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"Highway of Tears murdered and missing" edit

It is true many of the victims are missing; but the moved title was awkward, left conciseness and felt grammatically incomplete- missing and murdered what? That, and it was a unilateral move of an important article, and not uncontroversial. I'd suggest going to Wikipedia:Requested moves- and if you're serious about this, I'd suggest either proposing Highway of Tears cases or just plain Highway of Tears at Requested moves. Ribbet32 (talk) 03:02, 3 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Image source problem with File:Hogsback to Highway Map.png edit

 
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@Ronhjones: Sorry, I am new to this. I attempted to properly attribute and add license. I put this in the photo metadata. It still got removed. Can you please help? Nfox24 (talk) 20:35, 19 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

Maps are always an issue. There are not that many free maps around (naturally, people want to sell them!). Your link was http://www.sitesandtrailsbc.ca/resources/REC1108/sitemaps/03_2018_Ortho_Rec_Hogsback%20REC1108.pdf - at the bottom of that PDF page is a link back to http://www.sitesandtrailsbc.ca/search/search-location-summary.aspx?districtCode=RDVA, and at the bottom of that page is a "Copyright" link to https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright. and that says "All rights reserved" - which is not a license we can use. Ronhjones  (Talk) 20:42, 19 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Ronhjones: Thanks. I will make the changes. In the meantime, I am using derivative works from OpenStreetView. The usage criteria for OSV I believe is that I am free to use, I just have to properly attribute OSV. Can you please weigh in on this? NigelFox 20:48, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

Image source problem with File:Highway of Tears Corridor 2.png edit

 
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@Ronhjones: I am using OpenStreetView to create maps for this. I attempted to create proper license/attribution. Can you please show me an example of an image page with the correct license/attribution for OSV derivative works?

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@Britishfinance: Thank you for your kind words. I am just learning to work within Wikipedia/Media and it's exciting. One area that I am still struggling with though, is proper attribution and licensing for maps and missing persons photos. There's a lot of (overly) zealous wiki editors out and I have been struggling to keep ahead of unprompted deletions and copyright violation flags for files that I believe are free use exemptions or properly attributed even though they get flagged. Still trying to get this working.

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Copyright problem on Highway of Tears edit

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Picture keeps getting deleted even though attribution given edit

@Racconish:, what is the exact reason that https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Highway_of_Tears_Corridor.png gets deleted? It takes effort to attempt to properly attribute this that I have to redo each time without an accurate explanation. The history log at Highway of Tears says that it fails the license review, but this is in error because there are similar images in wiki commons that are allowed to stay. Here is a similar page using a photo derived using the exact same mapping site OpenStreetMap, and the attribution/license that they use is the same one that I used for the image that was deleted in error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenStreetMap_homepage_2018_en.png

Can you please weigh in?

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