Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2021-06-27/In the media

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Gee. About two years ago I was planning to ask on the Teahouse "Has there ever been anyone here that found their soulmate through Wikipedia?". I thought that was a stupid question and I dump it on my personal notepad. I guess that question is answered now... --Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 03:40, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The Frederick Douglass photo has just been nominated for deletion on Commons, with the nominator arguing that the UK's laws exclude 2d works such as this from freedom of panorama. Regards, HaeB (talk) 08:47, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@HaeB: sadly, yes. There is no FOP for 2D graphic artworks by living artists in UK (Freedom of panorama#United Kingdom). The only hope for the people opting to retain the image is to get licensing permission from the artist, if he wants to have Wikipedian uploader's image of his artwork released under a commercial license. But so far it seems there is no update from the artist. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 04:43, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Wrt the mural, saying that the photo was "taken from Commons" would not appear to be correct. The photographers' own page says that "Downing Street offices" "found my picture of a mural of Douglass on Wikimedia and contacted [her]" "The mural is by Edinburgh artist Ross Blair (AKA TrenchOne)" "I gave them a high-res version and the Prime Minister’s Office got it printed up and framed." It isn't totally clear but I think that last "gave them" suggests the high-res version was given to Ross Blair (the mural artist) and in turn to the PM. Either way, the high resolution version that was gifted as a photograph came direct from the photographer, not Commons. The version on Commons is only 2MP. -- Colin°^Talk 09:12, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Inside Wikipedia's endless war over the coronavirus lab leak theory, a June 27 media article from cnet.com that editors may find interesting (posted here because it came in just after The Signpost's publication and useable in the next issue). Copied the link from Jimbo's talk page. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:25, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This one was already included in the Signpost, it's the last story given a full paragraph above! Definitely worth reading, though, thanks for sharing it again. Ganesha811 (talk) 14:54, 29 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I thought [1] was pretty good, but since I'm too lazy to create an account, I can't even request to share it on the semiprotected discussion pages for the articles. I was surprised to see that it was sponsored by Discord. I'm not sure it covers all of the viable animal transfer theories (such as [2]) but it explains the uncertainty well. MEDRS sources need to have stood unchallenged for years, and we just don't have any of those yet. 107.242.121.42 (talk) 09:41, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]