Nubero

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Nubero!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 18:14, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

If you want your images assessed on QI

At the very first:

Thanks for your contributions!

But, please never remove any comments of your collegues, except when these are personell offendings (which it wasn´t). Even then ask an administrator to do this. I respond on this edit from you where you obviously misinterpreted what Jebulon says. [[User:Jebulon|Jebulon] was speaking about an doubtful license, not a doubtful quality, even when he is not completely convinced about the picture. Therefore he asked for additional opinions.

By the way, welcome on QI! And of course, we all are photografer professionals too, what else? Some are more professional, some are less. As always.--Hubertl (talk) 17:06, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

FYI

mit der Bitte, es ernst zu nehmen.--Hubertl (talk) 14:23, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

File tagging File:Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary 5th Edition with page open.jpg

This media was probably deleted.

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Yann (talk) 15:47, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Nubero. You asked, why the file has been nominated for deletion / needs permission. Commons collects only those photos, which are free for use even for commercial purposes and also free for modifying. Fair use is prohibited in Commons. But some local projects, for example, English wikipedia, allow fair use.

The file is derivative work of two pages from dictionary. Publishing company owns copyright to the book. The text is in full resolution readable in English and in Japanese as well. Without OTRS-permission from publishing company, Commons cannot host it.

What about uploading the same photo with smaller resolution, so that the text is not readable? That case page format still remains. But you can argue, that the page format is trivial for dictionaries, nothing new in page format here, the page format does not surpass threshold of originality. If this is the case, then the file can remain in Commons. There are 12 maps also on left page, but fortunately they are all ineligible for copyright.

Why the copyright violation was not discovered earlier? Who knows ... Here are too few people who care about copyright. Every day ten thousand new photos are uploaded into Commons, every day two thousand photos are deleted. I have discovered copyright violations, which have been in Commons more than 7 years, which have been in English wikipedia main page, which are used in more than thousand pages. It's sad, but it happens. Taivo (talk) 20:00, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks @Taivo this is useful. I am pretty sure now that I stepped into the trap that is the difference between fair use on Wikipedia and the apparent non-existance of it here. I will upload a smaller version. I should have come in contact with people like you first before I came in contact with certain others here it now seems. Thanks again. --Nubero (talk) 22:56, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

You uploaded smaller version, but the text is still readable. I looked resolution 1200×1024 and this is borderline case, it's better not to take a risk. 960×768 is in my opinion safe. @Yann, are you agree with that resolution? Taivo (talk) 07:59, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Blurring would be better than reducing the size. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:11, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Himeji_castle

Dear Niko Kitsakis, I am a Prof. in Architectureand I am currently redacting a book titled “History of Interior Design and Furniture” and it will be published in Turkish edition. I would like to use your images from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle#/media/File:Himeji_castle_in_may_2015.jpg. At the end of the book, the name of the beholder of the image is noted in ‘Picture Credits.’ Best regards, Mustafa Demirkan mustafaemindemirkan@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serhatakbak (talk • contribs) 12:50, 8 June 2017 (UTC)