User talk:PlanespotterA320

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Frequently asked questions:

Q1. How come when I did a reverse image search of the file you uploaded I got nothing, but you said it wasn't your own work?
A1. First make sure your browser isn't filtering out all non-English results. Second, some websites like the archive catalog of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation don't tend to show up in top Google results no matter how good a match the query is. (Try using bing or Yandex)

Q2. Where do you find all those Правда, Известия, Краснофлотец, and Североморский лётчик archives from WWII?
A2. Lots of places. Sadly there's not just one resource where I can search for everything in a nice and organized way. I also recommend asking your local library about any newspaper archives if they have one.

Q3. I'm confused...Why did you upload a photo WITH a speedydelete tag?
A3. So it can be put in the "undelete by year" category and be restored after the copyright expires. I may not be editing Wikipedia in 2060, so it's nice to have some files pre-filled out for the minute their copyright expires. See this discussion, I asked an admin for permission before starting this.

Q4: Why did you post a deletion notification on my talkpage? I didn't upload the image, I just used the croptool to edit it!
A4: Whenever a file is nominated for deletion, all people who uploaded different versions of the file are sent notifications through an automated process. I can't "op-out" of giving you that notification, don't take it personally.

Q5. Why are photos with non-verifiable or false PD claims bad for Wikipedia? Nobody will care! Besides, I want to have this photo on Commons! You're trying to "sterilize" Commons and "erase" my history contributions!
A5. Having photos that are not PD or cannot be confirmed to be PD is actually very detrimental to Commons. Commons isn't meant to be an archive of all photos of history, but a repository for photos that are under FREE licences. Infiltration of copyrighted photos on Commons is not only bad for Commons by making it hard to know if something on Commons is actually free, but also bad for wikis, because the presence of falsely claimed "public domain" photos inhibits the use of often better-quality fair-use photos that are available and would be better off in the wikipedia articles instead.

Q6. Why is it so important to know the year of death for photographers? A6. Because copyright law for works with author attribution is almost always based on a countdown after the year of the authors death (usually 50 or 70 years, depending on the country). So even when the publication date is known, a photo may still be "orphaned" (unknown copyright expiration date) if the year of death of the creator isn't known.

Yumashev

You might like this file: Andrey Yumashev. Vysotsky (talk) 09:08, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: @PawełMM: Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 13:34, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Евдокия Давыдовна Бершанская

