Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2008 July 30

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The result of the debate was Wrong forum...this image is hosted at Commons. Nothing that can be done here on Wikipedia's IFD.

--—Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 09:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete this image. Wrong license chosen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhexp (talk • contribs) 08:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was:

- Delete - I think this has been here long enough. If the OTRS comes through then the image can be undeleted but at the moment the formal approval is not present - Peripitus (Talk) 02:54, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Jammie_thomas.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Butseriouslyfolks (notify | contribs).

• Uploaded in October 2007 with promise of OTRS clearance to come. It's been a long time since then and yet no OTRS confirmation has been recorded. howcheng {chat} 00:13, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. It's been given a long enough grace period that I don't think the OTRS is going to come. Vickser (talk) 07:25, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Wait!. Looking at User talk:Tubeyes#Jammie MySpace response, it may be that the user thought that permission was given, without realizing that there is a formal process to submit the OTRS permission to Wikipedia. I don't know how often User:Tubeyes checks in, but I know Jammie Thomas personally, so I will let her know about this proposed action and let her decide how to go about with the OTRS. CJLippert (talk) 16:17, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Help. How do I go about giving an OTRS confirmation to keep this picture? I did give someone permission to use this picture from my Myspace page, I just didn't understand there was a process to go about giving formal permission until user CJLippert informed me of this decision. Tereastarr (talk) 20:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To get OTRS permission, you're going to need to send an email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org that includes the following statement:

I hereby assert that I am the creator and/or sole owner of the exclusive copyright of WORK [ insert link ].

I agree to publish that work under the free license LICENSE [choose at least one from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyright_tags ].

I acknowledge that I grant anyone the right to use the work in a commercial product and to modify it according to their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any other applicable laws.

I am aware that I always retain copyright of my work, and retain the right to be attributed in accordance with the license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be attributed to me.

I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.

DATE, NAME OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER

Send it from an email address that is verifiably yours. You'll need to fill in the date, name, etc. Alternatively, since the image says its from your myspace (but I can't get the link to work), you could put the image up there or at another official site of yours and say there:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

Let me know if you have any more questions or issues. In the mean time, I think we should stay deletion of this picture until it gets sorted out. Vickser (talk) 02:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that the release has to come from the copyright holder, who is going to be the photographer, unless that person transferred the copyright to Jammie Thomas (or someone else) via signed written statement. Thanks. howcheng {chat} 16:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I worked with User:Tubeyes on this. He contacted the subject for permission and I believe he received it and forwarded it to OTRS long ago. IIRC, it was from the subject, but I agree it should come from the photographer. Obviously, the subject is willing to have the image here, and it is a personal photo of her, so I would ask that deletion be held to see if she follows through with the OTRS process. I will send an email to her on myspace right now asking her to check this thread. Thanks! -- But|seriously|folks  19:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the debate was Image is on Commons

—Wknight94 (talk) 02:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Common galaxias, Galaxias maculatus.jpg (delete | talk | history | logs) - uploaded by Zureks (notify | contribs).

• Poor Quality Nick Thorne ^talk 03:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It's not great quality, but I checked out the Common galaxias article and they didn't have an image at all, so I went ahead and added it in. I think having it adds to the page, even if the image isn't the best ever. Since it's encyclopedic, no longer orphaned, and under a free license, I see no reason to delete it at this time. If a better image came along, sure, but for now we should keep it. Vickser (talk) 07:22, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nick Thorne and I actually just had a discussion on my talk page about this [1], and it turns out that the reason to delete the image isn't just that it's poor quality, but also that it's possibly mislabelled. While to my untrained eye it looked similar to many pictures of the fish, I'm not a fish expert and Nick says it's not the same fish, and I will trust him. As a misleading image, it actually hurt the encyclopedia to keep, so I'll move to endorsing its deletion.

Also, I commented on this earlier but then removed my comment because I wasn't sure, but since this is a commons image wouldn't the deletion debate need to happen there? Vickser (talk) 19:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This image has been nominated for deletion in the Commons see: [2]. I must admint that I have fouind the correct procedure for deletion to be somewhat confusing. I have found various guides in the Wiki and they are not all the same! Nick Thorne ^talk 01:12, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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