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Picture revised

I have since reloaded an image under copyright discussion. I have now correctly noted that it is copyrighted and not open for 'free use' I hope you respect this change I have made. I apologize for the misuse of the image uploading.

The building picture I submitted will not be used after all

I already removed it from the KCPT page, realizing that taking a photo of the building myself would be better than using someone else's photos whether it is considered fair use or not. Plus, that photo was of the backside of the building and not the front (a view of the front would be better). Therefore, feel free to remove that photo from this site. It will not be used. --CastleBuff

Article for Barry Klarberg

I reviewed your message. Thank you for your comments. I want to inform and ensure to you that this Misplaced Pages entry was not created by Barry Klarberg. We share the same last name. With regards to the headshot image used, I have reached out to my friend who took the photograph and will receive an email from him confirming the permission to use the image. This email with the author's explicit permission will be forwarded to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Rklarberg (talk)User talk:rklarberg

Ashish Kapoor Image

Historiographer

I like to make clear that I do not support, nor even accept overlooking of racial slurs on Misplaced Pages. They may be used elsewhere, but I support the community sense that they have no place here. If I appeared to be supporting Historiographer, it is simply that I thought there was a plausible case that the words might have been misunderstood. I now know that you are well-acquainted with the history (which was not presented in the original ANI thread, so I defer to your more detailed understanding of the background. I still support the concept of escalating blocks, and think a 3month block following a 72 hour block is a jump too far. I haven't had the "pleasure" of dealing with any of the Korean-Japanese spats, so my view may not be the same as if I had that experience.

Re: Replaceable fair use File:The Swarm Train & Station.jpg

Hello, I have left a message on the file page disputing your decision to nominate the image for deletion. Can you please read my message on the file page and post a message on my talk page with your response. Thanks!--Dom497 (talk) 22:17, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Penyulap

• Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)#Should wikipedia policy recognise its own imperfection.
• Project:innocent prisoner's dilemma Innocent prisoner's dilemma (AfD discussion)
• explanation for tagging that article as Liberian English

Since you discussed Penyulap's behaviour on the administrator's noticeboard a while back, perhaps you might like to venture an opinion on all this. Uncle G (talk) 12:09, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

WP:AN#Request community ban for User:Runtshit

Wouldn't you say that the knowledge of the individual possessed by an account registered a few weeks ago strike you as suspicious (or a call for attention)?—Ryulong (竜龙) 07:39, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, I don't know what drives Mr. Wikipediania (talk · contribs), but apparently he has shown quite some fascination with the topic of old banned users. He seems to be systematically searching for old cases of serial sockpuppeters that have had no formal community ban discussion yet. I don't think his knowledge of these cases should be seen as a suspicious sign as such, because he has clearly been investigating them, but his interest in the topic is somehow odd. Fut.Perf. ☼ 08:16, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

This reminds me that I was contacted recently by SudoGhost requesting that I put forward a formal community ban on an IP vandal that I've been battling for as long as I've been on this project. Why is it that people won't accept that a de facto ban is a thing that exists?—Ryulong (竜龙) 21:09, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Re: copyright

To voice my thoughts/questions in one word → what? ΚΛΤΛΝΛGØD 11:09, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Why? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

wath ;_; ΚΛΤΛΝΛGØD 11:13, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Maybe this article has an answer for you? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:17, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

I laughed at bit at the answer, anyway → I'd like to inquire on why/what/etc was wrong with the image I uploaded. I'm a person who likes to learn from mistakes so I'll do better in the future. I look forward to your response. ΚΛΤΛΝΛGØD 11:19, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Okay, then, seriously. You uploaded File:Hammock near the rocky mountains British Columbia.png, saying it was "from a friend" of yours, it showed a place in Canada, and that it was "ineligible for copyright". Now, the last claim is patently false: photographs are always copyrightable, so even if this really was given to you by a friend, we'd need an explicit, verifiable licensing statement from that friend. However, given the fact that it was previously published here, with a different description (saying that it was a place in Norway), I have my doubts. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:33, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh dear D: → I doubt you'll believe me but I legitimately thought it was a photo from canada → A friend of mine did give me the photo And told me so himself, Again I doubt you'll believe this. Either way, sorry for wasting your time. Its obvious I'm wrong here and I formally apologize for the waste of time. In the future I'll make sure I actually check for relevant sources/etc. If you have any tips on images I'd be open for advise, as I'm very new to Images on wikipedia. Sorry again! ΚΛΤΛΝΛGØD 11:43, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