Dear PlanespotterA320, On your user page you ask for a photo already in Commons, Yevdokiya Bershanskaya (if I am not mistaken). Vysotsky (talk) 07:22, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: Unfortunatly, the only version of that photo of Bershanskaya I could find without a watermark (which I uploaded to Commons) is rather grainy. I was hoping a better quality version could be acquired. The watermarked RGAKFD preview looked less damaged, so I put it in my album in hopes someone had a copy like it. Same goes for the photo of Raspopova - there are scans of photocards with the photo of Raspopova I need, but they very grainy (and have poor lighting and contrast) compared to the preview version.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:33, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Could you give the direct link to the watermarked photo? I can't find that version. Vysotsky (talk) 16:37, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: Unfortunatly I can't anymore. RGAKFD revamped their website, changing the url of all photo files and removing most of the photo from their website. This link was the URL for the photo of Raspopova, but sadly it's now a redirect to the main page of the website, and the photo of Raspopova isn't on the site anywhere anymore. This was the link for the photo of Bershanskaya, but it has the same problem. I saved the photos to my album before RGAKFD fucked up their website, so I have the watermarked copies, but they're not on the web anymore. They still might be for sale from the archive, you could try writing to them and asking if them have them, but I can't guarantee it will work. I wrote to them twice, once asking how to buy photos (and their response made no sense), but got no response to the second email asking what the hell did they do to their website.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to upload both images incl. watermark to Commons with the old link, and ask GraphicsLab to remove the watermark. URL at the WayBackMachine looks empty. Vysotsky (talk) 19:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: The photo of Raspopova can't be on Commons until it is PD in both Russia and the US (2059), and even if we could put it on Commons, there are several problems. 1. The watermarked versions are too low resolution to be sufficient for the grainy versions we want them to replace. 2. Because of size of the watermark in comparison to the rest of the photo and the way it covers up significant background detail, removing the watermark and fixing the low-res images without creating strange-looking blobs in the place where the watermark once was will be impossible for even the best photoshoppers. 3. We do not want low-res photos with poorly removed watermarks on Commons being used in place of other alternatives. 4. Most RGAKFD files aren't saved on the wayback machine. The website almost never showed up in mage results, but had millions of photos - there's no way they would archive every single filepage from the old site. Anyway, what we need is scans of the ORIGINALS, in good resolution (at least 300 pix width), without watermarks. I hope one day someone will buy the photos from RGAKFD and then publish them online or in a book that I could scan so we could acquire good unwatermarked copies (then I could upload the photo of Bershanskaya now and then set up a "pre-upload" of the photo of Raspopova set to be undeleted on Commons in the year of copyright expiration). Unfortunately, I have quite a few books about the night witches and am subscribed to the Женские авиаполки. История. Факты. Лица. group but haven't come across sufficient copies of them yet. Unfortunately, RGAKFD doesn't accept Paypal and I can't even write a good letter in Russian, so I can't buy them (albeit I've tried), so the only real option here is waiting until someone else buys and publishes them.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:08, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: By the way, if you want to find photos to remove watermarks from for Wikipedia, there are some GSS photos here with watermarks that would be of great usefulness uploaded to ruwiki as fair-use once the watermarks are removed, like the photos of Дмитрий Никитович Овсянников, Александр Васильевич Бабушкин, Иван Семёнович Козич, Давид Элизбарович Тавадзе, and Захар Соломонович Хиталишвили.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:19, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: You might like this - I just found the spbarchives.ru website and browsed the archive for some of the photos I needed, and found originals of several, including one of Andrey Tupolev (a high-importance photo!). Unfortunately, the resolution isn't great but it does seem like there is a way to contact the archive and buy better versions of the photos. Also, if you are up to the challenge, you might want to try removing the watermarks from the new watermarked photos I just added to the album for fair-use up ruwiki (saved from the old version of the site and uploaded to the russian forum I linked earlier).--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 17:52, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! Good news. I always stay away from fair-use, but I am willing to work on the public domain photos. Just indicate which photos are PD, or just upload them to Commons, and I will help processing them (part. PawelMM is highly skilled in removing watermarks). Vysotsky (talk) 20:21, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

PS Re Graphics Lab: if a request is done to your satisfaction, please mark it with {{resolved}}. Vysotsky (talk) 20:21, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@Vysotsky: Unfortunately the only PD photos right now in the "watermarked photos" album are the ones of Bershanskaya, Meretskov, Yumashev, Khasanov, Nechaev, and Sholokhov (and there's not much that can be done about most of those five - the ones from Khasanov and Yumashev were removed, I'm working on the photo of Nechaev, we already have a different photo of Sholokov and a grainy copy of the photo of Bershanskaya); the rest are for fair-use or to be added to Commons when the copyright expires later. However, everything in this list is PD. The problem with most of them is that they are simply too low resolution, not watermarked. The better-resolution copies need to be purchased, which is a pain because of the language and communication barriers (I'm not as fluent in Russian as many would think). But I do hope that we can acquire full versions of those photos somehow (maybe some Wikimedian fluent in Russian can figure out how to create an account and buy copies and then share them?), especially the photo of Tupolev which is top-priority and needed for so many articles.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:59, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

I will try to contact a friend. Could take some time. Vysotsky (talk) 22:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Removal of license tags

Please do not just remove license tags from files like you did here and here. If you think a license is invalid, open a deletion request. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 04:07, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

File:0120 Кавказские казаки из императорского конвоя перед резиденцией в селе Пордим, ноябрь 1877.jpg

File:0120 Кавказские казаки из императорского конвоя перед резиденцией в селе Пордим, ноябрь 1877.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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has 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 it, 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!

AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 18:39, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Sovetskaya Belorussiya (Советская Белоруссия) 1940–1945

Hi! If you need Sovetskaya Belorussiya newspaper (Советская Белоруссия) 1940–1945. Presidential library of Belarus published several pdfs online. You can find it at [1]. Cheers, Jarash (talk) 21:05, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

File:Elections 2020 banner in Belarus.jpg

Why hasn't this photo been put up for deletion? You are submitting photos from Belarus for issuance due to the lack of freedom of panorama? Vit; talk 16:21, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

@Vit Koz: Photographs of copyrighted objects (like copyrighted leaflets) can't be on Commons. Please see Commons:FoP.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:24, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

why then does this photo still exist? Vit; talk 16:29, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

That banner is simple geometry (simple font text, flags, etc). Not a photo OF another photo(s). Also, there are millions of photos on Commons, I can't babysit ALL of them.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:34, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

File:Flag of the Crimean Republic.svg

[[2]] Белорецкий (talk) 13:41, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Consultation: do you think we could upload this old Russian image to Commons?

