File talk:Maria-Kotarba-Auschwitz.jpg

 

Website source used as source of this image

<http://miasta.gazeta.pl/krakow/51,35798,3701864.html?i=1>: where is the permission to copy (and/or edit), to download, and then to upload to Wikipedia with a Commons license from this published Polish source? What is the precise source used by gazeta.pl? Who is the author of the article the photo cribbed for this image? This image does not belong to the uploader. Whose image is it (originally)? What rights does the uploader have to copy, download, and then upload it or a version of it? The uploader is not the photographer. The image page does not indicate that the uploader has the right to upload it in any version of Wikipedia or Wikipedia Commons (for use in Wikipedia or elsewhere all over the internet). --NYScholar (talk) 21:04, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

This is one of three images that I have seen in the past few days that the same uploader is uploading to Wikipedia/Wikipedia Commons, which all have the same potential copyright violation issues. --NYScholar (talk) 21:05, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

• This is a problem user waging a personal crusade against me since many days in en:Wikipedia. Please be advised that such conduct might require outside intervention before this issue is resolved. For now, I've removed a flag doubled up by him against policy. --Poeticbent talk 22:18, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

This notification is not "personal" and has nothing to do with you "personally"; I am concerned about the integrity of Wikipedia and its articles on which I have worked extremely hard. Your post above violates WP:AGF. The information about this image is posted properly and the template requires notification of the uploader. I simply regard this user as the uploader of the image that I am required to notify with a template by the speedy-deletion template. --NYScholar (talk) 21:16, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

The image about which I have notified the uploader is an orphan [in Wikipedia Commons] and has been an orphan for a long time before I noticed it this week. --NYScholar (talk) 21:19, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Learned the image is used in articles in Wikipedia after posting this; see the other discussion referenced below.

It was nominated for deletion in July 2008 by another user. (Just had to relog in to check history for date, as it's not in that user's template.) --NYScholar (talk) 21:37, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Speedy-deletion template

Someone deleted my speedy-deletion template; that is not in keeping with template policy. It's deleted only after it's acted upon, and it hasn't been acted upon. There are serious problems with wording and the link (to "Wikipedia:PD#German World War II images, no such section exists) in the template; as "PD" it went to a disambiguation page (it was coded as "this"). I would prefer a clearer template that is a speedy-deletion template, because that is what I placed. The old template has not resulted in any action. It has been here for over a month with no results. The template needs some work. The references to "public domain" in the image description page are inaccurate. The template refers to "no matter what" the Auschwitz Museum says, which makes no sense in the template. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in Poland, states ownership rights over its photo archives and its exhibits, and it features a copyright notice on its website. This information is not clearly presented in the image page. See the listing of this image at WP:NFR and WP:FUR for related discussion, which refers to this image page and its talk page as well. Perhaps people can try to fix the template so that it raises the issues being discussed in a clearer manner, or restore the clear speedy-deletion template that I placed, which someone else deleted today. --NYScholar (talk) 03:11, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

• Let the normal deletion process take place. Then we, the rest of the community, can tell you you are wrong. Speedy deletion is not appropriate here where there are valid points and counterpoints. Speedy deletion is only for obvious copyvios. Also, please see our new PD-art policy. Reproductions of PD works are PD, period. -Nard the Bard 03:30, 5 September 2008 (UTC)