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Flickr promoting

Good day, Mifter. Please do not close these requests, it's up to admins to close these requests and find if there is consensus for them to be a flickr reviewer. Best regards, --Kanonkas(talk) 07:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect, see the instructions: "After a few days, a reviewer or administrator determines whether there are no severe objections to the candidate." (emphasis mine) How do you turn this on (talk) 11:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
My bad, apologies for any inconvenience this created for you. Best regards, --Kanonkas(talk) 13:56, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

checkimages.py

Hi, I don't think that the situation regarding the images on en.wiki is a lot harder than here on commons, so you should try to do as I've done for commons, i.e. add the english category here:

category_with_licenses = {
        'commons': 'Category:License tags',
        'en'     : None,

There should be a category with (almost) all the licenses allowed on en.wiki. The same you should do for PageWithHiddenTemplates and PageWithAllowedTemplates. In the first you can add a list of templates that are not licenses, in the second a list of templates that instead are licenses. But please see that the bot checks if in all the templates in the image's description there's a valid license. For example, if I create a template named "User:Filnik/my-pd-license" with {{PD-Old}} in it, the bot will see the pd-old and will let the image as "OK". To put all the templates will make you waste a lot of time but then the bot won't make mistakes. I still need to put some templates, indeed my report is a bit "full", as soon as possible I will clean it and put all the licenses in the right place.

If you still have questions, problems, other, feel free to ask :-) --Filnik\b[Rr]ock\b!? 12:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, i marked the image as missing source/permission information till the change of license seems to be unclear to me. I asked User:Rjd0060 on this. --Martin H. (talk) 03:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Alisa images

How could it be that two of four Alisa images were deleted, while all four are under the same license? It is CC-BY, as you can see there and there, so there's no copyright violation. --Beaumain (talk) 07:22, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Image flickr

Hi Mifter, this picture http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Occidente.PNG is not on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/14008778@N00/336371204/ , then it must be deleted from commons ? Lockon (talk) 18:50, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

No, to my knowledge, it doesn't have to be deleted, because a creative commons license is irrevocable (Once you post it to flickr under a CC license, if someone copies it and then you delete they are under no obligation to delete the photo) and when I checked it on July 21st, it was available a CC-BY license which means that it was licensed under a CC-BY and is doesn't have to be deleted from Commons, if you have any more questions, feel free to ask me or at the Commons:Help Desk. Thanks and All the Best, Mifter (talk) 22:45, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Mifter!
Tip: Add categories to your files
Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

Here's how:

1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:

2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.

[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]

This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".

When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").

Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.

BotMultichillT 06:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Help needed - mass license change

I found that one user had uploaded lots of Israeli stamps, which were deleted because of commons' bureaucracy - the stamps are PD, but they weren't written in Commons:Stamps/Public domain, so after a negotiation, the PD statement was written (Commons:Stamps/Public_domain#Israel) and all stamps must be tagged by {{PD-IL-exempt}} instead of {{PD-because|copy or scan of a banknote or stamp in Israel are part of the public domain. See: Category talk:Stamps of Israel}}... Since I was starting to feel like a bot (or like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times), I've started to look at the bot list. Could your bot help me, since there are still more images to restore? Yuval Y § Chat § 16:38, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, I've done it myself. Yuval Y § Chat § 20:17, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

FP Promotion

This image has been promoted to Featured picture!

The image File:Volcanic Ash Dunes.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Volcanic Ash Dunes.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 10:49, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

PD review

Hi!

I write to you because you are listed here Commons:PD_files/reviewers#List_of_PD_reviewers.

The Category:PD files for review was flooded some time ago and perhaps therefore PD review seems to have stopped. After some discussion on Commons_talk:PD_files#Has_review_stopped? the category has been cleaned up.

Perhaps you would like to come back and take a look at some of the remaining files?

Thank you!

