos on McDonalds buildings", the logo is not contral to the picture as the gies adler is here, and one can "think away" it in this sense. --Rtc 17:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Frankly, there is no reason to reopen the discussion. To start with the initial argument of the deletion request: The mentioned decision of the German Supreme Court (BGH) is qouted incorrectly by pointing out parts of the case summary sheet (Tatbestand) —esp. points of the party that lost the suitcase— but not the Court's opinion (Entscheidungsgründe). At the end of the day this decision only deals with the right of a newspaper to publish a burlesque of the Gies-Adler as this is a work of art itself (caricature).
RE: Image:Germany Bundestag east door with Bundesadler 4.jpg; Image:Germany Bundestag Bundesadler 4.jpg + ~5:
The general practice of the Court applying the German Copyright Act (UrhG) is that it is legal to take pictures of exhibited and exponent public artwork and in a second step the pictures taken may be copyright-protected artworks themselves, Zitatrecht & Beiwerk rules do not apply. As we see for the visitor pictures taken by User:Arnoldius even this last point is okay as he put them into the public domain. --Calvin Ballantine 11:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- The court has clearly stated that the Gies-Adler is protected by copyright ("Die urheberrechtliche Werkqualität des in Rede stehenden Kunstwerks steht außer Zweifel.") Panoramafreiheit does not apply because none of the works are displayed on "public ways, streets or places". --Phrood 11:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Sure, and no one disputes this point, but in a second step you should go deeper. The claims under scrutiny there —and the whole decision at last— are not relevant for the present Wikimedia discussion. --Calvin Ballantine 08:16, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Deleted: As Phrood points out the Gies-Adler is copyrighted and Panoramafreiheit does not apply, and as the images are clearly being used to depict the Gies-Adler, this is by no means Beiwerk. -- Bryan (talk to me) 10:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, you are so right, and as Phrood points out the parliament building is definitely not a public place, esp. not since they enabled broad public access ;-) Nolo contendere... --Calvin Ballantine 09:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
October 6
[edit]Superseded by Image:Abruzzo bandiera.svg Il palazzo 14:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. ––odder 18:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Likely a copyright violation. Same as Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Stuart Pearce 010206.jpg and Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Thierry Henry 191105.jpg. howcheng {chat} 23:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Speedy deleted, no need to discuss soccer-europe again. --Kjetil_r 15:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Misspelled name - correctly spelled version is already in place Pudding4brains 16:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Please use {{Badname}} next time. --Panther 18:58, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Misspelled name - correct version already in place Pudding4brains 16:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Please use {{Badname}} next time. --Panther 18:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
another one --Werckmeister 09:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't find it useful at all, it is not in use anywhere but here and is so blurred you can't make out much detail. It is also nothing special. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
no lisence user's only upload. Geni 16:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Use {{Nld}} for these. Alphax (talk) 04:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
will be handled elsewhere --ALE! ¿…? 09:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Low quality image, obsoleted by Image:Admiral Michael Mullen, official Navy photograph.jpg. howcheng {chat} 22:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
usefulness? --Werckmeister 08:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep It is in use on three wikipedias, it is used on the English Wikipedia photography article. It is acutally quite a good optical illusion. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep might be useful and actually the image is used in 2 projects --ALE! ¿…? 12:42, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Zerrenerstrasse_Synagoge_10_Nov_1938_Innenansicht.jpg
- Image:Zerrenerstrasse_Synagoge_10_Nov_1938_Aussenansicht.jpg
The Stadtarchiv Pforzheim (municipal archives of the city of Pforzheim, Germany) released the photos above under Creative Commons 2.5. They did so via a German language fax, sent to me by the responsible official, published here. It cites his phone/fax number and his email address with the municipal archives for possible inquiries. What else can I do? --tickle me 11:56, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- I guess best thing to do would be to forward it to permissions@wikimedia.org so they can create a otrs ticket, you can link to that with {{Template:PermissionOTRS}} -- Gorgo 17:51, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- See also Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Interior of the Zerrenerstrasse synagogue after its destruction on Kristallnacht.jpg. And someone should move this to some subpage. Lupo 19:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Fred Chess
Not meeting requirements as far as Commons:Project scope is concerned - there's no useful usage Mattes 20:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- No deletion please! She ist very usefull- whenever I see this nice cat, my level of Wikistress goes down! And I think, I am not alone... :) --87.160.220.81 10:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- +1 --:Bdk: 16:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
kept (used on User pages) --ALE! ¿…? 23:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Userfriendly logo is not free, so this image is not in PD. Illiad should license UF logo too, or remove it from image. A.J. 09:00, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- couldn't we remove it?Geni 16:19, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have removed the logo, please tell me if I was not supposed to do this. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think that now we may keep this, but we should remove original version. A.J. 09:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have removed the logo, please tell me if I was not supposed to do this. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:05, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Kept, offending revision deleted, pfctdayelise (说什么?) 04:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
This proposed deletion debate is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive.
Image:Eg Detail2.jpg, Image:Eg Detail.jpg, Image:Eg Groß.jpg, Image:Eg Halbnah.jpg, Image:Eg Halbtotale.jpg, Image:Eg Nah.jpg, and Image:Eg Totale.jpg
[edit]I'm not sure who Ed is, but those pictures don't look that useful to me.. --Werckmeister 08:14, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- They are just zooming out from a really close view of a model. I would suggest deleting all but the one which has both in however they are all in use on the german wikipedia and one on the german wikibooks. Lcarsdata (Talk) 17:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- CommentJust keep one does not make sense as the pictures are used to show different camera settings and are used together in Einstellungsgröße. However, the pictures might be a derived work. --Matt314 11:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Could a German speaker please comment on the copyright of these items. These pictures are clearly being used and should not be deleted on non-copyright grounds (no matter how silly we think they look...). --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 04:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- The only question is whether the figures used in the images qualify for derivative works or not. --ALE! ¿…? 21:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Used in de:Einstellungsgröße. Request closed. Thuresson 16:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
October 7
[edit]The image is misleading because it is not Mount Tambora. It is actually Mount St. Helens, which the same image is Image:Volcano.jpeg. According to its source [7], it is Mt. St. Helens. Thus I request for speedy deletion. Indon 09:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Done (Duplicated, bad name)--Lmbuga
This is non-sense : free use for a screen shot from Final Fantasy VII. I do think it's a false license. Shry tales 13:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
No prove that it's a true art work. This image of Sephiroth is so overknown that I'm almost sure it's an official picture from the Final Fantasy 7 creators. Furthermore it had been uploaded by the same user that Image:Sephiroth flammes.jpg, which is obviously a copyright violation. Shry tales 14:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:33, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request Jesuspportillo 03:49, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Tuve una ligera confusión, y subi una imagen que no tiene una licencia adecuada (Soy el que subió el archivo)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
w:IrfanView is freeware, not GPL licenced software. So this is the wrong licence and probably a copyvio Longbow4u 21:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Even if it was created by proprietary software, it does not include anything that is eligible for copyright. -- ３２４７ (talk) 22:08, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment It should be possible to re-create this using free software... also, I'm not sure how much of a dialog box can be copyrighted. Alphax (talk) 04:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:MesserWoland --ALE! ¿…? 10:31, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Some of the pictures might be copyrighted! --Flominator 10:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete--Shizhao 03:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted--Jusjih 17:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio.
The photo is given this license-information: MosNews.com grants full permission to use any material originally created by MosNews.com, provided that due reference to both MosNews.com and the reprinted material’s author, wherever appropriate, is given.
The image is taken from MosNews.com and MosNews.com informs that: "Usually, copyright owners are mentioned at the beginning of every article, and at the caption of every illustration. MosNews.Com is in no position to grant reprint permissions for third-party materials republished on our website by permission from respective copyright owners"
Here MosNews says the photo is from http://www.washprofile.org
On the washprofile.org site it says: Copyright © ® 2001-2005 Washington Profile. All rights reserved.
--Jorunn 16:47, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment:At the moment I took the photo from the mosnews.com there were no references to the washprofile. Now on one Mosnews article it said Photo from www.novayagazeta.ru on the other article it said Photo from www.washprofile.org. I would expect Novayagazeta to hold the copyright as Anna were their employee. I have sent them an email asking for the copyright status of the photograph. I am really sorry for all this mess but at the time I downloaded the photo there were no mentioning of the washprofile on Mosnews. Lets wait ~24h for the reply from Novaya Gazeta. If they would not answer or the answer would be negative, then the image should be speedy deleted Alex Bakharev 02:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- BTW The Russian version of WashProfile states free copyright: http://www.washprofile.org/ru/user/register Информация Washington ProFile эксклюзивна и бесплатна. Ее можно свободно использовать со ссылкой (при использовании в Интернете гиперссылка обязательна). (Information of Washington ProFile is exclusive and free. You can freely use it with a reference (if using in Internet the hyperreference is required)). Thus, if the copyright is indeed the WashProfile the only thing we need is to change {{MosNews}} to {{FreeProviedThat|}}, but lets wait the answer from Novaya Gazeta Alex Bakharev 03:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I have received permissions from Novaya Gazeta that is the author of the image (see the Image Description). I think there is no need to delte the file. Keep Alex Bakharev 08:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry. Answer to your request didn't mention terms of usage (modification and free redistribution). If this matter will not cleared, Delete. Please try to ask permissions to use this photo under Creative Commons license/GFDL. --EugeneZelenko 14:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete as copyvio--Pauk 03:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep can't we have copyrighted images with permission here? Now would be the time for me to unveil my as of now undeveloped version of the CommonsHelper for quickly getting images back to local wikis, where they are safe ;-) DVD R W 04:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry for remind you but free of charge (бесплатная лицензия) doesn't mean Redistribution, derivative work, commercial use, and all other use is permitted. Fair use is also free of charge. --EugeneZelenko 15:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- obvious keep per Bakharev and DVD R W 04. --Irpen 04:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have put the translation of my correspondence with Novaya Gazeta on the image description page. After, I got the E-mail from Novaya Gazeta I immediately sent a response, informing that I put the attribution license on the image, with the link to the image asking to fix the license if anything is wrong. I guess webmasters of popular sites know how to click links. A few hours ago, after I read Zelenko's message on IfD I sent another e-mail asking to confirm their approval of the license and asking if it is possible to use GFDL or Creative Commons. So far I have not received any answer. Alex Bakharev 06:01, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. "If you need this photograph" is not the kind of free license Commons accepts. Furthermore, permissions should be sent to Commons:OTRS. -Samulili 08:47, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Apparently no authorization by artist. Phrood 21:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 23:37, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
why is this map free use) —the preceding unsigned comment is by Michiel1972 (talk • contribs)
Map comes from the Port of Antwerp website, which produces copyrighted material. Author claims on talk page that the map is "free of use", I haven't found it. -- le Korrigan →bla 10:26, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 18:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Some of the pictures might be copyrighted! --Flominator 10:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Siebrand 14:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC) as per nomination
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Files by User:Lilcedonline
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- Image:Cedric.jpg - No source, i don't think it is made by the uploader
- Image:27ypk78.jpg - No source, i don't think it is made by the uploader
- Image:Headshot.jpg - No source, i don't think it is made by the uploader
- Image:Greasea.jpg - Copyrighted? Not sure. GeorgHH 15:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:57, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Probably copied from site http://www.flaggenlexikon.de/index2-e.htm, which claim here his reject of free copy exept for personnal usage. Oxam Hartog 22:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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License plates
[edit]This deletion request concerns ten license plates that I found in Category:Against policy. Namely the following images: Image:TN license plate rescue.jpg, Image:RI license plate 2005.jpg, Image:OR license plate 2005.jpg, Image:NV license plate 2005.jpg, Image:NJ license plate 1999.jpg Image:IN license plate 1982.jpg, Image:MT license plate 2005.jpg, Image:MS license plate 2002.jpg, Image:IL license plate 2001.jpg and Image:IA license plate disabled.jpg. Sample:
File:TN license plate rescue.jpg, File:RI license plate 2005.jpg, File:OR license plate 2005.jpg
These images come from http://plates.newyorktelephone.net/ and the website has a very small note at the bottom saying "Images contained in this domain are forbiden for use on Wikipedia."
The problem is on which grounds this restriction is made. Were the license plates created by himself? On what grounds does he claim copyright?
Fred Chess 08:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- IIRC, there was a situation a long time ago that someone who uploaded similiar photos tried to have them deleted on the grounds that "they do not want us to use them any longer." I have a feeling that that same person runs the domain that you mentioned, since they specifically mention us (few sites do, so that is why this is ringing alarm bells for me). User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 08:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Actually the images were placed by a possibly mentally ill person with a grudge against the owner of the website that stems from a dispute on a televison news board tvnewstalk.net which caused a lot of pain and grief for a great many people and has created many Wikipedia sockpuppets. [8] I communicated with the owner of the site and was told the reason for the specfic mention of Wikipedia in the copyright discalaimer is because it is "a trap for Scott Brown if he ever tries this shit again." All images from the sockpuppets should be considered of possibly dubious orgin and dealt with accordingly. It should also be noted that the owners of tvnewstalk.net are considering legal action against Brown, as he has made several threats to various people over his behavior there. Along with the targeted sockpuppetry and image stealing, Brown also created several Wikipedia pages that slandered several people and made threats against them. This is just more collateral damage created by the Brown sockpuppet ring.
Also, isn't the image itself, not the content what is under copyright? I do know if I create an image, I hold copyright to it, so why would these images not meet this standard? TV Newser 07:53, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- I am sure we can get free replacements for these, though I am not sure if we do get replacements, if we have to redact the numebrs from the plate (as i seen in some other photos) or get the sample plates from State DOT websites. Regardless, I would say Delete the photos and not let us get trapped in some dispute where I have no idea what is going on User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 08:12, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- You cannot buy or create a license plate. You can however 'rent' it. You neither own the object nor have designed it. Unless license plates themselves are PD, this is a copyvio case. --Cat out 10:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. Used in 11 wikis. :( --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 05:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted -- per the discussion; for legal concerns -- be they valid or not. / Fred Chess 23:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
October 8
[edit]This image, whose uploader has no other edits, appears to have little usefulness and its copyright license might be inaccurate. In addition, this image name has been deleted & protected at the English Wikipedia but still appears there due to its presence here. 128.2.251.167 06:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete of course. X-ed out for now. Lupo 12:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted (please speedy delete such cases), pfctdayelise (说什么?) 13:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Picture of a not-very-famous guitar player. Orphan, of course... --Rs newhouse 13:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 09:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio. Even the oldest edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary is from 1948, not old enough to be public domain. Angr 21:06, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- This version is from 1963. --ALE! ¿…? 09:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Wrong district boundary. Have maps with correct boundary already.--Tomchiukc 20:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Derivative work of a copyrighted sculpture -- JeremyA 22:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Where is the sculpture located? --ALE! ¿…? 09:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Chicago, Illinois. Clearly a copyvio, Delete. --Kjetil_r 14:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Chicago, Illinois. Clearly a copyvio,
- Then Delete --ALE! ¿…? 09:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Then
- Yes, if I'd known of the application of this horrendous copyright law I wouldn't have uploaded it. I'd have deleted it already but it's in use, and I'm not sure what should be done in this case. Dori | Talk 00:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Unlink all the usages and then delete it or ask an admin to delete it. --ALE! ¿…? 09:31, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. / Fred Chess 17:09, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
derived from copyrighted character, see also Commons:deletion requests/Image:Black mage.svg -- ３２４７ (talk) 16:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete and upload as fair use to en.wikipedia --ALE! ¿…? 14:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
This image is from here.This is copyrighted.In Japanese law, no copyright information meaens NOT PD.
ja:ホームページからの転載。日本の著作権法では、ノーライセンスはPDを意味しない。--Los688 08:39, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete Copyrighted material. Under Japanese law, this photo does not considered as public domain just because there is no copyright information.
deleted --Matt314 21:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This image is from here.This is copyrighted.In Japanese law, no copyright information meaens NOT PD.
ja:ホームページからの転載。日本の著作権法では、ノーライセンスはPDを意味しない。--Los688 08:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete Copyrighted material. Under Japanese law, this photo does not considered as public domain just because there is no copyright information.
deleted --Matt314 21:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
It needs discussion and I'm about to block several people who keep editwarring over it. Clearly there is questions as to the accuracy of the tag or whether this is allowed on Commons. -- Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 00:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep PD, lack of originality. Disgusting, but sadly important party in Germany. --AndreasPraefcke 18:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep ineligible for copyright. --Crux 19:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete This image is explicitely not free (should be marked {{Trademark}} just like Image:CDU logo.svg and all other images from the previous {{PD-Germany-Logo}} scam. This images are not free as they cannot be used for all purposes, as there are cases that require explicit permission from the trademark owner. We have to get rid of them. They do not belong here. All images marked {{Trademark}} should in fact be removed. Siebrand 20:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment ... as well as all images marked {{Insignia}} (or with anything in Category:restriction tags)? -- ３２４７ (talk) 09:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment ... i think Siebrandt missunderstood Jimbos letter. --Mogelzahn 12:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Nope. No misunderstanding here. Siebrand 12:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Copyright issues and trademark issues are different things. That was pointed out by User:Aurevilly once. --Crux 17:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- So you consider the images as shown 'free' under the terms stated below and think that as such they can remain assets in this wiki? Siebrand 21:22, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Republication and distribution must be allowed
- Publication of derivative work must be allowed
- Commercial use of the work must be allowed
- Copyright issues and trademark issues are different things. That was pointed out by User:Aurevilly once. --Crux 17:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Nope. No misunderstanding here. Siebrand 12:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep free means in our terms only copyright free. You cannot use a photo of a person e.g. for merchandising. This has been shown hundred times here --Historiograf 22:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Ineligible for Copyright. --Mogelzahn 12:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Ineligibility definitely doesn't cover german law in this case. This picture is absolutely copyrighted and WP will brake german law (UrhG: [9]), keepin it in without a right licence. N3MO 23:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Did you really read Schöpfungshöhe? This Logo cannot be copyrighted, it may be trademarked, but that is no problem (ask Historiograf or Crux, they can tell you better than I can, because my english isn't so fine). --Mogelzahn 15:56, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I think Mogelzahn is right. I would add the following information according to Image:CDU logo.svg:
== Beschreibung == * '''de''' ** Beschreibung: Logo der [[:de:Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands|Nationaldemokratischen Partei Deutschlands]] (NPD) ** Quelle: Homepage der NPD ** Hinzugefügt durch: [[User:Micha2564]] ** Datum: 19. September 2006 * '''en''' ** Description: Emblem of the [[:en:National Democratic Party of Germany|National Democratic Party of Germany]] (NPD) ** Source: Homepage of NPD ** Added by: [[User:Micha2564]] ** Date: 19th of September 2006 == Licensing == The Emblem has been made public domain by the management of this political party. {{PD-ineligible}} {{trademarked}} -- 84.63.22.233 15:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Mogelzahn is right. Logo is unnegotialbe gemeinfrei because there is a significant lack of Schöpfungshöhe polaris
- Keep Party is significant political party, not only in Deutschland, but in Europe. Mark is gemeinfrei.--The Ministry of Truth 12:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted dubious copyright status of a trademarked logo. Terrible quality. --Cat out 07:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
I think this is another unauthorized derivate work, hence a copyright/trademark violation. --Dodo 08:23, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please m:Avoid Copyright Paranoia. // Liftarn
- Delete. Derivative work. Crazyfrog is a copyrighted commercial product. Cnyborg 23:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. Derivative work of a copyrighted figure. --ALE! ¿…? 15:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted as derivative work of copyrighted figure. —Angr 16:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
October 9
[edit]This was supposed to test Quickdelete.js, but it did autosave, sorry. But I think this image needs to be deleted because it seemed to be a test for uploading by this user, as well (see img. description. -- Matt314 09:56, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:12, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:Screenshot galleries alignment proposal.png and Image:Screenshot galleries 20050108 opera754.png
[edit]Two user screenshots. Don't look very useful, and only link to some test page. --Werckmeister 14:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
kept (the images are being used) --ALE! ¿…? 09:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Very blurry. Doesn't look very useful. --Werckmeister 14:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:21, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
October 10
[edit]Replaced with Image:Jan08266.JPG, so that the filename becomes the same as its source's, i.e. ja:画像:Jan08266.JPG.
