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ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS

For those of you who are flying Air PUI Images as a connecting flight, you are reminded to have your image source and license ready, as they are needed for all images that you might have brought with you.

The staff of Air Burgundavia regrets that they cannot fill in these pieces of information for you, but will render any assistance they can.

image copyrights

Thanks for the heads-up -- you're right; I forgot to add gfdl tags to those images when I uploaded them; I just have. Two of the images you mentioned were not created by me -- namely, Image:Harvard Stadium.jpg and Image:Gestahl -- Amano.jpg. I have taken no action w.r.t. those, although the edit summary for the former indicates that the uploader took the picture himself. jdb ❋ (talk) 18:09, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Can you help me liscense these?

Two of the images on Strath Haven High School came from http://www.wssd.org/pages/schools/shhs/index.php and I will refind the other one. Can you help me label them correctly? Thanks -Slugokramer

Regarding your post on User talk:Shahsagar#Image:Baby_Krishna.jpg

First of all, thanks for all the great work you are doing. On the above mentioned post of yours, if you see my post just above yours, I have made a comprehensive list of images by that user (just like you do). If you can also take in all those images, that would be great. (I am not a regular on en: I work mostly on gu: wikipedia). Thanks. --Spundun 04:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Zvartnots Pic

I was wondering as to why you removed the the Zvartnots image from the Zvartnots Airport article. I contributed that photo to the article, since it didn't have one. Please get back to me on this issue.--Moosh88 19:45, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fair use

I had a question about Fair Use - was wondering if you knew. The image I listed on WP:PUI Image:Pm_manning_sm.jpg is part of the Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. While such an image in copyright, since it was meant for display, since it is an official portrait of a head of government, do you think that using constitute "fair use"? Guettarda 23:44, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Victoria Fairmont

Dear Burgundavia: Hi! Thanks for your question. I appreciate the fact you came in and asked, because I myself don't know much about things in the British Columbia area as you do. I found the hotel's name like that at the Fairmont's company website. I was about to write about the hotel based on a show I saw and I found the hotel's history to be incredibly interesting.

I wanted to apologize for taking so long to answer. I havent been in the computer so much lately because Ive been having trouble, and also because of the one day reorganization at wikipedia.

By the way I have a question. Everyone talks about Vancouver International Airport, but how is Victoria's airport as far as the commercial area? I love those small commercial airports, if anything, because you never know what rare colored bird you might see there!

Thank you and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio UFO Martin

Image:Eagle Nebula - NASA.jpg

Latest comment: 19 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Have you heard anything back regarding this? Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 05:01, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

No, I haven't sent the letter because I don't know where to find it. Alphax ^τεχ 09:26, 16 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, ok, I am going to go to Phase II with this. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:32, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Found it - Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission. Who should it be sent to? There are two possibilities - images at noao dot edu - or - outreach at noao dot edu - which would be better, and how should the letter be worded? Alphax ^τεχ 15:31, 16 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Just ask them to release it under the cc-by-sa 2.0. That is simple, easy to understand license, that is clearly free. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:19, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't see this until today - I've sent the letter (a modified version of Neutrality's semi-formal image request) asking them to release it under GFDL or cc-by-sa-2.5 (yes, there is a new version!). Alphax ^τεχ 18:03, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that means commercial. I suspect the answer is going to be no. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 19:36, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for all the work on these. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 18:10, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

As I suspected, the answer was no. Or rather "Since under your GNU Free Documentation License images can be reproduced for commercial purposes and may be modified - we decline your offer to include our NOAO images in the Wikipedia at this time. Thank you." Deletion time then. Alphax ^τεχ 16:50, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for tracking this down. Image is (unhappily) gone. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 23:19, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

User:Soman

Hi I saw your name on the page of User talk Soman.

I got to that page from one of his untagged images.

That the user in question uploads lots of images without tagging them troubles me. Because it leads to hours of work for others. Finding the source for just one image may even take more than an hour.

If he doesn't respond to your request on his talk page, I would support you in labelling him a vandalist. Or, perhaps prefereably, getting a RfC.

