User talk:Luis María Benítez/2005

CD covers
Hi. I’m writing in order to find out what I should do in case I have permission to use images.


 * Wikipedia doesn't allow permission-only images. The reason for this is that although Wikipedia had permission to use them, no one else would have that permission, making them non-distributable, and non-free. One of our goals is to provide free content that people can safely download and reuse.

I have been writing about Icelandic music in the Spanish version using album covers under the fair use criteria. Now as it seems to be out of the question, lots of images are in danger of being lost.


 * What is the problem here? If they really are fair use, then why are they at risk of being lost? Fair use images are allowed (at least on the English Wikipedia - does Spanish have other rules?), since fair use to us is likely to be fair use to most people wanting to reuse the work.

How should I proceed? The templates used for albums are designed to include image covers, so what classification should I provide on each corresponding description page?


 * Does the template make it clear that they are fair use, not just permission-granted?


 * Angela. 18:19, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. I knew it was possible to include images of this nature only through fair use. That's my intention! but the Spanish version has stopped using this type of classification and I have argued with someadministrators who don't let me upload CD images because of obscure reasons that go beyond simple understanding. Thanks again. Luis María Benítez
 * Is there consensus on the Spanish Wikipedia that fair use isn't allowed? If that is the case, then the only solution is to use these images on other language versions which allow it, or try to find alternative free images. Angela. 01:33, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

I don't believe that every version of Wikipedia should have the same rules. Other than the global rules of open editing, GFDL and NPOV, it should be up to each community to decide which rules they need. The German Wikipedia have also disallowed fair use, as has Wikinews and the Commons. Although each Wikipedia could, currently, use fair use, since the database servers are in the US, the aim is for the work to be freely distributable, and this wouldn't be the case if fair use was permitted on Wikipedias where most of the potential re-users couldn't legally make use of these images. Is there anyone who could mediate between you and this user complaining about your CD articles? Angela. 10:16, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Creating Articles w/ Categories
Good work creating new articles. When you create things, it helps tremendously to assign them to an accurate category (see WP:CG for info). If you're really not sure about categories, at least assign your new articles a stub category (see WP:SC for info). By assigning a category, you help make sure your new articles don't get lost as 'orphans' that are not associated with related topics. Feco

Hi, Luis! Please, note that for Wikibabel, your Spanish level should be Native Speaker rather than 3 (this is done by using plain "es" instead of "es-3". also, you could add yourself (user page) to Category:Wikipedians of Argentina. You can check my page as an example. --Marianocecowski 10:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Three questions: images and categories
Scans of back covers etc might fall under fair use, but this would depend on how and where they were used, so please read fair use before doing that.

I don't honestly know how EPs would be best categorised, so I suggest you ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums to see what people involved there think.

The footer on Dancer in the Dark uses Template:Footer Movies Lars von Trier. You can create a new template for Friðrik Þór Friðriksson by going to Template:Footer Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. The title "Friðrik Þór Friðriksson" isn't valid here (see Naming conventions (technical restrictions)). See Templates for more information on creating one of these.

Hope that helps. Angela. 04:11, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Rating Stars
I found your stars while browsing Björk's albums, and filled in the gaps in the ones you have up using some quick and dirty photoshop cut-and-paste. You can find them here:. Tiefighter 28 June 2005 05:44 (UTC)
 * Regarding ten-star versions, I don't think they're particularly necessary, because for the most part ratings out of ten are actually numerical, and also because 10 stars would take up too much room in the infobox, either horizontally or if you stacked them. Though if you could overcome the space constraints, I wouldn't be against using the stars for the publications that actually give 10-star reviews. Tiefighter 29 June 2005 12:40 (UTC)

Image:1 out of 5.png
This goes for all of the star images. Rhobite June 30, 2005 04:48 (UTC)


 * I don't believe that you created the images yourself, since the star is exactly the same as one of the stars in Amazon's graphics. Rhobite July 9, 2005 15:33 (UTC)


 * I was unaware of any copyright violations, but to avoid any complications, I'll get to work on some original images on the same scale. Tiefighter 09:03, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Regarding your new stars, by all means, replace mine. The gallery I created says that my stars are only meant to be temporary. Yours look quite a bit better, though I would suggest a slightly lower resolution if possible, just so they don't break the album infoboxes. I understand if that's impossible, though, and they certainly are fine replacements. Go for it.


 * Just to inform you, I have created new stars to replace all the preceeding stars. -- WB 10:13, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Regional notice board
You are wellcome to join the Argentine regional notice board. -Mariano 17:27, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...what would be a good title for this?
Hello Luis! I know, you have no clue who I am, I haven't had the pleasure. I am a Spanish Wikipedian who arrived probably just after you left. I have been investigating your case and reasoning for leaving the Spanish Wikipedia and I understand them perfectly (at least I think I do). As far as I can tell, you had some serious clashes with Dodo and basically no one else. This is understandable, Dodo is not always the nicest person to talk to, especially when he has already fixed himself on a certain decision. In the past, I can only imagine how big of a problem this must have been, him being one of the sole editors of the Wikipedia, it must have seemed like "If I'm not on his team, I might as well not be on a team". Well, since those times, many things have changed. Although Dodo is still one of the top editors (in quantity), he is not one of the only editors. You see, the Spanish Wikipedia has grown tremendously since your departure, now our version has alot more new contributors, and good ones! We have alot more administrators (they are now called "Bibliotecarios"), so no one sysop has the power to dictate, someone always steps in to mediate. Unfortunately, the Spanish Wikipedia still does not accept fair use images, and I understand your agony in this affair. I  also was once at the brink of leaving Wikipedia because of this same reason. I thought "If the English Wikipedia has the photo, and I am translating the English version of the article, why can I not have the photo in my version?" Then, I got to lying about the origin of some of the photos, saying that they were free even though I knew they were not. Finally, I realized the advantage of having only free images, they can be copied, modified, recolored, remastered, perverted, or whatever one wants to do with them by whoever wants to. This is great fun! You can always create your own free image to substitute a copyrighted one, and it appears that you have the skills to do so. Yeah, you're right, this message is getting very long, let's get to the point. I like to study cases in which Spanish-speaking users have just absolutely got so pissed off that they decided to leave the Spanish version of Wikipedia or to leave Wikipedia all together. Doing this, I came across your case, which almost brought me tears. Having created articles of such great magnitude as Björk, glaciar, and many, many more, to just get up and leave is a horrible tragedy. In conclusion, I would like to beg you to come back and try out the new Spanish Wikipedian environment....pleeeaasseee!!! haha, you can respond to me in my Spanish Talk page, My English one, this IRC chatroom, or at Orgullomoore@gmail.com, which ever you feel more comfortable with--Orgullomoore 22:10, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

