Jessie Eastland

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Jessie Eastland!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 18:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

CC-ND

Hi. Thanks for your addition, but we only accept content on Commons which is commercially available and allows derivatives. Please update the license on your images to cc-by or cc-by-sa or we they will need to be deleted. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 17:53, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

• Hello, and thanks. Any photos of mine that have the CC BY-ND 4.0 license attached, was done for a reason. This issue is the big weak spot on Wikimedia Commons, and the reason that many well established photographers don't contribute to this site. Please DELETE any photos that you feel are not licensed properly, as I will have no one mess with, distort, crop, tweak, or practice on my work, and then put it up somewhere (usually their website) with my name on it. When Pocketthis was uploading my photos, he was given permission by me to do whatever he thought was responsible. However, now that I am uploading my own work, I must license the quality photos as I see fit. So, without hurting my feelings at all my friend, delete what you must. In the future I will upload and license everything as you suggested, however, those photos will be work I could care less about, or were taken with my iphone. No hard feelings here at all. I understand you have a policy that you must adhere to. Thanks for the heads up! Jessie Eastland (talk) 16:10, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
• I've saved you the trouble, and have marked those photos of which I object to "modifications" to be speedy deleted. Sorry for any misunderstandings. Jessie Eastland (talk) 17:34, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Understood; thanks for the response. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 18:11, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

• Just to be clear, I had no issues with anyone downloading my work, and using it for whatever use they wanted, including commercial uses. My objection was strictly to the "modifying" of the work. Kind of a shame that a photographer can't upload, and contribute a photo that would be perfect for an article on Wikipedia, and leave it at that, except for downloads by users. Doesn't seem to make much sense to me why the photos have to be modified. I can see where in a particular situation, an administrator might contact a photographer about permission to crop a photo for a specific use. However, having the general public mess with artwork, and then publish it on their own site with the original photographer's name on it, doesn't seem to make much sense. My two cents...anyway. Thanks again. Jessie Eastland (talk) 16:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

I absolutely appreciate your position. But wiki projects have always been licensed GFDL and/or CC-BY-SA, which is incompatible with ND photographs. And even if we wanted to, we couldn't change this retroactively due to the sharealike clause. Magog the Ogre (talk) (contribs) 23:16, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

• I can absolutely understand that a 'retroactive' license change would be catastrophic. However, I wouldn't be too surprised to see an end come to modifying other's work in the future here, while keeping the commercial use, and download ability in tact. Perhaps a new license will eventually be created. All the best. Jessie Eastland (talk) 20:39, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Goodbye Wikipedia (as per the recent deletion request from Hong Kong Patroller "ignorance") 07-17-2020

I should have listened to my son when he told me what ignorant and absurd baloney goes on here. I work to make collages of my own photos to improve articles, and some "PATROLLER" from Hong Kong puts them up for deletion. Then the same Patroller sees a blue sky in one of my eclipse photos, (the 31 January 2018 trifecta eclipse: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trifecta-Exit-Dawn-01-31-18.jpg) and is so ignorant, that he doesn't even know the event happened in the AM on the West Coast USA, so he nominates it for deletion as well. This guy will have every photographer quitting on you. My photos have been up on this site since 2011. Enjoy the ones you have. There won't be anymore of them. Good luck Commons, looks like your going to need it. Jessie Eastland signing off for the last time, it's just too much work staying on top of what's going on here. Farewell.....Jessie Eastland (talk) 20:40, 17 July 2020 (UTC)