BradPatrick

Welcome to the Commons, BradPatrick!

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This might be already a little bit late for a welcome, but perhaps you will find the links useful, greetings and congratulations, :-) Longbow4u 19:53, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Gallery

A number of your gallery photo links are broken... +sj + 22:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I had a bunch that Commonist didn't digest for some reason. I think they are fixed.--BradPatrick 14:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Brad, if that is in fact your real name...

Hi Brad,

I was looking through the Wikimania photos at your gallery. Nice stuff. However the author is listed as Gus Freedman, and the images are tagged as {{self|cc-by-sa-2.5}}. This is somewhat of a contradiction unless Gus Freedman is in fact an alias for Brad Patrick (or vice versa), and if this is the case I suggest you start linking the words "Gus Freedman" to your userpage. If it is in fact a mistake and the images should be tagged plain old {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}, we can probably get a bot to fix this pretty easily. Hope to hear from you. cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 11:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! I really am w:User:BradPatrick. I'm the General Counsel and interim Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs this website. The photographs taken by Gus Freedman, a professional photographer (and really nice guy!) were commissioned works by WMF at Wikimania. Gus really took the pictures. WMF really owns them. We really paid him for them. The attribution is credit to Gus; the future use of the images must be tagged to WMF.

Thanks for being suspicious. Sorry you weren't at Wikimania.--BradPatrick 14:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately Boston is a bit far for me to travel. Perhaps the next one will be closer ;). cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 05:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

New York Public Library usage fees for public domain material

Please respond at Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Chisinau jew.jpg. The consensus seems to be to keep Bridgeman public domain material that may have been downloaded from the New York Public Library in violation of their terms of use. The debate is still running and a couple of people suggested referring the issue to the Foundation. --InfantGorilla 12:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for weighing in. --InfantGorilla 16:59, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting round 1 open

Dear Wikimedians,

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User:BradPatrick

User:BradPatrick 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 user page, 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. 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!

119.160.118.58 18:23, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

I don't know how a Wikipedia Zero bot or vandal on a virgin IP decided my user page should be deleted, but I removed it.--BradPatrick (talk) 21:03, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

File:TammieJoShults-highres (1).jpg

File:TammieJoShults-highres (1).jpg 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!

Andrew (talk) 22:59, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

File:TammieJoShults-highres (1).jpg

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Patrick Rogel (talk) 21:28, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi BradPatrick, could you please forward the said permission (granted by specific permission of the rights holder, in this case Kevin Garber, MidAmerica Nazarene University via Director of Public Relations Carol Best, in a personal email dated 4/19/2018 to User:BradPatrick, upon request.) to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org . --Túrelio (talk) 09:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

• Done.--BradPatrick (talk) 17:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Please do not recreate deleted content

 

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Patrick Rogel (talk) 21:29, 20 April 2018 (UTC)