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Sissa (mythical brahman)

Hello @I dream of horses:, thank you for the welcome :) Although I am not entirely new anymore, since I did some editing in other pages before. It was the first time though to create a new page in the English Wikipedia. I have a question for you about that: Sissa_(mythical_brahmin), is a partial translation from a page that I created in Dutch. I made the reference to that page under the heading sources. Please advise if that is conform Wiki-protocol? Thankyou --Chescargot (talk) 14:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chescargot, I think, technically speaking, you need to acknowledge that it's a partial translation on the talk page; other than that, you're doing fine. --I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to {{ping}} me after replying off my talk page 23:12, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dash

I'm intrigued by this edit which replaced an ordinary hyphen with an en dash for a CD catalogue number. Are those numbers now covered by MOS:DASH? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 06:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Bednarek, after a quick skim, I'm not sure if it's covered in either direction. I dream of horses (t) (c) Remember to {{ping}} me after replying off my talk page 06:48, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Need Help With Derivative Work Issue

Hello I Dream of Horses, Thanks again for your previous help with my article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amie_Harwick. A new issue has arisen with this article that I again need your help with. The new issue concerns derivative work regarding the photo of Amie holding her book in the photo. The message I received is that I need to credit the photographer who took the cover photo of the book. So I did that. The photographer is 'Holly Randall' But it doesn't work. Nothing has changed. Someone blurred-out the book cover on the photo. So, did I correctly credit the photographer so that the derivative photo issue is resolved, and if so, can you remove the revised photos where the book cover and the Movie Poster is blurred out?

Additionally, I have the same problem with my article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective_(2019_film). I wrote the Films Producer and she replied to use: ‘Gamma Entertainment’ for the Movie Poster credit, so I did. But the result is the same as Amie's article - no change and the blurred photo remains. Can you let me know if I have correctly credited the copyright holders, and, if so, can you remove the revised blurred photos? Thanks. - Glenn Glenn Francis (talk) 05:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Toglenn, I'm not sure this is an issue that will be resolved to your satisfaction, because Wikipedia has a unique copyright license that allows for commercial usage of the text and most of the photos that it hosts. There are fair-use photos on the English Wikipedia, but they are rare.

It occurs to me that perhaps the movie poster might be uploadable as "fair use"; it's worth a shot, and the worse that can happen is you're told "Nope, not possible". I don't think you'll get the group shot of everyone holding the movie poster uploaded as fair use, though. Just a low-resolution version of the movie poster by itself would get a fair-use license.

If this was something that the photographer was willing to release under a free-use, commercial-use-allowed license, then this wouldn't be quite an issue. However, I don't think this would be the case for a book cover. I think the photo in her infobox is sufficient for the length of the article, but that's only the opinion of one person. I dream of horses (talk page) (Contribs) Remember to notify me after replying off my talk page. 05:38, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I dream of horses, your reply is much appreciated! Glenn Francis (talk) 08:24, 18 May 2020 (UTC) UPDATE: I took your advice and just changed the pictures. Thanks!Glenn Francis (talk) 20:13, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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