deleted (please use {{Duplicate}} or {{Badname}} next time) --ALE! ¿…? 12:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)#
No Source --wikipedia@dodekatex.de 09:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
tagged with {{subst:nsd}}, please do this first before placing a deletion request here --ALE! ¿…? 12:37, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Google found this image on http://rhein-zeitung.de/old/96/11/24/topnews/seidler.html and other media sites, all of which credit AP. => tagged as {{Copyvio}}. -- ３２４７ (talk) 12:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm the uploader of this file, but I've uploaded it again under Image:Polo-DGP-001.png BigonL 22:19, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (please use {{Badname}} next time) --ALE! ¿…? 12:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Agree -- image is ugly, poorly-named, and based on an idiosyncratic personal numerological symbolism which no one else has found to be of value. AnonMoos 03:11, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
The License is wrong. The german addition means "Only allowed to show on Wikipedia. Every presentation on other sites is without my permission prohibited"... --wikipedia@dodekatex.de 09:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete incorrect licence --schlendrian •λ• 11:29, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 08:50, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
The source information is wrong. There is another image (Image:Jacques-Louis David 008.jpg) of correct information in the wikimedia. For detail, see the discussion page. —the preceding unsigned comment is by FavoriteOrangeJuice (talk • contribs)
- Note that it's been used on 84 pages in 27 projects - so if you delete this, please change all those pages - just removing the image link does not look like a good idea when one of the reasons for deletion is "superseded". - Andre Engels 22:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 07:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
This picture is useless, as it shows little or no correlation between approval ratings and alert levels; I don't know why I uploaded it... Nobody is using it, and it is just wasting space.--Falconus 20:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- IMHO, this sounds like original research, since most of the data that is used in this graph is coming from our articles on Bush. I also do not see how this chart is useful, and whatever can be noted in the article about Bush, we can use it by prose and not by chart. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 21:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Mordechaj Anielewicz died before the law was published and even died before the People's Republic of Poland was created (in 1942) so PD-Polish cant apply. see as well similar Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Zeligowski lucjan 2.jpg & Image:Zeligowski lucjan 3.jpg & Image:Zeligowski Lucjan.jpg or Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Rowecki Stefan.jpg ...Sicherlich Post 18:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep - that's misunderstanding, PD rationale is similar to {{PD-US}} - US copyright law also refers to times when US didn't exits. A.J. 08:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- IMO the misunderstanding is on your side. Please read what is written on Template:PD-US and compare it to Template:PD-Polish - one states clearly; This image is in the public domain in the United States and the other one are assumed public domain. This applies worldwide - this image here is not necessaryly PD as therefore it has to fulfill a very important criteria: all photographs by Polish photographers - and obviously due to the scope the law can have it only applies for poles in the PRP - this criteria is not fullfilled ...Sicherlich Post 11:34, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Sicherlich's arguments appear best substantiated. / Fred Chess 23:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
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Not a single image that uses this template looks as if it is "of a legal or regulatory character", as stated in the template, so I believe this template is useless. Most of the images (mis-)using this template would probably have to be deleted as well. Some seem to have been found on government sites like the Ministère des affaires étrangères, but according to Commons:Licensing#Images_from_public_sites those images should not be used either. --Phrood 22:11, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. used in Image:Charles de Gaulle.jpg--Shizhao 01:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- So what? That photograph is not a legal document. --Phrood 16:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. Sure it is, it's the official photography of a former president. Anaconda 17:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Neutral Anaconda 22:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have asked David Monniaux, who added that restriction to the template, for clarification. --Phrood 20:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- An official photograph is not a legal document. Legal documents are the texts of laws, decrees, etc. but these are in general covered by {{PD-JORF}}. Official photographs of officials may be copyrighted by ministries... or even by private photographers (many official photos are done by private photographers hired for that purpose).
- Anyone talking of the issue should at least read the law of July 17, 1978 on access to administrative documents and the decree of December 30, 2005. :-)
- We obtained some verbal authorization to use the photographs from certain public sites. We will no obtain a written authorization for a free license for photographs from these sites in the short run, because nobody will take the responsibility to do it. Wait until Wikimedia France clears the matters up. David.Monniaux 00:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- So what? That photograph is not a legal document. --Phrood 16:54, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. Yann 13:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete I fully agree with legal analysis given on Commons:Licensing#Images_from_public_sites ; pictures commissioned by French governmental authorities are copyrighted exactly in the same conditions than pictures belonging to a private person. This template should be deleted, and, sadly enough, most of the pictures using it should be deleted as well later. Touriste 20:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep --Edgar Allan Poe 11:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete This template is obviously misused. Ske 21:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted the template. Recreated as a no source template. / Fred Chess 23:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Some of the pictures might be copyrighted! --Flominator 10:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete--Shizhao 03:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted--Jusjih 17:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Some of the pictures might be copyrighted! --Flominator 10:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Siebrand 14:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC) as per nomination
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
October 11
[edit](I have upload a new one) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lillolollo (talk • contribs) at 04:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please use {{Badname}}. Alphax (talk) 08:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Superceded by superior SVG-Version Image:Wappen Kesbern.svg —the preceding unsigned comment is by Ahoerstemeier (talk • contribs)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like a screenshot of some maps. not used anywhere. doesn't look too useful to me.. --Werckmeister 08:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete not used anywhere --ALE! ¿…? 10:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Description translates as: Missing image for question in support corner, so it seems that the image was intended for a bug report or something similar. But that was in April 2005 and the image is not used today. -- ３２４７ (talk) 14:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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All or most uploads of User:Lillolollo (see: Special:Contributions/Lillolollo) are orginally from flickr and are tagged there as "All rights reserved". I Have already deleted some, but there is a whole bunch of images left for deletion. --ALE! ¿…? 09:34, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Now I've marked them as copyvios, but some of them contains the author's permission (this is an example). --Panther 11:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- this is your policy? first delete and after write me? i hava all the permission for post images dont delete the images and restore the deted Lillolollo 15:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Obvious copyvios can be deleted without informing you first. We doubt very strongly that you have permission to publish these images. If you have such a permission please post it here or send it to permissions@wikimedia.org . See also: Commons:OTRS and Commons:Email templates. --ALE! ¿…? 07:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- this is your policy? first delete and after write me? i hava all the permission for post images dont delete the images and restore the deted Lillolollo 15:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
WE ????? YOU doubt! and if YOU have see my contribution list for delete images that i have post , YOU see that I have posted on village pump to ask about permission. I was only waiting for the tiket number. This is the ticket #2006090610010021. And now please YOU restore the deleted images. And remember YOU are only a contributor not Commons Lillolollo 21:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
The following images that I deleted did not show a ticket number and did not use the appropriate OTSR tag:
- Image:47446866 5734d994ce.jpg
- Image:Tacca cristata.jpg
- Image:Dragonfly01.jpg
- Image:Spider01.jpg
- Image:Oriolus chinensis01.jpg
- Image:Dragonfly02.jpg
Could another admin with OTSR permission check the ticket number? If I was wrong and the images had the permission I will excuse myself. But please let us check this issue first. --ALE! ¿…? 10:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- And one more point: You added the ticket number after I have opened the deletion request. So there was no way to proof whether the license you provided was correct. --ALE! ¿…? 10:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- I will check it in a few hours; I'm a bit busy at the moment. Alphax (talk) 15:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- The permission email releases any images by Flickr user NatureAtYourBackyard under {{Attribution}}, so these images can be safely undeleted and tagged with {{PermissionOTRS-ID}}. To prevent this occurring again, please email permissions at wikimedia dot org with the names of any images you are uploading under these terms with a reference to the ticket number. Alphax (talk) 00:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
undeleted and tagged with the ticket number, sorry but please tag your images properly next time --ALE! ¿…? 07:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
This is a wrong file name. I contributed it to correct file name Image:Kimigayo.png --kahusi (會話) 22:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete (please use {{Badname}} next time.) --ALE! ¿…? 10:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 15:54, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Please delete it, it's a wrong picture, with a bad title. Thanks Sebcaen 05:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
shows a logo on a product of daily use. the product was first produced 1968 so probably the logo not before. ...Sicherlich Post 04:13, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- As {{Logo-Germany}} is depreciated I would say: Move it to the German Wikipedia and deleted it here. --ALE! ¿…? 10:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Agree whit Ale. --Pokrajac 00:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 08:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Government contractor holds copyright. http://www.llnl.gov/disclaimer.html http://www.lanl.gov/copyright.shtml (SEWilco 17:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC))
- Keep as {{PD-ineligible}}. Against copyright paranoia. The picture is the result of a computer simulation. It cannot be copyrighted because it has no human author and because all relevant input data was part of scientific theories, which cannot be copyrighted either. --Rtc 05:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment @Rtc: that is nonsense. A computer only does something if a human has ordered him to do something. Therefore, the copyright lies with the person that designed the computer program and the input for the simulation. --ALE! ¿…? 09:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- That is totally nonsense. All that's protected by copyright in a computer program is its actual code as such. Algorithms, scientific theories that are used, etc. are not protected by copyright. Thus the output of a computer program can only be protected if the input (initial state, data files) were protected (which is not the case) or if the program outputs part of its code (which is not the case either). --Rtc 20:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep, I do agree with Rtc. --W-j-s 15:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete，copyvio--Shizhao 03:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- There can only be a copyvio for a picture that is restricted by copyright in the first place. This picture is not restricted by copyright. --Rtc 08:24, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete，copyvio. The picture is not simply a raw dump of all the output of a simulation. A photograph of real-world phenomena can be copyrighted due to issues of selection, composition, etc of the photo. Here, similarly, a human author chose which steps of the simulation to show, decided how to display them, and designed the overall layout. --Davepape 17:11, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- You cannot compare this to photos, since the creativity of a photo is already given from choice of camera position and angle. There is no such thing here. The overall layout and how to display them is by far too simple and the choice of the steps of the simulation is not significant in any way (it is in constant intervals of 4.2 minutes here, so even this choice has been made according to a general rule). You cannot copyright four points in the timeline of a simulation. If I run the simulation on my computer and output the exact same four points (which would surely not be a copyright violation), I get the exact same result. It is simply not copyrightable --Rtc 18:07, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete copyvio. This could easily be recreated as a free image, and this isn't PD-USGov or PD-Ineligible. This would not even qualify as Fair use due to the easy to recreate clause.--Nilfanion 00:36, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Could possibly be recreated as a free image. Zzyzx11 22:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Safest option. / Fred Chess 17:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
No proof that the photographer died more than 70 years ago. --Phrood 17:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. / Fred Chess 17:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Initially no source at all. Tagging was changed from {{PD-Soviet}} to {{PD-Russia}} by User:Alex Bakharev. When I tagged as {{subst:nsd}}, Alex added some additional info, claiming it was a photo. To me, it looks like a grayscale reproduction of some painting—it just doesn't look natural. Chapaev died 1919; the painting may, however, be posthumous and the painter may have died much later. Chapaev is considered a "hero" of the Soviet revolution; there are other paintings of him, e.g. this one by a painter who died only 1962. As we don't know the author of the work nor even whether it's a photo or a painting, there's no indication whatsoever that the image were indeed PD. Delete Lupo 11:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Note: the 5 rubles postage stamp from 1987 would make a fine replacement that would be {{PD-RU-exempt}} (I think) if someone could find (or take!) a larger, better image. Lupo 12:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep this is the photo from en:Great Soviet Encyclopedia. GSE commonly airbrushed photos for their publication. --Irpen 01:08, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Which edition, which volume? Only those volumes/editions published pre-1942 (or maybe pre-1946, if we ignore the special extension for WWII veterans) would be PD in the U.S. Lupo 06:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Does not matter, actually. GSE does not establish a new copyright by producing an old photo. The photo was taken during his life. Republication of the PD-image does not create a copyright. --Irpen 22:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Taken allright, but how do you know about published? Or to phrase that differently, how do you know that the publicatiuon in the GSE was a republication of a previously published work? Lupo 07:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- I don't get the question. The photo of someone who died 80+ years ago has a copyright expired according to PD-Russia. But I had enough of this . After the yesterday's Drini's massacre of images that completed your crusade aimed at Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, etc. related articles, this small image matters little. You or Drini can delete it if it helps you to feel better. Take care, --Irpen 17:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Irpen, the copyright term for an anonymous work starts at the first publication, not at the creation of the image. If it was first published in the first edition of the GSE, or the second edition up to volume 24, it'd be PD. If it was first published in a later edition/volume of the GSE, it's still copyrighted. Alternatively, we could look for a first publication of this image pre-dating its use in the GSE, and if that was before 1954, it'd be PD in Russia, and if that first publication was pre-1942, it'd be even PD in the U.S. Lupo 07:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Lupo, go delete it or investigate it as you see fit. This particular image is not of my primary concern. I took a modest effort to save it from you but I will not spend another penny on it. Delete it and feel better. --Irpen 08:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Irpen, the copyright term for an anonymous work starts at the first publication, not at the creation of the image. If it was first published in the first edition of the GSE, or the second edition up to volume 24, it'd be PD. If it was first published in a later edition/volume of the GSE, it's still copyrighted. Alternatively, we could look for a first publication of this image pre-dating its use in the GSE, and if that was before 1954, it'd be PD in Russia, and if that first publication was pre-1942, it'd be even PD in the U.S. Lupo 07:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- I don't get the question. The photo of someone who died 80+ years ago has a copyright expired according to PD-Russia. But I had enough of this . After the yesterday's Drini's massacre of images that completed your crusade aimed at Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, etc. related articles, this small image matters little. You or Drini can delete it if it helps you to feel better. Take care, --Irpen 17:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Taken allright, but how do you know about published? Or to phrase that differently, how do you know that the publicatiuon in the GSE was a republication of a previously published work? Lupo 07:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Does not matter, actually. GSE does not establish a new copyright by producing an old photo. The photo was taken during his life. Republication of the PD-image does not create a copyright. --Irpen 22:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Which edition, which volume? Only those volumes/editions published pre-1942 (or maybe pre-1946, if we ignore the special extension for WWII veterans) would be PD in the U.S. Lupo 06:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. No real possiblity IMO, that such well-known and widespread photo, taken prior to 1919, infriges anybody's copyright (if it existed at all). Pibwl 16:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Very little is known about the creator, the original source and thus copyright status, sorry. / Fred Chess 21:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
October 12
[edit]Hi, i made a mistake creating this article, i wanted to create the category (that's done now). Could you delete this article as it's no use. Thanx. Ton1 17:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --GeorgHH 18:59, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
On flickr license said CC-BY-NC. Oxam Hartog 21:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 10:10, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
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Reason for deletion request:Article Philaenus spurma is not correct and must be deleted. The correct article is already in the right category (Aphrophoridae) and are named Philaenus spumarius --Halvard 02:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. only applies for 2D objects. This is clearly a photo of a 3D object. -- Matt314 13:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- so is everything in this universe. the point is that no 3D information is represented within the artwork (such as is the case with a statue). layers of paint are three-dimensional, yet a painting is a two dimensional work of art because you cannot look at it from behind. same goes for inscriptions. Dbachmann 17:03, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- The original image is a 3D stone which is copyrighted. So cropped versions of the photo are also copyrighted. --ALE! ¿…? 09:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful on any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful in any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful in any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful in any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful in any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful in any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 13:46, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:13, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not proof that the author died 70 years ago. GeorgHH 11:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted / Fred Chess 16:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Not proof that the author died 70 years ago. GeorgHH 11:28, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted / Fred Chess 16:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks very much like a scan without permission. --87.230.112.72 12:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - LERK (Talk / Contributions) 08:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted / Fred Chess 16:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Image has no proprer source; as it is a photography of a 3D object, copyvio is probable. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 20:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:06, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Files by User Gambit
[edit]- Image:Autostadt main.jpg
- Image:Autostadt exib.jpg
- Image:Autostadt screen.jpg
- Image:Autostadt sign.jpg
- Image:Autostadt vw.jpg
- Image:Autostadt silo.jpg
Commercial use not allowed, see rules of the house of autostadt (http://www.autostadt.de/www/info/pdf/PDF_Hausordnung_1-03.pdf -> Benutzung der Einrichtungen und Attraktionen) GeorgHH 13:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
- Is Image:Autostadt main.jpg not acceptable because of the de:Panoramafreiheit? It seems that it was taken on a public street. --ALE! ¿…? 11:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
all deleted except for one which is assumed to be under Commons:Panoramafreiheit --ALE! ¿…? 21:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
October 13
[edit]superseded by Image:URSS-Russian aviation red star.svg --slady 23:52, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 10:08, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Image copyright is not correct because the original creator of the image had contacted me and said he does not wish to release in GFDL license. The original creator, Jerome Chen, wish to keep his signature on the image and wish to be noticed when the image is been used, and this does not comply the license requirement in Wikimedia commmons.--H.T. Chien (Discuss|Contributions) 10:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Speedy delete. "Copied from the xyz Wikipedia" Such so called "licenses" should lead into a block of the uploader...--Wiggum 12:29, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please use {{Notify}} for these. I've tagged it as such and may or may not delete it shortly. Alphax (talk) 06:24, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --Raymond Disc. 17:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
see Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Night view of Taipei City.jpg for the reason.--H.T. Chien (Discuss|Contributions) 15:13, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --Raymond Disc. 17:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Claimed PD-art, but we don't know anything about the actual authorship or date of image. I found the source of this image, and added it to the image description page, but there is no information at the source that is useful to us. We need to either confirm that this image is old enough to be public domain and find a real source, or delete it. Jkelly 21:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think the image is ok. The painting is very old from the Mogul empire. --ALE! ¿…? 12:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 12:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Image not useful on any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 00:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't believe that this is a drawing by the uploader. Also many changes of licence tags in the history. GeorgHH 20:30, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- The image was now tagged with PD-Chile but without stating the source. I will wait a couple of days and then delete it, if no source is given. --ALE! ¿…? 16:08, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 08:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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the image of the politician and images on election posters in general do not correspond with panorama freedom. --88.72.228.75 08:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose for now. Where does it say so? And I thought images of election posters was legitimate, we have plenty of other images of other posters as well. Gryffindor 12:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Here: (§ 54 UrhG (Ö))
- "(1) Es ist zulässig
- ...
- 5. Werke der Baukunst nach einem ausgeführten Bau oder andere Werke der bildenden Künste nach Werkstücken, die dazu angefertigt wurden, sich bleibend an einem öffentlichen Ort zu befinden, zu vervielfältigen, zu verbreiten, durch optische Einrichtungen öffentlich vorzuführen und durch Rundfunk zu senden und der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung zu stellen; ausgenommen sind das Nachbauen von Werken der Baukunst, die Vervielfältigung eines Werkes der Malkunst oder der graphischen Künste zur bleibenden Anbringung an einem Orte der genannten Art sowie die Vervielfältigung von Werken der Plastik durch die Plastik." (my emphasis)
- So Delete -- ３２４７ (talk) 14:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment"Wikimedia is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of Florida, USA."[11]. Although national law may impose a restriction on how an image may be used within its jurisdiction, for the purposes of the Wikimedia Commons I am under the impression that all that is required is that the image does not violate U.S. law and that it is properly licensed. --Oden 22:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I think the issue is pretty clear in that case.... I suppose German Wikipedia may not show this image, however Commons and the English Wikipedia may. And if it can be shown on the English Wikipedia, then Commons may be used as depository, is my understanding. Gryffindor 08:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Gryffindor, you obviously are not familiar with Commons policy or with copyright law. This image is a reproduction of a copyrighted poster and has to be deleted. Fact. --Fb78 17:23, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ah ha I see... well then could you explain these cases here: Category:2006 advertisements, Category:Advertisements, Category:Advertising, Category:Movie posters, Image:LabourCampaignPoster20050115 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg, Category:Political advertising, Category:Posters, Category:Advertisements by year, etc. etc. Looks like they are all images of copyrighted work, I'm a little bit confused now... thank you. Gryffindor 10:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
CommentOk, I have researched the matter a little further, and come up with the following:
- Although Wikipedia Commons is located within the legal jurisdiction of the state of Florida, the Commons also has policies regarding the type of images are allowed. For instance fair use images, while permissible under U.S law, might not be so in other jurisdictions. As a result the Commons does not allow such images.
