User talk:Marchjuly

Flag vandal

1. I've blocked the IP that Dorsetonian mentioned, since it's definitely block evasion.
2. The IP you mentioned must have been a mistake; Special:Contributions/125.212.176.22, Special:DeletedContributions/125.212.176.22, and the IP's filter log are all blank. (I can't see how someone could do anything without showing up on one of these places.) Could you check to see which IP you meant?
3. I don't quite see the point of pending changes, since this person's hitting a lot of separate pages. Could you help me understand better? Looks to me like block-on-sight is easier than protecting, since it doesn't likely have any collateral damage, and either way we'll have to do a ton of actions if the person just keeps coming back. Nyttend (talk) 23:34, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

@Nyttend:. I have lots of flag articles on my watchlist because some editors tend to add non-free images to them by mistake. In the past month or so, I've noticed quite a number of questionable edits being made by IPs beginning with the number 125. for example, about 30 edits by IPs beginning with 125 have been made to Flags of Europe since around the beginning of October. About 40 edits have been made to Flags of Asia and about 80 edits have been made to Gallery of flags of dependent territories by similar IPs since beginning of October. There are more flag articles which have been effected. Almost all of the edits made have been undone fairly quickly and some of the IPs were even blocked, but a new one keeps showing up. Perhaps I'm too readily assuming these are all the same person here, but these edits do all seem to be trying be the same content wise. So, I thought pending changes might be a way to allow unrelated IPs to continue to edit the articles by requiring only requiring a review (regular pp stops them from editing altogether), and allow others to stop the 125 edits before they go live. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:11, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

headshot graphics

Hi Marchjuly,

Thanks for the assist with headshot graphics. None of the categories seemed to exactly fit when I uploaded. Also did not know graphics could be registered copyright free with wiki, and that seems like the best way to handle these moving forward.Tlvernon (talk) 17:25, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

@Tlvernon: A copyright holder can choose to upload their content to Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons if they want; they just have to understand and be willing to do so in accordance with WP:COPY and c:COM:L. Basically, they need to be willing to give their WP:CONSENT and release their content as such. This does not, however, mean they're transferring their copyright ownership to Wikipedia; it just means they are releasing a "version" of their work under a license which makes it easier for others to freely use without having to worry about infringing on someone else's copyright. It also doesn't mean that any trademarks they might own over the content are voided. One of the important things to remember though is that such licenses cannot be revoked at a later date if the copyright holder changes their mind. Wikipedia and Commons are sister projects and there's lot of overlap in policies between the two, but there are some differences. Files uploaded to Wikipedia are local files that will only work in (English) Wikipedia, while files uploaded to Commons are global files that will work in any Wikimedia project; so, its generally preferred that "free files" be uploaded to Commons because it makes it easier for more people to use them and because Commons primary function is to host such files. The other big difference is that Commons doesn't accept any type of fair use/fair dealing content at all while Wikipedia will as long as its use complies with Wikipedia's non-free content use policy. This policy is quite restrictive though and there's lots of types of content which aren't allowed.

As for the photo of Sweeney you uploaded, relevant policy simply doesn't allow non-free images of living persons to be uploaded for primary identification purposes. This has pretty much been a constant for a long-time. There are certain exceptions, but these often require some serious discussion before they are allowed. Your best bet here is just to get someone to create a new "free" photo of Sweeney and have them upload it to Commons with the original exif data before publishing it anywhere online. The person creating the photo (i.e., the photographer) will be the copyright holder and they just need to create a Commons account and upload the photo. If they choose any of the licenses in c:COM:CC, they should be fine. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:06, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

New York City housing shortage

thanks for combining all the maintenance templates, but I thought the dissenters did a great job of plastering the article with warnings and it was kind of colorful before :-) Seahawk01 (talk) 02:33, 20 December 2018 (UTC)