User talk:Alan7483

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Alan7483!

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A file that you have uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, File:Kate_Robbins_Profile.jpg, is missing information about where it comes from or who created it, which is needed to verify its copyright status. Please edit the file description and add the missing information, or the file may be deleted. If you created the content yourself, enter {{Own}} as the source. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one. You may use, for example, {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} or {{Cc-zero}} to release certain rights to your work. If someone else created the content, or if it is based on someone else's work, the source should be the address to the web page where you found it, the name and ISBN of the book you scanned it from, or similar. You should also name the author, provide verifiable information to show that the content is in the public domain or has been published under a free license by its author, and add an appropriate template identifying the public domain or licensing status, if you have not already done so. Warning: Wikimedia Commons takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Please add the required information for this and other files you have uploaded before adding more files. If you need assistance, please ask at the help desk. Thank you!

Martin H. (talk) 00:40, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Reply to email re: File:Kate_Robbins_Profile.jpg

Dear Alan7483,

The Wikimedia Commons page User talk:Alan7483 has been changed on 7 January 2011 by Martin H., see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alan7483 for the current revision.

See http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Alan7483&diff=0&oldid=47950587 for all changes since your last visit.

Editor's summary: File:Kate_Robbins_Profile.jpg does not have a source

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Martin Thank you for your email

Kate Robbins took the photograph File:Kate_Robbins_Profile.jpg on her own camera using a timer. She gave me permission via a facebook message to capture the picture from Facebook and use it for the Wiki page 'Kate Robbins'

If you wish I can request she emails the picture file direct to me so I can forward the email to you. Regards

Alan (Alan7483)

I copied that back here, I know what I wrote to you. On the file description File:Kate Robbins Profile.jpg you explain, that this is a screenshot of free software licensed under the GPL. Can you provide a source that confirms this? Likely not, you just selected a random copyright tag in the upload form and "free screenshot" is one of the first license tags appearing there. So you should replace it with a valid, reasonable licensing template. If you did not add a licensing template, you must add one says the information above, well, you added some strange nonsense, so you should replace it ;)

Thats the first thing. The licensing must come from the copyright holder, at the moment it will be required that the copyright holder agreed to the GPL. Please forward your written permission you got from the copyright holder to OTRS, see COM:OTRS for more information. --Martin H. (talk) 05:02, 8 January 2011 (UTC)