User talk:Geni

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[edit] interior images of Florence buildings

If images are not allowed to be taken inside various Florentine buildings and museums, then they should not have been taken in the first place and then uploaded onto the Commons on top of that. Gryffindor 11:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tsiolkovskiy: Monument to the Conquerors of Space

Thank you for taking the time to explain so clearly the reasons for your decision to delete the photos. I have been uploading my own photographs of statues/monuments in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and possibly other CIS countries. Could you please provide more detailed and specific guidelines of what is allowed and what not in these countries according to Wikipedia policies? Thank you, --Zlerman (talk) 01:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I am trying to understand the principles. All the laws in CIS countries (including the Russian law applied to Tsiolkovskiy images) allow use for non-commercial purposes. Don't WikiCommons and Wikipedia itself fall in the category of non-commercial uses? Is this only a matter of changing the permissions tag on each photo to something appropriate instead of {{GFDL}}, or is there a deeper problem that I don't see? Thank you, --Zlerman (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I am wondering why File:OSS logo.jpg and File:OSS logo.jpg, they were owned by the US Government (I checked with the US Patent and Trademark Office) and even the OSS Society of McLean, Virginia said they didn't own them, they used them with permission. By deleting them, aren't we essentially saying "vandalize enough and you will get your way?" I'm confused. - NeutralHomer • Talk 17:36, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Zündkerze verschlissen.jpg

This image (and some other spark-plug-images) where taken by me. They are not scanned from any book! I made them with a mechanical camera and I have scanned these pictures to load it up to wikipedia (and to use them with PowerPoint). The pictures are more than 10 years old and I once used them in my garage to instruct apprentices about what spark-plugs are telling about an engines condition. They are looking used because they are, not because they where scanned out of an old book! Red Rooster (talk) 19:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] BP image input

Can you provide input here: User_talk:Rlevse#The_Story_of_B-P_picture_was_deleted.3F? Thanks. — Rlevse • Talk • 21:47, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi Geni, an additional question for you, there. Thanks in advance if you can spare the time. Wim van Dorst (talk) 22:40, 3 October 2008 (UTC).

[edit] Image:PhotoFly HangGliding.jpg

Why does sticking your watermark on someone else's give you the copyright? John Reaves (talk) 05:01, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] When deleting something as copyvio ...

... isn't at least customary to provide a link showing where the original was?

I really resent edit summaries like "stop it with the unfree images". That doesn't AGF. The first image had been up on Commons for a while; I had no inkling we couldn't trust it. I am currently taking steps on Flickr to have the uploader's account pulled and all his uploads deleted. Daniel Case (talk) 15:16, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah...discussion is usual, in this case with the Operation Red Wing photo created (and labeled) as being created by a US Soldier in commission of his duties that you simply deleted. Sherurcij (talk) 22:42, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Map Request

Hello there! I notice you have the area 182 OS Map from the 1940s, from which you have also added a clear section showing Horley, Surrey and that features on its page at Wikipedia. Might I ask if you still have such a map, would you be able to provide a similar extract for commons showing the area of Crawley a few miles to the south? This would make a great addition to the article on Wikipedia which talks at great length about the changes after the war, but has little image content to demonstrate the point. Your assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks Tafkam (talk) 18:13, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Close Deletion

Hey Geni, could you possibly close this for me thanks! -Marcusmax (talk) 02:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Madeofstars

User:Madeofstars is attempting to get File:Rosy Wilde.jpg deleted.[1] This was first uploaded by him at en.wiki at w:File:Rosy.jpeg and he has just had it speedy deleted there by user request. I posted to the deleting admin's talk page about this.[2] As I understand it, GFDL is not revocable just because the uploader changes their mind.

There is a previous OTRS ticket #2008121510018309 that relates to some of his image uploads, where there were paintings by w:Stella Vine in the photograph. As the communication via OTRS specified a release for the paintings which was "permission is valid for Wikipedia only", those particular photos were deleted. The ones without paintings in were kept, namely the two now on Commons at File:Rosy Wilde.jpg and File:Rosy Wilde Gallery.jpg.

You deleted File:Stella Vine MAO 5.jpg as "OTRS 2009020810011301 derivative of the painting on the wall". The original file for this File:Stella Vine MAO.jpg uploaded by Madeofstars was also previously deleted as derivative. However, I have made crops of this image such as File:Stella_Vine_MAO_6.jpg, which have only a small part of the painting remaining. I do not believe this is sufficient to count as a derivative work, but would like your evaluation of this. If is necessary, the background can be removed as per File:Stella Vine MAO 3.jpg, but it is preferable not to have to "doctor" the image.

Regardless of the deletion of the original upload, I believe I am correct in saying that the crops are legitimate to keep because the photo was uploaded under GFDL.

Related to this issue, I would like to ask your advice about File:2001 First Stuckist Show in Paris.jpg, which I uploaded. There is GFDL clearance for the photo itself and the two paintings on the right, but not for the one in the centre and the one on the left. Do these therefore count as a copyvio, or is the extent of them too small to infringe? If it is an infringement, would an even smaller size upload prevent that?

Ty 15:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Per your reply to the above, I've uploaded File:20011019ParisCrop.jpg, a cropped version of File:2001 First Stuckist Show in Paris.jpg, which you might want to delete: a duplicate cropped version is there, but the full one still shows up in the history, so I uploaded the crop again with the different name. Ty 03:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Terms of Madeofstars' photos

I noticed you posted at w:User_talk:Madeofstars#Photos_of_stella_vine_and_her_gallery: "under what terms did you take these photos?"

The images File:Rosy Wilde.jpg and File:Rosy Wilde Gallery.jpg are both shots from the public highway of the exterior of the building, so presumably do not require consent from Stella Vine.

