ChrisWx

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File:June, 17, 2010, tornado west of Holmes, North Dakota.jpg

File:June, 17, 2010, tornado west of Holmes, North Dakota.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Rlandmann (talk) 00:26, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

RfC: Third-party images published by the National Weather Service

I've now reviewed 1,000 images uploaded under the rationales expressed in the {{PD-NWS}} template and requested deletion of several.

The arguments for deletion, and to keep, are now following repetitive, predictable patterns and it would greatly help all involved if we could centralise discussion and obtain some wider community input.

Therefore, I have opened an RfC to gather opinions. Apologies in advance: it's long and detailed, but is frankly nothing compared to the words and time expended by all parties up to this point. Probably the most crucial issue revolves around how we interpret a general disclaimer published at weather.gov (Q.1 in the RfC).

Your advice is greatly appreciated! --Rlandmann (talk) 12:11, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Verification with photographers

Thanks for making contact with Freddy -- I had messaged him a couple of weeks back but didn't get a reply yet. I was already in contact with Alex though.

I added your comments to these pages: A25 and A26 where I'm tracking direct feedback from photographers whose images we're hosting on the (mistaken) impression they were released into the public domain.

Finally, if you're not already aware of it, this is the big-picture overview of where reviews are up to right now. --Rlandmann (talk) 16:06, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Rlandmann: you're welcome, I'm in pretty quick contact with Freddy, so that made it easier for me to talk to him and get his thoughts on the images being hosted on Commons, and thank you for contacting Alex - you getting into contact with him and everyone else who took these images is very helpful. Thank you for also sharing the file-review statuses with me, that's also a helpful overview of the situation with these images. Apologies for getting back to you so late, I've just been really busy IRL lately, and haven't had much time to respond here. Appreciate your efforts to make sure Commons' images are copyright free. You may also want to review the images where I changed the licenses to PD-NWS here. ChrisWx ☁️ (talk - contribs) 05:27, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

(I see you've actually already reviewed some of those images, so thank you for that! You may want to give the ones you haven't looked at yet a look-over too.) ChrisWx ☁️ (talk - contribs) 05:38, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words @ChrisWx! I've already checked over all the images you've linked. I have already tracked down the creators of the two images still tagged PD-NWS, and am already in correspondence with one of them. The other hasn't responded yet. --Rlandmann (talk) 12:07, 13 October 2024 (UTC)