--MGA73 (talk) 15:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Green copyright PNG not eligible for copyright

Your image, Green Copyright.png is not eligible for copyright or licensing because it consists of two green circles and one non-euclidean semicircle and is a raster image. --Gert7 (talk) 18:27, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Better source request for Image:James H. Robertson.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:James H. Robertson.jpg. You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the help desk or me at my talkpage. Thank you. High Contrast (talk) 21:29, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

File:TRS-80 Model I with Drives.jpg

Thanks for moving this! All the best, Ubcule (talk) 13:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Western Wall April 2006.jpg

Mifter, Thank you for verifying the image Wilsons Arch Womens Section.jpg (from flikr.com) for the article Wilson's Arch (Jerusalem). In addition to keeping that image in the article, I would like to replace the photo in the info box with Western Wall April 2006.jpg, which has a much better view of Wilson's Arch, but I see the photo has a template that notes the photo should not be used until it is reviewed and the template is removed. Could you please take a look at that photo and remove the template if you think it should be removed? Thanks!! NearTheZoo (talk) 22:38, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Please ignore this request. Looks like it's just been taken care of. Thanks! NearTheZoo (talk) 00:44, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
File:AflagforIraq.svg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Antemister (talk) 14:12, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

File:VHS_with_red_X_through.PNG has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

99of9 (talk) 12:13, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted

Congratulations! Port Dalhousie Memorial.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status.

If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates.

We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images.
Comments Needs tilt correction and brightening. Mattbuck 13:12, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 Comment - Straightened and brightened (if its too bright, I can lower the exposure back a bit). Best, Mifter 22:48, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Possibly a bit, it doesn't give the impression of a rainy day anymore. Mattbuck 10:25, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I lowered it a bit so the grey in the sky is clearer while the image is still bright. Best, Mifter 19:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Better. Mattbuck 20:41, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely, Andrew Gray (talk) 20:49, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:

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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.

To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.

Thanks,
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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!

2012 Picture of the Year: A pair of European Bee-eaters in Ariège, France.

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There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.

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Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement

Picture of the Year 2013 Results

The 2013 Picture of the Year. View all results »

Dear Mifter,

The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).

  • In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
  • In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)

We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:

  1. 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
  2. In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
  3. In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.

Click here to view the top images »

We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.

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Bot de-flagging notification

Hi Mifter/Archive 2, I'm writing to you because your bot MifterBot (talk · contributions · Statistics · Recent activity · block log · User rights log · uploads · Global account information) is about to be de-flagged as a result of inactivity for a period longer than two years. If you'd like to keep that account flagged as a bot, please speak up at Commons:Bots/Requests/de-flag 2#Discussion; otherwise, I'll remove the bot flag from that account in a month from now (10 May 2014). Thanks for your understanding, odder (talk) 13:34, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

OTRS permissions queues

Hello Mifter. You are receiving this message as a license reviewer. As you know, OTRS processes a large amount of tickets relating to image releases (called "permissions"). As a license reviewer, you may have the skills necessary to contribute to this team. If you are interested in learning more about OTRS or to volunteer please visit Meta-Wiki. Tell your friends! Thank you. Rjd0060 18:48, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Speedy and uploads by the same-business-sounding user

Hello Mifter!

I was processing speedy deletes and saw your nominations of a bunch of stones like this. I have found the images as you just did, but have you realised that the user user:LineargentBCN have the same name as the business running these images (Linear Agent)? I would say it is highly likely that the images were uploaded by the copyright owner and thus were automagically accepted being under free license by the means of uploading.

However it is absolutely correct that we do not possess any evidence about the equality of the said user and the business, and it's prudent to request some proof. I believe, however, that speedy deleting the images may not be the perfect method for that. A normal deletion and notification of the user may offer the chance for them to establish the ownership though permissions@wikimedia email or otherwise. There may be even better methods which, similarly, don't involve an undeletion round for the otherwise evidently inexperienced user. May be better the next time, don't you think?

As a sidenote I am not sure the images are very useful, but that's probably unrelated matter.

Thank you for your time! --grin 12:14, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi Grin, thank you for your note. I agree that a regular deletion request would likely be a better outcome as it provides more time overall for issues to be addressed. I did some additional reading after tagging those and for subsequent taggings have generally erred more to the side. That being said I agree with your concern that they may fall outside the projects scope as well. Best, Mifter Public (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

File:Carlotta Salerno.png

Hi, the source for the licence is http://www.comune.torino.it/condizioni.shtml#copy. It is written that all the contents on the website of the City of Turin are released under licence CC BY 3.0 IT. --Pierluigi05 (talk) 20:08, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. Mifter (talk) 20:38, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted

Congratulations! Bubulcus ibis (Cattle Egret).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status.

If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates.

