Template:Did you know nominations/Notoscyphus balticus


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:41, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Notoscyphus balticus

 * ... that only a single stem (pictured) of the fossil liverwort Notoscyphus balticus was used to describe the species?


 * Reviewed: Lagetta lagetto

Created by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 21:51, 5 July 2015 (UTC).


 * New enough, long enough. QPQ done.  Image is in use, looks good, and is properly licensed.  AGF on the offline sources.  Hook is in the article (sourced) and mildly interesting; falls within the character limit.  Symbol voting keep.svg Good to go.  G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 13:19, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg I'm not sure about the Free license of the image: It is attributed to Alexander Schmidt, yet was uploaded by under a CC-License for which there is no evidence. Is this Own work or the published work of others? note: the species description paper appears to be copyrighted. --Animalparty-- (talk) 19:46, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I emailed the authors and asked them if they would donate images to WP. These were supplied via dropbox by Alexander Schmidt.  You will notice they are not the same images as those in the paper itself.-- Kev  min  § 20:25, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing that up. I've posted instructions for OTRS permissions on your Commons talk page. I'll assume good faith, and have no further objections. --Animalparty-- (talk) 00:16, 9 July 2015 (UTC) Symbol voting keep.svg


 * Symbol question.svg I'm placing this on hold until OTRS confirmation is received.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;What I've done 20:03, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Is it normal for OTRS confirmation to take a full month? (Seriously, I have no idea if this is normal.) - Dravecky (talk) 14:49, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * To be honest I have no idea, it was my first time with OTRS. I would say just go with the hook without image at this point.-- Kev  min  § 21:17, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * In the past couple of days, I've tried to engage someone on the OTRS team who recently helped with another nomination, and will be trying another person shortly. If there's no joy by the end of the weekend I'll let you know, and we can go without the image, but it's such a striking image that I'd like to give it one more chance. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:54, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It is a beautiful image, but I'm afraid a search of the OTRS system did not find any reference to it. :/ User:Kevmin, if your OTRS submission was successfully received, you should have gotten an autoresponder with a ticket number in the header. If you did, can you please tell me what that was? If not, can you please give me the subject line of your email? If I cannot find that, I will have to assume your email was lost somehow and did not make it to the system. If your email was lost, this is not fatal - if you resend it and give me the ticket number, I will be happy to process it myself if it's a fairly straightforward release or reach out to a more active OTRS Commons volunteer if it's not. (If replying to me here, please ping me. :)) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:20, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Its quite possible I didnt do the OTRS part right. I sent the OTRS form to Alexander and linked him the images, I did not get any response from him..-- Kev  min  § 21:32, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Oh, Kevmin, so it's possible that he has not sent in authorization? :( Can you reach out to him again? If permission for this is not mailed in, the image will likely have to be deleted. It's so beautiful; that would be a shame! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Ive reached out again, and Hope to get a reply soon. :-( I would hate to have the images deleted, but without the licence its all that we can do. -- Kev  min  § 22:30, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Much as I hate to, I'd like to suggest that we set September 5 as the date by which we need to hear back. That's two months to the day after the nomination was opened. If nothing has arrived from Alexander by then, I think this nomination should proceed without the image. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:05, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
 * At this point I dont know if we will hear back, and have already started deletion proceedings for the images I uploaded from him, Sad day, but its what must be done. -- Kev min  § 02:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg With no image (I'm just summarising the discussions above.) This was approved and has been waiting OTRS approval which the author now believes will not arrives. ( et al, needs to consider the image's status on commons). However this article is OK to go without the image Victuallers (talk) 13:03, 2 September 2015 (UTC)