- The issue regarding this image refers to the Freedom of panorama. An image which contains the works of others which is temporarily placed in a public place is considered a derivative work, if the main purpose of the image in question is to depict the primary work. (E.g. if illustrating the political poster is the main purpose of the image then it is a derivative work. A image which does not depict a copyrighted image as its main object is a different matter completely, for instance Image:LabourCampaignPoster20050115 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg. There are other exceptions, see Commons:Licensing.)
- Uploading this image in the language versions where the limitation of "Panorama freedom" is not a issue might be acceptable. English Wikipedia has a blanket fair use template for this purpose: {{Politicalposter}}.
Disclaimer: the aforementioned is not a legal advise, but just a presentation for educational purposes. See also the Commons General Disclaimer. --Oden 20:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have posted a request for comment on the village pump, please comment there first Commons:Village_pump#Copyright_status_of_posters. cheers Gryffindor 20:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete I don't see a "borderline case" as Fred Chess indicated in Commons:Village_pump_archive/2006Nov#Copyright_status_of_posters, especially as the resolution of the picture is rather high. The image should be deleted. --Svencb 15:41, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have posted a request for comment on the village pump, please comment there first Commons:Village_pump#Copyright_status_of_posters. cheers Gryffindor 20:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Exactly the same case with Image:GRÜNE election poster 2006 003.jpg - please treat the same way as the image discussed above. --Svencb 15:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately I am still not getting a clear answer as to why these images should be deleted, and the images in Category:2006 advertisements, Category:Advertisements, Category:Advertising, Category:Movie posters, Image:LabourCampaignPoster20050115 CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg, Category:Political advertising, Category:Posters, Category:Advertisements by year exist. For this case specifically, if we decreased the resolution of the images to let's say thumb-size, would that be in order then Svencb? Gryffindor 18:25, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. The keywords are "...sich bleibend an einem öffentlichen Ort zu befinden...". Thuresson 17:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
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source[12]: "THIS PHOTO IS FREE USE.", is free copyright?--Shizhao 08:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
PS: in source, not found cc-by-2.0 tag--Shizhao 08:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- I've personally asked the author if I can use his photos uploaded on Photobucket and he has said that they're totally free use (as he has written in the images specific pages) and they can be published under any kind of copyright. --Nyo 11:19, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Translation in Chinese: 笔者问我,如果我能亲自用自己的照片上载到Photobucket,他说他们完全自由使用(如他写的具体形象页),他们可以根据任何版权.
- Comment In other words, they should be tagged {{PD-author}}, not {{Cc-by-2.0}}. But do we have the permission of the depicted persons? -- ３２４７ (talk) 14:34, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- In fact I didn't use the {{PD-author}} license because they're not my handworks or photographs that I personally taken... The author said that I could publish the images under whichever license I wanted to use, so I chose the {{Cc-by-2.0}}. --Nyo 14:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please send a copy of the permissions to OTRS as per Commons:OTRS. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 05:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Has the OTRS been send? Otherwise I will deleted the images. --ALE! ¿…? 17:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
October 14
[edit]Please speedily delete this image. It is used for vandalism - attack on English Wikipedia user en:User:-jkb-; see image name. See also permanently blocked accounts en:User:Vojtěška Hálová, en:User:Juan de Hnojíkov; Commons user User:Juan de Vojníkov, uploader of this image - should also be blocked. - MikeRosoft 18:19, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Bastique --07:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request: Reason "This file is in the public domain, because this work was written as a suicide note" is utter BS --Mikko Paananen 15:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- For those saying "no clear reason for deletion", it's a work copyrighted by someone who died < 70 years ago. Alphax (talk) 01:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep No clear reason for deletion. --Juiced lemon 08:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, no clear reason for keeping. /81.229.40.245 11:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC))
- Keep Has someone (Courtney Love, any Nirvana member or any Kurt relative) ever claimed copyright for this? --No se que nick poner Visit me/Visítame 19:24, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- They don't have to; under the Berne Convention, assuming it's not a fake, Cobain had copyright over it as soon as he wrote it. Since he died < 70 years ago the copyright is still in effect. Alphax (talk) 01:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete 70 years after death as for all works. The reason in the license tag of the photo is clear bull****. --ALE! ¿…? 12:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per ALE!. Alphax (talk) 03:41, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep No clear reason for deletion. --Neo139 19:02, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted ny User:Jkelly --ALE! ¿…? 07:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
This picture was taken from NATO Media Library:[13]
There're restrictions on commercial use, especially advertising:
Conditions governing the use of Video & Photographic Material from the NATO Media Archive
- No material is to be used for advertising purposes whatsoever.
- No material is to be used in parodies, theatrical productions or any programmes and products that defame NATO or its member countries
- Material is provided, free of charge, for use only in objective and balanced documentaries/articles, even though at times the end products may be critical of NATO. In cases where a member country is criticized, NATO wishes it to be made known that it does not associate itself with the contents of the documentary/publication.
Not free content. --Mikko Paananen 15:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete--Shizhao 03:11, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Zzyzx11 22:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Doesn't have free license nor is it PD for any other reason. -Samulili 17:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I uploaded it with the template Template:PD-Sweden-photo in mind, but since the photographer was british I switched to Template:PD-old. Unfortunately the requirements are different and the image might possible still be copyrighted (if the photographer died later than 1936). --Oden 22:18, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Unclear license status. / Fred Chess 11:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I think uploading this only seemed like a good idea when drunk. :)
- Keep. Not useful is not a good reason to delete material. Uploader was not notified of deletion process. No inappropriate content in the clip. --Jollyroger 11:55, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sure it is, see Commons:Project_scope especially when even the uploader doesn't care about it. The file wasn't even playable until I fixed it just recently because it was in an incorrectly named unfree format. --Gmaxwell 17:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, no discernible use or purpose. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 05:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
No-commercial licence not accepted on Commons.
By other way this person is a porn-star and I'm not sure this pic is from PartySan CZ
This contribor uploaded also Image:Laura award show small.jpg (unable to open this file) also Image:Laura snapshot bordered 150.png tagged PD as it's the same as the first pic and Image:Ninfa award.jpg object probably protected (rights of creator).
For me all these pics are to delete. Oxam Hartog 14:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Bonjour. You could (and should) have said to me:
Please, upload Image:Laura snapshot 200.jpg on the English wikipedia site, because "Commons" does not allow pictures being tagged as non commerical.
Instead you say, Hey! let's remove all pictures of this user. huh? I was redirected to "commons" somehow while I was searching on "how to upload pictures";
it can be confusing for new users when you can basically upload in two (or more) different locations depending on the language.
So,,, I will re-upload the photo Image:Laura snapshot 200.jpg on the english wikipedia site and outside commons. I also need the smaller one Image:Laura snapshot bordered 150.png for what I have in mind for the future of the LA page.
2. It is perfectly alright in my point of view to release my own photographs as public domain in a low
resolution like 150 pixel but deny commercial use for pictures 200 pixel upwards when I upload them
(I just can't use Wikipedia commons in that case).
3. The "Image:Laura award show small.jpg" was deleted by myself! That's why you can't see it anymore. I am just waiting for someone to delete the text page too.
I also requested for deletion:
17:41, 7 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Image:Laura award show small.jpg (top)
17:39, 7 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Image:Laura award show.jpg (top)
17:36, 7 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Image:Laura cannes.jpg (top)
17:36, 7 October 2006 (hist) (diff) Image:Laura barcelona.jpg (top)
more than seven days ago.
4. -> Ninfa award: So tell me which part in: "I am the original creator of this photo/mini-illustration."
and: "I, the author of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License."
don't you understand? I made the photo, resized the award, changed the background and added a shadow.
Last not least, what the heck does one former occupation of the person this article is on
have to do with the validity of any of my contributions? For me all your manners are to forget. ;) PartySan CZ 19:37, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Matt314 --ALE! ¿…? 11:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Commons:Licensing#Checklist : Definitely not OK Photographs of normal people who have not given their consent to being photographed IIRC 14:05, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Same as above, CheckUsage IIRC 17:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Note 1: This image was previously nominated for deletion on the date above but apparently not properly listed. Note 2: One of the persons pictured in this article has e-mailed OTRS asking for this image to be deleted. Centrx 22:01, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Orphan and Speedy delete Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 14:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 14:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
October 15
[edit]first test probably —the preceding unsigned comment is by Oxam Hartog (talk • contribs)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:13, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete. Source image claims this is a NOAA image, however this site has a higher res version attributed to a private citizen. -- Nilfanion 13:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- NOAA has the image here; without attribution. Who is Chauncey Hinman? Was he a NOAA employee? Lupo 14:17, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - a little searching around shows that Mr. Hinman had published a book (Hurricane Camille: Mississippi Gulf Coast -- August 17-18, 1969), and the images are credited to him on many other websites, too. No indication that he was a NOAA employee and took these photos as part of his job—seems to have been a private endeavour indeed. Lupo 14:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Clearly Hinman is the copyright holder, not originally from the NOAA. Zzyzx11 22:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 13:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyright image taken from website: [14] Jonathunder 18:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete There is no evidence on the source website as to what all of these images are licensed under. Also this web site is one for a candidate of the United States Senate, and generally content on U.S. campaign sites are usually copyrighted unless explicitly said otherwise. Zzyzx11 22:12, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 13:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Screenshot of non-free software, same applies to Image:CubaseSX2 Mixer.jpg. -- Matt314 19:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
tagged with {{Screenshot}} --ALE! ¿…? 09:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
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Missing source information and license. Only usage was for vandalism in the German Wikipedia [15] and I don't see any possible use beyond that within Wikipedia(no results for "Sapo Niemeijer" with google). Think someone just uploaded a picture of his friend to make fun of them. User didn't respond to messages on talk page although he was still online and uploaded the second image a few minutes later. --StYxXx ⊗ 20:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, if it was primarily used for vandalism. Zzyzx11 22:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 13:22, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Improvement is inherently subjective, so inclusion in this category is a judgment on the images. What happens if people disagree if an image has actually been improved by its editing? Should be replaced by "Edited images" or "modified images," which holds much less bias. Night Gyr 15:59, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- d'accord! --Stefan-Xp 17:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
tagged with {{Category redirect2|Edited images}} --ALE! ¿…? 16:17, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
And Image:Tondze-Stalin's speech, December 6, 1941.jpg. Author died in 1985 (http://www.plakaty.ru/authors?id=97). --EugeneZelenko 15:20, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete both, PD not applicable --ALE! ¿…? 15:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted / Fred Chess 11:45, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
October 16
[edit]I had create a more accurate and better map under Image:Cold war europe military alliances map de.png. So my old map can be deleted. Image aren't used (according to CheckUsage). -- San Jose 13:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I had create a more accurate and better map under Image:Cold war europe economic alliances map de.png so my old map can be deleted. Furthermore, this map is not quite correct (Jugoslawien wasn't a officiel member). Image aren't used (according to CheckUsage). -- San Jose 13:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
The image was released with odd nature-of-use restrictions, and it could easily be replaced with a free image. --Gmaxwell 17:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, could be easily replaced by a unconditional free image. Zzyzx11 22:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, even I can easily create a free alternative. And I will. Crazytales 17:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Dubious license. -Samulili 17:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Bernhardt, Sarah di Giovanni Boldini.jpg
A not so succesfull try with the svg-format. Image is too large an does not look so well as i hoped for. I am the uploader and i have uploaded a smaller and better looking jpg.Marco Roepers 21:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --Matt314 21:39, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This file was CC-licensed on flickr at the time I uploaded it. Now it's copyrighted. I don't know the procedure in this case, so I start the discussion here. Perhaps this qualifies for speedy deletion.Boris23 15:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 23:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This picture does not accurately reflect the linguistic understanding of the languages spoken in Italy. The name suggests that this map shows dialects. They are not. The naming of these "dialects" does not coincide with accepted names.. This picture does not do justice to the actual reality GerardM 22:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I don't understand. (I'm Italian, so I think I know the languages spoken in Italy...). Can you show better the problem? The names are in Italian. --F l a n k e r 15:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- The names are not correct even in Italian. They also suggest that they are dialects while they are recognised languages. There is no support for this map in literature. GerardM 06:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- What? Eh eh, there is support for this map in real life, so... I found something like my map here, also the same names here. Sorry again, but I don't understad why a person, who don't know Italian at all (as your user page suggest), jundges a map of Italian dialects (?!). I repeat, this image is in the Italian wiki, and here no one have found anything to object (obviously). And at last, the only recognized language in Italy is Italian... --F l a n k e r 08:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Not that long ago, the Italian government decided to create a new version of Sardinian. This is to merge the different Sardinian languages.. As to languages: check this out http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IT GerardM 09:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- The Italian government don't make dialects. [See this http://web.tiscali.it/animanga/lingua.htm] for the Sardinia.
- PS: I forgot to thank you for sending me a massage in my user talk page, you're the only one who have done that.
- PPS: In www.ethnologue.com page there are also many wrong names (for ex.: Trentino Alto Oolige is Trentino Alto Adige).
- Rename or something, but not delete. The map contains both dialects and languages. I don't think that the creator of the map wanted to say that German, Albanian and Greek are Italian dialects. :-) Bogdan 20:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- The map is factually wrong in many places. Renaming does not make it useful for any of the Wikimedia Foundation projects. The intentions of the creator is not what is at issue, the quality is. GerardM 09:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- The map reflects the actual pratical italian situation and it is one of the best I' d seen. I'm italian and I suppose to know how the people actually speak in my country. The dialets are changing a lot during the last centuries, even the recognision of official status of languages or even of dialets is and was more a politicals issue, related to get some autonomies power. Let me say that I find strange that somebody, who even do not speak a little of the italian official language, claims to be an expert of italian dialets and tell that the names are not correct even in Italian. On which basis? Just because some official documents say that... Let me suppose that the chinese governement decides by law that the tibetan is not longer a language, neither a dialet, is this enougt to erase tibetan
- I'm totally with you, Bogdan. If the world "dialects" is not appropriate, we can change it. A friend says that "idioms" would be more correct. What do you think about it, GerardM? --F l a n k e r 13:48, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Just copying my notes from the Image talk page here as well:
- For SabineCretella, if "campano" simply does not exist, which is the dialect spoken in Campania? --F l a n k e r 11:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Very simple on international level Neapolitan (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code nap) is recognised as a language that extends even further than the delimitations of Campania ... well a language does not have borders but only people who speak it - therefore there cannot be a campano dialect. I know that many dictionaries still have this notion, but this comes from periods before many languages were recognised by international bodies. So there is quite a good bunch of this map plain wrong. Lombard, Piemontese, Venetian, Emilian-Romagnol, Sicilian, Sardinian and some others are languages and not dialects. Griko Salentino for example is a language that is strange enough recognised by the Italian state, but not on an international level (up to now). So your mentioning "Greco" that stands for Greek is wrong, because the langauge people speak there is not really Greco (or Greek) like in Greece. Also Albanese is not the Albanese spoken in Albania (or better Albanese actually is 4 languages and to be considered a macro language), but Arbëreshë ... but then again the Italian state calls it Albanese ... well ... we are not about state politics, right? So fact is that the Albanese spoken in Italy is Arbëreshë (ISO-639-3 code aae). I could go ahead quite a bit with such descriptions, but now it's work time :-) --SabineCretella 08:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- For SabineCretella, if "campano" simply does not exist, which is the dialect spoken in Campania? --F l a n k e r 11:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Just copying my notes from the Image talk page here as well:
- Well I used to know few people from the "albanese" regions in Sicily and Calabria, and all told me that when they met people from Albania they could understand each other, they can't be so different, then. On the other and the picture seem to be more useful on the practical side many ISO codes....--Dia^ 00:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
And so I do:
- Don't go too far, ramain to campano. Your knowledge of Italian "idioms" are from an international, and so very limited, view. With the term "campano" I mean napoletano, salernitano, casertano, avellinese, beneventino, latinese, and so on and on... So, as you can see, in Campania is spolken not only the napoletano, but also many more big variations of that idiom. That idioms I named (for space necessity, of course) with the generical term "campano". --F l a n k e r 09:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Really? So you would say that only people in Naples speak Neapolitan?--SabineCretella 14:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
OK, I've done some corrections indicated by Paginazero and SabineCretella. I think that more have to came to make the map "perfect", but I'm trusting that one day it will be possible, eh eh!
I like that someone modify my work, no matter how or how many times, but I really hate when someone simply want to delete it for any reason. --F l a n k e r 13:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
A simple question: when we can close this discussion, remove the annoying tag {{delete}}, and finally go back to work?--F l a n k e r 14:31, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please use arguments by providing sources to your assertions. It is nice to say that only Italians do know about Italian dialects.. There are no such things. Italian is a constructed language based on the Florentine language. Idions are not a concept that is in use when discussing what makes a language or a dialect. Please do your homework. So far you have not shown why your map does show the distribution of Italian languages. GerardM 19:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Oh no... I'm so tired to say always the same things... So, concretely, which are your contestualization? I need specific names that you think are wrong. If that names are actually wrong, I will happy to change it, otherwise I prove my sources.
- Again, change my map is simple, but please, don't delete it just because you don't think it is correct. Don't force me to transfer it to Italian Wikipedia. And moderate your "idiom", I've already done my homework, and wery well, like Bogdan says.
- Last point: for "campano", there are tons of sources, just use "google".
- --F l a n k e r 20:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
PS: in the Italian Wiki, a little discussion ends with the suggestion to change the name in "italian_languages_and _dialects.jpg". Do you prefer this name?
- It makes no difference as it does not document why you think this map is correct. The reason why it is up to deletion is because the information given in the map is wrong. Changing the name is just window dressing. GerardM 21:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Pleeeeese, read above.
- You need sorces? Here some:
- [16] - this picture confims that the so called Campano, Abruzzese, Lucano and Pugliese are part of the nap language code as requested to ISO 639-3 years ago - thank you! Well really this image is even more inclusive than the nap code is. I needed this ressource for nap.wikpedia :-)
- [17] - this is not about languages, but this is about population (Piemontesi, Emiliano-Romagoli, Laziali etc. - all these terms indicate people and not languages). Do you believe that Lega Nord is an attendible source when it comes to NPOV?
- [18] - (btw. I know the owner of the website) nobody said that Sardininan is not divided into these parts, but there is a recognised unified language (that indeed is an artificial language).
- [19] - again languages combined with politics ... that is not a linguistic article, but it is about Federalism and Padania: Gilberto Oneto - an Italian federation - so this should be about linguistics? Hmmmm ... well the html title of the pag says "Padan.org - the languages, their dialects and the identity of Padania - Federalism and Padania: Gilberto Oneto - an Italian federation" - so we should consider this reall NPOV in linguistics?
- [20] - this source is about single variations and sigle people speaking a language. You will even find differencs when you have people of differnt professions and age-groups speak their language. Besides that the research is far from being complete. Only some cities in some regions of Italy were considered.
- I made some addidions to these links with some descritpions.--SabineCretella 12:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- AND AGAIN: where are these wrong names? Please tell me, so I can correct them. --F l a n k e r 21:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
GerardM, I suppose you are refeering to ISO639-3. Well, you have to know that it contains a lot of mistakes. There are a lot of nonexistent languages. An international association cannot make a representative map of italian languages and dialects. --Mister X 12:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Map is quite accurate. It covers two levels of analisys: first one with major groups of dialects (the one seen here) and a further subdivision showing the most important one (you can see them by clicking on the regions of the map linked before). It could be perfect showing all the "second level" dialects, but that would be very messy, since most of them no more exist. You say names are not accurate: then please speak with Mr. Giovan Battista Pellegrini (author of Carta dei Dialetti d'Italia, Pisa, Pacini editore 1977). Anyway, I see just another abuse of the RfP page here. --Jollyroger 15:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- P.S. for italian friends: Eh, ce ne sono di idiomi...
- As a linguist I feel I must warn you that Ethnologue as a linguistic resource is far from being accurate from a linguistic point of view. Its classifications are aften biased and must be used very cautiously, if one has to describe thoroughly the linguistic situation of some countries or regions. The fact that the above mentioned chart doesn't correspond to Ethnologue classification is not a valid reason to delete it. Vermondo
- P.S. for italian friends: Eh, ce ne sono di idiomi...
