Contents
- 1 Archives
- 2 merge discussion: electrical transcription
- 3 Reference Errors on 21 January
- 4 Women in the Arts Edit-a-thon 2015 at Tulane
- 5 File:NOPLDontBeAfraidToBeAmazing.jpg listed for deletion
- 6 question for Infrogmation
- 7 Orphaned non-free image File:1984WorldsFairMetalSign.jpg
- 8 Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements
- 9 FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened
- 10 Bureaucrat discussion notification
- 11 Image uploading enquiry
- 12 Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal
- 13 Bureaucrat discussion notification (Liz)
- 14 Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements
- 15 Orphaned non-free image File:MortonDowney.jpg
- 16 Help Needed on 19th Century Music
- 17 Help Needed on Editathon Nov 17th
- 18 Proposed deletion of Raymac Records
- 19 November 17: Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table in NOLA
- 20 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 21 Notification of pending suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
- 22 Suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
- 23 A Dobos torte for you!
- 24 Tulane University Edit-a-thon: March 4
- 25 Invitation to Xavier editathon
- 26 Orphaned non-free image File:PrettyBabyLPBack.jpg
- 27 Disambiguation link notification for April 14
- 28 Disambiguation link notification for April 28
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merge discussion: electrical transcription
I've noticed you created a large number of articles regarding my favorite wikipedia subject, old 78rpm record labels. Thank you for all you've done in that area. This is a bit off the beaten path, but you might be interested in a merge proposal I've initiated for electrical transcription records, here: Talk:Electrical transcription. Thanks! 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 16:11, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Reference Errors on 21 January
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Women in the Arts Edit-a-thon 2015 at Tulane
Hi, Infrogmation! We'd love to have you if you can make it! Please spread the word if you know of other Wikipedians in town who might be interested. Feel free to get in touch with me on my talk page. All best, Craub (talk) 21:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
File:NOPLDontBeAfraidToBeAmazing.jpg listed for deletion
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question for Infrogmation
This is a wonderful page about the French !uarter houses. I wonder if you could tell me the strett addresses of some of them? I am in Seattle so can't pop over and look at them.
I am especially interested in the big white house on St. Charles.
Kit Moss/FrankieDeramus1865 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frankiederamus1865 (talk • contribs) 23:50, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
- I generally have at least street and often nearest cross street listed on the full descriptions on Commons. If you have a particular photo you want info on, let me know specifically which, thanks. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:50, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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Workshopping bureaucrat activity requirements
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There is an ongoing discussion about implementing some kind of standards for administrative and bureaucrat activity levels; and activity requirements for bureaucrats have been explored several times in the past. I've prepared a draft addition to Wikipedia:Bureaucrats that would require at least one bureaucratic action every five years to retain the bureaucrat permission.
In the past, I've been hesitant of such proposals but I believe that if the bureaucrat group as a whole is seen to be actively engaged, the community may be more willing to grant additional tasks to the position.
Please let me know your thoughts. I'm not sure if this actually applies to any of us, but if you have not acted as a bureaucrat in over five years, you might consider requesting removal of the permission or otherwise signalling that you intend to return to bureaucrat activity. –xenotalk 14:22, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
FYI: bureaucrat discussion opened
- Message to most bureaucrats
A bureaucrat chat has been opened by Maxim at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2/Bureaucrat discussion.
Wikipedia:Bureaucrat discussion suggests notifying bureaucrats on their talk page as well as BN, hence this courtesy note. –xenotalk 16:44, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Bureaucrat discussion notification
I would welcome input from other bureaucrats in relation to the outcome of this RfA.
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Image uploading enquiry
Greetings, User:Infrogmation.
I recently ran into an image you uploaded back in 2005, File:HitlerEagleNest45.jpg. It promises some hope for a situation not unique in the Wiki world but one which I am insufficiently familiar with; I hope you can offer some helpful advice upon it.
I am currently assisting an 89 year-old World War II vet with his contributions to Wikipedia. He has personal experience that spans several articles at the encyclopedia, and, as a retired academic, is gifted with a precise command of language and conscientious approach to documentation.
My enquiry concerns the proper way to license a "second hand" image. In the description of the above Kehlsteinhaus image you provided the following for Source:
- From the family collection of an aquaintence, uploaded and used here by permission.
