User talk:Grumpylawnchair

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Grammar at 2025 Kartalkaya hotel fire

"The scale of the fire and number of deaths was" in [1]? 173.206.40.108 (talk) 01:38, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed the first part of the phrase, I've self reverted so your edit is reinstated. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 01:51, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

np 173.206.40.108 (talk) 02:02, 24 January 2025 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: File:Eduard Kazmierski low res.tif

Hello Grumpylawnchair, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of File:Eduard Kazmierski low res.tif, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: File is on commons. F1 does not apply. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 01:13, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

@Whpq, no it isn't. File:X Edward Kazmierski.jpg is the image on commons and that one isn't the one I'm proposing to delete. File:Eduard Kazmierski low res.tif is non-free. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 02:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

You are looking for WP:F8. If you look at the version you posted, the db-F1 tag literally tells you that. -- Whpq (talk) 04:44, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake. Sorry if I came off as rude and I apologise for any inconvenience I may have caused. Thanks for your time, Grumpylawnchair (talk) 04:50, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

No worries. I would have deleted it as F8 instead, but I am not sure that the PD status noted on Commons is correct without a bit of resaerch which would be helped if I knew any Polish. -- Whpq (talk) 04:54, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

It probably is in the public domain in Poland because any image published without a clear copyright notice before March 1994 is assumed to be in the public domain. This is from a Polish work from 1984. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 05:02, 29 January 2025 (UTC)