User talk:Speaking fish

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Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content was recently deleted, or will soon be deleted, in accordance with our process and policies, because it was not, or is not, within our scope. Please review our project scope, but in short, Commons is targeted at media files including photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text and video clips. Wikimedia Commons does not contain text articles like encyclopedia articles, textbooks, news, word definitions and such. Each of these other kinds of content have their own projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquote.

If the content seems to fit the scope of one of those other projects, please consider contributing it there. If you think that the deletion was in error because the contribution really was in scope, you can appeal it at Commons:Undeletion requests, giving a reason why it fits our scope to help others evaluate the matter. Thank you for your understanding.  Mardetanha ^talk 08:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Commercial use

"Commercial use permitted only with written permission from Arkadiy Babchenko"

This kind of licensing is against the policies of Wikimedia Commons. Only pictures that can be re-used in any commercial purpose are acceptable, so the files you uploaded will be deleted. Bogdan (talk) 09:42, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

OTRS discussion

The pictures that I uploaded today ARE free. The email from the the news agency that made the pictures was forwarded to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Please explainSpeaking fish (talk) 16:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

OK - if an email has been sent there will be an OTRS number relating to that. When you have that you can upload them again with teh OTRS tag on them. Given your past behaviour you will understand our concern. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Will that OTRS number be sent back to my email? ...or otherwise, how can it be assigned if those pictures don't exist anymore?Speaking fish (talk) 16:18, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes - take a look at the OTRS page and the information you require is there. Upload the images or images & you then add the template with the OTRS number on - all should be fine then. Apologies but I am sure you understand there are real legal consequences to Commons hosting images that are copyright violations. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:43, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

And looks like it should be ok - see here. There are a few Russian speakers around who should be able to double check it but I suggest you upload them with the ticket information on this time & it should be ok. Apologies for the confusion & delays. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:45, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, man! I appreciate you taking time to explain. ...btw, is there a way to get rid of that "copyright violator" tag? Speaking fish (talk) 17:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem - sometime we all screw up :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:15, 17 August 2008 (UTC)