You seem to know a lot about this subject: do you think we could upload the image here, https://contragents.ru/culture/exhibits/next_6233509, to Commons, to use on the EN article Nadezhda_Ziber-Shumova? It doesn't have a definite publication date, but it is in a photo studio frame, and that photo studio closed in 1912, so that does seem a strong indicator of publication on or before that year. Would that suffice for {{PD-RusEmpire}}, {{PD-Russia-1996}} or something similar? --GRuban (talk) 15:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

@GRuban: You will need to find an early enough publication in order to be able to put it on Commons. It is not acceptable to assume it was published early enough just because the studio closed in 1912 - the photo could have been kept in a private album, a different photo from the photo shoot could have been used for publications, etc. Creation date and time of photo studio is insufficient information, time of publication is nessesary.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Wouldn't stamping it with the photographer's name, and putting it in the frame with the name and address of their studio, indicate that it was released from the studio to the public, "обнародование"? I mean, I guess the photographer could have kept it in the frame and kept it for themselves, just in case they forgot the name and address of their own studio, but it seems unlikely. --GRuban (talk) 16:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Stamping and carding a photo for archival purposes, as part of the process of purchasing a photo one has taken and purchased a copy of, are not proof of public release and were common practive. Such things are the equivalent of a studio watermark today - not proof of a legal publication.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. --GRuban (talk) 17:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Help with license

Hello, friend. I need your recommendation on an issue related with Azerbaijan. On 7 May 2019, Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan declared a list authors and works that are public (state) domain in Azerbaijan. It includes 11 films and more than 30 authors. I want to upload scenes from those movies, on the other hand i cannot decide what type of license i should use during the process. Here's the document: [3]. Cheers, Toghrul Rahimli (talk) 07:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

portrait from Russia

Hi PlanespotterA320, could you take a look at File:Фото Вас. М.Е. обработано.jpg and check whether it's ok? --Túrelio (talk) 08:49, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Túrelio: That photo isn't ok - the website is not under a CC licence. The official documents like award nomination sheets are public domain per PD-RU-exempt, but memory albums like the one in question are not freely licenced unless there is a known early enough publication of it. Photo should be fair-use.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:03, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Tagged for speedy, citing your evaluation. --Túrelio (talk) 16:06, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

File:Ismail Gasprinskiy.jpg

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Dr.Wiki54 (talk) 05:46, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

File:IGasprinskiy (cropped).jpg

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File:Ivan Papanin.jpg

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A1Cafel (talk) 04:44, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

File:Vassily Blokhin.jpg

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Alex Spade (talk) 21:28, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

File:Банифатов Иван Сергеевич.jpg

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Maxinvestigator (talk) 18:51, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

image from 1943

Hi PlanespotterA320, could you eventually give an opinion for the image discussed in Commons:Deletion requests/File:Беларусь Операция Зимнее волшебство 1943 год Расстрел мирных жителей.jpg? Thanks. --Túrelio (talk) 17:13, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

File:Николай Ватутин, 1943 год.jpg

Hi PlanespotterA320, as this this image has been tagged for speedy deletion, could you note when it can be undeleted? --Túrelio (talk) 15:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

@Túrelio: I can't since the key information to determine the copyright expiration date (original publication date) is not known.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:05, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks. --Túrelio (talk) 09:45, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

File:Amyna Okueva (cropped).jpg

File:Amyna Okueva (cropped).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. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has 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 it, 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!

