User talk:S. R. Shutt
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Ellin Beltz (talk) 00:17, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Notification about possible deletion
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Yours sincerely, Ellin Beltz (talk) 00:18, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Commons licencing
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Greetings !
I think you are mistaking an essential aspect of the situation. Where you uploaded the pictures was not to the English language Wikipedia but to Wikimedia Commons which is a free media repository which can be accessed by all the various wiki_ projects. Now, while it's possible that the en:wiki might retain images with dubious copyright as "fair use", I am not expert on that situation nor on en:wiki to help there. However, please read COM:L before making any uploads and really take a good look at that diagram and roll over it for annotations! To be uploaded here the image has to be free of copyright. To determine if it's free of copyright, the original author is required, the date, the source, and so on. What has happened unfortunately in your eagerness to contribute is that none of the above information has been provided. Having scans made is not own work. Nor is taking photographs of copyrighted materials "own work." The copyright remains with the original copyright holder until it expires - unless you can prove the material never had copyright in the first place - which would appear to be difficult with the images under discussion. Perhaps if you knew the photographer's names and date/s of death (assuming their dead), or the actual source of the pictures. The Library is not a source that holds copyright any more than owning a copy of a painting confers copyright to the person on whose wall the image hangs. The copyright (as you'll read in COM:L stays with the creators, and in some cases with the creator's heirs, for a long time. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message here. Please use the format like this Ping @ {{u|Ellin Beltz}} any time you'd like someone to "show up" in your discussion, just replace my name with their name and they'll be notified. Here, I'll show you... ping @S. R. Shutt. Don't ever hesitate to ask for help, it's possible some of those images are old enough, or may be PD, but with the information you provided the first time through, we can't help. Please write books if need be in those fields, we can always take out too much information, but with none at all to go on, we can't help. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 21:18, 14 April 2016 (UTC)