Thank you all, (avevo bisogno di un po' di conforto). (But what's "abuse of the RfP"? Forgive my ignorance). I've added slavisano and also split emiliano and romagnolo. --F l a n k e r 18:24, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Just a couple of remarks: yes, IMHO this map could be renamed dialects and local languages spoken in Italy, or something like that. As for "Arbëreshë", that's the proper word for the language, but since the map is in Italian, why don't we keep "albanese"? People who look at the map should get a general vision of the dialect/languages spoken, then in specific pages the right name should be specified (this just to say: it's interesting for a person who ends up on this map to see that also Albanian is spoken in Italy, although it is a particular (old) dialect). If you write Arbëreshë, the information you give to "ignorant" people is almost zero.
- And finally a remark to Italians: please do not be so bold in your replies. I know that our way of explaining things is much more passionate than others. But here, in an international community, please do not use sentences like "I don't understand why a person, who don't know Italian at all (as your user page suggest), judges a map of Italian dialects (?!)" (just an example, nothing personal). Please stick to the facts. Everybody has right to talk here. Enjoy wikipedia! --Rutja76 18:52, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Rutja, you're absolutely right, and I understand what do you mean. I'm sorry if my sentences seems to be aggressive or churlish, I don't mean to be. Also I don't mean that Gerard don't have the right to talk here. But the facts remains: "I don't understand why a person, who don't know Italian at all (as far as I know), judges a map of Italian dialects absolutely wrong?". AND "where are the wrong names?" so we can get the point? F l a n k e r 19:30, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Concerning Arbëreshë: yes, this can be a problem... but SabineCretella was right and I was wrong: Arbëreshë is really the name of a sort of "italianized" Albanian, so I can't name it simply "albanese". I think an inerested people can see here. Bye! F l a n k e r 19:37, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree with the fact that the deletion for this image was not well specified. As for Arbëreshë, in the Italian page about the Arbëreshë minority (and also in the English one) there is stated that "Con il termine Arbëreshë si definisce una popolazione di lingua albanese che vive nell'Italia meridionale" ("Arbëreshë are an Albanian-speaking community living in southern Italy"), so from this fact I guess in the map there could be written "albanese". My two cents. However, for a better definition of the map, I propose to start a discussion on the language bar on it.wiki. I guess that would be the best place to have the map improved --Rutja76 20:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
IMHO, rename it to "idioms-spoken-in-Italy.jpg". Forget asap what someone said about Sardinian unified language, LSU (Limba Sarda Unificada): it's still a WIP and no one speaks it, not even those who are working to create it by scratch :-))) It is true, instead, that Italy hosts "foreign" languages' speakers. So "idioms" and not "dialects" and not "languages", because there is no need of getting into such a question and no way to eventually get out from conversation, given that experts reached no consensus among themselves about their own classification, we would never find ours here; "spoken in Italy" and not "Italian". BTW, Italian language is completely another question. Then, it's up to those who will insert it in WP articles to explain how it goes. --Sn.txt 00:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- For Rutja76: I repeat that Arbëreshë is really the name of a sort of "italianized" Albanian. It is the name of the language, so it is wrong name it simply "albanese", like I do before ([21]).
- For Senza nome.txt: see this discussion here . Bye! --F l a n k e r 09:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- As to international acceptance: the "Atlante linguistico italo-svizzero" is the one accepted. Cannot write much more right now - will come back later on.--SabineCretella 12:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ah ah ah, prova a dire ad un pugliese che parla il dialetto napoletano! Seriamente Sabine, ora che hai scritto quelle parole, per me la discussione finisce qui, addio. (Mi sono proprio stufato di parlare con persone incompetenti in materia che pretendono di dettare legge! Questo è proprio il colmo!) --F l a n k e r 08:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- translation into en: Ah, ah, ah, try to say a Pugliese speaks Napolitan dialect. Seriously Sabin, now that you wrote these words for me the discussion stops here, good bye. (I am really fed up to talk with incompetent people in that subject that pretend to dictate law! This is really the limit!)
- it: Ce l'hai fatta Flanker! Era ora che ti svegliassi e smettessi di preoccuparti di critiche tanto stupide! L'immagine va benissimo, gli darò un'occhiata più approfondita e se trovo qualche correzione (vera!) te la riporto, ok? Cià
- en: Finally you got it, Flanker! It's about time you stop to take care of so stupid criticism! The image is very good! --Echelon 08:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not a linguist but I'm italian and therefore I think I am entitled to say something. My first point is that, from the prectical point of view, there is no language/dialect called toscano, piemontese, veneto and so on. They are just loosely related language/dialects put together just for sake of simplicity. The second point is that, in my opinion, this image is not dangerous or harmful in any way and I think that many criticism can be surpassed just renaming it (as it was already suggested). As a final point I'd like to ask bith Flanker and Echelon to stop insulting and moking other user, you may be right or you may be wrong, doesn't matter, it doesn't give you the right to behave like you were somehow superior. --Berto 08:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Rilassati... Flanker l'avrà specificato diecimila volte che campano, toscano, lombardo, ecc... sono unificazioni, altrimenti la cartina diventa un alrecchino incomprensibile, ma in concreto vogliamo votare? Io voto NO, non cancelliamola! (e si dice both...) --Echelon 08:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Voting everywhere is a bad italian habit. We should have a great discussion so, please, let's talk about it. --Mister X 12:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- this map make a sense, and sound correct, to a lot of italians, what does not make any sense is the idea that a dialets or laguages definitions can be classified and forced to be a dogma by a ristrict group of poeples (even if they are called studiants, experts and so on) driven by prejudices or innatural restrictive classifications (i.e. ISO). This new Torquemada's fellows want to burns any or refuse to look any other interpretation. --Bramfab 11:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- For Mr.X: well, democracy is not so bad Italian habit... However where's this so great discussion? I've read nothing but nonsense here! Echelon 13:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Please, let's keep on topic.
Dear Flanker, I've read the page on it.wiki, but the discussion is here.
Unfortunately, I can't agree with the proposed new title of "Italian languages and dialects", first and foremost because I just can't understand how and why we should consider as an "Italian whateveritis" a clearly external language like "croato", or "Arbëreshë", or "provenzale", or "german", ..., which don't share with full evidence neither history, nor roots, with Italian languages. These are therefore not Italian languages at all, by any mean, under any point of view; they are spoken in Italy, instead. Ethnologue can call them "languages of Italy", I humbly prefer to stick upon facts and avoid possible misunderstandings. Secondarily, the fact that the word "idiom" might create some confusion between its two main meanings, is certainly true. But do we really have to care about any fellow who should be interested into languages and happens to eventually be able to mistake a noun with an expression? I wonder what kind of peculiar meaning the word "ciociaro" could effectively hide in itself... (Sorry Piero, sooner or later there had to be a case in which we wouldn't agree :-) However, the word "idioms" would describe - IMHO, of course - with sharper precision what the picture is showing, covering all the related meanings.
BTW, could we all just calm down a bit, this nationalistic rant is quite silly: half of the initial remark was right, this image's name is wrong. The real other question is not about names, it rather is about the depiction of areas. For instance, whatever your sources, about Sardinian language I would dare suggest to compare with Eduardo Blasco Ferrer's maps. For Romanesco, I wasn't aware that my splendid town had moved so rapidly towards Rieti and had enlarged so much. Ok, you said it was a draft, as such it is a fine draft. As said before, Wikipedians will care of giving this image the correct attention while using it. --Sn.txt 22:45, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have supposed that in province of Rome the prevailing dialect is romansco. Also towards Ostia is the romanesco prevailing? --F l a n k e r 09:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- My personal experience (20+ years working with all the city councils in that area :-), not backed by sources, is that Ostia uses romanesco, but due to its history (fascist "colonia") now neapolitan and other idioms are also used in relevant proportions; romanesco still prevails, but not so heavily as one would presume (of course, we are talking about stable inhabitants and not summertime ones). Not really all the province uses romanesco: soon after you leave the town - let's say an average 15/20 km far, or usually after a couple of external not recent villages - you can distinctly find other idioms. Towards North-West and North (from Cerveteri to Riano, then along via Flaminia), Etruscan legacy is in idioms which quickly join Viterbese. On the North-East (along via Salaria, from Monterotondo) you meet Sabino, which should also be the main root of romanesco. At East, after Tivoli, you can meet the rare prenestino (centered to Palestrina), with a wider diffusion of Tuscolano, and both introduce to Ciociaro, in the area between via Tiburtina and via Tuscolana; but this area is also influenced by other mixed entrances from other areas of Latium and other regions (relevant are those from Abruzzi - many shepherds came from there to find better soils, and established). Reaching the via Appia, on East-South-East, from Marino - quite near to the town - onwards you find the castellano, used in Castelli Romani, separately derived from sabino and which is perhaps the one with which romanesco has more in common. Curious marchigiano linguistic island in Santa Maria delle Mole. Going South-East and South (i.e. Pomezia), castellano mixes with neapolitan-derived idioms, with the notable case of very small veneto linguistic areas (effect of fascist bonifiche) bordering the province of Latina. The diffusion of Romanesco (or perhaps "romano", no one uses the word "romanesco" in Rome any more), should then be indicated as loosely coincident with the GRA, with an extension to Ostia along the via Cristoforo Colombo-via del Mare-via Portuense axis. As said, this is my personal experience, but I'm not afraid that serious studies would have recorded really many differences from this rough empiric scheme. As it is now, I'd say, it is perhaps too much :-) --Sn.txt 12:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Can we please work for a concensus. This is neither a forum or a talk show. PLease take content dispute to the image talk page. --Cat out 20:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind suggestion. Now, since we were explaining ours each other, would you also kindly allow us to know which is your own opinion about this request and how would you proceed? --Sn.txt 12:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep This is no copyright issue in my opinion, therefore keep. Discuss the rest on the talk page of the image. --ALE! ¿…? 13:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Is exactly the concreteness that lacks... moreover the deletion request is not concerning copyright issues, "ALE!". --Echelon 16:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep We can discuss about its improvement, no reason of removing it --Rutja76 08:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Quoting Rutja76. --Snowdog 13:51, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I've already written my opinion. Mister X 19:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - simply because many things on it do not reflect the researched part of the languages. Well I can tell you in particular a bit about Neapolitan (dealing with it approx. 50% of the day) It is the first time that I hear that Neapolitan is spoken only in Naples ... have a look at ISO 639 for that - then ask people on the Amalfi Coast what they speak: they will tell you Neapolitan. Neapolitan refers to a huge region. Campano (if you want to call it like that - well, it is a convenience name, because it is a more or less thingie) is a dialect of Neapolitan, but not Neapolitan a dialect of Campano ... Neapolitan, for example is also spoken in Gaeta, Cassino, Sora and Liri (well, also here: the city boarders are not the real language boarders) ... and imagine where these cities are? In Lazio ... --SabineCretella 21:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- Exactly what my map refers, Sabine (look at map, you find out that Campano is expanded far beyond the Campania borders). But in Caserta is spoken Neapolitan? Or in Salerno? Or in Benevento? Or in Avellino? Or in Lucania? I tell you again: NO!, is spoken salernitano, beneventino, avellinese, ecc... And Liri is in Province of Frosinone, in Ciociaria, where the majority spokes ciociaro. --F l a n k e r 11:52, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- For Sabine: read here, is in Italian, but I know you can read that language. For GerardM, the article tells about our concern: the "napoletano" is different from the "salernitano" or "avellinese". Oh, its enough with this address, I'm tired to say always the same things... --F l a n k e r 19:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- And also read here (an official document from the Province of Campania) where you can find: "il riconoscimento dei dialetti campani". --F l a n k e r 20:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- And here (well, I don't read "Italia donna", I find it with goolge...), here and here. It's enough for you? I can continue... --F l a n k e r 20:03, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- And also read here (an official document from the Province of Campania) where you can find: "il riconoscimento dei dialetti campani". --F l a n k e r 20:00, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- For Sabine: read here, is in Italian, but I know you can read that language. For GerardM, the article tells about our concern: the "napoletano" is different from the "salernitano" or "avellinese". Oh, its enough with this address, I'm tired to say always the same things... --F l a n k e r 19:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Can we close that thing? I give you one other day, than, if no one vote, i delete the deletion tag and the discussion can proceed to the image talk page. Cheers, F l a n k e r 13:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I've made a vector version of this image and so I've also added english names (where known). --F l a n k e r 20:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
This seems like it should be a request for improvement, not a request for deletion. Please work out the specifics on the talk page. I am deleting'' the JPG (because it is not used, and SVGs are far easier to edit) and keeping the SVG. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 05:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
October 17
[edit]I made a mistake in the filename AlexCovarrubias 12:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (please use {{Badname}} next time) --ALE! ¿…? 15:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Painting by Nadezhda Udaltsova, who died in 1961: PD-Russia does not apply. Copyrighted artwork. Delete Lupo 07:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Raymond de --ALE! ¿…? 07:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Bad quality (blurred and cut from above), replaced with Image:Zakopane-Cmentarz-Witkiewicz-2006-Ejdzej.jpg, this one is better too A.J. 06:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful on any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 15:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Not useful on any Wikimedia projects. ~MDD4696 16:11, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (out of scope) --ALE! ¿…? 07:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Delete if not used, please delete them quickly (Is there something like a mass deletion tool for such cases?) --ALE! ¿…? 15:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- All of the shields are unused, so these can be deleted safely. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Delete if not used, please delete them quickly (Is there something like a mass deletion tool for such cases?) --ALE! ¿…? 15:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- All of the shields are unused, so these can be deleted safely. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Can someone please delete these? --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- All deleted --Cat out 19:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Delete if not used, please delete them quickly (Is there something like a mass deletion tool for such cases?) --ALE! ¿…? 15:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete They were made for the interim until svgs could be made (I lack that ability). MPD01605 17:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- All of the shields are unused, so these can be deleted safely. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Can someone please delete these? --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- All deleted. --Cat out 20:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
PD-Soviet img. The artist Nadezhda Udaltsova died in 1961, so PD-Russia is not applicable. Copyrighted artwork. Delete Lupo 07:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- BTW, the uploader agrees. Lupo 08:33, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Drini --ALE! ¿…? 07:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- And restored again by User:Drini. --88.134.44.127 18:37, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
The uploader (User:Mexicaltzingo) claims it's own work, but in the lower left part of the picture there is clearly a url written (www.imagenesareasdemexico.com - that site appears to be a cybersquatter) of which the uploader makes no mention. At the Spanish wiki the uploader has also uploaded several copyrighted images: [22]. This picture has been here for over a year. Mixcoatl 20:20, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio: The description claims, that map was licensed under CC 2.5. Further, the description says that the map was downloaded from www.raipon.org, the Web site of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), thus suggesting implicitely that RAIPON was the copyright holder.
However, the real creator is Winfried Dallmann, an employee of the Norwegian Polar Institute (as the legend on the map confirms). (Winfried's personal web site is http://www.npolar.no/ansipra/) The map was published in a book, presumably be AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, see http://www.amap.no/) I cannot give the exact title and date by now, without contacting Winfried first. However, this image is a scan from the book. I would be highly surprised if the book was released under the creative commons license.--Johannes Rohr 15:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:18, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
I doubt this portrait is GPL-licensed. Source does not give any information about the photograph 13 okt 2006 23:52 Husky added by Siebrand on 21:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- The source website states that the works are under a noncommercial license. --> Delete --ALE! ¿…? 16:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. photographer unknown, image too young for PD-old --Flominator 19:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
The miniatures shown in the photos are copyrighted action figures. Therefore, photos of these are also copyrightes as derrivative works. --ALE! ¿…? 09:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- They are all {{Derivative}}s, delete. The copyright belongs to Games Workshop. --Kjetil_r 02:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
There are not all photos!! there's some personal works, just paints made by some users about miniatures or weapons of the game. Can you delete just the photos? --Jean85 11:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I will delete all photos of miniatures (derivatives), delete the drawings of the Space Marines (trademarked), and keep the drawings of the weapons. --Kjetil_r 01:41, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Bad licensing. Properly licensed version of image (in higher resolution) does already exist: Image:POL Oborniki Śląskie flag.svg MonteChristof 12:22, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
It just seems that this image is a copy of Messerwoland's work... but in worser resolution. But I'm agains giving the national symbols under CC-by licensing, if they were given by goverment as PD. MonteChristof 12:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete
- I feel really bad about this, since this is my first image requested for deletion.
- To answer some of your questions:
- This is an original work, not just a copy. I had no idea that this one exists while creating my own.
- The resolution does not matter, because vector graphics can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. I just tried to keep the resolution of the original picture.
- My image has exactly the same shape, it just has slightly different colors.