And below this, under Author, the following:
- U.S. Army soldier in occupied Germany
The above image was subsequently shared with Wikimedia Commons, where it resides today (here).
Evidently things were different in 2005, as any effort in 2015 to upload an image at Wikimedia Commons demands the user either declare it to be their own work, or if not, channels them to a series of options, none of which appear to allow "second hand" licensing by an uploader of another author's work. By that I mean, for example, either an image taken and shared back during World War II, or one offered later at say a unit reunion by its original author, who has since passed away, to a computer savvy member to post at their website on the Internet.
How does one license such an image, where the original author freely shared their work, intended that others share it, sought no copyright or compensation, and passed away since?
Any light you could shed on this would be appreciated, as I never know each exchange with the veteran if there will be another, and cross my fingers there is.
Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 16:35, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- If I remember correctly, the photo was taken by the deceased father of someone I knew. (I *think* I'm still occasionally in touch with them on social media.) When I saw it I said I thought it might be useful on Wikimedia if they were willing to share it under a free license. She liked that idea and okayed it. I asked if she wanted name credit on it, and she said not particularly. So I uploaded it as you saw. Yes, I think a bit more precision in info &/or OTRS would be in the way it would be done now.
- The main concern is that there is no possible conflicting copyright claim. She inherited the work of her father. (I've uploaded a number of photos by my grandparents and even earlier generations which I've inherited myself.) I don't know if this answers all your questions, but I hope is some help. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:09, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the prompt feedback, User:Infrogmation. I completely get the situation you describe, but am still puzzled how you have been able to upload images by others w/o license releases (vetted by Wikipedia volunteer copyright enforcement team staff and kept on file)? The same veteran I mentioned above has an "outline history" of his unit posted at his website. He gave verbal permission to me (via email) to use it, but a wiki bot discovered the new material introduced at a Wikipedia article on his unit paralleled that on his website and flagged the content as a copyright violation and threatened impending deletion. I then had to go through the outlined WP:OTRS procedure and get his written (digital) release, which I forwarded to the copyright team (the approval of which is still pending).
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- Obviously, he was alive, cooperative, and able to understand and execute the text release. But he has images that were broadly shared at the time they were taken during WWII he is not the author of (and has no idea at this point who was; whomever, they obviously were not at all concerned with future copyright, and there is no monetary value or material historical significance attenutating to them at this point. Nothing like this image: Into the Jaws of Death.) He also has images that were specifically offered to him by now deceased vets to post at his webpage, who likewise were not interested in preserving their copyright: their sole interest was in seeing the history of their unit preserved on the Internet and shared with whomever was interested in its legacy.
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- How does he upload them? The only option once one selects "This is not my work" at Wikipedia Commons is an option that appears to hold promise of someone being able to explain the above an upload such an image in good faith, but in the end doesn't.
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- Under option number five beneath the heading "Now tell us why you are sure you have the right to publish this work" appears the ostensible route to take, "Another reason not specified above". All those above it - images already licensed as freely shared at Flikr, the copyright has expired in the U.S., it is the work of the U.S. government, et al - don't fit. But the moment one clicks on the text box to enter their explanation under option five a check button above it next to the injunction "The license is described by the following wikitext (must contain a copyright tag)" automatically activates itself and demands an existing license (in "wikitext", no less). There's no room at all for explaining/justifying an upload of someone else's image like yours of the Kehlsteinhaus. How does one do it?
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- Thanks. I'm desperate to get this veteran's images uploaded while he's still lucid and computer savvy, but the clock is ticking quite loudly, as you can understand. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 22:18, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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- If you want to get the images online but can't get enough info on source/copyright status, you might consider putting them somewhere else than Wikimedia. There are a number of free photo hosting sites online; Flickr.com is one I know that allows a large amount of high resolution images with captions and detailed descriptions. Not everything of historic import can go on Commons. Yes, uploading can be problematic getting correct info on source and copyright, but understand this is because Commons does not allow fair use, and many people have tried to take advantage of Commons by uploading with false source or fraudulent licenses, which Commons must continually protect from. As to the image I uploaded long ago, it seems my word was simply taken, but I understand the value of the more stringent procedures now in place and should probably see if I can contact my friend and see if I can get an OTRS to have on file with Wikimedia. Sorry I'm not of more help. You might ask on Commons help pages if someone can be of more help in determining licenses. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 18:58, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
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I'm aware of all this. I'm not trying to stockpile the images somewhere, I'm trying to help this veteran integrate them on a page on his unit at Wikipedia. Those he took are no problem; those shared with him w/o regard for preserving copyright are the ones I'm trying to learn how to properly license.
