User talk:Dabarkey~commonswiki

Hi - thanks for contributing to the commons. Please note that a scan is not original work, and thus not a valid source. Please always provide information about the original source, i.e. the book the image was scanned from. Also note that you can not put a reproduction like a scan under any license you please - you have to use the license of the original. If it's not free, neither is the reproduction. -- Duesentrieb 09:22, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

oh, and something else: "photographs" should not be the only categorisation of an image - images should always be caterorized by topic, too. For planes i would suggest on of the subcategories of category:aviation. -- Duesentrieb 09:26, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi again - thanks for the new images. Could you please give a source / rationale for the PD claim for Image:C-74 long beach 2.jpg, Image:Douglas dolphin 2.jpg and Image:Douglas World Cruiser.jpg? The pictures would have to be deleted, if no valid sourc is given (the policy for pictures with missing or incomplete license or source is currently being changed to shoot on sight...).

Oh, and please cosider using {{PD-self}} for you own work (the fotos, not the scans). Thanks! -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 10:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm working the PD source. I'm reasonably certain (with the possible exception of the Dolphin) that all are photos from U.S. military sources. I collect aviation prints, and these are literally scanned from prints, not books. The prints are not labeled. Dabarkey 07:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. Please give this information alongside the license tag you place on the imagepage, maybe like this: scanned from an unlabeled print, assumed to have been created by the US millitary - or something like this. It's important that when looking at an image descripition page, people get as much info as possible about the origin of the image. -- Duesentrieb^(?!) 07:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Please help replace this outdated license

Hello!

Thank you for donating images to the Wikimedia Commons. You have uploaded some images in the past with the license {{PD}}. While this was a license acceptable in the early days of Wikimedia, since January 2006, this license has been deprecated and since October 2008 no new uploads with this license was allowed.

The license on older images should be replaced with a better and more specific license/permissions and you can help by checking the images and adding {{PD-self}} if you are the author or one of the other templates that you can see in the template on the image page.

Thank you for your help. If you need help feel free to ask at Commons talk:Licensing or contact User:Zscout370.

The images we would like you to check are:

• File:Douglas dolphin 1.jpg

BotMultichillT 20:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

File source is not properly indicated: File:Douglas dolphin 1.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Douglas dolphin 1.jpg, was missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. The file probably has been deleted. If you've got all required information, request undeletion providing this information and the link to the concerned file ([[:File:Douglas dolphin 1.jpg]]). If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

--78.55.211.75 06:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Dabarkey. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Dabarkey~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

20:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

02:31, 21 April 2015 (UTC)