We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images.
Comments  Comment Green CA on the head needs removing.--Peulle 22:10, 25 February 2017 (UTC) ✓ Done Mifter 22:23, 25 February 2017 (UTC) Support Confirmed. QI.--Peulle 10:05, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:19, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

PD-Argentina-photos

Hi Mifter. You have proposed for deletion a lot of pictures uploaded by me, that are in the public domain by aplication of the Argentine Law, or by aplication of the "free use rule" of the USA law. I thought it was explained in Wikimedia Commons, and there was a consensus about PD-AR-photos. If it's not like this, can you explain me the situation here. Thanks in advance.--Roblespepe (talk) 06:46, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Roblespepe, per Commons policy, images must be in the public domain in both their country of origin and in the United States. Due to the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) the United States retroactively reinstated the copyright of a number of images that had previously fallen into the Public Domain (95 years after the date publication) therefore as they are in the public domain in Argentina but not the US they are not permitted on Commons. This is indicated in the license template you utilized (see Template:Not-PD-US-URAA stating that new files using it are not permitted) which also references the URAA and at Commons:Hirtle chart. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, let me know if you have any more questions. Mifter (talk) 02:16, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for your psychoterror. Haven't you not made any mistakes??? --Steindy (talk) 00:20, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi there. My apologies for the mass notification (I just left a note on your talk page about it). I'm using a a bot to check for newly uploaded images without a license tag. The bot has a limiter that is supposed to limit it to issuing three notifications to any user during a specific run however after checking it appears that in a version update we renamed the setting name meaning that the limiter did not kick in when it was supposed to. I've fixed the error and reverted the message on your talk page. I profusely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Best, Mifter (talk) 00:22, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
The inconvenience was big enough: 22 notifications on my discussion page and as many emails as I improved the errors. I mean something like spam. I uploaded 83 images with commonist and made a mistake. And I control not only my upoads, but also look at the result. I also make the categories and the imagenotes. You should have your bot better under control. Sowas created stress and dissatisfaction. Regards --Steindy (talk) 01:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
I apologize again. The bot is under control and this should not happen again. I stopped the bot immediately after I noticed that the config was not set correctly, there is nothing more that I can say or do aside from continuing to apologize. Just as you made a mistake with your upload setting, I made a mistake with my not noticing that the bot's settings had a typo. The bots purpose is not to harass users, rather prevent (primarily newer users) and inform users not to upload unlicensed images. We are all on the same team here and I apologize again for the inconvenience this has caused you. Mifter (talk) 01:32, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
Is okay, Mifter! The thing has already gone. I was just annoyed at this moment. Meanwhile, all the pictures are in order, completely written and all categories are entered. And some pictures I have - as usual - inserted in the English WP. Regards --Steindy (talk) 14:47, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Greeting to Mifter,

Thank you for notified me about this problem. As old user I know that some symbols a promotional logos can make confusion but I am very careful in such of cases. Both of my uploaded images have same symbols/logos:

  • 1. Coat of arm of FC Dorog
  • 2. Coat of arm of Hungarian Football Federation
  • 3. Merkantil liga logo

All of are permitted for public using. I copied here one example per each to confirm this: [1], [2], [3]

I hope I could help you. Please let me know if any further question.

Sincerely: Dorogifc (talk) 22:56, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for your message. After doing some looking however I noticed that en:File:MLSZ.png indicates that it is used on the English Wikipedia under a claim of Fair Use and is not freely licensed (the third logo also provides no information that it is freely licensed though it may be ineligible for copyright as simple geometry). As images that include other copyrighted images themselves are subject to the copyright of the original image and as Commons does not permit images under claims of Fair Use the two files I nominated are likely not allowed on the Commons absent the logo holder freely licensing them (which is unlikely as that diminishes their rights quite considerably.) Best, Mifter (talk) 01:16, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

File:Portal Nou city gate and Pont de Sant Josep bridge, Valencia 1860s.jpg

This image has free copyright status because it was photographied in the 1860s (over 160 years old) by famous artists of the time--Vvven (talk) 17:15, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for your note. In that case simply add a copyright tag to that effect, remove the no license tag, and you should be good to go. Mifter (talk) 18:13, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

I already added the copyright tags in the three images of this city gate. thanks for your support and help.--Vvven (talk) 02:13, 2 April 2017 (UTC)