--Fred-Chess 02:54, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gold Coast Airport

I guess our definition of a stub are different. I glanced at the Gold Coast Airport article and in a few minutes I'd learned a hell of a lot, like the airlines that make use of the airport, and even an image of what the airport looks like. I got a lot of information I don't usally get from stubs. I was stub sorting at the time, and if you feel the article is a stub, I'm not going to disagree. -- Longhair | Talk 22:44, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Nunavut airports

I assume you're refering to the Cambridge Bay (and Baker Lake) entry. I gave the Cambridge Bay stub a try but I'm not sure that it's improved (look at the font for the water co-ordinates). Can you have a look before I do the Baker Lake entry. I wonder if it would be better to have a seperate listing for all water aerodromes. But on the other hand would that not mean yet a seperate listing for Heliports?

What other soft of information would be of use on the individual aerodrome pages? I have access to the latest CFS (and get the update every 56 days) so technical information is not a problem. However, general comments other than for one or two aerodromes would be.

CambridgeBayWeather 07:07, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reply about Image:Eagle_Nebula_-_NASA.jpg

Here it is:

(my real name)

If I understand your license explanation - if we give you permission to 
include our images in your on-line encyclopedia, then anyone could freely 
download them and use them even for commercial purposes?  Is that a correct 
interpretation?

(their real name)
Public Affairs Program Coordinator

At 09:51 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote:

> To whom it may concern:
>
> I am an editor of the Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), a multilingual
> project to create a complete, accurate, and open-content encyclopedia.
> Volunteers from around the world collaboratively edit Wikipedia, which
> is one of many projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation
> (wikimediafoundation.org). We depend on photography, art, diagrams and
> charts to clearly illustrate our articles.
>
> I enjoyed your excellent photographs at your website
> ( http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0725.html).
>
> However, we can only use your material if you are willing to grant
> permission for it to be used under terms of the GNU Free Documentation
> License (GNU-FDL, or GFDL for short) or the Creative Commons Share-Alike
> License Version 2.5 (cc-by-sa-2.5).
>
> This means that although you retain the copyright and authorship of your
> own work, you are granting permission for others to use, copy, and share
> your materials freely, and even potentially use them commercially, so
> long as they do not try to claim the copyright themselves, or try to
> prevent others from using or copying them freely (e.g., "share-alike").
>
> You can read these licenses in full at
> http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GFDL (for the GFDL)
> and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode (for the
> cc-by-sa-2.5).
>
> Please do note that your contributions may not remain intact as
> submitted; this license, as well as the collaborative nature of our
> project, also entitles others to edit, alter, and update them at will,
> i.e., to keep up with new information, or suit the text to a different
> purpose.  However, the license also expressly protects authors "from
> being considered responsible for modifications made by others."
>
> If you do agree to grant permission for use, we will credit you for
> your work, stating it was based on your work and is used with your
> permission, and by providing a link back to your website.
>
> I hope you will  consider accepting our request.
>
> Warmest regards,
> (my real name)

Now what? I just tell them "yes" and they refuse permission? This doesn't sound promising. Alphax ^τεχ 15:46, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Just had a thought - maybe I should say "only if they continue to credit you as the original author, and give anyone else the same rights as you have granted us", since that is the essence of the GFDL and the cc-by-sa. What do you think? Alphax ^τεχ 06:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok, here's what I sent (compiled with the help of Znode):

Both the GFDL and the cc-by-sa-2.5 require attribution to be given for
any use or creation of derivative works from the original, and further
require that all derivative works be licensed under the original license.

It is further necessary for any derivative works based on the first
derivative work (the Wikipedia image) to grant the same rights and
licensing as your original image. This means continued proper
attribution (including the minimum attribution line) to the original
authors throughout all generations of the derivation process. Any
derived work along all generations will furthermore be granted the right
to produce its own derivative works, of possibly commercial nature. The
original authors of the image still hold full rights to their
0th-generation, original image; the license merely grants the right of
derivative creation, with proper attribution, to any future derivative
"generations" of the image.

If you do not allow us to use your image, we will remove it immediately
as it does not comply with our licensing requirements. For more
information, you can read the section entitled "Contributors' rights and
obligations" on our copyright page (viewable at
http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights).