Regarding the photo File:Stella Vine installs her painting Diana branches in Oxford.jpg, with crops extant such as File:Stella Vine MAO 1.jpg, Madeofstars has said that his images of this nature (others also deleted on en.wiki as derivative) were "video stills which I filmed at Oxford in 2007",[3] and also:

"Usually when someone is filmed, when its not for personal use only, the person filming has to get the person being filmed to sign a consent form to say they are happy for those videos, or video stills, to be used, screened or shown in public. I know I got a consent form when I filmed Vine." (15 December 2008)[4]

I have now had a request for all the Madeofstars images to be deleted. See w:User_talk:Tyrenius#Stella_Vine_and_Rosy_Wilde_photos. I am opposed to this.

Ty 08:17, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

The above request was made in response to Ticket:2008121510018309. I hoped {{db-g7}} tags would allow it to quickly be dealt with, but if Tyrenius wants the crops to stay the mentioned ticket has new information as rational for deletion. Geni, do you want to merge the 3 tickets and handle it? -- Jeandré, 2009-02-09t09:19z

If the declarations made by Madeofstars, as shown above and per his using the file upload form, are correct, then I can't see a basis for deletion. If they are not correct, then I think the information about what's going on here should be made available, so other users can evaluate Madeofstars' actions properly, now and in the future. Ty 09:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Photographs of identifiable people again

I have made some changes to Commons:Photographs of identifiable people/Proposal in response to a variety of helpful suggestions that users have made on the talk page. You have already commented there; could I ask you to have a look again, and to consider whether you would like to express an opinion in the Poll towards the bottom of the page? Many thanks. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:39, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lazare Ponticelli

I am the photografer (Fréderic Coune) of the article you referd to after deleting the picture of Lazare Ponticelli. As you might have noticed I have no copyright claims on the article either, making it no reason to delete the picture on commons. --Koongo940 (talk) 20:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Opt-out discussion

Hello Geni, I am trying to develop a larger consensus around the opt-out issue. Consistent with that, I have started a new section on the talk page and plan to advertise it widely. Your previous comments are linked from that page, but I am mentioning it here in case you want to address the issue directly in the new thread. Apologies, for the duplication of effort, but I think restarting this is more likely to gain participation rather than trying to draw new voices into an thread that had already grown stale. Dragons flight (talk) 00:23, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:HMS Warrior (1860)2009.jpg

Hi, great picture ! lovely colours. regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 07:50, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Deletions of my uploads

Hi happened to notice you deleted two of my uploads. Why didn't you file a deletion request? Why didn't you notify me? Multichill (talk) 20:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Because they were clear derivatives of 2D works that were under copyright.Geni (talk) 20:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

First, please don't hop talk pages. I have a watchlist and i use it.

You didn't answer my second question. Judging from your deletion log you seem to have developed a bad habbit of not notifying uploaders, could you please *always* notify the uploader? Multichill (talk) 20:37, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Please link images

Hello Geni!

Thank you for providing images to Wikimedia Commons. Commons images are used by editors on many projects in many languages. Each image is put into categories. This helps other editors find them. Please add categories to each image you upload.

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[edit] File:LRO apollo14 landing sight 1st pic .jpg

There seems to be a problem regarding the description and/or licensing of this particular file. It has been found that you've added in the image's description only a Template that's not a license and although it provides useful informations about the image, it's not a valid license. Could you please resolve this problem, adding the license in the image linked above? You can edit the description page and change the text. Uploading a new version of the file does not change the description of the file. This page may give you more hints on which license to choose. Thank you.

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[edit] Migration automatic?

Hi, I am trying to follow all the license migration discussions (fairly impossible task), but your statement "The switich is automatic we don't technicaly need to document it on the image file pages before the deadline.Geni (talk) 22:19, 27 May 2009 (UTC)" - has me asking why? Are you saying that the WMF acceptance of the migration automatically over rides anything on individual image pages? Does this also mean that the opt-out has no meaning too? --Tony Wills (talk) 06:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:Pyrocumulus over Los Angeles.jpg

Sorry about this image I've uploaded from English Wikipedia and you had to delete. I thought that since it had details about the camera settings in the English Wikipedia, that it was legitimate. I will try to find more proof before uploading in the future. Pierre cb (talk) 02:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Good pointers you gave me. Thanks. Pierre cb (talk) 10:32, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] A word of advice

Don't go making accusatory comments on other peoples talk pages. I'm referring to this comment that you left on my talk page:

This is not allowed under commons policy. How many of the other images you have uploaded did you not take yourself?

Please Keep your condescending remarks to yourself and refrain from accusing people of things and you'll be fine. Scanbus (talk) 18:19, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Telegraph used your photo

This article of the Telegraph uses one of your pictures. TheDJ (talk) 09:44, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:6 inch gun from HMS Calypso.jpg

Hi there, I'm trying to identify the model of gun in your photo at Fort Nelson. If it was a"Mk III" QF built as new by Elswick in 1893, it would be a 40-calibres (20 feet long internally) QF gun weighing 6.6 tons. Its cartridge was a brass case. But so far as I know, HMS Calyso had the much lighter and shorter (36 calibres) 5-ton BL gun (silk bag cartridge) of 1881-1883, and I doubt it would have been able to carry the QF 40-calibres gun. The gun looks too short for the long 40-calibres QF model, but difficult to judgege end-on. A view of the breech would allow definite identification. I'm wondering whether this was one of the early 1880s BL Mk III 26-calibre guns which were later converted to QF in about 1893 ? Do you have any more information about this ? thanks. Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 23:41, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rowfant station image

To the best of my recollections, the author of the image was unknown; many images prior to 1910 generally do not have the author indicated unless issued by one of the large publishers. May I ask where you found the author? Ravenseft (talk) 08:26, 25 November 2009 (UTC)