AE

Seeing as you are anyway involved in AE adjudication, could you take a look at this AE which as The Blade of the Northern Lights states: "Comments from other admins would be really nice too." Ankh.Morpork 15:57, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of picture BurnopfieldStJames

Please can you explain why this file has been deleted. No you cannot - because there was no reason. This image is perfect. When I uploaded it, I stated quite clearly about permissions. People like yourselves need to consider - is this Misplaced Pages (the free encyclopaedia which anyone can edit) or is it just for an 'exclusive' group of people who discriminate against less experienced editors? Oneill05 oneill (talk) 18:39, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

NEGATIVE BARNSTAR

It's such a shame that there are no Negative Barnstars. It's lucky for you, however, because I would quite happily have given you several after you deleted the image for NO REASON. Oneill05 oneill (talk) 18:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, you could try something like the following. Feel free to vary the text and image according to your likings.

{{subst:Award2
  |image=Thumbs down red.svg
  |topic=The Negative Barnstar
  |text=I hereby award you this negative barnstar, for being an abusive admin, an overall horrible person, and for deleting my image.
}}

However, this won't change the fact that your file File:BurnopfieldStJames.jpg didn't have any evidence that its owners had released it under a free license. Right now, the source website you cited, http://www.burnopfield.net, doesn't even exist. I honestly don't remember whether last time I looked it was also already offline, or whether it existed but showed no evidence of licensing. If you can cite a proper release statement now, I can still restore the image. If you want to ask me to do that, you might want to choose to make your negative barnstar not too horribly abusive, because that might result in me disliking you. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:51, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Cyprus

The above barnstar conversation is hilarious btw. Although Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (Greek and Turkish named places) is ancient history, could you have a quick look at Talk:Kioneli.In ictu oculi (talk) 00:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

RE: File talk:Aquae Sulis artist impression.jpg

Hi. I've no idea what's happenning there! Anyway, you may have noticed that the wording in {{di-replaceable fair use-notice}} has now been amended. Cheers. -- Trevj (talk) 13:08, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Question about uploading pictures...

Hi Future Perfect at Sunrise!

I hope you won't mind my writing to you. I have a question about uploading pictures and after scouring all the pages, and discussion pages, on image policy i thought it might be easiest to ask you directly, as you seem to be an authority on these things :)

I'm a bit of a newby to wikipedia and one of the tasks I've set myself is to improve pages on Caribbean writers such as E. A. Markham, Fred D'Aguiar, Wilson Harris, Caryl Phillips and others. One of the things I would like to do is to get an infobox with a picture up on their pages. From what I've read so far, it seems to me like the best way of doing this would be to write to institutions with which these writers are affiliated, or - where I can track them down - authors of particular pictures and ask them if they would release a picture of the author in question under the conditions of free use, or - at the least - give permission for it to be used on Misplaced Pages under the conditions of fair use. I have already attempted to do this for Wilson Harris though, some 3 weeks later, I have not received a response and I anticipate that my requests regarding the other writers might well be met with similar upresponsiveness! The policy on fair use is still a little unclear to me, so my question is: is there something I'm missing? Is it likely that some of the pictures of these authors that are on the internet would qualify for fair use (and, if so, what am I looking for?). Or am I best patiently sticking to my plan of action, and trying to get permissions for photographs to be used?

With all best,

Loriski (talk) 13:13, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Further problems with Collect's edits

After you closed the appeal at WP:AE, Collect made the following edits after his formal warning: Mathsci (talk) 14:28, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Probably not the best idea to revert him and create the impression you are now following his edits. Please try to give it a rest too. Let him talk; as long as he is not again spewing accusations against you, there's no problem with it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:09, 12 June 2012 (UTC)