User talk:Cgheyne
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--SieBot 06:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Image Tagging Image:Gildersleeve_Basil.jpg
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Thanks for uploading Image:Gildersleeve_Basil.jpg. I notice the image page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikimedia Commons (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the content is a derivative of a copyrighted work, you need to supply the names and a licence of the original authors as well.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag, then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multilicense GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find all your uploads using the Gallery tool. Thank you. Cecil 07:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I thought I had done enough for copyright purposes by actually naming the source of the picture (M. Gilleland's blog, http://www.mgilleland.com/gildersleeve.jpg; Gilleland quotes W. Briggs' biography of Gildersleeve: Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War, edited by Ward W. Briggs Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998). More importantly, I gave Gildersleeve's date of death (1924, i.e. 84 years ago). You probably know more about these things, but I was under the impression that photographs that were taken more than 70 years ago are in the public domain, regardless of who the author was.Cgheyne 07:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- A image can't never be its own source. The source-field is here to check if the image data. If you give the image itself how should the data be checked? It always has to be the page where the image was integrated and the necessary information to the image is given. And yes, for a PD-old picture it doesn't really mather, who made the picture, but how do you want to proove, that a picture is really PD-old, if you don't name the author and his lifedates. It's a little bit like the whole 'who was first', the chicken or the egg. -- Cecil 12:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)