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Always a few moment away. [[User:The Rambling Man|The Rambling Man]] ([[User talk:The Rambling Man#top|talk]]) 21:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Always a few moment away. [[User:The Rambling Man|The Rambling Man]] ([[User talk:The Rambling Man#top|talk]]) 21:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
:??? Not sure what this means but hoping you're OK, sir.  — [[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 21:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
:??? Not sure what this means but hoping you're OK, sir.  — [[User:Amakuru|Amakuru]] ([[User talk:Amakuru|talk]]) 21:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

== Noticeboard notification ==

A new section has been created concerning you at [[WP:AE]]. -- [[User:Softlavender|Softlavender]] ([[User talk:Softlavender|talk]]) 01:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

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The Sustainability Initiative

Hello The Rambling Man: An invitation for you to check out the Sustainability Initiative, which aims to reduce the environmental impact of the Wikimedia projects. If you're interested, please consider adding your name to the list of supporters, which serves to express and denote the community's support of the initiative. Thanks for your consideration! North America1000 09:58, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fair Use

Interested to know the basis for your claim: "no it is usual to wait for six months at least before using such an image under a claim of fair use"? You can reply here, but you may be interested in viewing Talk:Dan Kneen#Images 'deleted' from article by an editor invoking a bot (twice). Thx.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 17:44, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You can refer your query to Masem who can usually find the stock answer for this. Frankly, it's common sense to me. I found two images on Flickr, I do wonder if anyone has bothered contacting the owners of the images to apply a looser copyright standard, just as I did for many, many images, several successful, including File:Paul Mariner cropped.jpg. But most people just tend to say "if you couldn't get one when he was alive, you're not going to get one when he's dead" - this is a false assertion. Indeed, more images of the individual will be floating around in the months after his demise, it's just a case of working a little bit harder for it. Cheers now! The Rambling Man (talk) 18:17, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The point of "6 months after death" is exactly as TRM says: we expect that a good faith attempt to find a free image to be made, including potentially approaching friends and family, and those that may have taken non-press photos of the person, to get one under a free license. We do want to respect mourning periods, so six months is a reasonable time. --Masem (t) 18:25, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks - is any of this written, as a formal generality? I surmised it was ad-hoc, when and as required, subjective-only; I had participated in a deletion-discussion where I suggested contact with the family - 2013 - I suppose I should do so (?) now. But it was formalised under Files for Deletion. I also arranged for File:Gary with Senior MGP trophy.png from the widow in 2016. In the example above Dan Kneen, I held a vague belief that he or his brother were online-sellers of digital images at 25-30 GBP each, but couldn't easily later prove my supposition. One has to make a decision, informed-or-not, based on whatever is available at the time. I hadn't forgotten about 2013, but clearly is much less of a priority to the other WP editors after the time of sudden accidental death.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 14:22, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request for GAN help

Hello! I was wondering if you could do a GAN review for me. I recently did a quick-fail on the My Love from the Star article as I did not believe the references were properly done for a good article, though the nominator and another editor disagreed. I opened the review up again for a second opinion, and I was wondering if you could pick it up. I feel somewhat bad about the ordeal, and I would like to hopefully get another editor to look through it for them. Also please do not feel influenced by review for the article, as I could be completely wrong. I was only wondering because you are one of only two editors currently doing a television-related GAN review, and you have plenty of experience doing GANs. Apologies for the random message, and I hope you are having a great week so far. Aoba47 (talk) 03:50, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aoba47 Hey, thanks for your note, I'll take a look. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Closing in

Always a few moment away. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:36, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

??? Not sure what this means but hoping you're OK, sir.  — Amakuru (talk) 21:38, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Noticeboard notification

A new section has been created concerning you at WP:AE. -- Softlavender (talk) 01:12, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]