— Dudek1337 (talk) 23:10, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

expertise

Hi PlanespotterA320, could you eventually take a look and comment at Commons:Deletion requests/File:ZSU-37-2 Yenisei.jpg ? --Túrelio (talk) 19:59, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

• @Túrelio: Gave it my assessment.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:05, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. --Túrelio (talk) 20:40, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

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Yours sincerely, Rosenzweig τ 21:31, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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• File:«Юнармейская доблесть» 2 степени.jpg

Yours sincerely, Xunks (talk) 16:10, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Stop chasing

Stop following me and remove everything Ukrainian. I understand that you like leftist political views and Russia. But this is already too much. Arxivist (talk) 15:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

@Arxivist: (laughs hysterically) Funny you say that...the editors of Russian Wikipedia would say the opposite about me. Anyway, this is not remotely personal. (They got REALLY pissed off by my Crimea-related edits.) Files in both PD-Russia and PD-Ukraine categories are FULL of copyright violations, and as a good editor of Commons I have nominated such files that don't meet Commons standards for deletion - AND provided fair-use local replacements. I'm sure you can find plenty of Russian editors who will complain about me "ruining" "their" part of Commons for doing the exact same thing. If you don't want your files nominated for deletion, find an early enough publication and note it in the the filepage. Or upload it as fair use. But if you can't prove it meets the copyright standards of Commons, don't cry when it gets deleted.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Is this English rudeness? Or is that how you assert yourself? Photographs when they were created at all in the Soviet copyright editions were not copyrighted. You don't even know what you are doing. It's like a monkey jumping. Arxivist (talk) 15:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

@Arxivist: No, photos created in the Soviet era are subject to RETROACTIVE copyright laws. That's why the PD-Soviet template was deprecated. Unlike you, when I upload photos with a PD-Ukraine tag (which I have done many times), I ALWAYS make sure they were published before the cutoff. Major entities that would be happy to sue Wikipedia like TASS and RIA Novosti hold copyright over most Soviet photos, so it's important for the sake of Wikipedia that we purge our copyright violations.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:01, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

I don't think you even read the laws themselves. And you don't know Ukrainian either. TASS and RIA Novosti will only be happy that the photos of people who fought against Stalinism and Russian chauvinism will be removed. Arxivist (talk) 16:03, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

TASS and RIA Novosti will sue if Wikimedia publishes any photos they claim copyright of without showing proof they are public domain under the current laws (ie, at least published 70 years ago, author dead for 70 or 74 years if author attributed). I highly suggested you READ the PD-Russia and PD-Ukraine templates which specifically say "published"--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 16:06, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Are you sure that the copyrights belong to these propagandistic misanthropic Russian media? Are you generally sure that the decisions of the courts in Russia mean something to the world? For example, "gay propaganda" is prohibited there – do we delete all photos of gays? Yet in the decisions of the courts! And finally, show the example of the court for the copyright of these publications and the exact proof that these photos belong to them. Arxivist (talk) 19:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia is obligated to respect Russian copyrights, regardless of your personal views on Russia. This should not be hard for you to grasp. Wikipedia is based in the US. Russia signed the URAA. US signed the URAA. Therefore, Wikimedia must not ignore Russian copyrights. All photos uploaded to Commons are presumed copyrighted unless the uploader PROVES that they are under a license that guarantees the 4 Freedoms. If the uploader cannot prove the public domain status (ie, you), then they have to be deleted. I didn't make the rules here. Now get off my talkpage and go bother Jimmy Wales.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 19:54, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

These are Ukrainian photos and figures! Not Russian! The monkeying continues. Fun :) Arxivist (talk) 19:59, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Ukraine also has retroactive copyright laws, which currently have a 70-year term. And Russian entities and archives hold claims to copyright of many photos of Ukrainians (after all, the main archives of the USSR were in Moscow)--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 20:19, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Tell me please. Russia now not only claims to be all Soviet, but also writes out and occupies the territories of sovereign countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova). Russia also destroys all Ukrainian culture and makes genocide against Ukrainians. You can come and see how their "laws" work. The Russian constitution also states that domestic laws are more important than its international treaties.

And now in essence: how and who exactly is the copyrights of your nominations for anonymous photographs of the 1930s of people who were killed by Russians in the 1930s, which were most likely published then? Arxivist (talk) 21:19, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Farther. You interpret Ukrainian laws in favor of Russian precedents (this is not the case at all). Question: Are you a judge? For example, do you know the Alyoshin case against the National Bank of Ukraine? The Supreme Court ruled that copyright in Ukraine is valid at the time of creation, and not the current law. For example, if 1963, then according to the law of 1963. I can send for reading.