.... spanish man
Hola Luis. Premitemen que te escriba en español, voy más rápido. Hacía muchisimo tiempo que no te veía por la versión española, pensé que lo habías dejado (todas las wikis) y hoy he visto tu nombre en cambios recientes al escribirle un mensaje a Orgullomoore. Conozco un poco tu affaire en la wiki española, pero la verdad es que perdimos mucho con tu retirada. One quiestion: no sería posible que volvieras?. Creo que ganaríamos mucho. Te estimulo a que lo hagas, y ver si esta vez las cosa trascurren por otros cauces. Un cordial saludo.Joseaperez 21:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Laguna de Lobos
Are you interested in expanding the Laguna de Lobos article? Take care, Mariano 11:36, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Spanish Translation of the Week
Thanks for the images. Looking through your diagrams, I see that you've done quite a good deal of work illustrating articles in the Spanish Wikipedia. In fact, two of those articles, Geology of Venus and Glacier have been recently selected for translation into English through Spanish Translation of the Week. Would you mind taking a look at the project? We could always use good translators, and you have all the characteristics of one. --Titoxd 03:06, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

 You showed support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week Cuisine of Argentina was chosen to be translated from es:Gastronomía de Argentina. Hope you can help. Cast your VOTE to select next week's translation! Nominate a good Spanish article
 * Hello again. This time, we're translating Geology of the Moon, and we need translations of some of your images from the Spanish Wikipedia. I translated those that were released under the GFDL or PD, but most of them have no image license tag, so I can't upload them here. It would be a huge favor if you could upload them (and license them in es:Wiki, since they can get deleted without licensing information). Tito xd (?!?) 23:17, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

translation request
I must congratulate you; your translation of a kind of difficult text was very good indeed (perhaps you should change your babel to a t least de-2 :) ), and I must admit it's a very weird piece ot text you got there.

Here's my translation:

According to the order by the Reich’s president on February 28, 1933, the distribution of all foreign publications pertaining to polito-psychological topics (Publishers for sexual politics, Copenhagen (Denmark), Prague (Czechoslovakia) and Zurich (Switzerland)) has been forbidden from now on (until further notice) in the Reich.

I took the freedom not to translate it literally (as you kind of did), but to try and catch the 'spirit' (if there's any spirit in here), if you get my meaning. It is legalize 3rd Reich German. I suppose it could be translated better by someone really into translation business.

Just as a thought: how did you find me, was it just the translators page? Lectonar 05:13, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You're welcome; always glad to help :) Lectonar 05:53, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

KUKL
Hi Luis, see Talk:KUKL for reply re. messsages left on my talk page quercus robur 09:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Your request
Sorry I must decline, and the reason is kind of simple: I've only got restricted access to en-wiki and de-wiki (and next to nothing else on the net), and no sound card or anything; and I don't own a computer at home (If you believe me, but it's true nonetheless), so if you could offer me something in writing, I would be more than glad to help, otherwise: Sorry about this Lectonar 13:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * And I thought I was kind of unique here in wiki (or oldfashioned) :); life isn't easy, and: I'll keep your offer in mind, and if you've got anything german (or french, btw) in written form, it's no bother at all. Cheers and happy editing Lectonar 13:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * It#s very dificult to understand but it may be a speech excerpt that is quoted here: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://www.gymnasium-dinkelsbuehl.de/hs/fachsch/Studientag03/studienta2003.htm&lp=de_en

Luckily I found a critical report that analyses the past time. I despite that discourage you to publish the whole lyrics in regards to copyright. The babelfish translation of one of the last quotations is quite good. You could remove " is appropriate" and it would be perfect. Greetings L.  Note: It is not in my mind to upload lyrics here. I meant external sources when sent a message to the user. LMB

Music templates
You can create a new template like the one at Template:The Beatles by starting a page at Template:KUKL, for example. See the quick guide to templates and meta:Help:Template. If you need help with this, or to see if there are any music-specific guidelines for such boxes, see WikiProject Music. Angela. 00:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Project!
I am kindly inviting you to join our new project page!

--Sebastian Kessel Talk 17:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Juan Moreira
It looks like you have created this article. Could you please clean it up? It is hard for me to do it since there are very few English sources about him on the net. And also there a Cuban painter with the same name. Renata3 05:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Re: Producer of Bítið Fast í Vítið?
Sorry, I did not realise that. I don't have any other information. &mdash; Kimchi.sg | Talk 16:14, 5 December 2005 (UTC)