User talk:John Tann

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Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, John Tann!

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 11:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Slender ringtail.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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Animalparty (talk) 07:34, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notification about possible deletion[edit]

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry.

If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

And also:

Yours sincerely, ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:48, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am looking into this.
It appears that the publication that held these images, copyright 1994, was scanned and digitised by UIUC at Illinois, held by BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library), with a note to say that it is in copyright, and archived by Internet Archive, then uploaded to flickr saying that it is in the public domain. From flickr it was copied to Wikimedia Commons, by me (John Tann).
This is from BHL:
Book Title
Catalogue of the family-group, genus-group and species-group names of the Odonata of the world
By
Bridges, Charles A.
Publication Details
Urbana, Ill, Charles A. Bridges, 1994
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15291
Holding Institution
University Library, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Sponsor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Copyright & Usage
Copyright Status:
In copyright. Digitized with permission granted by April K. Walsh, executor of the Charles A. Bridges estate. Contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu for more information.
So, it looks like there are copyright restrictions on the book. The images in the book have been taken from earlier literature (but not so old to be out of copyright, I think).
I am in favour of deletion. The images are not crucial for the Wikipedia pages where they have been used.
John John Tann (talk) 20:26, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]