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Happy holidays!

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I hope all is well, Jkelly, and that you have a wonderful holiday season and a great rest of 2008! Cheers, Iamunknown 09:11, 25 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

 
Hello, Jkelly! Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello, Jkelly! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for any and all contributions to this freepedia. If you decide that you need help, ask Krampus or just reach for a beer. Please remember to, um, you know, and all that sort of thing. RS good, OR bad. Sock it to your readers! -- Hoary (talk) 23:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

re roberto calasso - same answer as on my talk page: sorry, my evil twin grabbed the steering wheelPilobola (talk) 21:05, 10 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Really nice to see you again

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It seems like you've been gone for years, and I've just noticed you back again. I missed you! It just always brings me pleasure to see you editing, or to see you dealing with other editors in your fantastic gentle, respectful manner. I think you were the first administrator I "met" here, and you've set a benchmark for editing that I've yet to see surpassed.

That's all, I just wanted to say hi. All the best! Fuzzypeg 12:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Jkelly was inducted into The Hall of The Greats

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On January 27, 2009, User:Jkelly was inducted into


This portrait of Frank McCourt was dedicated in her honor.
David Shankbone.

Overdue - you have for years done a lot of great work on photography. The inscription is in the description]]. --David Shankbone 15:23, 27 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Final version

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As a contributor to the discussion regarding sports team logos, I am soliciting feedback as to the latest version of that guideline. Your support/opposition/feedback would be appreciated. — BQZip01 — talk 21:59, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Christianity

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My edit to the Christianity page wasn't a test. I meant it as a serious edit.Moby-Dick3000 (talk) 00:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Communitychannel

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Hi, I am trying to get two files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NT_Bus_stop_Say_Goodbye_scene.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NT_vlog_general.jpg) accepted by OTRS into commons. I have put the ticket numbers onto the respective pages but haven't heard from any OTRS volunteers since I did that. I admit I am fairly new and I may be missing a step, but I believe that copyright permission from the author has been proved (sent to permissions-commons@wiki) and I have done what I am supposed to. I would greatly appreciate your attention/guidance. Thanks, ----aaftabj-- (talk) 16:57, 22 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Question

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You are listed as the uploader of this file. I'm curious how you came by it. My father, a psychoanalyst, has a copy in his office (8x10). I need to ask him where his came from, but I'm curious about your source. Thanks. PalMD (talk) 18:36, 9 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Jkelly,

I'm asking your advice on the issue of NF pictures where the copyright holder is unknown. I see from the archive that you removed the "where possible" from this requirement in the NFC criteria. I'd like to know if specifying the copyright holder is a legal requirement for claiming fair use of non-free content. I appreciate that if it is, then "we canot make an exception to identifying copyright holder because research is hard" (your edit summary) but there are some consequences, I think:

  1. Almost none of WP's non-free images mention the copyright holder.
  2. Many such images have attribution/sourcing that is limited to a URL to where the image was found.
  3. Since, on the web, the source of an image (the web page) is very often not the original publisher of the image, and even the original publisher is not often the copyright holder, it seems likely that criterion 10a is not being met by nearly all non-free images on WP.
  4. Some editors point out that the copyright holder can be assumed to be the author, or the publisher (e.g. the record label). I suspect both of these conflicting opinions are too simplistic. Therefore one cannot just guess who the copyright holder is.
  5. I think (but not sure) that licensing info is not the same as copyright info. For example, the photo could be licensed from Corbis but the copyright lies with the photographer.
  6. Unless the source of the image mentions who the copyright holder is, it would often require a professional search to find out.
  7. If the copyright-holder aspect of 10a was enforced (and properly, not just taking someone's word (guess) for it), most non-free images on WP would be deleted.
  8. There is tension at AfD where images are being criticised for failing the second-part of 10a, despite this being true for nearly all other non-free images. I know WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS but this is WP:ITISALLCRAP.

Would it be possible for you to comment on this matter. Any talk-page lurkers with legal knowledge on this matter are also welcome (those whose opinion is uninformed are not :-). Thanks very much. Colin°Talk 12:34, 10 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Identifying the copyright holder is really important! Ignoring all of the practical benefits of doing so for the moment, the author of any article containing the potentially infringing content should be very motivated to demonstrate that they were engaged in best practices, or, as we might put it, acting in good faith.
I think that you're overstating the difficulty here a little. Most of our non-free content is album/book/movie/video game covers. This stuff is just copyright the producer. It's really easy to identify. Maybe we'll get that wrong from time to time when there's an unusual arrangement we don't know about, but I wouldn't worry much about that. Stuff that's just listed with a link isn't properly sourced, so it has a problem beyond just identifying the copyright holder. Who's the author? Where did it come from? If it's just random stuff from some webpage, we should make a replacement ourselves. Stuff from image databases like Corbis is radioactive, and we shouldn't go anywhere near it, so it doesn't matter whether Corbis is the copyright holder. I'm inclined to think that stuff that a) is really hard to source, b) is really necessary for the encyclopedia project, c) fits our criteria for including non-free content (including cannot be replaced in any way) is going to be such a small category that we can take the time to do a search for it. Jkelly (talk) 20:25, 14 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for replying. There's a proposal over at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content you might like to comment on. I have a book which credits the cover design to one person and the cover photo to Corbis but doesn't say the copyright belongs to the designer (it might not, I gather, if their work isn't sufficiently original). Could we use such a book cover on WP even though the only copyright on the book cover might be the Corbis photo, which you say are radioactive. Most of the books I've looked at don't claim copyright for the publisher but for photographer/agency licensing the photos used or occasionally the artist. This makes me think the default "copyright belongs to the publisher" is wrong too often.Colin°Talk 21:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

New image project

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Frank McCourt

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Hey there - are you aware of Frank McCourt's illness? -->David Shankbone 17:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Canada at FAR

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GAR notification

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Letting you know I've opened a GAR for Janet Farrar, and you're the top contributor. You can read my concerns here. Thanks, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs(talk) 17:02, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

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Hello Jkelly

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Dear Jkelly,

I'm reaching out to researchers and writers interested in the emerging, or re-emerging, movements inspired by ancient culture in the areas of religion/theology/mythology/culture...I spare-headed an artistic collaboration between a music professor, rock-vocalist and poet to create a modern multi-media experience of the cathardic journey inspired by ancient pagan poetic traditions; A romance to nature seen as a beautiful, divine and omnipotent woman.

It has singularly been my goal to respect tradition while allowing a free and spontaneous interpretation...I believe the utility of a quasi-rebirth of some aspects of the ancient religious tendancies would be achieved in an increase of tolerance, sympathy, and freedom of expression in our modern discoures on religion...so much needed. Until we have a cultural revolution tantamount to the politcal revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries [aiding the rebirth of a government of, by and for the people] in the area of religion, I will not rest. Until the rebirth of religions which are of, by and for the people, as fluid as art, as deep as mythology and theology and as powerful as culture, I do not believe we will be truly free no matter what economic or political conditions surround us. Democracy without a democratic cultural is as frustrating as it is ineffectual.

If you have a moment could you peruse the poetry project site. http://www.misbeliever.net As you are a worker in these areas, having ebhanced the Wikipedia, the world's greatest encyclopedia, I would be very honored with any remarks or critisms you could offer either me or my collaborators.

thanks much,

sincerely

Pdiffenderfer (talk) 00:26, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

paul m. diffenderfer

düsseldorf germany +49 (0) 178 178 2117 http://www.misbeliever.net pdiffenderfer@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdiffenderfer (talkcontribs) 00:36, 1 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Suspension of admin privileges due to inactivity

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