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Engineer's Country Club Photo

I have permission from Engineers Country Club to use the photo you've deleted. Mr. Gold is the club president. EditorExtraordinaire (talk) 23:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Gold, Jonathan <goldj@stifel.com> wrote:

No problem

Jonathan S. Gold Senior Vice President Investments Stifel Nicolaus & Company 1225 Franklin Avenue - Suite 150 Garden City, NY 11530 516-663-5422 800-223-8163 Fax 516-746-0530 GoldJ@Stifel.com www.stifel.com

From: Mike Parker Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:38 PM To: Gold, Jonathan (Garden City) Subject: Re: engineers cc

Do I have your permission to use the attached photo for the Misplaced Pages article on Herbert Strong? This is the lovely shot of the wooden bridge with the course in the background.

Mike Parker

Didn't I answer this some days ago already? Please see User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise/Archive 30#Engineer's Country Club Picture again. What we need is a fully free license such as cc-by-sa, which is not what you said you had. Fut.Perf. ☼ 07:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

== Your re-uploading of File:Engineers CC - Roslyn Harbor, NY.jpg ==

You've asked me twice about this image, and I've explained to you twice why it isn't useable here under the license you said you had for it. Instead of listening, you've just silently re-uploaded the same file under a new name each time. This is disruptive. I have tagged the file, one final time, with a "no evidence of permission" tag. Unless you provide proof (via a public link or via e-mail to "permissions-en (at) wikimedia.org") that the owners have given explicit permission for anybody to use this file, anywhere, for any purpose, it will be deleted again. If you continue re-uploading it again, you will be blocked from editing. Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

I sent an email to "permissions". If you can't find it, then perhaps I can retrieve it. I asked Engineers Club for permission to use the photo and their answer was simple and straightforward: "no problem".

--EditorExtraordinaire (talk) 19:22, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps you can instruct me on how I can amend the license tag to make it appropriate for use in the two articles in which it appears.--EditorExtraordinaire (talk) 20:41, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

It's not about the tag, it's about what the owners actually told you. You said they gave permission for us to use the image on these specific two articles. That just isn't enough. What we need is a license that explicitly allows anybody to use it anywhere, for any purpose, i.e. a license such as cc-by-sa. If you can contact the owners again and ask if they'd be willing to grant such a license too, that would be fine, but short of that it just won't do. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:47, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Odd photo/drawing?

I do not know all the details pertaining to photos/drawings, but would you know if this drawing passes necessary formalities for Misplaced Pages? It appears to have been hand drawn by a Misplaced Pages editor. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:29, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with it formally, in terms of copyright/licensing, unless it is closely copied from some undisclosed source in its details of graphical/visual design, which would make it plagiarism. What is of course a problem, both with respect to this potential licensing issue and with respect to encyclopedic content quality, is the lack of source information (it might conceivably be the case though that it is both (a) based on a reliable source in terms of content, and also (b) graphically independent from that source in such a way as to not making it a copyright violation; or the source might be public domain; in both these cases it would be okay). The fact that it is hand-drawn rather than computerized is a bit of an oddity these days, and you might say constitutes a visual quality issue, but it is not in and of itself against any policies. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:31, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Ok. I will leave the issue up to you, since I am not acquainted with the policies surrrounding photos/drawings. Thanks for the information. --Kansas Bear (talk) 21:44, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

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Marianna Vardinoyannis

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Can we protect the above page, the IP's hopped to 83.27.105.53. Amortias (T)(C) 18:53, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Small situations

Hello Future Perfect at Sunrise, I'm requesting your assistance on two minor situations. The first in article: History of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire, a newly registered user is using Misplaced Pages as a primary source for content. See here: . I want to revert, but I'll be violating the 2RR. The other article: Acts of the Apostles, a IP is changing era-styles violating WP:ERAS. A discussion has been started by the IP, but I know the message I sent won't be followed through. It would be nice to have your input on it, or at least an watchful eye. Hopefully, all of this will be resolved before you can see this message. Thank you and Cheers! — JudeccaXIII (talk) 05:03, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Deleting comments?

Did you just delete my comment? Really? --UrbanVillager (talk) 14:47, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't mean to remove your comment. I did, however, mean to revert your hatting of the other editor's comments; don't do that again. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:57, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Deleted images/Tijuana airport

Hello Future Perfect. On August 23 last year you pointed out that I incorrectly uploaded images using fair use for an article on the Tijuana airport. You directed me to the protocols and concurrently Stefan2 selected the images I uploaded for the article Tijuana cross-border terminal for deletion. I was new to the process and did not understand the requirements. I stated the source of each image, those that belonged to me and those that belonged to others who had given me the images while I was a negotiator in the Mexico-San Diego discussions. I then requested that the images I incorrectly uploaded be deleted , and then uploaded only my own images onto Commons. The article Tijuana Cross-border terminal was then nominated for DYK in September, passed the review process and the 5,000 viewer threshold. In December, the images were deleted as it was stated they were “originally claimed as fair use, but removed from Misplaced Pages due to false claims and now claimed as own work" making specific reference to Stefan2 deletion request. I explained that the images involved in the discussion with Stefan2 and that belonged to others were NOT uploaded onto Commons, I only uploaded my images created during the 16 years I promoted the cross-border terminal. On December 2, User Ww2censor reviewed the discussion dialogue concluded “assume good faith” but his opinion was ignored and that attacks continued. In the written Tijuana article, I supplied more than two dozen newspaper references in which I am used as a source including a feature article from the Wall Street Journal in which Mexico's border commissioner attributed the project to me. I was invited and presented the project before the U.S. State Department and the U.S.-Mexico Presidential commission known as the Partnership for Prosperity. I now went through the OTRS process which had a 2 month backlog and was again accused of making false claims by the very Administrator who deleted the images in December, and she again made reference to the Stefan2 deletion request but ignored the fact I requested the deletion. I have contacted Stefan2 to see if he recalls the images and hope you can also assist. Again, the images passed the DYK review process and I was both the developer and originator of the concept as documented by dozens of news references included in the article, all of which were ignored. Thank you for your consideration Rnieders (talk) 15:13, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Closing WP:NFCR discussions

When closing discussions at WP:NFCR, you need to keep in mind that the archiving bot is buggy. Unless you substitute {{subst:archive top}}, the bot arranges so that it is impossible to see the reason for the closure. --Stefan2 (talk) 15:08, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

This editor, Future Perfect at Sunrise, is a mindless, time-wasting vandal who engages in edit wars out of frustration because he has nothing constructive or informative to write, and does this by hiding behind anonymity