- So I vote to delete this image. --slady (o.o) 20:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:13, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Photo of Nadezhda Udaltsova in front of one of her paintings. Udaltsova died 1961, so PD-Russia is not applicable. The painting is quite prominent in the image: derivative work. Copyrighted artwork. Delete Lupo 07:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think this image is ok as the painter is covering a big portion of the painting. --ALE! ¿…? 08:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- It doesn't have a source either. Photographer is unknown to us, first publication is unknown to us. Lupo 09:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted.--Jusjih 16:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit]is Derivative works--Shizhao 03:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Odder --ALE! ¿…? 07:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request: bad file name. Image moved to Image:Parus rock.jpg Serguei S. Dukachev 08:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted as duplicate --Matt314 09:11, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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This template is not used anywhere. le Korrigan →bla 20:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- In spite of the fact that all the wrong templates were used to delete this image, I went ahead and did so. Please use {{delete because|reasoning}} in the future for obvious things like this instead of Deletion Requests. Those templates that you used apply to images, not templates. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 21:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Woops, sorry about that. I still need to update the deletion guidelines in French, which do not say this :-) le Korrigan →bla 22:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Bastique --ALE! ¿…? 07:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
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Replaced by {{Duplicate/lang}}le Korrigan →bla 20:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I am the author of the image. I discovered too late that I cannot rename it. Thanks! Miguel Andrade 02:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Just upload it under a different name and then tag this image with {{Badname}} --ALE! ¿…? 08:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
kept until you upload the file under a new name --ALE! ¿…? 06:49, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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- Delete if not used, please delete them quickly (Is there something like a mass deletion tool for such cases?) --ALE! ¿…? 15:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted by WarX and MesserWoland. MesserWoland Dyskusja 10:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
deletion of SovietPDAlex Bakharev 11:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
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without SovietPD everything is copyvioAlex Bakharev 11:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I think {{PD-Art}} applies for most, if not all images. Most images are well over 70 years old. Errabee 12:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. PD-Art is most definitely not applicable. Creator died 1962; copyrighted artwork. Lupo 10:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- The template states a painting could be PD due to the date of its publication. The author needn't even be dead. Errabee 17:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- You're mistaken. The template is very badly worded. See Template talk:PD-Art#Clarification needed. Lupo 09:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- The template states a painting could be PD due to the date of its publication. The author needn't even be dead. Errabee 17:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, artist died too recently for anything but PD-Soviet to apply. Therefore work is copyrighted, like with Commons:Deletion requests/Category:Zinaida Serebryakova.--Nilfanion 00:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
No source; furthermore, it seems doubtful that this image was first published in the US before 1923. Phrood 21:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
with deletion of SovietPD all the images are copyviosAlex Bakharev 11:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I think {{PD-Art}} applies for most, if not all images. Most images are well over 70 years old. Errabee 12:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. PD-Art is most definitely not applicable. Creator died 1967; copyrighted artwork. Lupo 10:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- The template states that a painting can also be PD due to the date of its publication. In rare cases this could mean the painter is still alive. Errabee 17:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- You're mistaken. The template is very badly worded. See Template talk:PD-Art#Clarification needed. Lupo 09:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- The template states that a painting can also be PD due to the date of its publication. In rare cases this could mean the painter is still alive. Errabee 17:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Klemen Kocjancic --ALE! ¿…? 14:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
without SovietPD everything is copyvioAlex Bakharev 11:45, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Odder --ALE! ¿…? 15:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
1) there was an old deletion request here, stating file location changed to finnish wikipedia , 2) the licence is not free, as commercial use of the file the is not allowed ("Author of the site allows freely copy and republish material from the site and forbids only commercial use of text of the site." 3) even if the one who took the photo released the image in a free way, then we still need the release of the text of the postcard. That could only be done by the original author. This is not the case here. HeikoEvermann 08:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
source fr:Image:Jan23foto.jpg states that it is from pl:Grafika:Jan23foto.jpg on pl is no image - on fr its PD: no reasons given for that ...Sicherlich Post 20:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)-
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit]Redundant, see Image:Church Rock Utah 1.jpg by me, both photos taken by me Digon3 17:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Comment For any duplicate image, you can always tag with {{duplicate|other file}} instead of posting here. Zzyzx11 00:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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deleted --ALE! ¿…? 09:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe SNTE claims copyright on the Eiffel Tower light display, which would make this a dervitive work and thus non-free. Carl Lindberg 03:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (this one is clear cut case -> eiffel tower at night without a greater surrounding -> copyvio) --ALE! ¿…? 07:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Restored. No copyright on ordinary light. Yann (talk) 15:56, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
wrong car/filename, replaced with Image:Lamborghini Murciélago with engine.jpgˉˉanetode╦╩ 12:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Please use {{Badname}} in the future. Thank you! --Matt314 15:43, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Commons is not for publishing your essays, see Commons:Project scope. TheBernFiles 17:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted --Kjetil_r 01:48, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
license errorGonioul 18:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 08:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
This file is out of date. I have updated the original Image:Spermatophyta.png to take account of recent research ([23]), but with this copy being a .svg file, it can't be edited to incorporate the updating - MPF 23:16, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 08:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
(It seems doubtful that "Yilmaz Güney Documentary" is released under GFDL, and I can't find picture on Turkish Wikipedia, which is given as source (at least not in the Yılmaz Güney article ))Bojan 00:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 14:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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wrong name - has to be Arenal instead of Arnal, i've uploaded the file under the correct name already --Mandavi 23:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please use {{Badname}} in future. Alphax (talk) 09:33, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:MesserWoland --ALE! ¿…? 12:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Duplication of Image:Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Nuit Blanche 2006.jpg Gloumouth1 12:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Nonsense graffiti. It is used for mischief in japanese wikipedia.--Saburny 14:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete --Masao jp 15:48, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, no use.--Nilfanion 23:13, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
License PD-AR-Movie can not be used, as the producer did not die until 1990. ALE! ¿…? 08:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (uploader agrees) --ALE! ¿…? 11:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
This image is a movie poster for an independent Star Wars fanfilm and tagged as {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}. The movie itself may be available for free, but I see no indication, that this means that artworks like this poster are free to use for any purpose, including modification and commercial use. The website says: "Revelations" Official Poster art was created by: Sonia R. Hillios. Sonia is an award-winning painter and illustrator of science fiction and fantasy and environmental subjects." As long as Hillios doesn't give her permission to publish this artwork under a free license, it can't be used on commons. --88.134.44.127 18:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- And three screenshots from this movie: Image:StarWars Revelations 2.jpg, Image:StarWars Revelations trooper.jpg and Image:StarWars-Revelations Vader.jpg. No indication that the creators of the movie released its content under a free license. --88.134.44.127 18:00, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Speedy deleted (sorta) --Cat out 10:24, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
and all images therein. The images are tagged PD-Soviet, cannot be migrated to PD-Russia because that tag is not applicable (Serebryakova died only in 1967). Three of these images have been transferred to the en-Wikipedia by the uploader, where they are used as "fair use" now. Thanks, Alex, for doing this! Delete Lupo 07:39, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I think {{PD-Art}} applies for most, if not all images. Most images are well over 70 years old. Errabee 12:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Errh... so what? She died much less than 70 years ago. {{PD-Art}} most definitely is not applicable. Lupo 10:39, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Errh... so what? The template states that a painting can be in PD because of the death of the author or its date of publication. The painter could even still be alive. Errabee 17:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- That's a misunderstanding due to the very poor wording of template {{PD-Art}}. Please see Template talk:PD-Art#Clarification needed. Lupo 21:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Errh... so what? The template states that a painting can be in PD because of the death of the author or its date of publication. The painter could even still be alive. Errabee 17:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Errh... so what? She died much less than 70 years ago. {{PD-Art}} most definitely is not applicable. Lupo 10:39, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I think {{PD-Art}} applies for most, if not all images. Most images are well over 70 years old. Errabee 12:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I believe someone more versed in Russian copyright should comment before we delete these. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 00:23, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete For works which is not {{PD-Russia}}, copyrights will expire in 70 years after author death. --EugeneZelenko 03:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, this artists works are not covered by PD-Russia as that prescribes a 50 year pma only possible valid tag is PD-Soviet but thats no longer accepted...--Nilfanion 22:36, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
This image was uploaded from Flickr.com where "Wannabehipster" claim that this photo is licensed as CC-BY-2.0. However, Wannabehipster has tagged all sorts of images as CC although they are obviously copyrighted ("All rights reserved"). These questionable images include a book cover, a Time magazine cover, a magazine cover, a cartoon and a Google map.
There is nothing to suggest that Wannabehipster is a professional photographer, nor is there any claim that he has taken the photos himself. Everything suggests that this is a copyright violation. Thuresson 19:34, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete this and any other "Wannabehipster" flickrs; proven inaccurate use of copyright tags. -- Infrogmation 17:43, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (no other web links in Commons to this user) --Matt314 21:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Deriv. work of logo LimoWreck 16:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Seems like freedom of panorama would apply here... not sure about trademark issues though. Image:Malmö, Kockums building sign AM.jpg is an altered copy; there may be some related discussion on the German wikipedia. Carl Lindberg 06:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
kept (in accordance with Commons:Freedom of panorama#Sweden) --ALE! ¿…? 16:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The license on source (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F:Nagano-pref.png) says: This image is based on Image:Japan map.png. This image may be used for any purpose, but there is no definitive license. GeorgHH 19:51, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete the temnplate on the Japanese Wikipedia says: Do not copy this image to Commons. --ALE! ¿…? 16:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 23:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
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The screenshots of the game Laser Squad are not all free. Only the ZX Spectrum version has been freed by the author; however, some people seem to take the liberty of expanding this permission to cover all other versions of the game as well, and even add the false information about the game being "in Public Domain" on the Laser Squad page. All screenshots except those from ZX Spectrum need to be deleted as copyright violation. tsca @ 10:01, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- When I contacted Julian Gollop, he said "I have officially said that my old games are all public domain - Chaos, rebelstar, laser squad - but note that Rebelstar is now trademarked by Namco.". I had asked whether this applies to all platforms, and not just the ZX Spectrum, but he didn't say. Have you considered asking him yourself? If you do, forwarding the email to OTRS would help, too. --StuartBrady 14:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- You're supposed to contact the copyright owner before you upload the files and claim they're PD, not after. Besides, I doubt J. Gollop has any say as to the graphics of Amiga, Atari etc versions of the game. Deletion request still valid. tsca @ 13:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
- Is not best remove the non-free parts and remain the page, including a warning about this? --museo8bits 10:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
No new information since November 2006; the images are deemed fair use and removed. tsca @ 23:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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Cropping from another image that was deleted because it was free for personal, non-commercial use only.Andre Engels 13:14, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 06:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Unused in Wikipedias, replaced by much higher quality Image:Ørstedsparken - Bryderne.jpg Thue 19:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 06:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
This image was copyd "http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp/watchizu.aspx?id=37411255". There is a copyright in the Japan Geographical Survey Institute. 125.2.101.15 16:01, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Nothing suggests a free licence. --Cat out 20:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
this image is of horrible quality and is only used on someone's userpage67.190.222.159 22:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Oppose it clearly made by some young child, and it's pretty high quality in this context Paulatz 12:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- i will just go ahead and make some doodles and upload them here then so i can plaster my userpage with them. thanks for the tip —the preceding unsigned comment is by 66.41.167.64 (talk • contribs)
- Kept --Cat out 20:40, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
A poor quality illustration and an orphan. --66.41.167.64 20:50, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- It's a quite good quality for a hand drawn picture. Bad quality isn't usually a reason for deletion, so keep. By the way, you did not inform the uploader using {{Idw}}. Please do so. -- Bryan (talk to me) 22:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
There already has been a deletion debate, and no new arguments were introduced here. I close this as speedy keep. -- Bryan (talk to me) 22:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
It is very unlikely that the Flickr uploader took this picture him- or herself; compare the gallery it came from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loungerie/sets/555871/ with other likely copyvios.Rosenzweig 20:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Anna --ALE! ¿…? 11:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Nothing suggests 1946 is automaticaly PDCat out 16:45, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete most probably not PD --ALE! ¿…? 15:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 18:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
This excellent image shows people from Bali, 1937. It was taken by the British photographer Gregory Bateson (1904-1980). It is stored and exhibited by the Library of Congress. The Commons licence declares it was "a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code". I did not find such a hint in the reference to [24]. So please give a real proof. -- Simplicius 11:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
- As far as I remember I moved this image from EN:WP, so I can't provide additional information. Feel free to remove this image if you think that it's copyvio. --EugeneZelenko 14:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- So it might not be free - but who cares about it?
- In general, how much stuff from the Library of congress is declared as "PD US Government"
just because it is exhibited in the internet? -- Simplicius 11:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, no applicable PD-claim / Fred Chess 17:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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Obviously non-free as taken from copyrighted site famouschinese.com per original wikipedia description page, now deleted. Crzrussian 01:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted--Nilfanion 23:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Derivative work without permission from the copyright holder. -- JeremyA 01:53, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. It is still a derivative work, even if it is "partially based on a copyrighted logo of [Apple Computer Inc. and AppleDesign]" Zzyzx11 03:06, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Lestath --ALE! ¿…? 13:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
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Template is just a redirect to the relevant PD-USGov. No images use it either so delete. I would have speedied it, but would rather discuss this - if only as a test case to know if we can speedy in similar situations.Nilfanion 01:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. I wish you had speedied it... --Cat out 21:02, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request: Stated copyright notice does not allow for commerical use, and indicates that permission given may be revoked at any time. Dmeranda 05:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is a not commercial site nor is using the image for commercial purposes. The copyright notice provided by the Large Millimeter Telescope Observatory clearly states that:
- Permission to duplicate and redistrubite images of photographs for research or educational purposes is granted.
- - AlexCovarrubias 05:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Commons has a self-imposed condition where all images need to be free for any use, including commercia. The copyright notice for this image clearly does not allow this. English Wikipedia has a similar restriction, although they do allow "fair use" exceptions which commons does not. Carl Lindberg 16:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Does not allow comercial usage. --Cat out 20:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Not used. Article about the german band didn't fulfil the german WP-Standards. --HohesC 07:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Not used. Article about the german band didn't fulfil the german WP-Standards. --HohesC 07:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Both deleted. Being album cover and a promotional photo the images appeared to be copyvios. Additionaly nothing suggests a free licence. --Cat out 20:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Uploaded by Gooday.1 (talk). Superseded by Image:NC 12.svg. TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 22:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Also, this shield is unused, so it can be deleted safely. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 19:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted --Cat out 20:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
German airplane around 1940(?). Photographer unknown. No reason for PD. -- Fred Chess 08:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Tagged with GFDL-self, but uploader is not the author John J. McGough -- Fred Chess 09:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Obious copyvio. What is this doing in backlog. --Cat out 07:43, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio from this website. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 14:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- KeepThe image page says that it was copied from the English Wikipedia, and that the original author was en:User:Miskin. Rather than us copying it from the Iliad website, it seems they copied it from us. Andrew Levine 17:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 21:50, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
User:EPO considers this to be a clear-cut copyvio as it is "a photo of a copyrighted object with all the background cut away" (from Image talk:Psp1.jpg). The image itself is from the German Wikipedia, and presumably created in Germany by a German author. I'm not sure to what extent German copyright law permits the copyrighting of objects, but I don't believe this image to be a copyvio, and therefore it should not be deleted. --Carnildo 03:33, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- As I see it the original image is fine. But my concern is about your version of the image, where you have removed all background so that the PSP stands completely alone. The original version has the PSP with a background. --|EPO| 11:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Clearly we have a problem here; if a derivative work of an image creates a non-free image, then the original cannot be free to start with. In this case I'm not sure either way. Alphax (talk) 02:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Basically the original object itself is not free. I believe Sony would like to protect their investment. But Donald Duck is not free either. The problem is described in more detail on Commons:Derivative works.
- And nobody said copyright laws should be easy :) --|EPO| 20:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Its a manufactured objet, thus the photo is free. Else please, request a deletion for Category:Computer and video game hardware, it will be faster. ~ bayo or talk 14:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- With or without the background, its the same, any way, the suject is the PSP. ~ bayo or talk 14:56, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
kept --ALE! ¿…? 22:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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First of all the template doesn't say in what way images are public domain in Germany. Secondly it is being misued by tagging a variety of image older than 50 years.
Thirdly, if the purpose of the template is to say that the image is public domain because of lacking Schöpfungshöhe, then -- according to German copyright law -- the template can only be applied to such a narrow selection of images that it is virtually useless. See Template talk:PD-Germany. / Fred Chess 09:08, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. For German works, 70 years p.m.a. applies, so there's no need for a separate tag. Virtually no images would fall under the shorter 50y term for "simple photographs", and the "lack of originality" argument is very, very problematic. Official work (§5) is applicable only to very narrowly defined classes of works for which we have better templates. (E.g. the one for German flags.) This template is misleading. Lupo 12:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- this template also applies to "§ 5 Amtliche Werke" (Official Works) and "§ 64 Allgemeines" (which is basically just pd-old). So it's (most of the times?) used in a perfectly good way. But I do agree that it should be clarified and pictures that use it should be cleaned up. -- Gorgo 23:39, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- For §5 there are more specific templates: {{PD-GermanGov}}, {{PD-Coa-Germany}}, {{PD-VzKat}} and {{PD-German stamps}}. Pictures that does no go into these categories or PD-old should be deleted. --Matt314 19:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, I marked it as deprecated (like {{PD}}) -- Gorgo 01:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- That's a good way of deprecating it, but it has only been listed four days, so I reverted it for now. I think we should at least wait seven days, as Commons:Deletion requests recommends... / Fred Chess 05:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
delete agree to Lupo & Matt314. §§ 66, 72 are virtually useless, the others are covered by other templates.--Wiggum 10:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- delete - but give us a few more days (including next weekend) please to check the images. I just asked for volunteers for that at the de-wp. --h-stt !? 12:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have deprecated it, in the way Gorgo formulated. If there is no objections, this deletion request can be closed. / Fred Chess 18:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete --Eddie619 13:30, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
template was depreciated and kept --ALE! ¿…? 22:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
update: I finally deleted the template, it wasn’t used anymore. Over the last months, only a handful of now deleted images with false copyright claims (the old § 64 and § 72 UrhG confusion) used it. --Polarlys 21:39, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
New mostly unused template with broad scope, overlapping {{Anonymous-EU}} and {{PD-GermanGov}}. I personally do not want it deleted, but would like a review by users more familiar with German Law. Jarekt (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Contra broad templates - so Delete for this. Broad templates have two downsides: first, uploaders just put them on the files since they think something of the many bullet points will fit their file and, sencond, file "reviewers" need much time to check all bullet points if they could fit until they know that the template doesn't fit. Furthermore, the template is redundant to several existing narrow(!) templates. But this listing of PD reasons in COM:L (if not there already) and trash this template. Btw: it was created 18 September 2011 by Antemister. --Saibo (Δ) 22:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC) Oh, btw: it was introducing "It is a photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication" for which we afaik have no license template and which we do also not accept at dewp as PD reason. --Saibo (Δ) 23:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC) ... Template talk:PD-Germany already includes a discussion about this single reason. --Saibo (Δ) 23:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
- Deprecate - use a similar solution as Template:PD-Russia or Template:PD-URAA. The reason is that it's much easier to find this template if looking for PD rules in Germany; and from this template, we can link to others. Magog the Ogre (talk) 05:22, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- We do not need to tag something as deprecated if it is not in use - can be deleted directly. PD rules are/should be in COM:L#Germany and tags in COM:CT#Germany - not in license templates which are not to be used (which is the reason for existence of license templates). --Saibo (Δ) 16:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- OK, then maybe we can tag it as a double soft-redirect, with a big red notice if it's transcluded on a file page that says do not transclude this template directly. Something like
{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|{{ns:6}}|<big><red>'''Do not use this template directly'''}}</red></big>. Magog the Ogre (talk) 19:43, 24 January 2012 (UTC)- I do not understand why you want to have it at all then? ;-) It is double work to maintain this list and the list at COM:L/COM:CT. What about deleting the text and put in a big link to COM:CT#Germany if you think that there are many people who want to type this template name ("PD-Germany"). :-) --Saibo (Δ) 20:54, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, that is OK with me. Magog the Ogre (talk) 21:36, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- I do not understand why you want to have it at all then? ;-) It is double work to maintain this list and the list at COM:L/COM:CT. What about deleting the text and put in a big link to COM:CT#Germany if you think that there are many people who want to type this template name ("PD-Germany"). :-) --Saibo (Δ) 20:54, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
- OK, then maybe we can tag it as a double soft-redirect, with a big red notice if it's transcluded on a file page that says do not transclude this template directly. Something like
- We do not need to tag something as deprecated if it is not in use - can be deleted directly. PD rules are/should be in COM:L#Germany and tags in COM:CT#Germany - not in license templates which are not to be used (which is the reason for existence of license templates). --Saibo (Δ) 16:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, I created dozens of such templates, mostly for rather minor countries. Why should we delete this one? Only because Germany is a large country and member of the EU, with its similar laws?--Antemister (talk) 20:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- Keep as long as there is no template for Lichtbild. Creating such a template might be preferable, though, for reasons given by Jarekt and Saibo at the top of this discussion. --Jonund (talk) 16:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
- Based on this 2004 case it is hard to see what content such a template would have (when a Lichtbild photo would be PD as a Lichtbild but not as pma-70). In essence, EU rules seem to mean that 70-pma now applies to such photographs. NB I realise the 2004 case is actually about a Lichtbildwerk, but the way the expired copyright is resurrected by EU rules will apply to Lichtbilder in exactly the same way. Rd232 (talk) 15:38, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
 | Proposed close: Deleted Technically a "keep", but really a "delete": template should be converted to an invalid license tag which nominates files for speedy deletion. No files currently use it, and all rationales that the template used to cover are covered by more specific templates. The only exception is Lichtbilder, for which a separate template should be created if necessary (though as noted above, it's not clear what the content of such a template would be). Rd232 (talk) 15:38, 15 September 2012 (UTC) ~~~~  Done Closed per proposal. |
Endorse Proposed closure -FASTILY (TALK) 23:44, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
- We have numerous country-specific templates, as each country has different rules, and of course, one can replace any of them by using a PD-old-70/80/50 etc. template. But if we have such template, an uploader can look at it and decide if his file published in Germany is in the PD. In fact, it does overlap with other templates, but what does this matter? No one is forced to use it...--Antemister (talk) 21:34, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- You're suggesting it's kept for informational purposes? I very partially agree - the template should be adapted to transclude {{Speedy}}, not just redirect (as quite a few old deprecated templates do). This allows the template to point people to where they can find the relevant info (Commons:Copyright rules by territory and Commons:Copyright tags). But duplicating the info on the template - no, that's not a good idea, it's needless extra maintenance. And leaving the whole thing as something usable by uploaders is bad, because it makes it hard, very often, for others to understand what the PD claim is based on. Rd232 (talk) 23:13, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
- We have numerous country-specific templates, as each country has different rules, and of course, one can replace any of them by using a PD-old-70/80/50 etc. template. But if we have such template, an uploader can look at it and decide if his file published in Germany is in the PD. In fact, it does overlap with other templates, but what does this matter? No one is forced to use it...--Antemister (talk) 21:34, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
Deprecated: converted to an invalid license tag. Rd232 (talk) 23:55, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
German image from 1935, why public domain? -- Fred Chess 08:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete very unlikely to be in the PD --ALE! ¿…? 16:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted.--Jusjih 14:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
In Belgium is no Freedom of panoramic view (Panoramafreiheit) (de:Panoramafreiheit#Belgien) / Commons:Licensing#Derivative Works --Tout (Diskussion) 13:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom --ALE! ¿…? 16:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted / Fred Chess 13:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
This picture was placed on NL-Wikipedia claiming PD because 'author' was dead for at least 70 years. Later the person who placed it in Wikipedia confirmed picture was taken during Conference in april 1955 so that is less than 70 years ago Robotje 14:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm.. I don't know about that. However, according to the Indonesia copyright law, the age of a picture to be in public domain is 50 years after the first publication. I've made a template for that Template:PD-IDOld-Art30. The venue of this event is in Indonesia, but I don't who is the author of this picture. Indon 12:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Kept. I'm assuming the template is valid. / Fred Chess 13:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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rotated dupe of Image:Banksy_lovers my account was too new to overwrite this with the correct file Richard Cocks 22:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Speedy deleted - Use {{Badname}} for these. Yeah, it might take a few days, but these don't need to come here.--Nilfanion 22:20, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan.svg -- Clevelander 10:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Rtz 13:11, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
No such flag exists -- Clevelander 10:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Haven't seen it myself either, Delete. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 02:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- plus it isn't svg. Delete Bryan 21:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Can't see another copy on google with the exeption of a wikipedia mirror. So image has no purpose. --Cat out 20:11, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Can we please delete this image (as per wikipedia:Talk:Uluru#Photo_of_.22banned.22_zone), as it is
- Of a culturally sensitive site in Uluru.
