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DYK for Torment: Tides of Numenera

On 25 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Torment: Tides of Numenera, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Torment: Tides of Numenera became the first video game project to raise $1,000,000 in under seven hours on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Torment: Tides of Numenera. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Igor Smirnov as "Santa Claus"

Not sure why you seem to be so against the labelling of Igor Smirnov as being nicknamed "Santa Claus", it is well documented across various sources normally considered reputable by Misplaced Pages. I see that you are from Moldova, do you have some kind of nationalist/anti-Transnistrian agenda here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.6.112.154 (talk) 01:55, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Aw, cut it out, the only one who bought into this prank was that poor EUobserver guy, but he removed it as soon as someone asked him not to copy sourceless stuff from Misplaced Pages. All the other "sources" are just copypasta from his article or from Misplaced Pages. Still, thanks goes to the original prankster for demonstrating the positive feedback loop effect in action.--illythr (talk) 18:13, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could help me

I noticed that you put up a lot of the pictures for the Torment:Numenera website. I was wondering if you could assist me a bit in understanding the process of putting up these images. I am very new to editing wikipedia, and I would appreciate bouncing some ideas off of you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barrett Kinsella (talk • contribs) 15:44, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi there.

Yes, Misplaced Pages's image policy can be rather complicated, confusing and often quite frustrating. The basic point is, whenever you add *anything* to Misplaced Pages, be it text or media files, you do so under a very open licence that allows people to, among other things, make money of your work without owing you a dime (attribution is always required, though). Because of this you must prove that the copyright for the images is yours to give. If you're the author of the image and agree to publish it under that license, then it's pretty easy - just fill in the blanks in the form and slap {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0}} into the license field (but beware of the lack of freedom of panorama in some countries, where you have to be sure that the architect of the building you've photographed died more than 70 years ago). If the image is not yours, you may still publish a few of them under the fair use licence, but there are some really strict rules about that, see here. When a photo is owned by the organization you're affiliated with (like this one), you can follow instructions provided here. One more thing - if you upload images under a free license, it's best to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, so that they cam be used in other Misplaced Pages projects like, for example, this French Misplaced Pages article.

On the images you've uploaded so far:

• The logos should have their resolution reduced to what is needed to display them correctly (about 300-400 pixels horizontal).
• Artwork by Billy Dee Williams - unless the current copyright holder releases the artwork into public domain, there's very little chance that the image will stay, as it is not critically important for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz article. You can probably place it into the Billy Dee Williams article, though.
• The 1988 and 2012 group photos will need explicit permission from the copyright owners. If they all belong to the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the simplest solution would be to add a notice on their official website stating that these images are available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. If that is not possible, all these images are going to be deleted, because photos of living people cannot be published under fair use (since it's assumed possible to get a free photo as long as they're living). --illythr (talk) 19:34, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey there!

Thanks for the prompt, thorough response. I tried to put up those selfcc-by-sa tags on the images that I used, and also edited our official webpage (www.monkinstitute.org) to provide notice of the release of these images under that particular license (bottom of page):

http://www.monkinstitute.org/education/international/index2.php

http://www.monkinstitute.org/competition/pastwinnersandjudges.php

Haven't edited the logos yet or Billy Dee's stuff, but I will keep you posted as that progresses.

As you said yourself, the process seems complicated and confusing, but your input has been very insightful and is much appreciated.

If you are from Moldova, your English is pretty good! Also, are you working on the Numenera project yourself, or do you know staff of the project, or are you just a fan? Just curious.

Thanks again for your help

Barrett Kinsella (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:33, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for releasing and adding the images! It is often quite difficult to obtain photos of contemporaries for the articles due to all the licensing restrictions. I added the weblinks you posted here to the image pages themselves to clarify their public domain status for other editors who might stop by. I can also help you transfer the free images to Commons, if you like. I see Billy Dee is a honorary chairman

As for my work on the Torment: Tides of Numenera article, well, I'm a big fan of the original game, so I backed this one during its Kickstarter campaign, seeing as how it's done by many of the same guys and uses an intriguing setting that seems to fit quite well with its themes. I'm otherwise not affiliated with inXile. Not any more than any other backer, anyway. I'm still hoping to convince them to release some concept art images into public domain as you did with yours, though, since the number of fair use images in a good article is expected to be close to zero (even adding the existing ones took quite a bit of effort). --illythr (talk) 20:30, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

Hello, I'm Thewikiguru1. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Katyn massacre have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Thewikiguru1 (talk) 16:28, 21 September 2013 (UTC)