User talk:Consigned

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 20:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

RfC: Third-party images published by the National Weather Service

I've now reviewed 1,000 images uploaded under the rationales expressed in the {{PD-NWS}} template and requested deletion of several.

The arguments for deletion, and to keep, are now following repetitive, predictable patterns and it would greatly help all involved if we could centralise discussion and obtain some wider community input.

Therefore, I have opened an RfC to gather opinions. Apologies in advance: it's long and detailed, but is frankly nothing compared to the words and time expended by all parties up to this point. Probably the most crucial issue revolves around how we interpret a general disclaimer published at weather.gov (Q.1 in the RfC).

Your advice is greatly appreciated! --Rlandmann (talk) 10:40, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Autopatrol given

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that I have granted autopatrol rights to your account; the reason for this is that I believe you are sufficiently trustworthy and experienced to have your contributions automatically marked as "reviewed". This has no effect on your editing, it is simply intended to make it easier for users that are monitoring Recent changes or Recent uploads to find unproductive edits amidst the productive ones like yours. In addition, the Flickr upload feature and an increased number of batch-uploads in UploadWizard, uploading of freely licensed MP3 files, overwriting files uploaded by others and an increased limit for page renames per minute are now available to you. Thank you. _Regards, Aafi ^(talk) 04:08, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Consigned (talk) 11:06, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

DVIDS Pictures from Interesting Sources

I know you just opened quite a few DRs about photos from DVIDS/the US Military that may seem to be from other sources. I can only speak to my interactions with the Air Force & Lockheed Martin, but I would suggest reaching out to the respective military branches public affairs office. That way, you can get an answer about whether they were actually released or not, rather then presuming. When I did so in 2016, I got a quick response (forwarding on my request) in 20 minutes with a definitive response from the F-35 Public Affairs Officer 10 minutes after that. I had also reached out to Lockheed Martin when I originally sent the message, and they responded 2 months later. Elisfkc (talk) 19:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, did you also share the reply from Lockheed Martin? I don't see it at Commons:Deletion requests/File:An F-35 Lightning II completes a flyover of USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000). (29774535153).jpg. I'm intrigued by the reply from the Navy, which sounds legitimate, but I'm curious about the mechanism for transferring the work to Public Domain (i.e. abandoning copyright), and what license tag would apply here ({{PD-USGov}} isn't valid as these photos are not taken by US Government employees). I will follow up with them further. Consigned (talk) 23:41, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but not sure if the OTRS team (as it was then called) added it to the ticket. The text of the email was: "The image is public domain. It was taken by a Lockheed Martin photographer for the Navy, which then released it into the public domain." Elisfkc (talk) 03:25, 3 October 2024 (UTC)