- Park photography rules (http://www.deh.gov.au/parks/uluru/vis-info/pubs/guidelines.pdf) seem to say that you can't license your images of Uluru under the GDFL.
Thanks. - Malkinann 11:46, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- WikiCommons have lots of photos from concerts where it is assumed that photographing is not allowed. It has been WikiCommons practice to only take into account copyright law and disregard other restrictions; eg. local bylaws, ordinances. Does Australia have anything similar to "panorama freedom"? What about satellite photos of the area? Thuresson 12:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
There are many other photographs of Uluru. This one is not being used in the Wikipedia article, and has been removed from that article following the discussion that I've linked above. The copyright of the image may belong to the person who took it, but Uluru belongs to the Aboriginal people of the area, and they have specifically stated in signage around the sacred site, and on the park literature, that photographs were not allowed. I can only assume that the photographer took the photograph by accident, not knowing that they were being offensive. By entering the park, the photographer would have to agree to the rules of the park. The photography rules say that you need a permit to use any images commercially. This is clearly incompatible with the GDFL. I'm not sure what "panorama freedom" is, but during aerial photographing, it is not permitted to take photographs of the sacred sites. - Malkinann 00:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Kept. No offense but I do not see any reason for deletion. We have tens of images of Mohamed. --Cat out 21:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
False licence (image made by ca:Usuari:Llull and not by User:Aegidus). The original image with the correct licence it's been already uploaded: Image:Localització d'Arbolí.png Xtv 20:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 10:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Poorer quality duplicate of Image:Coa_buzau_ro.jpg. Andrei Stroe 19:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Quality is a relative term. I think both are quite bad. --ALE! ¿…? 10:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Zirland --ALE! ¿…? 14:41, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Unlikely qualifies as GFDL: This map looks like it was scanned, modified from, or some sort of other derivative work from an unknown source.Zzyzx11 18:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 15:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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Formally nominating. The template could have been deleted months ago, because we have been requested not to rely on the claim that if a country does not have a signed copyright treaty with the U.S. it is in the public domain. See for example:
- http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-August/027373.html
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump_archive-34#.7B.7BPD-Iraq.7D.7D_again
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#Countries_without_copyright_treaties_with_the_U.S.
Fred Chess 17:48, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - we respect the copyright laws of nations which have no treaty with the US (Iran and N Korea). Why should we not respect Iraq's laws? —the preceding unsigned comment is by Nilfanion (talk • contribs) 2006-11-19T15:11:04
- Delete --Benn Newman 15:08, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Not an acceptable license. Also deleted Category:PD Iraq --Cat out 13:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
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and all images therein. All images are tagged PD-Soviet; PD-Russia not applicable as Korin died only in 1967. Copyrighted artwork. Delete Lupo 11:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- No artwork in the category. One photo still remains, Image:Pavel Korin photo.jpg. Thuresson 12:37, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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Photos by Errabee
[edit]- Image:Millenium Monument (Novgorod).jpg
- Image:Novgorod Kremlin.jpg
- Image:Zarya training module.jpg
- Image:Napoli and Vesuvius.jpg
- Image:River Moskva.jpg
- Image:Soyuz TMA module.jpg
- Image:Koetoezov kazan.jpg
- Image:Barclay de tolly.jpg
- Image:Victory Park (Moscow).jpg
- Image:Space museum (Kaluga).jpg
- Image:Chroesjtsjov grave.jpg
- Image:Bagration.jpg
- Image:Kutuzov moscow.jpg
- Image:Gagarin (Star City).jpg
- Delete derivative work (created after 1961) and as such copyrighted under Russian law. Errabee 04:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Superman.jpg
- Delete derivative work (created after 1961) and as such copyrighted under Russian law. Errabee 04:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:GCTC.jpg
- Image:Mir training module.jpg
- Image:Turandot Verona.jpg
- Image:Tower of Belem.jpg
- Image:Mantova old church.jpg
- Image:San Marco (exterior).jpg
- Image:San Marco horses.jpg
- Image:Ghibellijnen.jpg
- Image:Adige Verona.jpg
- Image:USS Bataan Lisbon.jpg
- Image:Kem Harbor.jpg
- Image:River Kumsa.jpg
- Image:Monchegorsk factories.jpg
- Image:Antonov 24 Arkhangelsk Airlines.jpg
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All images no longer eligible for GFDL/CC-by-SA Errabee 19:57, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep You cannot withdraw GFDL once you've provided it. Although you claim on my talk page suddenly that these images weren't yours to begin with, this seems to have only occured only hours after [25], [26] and [27]. It appears to be sour grapes. I'm sorry your experience regarding the previous matter was troubling, however, you cannot suddenly claim that these images don't belong to you. You released them. If someone has an issue, they have to take it up with you, not Commons. These images will not be deleted unless you have a more compelling and specific reason for each and every one of them. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 23:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
- These photos were taken by a relative of mine. As such, the licenses used are incorrect because I (the uploader) am not the creator. With all the current copyvio paranoia, I'd have thought this would be reason enough to delete these photos. Errabee 11:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry. You can't come back a year later and tell us the licenses are incorrect. It's obvious that you are lying, whether at the time of your upload or now. In any case, it's not our fault you are completely ignorant of copyright laws.
- You've released these images, and we have no convincing evidence that you did not have the right to do. Furthermore, you did this over a year ago.
- If your cousin would like to engage legal counsel against you, then have his attorneys email us copies of correspondence between them and you. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 13:37, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- These photos were taken by a relative of mine. As such, the licenses used are incorrect because I (the uploader) am not the creator. With all the current copyvio paranoia, I'd have thought this would be reason enough to delete these photos. Errabee 11:30, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Either the copyright of the pictures is owned by the uploader, or by someone else. If the former is true, the license cannot be withdrawn (the bird was released). In the latter case, the requestor will have to provide a proof of authorship for that unnamed third-party, and to accompany the request with a power of attorney from that person to pursue the case. Therefore current decision in either case is Keep! -- Zlatko + (talk) 15:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Added additional reason for the deletion of two pictures. Errabee 04:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that reason is void, since the pieces of art pictured are on display in a public place. Nevertheless, if you really want these pictures removed as copyvios, you have to get your cousin here in person so s/he can claim ownership of the images and request their removal. --Himasaram 11:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I consulted Lupo before I added the additional reason. Freedom of panorama works differently in Eastern European countries. Errabee 23:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- And I gave you my personal opinion. I also have asked for more comments on that dreaded "freedom of panorama" at Commons talk:Licensing#Freedom of panorama and international issues. The two he added the additional reason to are post-1961 sculptures. Russia does restrict "freedom of panorama" to non-commercial uses, and the U.S. doesn't have freedom of panorama for sculptures at all. I think we really should lay down firm rules that we want to apply for freedom-of-panorama images. It appears that the current practice is to choose to follow either the U.S. laws or the laws of the source country, whichever suits us best. We're on shaky ground here... "pick and choose" isn't really the way copyright works :-( Lupo 07:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- It is incorrect that Commons picks and chooses what laws to apply: If a sculpture is copyright protected in its country of origin, it will not be hosted on Commons. Just think about Vigeland Sculpture Park. And the other way around too: there has not yet been a deletion of a sculpture that is considered public domain in the country it is located in. / Fred Chess 12:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- And I gave you my personal opinion. I also have asked for more comments on that dreaded "freedom of panorama" at Commons talk:Licensing#Freedom of panorama and international issues. The two he added the additional reason to are post-1961 sculptures. Russia does restrict "freedom of panorama" to non-commercial uses, and the U.S. doesn't have freedom of panorama for sculptures at all. I think we really should lay down firm rules that we want to apply for freedom-of-panorama images. It appears that the current practice is to choose to follow either the U.S. laws or the laws of the source country, whichever suits us best. We're on shaky ground here... "pick and choose" isn't really the way copyright works :-( Lupo 07:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- I consulted Lupo before I added the additional reason. Freedom of panorama works differently in Eastern European countries. Errabee 23:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure that reason is void, since the pieces of art pictured are on display in a public place. Nevertheless, if you really want these pictures removed as copyvios, you have to get your cousin here in person so s/he can claim ownership of the images and request their removal. --Himasaram 11:51, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Deleting All photos by Errabee is not a valid reason. You can either license it or not. If -as you say- your cousin doesn't mind of having their images licensed under GFDL by you, well... they are GFDL. You have also tagged for deletion images of landscapes, so i doubt his cousin to be a tree. Trying to get us deleting the free image by revoking their license is dangerous as it would be a bad precedent. Keep all. Keep free content free. Platonides 21:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Agree wholeheartedly :-)
- Fred Chess 22:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Errabee, I am really sorry you are upset. We live in a world of complicated copyright laws and greedy lawyers, so now and again we are forced to delete an image. It hurts the project, but we have to keep the project clean. Recently hundreds of images were deleted because of retiring the Soviet-PD license. Among them at least 30 were uploaded by me. Every one of them was used in many articles in many articles on many projects and I am upset as well. Still it is not the reason to additionally hurt the project by removing images we can keep. You worked hard for the noble task of building the free reference of width never seen before that everybody can use. Of course if you screw up hard and uploaded images you have reason to withdraw we would try to help you and remove it. But, I am sorry, it does not appear to be the case, if the images are indeed are made by your relatives please explain to them the importance of the project and ask for permissions. Do not hurt the project it is noble and important Alex Bakharev 08:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- All images kept. If there are issues with photos of statues of Russia, please nominate for deletion seperately. Thuresson 13:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
and all images therein. All images are PD-Soviet; PD_Russia is not applicable because Larionov died only in 1964 and furthermore has worked in Paris and Berlin (he died in France), so some of his works might not even be considered to have the USSR as their country of origin. Copyrighted artwork. Delete Lupo 11:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
imge deleted, category kept for information --ALE! ¿…? 21:54, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
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Self-portrait by Pablo Picasso (died 1973). Uploaded from the English Wikipedia, where it is tagged as PD-art-US, which claims that the work was PD in the U.S. (but not elsewhere) due to having been published pre-1923. The commons quite rightfully does not have this tag. That claim on the en-Wikipedia may be fine for the en-Wikipedia (although I miss a proof that the painting was indeed published before 1923; creation of a painting or even exhibition of a painting are not "publication; see en:WP:PD#Publication!), but it is inapplicable here. The work is still copyrighted just about anywhere else. Delete Lupo 07:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete As per nom: Unproven PD status in the US; likely not PD in the country of origin. —JeremyA 15:27, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Speedy deleted./ Fred Chess 11:39, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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Pablo Picasso paintings
[edit]Pablo Picasso died 1973. His works are still copyrighted just about anywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the U.S., where some of his works published before 1923 might be PD, and Russia, where his works might be PD as pre-1973 foreign works, but even that status is disputed amongst Russian scholars (see e.g. my discussion with Yakudza on that point). (I mention Russia only because some of these images come from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.) In any case, since neither Russia nor the U.S. are the country of origin of Picasso's works, their regulations are pretty irrelevant. The following images should all be deleted because they are copyrighted artworks:
- Image:Absinthedrinker.jpg
- Image:Pablo Picasso - The Blind Man's Meal.JPG
- Image:Pablo Picasso- Death of Casagemas.JPG
- Image:Pablo Picasso- Old Beggar with a Boy.JPG
- Image:Pablo Picasso- The Family of Saltimbanques.JPG
- Image:Pablo Picasso. Leaning Harlequin.JPG
- Delete all of these. Lupo 08:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. As per nom. Pre-1923 publication in the US is unproven; it is unlikely that these are PD in the country of origin. —JeremyA 15:39, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Speedy deleted. / Fred Chess 11:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
superseded by Image:Albanian Air Force roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 01:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
superseded by Image:Arab Emirates AF roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 00:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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superseded by Image:Brazilian Air Force roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 00:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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superseded by Image:Ecuadorian Air Force roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 00:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
superseded by Image:Eritrean Air Force roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 00:49, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 07:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
superseded by Image:Jamaican Defence Force roundel.svg --slady (o.o) 00:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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source unknown —the preceding unsigned comment is by User:217.195.252.102 (talk • contribs)
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Reasons for deletion request: Picture shows a up-to-date map with copyright. Mazbln 19:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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and all the images therein. Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois died 1960. Most images are currently tagged PD-Soviet, one has no license tag at all, and two are tagged PD-art. The last three got a delete-tag from me. {{PD-Russia}} is not applicable. I'm unsure about Image:1904 Russian ABC book page.GIF (a book cover; if it can be shown that the publisher held the copyright for that one, it might be fine). All his paintings, however, are still copyrighted. Delete Lupo 08:36, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Klemen Kocjancic --ALE! ¿…? 14:24, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Files from www.claudetravels.altervista.org
[edit]http://www.claudetravels.altervista.org/ says Theese pictures can be freely used (for example some of them have been uploaded on Wikipedia) linking the source, but on the side is also a some rights reserved button linking to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/. I can't verify what is the correct copyright status.
Following images have this source:
Image:LeMont-Saint-Michel.JPG
Image:OmahaBeach-Fortification.jpg
Image:UsseCastle-Chapel.JPG
Image:UsseCastle.JPG
Image:Chateau Chambord.JPG
Image:Langeais-Chateau.JPG
Image:Langeais-FoulquesNerraFortress.JPG
Image:Chapel-Saint-Hubert.JPG
Image:LeonardoDaVinci-Tomb.JPG
Image:Omaha Beach Bunker.JPG
Image:Sainte-Mère-Eglise StainedGlass.JPG
Image:WW2AmericanCemetery.JPG
Image:PointeduHoc.JPG
Image:Chateau-Chambord.JPG
Image:Villandry-Chateau.JPG
Image:Loches-Chateau.JPG
Image:Loches-Donjon.JPG
Image:GoldenRoof.JPG
Image:Aigues-Mortes-Salins.JPG
Image:Aigues-Mortes TourConstance.JPG
Image:Aigues-Mortes Ramparts.JPG
Image:Lyon PlaceBellecour.JPG
Image:Vienne-RomanTemple.JPG
Image:Vienne-RomanTemple2.JPG
GeorgHH 22:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, if that is the correct CC license it is linking to, "by-nc-nd". That, like all other noncommerical or nondervative licences, are not permitted here. Zzyzx11 23:29, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Claudev8 01:13, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Keep - The error was in the index page linking an incorrect license! That was the older one, forgot to remove when decided to share pictures using Commons. Now the page has been updated. Licensing problem should be solved now. Thanks —the preceding unsigned comment is by Claudev8 (talk • contribs)
all kept (seems to be solved) --ALE! ¿…? 16:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
superseded by Image:Oborniki Slaskie flag.svg --slady 00:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I see. It's ok, but I'm not sure if license is properly added. Cause it should have been made under: PD-Polishsymbol not PD-self or CC-by. MonteChristof 11:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
It could have been made under PD-self, only when it was connected witd PD-Polishsymbol. MonteChristof 12:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
OK. Theres better ver.: Image:POL Oborniki Śląskie flag.svg, which should by used as totally free picture, without any permitions. MonteChristof 12:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 21:57, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
The first image is an excerpt of the only known photo of Charley Patton, made 1929 by an anonymous photographer and published completely in 2001 the first time (has been deleted before here at least once). Today the copyright is owned by John Tefteller of http://www.bluesimages.com. It is an obvious copyvio, so get rid of it soon. The picture has been uploaded with the, ehm, insufficient explanation This is the only photo of Charley Patton. Nobody is known to claim copyrights to this photo. Copyrights are not given anywhere (eg. in cd cover booklets) where the photo is used..
As the Patton-picture, both other pictures have been done by anonymous photographers and have been done between approx. 1925 and 1930. The submitter in all cases is User:Rick Dangerous, the declarations are similar insufficient as before: Copyrights of this old photo are not controlled by anyone. Copyrights are not mentioned in any CD that use this photo as a cover etc. I've also asked blindwillie.com and they did not claim copyrights nor knew that somebody does. and This is the only photo of Blind Lemon. According to some sources there is another photo but that i've never seen. Nobody claims copyrights to this photo. Copyrights are not given anywhere (eg. in cd cover booklets) where photo is used.. Please stop that man. Denisoliver 15:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- The photo should be deleted. The copyright owner has explicitely stated (in private e-mail) that the usage in wikipedia is not allowed. --Rick Dangerous 09:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted /Fred Chess 17:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
October 25
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Derivative work of a stained glass window by Marc Chagall (died 1985). Delete Lupo 08:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, obviously derivative. Andrew Levine 03:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Fine, delete. I am the uploader. I hoped that at such low quality it would be OK. Thanks and sorry for making you folks extra work. Humus sapiens 06:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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Antonio Rossellini
[edit]Please delete. I've made a mistake. His name is Rossellino. Thanks Mutter Erde 15:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- moved to Antonio Rossellino. --Matt314 16:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you. Greetings Mutter Erde 20:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio: this image is a detail of Image:Achilles and Ajax (amphora).jpg, which has been deleted. Same reason here: PD-art can't apply because it is a photography of a 3D object. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 20:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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This is a photograph of a 1969 painting by John Scott, used apparently without his permission. Delete COGDEN 08:12, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- There are no sources to show that it was done without permission.The licence of this picture suggests that it was done with permission. So I think we should not delete this picture.84.146.203.57 17:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- The fact that the photo was taken with permission does not imply a license for further distribution. However, I think the picture is useful, and suitable for use under fair use for selected articles, so it should not be deleted, but the licence information should be changed to fair use (unless, of course, we can get a better license or find evidence for a more liberal status).--Stephan Schulz 18:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Commons do not allow fair use images. Delete and if articles would benefit from this image, then this should be re-uploaded on individual projects which accept fair use images, not here. --Asahiko 04:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Commons do not allow fair use images.
