User talk:Burntfingers

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...is on my talk page. Have a good day! --DerRichter (talk) 08:05, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

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Press kit stuff isn't freely licensed at all; the copyright tag on that image: Template:CopyrightedFreeUse-Link is definitely inappropriate. If you want to use it, make sure he explicitly releases it under a free license that permits reuse and modification, including for commercial purposes - the Gnu Free Document License, the Free Art License and any Creative Commons License that doesn't include the noncommercial clause are all good. Get him to send a carbon copy of the email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org ;.

Anyways, in the meantime, it's been a while, so I'm closing that debate as delete - if you here back from him, harrass me and I'll undelete it, and maybe get the OTRS bit done quickly for you. Cheers, WilyD 13:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, while I'm still waiting for a reply from him there's not much I can do to change the situation. So it may be that people will never get to see what he looks like. Maybe it's not important. His books are classed as mysteries, why shouldn't his face be one, too?

But hey, while you're here, could you help? There's one thing I'm struggling with. I just don't understand why images offered in Press/Media Kits for free download and use are acceptable to everyone in all the various media but not to Wikipedia? It's the logic or legal implications I don't get. I've tried. I've read reams in WP about the copyright thing, but it doesn't really make it clear at all. I'm not arguing or looking for an argument. I'm really very law abiding and totally accept your decision. I'm just struggling to understand and you sound like someone who might know what you're talking about. So if you have a spare minute... in the meantime, perhaps I should draw a sketch! Burntfingers (talk) 07:36, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

So one of the goals of Wikipedia is to produce free content that can be reused downstream by other people, including for modification or sale. Press kit stuff is basically offered for use under unclear terms, and people retain the right to object, revoke or probably even sue if they're unhappy with the use, and we can't promise our reusers that they can freely us it. For instance, German Wikipedia recently partnered with one of the German dead tree encyclopaedia makers to produce a print version of Wikipedia (it just uses the introductory paragraphs), and many press kit makers might object to their press kit images being sold in a book like that, without getting any royalties.

In Wikipedia's early days, we did accept press kits photos and the like, but (and this was around the time I started editing, so take what I say with a grain of salt) we felt eventually that were were comprimising the free part too much for the encyclopaedia in "The Free Encyclopaedia" and that we were now in a position to demand freely licenced pictures; one thing that I do believe is that by not accepting limited (and unclear) use press kits photos and the like, we do "liberate" a lot of content. So guys, like User:AnonEMouse and User:Videmus Omnia have written requests for a lot of images and gotten positive responses, and I don't think they would have if we'd been using press kit stuff.

There may be other issues, but this is my understanding of the point. It does make a lot of people unhappy, but typically it's not that hard to dig up a photo or two freely licenced, although it's not trivial. A fair number of people don't understand it, and it's not like the policy is uniformly popular (in fact, the easiest way to become unpopular as an admin is to work a lot in image areas). Most people who're subjects of biographies want publicity and a little email that says "I need a freely licensed photo for Wikipedia ... perhaps you've heard of it?" goes a long way, especially since you can reassure people they'll retain "personality rights", and copyright for that matter, they're just agreeing to let people reprint it and not sue (and if the reusers violate personality rights, they can still sue). Cheers, WilyD 15:12, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to explain! That helps put things into perspective. Burntfingers (talk) 19:35, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

See you later alligator...

Cool, thanks for your note. Good luck with the project, I hope it goes well for you. Try to enjoy some of the summer though! Take it easy, The Rambling Man (talk) 08:22, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

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Userbox

Hello. FYI, I've had a userbox created for me, and I thought it might be of interest since you were involved with the WikiProject Novels/Crime task force. It says "This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction" and the code to implement it is:

This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction.

. (Add double braces to the red text: {{ }}). Pete Best Beatles (talk) 22:16, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the code seems to have a typo, causing it to appear incorrectly. Here is the fixed code that you can copy and paste.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{User:KomradeKalashnikov/Userboxes/HB Detective Fiction}}	This user reads Hard-boiled detective fiction.	linked pages

-- KomradeKalashnikov (talk) 01:13, 26 August 2022 (UTC)