User talk:Herr0183

Adoption request
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Once again, welcome to Wikipedia! Netalarm talk 04:41, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Mms picture-7.jpg


A tag has been placed on File:Mms picture-7.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. ww2censor (talk) 07:03, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Image help for Leadership Role
Hi Stephanie. Thanks for your willingness to help others with photo issues. I had some things come up that I thought maybe you could help me out with, as the Copyright/Image Leader. User:Ww2censor has a history with us and our project from last year and has had some suggestions for us here: User talk:Ww2censor. It would be helpful to go through all of the images that have been uploaded by our class and check to make sure that they are tagged with the appropriate templates, depending on their date (some are old enough that they don't need a non-free template). Also, as he mentions, there are some images in the List of public art at the Indiana Statehouse that should not be there because they are non-free. Non-free images can only be used once, low res, and in the main article of the work (the list is considered excessive use of a non-free image). Note that some are old enough that they're fine to stay in the list.

Additionally, if you decide to take this on, while you're looking through the image pages you'll notice that there is a formatting error on many of them in the "Other Information" section (Example: . This is due to how the class copied and pasted the info from the WP:WSPA/Image Guide and is partly my fault. It's simply because there is a page break after "way" and before "or" and can be fixed with one backspace. It's just doing it to each of them.

As you probably saw, Richard created the and you can find the images there. If you come upon one that happens to not have the category, you can feel free to add it. But I think he caught them all. Thanks for considering to do this and let me know if you have any questions. HstryQT (talk) 17:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi there! I was actually just going through everyone's images, and trying to find/fix issues. So I'm totally happy to help with the things you've mentioned. Thanks!--Herr0183 (talk) 17:42, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Great! Don't mind my excessive emails stating the same. HstryQT (talk) 17:43, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Quick question: some of the images are tagged with a "non-free reduce" template because the image is too large. How do you recommend handling that? Should I contact those students? Or I could try to reduce the image myself, maybe? --Herr0183 (talk) 17:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi again- sorry for all the questions. Just one more: how should students tag their images of artworks in the public domain? Should they use the Commons template? --Herr0183 (talk) 18:09, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Check here for all of the Wikipedia (not Commons) image tags: File copyright tags/Public domain. I'd suggest using PD-art-70-3d or PD-art-3d depending on the death date of the artist. Note that these are for public domain when the artist has been deceased for either over 70 years or over 100 years. So not necessarily the date of the work.
 * It's easiest for you to contact each person who needs to reduce their image. They can choose the option to upload a new version and make sure they upload a lower res. That way it will be attributed to the owner of the photo (them) and you won't have to get into all of those details and templates (uploading someone else's image, not your own). HstryQT (talk) 18:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I disagree. I think it might be easier to just go in there and change all of the images rather than trying to convince and explain this to the rest.--RichardMcCoy (talk) 18:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

The short summary here for us is that if a student took a photo of an artwork that was created at or before 1923, then they do not need to make the Free Use claim. Anything that is claimed Free Use can only be used on the article itself, and will be deleted everywhere else that it's used, including in our list. No big deal, and it was not a part of any assignment to do that--students just did that themselves.

That fair use claim basically says that there is no other way to describe what the thing is without an image. This is an important thing to know because it is exactly the same thing that museums claim when they put images of contemporary art on their web pages, including the IMA. However, every country handles this slightly different. Of course, we're doing it the US of A way.

I believe all of this information to be contained within the WP:WSPA/Image Guide, but recognize that it's complicated.

For examples of what to do with images that are taken by users of artworks in the public domain, check out:

But don't worry about trying to move any of those images from Wikipedia to the Commons. --RichardMcCoy (talk) 18:37, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info. I went ahead and fixed all of the fair-use templates that had that extra space (which was pretty much everyone's!). There were also a few images (Robert D. Orr, Indiana, Workers' Memorial) marked with that non-free reduce template, so I just replaced those images with a smaller version (and updated the templates).

And just to clarify a couple more things: I should go into our list of Statehouse artworks and delete the non-free images, right? And for the public domain images, I should replace the fair-use tag with the public domain tag, per the information you both have given me, correct? I'm sorry to be redundant, I just want to make sure that I am helping, rather than messing things up! Thanks. --Herr0183 (talk) 20:01, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes and yes on both points. Deleting non-free images from list and updating the images that are public domain. You're on it. Not a problem to be redundant; I understand wanting to do it right the first time! Thanks again for your hard work. HstryQT (talk) 20:24, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

I wonder if that extra space came from the template in our resources ... we should look into that. Just to be super clear: you can keep images in the list if they are public domain. --RichardMcCoy (talk) 20:41, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Richard, it did. I admit to this :). It was to keep it in the transcluded box without making the page break too long and have to scroll over. But by copying and pasting it, it added the page break. I'll fix it, for sure. HstryQT (talk) 20:54, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay-I deleted the non-free images from the list, and I changed the tags on the public domain artworks from non-free to public domain. Thanks again for the help today! --Herr0183 (talk) 00:08, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Museum theatre
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Survey
Hi Stephanie!

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Advice sought on copyright and public sculptures
I saw your comments on the IndianaStatehouse page on photos of copyrighted sculptures so I thought I would see if you might be able to help with a question I have. The State of Minnesota owns the copyright as well as the sculptures of the memorials on the Minnesota State Capitol Mall lawn. While they are understandably not willing to release the copyright of the sculptures there is interest in providing high-resolution photos of the monuments to to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons on the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license for Wikipedia and the public to use. I have been looking around to see what forms or protocol needs to be completed for this to happen but I have not been successful. Do you know of how to go about this? or what forms are needed? Is this even possible? Myotus (talk) 17:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)