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Comments Oppose Too little detail, sorry. --Nefronus 05:59, 9 July 2021 (UTC)Comment I take my vote back and shall let others decide. --Nefronus 06:28, 11 July 2021 (UTC) Support OK for QI --Charlesjsharp 16:53, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
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Comments Oppose Too little detail/sharpness for me, sorry. --Nefronus 20:07, 10 July 2021 (UTC)Comment I take my vote back and shall let others decide. Nefronus 06:29, 11 July 2021 (UTC) Support Sharpness good enough. --Palauenc05 10:17, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
@Nosferattus: I have a query, I can't see the uploaded snap in the youtube video links. Could you confirm that the snap is available in the video. Also pinging Owais Al Qarni, Could you please update the timeframe from which you uploaded the screenshot. Thank you, stay safe.--C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 15:14, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
@Owais Al Qarni: Apart from the beginning 0.1, any other timeframe which confirm that the snap is part of the same video, and has been released under creative commons license. Please kindly confirm. Thank you --C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 15:30, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
@C1K98V: I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. The image is clearly from the opening frames of the video and the video is clearly marked as CC-BY. Is there some reason we need to devote more time and effort to this? Nosferattus (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
It's his official channel.--Owais Al Qarni (talk) 16:24, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
@Nosferattus: Hello, once again. The snap is the thumbnail, only visible in the video just at the beginning. I just check a brief part of the video, but couldn't find any related snap. And after doing Google Reverse Image Search it turned out to be a Copyvio. Please have a look here. Yeah youtube files are crucial and cc license are irrevocable, so efforts and awareness is required. I valuable your efforts and time. Thanks --C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 16:36, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
In that case you should nominate it for deletion as a copyright violation. Nosferattus (talk) 17:59, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Tagged and notified. Thanks, stay safe. --C1K98V(💬✒️📂) 18:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
@C1K98V: Ok, I uploaded a new file. Please, review Again. Thanks to both.--Owais Al Qarni (talk) 18:44, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Location?
Hi Nosferattus - could you add some location details of where you took File:Suet feeder with three birds.jpg, please? It will help with identification and adding the right categories, and make the photo more useful. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Would still appreciate some follow-up on this please! The location is necessary for identification as to whether it is a Black-capped Chickadee, or a Carolina Chickadee. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 21:17, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
@MPF: The location is in the overlap zone between Black-capped Chickadees and Carolina Chickadees, which is why the bird isn't identified more specifically. Nosferattus (talk) 23:39, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks! It would still be good to have a bit more location detail, even if just county & state:-) MPF (talk) 23:57, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
Well, Yann closed the deletionrequests before I finished writing my latest reply. Writing it took quite a while, because I was reading through various documents by the Copyright Office and even found a SCOTUS opinion that explicitly mentions the level of creativity needed for copyright ("extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice"). The main problem is that the most relevant guidelines (chapter 906.8) only speak of "sufficient human interaction", but don't specify what's "sufficient". Anyway, it was nice having a discussion with you!:) TilmannR (talk) 21:36, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
@TilmannR: As an interesting postscript, the United Kingdom, unlike most other countries, does provide copyright protection for works generated by AIs, but the term of protection is shorter: 50 years from the date of creation. The copyright belongs to "the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken", in other words, the prompt writer. It's also interesting that they note the tension between 'creator' and 'author': "The creator of the original work is the AI, but the 'author' under the law is a person who has not made any creative input to it. This sits uneasily with the modern approach to originality in wider copyright law, where creativity and authorship go hand-in-hand." Nosferattus (talk) 23:34, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, You mentioned here the availibility of audio recording. However I only get a register form, and I can't manage to register. Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@Yann: The site is very Javascript-heavy and doesn't work in some browsers. Try it in Chrome and see if that helps. Nosferattus (talk) 01:41, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
I managed to upload one file from i78s: File:Lucille Hegamin - Getting Old Blues.mp3. This website is one of the worst I have seen. It is impossible to copy description of the recordings, so they have to be typed manually.:(( It would be a great improvement for music enthusiasts if we could copy all what is in the public domain to Commons. However that probably demands heavy script and bot work. Regards, Yann (talk) 10:21, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
"Make working with templates easier" - what is the final impact?
I'm writing you because you have provided feedback on features developed in the “Make working with templates easier” focus area, more specifically on the bracket matching feature.
The work on this focus area is slowly coming to an end, and therefore I would like to talk about it in an article on the Wikimedia Germany's website. I would like to shed light on the technical changes we have implemented in the wikis together with the volunteers and more importantly how does the final impact on the active contributors look like. In that, I would like to ask you for your support.
I would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to recall what has been done in the “templates” focus area and to answer the following question:
How has one or more of the changes impacted your workflow or your contribution to the wiki?
I would like to use your answer either as a quote or as background material for the article. Of course, you are free to choose whether you want to be mentioned by your username or anonymized. If it's easier for you to send an audio or a screen recording instead of a written answer, I would be delighted about that as well.
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Thanks! Timur Vorkul (WMDE) (talk) 08:30, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hi - I'm writing to you because you were the first to pick up on the Diliff case I raised. You advocated deletion of his images, but the discussion went on to how to prevent copyright trolling, how to get more contributors using CC4, and how to warn the users of photos by the likes of Diliff that there was a risk of being sued.
