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File:Hughie Gallacher.jpg

Hi Majora. I saw the message you left at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 July 26#File:Hughie Gallacher.jpg. Since the thread has been closed, I just post a sort reply here. I am aware that the NFCC requires a fair use rationale for each use of an image; sometimes, however, some editors see a keep close as meaning that non-free use in other articles is automatically NFCC compliant. That is why the old {{Non-free reviewed}} template included the text "This file's use on other pages or in different contexts may require additional review at Wikipedia:Files for discussion". No such text has been added to {{Oldffdfull}} since NFCR was merged into FFD last year, so closers of FFD often add something such as the above to their closes just to avoid any possible misunderstandings. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:28, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Marchjuly: Sorry about the delay. Seems a little redundant to me but I also know that nobody actually reads any of the policies on copyright law so...the page has been adjusted. Let me know if there is anything else you would like me to do. --Majora (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Majora. You're probably right that it is redundant, but at least now all bases seems to be covered. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edit for Stacie Huckeba

Thank you for your help. I think that I fixed the necessary information, but please let me know if I have not.

EDIT 09.06.2016 16:29

@Majora: I have sent an email to Nathan, Stacie and her staff to send me another email and to use the permissions format that you linked me to at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries Once I get another email in this format, as opposed to one from her staff saying that this is the photo that Stacie wants to use for her wiki page, I'll post that. Thanks again.

EDIT 09.08.2016 16:42

@Majora: I have forwarded the email from the photographer to "permissions-en@wikimedia.org". I hope that this takes care of what is needed. Thanks for your help, Majora — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waldolc (talk • contribs) 21:44, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Waldolc (talk • contribs) 18:49, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Waldolc: Permission needs to be verified as we don't just take people's word for it. Please see the instructions on your talk page. If you have questions please let me know. --Majora (talk) 20:37, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Melville Saskatchewan Page

Hi Majora,

Thank you very much for your note. I will forward an email to permissions at Wikimedia that outlines permission to use the photos from the person who created the file. How do I note that I am not being paid to make the edits, nor do I have a conflict of interest? I do not work for or represent the subject of the article. I see all the edits I made have been removed - can you please provide me with the content that was removed? I'd be happy for any tips on how to make my submissions stronger. The information I added to the Melville Sask page is more current, accurate, and relevant than what is currently noted.

Thanks, Kari — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kstreel (talk • contribs) 15:33, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Kstreel: The information on that page was directly copied from another website in violation of copyright law. It has been removed from the history and I cannot retrieve it. Even if I could, I wouldn't as the changes you made to that article were so incredibly promotional that they do not belong on Wikipedia. We are not here to advertise or promote anything. We are not here to get people to visit someplace or to work for a tourism board. Material on here must adhere to a neutral point of view and be stated in a way that does not promote or advertise anything. Please see WP:NOTPROMOTION. If you have further questions please let me know. --Majora (talk) 21:35, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Majora,

Thank you for your note and for your helpful comments. Do your comments apply to all of the content I uploaded? I ask because some of the information e.g. under history, infrastructure, and sports, to name a few, where simply updates to outdated information or new information that readers would find as interesting facts about the city. Information in these sections where not directly copied from another website. I can adjust my language to have a neutral tone and I now understand the importance of this. I look forward to your thoughts.

Thanks, Kari — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kstreel (talk • contribs) 21:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Kstreel: I only looked at the end result. Which was pretty much a blatant advertisement for the tourism board. The copyright violation was introduced in your very first edit. So every edit after that also contained the violation. That is why all of your edits had to be undone and all of your edits had to be removed from the history. Since leaving any of them would have still left the copyvio in the article's history. --Majora (talk) 22:14, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Responding to your 9/2 note on my wall

Finally have a moment to look again to your note. It seems that deletion nomination of File:Alvi Fokou Fopa training at Central Connecticut State University stadium, 2012.jpg your objection was to the image of Alvi Fokou Fopa, correct? In the second paragraph of your note, you talk about deleting the entire page. This was a typo on your part?--A21sauce (talk) 19:13, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@A21sauce: By page I meant the file page (now deleted). Not the article. Every article is a page but not every page is an article. Sorry about confusion. That is the standard wording for those speedy deletion notices. If permission is eventually confirmed the image can be undeleted. If you have any other questions please let me know. --Majora (talk) 21:32, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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 Fixed --Majora (talk) 20:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Marc Secara picture

Hi Majora,

I did send a permission email from Marc Secara to the Wiki email address provided for the picture of Marc, as he owns it.

