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Quality Image Promotion edit

 
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Comments Good quality. --Hubertl 21:04, 17 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Quality Image Promotion edit

 
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Comments Please denoise. The sky and water are quite noisy. -- Ikan Kekek 22:44, 26 October 2016 (UTC)Reply
  Done Thanks for review -- -Jules Grandgagnage 12:13, 27 October 2016 (UTC)Reply
Much better and now a QI, in my opinion. -- Ikan Kekek 10:22, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
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File:Soap Thuis Belgian television.jpg edit

 
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Quality Image Promotion edit

 
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Comments
The building in the back looks tilted --Podzemnik 23:00, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
OK, I fixed it and uploaded a new version. --J.G.G. 21:42, 3 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
  Support Thank you, better --Podzemnik 03:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
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Quality Image Promotion edit

 
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Comments   Support Good quality. --Berthold Werner 15:03, 3 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Categorization edit

Hallo J.G.G., ik vroeg me af of de files van Alvaro A Novo in een nog aan te maken Category:Photographs by Alvaro A Novo een optie zijn. Ik had DarwIn hierover aangesproken maar die reageerde (nog) niet. Thnks. Lotje (talk) 11:51, 19 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:Blackdogriff.ogg edit

 
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George Ho (talk) 04:02, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

File:Summertime.ogg edit

 
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 Mysterymanblue  00:02, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your many recordings edit

Hi J.G.G., thanks for all the work you've put into Commons. I think you should note that, unfortunately, Commons does not allow recordings of copyrighted compositions. This generally means that before you upload an audio file to Commons, you need to make sure that the composition you're basing it was published before January 1, 1926 (though there are a few exceptions to that rule). Thanks!  Mysterymanblue  00:07, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

? The composer of Summertime (George Gershwin) died more than 80 years ago... The duration of copyright in the work has expired 70 years after the death of its author. Or is there something I'm missing (Copyright renewal maybe?) J.G.G. (talk) 14:10, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
U.S. copyright is kind of weird in that works first published before 1978 are protected for 95 years after creation and works published 1978 and after are protected for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years. See this chart for all its incongruities. So because the music was created and published around 1935, it is actually protected until around 2030.  Mysterymanblue  17:52, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
OK, thanks, I was not aware of this. J.G.G. (talk) 18:15, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

File:Embraceable-you-tenor-sax-by-JGrandgagnage.ogg edit

 
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File:Astimegoesby-J.Grandgagnage-saxophone.ogg edit

 
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Notification about possible deletion edit

 
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Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely, Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hm, very strange. I'm pretty sure that eight years ago these photos were placed in the category 'Creative Commons' on 500px, otherwise I would not have uploaded and used them. The photos Alvaro placed on Flickr (like 'Almost eureka by Alvaro A Novo') still are licensed that way. I wonder if it is possible to withdraw CC-BY-SA permission to use for own profit like he probably did. Anyway, I understand these photos have to be deleted. J.G.G. (talk) 12:27, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
It is not possible to withdraw a CC license; it is irrevocable. So if it was licensed that way when you uploaded it, it is still licensed like that today, even if the photographer has since removed that license from the source webpages.  Mysterymanblue  19:29, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

File:Wolelottarosie-intro power chords.ogg edit

 
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File:BixBeiderbecke-Copenhagen.ogg edit

 
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Hekerui (talk) 14:45, 27 January 2023 (UTC)Reply

File:Sint-Martinuskerk in Groot-Gelmen.jpg edit

Hallo,

Ik heb net uw prachtige foto op Genanet gebruikt, met de noodzakelijke meldingen: https://www.geneanet.org/cimetieres/collection/226882-oud-kerkhof-groot-gelmen Zeg me AUB of het correct is, anders zal ik de foto vanuit Geneanet laten verwijderen en maar wachten totdat ik persoonlijk ter plaatse ga om foto's te maken. Normaal neem ik zelf de illustratiefoto's van de kerkhoven waar ik foto's zelf heb opgeladen, maar dit is een speciaal geval: splitsing van iemand anders foto's die foutelijk aan de nieuwe begraafplaats werden toegewezen. Het gaat niet over een unieke situatie als meer dan een kerkhof in een deelgemeente gelocaliseerd is, sommige gebruikers denken dat het toch geen verschil maakt, "het gaat toch over dezelfde deelgemeente".

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Pierre-Yves Lambert (meer dan 15.000 grafstenen en monumenten op Geneanet opgeladen sinds maart 2021, meestal in de provincies Vlaams Brabant, Antwerpen en Limburg, sinds juni 2022 meer gericht naar de oudste grafstenen binnen en rond kerken, bv. de begijnhofkerken in Hoogstraten en Brussel) Minorities observer (talk) 10:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Is zo prima hoor, mvg, J.G.G. (talk) 11:50, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Dank u vriendelijk ! Minorities observer (talk) 20:07, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Copyright status: File:Adam-and-eve-6121381.jpg edit

Copyright status: File:Adam-and-eve-6121381.jpg

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