Regards,
(me)

Now we wait. Alphax ^τεχ 07:30, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How to obtain more info from a person on a photo's rights

Image:No19sqn1.jpg was uploaded and he claims rights have been obtained without properly tagging it. however i'm unable to contact him as his username is in red and i would like to see the whole "rights granted" part that he might have obtained from the said site. also under what categories do these fall the "untagged but rights obtained images", so that i can do them myself in the future. tx --Idleguy 09:32, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE: It seems the image is a copyrighted image for which permission has been obtained. and i quote the rights that were granted to him. "Please feel free to use the images as long as you give proper credit." Since this image was uploaded after may 31, 2005 I think these images should be immediately deleted. Again please inform me of the process (as i hate reading help section lol) so the next time i'll be able to delete them myself or put them up for speedy deletion. tx --Idleguy 18:17, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Your image copyright cleanup

Thanks so much for all your work, you really are doing a great job. I've been combing over the images and making free replacements for whatever I can.. I've only done a few since many are of things or place I don't have access to, but I do what I can. Would there be a way you could easily copy some of the description text from the images to the entries? It would make it much easier for me to find images that I am able to replace. Thanks! Gmaxwell 22:59, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Freetek pictures

Hey B. Thanks for working at this. In regards to the images on Freetekno: The two from ontario were taken by friends of mine, in fact, I'm in one of them! I'm fairly certain that the copyright holders would not object to this use, but that is not enough; I endeavour to learn of their wishes in the matter. As for the czech pic, it was taken by someone I don't know, but is hosted on my friend's machine. Like the ontario pics, I'm reasonably certain they would not mind this use, but still I will contact my friend in the matter. I hope you'll hold off on deletion until I can verify, as the pictures contribute greatly to the article which I expanded from a stub today, Thanks Bennyp 00:59, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

update: The new years pic has been cleared, I just typed wiht the author over MSN about it

bennyp 4:10 have you decided about the image copyright? pet 4:10 why do you need that? just use it. bennyp 4:11 okay i'll take that as written consent, and will pass a copy of this message onto the wikipedia people

The freeteknitias pic is also cleared:

hey there- im sure nic-fit took this pic last year....we support the copyleft movement, no copyrights!! his email is dressyfester@gmail.com see ya there- we're bringin the west coast havoc rig out from sf and we're about half way across the states now... nic is in peru- not gonna make it ;)

but the nyc bus +++ will represent- cant wait

jack

RE:Gibiraltar Airport

What category can it go in? Not Airports in the UK or Spain. Astrotrain June 28, 2005 21:02 (UTC)

crown copyright etc

Hi sorry to take so long to get back to you, regrettably doing things via, govt channels takes time. Though his time it was due to a prolonged vacation on the National Health. I am still waiting for an answer on the copyright of the images though. I have managed to do a bit of work on some of my images. However I am not now sure I wish to continue with Wiki after what I can only describe as childish personal abuse from a wiki user and a possible 3RR infringement. If you go to:- http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Arthur_Wellesley%2C_8th_Duke_of_Wellington , you will get the idea, following the user pages & edits of the two users (one at least a sysop) gives the impression they work together to impose their will. I will get back to you in due course on the image copyright status issue. Richard Harvey 5 July 2005 19:13 (UTC)

Diaresis and umlaut

Hi there:

I noticed that on the article Sandra Day O'Connor, you made an edit with the summary "reelected does not have an umlaut on it!", changing "reëlected" to "reelected". As it happens, "reëlected" doesn't have an umlaut on it; it has a diaresis on it. This is a diacritical mark that indicates that the second of two vowels does not form a dipthong with its predecessor but instead has a separate sound. And, yes, it is valid (albeit somewhat obscure) English.

I haven't reverted your change; instead, I've inserted a hyphen because I find "re-elected" slightly easier to read than the non-hyphenated version (although both are valid English). I only write this so that you'll understand what's going on if you encounter a diaresis in some other article, Wikipedia or otherwise.

