User talk:Melesse

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Meelar (talk) 01:37, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

Orphan Image

All the images i have used so far is being diplayed in a separate page (User:Shivaji Mitra/LesTout.com) as requested by Admin עוד מישהו Od Mishehu. Should I add the {{not orphan}} ?

Please Read

Please, before you tag an image for speedy deletion because it's orphaned, can you read the file links section. SimpsonsFan08 (talk)

In one article

I think all those images you've tagged are all in 1 article . that's my user page User:MightySaiyan

Do not understand

Hi!

Refer to: (cur) (last) 00:06, 12 February 2008 Melesse (Talk | contribs) (29,857 bytes) (rmv image notices) (undo)

I simply do not understand why you deleted an image on article about IDEA. After deletion the text below the image became meaningless. Did you read the article after "removing vandalism". Likely many others than just me would appreciate good explanation in stead of "rmw". It requires much efforts for us to get images on the Wikipedia, but it takes only a second or two to delete it.

Orphaned DWMM

It wont be orphaned soon as i put it up for an article im creating on a machinima series. Its an original series and since nobodys made one, im making one. Goku1st(talk) 11:35 GMT , 20 July 2008

Fair use issue

Hello! You have recently delete the Image:Playboy Magazine January 1990.jpg that I uploaded (cover of Playboy for Joan Severance), you may pronounce at the deletion of fair use images in the biography of Kareena Kapoor, for consistency. Regards, Sdrtirs (talk) 16:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Use of CSD#16 when a Fair Use rationale existed

Hi Rettetast and Melesse —

This really isn't that important, since I had only logged in to blank my user page anyway, but I saw your (Rettetast's) notice that you were going to delete the image for the Son House article because "there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use." You note that "in addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use."

(Well, actually I can't quite tell if you wrote this or a bot, since this "opt out" link at the bottom is for bots, but I'll guess that it's a bot using your account).

Melesse then deleted it per WP:CSD#16.

Now, since I don't edit here any more, I don't care one whit about the image, but for the record (pulling up the deleted article), the content on that page was:

date=July 20 2008
Son House

{{{Non-free promotional}}}

Photo © Richard Waterman (unknown date: 1960-something).

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:
*it is a historically significant photo of a famous person.
*the image is only being used for informational purposes.
*Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article, which is a biography of this person. 
*The photo has already been featured as a CD cover, [1], and is thus counted as promotional.

— Asbestos | Talk 12:03, 22 Apr  2005 (UTC)

[[Category:Images of people]]

From what I can tell from WP:FURG, this is a valid Fair Use rationale (although a little dated compared to the number of rationales expected these days), and, whether or not the rationale was valid, there was some Fair Use rationale. Therefore, speeding it due to WP:CSD#16 was entirely inappropriate, as far as I understand.

I'm guessing, but correct me if I' wrong that you (Rettetast) or a bot are just finding all images with FU tags which don't also include {{{Non-free use rationale}}}, and are automatically tagging them and leaving messages without looking. Then you (Melesse) are deleting without looking.

That may be entirely wrong, and I'm assuming good-faith and know that you're not doing anything maliciously. I also, as I said, don't much care about old images that I uploaded. But if this kind of thing is happening a lot, then there are probably hundreds of images that have been speedily deleted which really shouldn't have been.

All I'm suggesting is that a little more time gets put into your administrative decisions (all of which should be taken with care), and not to rely completely on bots and WP:TW and other such programs that can't actually read the content of the works they're suggesting you delete.

Of course, one other possibility, which I understand would be way above your payscale, would be simply to replace a faulty or non-existant FUR with one of the many pre-written ones, such as {{{Album cover article rationale}}}, which is generic and works for all album covers. It wouldn't take any more time than deleting it does, and has the added benefit of actually making the encyclopedia better, instead of removing images from articles just because they used a rationale that was considered acceptable three years ago.

Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 17:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Image deletions

Melesse, please be more circumspect about your image deletions. As an administrator it is your responsibility to evaluate the merit of CSD claims before acting on them. Many of the images you have deleted recently have been within our policies or only required trivial work to bring them within policy. Why not put forth a little work to fix them rather than deleting them? There are no barnstars for deleting the most images the fastest :) Kaldari (talk) 18:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Image:NewShazam1.jpg

I got your message about my Shazam picture and I think I got it all correct, please let me know if there is anything else I need to do. I only have it on Freddy Freeman's page because of the recent activity in comics with him and its by the part of the article it makes sense with. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tigerklinge (talk • contribs) 04:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Trump_International_Hotel_and_Tower_(Chicago)

Can you give me your opinion on Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Image_workshop/Archive/Aug_2008#Trump_International_Hotel_and_Tower_.28Chicago.29_floor_diagram? How do you suggest getting a diagram?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 13:48, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I already did, didn't I? If nobody will actually do it then that's unfortunate, but there's not much I can do about that. Melesse (talk) 05:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Vlcsnap-6674973.png)

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RE: Replaceable fair use Image:Davidtrackinginstudiodisturbed.jpg

Could you possibly clarify what you mean to me? --The Guy _complain ^edits 00:21, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Please Check

Image:The_Boulevard_Aug_2008.jpg I have added what you have requested, please let me know if this is acceptable.

I have tagged Image:The_Boulevard_Aug_2008.jpg as {{no rationale}}, because it does not provide a fair use rationale. If you believe the image to be acceptable for fair use according to Wikipedia policy, please provide a rationale explaining as much, in accordance with the fair use rationale guideline, on the image description page. Some examples can be found at Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. Please also consider using {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Non-free. Thank you. Melesse (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

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Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Baal looking at Osiris.jpg}

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Your uploads

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Resolution of non-free images

Hi Melesse - I figure you're the editor most likely to know the answer to this question: didn't there used to be a policy that non-free images couldn't have a resolution of higher than 300 px on either dimension? All I can find now is subjective stuff (i.e. resolution can't be higher than it needs to be and can't compromise the copyright holder's ability to profit from the image). I ask because the uploader of this image, which I tagged for reduction and you reduced, has questioned me on that. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 03:59, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

The 300 thing isn't really documented anywhere anymore because it was just a rule of thumb to make sure images would be under 0.1megapixels. Here's discussion on it. Melesse (talk) 05:20, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

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