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Quick request

Hi, I thought I would ask you first, since you're very good at getting Flickr users to licence their work under a CC licence suitable for Misplaced Pages and Commons, and you might have dealt with this Flickr user before. The chap in this photo is a British radio DJ who has sadly passed away and this is the only photo I can find on Flickr, sadly not under a CC licence - . I'm just wondering, have you dealt with the user before (I know, a long shot given how huge Flickr is) and if not, what's your recommendation to get the user to relicence under a CC licence ? Cheers. Nick (talk) 02:12, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Nick - I'm afraid I haven't dealt with this Flickr user before - my standard form letter for Flickr photogs is at U:RFC. If you don't have a Flickr account already and would like me to make the request for you, let me know and I'll be happy to, it only takes a couple of minutes. Videmus Omnia 02:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I've an account on Flickr and I used one of your templates as the basis for the message I left. Your U:RFC page is very helpful, I'll be bookmarking that. Thanks for your help. Nick (talk) 02:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Insignia

After Midnight asked me today about a set of insignia logos you had tagged for speedy deletion. I know that the issue has come up before about images of eastern European military insignia, and that people argued about it, but I don't remember the resolution of the discussion. — Carl (CBM · talk) 02:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

It must be about the images of Bosnian military insignia I tagged earlier today - this was an example. The images were seemingly taken from this page at another website (they are identical in every respect except file name). I originally tagged them as copyvio; I see that After Midnight declined those speedy nominations so I re-tagged them as "no source" on the off chance a free source can be provided. Other images taken from this site have been deleted in numerous discussions from last October - I don't remember where to find them now but this linksearch should point to a lot of the discussions. Videmus Omnia 02:29, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't remember if the other ones were deleted. I thought Zscout made new versions on his own, which sidestepped the issue. — Carl (CBM · talk) 04:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah - yeah, I think he made a couple of Ukrainian rank insignia. The ones that he didn't replace were eventually deleted at WP:IFD. Nobody else followed up on making replacement insignia so far as I know. Videmus Omnia 04:45, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Jinxmchue

I've unblocked the IP range that I blocked earlier, and I unprotected the two talk pages he was using. Apparently, I'm the one who screwed up here, not Jinxmchue or JzG or anyone else involved. --Elkman 07:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. Videmus Omnia 07:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Whatever. Go ahead and block me if the situation calls for it. Apparently, he was concerned that I wouldn't get punished for anything. --Elkman 07:09, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Um, I'm not sure what provoked that reaction but I wasn't even thinking that you should be punished. I am disappointed that it appears a volatile editor may have been provoked into making angry statements on their talk page so that they could be blocked; it's not the first time that I've seen that sort of thing. I think this would have better resolved through discussion and dispute resolution rather than blocks/protections. Videmus Omnia 07:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)