File:Marc pic V.jpeg

Shelyric (talk) 20:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)‎[reply]

@Shelyric: Great. Now please follow the rest of the instructions and place {{OTRS pending}} on the image page. DO NOT post email address, the content of an email, phone numbers, or other personal information anywhere on Wikipedia. I'm sure you wouldn't want that happening to you so please don't post other people's private information. Thank you. --Majora (talk) 21:00, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Sorry, I mixed up what information was going where. It will not happen again. Shelyric (talk) 21:06, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FFD

Hi Majora, Just wanted to say no worries inregards to the image, We all make mistakes so it's all cool :),
Admittingly having seen the closure on my watchlist I was originally going to come here moaning and ranting however seeing your replies here and at Commons and the fact you sincerely apologized I just couldn't rant & moan, I also extremely appreciate you apologizing and admitting the mistake instead of just closing without saying anything so thanks for that :),
I suppose I could drag you to the dismal swamp and create tons of dramah which is the norm over there these days :P,
Anyway thanks again & happy editing :), –Davey2010Talk 13:46, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Davey. I was more than a little embarrassed that I missed that and then told you to transfer it to Commons. When I saw the DR my first reaction was more in the "oh crap..." range. Everything is all set now though. So that is good. Happy everything worked out in the end. --Majora (talk) 20:12, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Retaliatory

I feel a challenge to my motives is both improper and unwarranted. Not gonna make a stink about it there, but not gonna just let it pass either. Oppose the proposal if you like, that's what proposals are for, but hands off my ethics without clear evidence please. ―Mandruss ☎ 03:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I call them like I see them. And you managed to go from a thread about self-promotion in images to requesting a TBAN on someone completely else. You did that. Not me. I'll oppose your proposal for whatever reason I damn well please. --Majora (talk) 03:39, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Unlike you, I don't feel the need to choose sides, and I have not done so. This is not binary for me. All I said was that Stemoc and Winkelvi are not the right people to deal with Calibrador because they are not capable of keeping cool heads with regard to that issue. Battleground mentality crusaders are not solutions. If you need links, try WP:BATTLEGROUND and maybe WP:AGF. ―Mandruss ☎ 03:45, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You managed to deflect Calibrador's issues onto somebody else while simultaneously giving Calibrador a pass on his self-promoting behavior. I noticed you didn't !vote on the restrictions that would actually affect Calibrador but instead jumped right into a proposal against Stemoc. But alas, the second you decided to link me to policies, and especially AGF, is the second this conversation was over. I certainly don't need to be linked to policies, and certainly not on my own talk page. I'm fully aware of the policies Wikipedia has. I don't need to be "reminded" of them like I joined the project yesterday. Good day to you. --Majora (talk) 03:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

Cheers for adding the Tallinn logo :)

Schpider (talk) 15:58, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Majora,

I was asked to provide another link after I submitted the Promo Azteca logo to WP:IFU. The link I added was the wrong one. This is the correct link. 72.74.201.39 (talk) 17:06, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --Majora (talk) 20:46, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help. 72.74.201.39 (talk) 21:32, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CSD G5 nominations

Hi Majora. Please note that I have declined a number of CSD G5 nominations you made for files uploaded by Reema Kumari 01. In order to be eligible for G5 deletion, the edits/uploads must have been made contrary to a block or ban. As the master account was blocked concurrently with the sock accounts, this is not the case with these edits.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:43, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Ponyo: Yes I saw. I'm going through and undoing the rest of them that I tagged. Wasn't aware of that stipulation. Sometimes the letter of the policy doesn't really make a while lot of sense to me but meh. I'll undo the rest. --Majora (talk) 20:44, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I agree it seems like a painful technicality at times, but WP:G5 is explicit that just plain socking doesn't count, it must be block or ban evasion.--Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 20:47, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. Thank you for the clarification. I will keep that in mind for the future. --Majora (talk) 20:49, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cesar Santos

Hi. First off, I am sorry to have offended you by my double request. That was not my intention. I just wanted to upload this painting of the artist to the page. How can he release the painting under creative commons? Please go ahead and reject the request. Thyymepeek (talk) 10:31, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Thyymepeek: If you wish to try to get the artist to release the painting under Creative Commons please see WP:COPYREQ. If you have questions about this please let me know. --Majora (talk) 00:42, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

