User talk:King of Hearts

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Welcome to the Commons, King of Hearts!

First steps tutorial Our first steps help file and our FAQ will help you a lot after registration. They explain how to customize the interface (for example the language), how to upload files and our basic licensing policy. You don't need technical skills in order to contribute here. Be bold contributing here and assume good faith for the intentions of others. This is a wiki - it is really easy. Getting help More information is available at the Community Portal. You may ask questions at the Help desk, Village Pump or on IRC channel #wikimedia-commons. You can also contact an administrator on their talk page. If you have a specific copyright question, ask at Commons talk:Licensing.		Goodies, tips and tricks Put Babel boxes on your user page so others know what languages you can speak and indicate your Graphics abilities. All your uploads are stored in your personal Gallery Please sign your name on Talk pages by typing ~~~~ Use the CommonSense tool to find good categories for your files (then other people can find them too!) To link to an image page, write this: [[:Image:Foo.jpg]], it makes this: Image:Foo.jpg If you're copying files from another project, be sure to use the CommonsHelper Made a mistake? Did you want to rename or move a file? Simply upload the file again and mark the old one like this: {{bad name|Correct name}} For more information read the full Deletion guidelines
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Need your input on a policy impacting gadgets and UserJS

Dear interface administrator,

This is Samuel from the Security team and I hope my message finds you well.

There is an ongoing discussion on a proposed policy governing the use of external resources in gadgets and UserJS. The proposed Third-party resources policy aims at making the UserJS and Gadgets landscape a bit safer by encouraging best practices around external resources. After an initial non-public conversation with a small number of interface admins and staff, we've launched a much larger, public consultation to get a wider pool of feedback for improving the policy proposal. Based on the ideas received so far, the proposed policy now includes some of the risks related to user scripts and gadgets loading third-party resources, best practices for gadgets and UserJS developers, and exemptions requirements such as code transparency and inspectability.

As an interface administrator, your feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome until July 17, 2023 on the policy talk page.

Have a great day!

Samuel (WMF), on behalf of the Foundation's Security team 23:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

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Input requested

Hi King of Hearts. What's your take on File:Carol Sklenicka signing her book - Raymond Carver-.jpg and File:Carol Sklenicka autographing her book -Raymond Carver-.jpg? There's a good chance that the uploader is the photographer who took the photos, and the photos don't seem to be being used anywhere else; however, the copyright claim in each file's EXIF data doesn't really seem to be inline with COM:L and the CC-by-sa-4.0 licenses the uploader has chosen. Do you think these should be VRT verified? In addition, since you're also an admin on English Wikipedia, I'm wondering whether you could take a look at the way the "autographing her book" photo is being attributed in en:Carol Sklenicka. It seems that the attribution on the file's page should be sufficient and it's not really necessary to dp so again in-article. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:50, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

We don't really pay too much attention to copyright claims in the EXIF metadata, unless they imply that the uploader is likely not the photographer. For a photo credibly claimed to be own work, we don't ask for VRT unless it has been previously published. You're correct that we don't do inline attribution on Wikipedia. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:06, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Potential copyright images uploaded to Commons

Hello King of Hearts. I have come across a number of photographs uploaded by Publiccorrectionsmdah on July 11 that appear to be copyright content from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History website or other copyright sources. In fact, the Metadata on some suspect photos show "All Rights Reserved" and "Copyright Tom Beck". Seems like an Administrator should look into this before more photos are uploaded to Commons. Regards. Woodlot (talk) 21:03, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Based on their username, they are clearly claiming to be a representative of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. I would ask them to verify their identity via VRT. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:08, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

File:Joan Elkin's Painting, Jarvis Thurston and His Circle.jpg

Hi KOA. Would you mind taking a look at File:Joan Elkin's Painting, Jarvis Thurston and His Circle.jpg? This seems to be a case of COM:2D copying unless the original painting has also been released under a CC license. The uploader appears to have gotten the artist’s consent. Do you think VRT verification is needed for this? — Marchjuly (talk) 21:49, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Same uploader also uploaded File:Beers, Lorna Img001.jpg, File:Beers, Lorna Img002.jpg, File:Beers, Lorna Img004.jpg and File:Beers, Lorna Img003.jpg, which too appear to be a case of “2D copying”. The files state they have OTRS permission, but there are no ticket numbers and nothing else that indicates that an OTRS member reviewed the files. Finally, there are also File:Susan Stang in Italy in 2012. (Photo by Sam Stang.).jpg and File:Dr. Richard Stang in 1994..jpg which might need VRT verification, but I’m not sure. — Marchjuly (talk) 22:03, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, VRT is required whenever the uploader is not the author of 100% of the copyrightable content in the work and there is no public evidence of a free license. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 18:27, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for looking at these. Do you think tagging them with {{Npd}} is sifficient? Would it be better to bring that all to DR? -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:25, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Npd is easier, but for groups of related images it can be worth the few seconds to open a batch DR to ensure consistent handling. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:24, 18 July 2023 (UTC)