User talk:Spitwater

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:GenesisI.jpeg)[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:GenesisI.jpeg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

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Your user page[edit]

Greetings Chris; I wanted to drop you a note in reference to your user page. Generally, it is discouraged to reproduce mainspace articles on one's main personal page, and it is also forbidden for fair-use imagry to be displayed in the Userspace. To that end, I would suggest it might be best for you to move the existing page to a subpage, such as User:Spitwater/Bigelow. If you have any questions, please let me know! -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 01:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:345841975_3498003c55_o.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:345841975_3498003c55_o.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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Taken care of (license, rationale, etc), however, you do need to write the URL you obtained this at in the summary section. Cheers! -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 11:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image licensing[edit]

Greetings Mr Reed, hope all is sailing smoothly at BA. I've noticed you are tagging the images you are uploading with conflicting licensing tags. For example, on the images Image:Sundancer in orbit.jpg & Image:GenesisI.jpeg, you are using the tag {{Attribution}} (which is a free-use tag) and {{WithPermission}} (which is a fair-use tag). These two tags cannot be mixed, so it must be decided whether the image will be released as free-use (Public Domain, GDFL, or similar) or will be released as fair-use (all rights reserved, etc). Of course, Wikipedia prefers freely released media, as it can be used virtually worldwide without restriction, but the choice, of course, remains with Bigelow Aerospace as the copyright holders.

Basically, you need to review the images that you have uploaded and correct the licensing information, or they risk being deleted at any time if an administrator discovers the discrepancy. If you need any assistance with this problem, for any reason, don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page and I'll do whatever I can to help. -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 01:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear uploader: The media file you uploaded as Image:Genesis_Flight_Model_rendering_1.jpg has been listed for speedy deletion because you selected a copyright license type implying some type of restricted use, such as for non-commercial use only, or for educational use only or for use on Wikipedia by permission. While it might seem reasonable to assume that such files can be freely used on Wikipedia, this is in fact not the case[1][2]. Please do not upload any more files with these restrictions on them, because content on Wikipedia needs to be compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows anyone to use it for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. See our non-free content guidelines for more more information.

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

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 11:30, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unspecified source for Image:345841975_3498003c55_o.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:345841975_3498003c55_o.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 06:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. MER-C 06:07, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Genesis rendering.jpg[edit]

Thanks for uploading Image:Genesis rendering.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 09:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Genesis spacecraft images[edit]

Hey Chris, not a problem. I made a sweep through all the Bigelow articles and fixed up the contents of each image, so we shouldn't have this problem with the others.

I apologize for not doing any work on the Bigelow articles for so long, but university and work have had to take priority lately. I have, however, placed a final version of the Galaxy article in my userspace to get a review by you to make sure all the information jives...it was a little hard to put everything together, given the general lack of historic data on it (and I was also unsure of when the name changed from Guardian as there were no good sources, so I made a general statement regarding the timeframe and situation). It's located at User:Huntster/Sandbox if you'd mind vetting it. Also, since no other image (I can find) publicly exist of Galaxy, would it be permissible to take the size comparison image from the Bigelow website, cut Genesis from it, and use it in the article? That is, if the result even looks reasonable, which I don't really think it will...just too small. Thanks, and cheers! -- Huntster ^{T • @ • C} 18:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hoover Dam Bypass newspaper reference...[edit]

Updated your reference (the link you put in was 404, it needed to be html, not htm,) used the "cite news" template to make it look nice, and made it one named reference with backlinks to it. Figured you'd want to know, and maybe to see how I did it. — CJewell (talk to me) 05:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:345841975 3498003c55 o.jpg[edit]

Thank you for uploading Image:345841975 3498003c55 o.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this image under "fair use" may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the image description page and add or clarify the reason why the image qualifies for fair use. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check:

That there is a non-free use rationale on the image's escription page for each article the image is used in.
That every article it is used on is linked to from its description page.

Please be aware that a fair use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for images used under the fair use policy require both a copyright tag and a fair use rationale.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it might be deleted by adminstrator within a few days in accordance with our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 23:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and replaced this image with one that better meets Wikipedia's guidelines (it is a bit smaller in size and contains no extraneous water marking or other text). You won't need to do anything else, Chris. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 03:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:345841975 3498003c55 o.jpg)[edit]

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AfD nomination of World Jewelry Center[edit]

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Orphaned non-free image File:Genesis rendering.jpg[edit]

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Thanks for uploading File:Genesis rendering.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:33, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Genesis rendering.jpg[edit]

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Thanks for uploading File:Genesis rendering.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:29, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]