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19:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I upload the image from
Uncyclopedia which was uploaded to their system on 21:31, 24 August 2005 by one
User:Insertwackynamehere.
The image has no Licensing agreement.
See for yourself here.
Premier Tom Mayfair
Talk
F@H
File:MUN.png
12:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:Broomfield nick.jpg has no source and will be deleted in 7 days. YellowDot 15:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, YellowDot. I'm not aware that Wikipedia policies are retroactive and may be applied to images uploaded back in 2004. Many websites that were active back in 2004 (even if I remembered their urls) simply do not exist today. By the way, I'm quite surprised at the pattern of your behaviour. You logged in yesterday, make no mainspace edits and start wikilayering established wikipedians in a rather confrontational way. You should be aware that such behaviour may be qualified as tag trolling. Although it's clear that you have some experience around (probably under a different account), I find it useful to inform you that Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia. You are supposed to write articles here, not wikilawyer. If you believe that the photograph of a person who died 150 years ago (for instance, Image:Mikhail_gorchakov.jpg) is not private domain and was taken within last 50 years, you should present some evidence to back up such an extraordinary claim. Otherwise, your wikilayering wastes the time of content contributors and detracts them from writing new articles. Thanks, Ghirla -трёп- 16:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
YellowDot, as it has been explained, many images that you suddenly saw "problematic" were uploaded a while ago. At that time, the treatment of images was rather lax and some users did not bother to paste the source's URL. I agree that sooner or later this needs to be addressed to some extent. However, some earlier existing sites are down by now. Some users left forever. Some images are impossible to "dig" out. Personally, I always add an URL but I can't restore them for old images, especially sourced to the sites that went down in those years. If the image is clearly problematic, sourcing it may help resolve a problem. If the image is clearly harmless, like from the previous century or smth, threatening it with an "unsourced" tag is a disruption. Within days those images get deleted and this is a needless pain. I thoroughly support sourcing images as a general principle. Now, please add writing content to your todo list and feel free to ask for help. -- Irpen 22:46, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello YellowDot, You queried the copyright status of the image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone I explained in detail where the image came from on the image information page. However, let me repeat - the image which I uploaded is an enlargement of part of a Wikimedia commons image which occurs on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podocarpus . I'm a bit puzzled - surely a detail of a Wikimedia image which already has the necessary licence, labels etc, would automatically fall under the same set of licences and labels, or am I just not seeing the bigger picture? Have an excellent day Paul venter 22:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
These are both taken from foreign language Wikipedias, as indicated on the image and as such there is no copyright problem (unless you can find a problem on their original version). Since they were taken from WP I have restored the licencse which are correct. TerriersFan 01:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the speedy tag from USACab since it is not an exact duplicate of Image:DSCN1386.JPG, it is an enhanced version that I spent some time doing. I shall leave it to you to put the appropriate licence on it. TerriersFan 02:21, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like somebody else already fixed the copyright problem Heavenhelllord 15:39, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I... don't get it, YellowDot. What are you nominating my picutres for deletion for? It says on your listing, "Rhetoric question of the week: why is it that hard to copy and paste an URL an image was taken from?" I take this to mean you think I stole the picture from somewhere.
I DID NOT.
In fact, I live 23.8 miles away from Brown University. (Look at my profile if you don't believe me; I live outside Fall River, Massachusetts and am an alumnus of Providence College.) I took that picture around 2PM on Sunday, the 2nd of July, 2006 for the intent purpose of posting it on Wikipedia. I doubt you will never find a picture of the outside of the Pizzitola Center from anywhere near that angle online. Most every single one I have ever seen online, in fact, come from almost directly in front of the door, some twenty yards closer than where i was.
Yes, that's right. I can even tell you where I was standing. Go to Google Maps, type in "235 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906," and look at the satellite picture. The Pizzitola Center is the rectangular white-roofed building directly next to the round white-roofed Meehan Auditorium. Now, look at the cars in the parking lot below it. I took the picture from roughly the same spot as the two white cars next to the gap in the 2nd double row below the aforementioned buildings.
