Leech44

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Geagea (talk) 22:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I emailed the author and they agreed to change the licensing to allow it's posting on Wikipedia. It has a new license that will allow for its inclusion. Thanks--Leech44 (talk) 23:39, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

I paseded the review after reuploading (correct license this time). Geagea (talk) 23:56, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the speedy review!--Leech44 (talk) 02:18, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Tip: Categorizing images

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Hello, Leech44!

Tip: Add categories to your files

Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.

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[[Category:Category name]]

For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:

[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]

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• Image:Fred Shero.jpg was uncategorized on 11 October 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:46, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Carey Price in net.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Dino Ciccarelli.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Max Pacioretty.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:P. K. Subban.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Carey Price 2011.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Brian Gionta 2011.jpg was uncategorized on 2 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 11:13, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
• Image:Naoko Funayama.jpg was uncategorized on 12 February 2011 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:49, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

sorry I keep forgetting to add categories. I have added some to the above file.--Leech44 (talk) 23:40, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

File:Scott Hannan Capitals.jpg

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BTW, if the license is version 2.0, tag it as such, like {{CC-BY-2.0}}, rather than just {{CC-BY}}. Thanks.--Chaser (talk) 02:47, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Okay. I'll do that from now on. Thanks for the heads up.--Leech44 (talk) 02:49, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I'll probably have quite a few over the next few days. A user has a lot of available pics of individuals who need new images. You've been warned ;)--Leech44 (talk) 02:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

That's OK. As I say, this helps resolve doubts in the long run.--Chaser (talk) 02:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure it does. I wish I had know to do that earlier. Thanks again for the advice.--Leech44 (talk) 03:03, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Your Flickr uploads

Hello Leech44!

Thanks a lot for your contributions! Thank you for transferring images from Flickr to Commons! Two hints ahead:

• Always upload the highest resolution of a photograph that is available on flickr
• You can use this tool for your flickr uploads. It makes the hole procedure much easier and faster for you!
  

Thank you for your support! Greetings, High Contrast (talk) 09:02, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

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Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:26, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Fair Use Question at Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Steve_Montador.jpg

Perhaps more than you wanted to know:

Although the law varies from country to country, generally "Fair Use" is very specific to the particular context. For example, you could probably include a small photo of famous actor John Doe in an article on him on WP:EN if there were no freely licensed images available. You probably could not include the same photo in an article on Famous Actors of the 20th Century, because the subject is so broad that a picture of John Doe would not be missed.

You will note that images that are used under Fair Use on WP:EN have a rationale specific to each place they are used -- thus there are five different rationales for the different uses there of Picasso's Guernica, albeit similar in many respects.

This requirement for specificity makes it impossible to construct a fair use rational for an image on Commons -- because Commons is a repository, we cannot know where an image will be used and all of our media must be usable anywhere, except for personality rights and trademark restrictions.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 11:27, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Not that it matters now but I guess Fair Use wasn't really what I meant. I was more or less curious if we could build a special case template were it would say that the photographer holds the copyright but has authorized Wikipedia to display the image. This way we would be able to continue to use the images since Bridgett was willing to allow their usage but it was concerns over unauthorized resale that was the issue. I was hoping to have some kind of copyright notification while still allowing the general use of the images. As stipulated by the "replace this image" templates sometimes used in info boxes states: "NOTE TO EDITORS: Do not introduce any fair use images in the infobox. Any fair use photos (i.e. promotional photos) are copyright violations and will be deleted". Therefore the images would not have passed a fair use rationale. While if we had a template with a link to the discussion which included Bridgett's comments and accompanied by a list of the photos allowed to have the special template we could continue to use these high quality pics. But it was just an idea to try to play both sides of the fence, keeping the copyright in tacked and still having the freedom to use these images universally throughout WP.--Leech44 (talk) 01:16, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Aha -- I understand. That's a good idea, but even WP requires that images be free for reuse, within the limits of a possible fair use rationale.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 12:00, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

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TaraO (talk) 14:52, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	I was flipping through my gallery, and I noticed that all my Anaheim Ducks v. Detroit Red Wings photos suddenly look a lot better than they did before: upon further research, I want to thank you for all your hard work correcting the color on each of my photos. They look so much better and I really want to thank you for improving them! Michael Barera (talk) 03:51, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

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Resolute (talk) 17:18, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

hun, I thought that one had already been deleted. Guess there are more of those still floating around out there.--Leech44 (talk) 23:14, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

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Smooth_O (talk) 13:13, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

I just brightened the image because it was listed as CC-by-2.0. I see you have also left a message with the original uploader so I assume the issue is with the first upload and the listening they originally listed. Cheers --Leech44 (talk) 21:11, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

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Smooth O (talk) 12:06, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

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