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Thirty Flights of Loving

Hey! I am almost finished with my draft for Thirty Flights of Loving, before I take it to FA. Since you were the original writer of the article (thanks for that); I would like to share the nomination with you. After all, it was a joint effort to make the article what it is, and what it would be :) Cheers! — ΛΧΣ21 Call me Hahc21 23:11, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I'll help co-nom it, no problem, thanks for letting me know. :) --MASEM (t) 23:13, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thirty Flights of Loving is ready. I will wait until it's promoted to GA to take it to FAC. -Hopes it's fast- Cheers. — ΛΧΣ21 Call me Hahc21 14:39, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Loving is now at FAC :) I already added your name :) — ΛΧΣ21 Call me Hahc21 16:39, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Quick Question about Story Arcs

I don't oppose the Doctor Who story arc page being moved to individual pages, but Doctor Who (series 5) is already GA and I was wondering if sources would need to be added to the future summary to keep that status up to date. Also, I worked on adding summaries to each episode (for most of them anyway), so is the summary section always necessary? Glimmer721 talk 02:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The idea is that if Story Arcs went away, then the wikilink to "crack in the universe" would find its home on Series 5 where the series summary would focus on that arching aspect. (at most, 2 paragraphs long and not touching on every episode, just the key points) As a plot summary it wouldn't need sourcing but it easily can be from non-primary sources since I know that various review/commentary sites followed the cracks theme. So it should not "break" the GA at all. --MASEM (t) 05:06, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
All right no problem then. Would the individual episode summaries then become irrelevant? Glimmer721 talk 01:26, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No. The idea is not to touch on every episode but gloss over the larger picture. See what I did already on Doctor Who (Series 1) for how I am thinking this is going to be added. --MASEM (t) 01:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jimi Hendrix mugshot image

As you have shown interest in this image before, you are invited to comment on its deletion discussion. It can be found at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2014_January_8#File:Jimihendrix1969mug.jpg. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 18:48, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Cheers

I know you're only doing your job, and doing it for the betterment of the encyclopedia. As you've seen in the discussion, I will go to the point of researching the image beyond the established claim of fair-use to see if it is actually includable under another license. I learned hard and fast on image copyrights through experience here; and I certainly respect the difficult role of keeping copyrighted images off of WP, tremendously. But there are unusual cases that blanket interpretations of #8 & #3 don't do any justice. This is one of them. I appreciate your input there, and no hard feelings to you or any other editor. Cheers :) Doc talk 04:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Doc talk 06:14, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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RFC: Month abbreviations

Hi Masem! Your input at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#RFC: Month abbreviations would be appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

January 2014

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MLP Episode 78 "Simple Ways" - Possible Writer Error

I put TBA in the 'Written by' section of the MLP episode "Simple Ways" cause the "Bats!" episode had Meghan McCarthy as the writer, not Merriwether Williams. The writer for "Simple Ways" might not be Meghan McCarthy. --Asaraullo05 12:45, 17 January 2014 (PST)

The press release for Bats! correctly had Williams listed as writer; it was only the episode title card that was wrong. There's no reason to doubt the press release at this time for the Simple Ways episode. --MASEM (t) 20:46, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Question about images

Hi Masem, I wonder if I could ask your advice about image releases. I'm looking for photographs of Plamil Foods products for the article about them. There are plenty on Flickr that I could probably get releases for. I'm thinking of images like this one. My question is whether a release from the photographer is enough for an image like that, where a company's products are displayed. Any advice would be appreciated. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The core issue you're pointing to is the "de minimus" aspect , if the product artwork is the center of the image that would make it a derivative work of Plamil's copyright. I would probably say that this would be considered de minimus - the focus of that photo is not so much on the packaging artwork, but on the overall display of the product, but that is a point that someone else might consider an issue in the future. But if we assume de mininus applies, then yes you only need the photographer's consent for a free image to use as a free image.
As another point, some of those packaging labels are simply text, which would fail the threshold of originality. And since you can't copyright the utility of the packaging approach (the celophane), photos of packages with those labels would definitely be clear of any copyrights save that of the photographer. This would make even more reasonable that you only need to get the photographer's consent to use as free. --MASEM (t) 23:03, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, that's very helpful, thank you. I'll go ahead and try to get a release in that case. SlimVirgin (talk) 00:33, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Coin images

Just to let you know, I have asked for a steer on the question from Jimbo on his talkpage. I hope I've represented your position fairly. Jheald (talk) 12:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Abundance of press release citations in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 4)

Even though we discussed this in the article's talk page previously, I'm still conflicted as to what the purpose of citing each of The Hub's episodic press releases are. Episodes that have been made publicly available (via broadcast or otherwise) are already primary sources of themselves. Since the references are placed directly after the titles, this implies that the references are used to verify those titles. But since each episode already features the title, citing them is made redundant. WP:ABOUTSELF makes it clear not to base articles primarily on such sources. If the references for the titles that have been broadcast were taken out, I don't think doing so would harm the notability of the article at all. Instead, I think that would give more incentive to expand the article with more secondary and tertiary sources. — Whisternefet (t · c) 00:56, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Using press release to cite first broadcast details of an episode is not a sourcing problem; the season already is shown notable by other sources, and using primary sources to affirm factual data is fine. --MASEM (t) 00:59, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not what I was trying to say, which is that the episodes are already primary sources. Since the references are placed after the title, their function is to serve as a reference for the titles. This would be necessary if the episodes were broadcast without titles. But since they are, citing the press releases is entirely redundant. You don't see list articles like List of Lost or Family Guy episodes provide citations of itself after every title: it's superfluous. If each episode displays a title, then why does that title require further verification using a press release about it? — Whisternefet (t · c) 01:47, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
True, the episodes themselves are sources for title and production credits, but airdates remain separate from that. These should be used to support the airdate and can be moved there. --MASEM (t) 02:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The air dates are already referenced through the Zap2it ref in the "Original air date" column header. That reference applies to every air date listed in the column, excluding those not broadcast yet, for which we can reference air dates individually until it has been broadcast (since it's not as obvious for the reader). — Whisternefet (t · c) 02:25, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Technically, the Zap2It references are primary sources as well (they aren't analyzing or interpreting the data). The only reason the press releases are better sources is that they give all the casting and writing credits too. There is nothing wrong with number of primary sources - even if we end up with 26 different press releases; that's not the issue that when we talk about basing an article on too many primary sources. You can check with the TV wikiproject to see if they have any more advice, I just don't think there's harm here yet. --MASEM (t) 02:32, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I moved the references to the air date column (for the record). — Whisternefet (t · c) 03:48, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Usage of Clementine image

January 20th, you restored my edition of Clementine (The Walking Dead) in good faith. I hope I didn't do anything stupid, but I would see the image (File:Clementine, from The Walking Dead, A Telltale Game Series.png) in the article) Thank you for the attention, Yoshidome — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoshidome (talk • contribs) 20:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is that we don't have any reason - yet - to include a separate image of Clementine from the second season. She looks the same as the first (perhaps a bit taller, but that's trivial) and our NFC requirements set a higher bar for inclusion. Also, it is a very dark image and not useful for identifying her compared to the existing image .--MASEM (t) 20:27, 24 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stavros_Damianides_Hyde_Park_Festival,_Channel_9_Stage.png

Can you please change the license to CC-BY-3.0 I am unable to change the license for the image. I am the original uploader/owner.

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