User talk:LX

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Copyvio?

Image:Grzegorz Rosiński - Aaricia.jpg - mr Rosinski draw it for me, I'm owner of this drawing - so also copyright holder. what's on your mind? Image:Jerzy Urban autograph.jpg - it was a signature from letter sent to me. if I wan't, I can publish any part from my correspondence. or maybe I'm wrong? maybe first you'll wait patiently for my answer before delting pictures, OK? Arek1979 15:01, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• I'm very sorry - I was wrong, it was my huge mistake Arek1979 15:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, as you appear to have realised, copyright resides with the creator of a work. I don't get the right to distribute copies of a film simply because I buy a DVD of it. This also applies to individual copies that were gifts. You can sell, give away, or destroy your copy of it, but the right to control copying (hence copyright) resides with the creator.

Secondly, I didn't delete the images. I tagged them as copyright violations, which I believe they were, and administrators (Raymond de[1] and Ejdzej[2]) apparently agreed that the tagging was appropriate and deleted the images. I am sorry if you felt that they acted too soon, but I have no control over that. Understandably, I guess administrators are quick to delete copyright violations in order to protect the integrity of Wikimedia Commons.

—LX (talk, contribs) 13:08, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Maps

You are vandalizing the subcategories of Category:Maps. Stop immediatly! --Juiced lemon 11:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Before your changes, the subcategories were properly sorted. You don't see all the subcategories on the first pages because Category:Maps contains unsorted pictures, while it should contains only pages and subcategories.

The solution is to sort the pictures, not to unsort the subcategories. --Juiced lemon 11:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

You should have noticed that you didn't change the number of subcategories displayed on the first page. When you unsort a subcategory and put it on the first page, the last subcategory of the first page goes away. --Juiced lemon 11:47, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for assuming good faith!

I'm not vandalising the subcategories, I'm sorting them so that they show up on one page (not unsorting them; appending the appropriate sorting keyword after the leading space will ensure they are still in alphabetical order, and if all subcategories are sorted in this manner, all of them will appear on the first category page). I agree that in the long term, the images in the category should be sorted. (If you look through my edits, you will see that I was also in the process of doing that. I hope this doesn't count as vandalism in your book too.)

However, this process will be assisted by being able to get an overview of the subcategories without browsing through multiple pages. As an example of the sort of problems created by not being able to overview the subcategories, we have not one but two duplicate categories of Category:Religion maps. (I also cleaned the duplicates out and tagged them for deletion. Again, I hope you don't feel that this was vandalism as well.)

—LX (talk, contribs) 11:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for my poor vocabulary. I have realized that my last assertion was wrong, since near all pictures are sorted into the letter I. However, I still think it was a curious idea to change the subcategories classement.

Generally, we put only noteworthy categories on top of the list, as special categories which are sorted according to criteria. For maps, the general form is “Category:Maps by <criteria>”, but we have also Category:Maps of countries. In particular, if you don't put Category:Maps by theme in a prominent place, you'll have duplicates. --Juiced lemon 13:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Alright, glad we could resolve it and get things to a point where the discussion is rather moot, with all the categories showing on the first page. The space-prefix is something I've done in the past on Swedish Wikipedia, usually as a first step in a category cleanup process, and my experience is that it works quite well and helps a lot.

I do like to think of it as a temporary tool, since the goal is almost always to reduce the number of items in large categories, so now that the category is a single page, I have restored all the categories to sorted order (except the continent ones, which I presume there is consensus to keep before other subcategories, although I think, contrary to the commentator on the talk page, that there is a need to group them in a subcategory for continents). If you want to promote Maps by theme in the sorting order, I won't object. Generally, I think we should try to reduce the number of subcategories by grouping them in more broad subcategories which we would need to introduce.

I also found another duplicate, Category:Maps of the Oceans, a duplicate of Category:Maps of oceans. All dupes were created by the same user, so I asked them to be careful not to create more duplicates.

