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Wikimedia's volunteer response team (VRT) handles copyright permissions, email inquiries from the public, reuse inquiries, article errors, and a wide range of non-public inquiries. The email service is operated and managed by a cross-project team of volunteers at the Meta-Wiki level and not by the English Wikipedia community. Actions by VRT members on English Wikipedia are ultimately subject to review by the Arbitration Committee. Please be aware that there is sometimes a backlog in processing tickets sent to the permissions-en queue. This backlog is currently 0 days. This noticeboard is primarily for Permissions verification and inquiries for text and files (hosted on the English Wikipedia) said to have been granted permission via VRTS. Requests for VRT member review of matters that have been described as VRT comments or actions. Other inquiries to VRT members that do not involve, disclose or reference private material. Do not post Private information or links to private information (including but not limited to emails, phone numbers, physical addresses). Fishing requests (asking for all details of a ticket or generally probing ticket information). You should make a specific request and clearly state the reason for your request. Additional questions on a point, once a VRT member has indicated they cannot answer due to privacy issues. (Further inquiries and any complaints should be made via email.) Requests for VRTS access (use meta:VRT/Volunteering instead). Questions regarding media hosted on Wikimedia Commons (use Commons:Volunteer Response Team/Noticeboard instead). Media questions unrelated to VRT (use Wikipedia:Media copyright questions instead). Disputes For disputes over VRT actions on English Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team § Dispute resolution and Wikipedia:Dispute resolution § Sensitive issues and functionary actions. Useful VRT email addresses Removal of private or defamatory information Requests for oversight or oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org Submission of photos to be used in a Wikipedia article photosubmissionwikimedia.org Follow the instructions here Confirmation of copyright permission permissions-enwikimedia.org Follow the format given here Reports of threatened harm to self or others emergencywikimedia.org Guidance: Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm Reports of child pornography legal-reportswikimedia.org See Wikimedia Legal Policies Issues with an article about you or your organization info-en-qwikimedia.org Guidance: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help Any other inquiries involving private information info-enwikimedia.org

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File:Kocharian-debate.jpg

This file is tagged with {{ConfirmationImageOTRS}}, which was added by the uploader, who is not an OTRS member. There is no author information. The uploader also has a fair share of blocks under their name. Can an OTRS member look into this and see if the ticket number is valid? — ξ^xplicit 22:21, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

It has been removed as invalid.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Change attribution for Commons photo?

I submitted a photo to Commons that pertained to a current event and got permission from my friend, the author, to submit it under my name and have it be attributed to my username in order to post it quickly (she didn't want to create a Commons account). It ended up being used in the national media and I would like to make sure she gets proper credit. Can someone point me in the right direction on how to resolve this? Valfontis (talk) 17:19, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

@Valfontis: Sure thing! Can you drop us an email at info-enwikimedia.org, and I (or whoever finds it first!) will get this sorted out. Just mention Mdann52 said they would deal with this and it'll find it's way to me. Mdann52 (talk) 11:53, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! Valfontis (talk) 17:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

@Mdann52: ticket:2015100510022545. I've marked the image as {{OTRS received}}, copyright holder should confirm license. Storkk (talk) 13:20, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm contacting the copyright holder. When she gives me her e-mail I'll have her contact you--I expect I'll get an e-mail about this? Valfontis (talk) 15:33, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

File:Beverly_Willis,_2015.jpg

Update on OTRS pending for File:Beverly Willis, 2015.jpg -- The copyright holder has emailed a statement of permission. Ticket#: 2015101010010619 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brunelleschi9 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Files by User:Lift truck

Lift truck (talk · contribs) uploaded files, claiming he works for Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A. and has the right to release them under a free license. File:Toyota 6-series.jpg and File:Toyota 8-series.jpg are tagged with {{PermissionOTRS}}, but File:Toyota's first US Lift Truck.JPG and File:Toyota's first forklift.JPG are not. Is the second group of files covered under the ticket number for the first group of files, or are they lacking evidence of permission? — ξ^xplicit 18:54, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

@Explicit: The ticket only covers File:Toyota 8-series.jpg, File:Toyota 7-series.jpg, File:Toyota 6-series.jpg, and File:Toyota 5-series.jpg. Mdann52 (talk) 20:44, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Norm Sartorius page, image copyright

The image NormSartoriusHomage2.jpg copyright release has been submitted to permissions. The rights hold holder is photographer Jim Osborn. He listed it as "NormSartoriusHomage.jpg" in his permission email. You can see that is it is the same image. Or I can rename it to correspond to his written permission.

Thx, Craig