- The fact that the photo was taken with permission does not imply a license for further distribution. However, I think the picture is useful, and suitable for use under fair use for selected articles, so it should not be deleted, but the licence information should be changed to fair use (unless, of course, we can get a better license or find evidence for a more liberal status).--Stephan Schulz 18:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
This picture is used in the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So I think we should not delete this picture.84.146.231.51 13:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- A copyright problem precedes the image's usefulness. If a picture has a problem, it has to go, no matter how much it's used. If you really want the image to stay so that it can be used in articles, you can upload it in individual projects which accept fair use images but not here. --Asahiko 00:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC) --Edit. Asahiko 00:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Fair-use isnt allowed. Deleted. I also deleted Image:Christ visits the Americas panoramic detail.jpg and Image:Christ visits the Americas full painting.jpg as they are practicaly the same image. --Cat out 21:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- wrong license, only fair use possible (movie sceenshot) in USA - not for other countries --Herrick 19:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Turks fruit is a Dutch movie, and it definely isn't PD here. Bryan 21:03, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:MesserWoland --ALE! ¿…? 13:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Licence not PD-old, since artist unknown (no proof of 'dead since 70 years') and image not older than 100 year.---jha- 11:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Likely copyrighted. Also weird. I can't see how this could be useful. grendel|khan 03:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Speedy delete. This is eligible for speedy with {{nsd}} (no source info) and possibly as an attack image. See also en:Finis Jennings Dake --InfantGorilla 10:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted.--Jusjih 15:21, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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All files by User Terraprints
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http://www.terraprints.com/ says Copyright © 2006 TerraPrints.com. All Rights Reserved.. No indication found to licensing under CC-BY-2.5. GeorgHH 23:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Given that the uploading user is named "Terraprints", I think it may be that the copyright owners are uploading the images themselves under the CC-BY-2.5 license. If the uploader does not respond to the talk page request, it will be worth the effort to contact the website owners and ask if this is indeed their own doing, or if someone else is impersonating them. Andrew Levine 01:55, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- On looking through the uploads, this user is definitely claiming to be the people behind TerraPrints.com. See Image:Guam-satellite-photo-map.jpg: "Own work, share alike, attribution required." So Keep unless it can be proven that this is an impostor. Andrew Levine 02:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- If this user is owner of the site, he/she must change license there. So Delete if license will be not changed in week. Personally I don't see a value for framed low resolution space images. Their free high resolution sources is much better. --EugeneZelenko 14:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- If this user is owner of the site, he/she must change license there. So
- Why? Perhaps the uploader only wants to license certain images under CC-BY-SA-2.5, and not everything on their website. I think the website license thing is for when third parties take photos from websites, since otherwise it is not clear if the copyright owner really gave the correct permissions. But if the owner is uploading images under CC-BY-SA-2.5 themselves, I think we can assume permission. Carl Lindberg 07:03, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Do you have any proof that copyrights owner uploaded these images (except user name)? --EugeneZelenko 14:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Nope, but we have no proof of that for any image other than the uploader's word for it. In looking more closely though, this user uploaded 200+ images in 27 minutes using Commonist, and has no other contributions. That does feel a bit more suspicious. If the uploader does not respond, I would lean towards deletion. Maybe we could send an email to the website to see if they were aware of it. Carl Lindberg 16:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Correct procedure is through permissions@wikimedia.org . I'll look the otherway untill this is cleared. As it stands images are to be deleted. --Cat out 17:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Nope, but we have no proof of that for any image other than the uploader's word for it. In looking more closely though, this user uploaded 200+ images in 27 minutes using Commonist, and has no other contributions. That does feel a bit more suspicious. If the uploader does not respond, I would lean towards deletion. Maybe we could send an email to the website to see if they were aware of it. Carl Lindberg 16:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Please give just a few days for the originator to verify permission with Commons:Email templates. Other admins (not me, I'm not an admin) may feel it is urgent to protect the interests of TerraPrints.com and may not look the other way. "we have no proof of that for any image other than the uploader's word for it" is not sufficient when you know for certain it was previously published under more restrictive terms. --InfantGorilla 11:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Delete — Unless uploader explicitly states that he/she either is the copyright holder or permission is sent to permissions. Even then, I also agree with EugeneZelenko that these low resolution framed images are of little value to the Commons. —JeremyA 18:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Roland Clark here from TerraPrints.com aka commons username "terraprints" The copyright on my website is for the website itself, not the images therein. This artwork uses public domain imagery from NASA and/or USGS and processes the raw data thus giving value added. That value added product is what I labeled with the commons copyright. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm at roland@terraprints.com Cheers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Terraprints (talk • contribs) at 08:29, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Leaving a note at User talk:Terraprints --InfantGorilla 11:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Email received from Terraprints.org authorizing the use of all these images under CC-by-2.5. These images are free for us to use. Would love for someone to help me place the necessary templates on the files. Cary "Bastiq▼e" Bass demandez 18:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
- Result was keep in the light of OTRS ticket 2006110810005047 --Cat out 20:19, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request Takwish 21:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Deletion requested by original submitter. Name of image (scientific name of species) is misspelled. -- Takwish 21:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please orphan the image. Details see here. --Panther 14:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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From FOTW (noncommercial) and superseded. Image has been orphaned in all projects except for a few user pages.Himasaram 05:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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Unknown person, high school kid83.248.34.86 19:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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Pure nonsense. A language "canuleze" does not exist outside Wikipedia. cf w:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Canuleze language--Johannes Rohr 17:45, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. --Cat out 21:42, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Comes from [28], i guess it's not under free licence. Thanx. Ton1 21:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- And for the same reason Image:Porsche Carrera GT intérieur.jpg. Ton1 21:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Aston Martin V8 Vantage - 8.jpg : same author, considering the size (96kb) and the fact that the user is a newbie on commons and on fr:wp, i'm pretty sure he has not taken this picture himself. Ton1 21:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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Image:Bronzi Di Riace Statua A+B.jpg, Image:Bronzi Di Riace Statua A Detail.jpg, Image:Bronzi Di Riace Statua A.jpg, Image:Bronzi Di Riace Statua B Detail.jpg and Image:Bronzi Di Riace Statua B.jpg
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Copyvios: scans of photographies of 3D objects whose rights are owned by the museum. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 11:38, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep As I told you earlier I scanned these pictures off a leaflet from the Museo Nazionale in Reggio Calabria. On this publication there is NO Copyright remark (I verified it right now). In addition I just consulted the Commons:Licensing#Checklist which says, Definitely OK: "...Own scans of: * Material where copyright has expired in your jurisdiction and the United States." -- AM 16:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Lack of a copyright notice does not mean that there is no copyright in effect. Andrew Levine 17:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutly. The rights on the photography are NOT expired because the photo was necessarely taken after 1972 (the date the bronzes were discovered). We really don't care the age of the bronzes themselves: doesn't matter. So without the explicit agreement of the photograph or copyright holder of the photo, it should be considered as copyvio. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 20:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete agree, copyright of these photos didn't expire yet -- Gorgo 20:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- absolutely Keep, i think that these images are PD-ineligible images, they consists entirely a patrimony of the humanity, that is common property i suggest to change template to {{PD-ineligible}}. Salli
- Do you mean that a photo of the pyramids of Giza (which are really patrimony of the humanity according to UNO) is necessarely in public domain? That's a piece of information...
- The work is a thing, the photo another. We vote on photos—no matter of how important the work is. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 17:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Sad loss for Commons but the photographer's rights must be respected. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 17:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 16:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Image license as stated by its author "著作権フリー" (chosakuken-frī literally copyright-free) is not a well-defined term and may not include commercial or derivative uses. Judging from the statement in the source page, the author may only intend the image to be used on personal blogs and the like. Translation of the statement is as follows. "They're copyright-free so whenever you write a diary like the ones below, go ahead, save the image, and use them on your page!" Moreover, User:Bellcricket has expressed concerns on the image talk page, regarding rights held by @nifty, the company hosting the site; as the copyright policy of @nifty
does not allow duplication or redistribution of its contents—although this contradicts with the author's statement. Deletion request by the uploader. --Asahiko 04:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hosting site is irrelevant. Copyrights are held by the actual creator. Was the actual creator contacted? --Cat out 11:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, since it can't be determined if commercial use and derivative works are permitted. / Fred Chess 17:20, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
This photo is from the governor's website, whose policy page states: "All photographs are copyrighted and may not be used without permission... Commercial use of any reproduction of any portion of this website is strictly prohibited." Andrew Levine 17:08, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- PDGov may apply regardless of notice... --Cat out 11:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- How? PDGov applies exclusively to images made by the U.S. federal government. The State of Texas website explicitly forbids commercial use. Andrew Levine 23:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Well one simple possibility is that images created by Texans may have been originally created by federal employees. USGOV may/may not apply to texas gov employees. All I am saying is, I need more of a research on the matter since the source itself appears to be a good image source provided no copyvios. --Cat out 23:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- I don't follow you. The source website says "Commercial use of any reproduction of any portion of this website is strictly prohibited." There is no reason at all to believe this photo is any different. USGOV explicitly does not apply to Texas government employees since they are not employed by the federal government. Andrew Levine 05:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted, going by Andrew Levine. / Fred Chess 17:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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Unidentified individuals. ~MDD4696 04:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Restricted license: For use only when "referencing Union College"; logo can not be places over text; not stretching or screeing allowed etc. See http://www.ucollege.edu/ucscripts/public/template/default.asp?DivID=5&pgID=85Cnyborg 16:53, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. Too restrictive to be considered as free content. Zzyzx11 18:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted clearly does not allow alterations (derivative works) to the image. --Cat out 17:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
No reason to believe that this is a work of the U.S. federal government. No source, looks like a press photo. Andrew Levine 18:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Looks like it was a Chicago Daily News photo from 1929. The copyright is claimed by the Chicago Historical Society, and the image probably came from them. The incorrect USGov label probably came because the image is also at the Library of Congress here, but it is marked as copyrighted there too (not all LoC images are public domain). Delete. Carl Lindberg 06:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- deleted not us gov work. Nothing suggests pd. Image was poorly named anyways. --Cat out 18:09, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request: obsoleted by new version Image:Surgeon-Womb-30Sep06-crop.jpg Am3n3 14:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 12:58, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Originally tagged no-source, uploader then noted "Copyright holder has granted use of "any" purpose including commerical. Must be justified in "Permission"!" but failed to justify. There is also no indication that copyright is even held by ESO, and I very strongly doubt even if ESO did, they would allow commercial use of it. Suspect copyright violation. Delete. NSLE-Chacor 10:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- I strongly doubt that this picture can be used for any purpose. Website explicitly[29] mentions that permission must be asked:
Permission to use ESO images in electronic or paper publications: Please contact our Press Department information@eso.org.
- I think the english wikipedia could use this image for w:en:exoplanet. -- Alastor Moody 01:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- No it couldn't. There are several truly free images there. This one would not be allowed under Fair Use (criterion one). Delete this image.--Nilfanion 16:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- All rite, fine; do watever yu want. -- Alastor Moody 01:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- No it couldn't. There are several truly free images there. This one would not be allowed under Fair Use (criterion one).
- I think the english wikipedia could use this image for w:en:exoplanet. -- Alastor Moody 01:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. Not a free image. --Cat out 13:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
This image illustrating the difference between widescreen and standard aspect ratios has the following problems: First, this derivative work does not specify the source of the original image. Secondly, because of that, it also does not identify the person in the image.Zzyzx11 14:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think this can be easily replaced by a free one Bryan 20:55, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Free ones are already available at Category:Cropping (image). Zzyzx11 22:26, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:03, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
No source information, no date, no clear reason why this is public domain. Andrew Levine 01:43, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- speedy delete eligible for {{nsd}} --InfantGorilla 11:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete tagged with nsd --ALE! ¿…? 22:45, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Deleted, unknown source and license.
This image (and other images Category:People of Chisinau) are taken from the NYPL Digital Gallery. Their faq specifically says that it holds rights for digital representation (regardless images being in PD)l quoting:
- "However, as the physical rights holder of this material most of which is in the public domain for copyright purposes, the Library charges a usage fee if images are to be used in any nonprofit or commercial publication, broadcast, web site, exhibition, promotional material, etc. The usage fee is not a copyright fee. You are free to obtain a copy of these images from a source other than NYPL."
Therefore all images downloaded from NYPL must be deleted. Mikkalai 20:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think that only applies to the higher-resolution scans or prints that you can purchase from their website, not the lower-resolution images they provide on the website. Other than requesting it as a courtesy, I don't see how they can prevent redistribution or commercial use of their free online images (unless they are photos of 3D objects) since those are also public domain. Maybe they could be asked to clarify their position on the low-resolution images, as we may want to respect a request not to use them, but I can't think of any rights they might have to prevent use of a public domain image.
- Interestingly, the exact same text comes up here, but a Google search on "physical rights holder" turns up basically nothing else. They can certainly charge for higher-resolution scans if they like, as they control access to the physical artifact they own, but claiming rights over public domain images sounds like a theory dreamt up in the wake of en:Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp to give them a better chance to recover some of the costs of putting all of that material online. Does anyone have any further information or precedents on claims like this? Carl Lindberg 02:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep The original image is in the Public Domain, so are all copies, no matter from which source they're taken. That's what Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp claryfies. There's no need to support Copyfraud! --Smokey Bill 08:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep If the original images are PD, then the scans are too. --88.134.44.127 10:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep the money that they charge is for resolutions of 8x10 inches, 300 dpi, but they offer free scans. However, I believe this should be clarified by one of our Foundation staff members, and I would like, at least for now, to urge caution and avoid as much as possible to use NYPL images for now. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 17:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Whatever the decision be, the Bridgeman article is cautious to say that Bridgeman is not yet confirmed by Superior court, so I'd suggest to inntroduce a special template, kind of {{Bridgerman-PD}} to cover the cases of "tertiary images" so to say, i.e., when the uploader was not the author/copyright holder of the photo of the primary image. Mikkalai 22:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Bridgeman has not been approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Superior courts are lower state courts in most instances. Bridgeman is controversial precisely because the questions of the contours of PD and reproduction are controversial. Considering the ink that has been spilled the world over explaining the competing views, why would you ever expect a consensus on Wikipedia or Commons, much less a ruling from me?--BradPatrick 16:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep since the original images are in the public domain, the scans must be public domain too Andrew Levine 23:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- The NYPL says (most of) the images and scans are PD, but charge a usage fee for non-profit or commercial publication of their scans: essentially it is a restriction on licit use of the website. So, if a Commons user pays the fee and downloads an image, all is ok. If no fee is paid, the Commons user may or may not be in breach of contract, and of the computer misuse laws of one or more country. The question remains, even if the uploader obtained the image illicitly, but the material itself is PD, is Commons, or a mirror of commons, violating any law
beby redistributing the material? I think this is one for Brad Patrick. --InfantGorilla 12:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Individual users who upload material are responsible for it, as everyone understands. WMF does not, and will not, condone copyright violations. I agree in general that PD images are PD images, but I would caution about how one arrives at the conclusion something is in fact PD. I just came back from a conference in Washington DC on government images which illustrated this problem brilliantly. Be wary of overbroad claims of PD in images. Beyond that, I don't have anything more to add. This is a personal user issue. If you think you know the law, you probably don't. Any copyright lawyer worth their salt will be able to see both sides of the claims.--BradPatrick 16:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- The NYPL says (most of) the images and scans are PD, but charge a usage fee for non-profit or commercial publication of their scans: essentially it is a restriction on licit use of the website. So, if a Commons user pays the fee and downloads an image, all is ok. If no fee is paid, the Commons user may or may not be in breach of contract, and of the computer misuse laws of one or more country. The question remains, even if the uploader obtained the image illicitly, but the material itself is PD, is Commons, or a mirror of commons, violating any law
- By the way, Bridgeman and the {{PD-Art}} template are specially about these tertiary images as Mikkalai terms them. If the scan was done by the uploader, not a third party, then {{PD-old}} is more appropriate. --InfantGorilla 12:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Zscout370, navigation is awkward at the NYPL site. I think you were looking at the wrong page. At Licensing Images for Commercial Use they also charge non-profit websites $25 for a JPEG downloaded from their web site, which, very oddly, must be renewed after 5 years. --InfantGorilla 12:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- I do admit that yes, this is a pretty strange case. I am just hoping that this was resolved before, and if not, we should get a clearer picture (sorry) of what should happen with media from the NYPL from Brad or higher up WMF officials. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 19:03, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- Keep most has been said already. I'm wondering about the Library's odd rules/ways to earn money with public domain photographs. --Perconte 11:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- Okay. I read the Foundation's comments above, and I vote a weak Keep, but if the original uploader feels nervous about NYPL pursuing him, he could tag it himself for speedy deletion. Then it would be down to someone else who believes they have a licit copy to upload it again. --InfantGorilla 16:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- I just noticed that it is not tagged with {{PD-Art}}. I propose that it and similar reproductions should be, unless the purported copyright of the archivist has been explicitly waived or freely licensed in writing. --InfantGorilla 17:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Keep per comments on discussion page. The image is old, and is used commonly across the internet. The stated source could be changed to reflect any of the many websites currently using it. --Evrik 15:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete per comments on discussion page. Noone has found any evidence that this image has been released into the public domain. Nor does anyone seem to know when it was made, who the artist was or when the artist died. —Ian Spackman 11:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- This has been here for more than a week. Time to let it go Ian. --Evrik 15:05, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
The image, complete with halo, is quite clearly a picture of a saint. As he wasn’t canonized until 1947 that amounts to very strong evidence that the image was made less than 50 years ago. In the absence of any indication that the copyright holder has released the image into the public domain, or otherwise assigned it a suitable license—and no such indication has been found—it seems clear that this image should be treated as a copyvio. —Ian Spackman 17:35, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- Leave the image up until a better one is found. --Evrik 21:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. It is used on many sites on the internet without actually having a source and license status, but we try to be better than that. / Fred Chess 17:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
October 28
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Test upload of Image:Maslow's hierarchy of needs.svg to try and sort out Wikimedia thumbnail wieving. Testing finished and this version is no longer needed. /Lokal_Profil 00:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Please use {{Speedydelete}} for such purposes in future. --EugeneZelenko 15:05, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Test upload of Image:Maslow's hierarchy of needs.svg to try and sort out Wikimedia thumbnail wieving. Testing finished and this version is no longer needed. /Lokal_Profil 00:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Please use {{Speedydelete}} for such purposes in future. --EugeneZelenko 15:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Reasons for deletion request: Possible copyvio. source, if direct linking is not allowed, link here. Eurocontrol's disclaimer notice [30] says Reproduction is authorised for personal use only provided the source is duly acknowledged. All other uses are prohibited. Usage in Wikipedia can't really be consired personal use, can it? And no source is mentioned. Igno2 07:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- deleted Clear copyvio. Please use {{Copyvio}} in the future. --Cat out 17:45, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Duplicate of Image:Kiss (1873).jpg. Snoutwood (talk) 19:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
.jpg){kind=link}
- Done. Please use {{Duplicate}} for such requests in future. --EugeneZelenko 15:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by Image:ASALA logo.jpg -- Clevelander 19:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Identical duplicate image. Please use {{Duplicate}} for such requests in future. I also am not realy certain about the copyright status of asala logo. I really doubt its released under PD. --Cat out 17:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by Image:Khojaly Massacre.jpg -- Clevelander 19:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. Identical duplicate image with better copyright info. Please use {{Duplicate}} for such requests in future. --Cat out 17:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Bad name for file, please delete. I am the author of the work. Dismas 21:39, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- What is the name of the newer file? --Cat out 17:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Looks like Image:Reverence1.jpg is the better-named version. Carl Lindberg 22:25, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. --Panther 07:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
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Superseded by superior SVG. Image now orphaned in all projects.Himasaram 10:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by superior SVG; Non-commercial only license (FOTW); Orphaned in all projects. Himasaram 10:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyvio: photo of 3D object, PD-art can't apply. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 22:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted (per nom) --ALE! ¿…? 08:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
75 years is not enough (20:41, 29. Sep. 2006 User:Samulili) --Frumpy 17:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. 75 years doesn't mean anything. The author of the work must have died more than 70 years ago. -Samulili 06:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Image from 1945 claims to be PD because it comes from NARA. Besides the fact that the images was really taken by a federal government employee, neither on Commons nor in the English Wikipedia is a link to the exact page where the image comes from. -- Matt314 09:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- It still comes from NARA so it is PD, and the years is not in question. All NARA pictures can go on commons. --Edgar Allan Poe 10:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- But only as long as they are taken by an US official. Please also see Lupo's comment below. --Matt314 13:31, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted (unclear license and source) --ALE! ¿…? 16:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
