User talk:Tomcat7/2010/August

Yes I will help you!
Where is the photo you tried to upload? It is of Otis Redding? Otis Redding died when he was so young that there are not very many photos of him. Please show me where the photo is located, is it in Flickr? If you did try to upload it and got a message either in en.Wikipedia or de.Wikipedia asking for information (or in Wikimedia Commons, tell me. I will know what we must do to keep the photo! Thanks for asking for my help. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 12:14, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * OK I see the problem. I have seen that photo many times. I am almost 100% certain it is either a publicity photo, or one from a record album. The problem with uploading it to Wikimedia Commons is that if you look on the Flickr page, it says, "This photo belongs to the GreatOrangePumpkin" (this is on the right side of the photo, and below that, there is a copyright mark. It makes the photo seem like you are saying that YOU took the picture. And, even if you were the photographer, nothing can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with a copyright, even if you did take the photo, because it would look like copyright violation.  We use Creative Commons licenses or photos where the photographer must remove the copyright and choose a license that says we must give their name, and the photostream. See this chart; keep it:  I use it!


 * When we can not find a photographer to agree to use their photos, and there are no other photos of a person, we upload the photo directly to the english Wikipedia. (I don't know what they do on the other Wikipedias-- but on this English Wikipedia, if you look to the left of the screen where it says "Upload file", you may upload a photo and be sure to fill the entire form' to explain that no other photographs exist of him and the reason is that he died young, and in the 1960s. -- in fact, if you want me to do it for you and let you sign it since English is not your primary language, I can do it. I can introduce you to a good editor here who speaks German and English very well, but you seem like you know English pretty well too. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 13:02, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It's sad that my favorite editor who is German is in Europe and not the Wikipedia this week! Don't worry about Flickr. LOTS of people who just want to share photos they like put them there. I can let the people at Wikimedia Commons know that you want to delete the upload there if you want me to do it. The information on your records from Otis Redding have good information, but --- do you want to upload that photo directly to the Wikipedia in English?? I can do it for you this time, so you can see all the crazy things they make us write down there! Just let me know. I'm your friend!! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 13:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


 * OK, I'll help. You help my edits in German and I'll help you here! OK? :)) --Leahtwosaints (talk) 16:01, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

I have a great idea for you!
Do you want to add phoos to the Wikipedua? If you want to do it in the German Wikipedia, almost all the biographies of musicians do not have good photos. Almost all the photos I uploaded to Commons, I only placed on the English Wikipeda. I began to keep a list of ocer nobody has put any of the photos I uploaded to the English Wikipedia. (There are more than 500 photos there!) You can find a list of them on my Userpage-- why don't you add the photos frm my list to the biographies of the musicians on the German Wikipedia? ALL of the photographs listed on my User page can be used on the German (and all other of the other different language Wikipedias), too!

Now, the way I hunt for photos, I usually look in Flickr, and when I find some that I like, I send email to the photographer on Flickr and ask them if they are interested in letting us show their photo. If they write back and say yes, I tell them about how to change from copyright to a Creative Commons license that we can accept. It takes time, so if want help, I keep two "email templates" so I can copy & paste mosr of them faster. You know there is a Flickr explanation for everything in German, French, Japanesee... --Leahtwosaints (talk) 19:35, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar, that's very nice of you ;) Djezonfly (talk) 23:52, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Don't worry
I am not against you updating the US Open matches, on the contrary, but the Wikipedia tennis guidelines say that to avoid edit-conflicting or excessive editing at once, the matches must only be updated at the end of each set. You are doing a very good job:) Use this link for the quickest scores (maybe you already are)

1 and then click livescores. Qampunen (talk) 16:10, 30 August 2010 (UTC)