User talk:Marchjuly/Archives/2020/March

Omniscien1

Thanks for your suggestion in the Teahouse. I have not posted any, any personal information about me except age and country but now my iser page has been deleted on my request. But I still doubt Wikipedia's security. Omniscien1 (talk) 08:25, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

I'm sure what you mean by Wikipedia's security, but you can just decide not to edit anymore if Wikipedia makes you feel unsafe for any reason. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:40, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Aleksanders Mohl photo deletion and copyright dispute

Gzegosh (talk) 15:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)In one last attempt to rectify this situation with the photos...you recommended

You can help sort this out if you can clarify some things about the photos in the discussion at c:Commons:Villiage pump/Copyright#Copyright ownership transferred as part of an inheritance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:45, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

but the link ...does not exits

Commons:Villiage pump/Copyright

This page does not currently exist. You can search for this page title in other pages or create this page. regards gGzegosh (talk) 15:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Gzegosh The page exists, but it has been archived so its location has changed which is why your getting that message. You can find the page at c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2019/05#Copyright ownership transferred as part of an inheritance. For future reference, discussions on noticeboards or talk pages are often archived after a certain number of days have passed since the last post was made. So, if you go to the main page of a particular noticeboard or talk page and don't find what you're looking for, try checking the page archives for it instead. Some noticeboards have many archived pages and it might take a little digging to find the one you're looking for, but sometimes there's a "search" window which helps speed things up. If the discussion wasn't deleted for some reason, it should be there somewhere in the pages archives. If there are no archives or you can't find it in the archives, you can always post a message on the main page (just like the one above) and ask for help. Someone will probably be able to track it down and point out where it is or at least explain what happened to it if it wasn't archived. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:41, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

If, by chance, you want to add some information to that already archived discussion. Just go to the main page at open a new discussion and add a link to the archived discussion at the very beginning of your post for reference. For example, "I'd like to add provide some new information about Commons:Village pump/Copyright/Archive/2019/05#Copyright ownership transferred as part of an inheritance." or some similar sentence. (Note when posting on Commons about an archived Commons page, you don't need to add the ":c:" to beginning of the link for it to work; you can add it, but it's not necessary. See Help:Interwikimedia links for more details on that)

Anyway, by providing a link to the archived discussion, others will be able to know exactly what you're referring to without having to try and guess. After your first sentence with the link, just add the new information or comment. If you want to attract the attention of a particular editor who commented on the discussion, you can go to their Commons user talk page and post a note to them there (just like you did above here on my user talk page) or you can WP:PING them at the beginning of your first sentence. You can do that by adding the template {{ping|Username of the person you want to ping}}. You need to make sure you add your signature to the very end of the post before clicking on the "Publish changes" button for the ping(s) to work because pinging doesn't work for unsigned posts. Also, there is no guarantee that the other person will immediately respond to the ping or even respond at all (they might not be online at the moment or they might no longer be editing), but you can try it if you want. If you want to ping more than one editor at the same time, you can add a separate ping template for each or you can simply add another name to the original ping template like {{ping|Username of the person you want to ping|User name of the next person you want to ping|Username of the last person you want to ping}}. You can ping up to 50 editors using the same ping template. If you want to know more details about how the template works, check Template:Reply to (Template:Ping is just an alias for "reply to" and the template works exactly the same way). -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:12, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration case opened

In 2018, you offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has now accepted that request for arbitration, and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 23, 2020, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Jytdog/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

All content, links, and diffs from the original ARC and the latest ARC are being read into the evidence for this case.

The secondary mailing list is in use for this case: arbcom-en-b@wikimedia.org

For the Arbitration Committee, CThomas³ (talk) 17:43, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for March 12

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WEZV

Could you check the file I just uploaded and make sure I did everything right? Thanks.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:17, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Are you referring to File:Wezv2020logo.jpg? If so, then I agree that the file looks too simple to be eligible for copyright protection per c:COM:TOO United States, but you can also ask at WP:MCQ or c:COM:VPC if you want other opinions. “PD-logo” file’s like this, particularly ones whose country of origin is the United States, should be uploaded to Commons instead; and ones uploaded to Wikipedia are usually tagged with {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} to let someone know they qualify for WP:MTC.

In addition, some people also add {{Trademark}} below the license to indicate that even though the file isn’t copyrightable its reuse still might be subject to some restriction; since this is often mentioned in the copyright license, others feel it’s a bit redundant to do so again.

I think it’s generally considered better to upload logos as pngs or svgs per WP:IUP#FORMAT since it’s often easier to edit pngs and svgs than jpgs of graphic works due to some technical differences in the formats. If you’re not sure how to do that, you can ask at WP:GL or tag the file with {{Should be png}} or {{Should be svg}}.

Finally, “Facebook” is not really the source of the logo per se; it’s just the website hosting an upload of the logo. It would be better to be more specific about the source by providing a direct link to where you actually got the file. Official websites are generally best because there’s no doubt about the origin and authenticity of the logo, but an official verified social media account is probably OK. Just avoid any “logos of the world”, “brands of the world”, or other self-published type websites which host files but aren’t really the original sources of files. You want to make sure it’s the copyright holder/author/owner/creator of the file who has uploaded it, and not someone else. The best way to do this is usually to give an official website as the source which shows the logo being used. —- Marchjuly (talk) 21:57, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Actually, "Facebook" is where I got the logo. I had to answer the questions quickly not knowing if I was right because it has been my experience if I do any little thing wrong it'll be rejected.

As for using the wrong file type, or tagging the file now that it's uploaded, I actually have no idea what I'm doing. I usually just ask people for help.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 14:15, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Facebook may have been where you got the logo, but “Facebook” is itself not the original copyright holder of the logo; so, saying that the source is “Facebook” is sort of like saying that the source is “Google” or “the Internet”. If you got the logo from the station’s official Facebook page, then say as much and try to post a link to where you found the logo. For example,

Logo can be seen used on the station’s official Facebook account at (add link here) and a direct link to the logo can be found at (add link here)

or something like that. As for the other stuff, you can add {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}} and {{Trademark}} to the file’s page just below the copyright license. You can also add {{Should be svg}} to the top of the file’s page just before the “Summary” section. Someone else will then come along and convert to file to svg, move the file to Commons, or do both things one after the other. — Marchjuly (talk) 22:57, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Suggestion

Your list of archives doesn't have 2020 archives to it. You might want to add it so other editors can easily access them. Interstellarity (talk) 23:28, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:16, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse question

Haven't been able to locate yet the person(s) who edited my draft... I'll keep following your advice. Carl https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Draft:Etymology_of_Chicago&action=edit Carl J. Weber (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi again Carl. The page history for Draft:Etymology of Chicago can be found here. A number of persons have edited the draft so all you need to do if figure out who's the one you're looking for and then click on the "talk" link next to their user name. This will take you to their user talk page where you can post a message.

As I mentioned at the Teahouse, you seem to be having a little trouble properly posting things on talk pages. You might want to take a look at Help:Talk for some general pointers on how to use talk pages. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:35, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Is there a chat feature to talk to editors?

Hi Marchjuly, I wonder if there is a chat feature. David.Tomanek (talk) 13:29, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

There is something called Wikipedia:IRC, but I've never used it and I'm not sure how it works. You can try asking about it at Wikipedia talk:IRC/wikipedia-en-help if you want to know more. -- Marchjuly (talk) 15:12, 27 March 2020 (UTC)