Am I to understand that Wikipedia is not a clone of Wikimedia Commons in terms of licenses required for uploading, and possibly it may offer more leeway than WC in an instance like the above? When I first began at WP I uploaded images to it; somewhere along the line I got the impression it was better to do so at WC - I can't tell you anymore how I came to that perception. Regardless, I have made all my uploads at WC since.
Is my inference (from your most recent post) accurate, that WP might offer more leeway than WC in a situation like I've described?
Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 23:26, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Community & Bureaucrat based desysoping proposal
A discussion is taking place regarding a proposal to create a community and bureaucrat based desysoping committee. The proposal would modify the position of bureaucrat. Your input is encouraged. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators/RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process. Thank you, --Hammersoft (talk) 19:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Bureaucrat discussion notification (Liz)
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Implementation of Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years.
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To assist with the implementation of this requirement, please see Wikipedia:Bureaucrat activity. Modeled after Wikipedia:Inactive administrators and similar to that process, the log page will be created on 1 September 2015. Bureaucrats who have not met the activity requirements as of that date will be notified by email (where possible) and on their talk page to advise of the pending removal.
If the notified user does not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, they will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFB. Removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon the affected user in any way.
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Help Needed on 19th Century Music
Hello,
Would you be so kind as to come over to the page on Steve Reich and check into the section of the talk page titled "Oh Dem Watermelons" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Steve_Reich#Oh_Dem_Watermelons and give us an opinion about the incorrect attribution of a piece of music about watermelons to Stephen Foster? It's one of those "original research" catch-22 situations where ... well, just read the posts. Your knowledge of music would be greatly appreciated. Love and hugs, cat yronwode (not logged in) 75.101.104.17 (talk) 20:02, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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- Thanks, and i am now bugging you again because i just found an actual academic citation (YAY!) I placed it in the talk section of the article. Let me know what you think. cat yronwode (not logged in) 75.101.104.17 (talk) 21:34, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Help Needed on Editathon Nov 17th
Hi there! Thanks for your interest in my editathon! I've updated the meetup page and am a novice at this so any and all help is welcomed. Please let me know what/how your are willing/able/available to do? Thanks!!-- Heathart (talk) 15:45, 27 Oct 2015 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Raymac Records
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November 17: Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table in NOLA
Hi Froggy, I saw you sign up for an earlier version of this event, hope there's still interest. If you like, I can put you in touch by email with the organizers.--Pharos (talk) 15:43, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
ArbCom elections are now open!
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Notification of pending suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
Following a community discussion ending August 2015, consensus was reached to remove the bureaucrat permissions of users who have not participated in bureaucrat activity for three years. As a result of this discussion, your bureaucrat permissions may be removed if you do not return to bureaucrat activity within the next month. If you do not return to bureaucrat activity and the permissions are removed, you will need to request reinstatement at RFB. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past bureaucrat efforts. –xenotalk 21:05, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
- Noted, thanks. Cheers -- Infrogmation (talk) 23:44, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Hello again- as you know, your 'crat bit is pending removal per the above. Do feel free to request the change yourself at m:SRP#Removal of access before that happens, if you prefer. Thanks again, –xenotalk 14:28, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Suspension of bureaucrat permissions due to not meeting bureaucrat activity requirements
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A Dobos torte for you!
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Tulane University Edit-a-thon: March 4
Hi Froggy, do you think you might be able to join and help out at the Tulane University Edit-a-thon as part of the Art+Feminism global campaign on March 4? There are some very interested and enthusiastic new editors there, but they could use the assistance of someone with more on-wiki experience.--Pharos (talk) 17:02, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Invitation to Xavier editathon
We are having an editathon at Xavier University on 3/11! Would love for you to join us! --Heathart (talk) 23:10, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
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