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As a postcard collector and dealer I've got thousands of postcards which I could use to illustrate various articles. As far as I can tell, any postcard published in the UK before 1929 is free to use (correct me if I'm wrong).


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In the case of b), would I just upload it on wikipedia with a valid fair use rationale? As the postcards were not published by news agencies, would I be right in thinking that we'd avoid the discussions such as happened with the Chillenden image "stolen" from the BBC?


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I don't want to keep having to go through IfDs with images I've uploaded, so would appreciate your advice first before I upload any that fit in either category mentioned above. ] (]) 10:54, 15 September 2008 (UTC)


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::Okay, after looking at the PD rules (which as always are quite confusing), it seems that UK postcards would probably mostly fall under the rules mentioned at ]. Note, however, that the 1938 date isn't fixed, it's just "70y before X". And there's a complication: in order to qualify as PD not only in the UK but also in the US, we need to make sure they are not just PD at home ''now'', but they already were so in 1996. So, you got to calculate not 2008-70=1938, but 1996-70=1926. Which ends up near the 1923 cutoff date we have for the US anyway. Confused? Don't worry, so am I.


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So, pre-1923 is safe, pre-1926 is safe, pre-1938 is so-so. For items known to be younger than that, or where there's a substantial likelihood they are younger, you're basically on your own. With fair-use claims, you are probably right that there wouldn't be a lot of issues with commercial interests; other than that, NFCC would of course go by individual cases. ] ] 14:32, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
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:Thanks. Naturally any fair-use postcard image would need to follow all the rules for fair use images. A rationale would be given for each and every article said images appear in. I have a few cards where it is impossible to give an age, and will therefore treat these as being in copyright as I cannot prove they are out of copyright. ] (]) 19:08, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
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Remember this image - images.suite101.com/185696_picture2.jpg - I've managed to identify most of the people in the photo, they're Scots Guards not the Paras as I first thought. If it is PD I can use it in a couple of articles. How do I confirm it? You mentioned that the website indicated it was public domain but I can't see that anywhere. '']'' <small>'']''</small> 11:43, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

:Hmm, the claim about the PD status must have been somewhere on the accompanying page where that image was embedded; can't find the link right now, did I not cite it at the time? Sorry I can't be of more help right now. But in any case, IIRC, it didn't really state why and how it would be PD, so it wouldn't be very reliable anyway. ] ] 14:14, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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] is an exact duplicate of ]. By the way, I'll upload it to Commons, so you might want to delete them both. Or do we need one here as evidence that its author released it into the public domain? Can you please clear this up for me? Thanks. --]<sup>]</sup> 13:15, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
: Hey, good to see we now have one. Go ahead with commons, I'll delete those here afterwards. ] ] 14:12, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
::Oh, I completed the assignment of taking photos of Skopje landmarks, weeks ago! I just can't decide which ones to upload because they're too large and there's too many of them. I have some nice images of Ohrid and some other cities and towns as well. By the way, I already uploaded the image to commons. --]<sup>]</sup> 15:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)



== Quaternionenadler ==

Thank you very much for your help with the Quaternionenadler on my user page (N.B. the user page is wrong, I accidentally missed out the first ''n''). I originally created it for the Graphics lab, and I was planning to move it into the main space when the names were completed, so we could make an image map. Anyway, thank you very much for your assistance.--] <sup>]</sup> 16:24, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

:It's been fun doing. Note, however, that there are still two or three real bad gaps or problems, most notably "n. Sachsen" (which just possibly can't be "Niedersachsen"), I'm also not yet quite certain about the technical meaning of ''Vicarii''. ] ] 17:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

== Cukiger ==

Excuse me, Katze, how to deal with this vandal? {{unsigned|Jingiby}}

:Hmm, . Oh wait, you did that already...? ] ] 17:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

::Didn't you chuck a revert parole on them? ''']]''' 00:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

::: Dang, I did. Both of them, now that I think of it... ] ] 05:10, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

== Deletion of Millennium Cross ==

Hi, I see you deleted the article ] and marked it as copyright infringement.<br>
I don't know what it looked like immediately before you deleted it, but in the recent past (checking the google cache of the page) it had no similar content at all to the page you claimed was copied (http://www.accordions.com/cia/winter_08.htm). (Actually this page only briefly mentions the Millennium Cross, so I do wonder what could have been copied.)<br>
Was deleting it correct? Maybe if it had been changed recently, reverting to an older version would have been more appropriate? --] (]) 11:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

:Oops, my mistake, I meant to delete only the image, not the article. Sorry. ] ] 11:12, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

== Ban if lifted ? ==

] image uploads ban is lifted ?--] (]) 21:51, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

== Socks? ==

Does name strike you as familiar? ''']]''' 07:05, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

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== Revert ==

why you revert my posts in the greek language discussion page? ] (]) 13:08, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
:Because you were insulting other participants. Don't do that. Your comments were also quite futile, as they were directed at a discussion that was dead for two years. ] ] 13:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
: You should have just removed the "insulting" post, not my whole comments then ] (]) 16:08, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

== Persistent vandal IP on ] ==

Hi Future,

Would it possible for you to semi-protect ] for a while? This is pretty disruptive, and seems to be unstoppable. --] (]) 13:14, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

