User talk:Zscout370

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If you come to see me about my votes on the ArbCom election, please turn away. I do not wish to discuss my method of voting, since I should be able to vote without being challeneged or threatened or even thanked. Thank you. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:31, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

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• User talk:Zscout370/Archive 1: Zscout370 22:25, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• User talk:Zscout370/Archive 2: Zscout370 (Sound Off) 02:35, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• User talk:Zscout370/Archive 3: Zscout370 (Sound Off) 03:49, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
• User talk:Zscout370/Archive 4: Zach (Sound Off) 21:07, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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Jimbo Che Images

I noticed you removed one of these from my user page. That's OK (I understand the ramifications of having fair-use images on a user page, thus denigrating our fair use claims), but what's the history behind the deletion of these images? Wouldn't a parody be considered fair use on the user page? And is the Che image copyrighted (it seems to be all over the place these days). Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bratsche^{talk | Esperanza} 23:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

They were fair use images, and claim as so by the uploader himself. While yes they can be considered a parody, they are still under the fair use doctrine, which does not allow it to be on userpages. And, since the images were only used to be decorated in the userspace, they had to be deleted. Sorry, but it had to be done. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Good job for being brave enough to delete these, I wasn't (-: JYolkowski // talk 21:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I also do not know what Jimbo thinks about the deletions either, so if someone wants to ask, they can go ahead. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I've no objection to the deletions (as obviously within policy), but I wonder if we should talk to the author about trying for a better license. The image was one part creative commons material and one part liberally licensed Che. I would think that we should be able to put two freely licensed items together and come up with something that is also free. Dragons flight 00:06, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I went by what the original uploader had, which was fair use. While I know Jimbo's photo was a free license, but I am not sure what Che photo brian used. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Beep

Hey Zach. This is your bot, right? Being that it just performed several image replacements in one of my watched articles, I'm thinking that .svg images are superior to .png files, correct? I'm asking because, if that's the case, I'll try to privilege this format when/if uploading this kind of image in the future.
Plus I wish I had a bot of my own. But that's just envy talking, I don't even have a use for one right now ;) Redux 05:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, Zbot370 belongs to me. Yes, SVG is prefered to PNG images, mostly for flags now. As for the bot, what I do is run it using the Python language, which I got major help on today. I will do more bot changes in the future. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 06:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what the issue is between you and Calton, but please don't keep reverting his user page. Discuss the issue with him instead: he's a very reasonable person. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 06:33, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

It's called image replacement. PNG is not a superior format, SVG is. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 06:41, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I pinged Calton's talk page. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 06:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Battle is over. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 07:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:21, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

A Quick Thank You

Your bot just saved me about 5 minutes of work. Thank you for allowing me to be somewhat lazy with my updating. - RPharazon 00:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome. It's not a problem really; I been wanting to use a bot like this for months. If you have other flag changes that need to be done, just let me know. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Who is the Koran vandal?

Any ideas? I only noticed him because I happened to catch the user ID being created and then saw it pop up on my watchlist editing Fred's user page 2 mins later. --GraemeL ^(talk) 00:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The reason why I gave the person that name is that they spammed the entire Koran on various talk pages. As for what is going on, I have no idea. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Your bot

I was wondering if your bot could also upload images? One of my long-term projects is to have an article on each and every metro station in Mexico City. Each station has a logo and there are ~70 logos missing, which would be a pain to upload manually. Thanks. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 04:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 04:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Bots

Hi, I'm looking for someone that can write bots to find a bot that could tag all the untagged images as no licence and notify the uploader, there were 38000+ images in the last database dump, and only 10% have been tagged in a month. Do you know of any bots around that could do the job?--nixie 04:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I will ask around. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 04:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks.--nixie 05:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Bandera Monumental

Hello Zach, I finally went to the Bishopric Hill to take some pics of the bandera monumental in order to use them in the article of the Flag of Mexico. Let me know what you think. I only uploaded 2 of the 40 I took. I will buy a better digital cam (semi pro) so I would be able to provide nicer pics soon. See ya.

