User talk:LosPajaros

Wikipedia and copyright

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 21:42, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 month for violating copyright policy by copying text or images into Wikipedia from another source without evidence of permission. Please take this opportunity to ensure that you understand our copyright policy and our policies regarding how to use non-free content. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Spencer^T•C 02:56, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, LosPajaros. Thank you for creating Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for the article!

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Audio recordings

May I ask how you extracted some of your audio recordings for the Senate? The Upload Wizard is easy enough but the extraction of audio files from C-SPAN videos is what I'm concerned about. I may add recordings for senators who just left office. SuperWIKI (talk) 07:22, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

I use a program called '4k video downloader' on specific videos to download them. I then cut the videos to the specific quote or length that I want using the website 'clipchamp.com'. this converts it into a .mp4 format for audio. I then use a different program called 'online-convert.com' to convert it into the .ogg file that is applicable for Wikimedia commons uploading. LosPajaros (talk) 20:13, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks! SuperWIKI (talk) 22:54, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Souter

Hi. Your filename for the recording is "David Souter on the Missouri Plan and the the election of judicial offices.ogg" and so there is a repeated "the" ("the the"). You should probably rename it, and any references to it… thanks. jhawkinson (talk) 01:03, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

John Fetterman

Just wanted to make a comment. Senator Fetterman has returned to the Senate full-time but due to his stroke last year which also sparked an auditory processing disorder, most YouTube public domain clips of him at hearings have his voice slurred and/or stuttering. How do we find a specimen voice clip of him as a Senator now? We can either wait for his health to improve or for a voice clip of him as Lt. Gov. Of Pennsylvania or Mayor of Braddock.

As for me, I'm gathering voice clips for senators as far back as the January 3, 2009 term (111th United States Congress). Currently at the 2014 United States Senate elections. SuperWIKI (talk) 19:16, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I was putting Fetterman on hold until after he came back to see if his speaking faculties were back up at 100% or not. Given it seems like it'll take a bit of time for those to be at full steam I've gotten a past audio clip of him speaking before the House as a witness that should work until we have an audio file for him where his speaking abilities are back to his prior levels. LosPajaros (talk) 23:02, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

C-SPAN

I did a little poking around, and wanted to clarify something to you. The only C-SPAN materials that are explicitly in the public domain are footage of the House and Senate floor sessions, where the cameras are government-owned.

Anything else on C-SPAN, including committee hearings, press conferences and non-floor speeches are not in the public domain, and any audio files you've uploaded to such effect may be deleted in the future for copyright reasons.

However, congressional committees these days have their own in-house streams on their official website and/or YouTube channel, some of which stretch as far back as the early 2000s. For your audio files extracted from committee hearings, you may want to go back through them and switch the URL and author, since the audio on the government livestream and the C-SPAN broadcasts are basically the same. Quite a lot of senators and representatives have YouTube channels run by their respective offices, so you can find replacement links from there as well.

I'm about to go to bed, but from my brief look into your uploads, Tuberville's and Kelly's files are potential liabilties. I've already gone through my own uploads (stopped at the 2012 Senate elections). SuperWIKI (talk) 15:47, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

For further floor sessions uploaded from C-SPAN, I just found this PD template today. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:59, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

@LosPajaros: Angus King's file (the re-upload) is a blatant screengrab of a C-SPAN programme that isn't a floor speech. So it doesn't qualify under C-SPAN public domain or government public domain. It can be assumed that King's office got special permission from C-SPAN or uploaded it via shoddy staff work, either way that file shouldn't be used. Sorry for the inconvenience. SuperWIKI (talk) 02:11, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for writing Arizona v. Navajo Nation! Larataguera (talk) 09:59, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Gordon H. Smith

Just saw that you were editing Gordon H. Smith. I have a file of him talking about voting rights already, I just need to clean and cut it for tomorrow. Thanks. SuperWIKI (talk) 17:03, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

My current slate for the week

Note: This only covers sitting representatives and recently-retired (from the 2019 election) ones. I don't expect that any of my other uploads of earlier politicians will conflict with yours. Also adding several Trump cabinet members.

• Jackie Speier, successor to Tom Lantos (D-CA)
• John Sarbanes, son of Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
• Donald Payne Jr., son of Congressman Donald M. Payne (D-NJ)
• Warren Davidson, successor to former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
• Jim Mattis, 26th secretary of defense, retired USMC general
• Mark Esper, 27th secretary of defense, 23rd secretary of the Army
• Gina Haspel, 7th CIA director
• John Ratcliffe, 6th Director of National Intelligence, former representative from Texas

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