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Please do not recreate deleted content

Latest comment: 7 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion

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This gallery violates at least two rules, perhaps three.

First, galleries are for collections of images or other media works. They are not articles and may have only a sentence or two of description. If more is needed then it should be as a link to a WP article.

Second, personal galleries -- galleries for user's own work -- are not permitted in Commons mainspace. You may create User:Timholmes/Gallery, but not a gallery in mainspace. See Commons:User-specific galleries, templates and categories policy.

Third, it probably violates our policy on self-promotion, see COM:ADVERT.

Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 17:32, 5 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Jim, I hope I'm doing this right. I don't feel confident that I understand the process. In response to your message today, I've tried to create a page for Tim Holmes Studio as a wikimedia page and as a subpage of Tim Holmes but am apparently violating rules as it was deleted. I've edited the text to take out anything that might sound non-neutral, but the problem may be the info is in the wrong place. Here is a rewrite for content, though I suspect the problems may be formatting. Please let me know if this flies and if so, how I can place it.

Thanks, timeholmes

Tim, I have moved this here because it is our practice on Commons (as it says at the top of my talk page) to keep conversations in one place. This one started here, so I will reply here. Unfortunately, we have dinner guests arriving in five minutes, so I can't say more until tomorrow (Thursday) morning. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

You have a good article, albeit with some issues, on WP:EN. Commons is a different matter entirely. As a very general rule, an active, contributing, editor can have a user page (User:Timeholmes) and user sub-pages (User:Timeholmes/subpage or User:Timeholmes/Gallery). However, Commons is not Facebook and we do not allow new editors to use it that way. We do not allow anyone to use Commons to advertise themselves (see COM:ADVERT), although active, contributing, photographers may have a link to their web sites. The material above could go on your user page, User:Timeholmes - simply click on the link, then on "create this page" and go to it. However, I, and many of my colleagues would object to it as an inappropriate use of a User page. It reads too much like an advertisement and has too many external links.

As a complete change of subject, you say that your studio is a contributing property in a National Register of Historic Places historic district. Is that the Helena Historic District (Helena, Montana)? Which one -- Downtown or Residential? Your photo could be added to the article.

. Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 10:56, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

File:Vote Every Day -Blue Bills.jpg

Latest comment: 7 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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. Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 11:02, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Jim, I did as you suggested. Also added credit and permission for the photo. As for your question, I believe the studio is part of a neighborhood residential historic district, not the one you referenced. timeholmesTimeholmes (talk) 14:00, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your account has been blocked

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lNeverCry 19:37, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

INeverCry, I don't know why I've been blocked. I've talked to three different people and followed as well as I could their instructions. I think this culture is just too opaque for me. I can't figure it out and I'm afraid I'll have to step aside. Do whatever you think is best. timeholmesTimeholmes (talk) 01:10, 7 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

You've been blocked per COM:ADVERT/COM:SCOPE. The content you put up at Tim Holmes Studio was promotional, and was deleted twice. The material you put up on your userpage today was more of the same. lNeverCry 01:36, 7 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

INeverCry, Yes, I was told my userpage was the appropriate place for this material. I was told the page needed editing, which I did. I was told the BlueBills photo needed permission details, which I gave. As I say, I can't figure out how to do this within bounds and keep everyone happy. I don't want to be trouble, I just wanted to add info I thought would be helpful because I have the information nobody else does. I guess I will leave it to others. timeholmesTimeholmes (talk) 02:33, 7 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

@INeverCry: Is user:Musegaze also Tim Holmes? If not I think there could be some copyright problems. If it is, there might be a blocking problem. Brianhe (talk) 06:34, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

It's him or an assistant of some sort. I would suggest the owner of this account look at User talk:Musegaze. I don't see why those works weren't marked for permission back then. As for blocking, there's no worries there since the old account is 4+ years stale. INeverCry (talk) 06:48, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

File tagging File:Blue Bills Logo.jpg

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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INeverCry (talk) 06:41, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

File tagging File:Tim Holmes Studio, front gallery.jpg

Latest comment: 7 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion

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INeverCry (talk) 06:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

@INeverCry and @Brianhe, Yes, user:Musegaze is also Tim Holmes. I hope I can be of help but I don't understand what is at issue. Timeholmes (talk) 21:51, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Tim HolmesReply

The issue is that we need proof of that; there are, unfortunately, people on the Internet who will pretend to be other people that they are not, and we have to cross all the ts and dot all the is. Can you write to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org from an email address @timholmesstudio.com and say that you release that work under the specific Creative Commons license? Not just "under creative commons", but "under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license" (there are multiple Creative Commons licenses, and we need one that allows editing and reuse by anyone). Commons:Email templates has boilerplate text you can use. Ideally, you could also say that you are User:Musegaze, so confirm the release of any images uploaded by User:Musegaze under the license that user put them under, that might be most efficient, to avoid having to list each image one at a time. Or, can you put that same statement on a page on your website, that we can link to? That might be faster, as it could take some time for the OTRS folks to read the email (months; really!).--GRuban (talk) 22:22, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Tim, I just thought of another, possibly less bureaucratic way, for images of your work and your studio to be kept on Commons or re-uploaded if they are deleted, especially if you don't have an email address which is @timholmesstudio.com. Go to your Flckr albums, pick an image such this one and change the licensing on it which is currently CC-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic to some form of CC BY-SA. Alternatively, upload them to a page on your website and at the bottom of the page place the following text exactly as it appears below:

The images on this page are available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License

GRuban, what do you think? Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:42, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yes, either of those should work fine. --GRuban (talk) 15:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Another question, GRuban . According to his comment yesterday at Musegaze's talk page [1], Timeholmes has now sent an OTRS for the outstanding files. Should {{OTRS pending}} be added to all those files? Voceditenore (talk) 16:12, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Probably {{subst:OP}}. --GRuban (talk) 20:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

File:Blue Bills Logo.jpg

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Softlavender (talk) 11:27, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

All permisions for Tim Holmes and Tim Holmes artworks have been sent to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Timeholmes (talk) 15:45, 5 November 2016 (UTC)Tim HolmesReply

Per the conversation in the previous section, I have added {{OTRS pending}} to all the files in question. Voceditenore (talk) 09:51, 8 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

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