AlexCovarrubias 13:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Nice photos, thanks for taking them. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 14:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Flag of Mexico

Well... I guess you're happy now. :) Congratulations! Another FA under your belt. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 18:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto. Congratulations! -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 18:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Gracias. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 00:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I've changed the pic, but how the frak can a national flag be copyrighted? --Calton | Talk 05:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

All he said to me that is that he does not want a vector version of the flag, he will allow a PNG version to be used. I am just complying with the author's wish. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 05:34, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Zach I really didn't care about what type of file the image was, all I cared about was the flag being accurate. I really liked your last SVG version because it looked almost the same as the PNG. I don't know why you said "you may now rejoice". Well now I'm wondering if you will use your bot to change the SVG to PNG extension. AlexCovarrubias 22:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, the reason I said that you may rejoice since you really, really liked the PNG flag better than many of the SVG drawings I had done in the past. As for the bot: after I got the word from Juan Manuel about the SVG image, I had the bot replacing images about 15 minutes later. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 23:53, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Alphabetagamnma

Hi Z'. I noticed you had already talked to Alphabetagamnma (talk · contribs) about copyright. He has uploaded more images today with tags claiming that the copyright holder has released the images for any use. I gave him a final warning on his talk page, but I'm not really sure what to do about the images. I tagged the ones he gave a source of Google as no source, but should I go through and delete them all, or wait for his response? --GraemeL ^(talk) 19:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Delete the pics, since many of his past copyvios had the same license. Zach ^{(Smack Back) Fair use policy} 23:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

'User' Templates with fair use tagged images in them

Thanks. --Gmaxwell 01:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Note: the templates I removed showed that I completed the tasks. Those that are left are still needed to be done. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 02:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

With flags and screenshots removed: --Gmaxwell 02:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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Template:User OregonState

Hi there. I noticed you replaced the picture in Template:User OregonState with the letters OSU. I thought it looked much better with the image there, and the image tag description looks as if it is fine to use for this. "It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the corporation, sports team, or organization in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.". This says to me that use of this image here is fine. Care to explain why you removed it? VegaDark 02:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, from what I have been told, fair use images are allowed in articles, but they cannot be used in userboxes. This is stated at WP:FUC, our policy page about fair use images. I removed the image because it was licensed under fair use and that is why I replaced it with text. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 03:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Upon reading that, I cannot fault you for following Wikipedia policy. I can, however, fault the policy. From what I can tell, sports team logos do qualify as fair use even on a userpage, and to completely try and avoid images tagged as fair use being used on userpages just because in "many" cases they are not allowed in that fasion seems to broad of a policy. I will have to look in to this further. VegaDark 03:20, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, from what I can tell you, fair use is a very grey area. And The Powers That Be decided to make the fair use pictures a "not so good" idea, and I do not know why they want to do this. Maybe because they do not see fair use images as being "fair use" on userpages, some see it as causing server problems, some see it as not nessrecary. While the logos are fine for their use on Wikipedia, but just not on user pages. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 03:25, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

You've been warned

Image_talk:Dylan_jams_with_campbell.jpg#I_repeat JDG 04:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

white background for images (again)

I still see a blue background at Image:Republic of China National Emblem.svg and Image:White sun, blue sky.svg.--Jiang 09:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Do you use Internet Explorer? User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 14:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

yes--Jiang 01:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Then that is the major problem. IE cannot handle SVG files and their backgrounds. I use Firefox, so I do not see any of these problems. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 03:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

You were able to fix Image:Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag.svg. can't you do the same for these images?--Jiang 04:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

In the first image, I forgot to put in a white background, which was needed on the flag. But, the other ones, they are circles that are not required to have backgrounds. I can easily fix them, but I am going to ask around first. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 05:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Australian Customs Flag

Thanks for the permission to use your image, Zach. I think I might try to add "Customs" to the national flag svg, thought - it shouldn't be too difficult. JPD (talk) 10:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

It looks good. :) User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 14:31, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

NATO image licensing

I noticed this image uploaded from NATO's website: Image:SergeiLavrov.jpg The licensing for NATO's images is fairly specific, and I think incompatible with Wikipedia, but I wanted to get a second opinion before deleting. The conditions are at the bottom of this page. The last condition - that images can only be used in objective and balanced documentaries/articles - seems like the killer. What do you think? FreplySpang (talk) 17:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I highly think that the image is non-commercial, since it says "No material is to be used for advertising purposes whatsoever," and many WP mirrors contain Google ads. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 17:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response! FreplySpang (talk) 17:58, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome. I was not going to see this until later, but my professor was a no show, so I left class. :P User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire) Fair use policy} 18:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Heh. Well, I zapped it. FreplySpang (talk) 18:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Scouting Barnstarn

Did you see this proposal? Scouting Barnstarn --evrik 20:02, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting!

Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 22:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Mb1000

Hi Zach. I'm not sure mb1000 is ready for adminship yet. Only recently they inadvertently reverted an article because they didn't like the changes one author had made, so he reverted it back to the last version he had edited even though that meant removing the changes made by more than one author. I'm not sure why they did this. It's either lethargy in not wanting to cut and paste the revelant section of the article as was required, or they had an issue with the edits from all authors, but chose to only mention one example in their edit comments. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know since you were saying you supported their application. --Rebroad 00:41, 26 January 2006 (UTC)