Hundreds if not millions of photos are published here from the position of creation, not publication. Arxivist (talk) 21:26, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Also. Do you put higher Russian laws against Ukrainian ones? If we remembered the "common Soviet Union" - can you show the ratified treaty on the creation of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's signature there? And he is not and never was. :(

Let's take the seriousness of international agreements. And the funny thing is that I am scientifically engaged in cartography just like you are here. Fun :) Arxivist (talk) 21:38, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Stop attacking me. The copyright is based on the SSR of first publication.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 21:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

It turned out to be much easier. You simply support Russian fascism and do not recognize Ukrainian culture. Now your actions are clear to me. I also wish you to wake up to Russian air raids or bombs, as it was in 2014 and 2022 with me. I won't write here again. Arxivist (talk) 22:17, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

No, you simply don't recognize Ukrainian OR Russian retroactive copyright. I hope your country adopts less severe copyright laws in the future so that more photos can be on Commons. But until then, we have to delete photos that don't comply. Now, GET OFF MY TALKPAGE.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 22:32, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

P.S. I hope you have to fight a years-long deletion request on the article about your ethnic group from a Russian chauvanist who say's your existance is a fringe theory. And when that closes, the English language version article about your people gets unilaterally redirected by someone who thinks your people aren't worthy of having and article. Meanwhile you are blocked and powerless to stop the erasure of your people's distinct culture that's now dead.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 22:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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Unblock request declined This blocked user asked to be unblocked, but one or more administrators has reviewed and declined this request. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked. Other administrators can also review this block, but should not override the decision without discussion. Request reason: "I never used my other account for anything untowards on Commons. I even uploaded some of my own photos with it, and photos that were freely licensed - never for voting or swinging issues. I would like to return to doing what I have always done on Commons - providing hard-to-find public domain photos (and by that I mean TRULY public domain photos with known publication dates) and tagging copyright violations (which are sadly very prevalent in some parts of Commons). In fact, I already have a couple public domain photos I would like to add to Commons, and I've even spotted some very blatant copyright violations (for example, File:Musa Gareyev.png is claimed to be "own work" despite the fact that the REAL photographer is Alexander Less as credited in Газета «Победа за нами» №164 от 22 декабря 1945 года.) I do deletion nominations on files of all kinds, both ones with false PD-Russia and false PD-Ukraine tags since photos in those categories are often problematic due to widespread misunderstanding of retroactive copyright laws. I have no desire to eliminate all photos from one country or another or "troll" anyone - only to ensure that photos on Commons are truly licensed as described and to render available as many truly public domain photos as feasible.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 01:25, 8 November 2022 (UTC)" Decline reason: "The user is now globally locked. Taivo (talk) 18:20, 6 December 2022 (UTC)" Administrators: This template should be removed when the block has expired.

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PlanespotterA320, are you a user:Russavia sock? Your behaviour is so similiar! ––173.208.97.96 11:44, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

I am not Russavia. I haven't even written about aviation for a very long time. I looked at the account and realize that there are some similarities, but an IP check should clear that up. I do not feel safe posting my real life identity for all to see, but other users who I trust / have worked with in the past on off-wiki research know my real name and can vouch for me being so. I have to note my real-life name in my application to view newspaperarchive.com, so there should be no doubt that I am not Russiavia to anyone who has access to that application. I am willing to do a video chat or whatever with a trusted user to further demonstrate this. I admit that RespectCE was a sock of mine, but you should be able to see that I just used it to make good-faith edits, like adding publication information to fair-use photos, correcting formatting problems, expanding existing articles, and writing articles, etc.-PlanespotterA320 (talk) 12:45, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

I think it is very strange that User:173.208.97.96, who seems to be knowledgeable about the history of Wiki-users, uses an IP address to utter accusations like the above. I know User:Planespotter as a strict (too strict, in my view), but fair user. I hate false allegations made behind a mask. Vysotsky (talk) 13:13, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

There are a lot of users who hate me for a variety of reasons (not turning a blind eye on copyright, writing about Crimea, filing RfCs about racism in wikis, etc) so I've kinda grown numb to the mud they sling at me, although I have a few ideas about possiblities for who the IP is. Regardless, I would like to return to work on Commons - I've even found some more PD photos this week (a member of the Uzbek newspaper telegram group who saw my posts announcing finds has uploaded one of the photos I found publication of, but there are still quite a few more photos eligible for Commons that haven't been added yet - like this photo published in Qizil Uzbekistoni 2 September 1967 and this photo that was published in Qizil Uzbekistoni 14 August 1956. I sure hope I can be unblocked on Commons soon so that I can add them soon.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 13:55, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Unblock

