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File:Luz Mendoza 2019.jpg

This file was uploaded back in February and the uploader asserts permission under OTRS:2020020510008825 in the description. Is this valid? If so, can an OTRS agent move it to Commons and put a reviewed tag on it?

Also: if I find other cases like this, should I convert them into {{OTRS pending}} templates, mention them here, or just leave them be?

Thanks, Vahurzpu (talk) 23:48, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Vahurzpu, That ticket did not resolve with a confirmation of permission. It should have been tagged with {{OTRS received}} by the agent handling it, but that wasn't done. If a ticket contains a valid release, an OTRS agent will place {{OTRS permission}} on the file description page. If you find any other files with just a ticket number, feel free to throw {{OTRS pending}} on it. That will at least make it easier to find. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 03:15, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Resolved

Thanks! Vahurzpu (talk) 03:53, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

OTRS Ticket:2008111310026387

I recently re-read Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_65#Censorship_at_David_Rohde, and was reminded that I was referred there to ticket:2008111310026387 - which, of course, I did not have authorization to read. I requested passages from it be made public, back then.

Yes, I understand that OTRS tickets protect information that, generally, should be protected forever. But, in this particular case, if David S. Rodhe needed protection, wasn't it only for the duration of his kidnapping?

Since Rodhe escaped, in 2009, are there reasons why the text of the original request couldn't be made public?

I am going to {{ping}} people whose comments in the Village Pump discussion seemed related to OTRS: @Rjd0060, Dfonseca, Uncle G, Hipocrite, MBisanz, Jimbo Wales, CBM, Mcools, Apoc2400, and Pnd: Geo Swan (talk) 18:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

"if David S. Rodhe needed protection, wasn't it only for the duration of his kidnapping?" - Yes, and if you check the page's protection log you'll see it was only protected for the duration of his kidnapping.

There's nothing in the OTRS ticket that would cause the alteration of even one word in the article. You can volunteer to help out at m:OTRS/Volunteering, sign up to the confidentiality requirements and see for yourself if you wish. Cabayi (talk) 19:25, 6 August 2020 (UTC)