User talk:Alexis Jazz/Anton Mak image replacements

and anyone else interested, feel free to edit this page.

I am doing this for other wikiprojects, not for Commons. The universal replace list is a list of photos by Anton Mak that are currently in use. You can help by replacing "newfile" with a suitable replacement on each line. Not sure that'll be a good idea because captions also need to be adjusted. - Alexis Jazz 14:54, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

you listen to this kind of music all day don't you? What Sikander reported in c:Commons:Deletion requests/Files found with incategory:"Photographs by Anton Mak" incategory:"Taken with Canon EOS 6D" is correct. According to whispering elves, Anton Mak also added "The Weeknd XO LLC owns the photo that is in question." to his last mail. So I'm working to soften the blow of the upcoming CommonsDelinker/Filedelinkerbot massacre. - Alexis Jazz 17:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Anton Mak also stated "The Weeknd XO LLC owns the photo that is in question." so the DMCA request from the Sheriff on behalf of Weeknd XO LLC appears to have been correct after all. - Alexis Jazz 19:13, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure you are aware yet of the whole thing? I just noticed you had uploaded File:Killy in March 2018.jpg so here's a heads up.. Can't find a replacement for Killy. - Alexis Jazz 23:14, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I am sorry, I do not understand what is being talked about. I realize that this is about the deletion request that I have voted on, but what is being replaced with what? Gone Postal (talk) 04:25, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * the on-wiki usage of said images. See User:Alexis Jazz/Anton Mak image replacements and GLAMorous. If we do nothing, a lot of articles will suddenly have their images removed. I already got the total image usages down to 179 from 227. - Alexis Jazz 11:28, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw the DMCA takedown notice and the subsequent DR. IIRC, I uploaded the file while doing license reviews as someone had previously uploaded only a cropped version. To be honest, even then, I thought something seemed off with the Flickr account licensing someone else's photos, but since it seemed like a legit account and there were plenty of other like photos on Commons, I approved it. clpo13(talk) 18:04, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I see.
 * Well, the DR has been closed and predictably the photos were deleted. Sadly there's not much I can do now, I've mostly done what could be done here on enwiki but without the ability to upload to Commons or import from Flickr (sure, technically I could import Flickr images, but it's quite the hassle) I'm unable to effectively help other wikis. - Alexis Jazz 14:35, 17 April 2020 (UTC)


 * I was following this matter with interest, as the whole decades-long copyright law soap opera is the proverbial train wreck one cannot look away from, and I find the position of Wikimedia (which I do share) of uniquely wanting to uphold it while disagreeing with its tennets against those who pretend to respect it only to rip off competitors and the public, to be perversely virtuous. However what happened following the Betsy Incident brought to the light a much more immediate issue — and now we in Commons are reduced to either trust the five CU people on the fact that there is some terrible secret about you that justifies your blocking or that the five CU people closed ranks against you over the known petty concerns and resorted to make up this story to uphold your block. Amid this setting, I will either do the same as Zhuyifei1999 did, or, for now at least, ignore all polemics and focus on my usual hobby horses in Commons — while wishing for the tide to turn. Tuvalkin (talk) 16:45, 27 April 2020 (UTC)