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@Taivo: Thank you so much Tavio! I've just made a lot of edits I've been itching to make for a while. By the way, can you help be make a PD-Kyrgyzstan license template? There is a template for exempt works in Kyrgyzstan, but not expired ones, and I've managed to get my hands on a photo of Turabay Kulatov that was published early enough to be public domain in Kyrgyzstan, but there is no license template to use.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 15:14, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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Your block

We have disagreed in the past, but I don't think anyone that contributes as much as you do, should be blocked. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. RAN (talk) 22:41, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): You can post you comment here if you want to. Please note that most of the allegations Lemonaka makes against me are completely false. I never wrote any hoaxes. They accused me of making the Mubarek zone article as a hoax to humiliate Moscow, but I would never do that, I know better than that. Mubarek zone was an UZBEK project of Sharaf Rashidov, who is not Russian! And I was not lying when I said that there was problematic content about Crimea on ruwiki! It was true that an editor nominated the article about Yaliboylu people for deletion claiming that Yaliboylu are a fringe theory, but there are lots of sources in the article that attest to Yaliboylu existance and distinct customs, including Russian sources. And it is not lying to say that novoross.info is a white supremacist website (I requested it be blacklisted). One of the main editors (Yevgeny Popov) compares people of color to monekeys in his VK posts! Everything I wrote in the RfC about Russian Wikipedia is true! I know I should have asked permission before filing it because it was humiliating to Russians now to bring up up but I'm not going to lie and say that everything I made up! The action that was determined to be grounds for a ban on ruwiki was that I used the word "chauvanist" to describe the problematic content on the wiki, which was declared to be "insulting to other users" (but nobody's in trouble for the insulting article content). And it's not a lie that the userbox on Ukrainian Wikipedia was Nazi, it celebrated the "feats" of the SS, and the SS was a Nazi military unit! And it's not a lie to say that it is a problem that some users have Nazi slogans in their usernames. It's not my invention that 8814 is a Nazi code, it's in the ADL hate symbols database! And I have no association with the CK1218 account! I don't know how on earth a checkuser would find it to match, because I never had anything to do with that account and their edits are completely different from me! I write about Soviet Union, aviation, and Crimea, but they wrote about hurricanes! I only did the RfC about the Ukrainian wikipedia problem because I had to make up for filing an RfC about the Russians, and ever since bringing up the RfC about Ukraine Lemonaka has been hounding me ever since! The even removed publication information I added to the infobox of the photo of Manshuk Mametova just to spite me! I am not a vandal or a troll! It's not a lie that Ukraine and Russia have retroactive copyright laws and that agencies like TASS and RIAN put photos on platforms like Getty that are REALLY litigious, which means that it is best to be very careful about those copyrights to prevent getting sued. If I am blocked on wikipedia completely I will post stuff on social media to help Wikipedia projects like interesting newspapers I find. And I can also be reached by email at wikipediaoutreach[at symbol]gmail.com. (Despite what Lemonaka claims, off-wiki social media activity announcing additions to archives, translation requests, etc isn't block evasion). I am stuck between the Russians and Ukrainian and it's bad!--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 00:22, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Late notification

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	i saw you in new uploads section. im glad that you are still here. hope they wont interfere your hard work. ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ TALK 01:00, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Modern primat: Thank you! I have been trying to re-check as many newspapers as I can access right now to find public domain photos. Special thanks goes to @Kursant504: for helping me find some old publications that are not accessible online nor in libraries in my country. Sadly my work has been curtailed a bit since goskatalog.ru is currently blocked and now I can't even access it with a VPN, and I can only access prlib.ru in short increments using a VPN (which has time limits). I recently founded a VK group with some other wikimedians to help coordinate efforts to determine copyright status of works by finding publication and authorship information . It's still quite a mess and very disorganized (there are still a lot more things I need to add to the albums), but I will continue to work on it even if I'm blocked on the wikis, so do check it out (and upload any public domain photos that you find). And of course, do add any information you have to this list of photographers and artists if you can. I hope the upload help the projects!--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 01:08, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

""but I will continue to work on it even if I'm blocked on the wikis"" dont do that. obeying banning decisions are also a contribution to corresponding wiki.