It's amazing the amount of discussion that's been generated, and I'm sure it all needed to come out but it gets very confusing trying to follow it across multiple pages, so I wondered what's your feeling for where we've got to? As far as I can see deleting his photos was outvoted as being bad for Wikipedia, the discussion on getting people to move to CC4 is waiting for some legal conversation, and the labelling of Diliff's photos with a warning seems to have been started but not finished.
Being new to this I don't have any knowledge of the status of people involved in this discussion - are they all admins (are you?) or a mixture of admins and users. If there are things to do, like labelling Diliff's photos, who does that? I can see that a lot of people are still unhappy with Diliff's viewpoint on it, and in particular with the behaviour of Pixsy but I don't see any more suggestions.
Anyway I wanted to thank you for taking it seriously and I'm sure in the long run this discussion will benefit everyone. Normanlamont (talk) 15:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
@Normanlamont: For the most part, I don't think your concerns are being taken seriously enough. The problem is that most of the people taking part in these discussions are photographers, not reusers. So they are only looking at it from that point of view. As someone directly affected by copyright trolling, you have a powerful voice in these discussions and I would encourage you to keep using it, especially in the discussions about possible solutions, which you are more that welcome to participate and vote in: Commons:Village pump/Proposals#Prohibit copyleft trolling. Nosferattus (talk) 16:13, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
I’ve added something to the possible solutions page. Hope I haven’t overdone it. 77.97.243.14 14:33, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, Nosferattus.
Can you color the countries still displayed in gray in File:World metrication.svg? All the countries displayed in gray have adopted the metric system. These countries have been updated in File:Metrication by year map.svg, which are shown with their decade of metrication. I cannot update SVG files, because I lack the knowledge, and the coloring for this map is clearer, compared to the updated map. Hence why I put this request. I am capable of updating PNG files, and which I want to do for its PNG version File:SI-metrication-world.png, if File:World metrication.svg is updated.
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Thanks for helping to look over that page. Really appreciate your commitment to making sure it is accurate. I haven't had a lot of time recently to really work on these matters. I also wanted to say that this user, 2600, is highly overstating my signing-off on their research. I really am not, and I have told them to exercise caution and make their own determinations without invoking my name. I hope that my additional research to the page has been helpful to reassert my high level of quality and thoroughness. That Peanuts claim seems to be heavily reliant on bending the actualities of the law, so I removed that from the page and added some additional research here. Best, SDudley (talk) 17:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)
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Realistically speaking even if you get your way the videos are going to continue being uploaded until video2commons stops allowing uploads from that channel Trade (talk) 03:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Hi there! I just wondering if you're interested to chime in at this discussion here . This issue is similiar like the one you did last year at Cartoon Network (India). Thank you! Boneless Pizza! (talk) 01:27, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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2024 Picture of the Year:Mundari man polishing the horns of one of his Watusi cows using a mixture of cow urine and ash as a ritualistic and protective practice in a temporary cattle camp in Terekeka, South Sudan.
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Wikimedia Commons is pleased to finally announce the winners of this year's Picture of the Year 2025 contest! We had some truly incredible finalists to choose from, but the community has spoken.
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In the photo the pages are clearly visible in the top left and top right corners, and they aren't 19 and 20 — why was it necessary to change them in name of file? Petsernik (talk) 18:56, 13 August 2026 (UTC)
@Petsernik: Hello! The 13th page of the Paris Codex was originally numbered "13–15". I have no idea why this was done or what it is supposed to indicate, but that is the source of the confusion. If you find out anything further about this, please let me know. Nosferattus (talk) 17:32, 14 August 2026 (UTC)
@Petsernik: It won't let me download the dissertation without creating an account. Why don't you just tell me what it says. In particular why is the 13th page labelled 13–15? Nosferattus (talk) 16:09, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
No problem, I will quote it (all quotes from Mgr. Jakub Špoták, The Paris Codex – Complex Analysis of an Ancient Maya Manuscript, §5.1 “Pagination of codex”, p. 42).
The dissertation explains that the page marked “13–15” is evidence of a missing page, rather than two ordinary page numbers: "The first page is marked as “13-15”, which indicates that before this page there was at least one more page, which is, however, missing today."
The author also notes that the surviving codex is incomplete and the surviving leaves are painted on both sides: "We can clearly say that there are at least two pages missing, to make the k’atun wheel complete", "We know that the actual codex is composed of eleven leaves, while both sides are painted".
Thus, according to the dissertation, “13–15” indicates that the surviving page corresponds to page 15, while the preceding two-sided leaf, corresponding to pages 13–14, is missing. I'm not sure why the author chose to identify pages 13–14 as the missing ones, rather than, say, pages 14–15, but throughout the dissertation he consistently refers to this particular page “13-15” as p. 15, while all the other page numbers correspond to those indicated at the top of the pages.
And I like this numbering system: it emphasizes that two pages are missing. Moreover, sticking to a single numbering system makes it easier to navigate than using different numbering schemes in different places. Or do you have any sources that use a different numbering system when analyzing this codex? Petsernik (talk) 21:39, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
@Petsernik: That makes sense. I support adopting the same numbering system as the dissertation. I'll see about changing the file titles as soon as I have some time. Nosferattus (talk) 22:05, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
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