File:Evan McMullin.jpg

Hi there Majora. Thanks for fixing up my tagging of this image. As you might realize, I know next to nothing about which exact templates to use for which image problems, so your help was appreciated. If I come across a similar issue in the future, with an image that has been OTRS tagged as an insufficient release for a long period, is F11 the right tag to use? The documentation in different places seems to imply different things, so it would be helpful to know. 64.105.98.115 (talk) 14:38, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That particular speedy deletion tag can only be applied by OTRS agents since the F11 criterion requires that the ticket be checked to make sure no attempts to resolve the permission issue is ongoing. I'm slowly going through all the old images that should have been deleted a while ago but in the meantime if you find one that you want me to take a look at you can let me know here or at WP:OTRS/N. --Majora (talk) 19:32, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the speedy response. I'll keep that link in mind as one more resource. At the moment I'm mostly concerned about images of McMullin - not because of any particular animus toward him, but because the same non-free images sourced to his campaign keep getting uploaded without adequate permissions. These are all obviously part of the same photoshoot, so if you see another from the same set you can probably assume that the same lack-or-response from the image above applies - for what it's worth. But as I said, thanks for the response (and for tagging that other image on Commons before I could get to it). 64.105.98.115 (talk) 20:10, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Blp violation on Lorenzo Tan wiki

Hi,

I was wondering what the blp violation was with regard to the education and career history entries? I read the guidelines and I couldnt find any. Thanks for your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randall tor (talk • contribs) 11:50, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Randall tor: You added information about a living person that was not sourced. Specifically about Maia Deguito. This is a violation of our BLP policy. Also, take a close look at WP:BLPCRIME which is particularly relevant for this matter. If you have any questions please let me know. --Majora (talk) 00:40, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Majora: you're right about that. My bad. I put the entry in thinking that I would link it to the source after but completely forgot about it. Sorry about that. But what about the education and career history, you also took it down and I was wondering if it is ok to put it back up? Unless there are other sourcing problems that still need to be resolved.– User:Randall Tor —Preceding undated comment added 07:32, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Randall Tor: If you are asking if it would be alright to put it back as it was, the answer would be no. Those entire sections had no sources at all. Our biographies on living people policy requires that all information on BLP articles be sourced to a reliable source. Any information that is not sourced is subject to immediate removal. If you wish to add that information back, you are going to have to provide sources. --Majora (talk) 23:33, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Ansel Elgort Image Change

Hi Maura! I'm new to Wikipedia and I can't quite figure out how to reply to your message on the original thread. However, I sent an email to the address you provided about the Ansel Elgort image change. Hopefully this will be an adequate amount of information to change the picture. Thank you!! Julie Oneto 10/2/16 Joneto13 (talk) 14:27, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Joneto13: Ok. I will take a look at it when I have a moment tomorrow. Thanks for sending it. --Majora (talk) 01:29, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd.jpg

Hello Majora, I saw your note about declining the mentioned image but I could not find the reason in FFU or the archives, anyway please note that I am a new user to Wikipedia and the image I was uploading is copyrighted for Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (http://www.pmu.edu.sa/Default.aspx), which is authorized by the prince himself to create a wikipedia profile for him and I am working in this university, so what I am asking is to help me to upload his photo on his article name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Fahd.

Thank you

Steefash (talk) 07:42, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Steefash: Again, you linked to the main page of a University. Not to an image. Not really sure what you want me to do with that but I am not going to go searching through a website to try to find an image when I don't even know what I am looking for. Second, all images are copyrighted automatically. Saying that we can use something on Wikipedia does not fulfill the proper copyright law requirements that we need to actually be able to use an image. Photos of living people have to be release, by the copyright holder, under a free license. What that means is that the photo is free to be used or modified by anyone, at any time, and for any purpose (including commercial use). Saying the prince authorized a Wikipedia page means absolutely nothing to us and does not meet the copyright requirements we are required to enforce. Also, it is likely that the price is not even the copyright holder of the photograph so wouldn't be able to release it to us. The copyright holder is the person who took the photo unless the copyright has been transferred by contract or by legal action. We need the copyright holder to release the photo to us. Nobody else can do that. Please see WP:COPYREQ for more information and let me know if yo have further questions. --Majora (talk) 01:53, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply Majora, actually this is what I mean; the copyright holder is the university itself and I am representing the university. Anyway I uploaded the same image to flickr on this URL https://www.flickr.com/photos/79667681@N06/30111124196/in/photolist-MSPoaJ and I hope this will solve the issue and the image will be uploaded to the mentioned article. Thanks Steefash (talk) 06:36, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comments on infobox at United_States_presidential_election,_2016

An RfC was started at Talk:United_States_presidential_election,_2016#A_call_for_consensus_on_McMullin_and_Castle get comments on whether or not Castle and other write-ins should be added to the infobox. Your participation is appreciated. Sparkie82 (t•c) 10:28, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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