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As an aside, they are very nice photos, but would be even better if they were not cropped so severely - too many of them have the tips of their tails, or beaks, or wings, or feet, cut off. This makes the photos both less attractive and less useful; they need 'space to breathe' around them :-). If you still have originals, you can upload a less heavily cropped version on top of their current photos. Hope this helps! - MPF (talk) 21:16, 26 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
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This file is a copyright violation for the following reason: Description says "Publicity still obtained by yujawang.com webmaster in 2013"; no reason to believe it is CC-licensed as claimed; nothing on subjects website I see indicates CC licensing (happy to be proven wrong; it's a good photo)
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If you did not take the photo, you don't have the rights to license it. The fact that you had previously copied it to another website you hosted does not give you rights in the photo. TJRC (talk) 18:10, 12 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
Just to be clear, I did not "host" yujawang.com. I was a volunteer webmaster from 2013-2015 - I did not pay for the site nor did I own its content, I was merely a techie fixing a broken site. The photo was already there since the beginning of the site in 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090515110106/http://www.yujawang.dreamhosters.com/ Notice back then it had a regular copyright notice. During my tenure we did switch that notice to GNU Copyleft, so I believe that image was meant to be shared in spirit similar to a CC license.Peterwchen (talk) 22:13, 12 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
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The author has passed away, so cannot perform OTRS. I plan to delete this and use w:zh:File:Logo_of_The_Zigen_Fund.png instead. I believe I followed license guidelines there but afterwards got a warning about missing author, so I manually added the organization as author. I think that should work.Peterwchen (talk) 16:28, 30 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Peter - I saw you have a good photo of Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) on iNaturalist - except it is missing half its tail and its feet. Do you have an uncropped original you could add to Commons, please? It could potentially be one of the best photos of this species here. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 12:41, 12 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
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