You leave me no other reason why you believe this is worthy of deletion. If there's another reason, tell me now and we can argue that for whatever the reason is. I take great pride in taking pictures myself of places I visit, and sharing the ones that come out the best on Wikipedia as examples for the places I have been. I find what you are doing extraordinarily rude and believe that it is people like you that bring ridicule to Wikipedia.
ToddC4176 18:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Please do not falsely tag images with a "date" much earlier than the actual date, as you did with Image:ArauzFlowers2.jpg, Image:ArauzFlowers3.jpg, and others. We leave these images untouched for seven days for a reason - so that the uploader has time to include the source information.
Tagging the images today and declaring in the template that they've been tagged since September 30, means that you're no more honest than those who upload celebrity photos and tag them as logos. Deception for any reason, even an ostensibly good one, is still deception. Regards, Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 19:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed a number of IFD nominations you added on October 5 were for images that were low-resolution copies of others. Just so you know, those can be speedily deleted by tagging them with {{ isd|Example.png}} (replacing "Example.png" with the image filename). Thanks for your help in cleaning up orphaned images. howch e ng { chat} 16:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps you would take a look at this image and the discussion at Talk:Headingley Stadium. I cannot get a definitive handle on the basis that this image can be added to WP so I should welcome your view. BlueValour 03:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Not my intention to vandalize! It was my understanding that low rez images of art were allowed to be uploaded and simply tagged with the art tag. I simply kept reverting them because I noticed it was a BOT that was deleting them.
Thanks for your help!
Hi, YellowDot, I am sorry, but I do not understand what you mean by your entry in my talk page concerning licensing; if I do not use the license tag, I get an automatic message from WP to include one. What will I have to do? Pommes104 08:28 (CET), 28 November 2006 Sorry, got it, checked the history of the photos, saw what you meant. Cheers
Hello, YellowDot, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}}
on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -
UtherSRG
(talk)
19:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I upload the image from
Uncyclopedia which was uploaded to their system on 21:31, 24 August 2005 by one
User:Insertwackynamehere.
The image has no Licensing agreement.
See for yourself here.
Premier Tom Mayfair
Talk
F@H
File:MUN.png
12:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:Broomfield nick.jpg has no source and will be deleted in 7 days. YellowDot 15:54, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, YellowDot. I'm not aware that Wikipedia policies are retroactive and may be applied to images uploaded back in 2004. Many websites that were active back in 2004 (even if I remembered their urls) simply do not exist today. By the way, I'm quite surprised at the pattern of your behaviour. You logged in yesterday, make no mainspace edits and start wikilayering established wikipedians in a rather confrontational way. You should be aware that such behaviour may be qualified as tag trolling. Although it's clear that you have some experience around (probably under a different account), I find it useful to inform you that Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia. You are supposed to write articles here, not wikilawyer. If you believe that the photograph of a person who died 150 years ago (for instance, Image:Mikhail_gorchakov.jpg) is not private domain and was taken within last 50 years, you should present some evidence to back up such an extraordinary claim. Otherwise, your wikilayering wastes the time of content contributors and detracts them from writing new articles. Thanks, Ghirla -трёп- 16:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
YellowDot, as it has been explained, many images that you suddenly saw "problematic" were uploaded a while ago. At that time, the treatment of images was rather lax and some users did not bother to paste the source's URL. I agree that sooner or later this needs to be addressed to some extent. However, some earlier existing sites are down by now. Some users left forever. Some images are impossible to "dig" out. Personally, I always add an URL but I can't restore them for old images, especially sourced to the sites that went down in those years. If the image is clearly problematic, sourcing it may help resolve a problem. If the image is clearly harmless, like from the previous century or smth, threatening it with an "unsourced" tag is a disruption. Within days those images get deleted and this is a needless pain. I thoroughly support sourcing images as a general principle. Now, please add writing content to your todo list and feel free to ask for help. -- Irpen 22:46, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello YellowDot, You queried the copyright status of the image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone I explained in detail where the image came from on the image information page. However, let me repeat - the image which I uploaded is an enlargement of part of a Wikimedia commons image which occurs on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podocarpus . I'm a bit puzzled - surely a detail of a Wikimedia image which already has the necessary licence, labels etc, would automatically fall under the same set of licences and labels, or am I just not seeing the bigger picture? Have an excellent day Paul venter 22:00, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