—LX (talk, contribs) 13:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I would like to know what is a continent for categorization purposes in Commons. I talked in the village pump about a similar subject without result. --Juiced lemon 14:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if there's an agreed system. Looking at en:Continent, it seems Category:Maps is currently applying the somewhat rare six-continent combined-America model with Oceania being used instead of Australia and with the addition of the Arctic (technically not a continent because it has no land mass). This might be convenient because it allows the Americas to be subdivided into North, Central, and South rather than wondering what to do with Central America in a split-America model. The main point is that I would like to get Maps of Africa, Maps of the Americas and so on into a subdirectory that collects them all. We can worry about the details of those subcategories later. I'm holding off since I've seen at least one voice against it, though. —LX (talk, contribs) 16:13, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Transport in America and some subcategories were badly named, so I took the opportunity to change to the seven-continent model, like in the first image in en:Continent. I suggest to do the same thing about the maps. --Juiced lemon 21:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Morlachs maps

Alex, I am new to Commons wikipedia and I am sorry for my mistakes. I am correcting the information on the "Morlachs maps", as you requested. All the maps were in my old computer databank, so I have made the mistake of believing they were copyrighted. I have just found that two (Hungary with turkey in europe.jpg and romanian origin map.PNG) are already (!) in wikipedia commons. The other two (Bosna2.jpg and MORLACCHI.MORLACCHIA.jpg) are from old maps in my databank. The fifth (a photo I have done some years ago, and scanned on my computer) is a personal creation, and you should decide the classification if you don't agree with me. I hope to have solved the problems, so you can remove the tags. Have a happy new year. Bruno.--Brunodambrosio 21:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Alex. I'll do the requested corrections. Bruno.--Brunodambrosio 16:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Images marked free for private and educational use

ref Orkney pages in de.wkipedia and your comments ...

Whatsoever might have been written/left on the pics/maps themselves or in the description: Everything was clearly labled and licenced GNU/CC from me the author. I simply got rid of such stupid discussions and will delete all my contributions to WikiCommons and/or de.wikipedeia, both texts and pics/graphs. Nice to meet you ... Islandhopper 14:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Bildetik/regler

Hur illa är det att registreringsnummer på bilar på en parkeringsplats syns i bilden Image:Lugnet.JPG? Finns det regler kring sådant. Och hur är det med privata hus i t.ex. foton från villastadsdelar? Radera gärna Lugnet-bilden om den inte är OK. Jag vet ej hur man gör. Skvattram 15:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Hej Skvattram! Jag har letat lite, men inte lyckats hitta att Commons skulle ha några regler angående registreringsskyltar. Däremot hittade jag Category:License plates, så det verkar ju inte vara några problem. Sedan vet jag inte om personuppgiftslagen har några märkliga invändningar, men i de flesta länder gäller att man inte kan ha särskilt höga förväntningar på integritet på allmän plats. Jag är inte administratör här på Commons, så jag kan inte själv ta bort något. Om du hittar något som tyder på att bilden borde bort kan du anmäla den på Commons:Deletion requests. —LX (talk, contribs) 15:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Licensing derived images

Thanks for your tip on licensing, LX! I shall now dual-license all images I've created which derive from another person's work with that person's original license, plus my license of choice (CC-BY-SA-2.5.) – Tintazul ^talk 17:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Continued at User talk:Tintazul as per notice at the top of this page.

Help please

Could you please help me. I requested deletion for two images Image:Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant 1.jpg and Image:Charadehepburn.jpg and you rightly noted that they did not conflict with copyright policies. I have uploaded new versions of the same images without the URL stamp that I thought was problematic. I should have just done that in the first place. I don't know what to do now. Should the deletion request be closed? Should I now remove the tags from the image pages? Thanks. Rossrs 11:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

In general, deletion requests are only closed by administrators. I don't know whether or not it would be in accordance with common practice here for the user filing the request to withdraw it. If it is, I guess you would simply follow the instructions for administrators. It might be wise to ask an experience administrator first. In any event, an administrator will probably close the issues without deletion within a week or so, unless someone comes up with a reason not to, seeing your comments. —LX (talk, contribs) 13:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

That sounds fair so I will wait and let it run its course. Thank you for your advice. Rossrs 13:27, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

50px

- How do I give myself permission to upload this image? --Profero 09:01, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at Commons:Email templates. You could also ask the original author to put a statement on his web site adjacent to the source placing it under one or more free licences and link to this. —LX (talk, contribs) 12:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

why do admins at wikicommons hate freedom of artistic expression ?

I understand that Europeans elected Hitler willingly, but that was over 60 years ago. Why is facism slowly creeping back into the European mindset?

Please ask yourself: What would the world be like if photographers were restricted to taking only photos with "consent of subject"? We surely would lose millions of beautiful images. As far as I know, only taliban destroys photos of human beings. This is what European culture has become?

Now all my photos have been flagged for deletion. This is obviously in retaliation to my first appeal. Wikicommons admins clearly punish all resistance, a sick kind of electronic gestapo that tolerates no dissent.

Please have a look at my other candid photographs and explain why they are being deleted.