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Image:Czh-3.JPG is great; thanks for that. Image:Crts-2.JPG is fine. Image:Crts-1.JPG has no source, and it particularly needs one because, contrary to the tag that's on there, it's not a two-dimensional work of art, it's a three-dimensional work of art (I know it seems arbitrary, but it matters). So I tagged it {{nosource}}.

Oh, sorry--just got your message as I was writing this one. There's a larger problem, though, with using fair use images in a general article on the people. All of those images would be fine in articles on the particular people in the pictures, but free images would be best for the Croats page. This is kind of unfortunate timing; we're in the middle of a fair use crackdown.

More on this later, I'm going to update some of the tags and look for some free replacements. Chick Bowen 03:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I found commons:Category:People of Croatia. Might be useful. All of those are public domain/free use. Chick Bowen 04:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Mestrovic and whoever that is in the upper right hand corner--the bust by Mestrovic. Although if you can find a source for that one and it turns out to be public domain, it's no problem. I'm looking around, more in a moment. Chick Bowen 04:08, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the Mestrovic one is (being arbitrary again) not PD by a year. If the bust is GFDL, that would be perfect. Can you tell who the original uploader was? Chick Bowen 04:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Since you asked about other problem montages, the contributions of the person who uploaded those two contained a bunch more that are similar. Several of them are all-PD and fine--I OK'd the ones for Magyars, Dutch people, Italian people, and Swedish people. Others have some problems:

• Image:McdSlvs2.JPG - The site linked to doesn't contain all of the images, so there's no way to verify them. I've tagged it no source.
• Image:Svks.JPG - tagged as PD, but the left two (Dubcek and Sokol) aren't.
• Image:Sln.JPG - This one will probably have to go. None of them appear to be PD.
• Image:Rmn2.JPG -Vlad and Grigorescu are fine, the other two I haven't been able to verify.

If you're interested, I'm happy to give you some time to work on them and then just delete the old revisions, rather than listing them for deletion and going through the whole process. Here are the relevant commons categories, respectively:

• commons:Category:People of Slovakia
• commons:Category:Macedonia (not great)
• Slovenia is weak, just these: commons:Category:Military (People, Slovenia)
• commons:Category:People of Romania

I'm happy to help track some more stuff down if you're interested in working on these. Let me know. Thanks. Chick Bowen 04:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

We need sources--trying to work it out by logic never works. It's one thing for a photograph of someone who died before 1923, but a painting could have been painted posthumously. As for fair use--part of our fair use policy is that a rationale has to be stated that one particular fair use image is necessary for a particular article. We couldn't really have an article on Guernica, for example, without a picture of it, so it's OK to reproduce the painting for that article. But you can't make an argument like that for an article like Slovenians, because there's no reason that those particular Slovenians need to be included. Thus, all of these generalized articles about a people need free images. I think that goes for Croats, too, actually--the PD images are fine there, but the should all be PD. Chick Bowen 22:21, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:MacedoniansIMG.JPG

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Thanks for uploading Image:MacedoniansIMG.JPG. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other media, consider checking that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jkelly 19:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Crts-3.JPG)

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Possibly unfree File:Polishpeople.JPG

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Polishpeople.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Magog the Ogre (talk) 11:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)