These are both taken from foreign language Wikipedias, as indicated on the image and as such there is no copyright problem (unless you can find a problem on their original version). Since they were taken from WP I have restored the licencse which are correct. TerriersFan 01:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the speedy tag from USACab since it is not an exact duplicate of Image:DSCN1386.JPG, it is an enhanced version that I spent some time doing. I shall leave it to you to put the appropriate licence on it. TerriersFan 02:21, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like somebody else already fixed the copyright problem Heavenhelllord 15:39, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I... don't get it, YellowDot. What are you nominating my picutres for deletion for? It says on your listing, "Rhetoric question of the week: why is it that hard to copy and paste an URL an image was taken from?" I take this to mean you think I stole the picture from somewhere.
I DID NOT.
In fact, I live 23.8 miles away from Brown University. (Look at my profile if you don't believe me; I live outside Fall River, Massachusetts and am an alumnus of Providence College.) I took that picture around 2PM on Sunday, the 2nd of July, 2006 for the intent purpose of posting it on Wikipedia. I doubt you will never find a picture of the outside of the Pizzitola Center from anywhere near that angle online. Most every single one I have ever seen online, in fact, come from almost directly in front of the door, some twenty yards closer than where i was.
Yes, that's right. I can even tell you where I was standing. Go to Google Maps, type in "235 Hope St, Providence, RI 02906," and look at the satellite picture. The Pizzitola Center is the rectangular white-roofed building directly next to the round white-roofed Meehan Auditorium. Now, look at the cars in the parking lot below it. I took the picture from roughly the same spot as the two white cars next to the gap in the 2nd double row below the aforementioned buildings.
You leave me no other reason why you believe this is worthy of deletion. If there's another reason, tell me now and we can argue that for whatever the reason is. I take great pride in taking pictures myself of places I visit, and sharing the ones that come out the best on Wikipedia as examples for the places I have been. I find what you are doing extraordinarily rude and believe that it is people like you that bring ridicule to Wikipedia.
ToddC4176 18:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Please do not falsely tag images with a "date" much earlier than the actual date, as you did with Image:ArauzFlowers2.jpg, Image:ArauzFlowers3.jpg, and others. We leave these images untouched for seven days for a reason - so that the uploader has time to include the source information.
Tagging the images today and declaring in the template that they've been tagged since September 30, means that you're no more honest than those who upload celebrity photos and tag them as logos. Deception for any reason, even an ostensibly good one, is still deception. Regards, Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 19:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed a number of IFD nominations you added on October 5 were for images that were low-resolution copies of others. Just so you know, those can be speedily deleted by tagging them with {{ isd|Example.png}} (replacing "Example.png" with the image filename). Thanks for your help in cleaning up orphaned images. howch e ng { chat} 16:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps you would take a look at this image and the discussion at Talk:Headingley Stadium. I cannot get a definitive handle on the basis that this image can be added to WP so I should welcome your view. BlueValour 03:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Not my intention to vandalize! It was my understanding that low rez images of art were allowed to be uploaded and simply tagged with the art tag. I simply kept reverting them because I noticed it was a BOT that was deleting them.
Thanks for your help!
Hi, YellowDot, I am sorry, but I do not understand what you mean by your entry in my talk page concerning licensing; if I do not use the license tag, I get an automatic message from WP to include one. What will I have to do? Pommes104 08:28 (CET), 28 November 2006 Sorry, got it, checked the history of the photos, saw what you meant. Cheers