User talk:Enterlousy

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Enterlousy!

First steps tutorial Our first steps tour and our frequently asked questions will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy (Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content). You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold when contributing and assume good faith when interacting with others. This is a wiki. Getting help More information is available at the community portal. You may ask questions at the help desk, village pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons (webchat). You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at the copyright village pump.

Goodies, tips, and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your graphic abilities. You can find the files you have uploaded in your Uploads. Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~. To link to an image page without embedding the image, type: [[:File:Foo.jpg]], which produces: File:Foo.jpg. You may enable gadgets (custom features) for your account. There are several tools to upload files. Have you edited Wikipedia before? This guide might be useful. Made a mistake? Do you want to have a file renamed or moved? Use the move link and wait for an authorized user to rename it. Do you want to have your recently uploaded picture removed? Tag it as {{speedy|reason here}}. For more information read the deletion guidelines.

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 03:26, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

US Mint

I saw that you uploaded some images of a few coins, were these released with a free license on their own website? (as I couldn't find such licenses myself). Banknotes are acceptable if they're simple scans but coins are 3D objects so any scan of them creates new copyright ©. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 07:28, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

A quote from en:WP:IUP, "Also note that in the United States, reproductions of two-dimensional artwork which is in the public domain because of age do not generate a new copyright — for example, a straight-on photograph of the Mona Lisa would not be considered copyrighted (see Bridgeman v. Corel). Scans of images alone do not generate new copyrights — they merely inherit the copyright status of the image they are reproducing." Although coins are 3D objects, coin designs are considered 2D, and straight on images of coin obverses and reverses do not generate new copyrights. - ZLEA _Talk\^Contribs 14:59, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

@ZLEA: Thank you. --Enterlousy (talk) 16:07, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

WikiProject Numismatics

By the way, would you be interested in joining WikiProject Numismatics? --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚)

Your work

I don't know if you will ever read this, but you've done amazing work, if you ever wish to return as an editor in good standing I would be here to vouch for you. It's such a shame that your block from years ago is still being enforced as I only found your wonderful (recent) edits.

Hope to see you return as a colleague one day. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)