== Greek Language ==

Could you have a look at the history section. I made some changes in the definitions of Medieval and Modern Greek, but I may be confusing the Greek Terminology with the english one. I am not sure whether η Βυζαντινή Δημώδης correspronds to what the English call Byzantine Greek. The previous version confused the vernacular and the archaising forms used for different purposes during the byzantine period. The statement that the 11th century corresponds to late Byzantium rather than the middle Byzantine Period is most certainly a mistake--] (]) 13:47, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

== CU clarification: Wikinger/Aminullah ==

Hi, just for clarification: you did actually verify that ] (the original user active since 2006) was the same as ], right? Because the CU request was most certainly done by Wikinger himself, who has been waging an absurd socking campaign to get Aminullah blocked as his own sock - a campaign that I had the feeling looked a good deal like a joe job / impersonation stunt, in revenge for Wikinger's own ban. He had just recently created impersonator accounts like {{user|AminuIIah}} (capital-i-for-l name spoof) for the same purpose, and several other really nasty little impersonation attempts with other users.

Just wanted to make sure you really checked the right accounts there, because Wikinger is quite adept at muddying the waters with forged "evidence". ] ] 09:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

::I've just sent you an e-mail. ] / <small>]</small> 19:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

:You did good blocking Aminullah, especially because Aminullah/Al-Bargit/Nolik, hence Wikinger trolls here on the same topics: http://pingwinojad.blog.pl/komentarze/index.php?nid=12717425 and because obvious pagemove: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk%3AAl-Bargit&diff=208104792&oldid=128120913 ] (]) 12:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Aminullah/Archive#Correct_Chechen_spelling Both ] (Wikinger sock) and ] have their talks on the same talkpage treated as their common own talk, thus they are sockpuppets of Wikinger. ] (]) 14:00, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

:Wikinger trolls again: http://pingwinojad.blog.pl/xiega/index.php under the same Aminullah/Al-Bargit/Nolik sockpuppets. ] (]) 18:56, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey, could you stop your trolling? If you are not what what you claim ''is'' him then you should be the other one. Either way, you should stop it. Next time, I'll block your IPs. Understood? ] / <small>]</small> 19:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

:Yes, understood. Thanks for help in this all. Goodbye! ] (]) 19:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

::Never come again here to create impostors and ask us to block someone. -- ] / <small>]</small> 07:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

== Regular Vandalism to a Couple of Articles ==

There are a couple of articles, ] and ], that are currently being vandalised regularly by an anonymous user. I've been reverting the vandalism when I see it, but it's becoming rather boring and this pest seems to be very persistent. Would you mind protecting these articles for a while? ] (]) 16:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

== Thanks ==

...πάλι καθάρισες. Σ' ευχαριστώ--] (]) 10:27, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

== Lingua franca ==

The ] article is a mess. I have removed some of the most flagrant boosterism, but it really needs some guidance from someone who knows the literature and who can propose a crisp definition (or definitions) which will guide the content of the article. Or perhaps the term has been abandoned by the sociolinguists and thus can mean whatever anyone wants it to mean? --] (]) 03:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

== Adam J. Yeend ==

G'day,


== Reverts ==
The page ] seems to have no reason according to ] to exist on wikipedia and seems to be completely created by either the person themself, or their agent.


If I come across one of their additions to RSN would it be helpful if I pinged you? -- <small>LCU</small> ''']''' <small>''«]» °]°''</small> 20:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
== Hopeless soapboxer ==
: Thanks, but I guess it's enough to get them reverted promptly – if they then start revert-warring it back in, there should be enough admin eyeballs on that page to push the block button eventually, right? It doesn't have to be always me. That person is a pest (I suppose you're familiar with their ]?), thanks for helping deal with them. ] ] 23:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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I've warned him a few times about some of these things but then I tried to stay away from him as much as I could because, in the ex-Yu realm, it is next to impossible to be persistent on something without being reported to the ] as a POV pusher or stalker or even to the ] as a vandal. In all honesty, my skin is not thick enough. I'm on here (Misplaced Pages) as a hobby. It's just something to do while work is slow. Having said that, I think he may have just went overboard with his hatred of "Serb nationalists". He made a series of edits to his userpage recently where, I'm guessing, he tried to post a non-existent userbox advocating a death penalty, through various means, for Serb-somethingorothers (, , , , ). The biggest problem with advocating the death penalty for such a group of people is that his definition of these "nationalists/apologists/propagandists" is very broad and he has accused several Misplaced Pages editors of falling into these categories. In addition to some of the soapboxing diffs I provided earlier where he accuses editors of being "Serbian nationalists", he also left very specific message for an editor, calling him an apologist. I don't think that calling people "apologists" and "nationalists" and then advocating the death penalty for those same "apologists" and "nationalists" is conducive to a collaborative environment.


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So I guess what I'm asking from you is an opinion on whether his soapboxing is just annoying and harmless or if it's causing more unnecessary friction in an already volatile area of the encyclopedia.


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Thanks, as always!


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Peace! ] <small>(] • ])</small> 14:08, 22 September 2008 (UTC)


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If I come across one of their additions to RSN would it be helpful if I pinged you? -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 20:50, 9 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, but I guess it's enough to get them reverted promptly – if they then start revert-warring it back in, there should be enough admin eyeballs on that page to push the block button eventually, right? It doesn't have to be always me. That person is a pest (I suppose you're familiar with their LTA entry?), thanks for helping deal with them. Fut.Perf. ☼ 23:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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