User talk:Andrew Dorsons

August 2013
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to an article, specifically Themes in Nazi propaganda, may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Werieth (talk) 18:57, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Are you from a different planet? You can check File:Rasse_und_Seele_title.png - it is perfectly acceptable to use.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 19:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * You are missing a non-free rationale for that use, see Non-free use rationale guideline. WP:NFCC requires a rationale for each usage. Werieth (talk) 19:03, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Can you explain to me how it is non-free usable, it is uploaded onto Wikipedia you can use it on different articles.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 19:05, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Just because its uploaded to wikipedia doesnt mean that the file isnt copyrighted. We host a large number of non-free files. At last count just under 500,000 files are hosted by wikipedia and are non-free (screenshots, posters, artwork, book covers, album covers ect) The usage of said materiel is very restricted and must comply with WP:NFC (our policy on non-free media). If you have more questions feel free to ask them, also if someone is citing policy for taking an action and you dont understand it, you should ask, and then understand before reverting. Blind reverting will get you blocked. Werieth (talk) 19:12, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Your recent editing history at Themes in Nazi propaganda shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. Werieth (talk) 19:08, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Or you might want to just avoid causing trouble because if one looks at your talk page, one can see that you have frequently removed images that was not necessary to do so, it seems to me as if you are just trolling to attempt to provoke one.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 19:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * enforcing WP:NFC isnt trolling, I would really avoid making statements like that as they can be taken as a personal attack and wikipedia as a strict policy against that (WP:NPA). Just because an action makes people unhappy doesnt mean that the action is not correct (just ask a lot of law enforcement officers ) Werieth (talk) 19:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I refuse to reply to you anymore.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 19:19, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Rewind, start again?
I came here from the Help desk, where Andrew has been asking the sort of questions that new users don't ask often enough. I'm sorry to find that relations here are not so good. Could I perhaps ask you both to take a step back?

Andrew, please don't be nearly so confrontational. The trick here is to co-operate with other editors, not raise your hackles. User:Werieth is the answer to your prayers, someone with expert knowledge and long experience in the minefield of copyright and image permissions. He's the person who can tell you for sure which images can be uploaded here or to Commons, and with what licence, rather than just guessing at it as I and some others have been doing. Please understand that copyright infringement puts Wikipedia on the wrong side of the law, so it is taken seriously.

Werieth, pleased to meet you! I don't believe our paths have crossed. Could I ask you for just a shade more tolerance towards someone who, discourtesy aside, appears to be making a genuine effort to understand what can and can't be done here? You'll forgive me for pointing out that it isn't too easy for Andrew to understand what's needed if File:Rasse_und_Seele_title.png and other pages from the same book are apparently in use in Nazi propaganda without a proper fair use rationale; and that once that has been put in place it will probably be possible to use it in Themes in Nazi propaganda also. Andrew would like to upload this image for use in Themes in Nazi propaganda. Can you advise him if that is likely to be possible?

OK, I'm going to duck out now, wishing the best to you both. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:30, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * My German isnt the best but I think the image on the second page of http://www.bva.bund.de/nn_2172108/DE/Aufgaben/Abt__III/Staatsangehoerigkeit/Menschenschicksale/Flyer__Ausstellung,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Flyer_Ausstellung.pdf should be freely usable under commons:Commons:Copyright_rules_by_territory (publications of the German government) Im not 100% sure on that and you might want to confirm it with someone who speaks German but I think that will suite everyone's needs (free image). Werieth (talk) 00:06, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I do apologize if I came across that I was personally attacking you Werieth, I did not mean it like that. I just did not understand how I was using it wrongly when it was on a different Wikipedia article to begin with and therefore it surely is okay to use on other Wikipedia articles? That being said it is only a text book and that is why I would like to put forward the picture of the woman pointing towards the board showing the children the differences of races under the Third Reich rule and it goes in perfectly with the "racial pride" section because fundamentally that is what she was doing - teaching the youth about the differences.

I have altered the text I did before to avoid any copyright and now its only the image that needs to hopefully be resolved. http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/625_2/index.html would look ideal for the section that is currently under construction as it does look very odd without a picture.

Also, thank you Justlettersandnumbers for taking your time to come onto my page and try and help me.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 09:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * look very odd without a picture isnt a valid rationale for using non-free media. When using non-free media the question to ask is why must this article use this specific piece of non-free media? In this case "To make the section look better" completely fails WP:NFCC. Using non-free media on wikipedia is a minefield that can get really confusing. A file might be acceptable being used on one article while not be acceptable on another. Its a matter of keeping the usage of non-free media minimal and ensuring that each usage has Contextual significance, and is being used in a manor that is acceptable by WP:NFC. Werieth (talk) 12:50, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

The picture will help the reader understand more clearly what the German youth had to go through during education under the Third Reich.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 11:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Biology teaching in the Third Reich.jpg
 Thanks for uploading File:Biology teaching in the Third Reich.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. -- Тимофей ЛееСуда . 21:11, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I wanted to put it in the Themes in Nazi propaganda "racial pride" section, I asked about it earlier on the help desk, I will now upload it onto where I want to put it, thanks very much.--Andrew Dorsons (talk) 11:48, 23 August 2013 (UTC)