CornfieldMannequin

Scarecrow Userbox

The following conversation takes place between User:Arman88 and me, over the image Scarecrow-tdk.jpg. On December 4th, 2008, I noticed this new addition to the page Scarecrow_(comics), and because I was just starting out, I wanted a picture to identify the Scarecrow with my Username. Judge for yourself.

Scarecrow-tdk Image

(CornfieldMannequin:)

I saw the image [1] you contributed to Scarecrow_comics [2]. (Thanks, by the way. Its awesome!) But I noticed that the image, under "source" it just says "Blu-ray format of the film." If you didn't get it off any website, and you put "Blu-ray format" and it worked, then does that mean you filed it as your own work? Because if it is, I would like to turn the thumbnail of that into a userbox. [3] What would I have to do to get that? (Because the "license" says that any other uses of the image may be copyright infringement.) I figured that you would know, since you contributed the image. Please help! --CornfieldMannequin (talk) 23:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The Scarecrow image

(Arman88:)

I don't know. I just hit the print screen while watching the bluray version of the movie. Then I edited some shadows and contrasts with Photoshop.

Hope you can help me with the copyright thing. I don't understand that, I just choosed the "screenshot from film, tv, video game" alternative.

Response from The Scarecrow Image

(CornfieldMannequin:)

I did some reading. In the Wikipedia Non-Free use guideline page,[4] it says that Non-Free images can be used again only under certain circumstances. So here's what I think: The guideline allows exceptions. Since you were the one who contributed the image (and it isn't directly from the film, because you had edited it) then you should have the rights to that image. You should therefore be able to use that image whenever you want, so long as you're the one doing it. If you make a userbox out of it, Wikipedia shouldn't delete it. As you can see here [5] each userbox is specified by the user who made it on the left, not by all the other people who have it. See if you can make a good-sized userbox (with a caption about being a fan of the Scarecrow) and log it on the page specified in the link above, with the other Batman ones. I'd really appreciate if you could pull this off.

(By the way, what specifically do you need help with on the copyright thing? I'd be happy to help.) --CornfieldMannequin (talk) 23:04, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: "...what specifically do you need help with on the copyright thing? I'd be happy to help"

(Arman88:)

You can just go ahead and change it, because you're telling me that Wikipedia won't allow the one I uploaded just now. ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arman88 (talk • contribs) 01:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

;) yourself, Arman88

(CornfieldMannequin:)

Put this in your image file: (Go to Edit mode to select and copy)

You may want to update a few things, like the resolution and stuff. What happened was you put the blockquote information into your Comment section, instead of where it was supposed to be: in your summary. Now at least that thing's fixed. Tell me if you need anything else.

Oh, and could you still do that userbox thing I told you about earlier? That'd be great.--CornfieldMannequin (talk) 00:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I gave you plenty of time

(Cornfield Mannequin, 5 days later:)

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

I wandered onto your talk page for a reason, Arman88; I wanted a Scarecrow userbox. That's all.

Then you piped in with your copyright problems. I was willing to help, but I still made it clear that I wanted the userbox. I go and give you the blockquote information, and I can see that your file now has this implemented. But no userbox. At first I thought that maybe you needed time to find out how to make a userbox, how to duplicate the image, etc. I gave you plenty of time, and nothing happened.

In short, Arman88, I gave you what you wanted, and I never got what I came for.

If you really can't duplicate the image, at least print screen another Scarecrow image with a free-use license.--CornfieldMannequin (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't know.

(Arman88:)

Dude, I don't know what you're talking about. All I want to do is contribute by uploading a picture of something I like, why is that so hard to do?

Do whatever you can, I don't know, really. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arman88 (talk • contribs) 23:11, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Dilbert-20050910.png image

In reference to this image contribution [6] (it was a long time ago), the panel is in black-and-white, and you say in the rationale that no better alternative could possibly exist.

But I know of a colored version of this image that you may or may not want to replace it with. Here's the link to it: click here

Was your image intended to be black-and-white to refer to as it appeared in newspapers? Do you want to replace it with a color version? Or do you even care?

Please contact me on my User Talk page. I'll remember the dot. --CornfieldMannequin (talk) 20:02, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for remembering the dot ;-) I actually don't have a strong opinion on whether the black & white or the color version should be used. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

RvB maps list

The deletion discussion is here. Although we thought it was a good idea at the time it was created, we later realised that the use of various maps was simply a minor aspect of the machinima technique, as opposed to an important aspect of the show itself. As TKD notes in the discussion, there is some use for some of the info, but sourced and not in undue detail, in Red vs. Blue production.--Drat (Talk) 19:11, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk page reversion

Hi. That IP was listed under the administrative intervention page and given its long history of bad edits, I reverted the edit the last user had made and temprarily blocked the account. I had no way whatsoever of knowing the edit was made by a legit user editing from an IP. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:34, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

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In the Licensing section of the image description page you claim to be the copyright owner, but I find that difficult to believe you are Scott Adams. —teb728 t c 01:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: your questions

Yes, I isolated the background of the original image using Photoshop CS3. The original image, as linked, is much larger than the smaller size we use for fair use compliance anyhow, so that helps smooth out any possible jaggies. The rest is just painstakingly zooming in 400-600% and cutting out the background with the lasso tool.

As for page protection, it's all a judgement call as to when to implement it. All admins can do it, but I'm the only admin actively involved in Halo articles to a major degree these days. If you have a page you'd like protected, the proper venue to go to is WP:RPP. I hope that answers your questions, if you have more just ask :) Cheers, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 01:10, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Unless you have a reliable source for that, no, you can't add it. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 21:21, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Not really. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 19:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

In regards to your question: Yes, it prolly would be fine according to Microsoft's rules and fair use, but Wikipedia follows WP:NFCC, which is far stricter than fair use (since the idea is to cultivate free alternatives wherever possible.) One of the stipulations is that non-free media (what you are talking about would be a derivative work, so still nonfree) not appear anywhere aside from the Article space (so on Master Chief (Halo), but not its talk page, nor a user talk page, et al.) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 23:06, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

The way wiki-syntax works, you can't just throw in level headers into collapse syntax (which is based on CSS/XML markup languages). If you don't know those, modifying the styles (which is why it's got rounded purple corners and such) is going to be difficult. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 19:06, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

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