User talk:Emjackson42

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Emjackson42!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 20:38, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

File tagging File:James M. Hester.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

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Gbawden (talk) 13:58, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at Wikimedia Commons.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

File:Rupert Charles Barneby - British born American botanist.jpg

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DS (talk) 19:24, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hey

Em, we're gonna have to talk about copyright. I accept that you're supposed to be uploading these images from the library's archives, but it's complicated and you're not doing it properly. Some of them might have to be deleted. I've watchlisted your talkpage, so you can answer here whenever. DS (talk) 19:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi, DS! I'm not at NYBG any longer but I'm happy to put you in touch with someone if you'd like to ask them to upload these images. I understand that some may have to be deleted. Emjackson42 (talk) 20:14, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

First: is it correct to say that some of those photos were taken by photographers who were hired to do so by the NYBG and/or associated library? If so, that'll make things a lot easier. DS (talk) 21:48, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

NYBG claims copyright for all the works I uploaded not in the public domain. They are either the work of staff photographers (a position continuously staffed since the late 1800s) or works for hire for publications. Emjackson42 (talk) 23:30, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

You're still in contact with NYBG, though? You could arrange for them to send a release form to VRT from an official email address, or to put a statement on their official website to the effect that the images are available under Creative Commons? DS (talk) 00:33, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I could forward the form which someone would probably fill out, but I don’t think they’d put a statement on their website. Can you email me the form and what needs to go on it? Or shoot me a download link? Thank you! (I’m replying on mobile; sorry for the unnested comments.) Emjackson42 (talk) 00:37, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Volunteer_Response_Team#Email_message_template_for_release_of_rights_to_a_file, <permissions-commons@wikimedia.org>. I suppose "we confirm that the files Emjackson42 uploaded to Commons from <date> to <date>, which are sourced to the NYBG's library, and which were taken by the NYBG's staff photographers, are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license" would do.

(Oh, and just so you know - File:Maryfrancesisom.jpg - 'public domain because Isom died in 1920' isn't how it works. It's about publication date and the lifespan of the photographer.) DS (talk) 04:18, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

I've reached out to the NYBG rep! Emjackson42 (talk) 16:52, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Let me know the results. DS (talk) 00:28, 5 September 2021 (UTC)