also, even i apprecitiate that kind of work, i guess i wont do it. it seems hard work for me. ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ ^TALK 01:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Modern primat: I don't think Wikipedia doesn't have the right to tell me I can't contribute to an off-wiki social media group that other Wikipedians are in to help find PD photos! Even if I can't edit Wikipedia, Wikipedia can't lock my social media accounts. If they think a chat group about newspapers has to close because I'm banned from wikipedia, they are being very very petty.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 01:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

im writing about sockpuppetry.. but i got the idea. of course you are free to work in off-wiki areas........ anyway, 4:30 am here, im very sleepy... andd...

and im gonna give you more gifts..... songs! yeah..

yaşa varol harbiye yıkılmaaaz satfetinle!! ... kanla irfanlaa kurduuk.... anyway xD.. im shutting myself down.. goodbye.... gifts: song, old version. ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ ^TALK 01:31, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Russian copyright

Why don't you hold off on nominating new Russian images while we are waiting for a decision on what constitutes "made public" in Russian copyright law. When you nominate a few each day it becomes impossible to track them. I am assuming a decision will affect them all. You can keep a list and then nominate all at once in a single list if the decision goes your way. RAN (talk) 03:05, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): There is already widespread agreement on Commons as to what the required evidence of being made public is. Your fringe notion of assuming publication before a cutoff by default whilst having no idea of the exact date or medium of publication is not policy on Commons. I nominate problematic photos that I happen across as I go. I will not start a big dicussion since files need to be evaluated on an individual basis in case the uploader or another editor provides required proof of publication during discussion. I would like to remind you that MOST historic photos were not published the year they were created. It was common practice in the days of film photography to shoot a whole roll of film, process them, and then select just the best ones for printing then box up the rest. Without knowing when and where something was first published it is not safe to assume public domain status when using a tag that requires publication by a certain date.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 03:14, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

• Can you link me to where this discussion on consensus on the issue took place? The consensus on images in the United States went the opposite way when the case law was examined. You haven't presented any case law that can be examined, you just keep writing that there is "widespread agreement". It was not "common practice" to shoot multiple images prior to inexpensive film. We have the entire Bain archive, every negative they shot, and I may find a few examples of shooting multiple images, most were single shots, because film was expensive. --RAN (talk) 03:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

How many times have I told you to read Commons:Burden of proof. If you can't prove something was published EARLY ENOUGH, it doesn't belong on Commons. Lots of photos that look old are still subject to copyright. This isn't up for debate.--PlanespotterA320 (talk) 03:23, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

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Speedies

My opinion: proposing images for speedy deletion should be forbidden for people hiding behind an IP-address, like IP 68.134.5.142. Vysotsky (talk) 16:44, 18 March 2023 (UTC)

yes, i agree. it is not hard to create an account. ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ ^TALK 11:49, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

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@LemonakaCan you explain: what permission is needed for this file? All elements on foto is in PD. PD-RU-exempt license is correct. Kursant504 (talk) 06:41, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

@Kursant504 Morning,
PD-RU-exempt has following inclusions.

1. official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;

   No, they are not official documents of state government and so on.

2. state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, any forms of money, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;

   No, they are not flags, emblems, orders, any forms of money, and the like.

3. works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;

   No, obvious not folklore

4. news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

   No, they are not news reports.

So why they are going to be PD-RU-exempt, and how? Lemonaka (talk) 03:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

@Lemonaka Maybe you don't know but postage stamps is a "form of money". The warning at the bottom of the envelope clearly indicates that this paper product "state postage mark". And it can be used for paying for postage services like a usual money. It this case the envelope and printed on it postage stamp - it is a single whole. Also in PD-RU-exempt is told: "Warning – This Russian official document, state symbol or sign (postage stamps, coins and banknotes mainly) may incorporate one or more works that can be copyrightable if separated from this document, symbol or sign. In such a case, this work is not an object of copyright if reused in its entirety but, at the same time, extracting specific portions from this work could constitute copyright infringement. For example, the denomination and country name must be preserved on postage stamps." If you don't agree, I suggest you create a usual DR for discuss it's PD with other users. Kursant504 (talk) 04:59, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

postage stamps is a "form of money".
What? I've never heard about that. Post stamps are just stamps, why they can be used as currency? Lemonaka (talk) 17:17, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

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