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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2018 is open!

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QMUL move

Hi.

You recently moved Category:Queen Mary University of London to Category:Queen Mary, University of London. You made a mistake. Unlike other UoL colleges they changed their legal name in 2013 to Queen Mary University of London (without comma). See official sources like the UoL website here, which doesn't use a comma, unlike for other colleges with a comma like Goldsmiths or Royal Holloway here. Also see the HEDD entry here.

I tried to move the category back but it can't be done via a move function as there is a redirect and history at the original name. Please correct your error by nominating the category for speedy renaming. Morris Schaffer (talk) 17:20, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Yep, this was a mistake, sorry. There's a lot of mess around many university categories and I assumed it was another mistake Shadowssettle (talk) 17:24, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for correcting my errors regarding the name of Category:Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Elshad (talk)

Heraldic Copyright Notice

I've used this a couple times, others might find it useful, and it's on my talk page because it's not userpage material:

COM:F1 This non-trivial copyrighted logo is taken from the college, and is thus a clear copyright violation. (The description here also implies it is from there)
This logo is copyrighted because it is a non-trivial artistic design, not simply geometric shapes. Commons doesn't allow for COM:FAIRUSE imagery; if you wish to upload fair use imagery, please do so the relevant Wikipedia, and even then only if it is used there. Images on Commons must instead be free-use. To permit this image on Commons, it either be clearly marked with a Creative Commons-like free use license, or go through the COM:OTRS process.
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On Commons, the burden of proof for license COM:EVIDence is on the uploader. That means this image should be deleted, and recreated when the uploader returns with evidence, rather than leaving it until evidence is provided.

Just in case I need this again in the future Shadowssettle (talk) 12:23, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Shield of the University of Nottingham.svg

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Charliedunning (talk) 00:08, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Coat of Arms / Shield of Loughborough University

Hello Shadowssettle,

I am a alumni of Loughborough University. Back in 2011, I was told, by Wikipedia, to upload a coat of arms image of Loughborough University. I did upload the image through scanning the coat of arms from my degree certificate.

As I see that you have contributed to the coat of arms for several universities in UK on Wikipedia. Could you please kindly upload the proper coat of arms image (with all exact colors) for the Loughborough University Wiki page as well ?

Thank you.

Best regards, Niles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nil pat13

@Nil pat13: Hi there! Unfortunately official depictions of coats of arms are generally under copyright, especially if digital (since they almost need to've been created in the past 70 years), as explained at COM:COA. The coats of arms for the Russel Group universities have been recreated based on the blazon, which is necessarily public domain, so any works thence created may be licensed as the artist wishes (and the limited set of computer colours is also not considered copyright, hence the colour matching). You will notice all of the uploaded coats of arms do not match the official arms precisely, generally trying to stick to more traditional renditions over current simplifications.

This means uploading the coats of arms for Loughborough University would require manually recreating them, as has been done with the other arms. The current set of British university arms uploaded focuses, excluding arms created by alumni and other interested parties, on the Russel Group and the ancient universities. Feel free to use software such as Inkscape to edit one of the many templates available here on Commons, or download one of the other arms already uploaded here and modify it to match Loughborough's blazon. Shadowssettle (talk) 21:23, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

@ Shadowssettle: Thanks for your message. I found following elements of Loughborough University Shield on Wikimedia Common. It needs to be incorporated together to create a Shield of Loughborough University.

Sable Cross: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sable_croix_engrel%C3%A9e_d%27or.svg Other Types of Sable Cross links: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Crosses_engrailed

Combination of Cross Crosslet (Vertical) and Cross pattée (Horizontal): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosses_in_heraldry#/media/File:Cross-Crosslet-Heraldry.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e#/media/File:Cross-Pattee-Heraldry.svg

Thunderbolt: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meuble_h%C3%A9raldique_Foudre_ail%C3%A9.svg Oil Lamp: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_lamps_in_heraldry1.svg

File:Arms of the University of Warwick.svg

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JavaHurricane 11:58, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

@JavaHurricane: It wasn't, please read COM:COA