Cameradirector

February 2023

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to John Stuart Scott—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 22:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

John Stuart Scott

Hello, Cameradirector. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John Stuart Scott, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:43, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Surname

After first use of full name in the Lead, all subsequent mentions use surname. Hence, "Scott". David notMD (talk) 09:24, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Images...

...are in process of being deleted. If you are JSS, then you are not the person who photographed JSS. With certain exceptions, only the photographer can put photos at Commons and then use in an article. David notMD (talk) 21:20, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Self photos

David.. any photos taken of me were with my camera. How am I shooose to ask someone permission to use a photo from my own camera?? 172.91.217.170 (talk) 00:13, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi IP user. Since the photos were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, any issues related to them are going to need to be resolved on Commons. English Wikipedia and Commons are sister projects with lots of overlapping parts, but they're still separate and distinct projects with their own policies and guidelines.

As for the photos that David is referring to, please take a look at meta:Wikilegal/Authorship and Copyright Ownership#The Example of the Third Party Photographer for more details, but who owns the copyright of a photo often depends on who actually takes the photo more than whose camera is used to take it. In other words, more consideration is given to creativity that goes into creating the photo than is given to the ownership of the camera used to take it. If you gave your camera to an aquaintence and said something along the lines of "take a couple of pictures of me while I'm on set", then most of the creativity involved in taking the photos would seem to have been added by the person taking the photo. On the other hand, if you set up the shot from start to finish, instructed the "photographer" where to stand, what angle to hold the camera and when to take the photo, then you would've added quite a bit of creative input as well. Now, if the person taking the photos was in your employ (e.g. a PR photographer) and you entered a work-for-hire agreement with them to take photos during a particular shoot, then you probably just need to follow the guidance given here; if the other person, however, provided all or a significant amount of the creativity that went into taking the photo but just used your camera to do so, you should follow the guidance given here. In either case, a "consent email" is going to be needed from someone to ensure that the photos aren't deleted. If you feel differently, you can request a more formal discussion by following the instructions given in the template added to each file's page by clicking on "Challenge speedy deletion: start a regular deletion request/discussion instead". Be advised, however, the burden of establishing that you're the copyright holder of the photos still falls upon you even if in a more formal discussion. Hopefully, as someone who's a professional visual intellectual property content creator where copyright plays an important role, this kind of distinction isn't just Greek to you and you can understand why Commons can be a real stickler when it comes to such things.

Finally, if you're going to try and continue discussing anything related to this Cameradirector account either here on English Wikipedia or on Commons, I strongly suggest that you log in to your account first as explained here. Editing while logged out isn't prohibited per se, but it can create some confusion where it's not needed. It also makes the IP address you're using publicly visible, which may not be something you want to do. You're going to particularly want to avoid creating confusion if you're going to be asserting copyright over files uploaded to Commons because others are going to need to be convinced that you're the uploader of the files when discussing them. -- Marchjuly (talk) 11:41, 18 February 2023 (UTC)