same reason as the request above -- Matt314 09:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think that the picture should stay. As many of Himmler's pictures which are on commons I think that this could go on the same licence. The pivtures shows Himmler, and it is took before 1930, so it is pretty old. I think that it should stay under PD. --Edgar Allan Poe 10:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- The pivtures shows Himmler, and it is took before 1930, so it is pretty old. - That doesn't mean that the image is PD. The photographer has to be dead for more than 70 years, and as long as we don't know who took the picture, it can't be PD. --88.134.44.127 10:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete probably not pd as author must have died a few years after taking the picture. It's also a scaled down version of en:Image:HimmlerOberfhr.jpg -- Gorgo 20:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- But the picture is from NARA, and every picture from there is PD. So not delete. --83.139.91.49 10:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Photographs don't become PD just because the archive that owns them says so. Sadly it's a common practice among archives and museums to think they can release images or restrict their use just because they own the physical original. But copyright doesn't work that way. Either the photographer (or his/her heirs) released the image into the PD, or he/she is dead for more than 70 years - otherwise it can't be PD. --88.134.44.127 12:46, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Look we come to the same thing as the Nazi pictures. The 3rd Reich does not exsist so the copyright status is unclear, but it is presumed that it is PD beacuse thet the laws of the 3rd Reich do not existt. The only difference is thet these are out in the PD, and those are with copyrught. SO not delete beacuse it si PD. --Edgar Allan Poe 21:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- The 3rd Reich does not exsist so the copyright status is unclear, but it is presumed that it is PD beacuse thet the laws of the 3rd Reich do not existt. - The Federal Republic of Germany is the legal successor of the Third Reich, so AFAIK German laws apply. And Germany has the rule of 70 years p.m.a. --88.134.44.127 22:31, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- The German government is generally considered the successor of the NSDAP's property (I think there is a special company called Transit which handles Nazi material). If this was material seized by the Allies during WWII then it is PD in the UK (Enemy Property Act) and, provided that the copyright is owned by the German government and not privately, then it is also PD in the US (Alien Property Custodian and a special exception to the URAA copyright extensions). This may explain why the NARA would have it as PD. However, this would still be under copyright in the rest of the world, and my guess is that it is not free enough for commons. Carl Lindberg 22:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please see en:Template_talk:PD-Germany#Seized_photos. The UK Enemy Property Act was repealed in 1976; it doesn't seem to be applicable. It is possible that the NARA makes its PD claims under 17 USC 104A(a)(2), but we don't know that, and the U.S. Copyright Office writes on that provision that "the legislative history of the URAA is silent on the application and scope of this exception". In any case, as Carl pointed out, this provision would make these images PD in the U.S. only. In Germany (the source country), the copyright always vests in the photographer and is still valid. See also en:WP:PD#World War II images. Lupo 08:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- According to these links [31][32], the repeal of the UK Enemy Property Act did not restore any of the extinguished copyrights, and neither did the law implementing the EU copyright directive. However, a link that your page points to indicates that the UK was accepting individual applications to have copyrights restored, so that muddies the water a bit. The US Copyright Office note mainly means that there has not been any case law to clarify any gray areas yet, so the most authoritative text is the law itself. The Alien Property Custodian was where the seized works were administered, so it seems reasonable to assume that original Nazi material seized during WWII and owned by the German gov't as of Jan 1 1996 are treated as PD in the U.S. Actually determining that would be difficult but not impossible. I can't imagine any other way that the NARA could claim PD status, and this seems the most likely. I did find one other article which gives some background to the URAA exception. In any event, I believe it's a moot point, since this holds for the U.S. only. Most other countries would still respect the copyright, so it's non-free. Carl Lindberg 01:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please see en:Template_talk:PD-Germany#Seized_photos. The UK Enemy Property Act was repealed in 1976; it doesn't seem to be applicable. It is possible that the NARA makes its PD claims under 17 USC 104A(a)(2), but we don't know that, and the U.S. Copyright Office writes on that provision that "the legislative history of the URAA is silent on the application and scope of this exception". In any case, as Carl pointed out, this provision would make these images PD in the U.S. only. In Germany (the source country), the copyright always vests in the photographer and is still valid. See also en:WP:PD#World War II images. Lupo 08:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- The German government is generally considered the successor of the NSDAP's property (I think there is a special company called Transit which handles Nazi material). If this was material seized by the Allies during WWII then it is PD in the UK (Enemy Property Act) and, provided that the copyright is owned by the German government and not privately, then it is also PD in the US (Alien Property Custodian and a special exception to the URAA copyright extensions). This may explain why the NARA would have it as PD. However, this would still be under copyright in the rest of the world, and my guess is that it is not free enough for commons. Carl Lindberg 22:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
delete see the template's talk page on en-WP and the reasoning of Lupo.--Wiggum 10:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted (unclear license and source) --ALE! ¿…? 16:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
not old enough (1933) to be claimed as PD when author is unknown -- BLueFiSH 11:56, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- From a summary of the current Berne convention ([33]): "In the case of anonymous or pseudonymous works, the term of protection expires 50 years after the work has been lawfully made available to the public, except if the pseudonym leaves no doubt as to the author’s identity or if the author discloses his identity during that period; in the latter case, the general rule applies.". Since 1933 is more than 70 years ago and it is impossible to prove without doubt that the photographer never disclosed his identity, this should be kept. Thuresson 13:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- it is very funny to see how the rules on commons are interpreted... --BLueFiSH 18:52, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete It's from a postcard, so it surely is not a anonymous work. The rule on commons for unkown authors is that the image has to be at least 100 years old. -- Gorgo 20:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- What do you mean, "surely is not". How much experience do you have of 1930s postcards? My experience is that they never have the photographers' name. And which is this rule you refer to? Thuresson 01:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- It may not have the photographer's name on it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's an anonymous work. The publishing company might have known the artist. --88.134.44.127 20:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- IMO before 1900 is the rule for unknown authors. Do you want to change the rule? --BLueFiSH 05:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- It would be helpful if I was directed to a written Commons guideline or policy document that can verify this. Thuresson 19:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Delete --Jcornelius 12:28, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- This is not a vote. Please present your arguments. Thuresson 01:03, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- he is the uploader of this image... he surely agrees with the already meant arguments. --BLueFiSH 05:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
delete a pure claim of an anonynoums work without testable clues is insufficient.--Wiggum 10:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Replaced by Wappen Landkreis Bautzen.svg. Original source is still available. This copy is not needed any more. --TM 16:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think it should be kept, even if the source is available elsewhere on the Internet. It should be available here. --Rosenzweig 10:29, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- But it's superseded by a vector version. --TM 19:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- I know. But this vector version was based on another picture, which should be kept as a reference. That's my point of view. --Rosenzweig 22:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- As a reference for what? Other images, where only a vector version was uploaded, never had a reference here at Commons. So why keep this one? Besides, it's a inappropriate reference because the official image used by the government looks a bit different. --TM 10:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- As a reference for what the vector version was modeled upon. In this case, it's not that essential, because the design is quite simple, but in other cases, with intricate birds, animals etc., I regard it as very important to still be able to look at the original version. If it's already here, then don't delete it, I say. If it isn't here, too bad, but that's no reason to delete the others. Do you have a place where one can look at the official image you write of? --Rosenzweig 20:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- As a reference for what? Other images, where only a vector version was uploaded, never had a reference here at Commons. So why keep this one? Besides, it's a inappropriate reference because the official image used by the government looks a bit different. --TM 10:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- I know. But this vector version was based on another picture, which should be kept as a reference. That's my point of view. --Rosenzweig 22:55, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- But it's superseded by a vector version. --TM 19:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Poster designed by Olle Hjortzberg (1872 - 1959). Thuresson 11:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete copyvio --ALE! ¿…? 15:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted. --Cat out 07:49, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by superior PNG with proper source. Image orphaned in all projects except from one user page.Himasaram 10:18, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Where is this png? --Cat out 17:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Flag of Montgomery, Alabama.png --Himasaram 05:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment the two flags are drastically different (e.g. number of stars). Which one is correct? --11:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Flag of Montgomery, Alabama.png --Himasaram 05:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted by User:Samulili --ALE! ¿…? 11:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Copyvio: photo of a 3D object, PD-art can't apply. Furthermore, the quality is very low. Bibi Saint-Pol (sprechen) 22:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom --ALE! ¿…? 17:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Likely copyright violation, just nuked this on enWiki for lack of source, and I see the uploader have been playing the license tag roulette here too, making his current claim of self made cc-by-sa-2.5 claim highly suspect.Sherool 21:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- I got this picture from someone who does not know either where it came from. Current information box is a best guess only. Concerning licenses: too many, too complex. I cannot see the trees through the wood, and just take what is recommended. If that all is not good enough for you, then just do what you think you need to do. Tauʻolunga 23:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted -- uncertain license / Fred Chess 17:04, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- The 1936 Nuremberg Rally photo is missing a source. We cannot assume that photos from 1936 are in the public domain.
- Image:Red army soldiers raising the soviet flag on the roof of the reichstag berlin germany.jpg is not in the public domain.
- Image:Arbeit macht frei.png is not public domain.
edward 12:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Image:Red army soldiers raising the soviet flag on the roof of the reichstag berlin germany.jpg seems to be public domain, or close enough, see:
Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Red army soldiers raising the soviet flag on the roof of the reichstag berlin germany.jpg - I've changed the licence for the montage to cc-2 (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License), so the issue regarding Image:Arbeit macht frei.png does not apply anymore. The original was cc-2 and the derived work is now also cc-2.
- The 1936 Nuremberg Rally photo was licensed as public domain before it was deleted from wikipedia (see Biocrawler wiki-version. I think the photo originated
from ww2incolor - direct link to the photo : [34].
Generally, I think we should keep the montage as it is, with its new license as cc-2. I think it is highly unlikely that there should be any problems (but I'm no expert on copyright stuff). Rather than deleting this montage image, it is better that I make changes to it, if problems, however unlikely, arise.
Regards, --Dennis Nilsson 21:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I found Image:1936NurembergRally.jpg in the delete log. The reason given was "{{incomplete license}} since 29. Dez 2005; no proof for PD". edward 08:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
If one of the source images was deleted for incomplete license, we should also delete this one. Delete --ALE! ¿…? 22:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Isn't there a special copyright tag for PD images that are the work of the Nazi government? In any case, this is a high-visiblity image that is otherwise excellent. Rather than simply deleted, it should be replaced. Robotsintrouble 12:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Possible replacement image: Image:Nazi Party Rally at Nuremberg.jpg. edward 22:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Removed copyrighted image from montage. I looked at Image:Nazi Party Rally at Nuremberg.jpg but it appears not to be free. Perhaps you can find some other image to replace it. / Fred Chess 11:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
fy6576 83.25.228.3 05:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Strong Oppose. No reason is given whatsoever by the anonymous tagger, making it hard to assume good faith for this request. It would be ridiculously unwise to delete this image, since it's used on 101 pages in 49 various Wikipedia projects. My regards, --Dna-Dennis 14:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Strong Oppose too，83.25.228.3is a stupid guy. --Tszkin(Call Me) 05:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Kept, no reason given. --Kjetil r 23:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
October 29
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no source & no license for more than one and a half months Frumpy 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
speedydeleted --GeorgHH 20:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I am not convinced the logo qualifies as PD. According to deletion log User:Azeri claims to have created the image himself and tagged it as {{Pd-self}}. While that may be true I still feel image is a derivative work. Furthermore image license was changed to {{Pd-art}} during rename. I'd however like a second or third opinion on this. --Cat out 17:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- From WP: The ASALA was founded in 1975 in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War by Hagop Tarakchian and Hagop Hagopian with the help of sympathetic Palestinians. So it can't be PD-old. Bryan 22:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 15:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
On the source page:
- Copyright(c)Midi:Nette Co.Ltd All rights reserved.
- No reproduction or republication without written permission.
From the image description: "Uso Promocional" = for promotional use only. --Matt314 19:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Deleted. --Panther 15:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
Superseded by Image:Wikibooks-logo.png and Image:Wikibooks-logo.svg, used only on a few user pages.Conscious 09:55, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'd delete it if it was unlinked :) --Cat out 11:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Kept, it exists specifically to overcome the bad compression of the normal image at small size. pfctdayelise (说什么?) 02:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Unused, questionable encyclopedic value.Conscious 15:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete,
Invalid source: english wikipedia --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 09:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Unused, questionable encyclopedic value --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 01:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Some people shouldn't have camera phones. Deleted, pfctdayelise (说什么?) 02:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Unused, questionable encyclopedic value.Conscious 15:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment this image is a nowcommons image on the engrish wikipiedia, as deleted. see this log--Nec Pck 13:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment I cannot see the real source of the image. I am not administrator of en.wp. The source of the image must be indicated. The fact that it is not expressed is a dangerous precedent. The complete data of the image must be copied in Commons (uploader in en.wp, author, source,...).
These photos are in the same circumstances: Image:Street Scholar.jpg, Image:Roxy.A.Peterson, M.F.jpg, Image:Swenson Science Building.jpg, Image:China town in Kobe.jpg, Image:St. Apollinaris-Kirche, Deutschland.jpg, Image:Fatboyslimbob.jpg, Image:Jake White.jpg, Image:Private Photo in cls.jpg --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 00:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Unused, questionable encyclopedic value.--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 01:22, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
some kept, some deleted (based on the scope of the Commons project) --ALE! ¿…? 15:15, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Unused, questionable encyclopedic value.Conscious 15:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete
Invalid source: english wikipedia --Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 09:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)Unused, questionable encyclopedic value--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 01:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 15:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
This beautiful drawing was probably created after a photograph, that was copyrighted. Flominator 20:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Is there a web link to the original photo? Thuresson 01:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- All around the net, though probably none of them original. http://www.katieholmespictures.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=299&pos=33 is one for example. So this drawing is obviously derivative work. Delete --Para 01:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- All around the net, though probably none of them original. http://www.katieholmespictures.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=299&pos=33 is one for example. So this drawing is obviously derivative work.
- Delete copyvio --88.134.44.254 17:12, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
October 30
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(mistake on the name, uploaded again as Image:Panthera_pardus.jpg) 120 17:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
speedydeleted --GeorgHH 19:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
(mistake, uploaded again under Image:Hache polie néolithique.jpg with correct licensing) 120 17:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
speedydeleted --GeorgHH 19:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
This pic was uploaded from commercial site which have no copyright politic but not either permissive politic which will give agreement to use photo on free licence. Oxam Hartog 23:24, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete The only licensing information I see on that web site is a copyright message at the bottom of each web page. Zzyzx11 02:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted clear copyvio. --Cat out 04:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
The year of publication is unknown but in the 1930s, the image is probably still copyrighted. -- le Korrigan →bla 22:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete for annonymous works we have 100 years rule --ALE! ¿…? 15:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:17, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
THis is the reproduction of a 2D artwork (cut of a boat), probably copyrighted.le Korrigan →bla 20:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete as (inadvertent) copyvio. The owner DeHavilland of Canada is credited in the bottom right. --InfantGorilla 13:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Delete It is true. I did not think about it, it's me that put them there, but you are right, those photos (as well as Image:HMCS bras d or 400 légende du plan en coupe.jpg) violate copyright. Please go ahead and remove them. Dirac 17:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- See also Image:HMCS bras d or 400 légende du plan en coupe.jpg which should be speedily deleted if this one goes too (it is a legend for the cut away, from the same source) --InfantGorilla 13:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Source says "Marine nationale" but the French Navy does not release material in Public Domain by default. -- le Korrigan →bla 21:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 22:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
It is not clear whether the uploader is alos the author ; I didn't manage to find this picture elswhere, but I raise doubts on the CC license. -- le Korrigan →bla 21:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Keep I believe the uploader is the author. See Special:Contributions/Intersofia. Almost all of his uploads claim the author is P. Alejandro Diaz. howcheng {chat} 01:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
I think the image can be kept --ALE! ¿…? 22:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm the uploader... I took the picture myself. No need to delete it... Intersofia 02:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Statement by the uplader User:Yellowsubmarine is Permission given by animetwin.com and forwarded to OTRS. I asked User:Bastique to verify and he checked the OTRS permissions, but he not found the permission for this image. http://www.animetwin.com/A-Rater/ says: all materials in this site are copyrighted - 2006@animetwin.com all rights reserved. GeorgHH 17:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Uploader should be contacted for the OTRS permission claim. I am inclined to request a checkuser since this is users only edit. --Cat out 04:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- My question is if the girl, photographed, gave her consent for the photo to be used like this. While I would not go as far with a checkuser, but I would definitely find out what is up with the ORTS claim. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 02:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted -- lacking permission. / Fred Chess 17:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
This image is a mirror-inverted image (orig. Image: Image:Angela_Merkel_Joh.jpg) and therefore a counterfeit, it is also redundant because of the original image BilderMax 17:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
This deletion request is frivolous and comes close to trolling. There is absolute no reason to delete this image. An image turned the right way (to the text) is very useful, also it is cut to better fit in info boxes. This image is thus better suited for Wikipedia articles than the original. Ninder 04:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Except that this is what serious newspapers would consider a fake image; they wouldn't use it for reporting, and neither should Wikipedia for articles. PDD 10:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. A human face is not symmetric, so a mirrored portrait photo does not exactly represent the person. This would be okay for art purposes, for an encyclopaedia it is not. Btw, calling this deletion request frivolous and close to trolling comes close to trolling. --Magadan 15:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Civility is required not just recommended. Be polite people. --Cat out 01:49, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Deleted per arguments. / Fred Chess 17:02, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
October 31
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Invalid license ({{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}}) &/or invalid source (in other case there are a copyright violation in the page http://www.hervas.org/index.htm.)
The uploader does not wish to speak with me (see User talk:Patrickpedia#Tus imágenes pueden ser borradas--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 07:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- List of blocked IP addresses and usernames : 10:22, 31 October 2006 User:Lmbuga blocked "Patrickpedia (contribs)" with an expiry time of 2 hours (Image:Ratel.jpg. Self license, but "source": http://www.accuratereloading.com/lg1.html. He repeats the action and he don't want to talk)--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 09:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete--Lmbuga gl, pt, es: contacta comigo 09:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Bryan 12:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Deleted --Cat out 01:57, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyrighted, per en:Talk:Robert Altman (photographer) -- Fred Chess 14:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Copyrighted, no free license (originally cc-by-sa license was granted), see en:Talk:Robert Altman (photographer) -- Fred Chess 14:23, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 15:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 16:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 16:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 16:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 16:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Food for thought: If it's not allowed to take a photo of a church window from the inside of the building, what if somebody take a photo of the same window from the outside? Thuresson 01:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's no problem then. But normaly windows are much more impressive inside a church. From outside you'll only get a simular picture, if you take it at night with inside lighted church. --Steschke 10:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- The author of the building died centuries ago tho. No? --Cat out 01:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- And? The author of the windows is still allive. --Steschke 17:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- The author of the building died centuries ago tho. No? --Cat out 01:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's no problem then. But normaly windows are much more impressive inside a church. From outside you'll only get a simular picture, if you take it at night with inside lighted church. --Steschke 10:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 17:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
The picture of the Window is a copyright violation, there's no freedom of panorama inside a building in Germany. Steschke 16:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC) PS: please also take a look here: w:de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Bildrechte#URV_in_Exzellenten? --Steschke 16:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
kept (the windows are only de:Beiwerk) --ALE! ¿…? 17:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
PD tag seems abusive, I see no proof that the author (!= uploade) has put this image in the public domain. -- le Korrigan →bla 00:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, copyvio. --Panther 06:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Bryan 12:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. --ALE! ¿…? 15:16, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 11:17, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Possible copyvio from Cocktail Times. Californiacondor 05:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, copyvio. --Panther 06:58, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: It could be that cocktailtimes actually borrowed this one from WP. The WP:En article has this picture since April, and is without the watermark. It is also bigger in size than that of coctailtimes, which suggest that cocktailtimes added a watermark and recompressed the picture. Bryan 12:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps but it has been used in the remote site since 9 April 2004. I am not certain what the copyright status is... It was uploaded to en.wiki on April 11, 2006. The watermark maybe removed with a software like photoshop. --Cat out 17:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Since I am an admin on en.wiki, I took a look at the deleted edits there. The only thing that the original uploader entered was "{{PD-self}}", period. No description, no source. Also, the uploader has been inactive since June. Because it is something we can probably get from another source, I would prefer that we play it safe and Delete the Commons image here. Zzyzx11 01:06, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Since I am an admin on en.wiki, I took a look at the deleted edits there. The only thing that the original uploader entered was "{{PD-self}}", period. No description, no source. Also, the uploader has been inactive since June. Because it is something we can probably get from another source, I would prefer that we play it safe and
- Perhaps but it has been used in the remote site since 9 April 2004. I am not certain what the copyright status is... It was uploaded to en.wiki on April 11, 2006. The watermark maybe removed with a software like photoshop. --Cat out 17:56, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: Then, why has it added the wartermark on the image that should belong to the public domain？ The easiest way to clarify this matter is contacting Cocktailtimes.com, but I am not sure if contacting it is a proper procedure at Wikimedia Commons. --Californiacondor 18:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, you can contact the website if you have any doubts. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 03:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
- If the permission does not arrive in three days, I will delete the images --ALE! ¿…? 23:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, you can contact the website if you have any doubts. User:Zscout370 (Return fire) 03:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
deleted --ALE! ¿…? 13:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
The uploader has been confused by publicity rights legislation. There's no such thing as a 20 year post mortem subject copyright.Jkelly 19:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
- If there is no objection, I will delete the image in the next days --ALE! ¿…? 13:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind if I delete it for you. / Fred Chess 11:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
