User talk:Energynet

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Energynet!

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I have no idea what I'm doing - will abandon image - completely frustrating. Took whole morning trying to evaluate permission on map segment. To use or not to use. that is the question. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Energynet (talk • contribs) 19:25, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 19:11, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:2017 San Francisco Planning Commission.png

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Thanks for uploading File:2017 San Francisco Planning Commission.png. I notice that the file page either doesn't contain enough information about the license or it contains contradictory information about the license, so the copyright status is unclear. If you created this file yourself, then you must provide a valid copyright tag. For example, you can tag it with {{self|GFDL|cc-by-sa-all}} to release it under the multi-license GFDL plus Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike All-version license or you can tag it with {{PD-self}} to release it into the public domain. (See Commons:Copyright tags for the full list of license tags that you can use.) If you did not create the file yourself or if it is a derivative of another work that is possibly subject to copyright protection, then you must specify where you found it (e.g. usually a link to the web page where you got it), you must provide proof that it has a license that is acceptable for Commons (e.g. usually a link to the terms of use for content from that page), and you must add an appropriate license tag. If you did not create the file yourself and the specific source and license information is not available on the web, you must obtain permission through the VRT system and follow the procedure described there. Note that any unsourced or improperly licensed files will be deleted one week after they have been marked as lacking proper information, as described in criteria for deletion. If you have uploaded other files, please confirm that you have provided the proper information for those files, too. If you have any questions about licenses please ask at Commons:Village pump/Copyright or see our help pages. Thank you.

Yours sincerely, JuTa 02:02, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

PD-USGov

Hi Energynet. I don't believe your use of the {{PD-USGov}} license is quite correct in some cases. That license implies that the work was created by an employee of the US Government as part of their official duties; it doesn't simply mean that the content is being hosted on a website run by the US Government. If you look at en:WP:PD#US government works, you see that "hosting" content doesn't automatically mean that the government created the content; so, the fact that the en:Library of Congress is hosting content originally created by the en:The Washington Star doesn't mean that the copyright on the content is "owned" by the Library of Congress; it fact, most likely it isn't. Moreover, the fact that the paper is no longer in business doesn't mean that it's content is no longer protected by copyright. Copyright can be tricky and it's OK to make mistakes, but I don't think the content from The Washington Star can be kept by Commons, at least not as licensed. Content from newspapers may be hosted on various websites, even US Government websites, for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't automatically mean that copyright ownership has been transferred to the US Government. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:42, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Okay, Can I get a bit of help here.. I'm currently dealing with 5 different crisis like situations. 3 of which are in the real world including a major medical crisis with the person I take care of. I get online and am being told now that everything I've posted from the Evening Star is now bad? Can You please hold off a few days so that I can at least eat meals, deal with the other issues? Energynet (talk) 19:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC) 03:46, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

As I posted to one of your comments on Wikipedia, it's unfortunate that you're trying to deal with some real world problems at the moment, but that's not really of a concern of Commons. Commons isn't going stop because one editor is busy with other things and doesn't have the time to edit. I apologize if this sounds a bit cold, and I do hope your able to get everything sorted out, but you shouldn't expect others to stop editing or fix things just because you unable (for whatever reason) to be be online at the moment.

The licensing of some of your uploads has been converted to something more sutiable. Please just try and remember that not all content found on a US Government website is utomatically considered to be {{PD-USGov}}; it may be PD for a different reason, but only content created by employees of the US Government as part of their official duties is generally considered to be "PD-USGov".

In addition, you should really avoid uploading files under a COM:Creative Commons license, unless you're the original copyright holder of the content and wist to release the file under such a license or the original copyright holder him/her/itself has previously released the file under such a license. There's kinda a big difference between a PD licensed file and a CC licensed file; the former is either no longer eligible or was never eligible for copyright protection, while the latter is still considered protected by copyright with only a freely licensed version being made available by the original copyright holder forothers to use (i.e. a CC license implies some kind of consent to release the file is being given by the original copyright holder). So, content from old newspapers like File:Washington Evening Star Wheeler-Rayburn Bill Death Sentence Comic 7-3 1935.png shouldn't really be licensed as {{Cc-by-sa-4.0}} unless the original copyright holder has released the file as such.

Finally, please try to login to your account when you post. Not only doesn't this make it easier for others to be sure that they are addressing the same person (or at least the same account), it will also keep your IP address private. IP addresses can be en:geolocated and used to find out, at least roughly, where the account is editing from. Depending on whether your using a private IP address or whether one provided by an Internet provider, it might even be possible for someone to find out much more information about the account. An IP account is actually less anonymous than a registered account because only administrators can see the IP address of a register account. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:38, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your patience and help. I've been very distracted for several weeks - having had 15 years of a blog disappear as well - removed the ip address above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Energynet (talk • contribs) 19:15, 3 September 2019 (UTC)

You can replace the IP address with your signature is you want so that it's no longer visible on this page; it will, however, still be shown in the page's history. So, if you'd like any record of it completely removed from public view, you should ask for assistance at COM:AN. An administrator can hide the address in the page's history as well so that only administrators can see it.

Another option for you might be to try to email en:WP:OVERSITE as explained in en:WP:LOUT. FWIW, I've did the same thing a bit when I first started editing, and OVERSITE was always able to help me out. I'm just not quite sure if they can do the same for posts on Commons, but I guess it never hurts to ask. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:42, 4 September 2019 (UTC)