Historical User

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Copyright

Hello, Historical User. Having seen your question at the Teahouse, as you know I was concerned about the copyright in the signature you uploaded. I looked at your other contributions at Commons, and I'm afraid I had concerns about the Norton logo as well. I have raised these concers at commons:commons:Village pump/Copyright#File:Bennygantzsignature.png.

As I said there, it is possible that the logo may fall below the C:C:Threshold of originality, in which case it can remain on Commons, with a copyright status of Public Domain (instead of CC-BY-SA): I'm not well-versed on copyright, so we'll see what the experts say in response to my posting. If it does not meet that criterion, then it must be deleted from Commons (Commons only hold free-licensed materials) but it it possible that it can be uploaded to Wikipedia as non-free media: see WP:LOGO.

I'm sorry if I seem to undoing all your work, but we take copyright very seriously here. --ColinFine (talk) 17:37, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Colin. I completely understand about the copyright, and I apologize for it. I just want to make contributions to the website so people don't get confused.

Sincerely,

Historical User Historical User (talk) 17:55, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

I have nominated both for deletion on Commons. As I said, it is possible that the logo may survive. If it doesn't you may still be able to upload it to Wikipedia as I said above. But the signature: not without Gantz specifically releasing it under a licence such as CC-BY-SA. And in any case, as I said at the Teahouse, I'm dubious that it is encyclopaedic. --ColinFine (talk) 22:13, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

August 2022

Hello, I'm Schazjmd. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Ellen McLain, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please read WP:DOB. Schazjmd (talk) 17:58, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for not providing a source. It's because while I was researching Portal voice actors on Google and clicked on McLain, I saw that the info on Wikipedia did not match the same of her Google profile. Historical User (talk) 18:17, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Kinder Surprise Logo (English).png

Thanks for uploading File:Kinder Surprise Logo (English).png. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

• make a note permitting reuse under the CC-BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
• Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{permission pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. Here is a list of your uploads. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. — Ирука¹³ 19:29, 25 August 2023 (UTC)