— DLJessup 5 July 2005 22:06 (UTC)

Go to my userpage!--Yo Mama 5000 6 July 2005 20:35 (UTC)

PUI Images

Hi Burgundavia. A few days back I sorted through most of the images on Phase II of WP:PUI, deleting and removing tagged images as needed. I'm a bit stuck on those left on Currrently disputed, June 08 and June 23 - I was wondering if you could have look and sort the rest, please (I'm just unsure of their copyright status)? Much obliged Craigy (talk) July 7, 2005 09:47 (UTC) PS. I'll sort through Adam's images when I come back from work.

Actually scratch that, I've sorted through them, I can see you haven't been editing in a while. Hope everything's ok. Thanks Craigy

(talk) 04:00, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Birthday

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 06:25, 18 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Human Rights Servey on Wikipedia (The final post of I_sterbinski)

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Dear all,

Wikipedia was recently a subject of intensive research of an huge international human right organization. A team of people from different nationalities and ages were acting on Wikipedia for 20 days, investigating previously noted anomalities of Wikipedia free editing and forming a final report, which (between the others similar reports) will later be a guide to all future moves of the organization concerning Wikipedia. Acting under an account of a real person, their privacy is to be held private. Therefore, very few private information will be revealed.

Also, this is a result of the lack of final possition of the organization concerning Wikipedia and human rights, which was still not formed.

The team's final post on Wikipedia, where they explain their actions can be found on the following addresses:

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:I_sterbinski

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:Macedonia#Human_Rights_Servey_on_Wikipedia_.28The_final_post_of_I_sterbinski.29

The team would like to thank to all the persons who took part in the correspondence with us.

We also want to appologise for keeping our identity secret for a longer period.

Best regards,

Aleksandar, Biljana, Asparuh, Christos, Valjon, Michael and Ana Luiza

I sterbinski 01:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

Need to resolve PUI images

Latest comment: 19 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

I put the message below on User talk:Scorilo. I think he may be wrong in his assumptions. -Nv8200p (talk) 20:02, 17 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

The web site of Branislav Manic Law Office and Patent Bureau states that the "former SFR Yugoslavia adhered to Berne Convention, Universal Convention and Satelites Convention." Based on this, I'd say your rationale for the images being public domain are not supported. I cannot find the public domain websites you took these images from. Please provide the links to me as well as links (or references) to material that supports your legal claims for public domain. If I don't hear from you in the next seven days on this matter, I feel the appropriate thing to do will be to delete all but one image from the Soko J-22 Orao article and claim fair use for that one image for educational purposes. Thanks --Nv8200p (talk) 20:02, 17 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

User categorization

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada page as living in or being associated with Canada. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in British Columbia for instructions. --Doviende 18:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Copyright on .yu bills

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hi there,

On Image_talk:Deset2.jpg you stated that the bill is public domain. Now, I'd like to upload some more Dinar bills, so I'd like to know where you got that inf from (that Dinar is public domain) so I can link it... Thnks in advance. --Dijxtra 17:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Please undelete the Blissymbols picture

Latest comment: 19 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

It's just a sentence typed in a Blissymbols font. Anyone could do this. It is hardly worth deleting for "copyright" purposes. Please put it back. Evertype 22:48, 25 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Please see http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Image:Bliss_cinema.png and the explanation there. I note that the image now appears again on the Blissymbolics article, as it should. Is it all right now? Evertype 10:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

You, or any Wikipedia user, can contribute your suggestions and comments to the /Workshop page of any active arbitration case. Comments on evidence or proposals can help in understanding the import of evidence and in refining proposals. Proposed principles, findings of fact, or remedies may be listed on /Proposed decision and form part of the final decision. Fred Bauder 18:41, 26 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Template:Runway Feature Request

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I was wondering if it would be possible to add runway width to the template? I've heard of some former US military bases with wider-than-normal runways for B-52's can cause problems with depth perception for pilots used to certain runway widths. Airnav.com lists width along with length and more specific information about runway composition (I've added most of this to Paine Field, for example). Thanks. McNeight 19:56, 20 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Blind Melon photo

Latest comment: 19 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I don't know if you remember this, but I just noticed that a month ago you deleted a Blind Melon Rolling Stone cover that I uploaded. Aren't magazine covers OK? Methelfilms

Hmmm...Thanks for the response. I was the uploader and the person who added it to the article. I was just wondering why it was deleted. Methelfilms 14:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)Reply