Payasam (Mukul Dube)

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Kautilya3 (talk) 10:40, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Agenda-driven editing

This kind of agenda-driven editing is absolutely prohibited on Wikipedia. If you do it again, you will be sanctioned. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:44, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Regarding this comment, I am afraid you cannot withdraw the image that you have donated to Wikipedia. Please read the permission you have given.

In any case, if you want to try to get the image deleted, you need to request it at commons.wikipedia.org. As long as the image exists on commons, the English Wikipedia is free to use it. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 11:12, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

There is no "agenda" here. In the 1970s I was in a political formation which eventually became the group to which Shehla Rashid now belongs. For a decade I tried to help that group by taking photos of its activities. Yet she has bad-mouthed me on Twitter, where she has tens of thousands of followers while I have none and so cannot say why I did what I did. An old man's anger and hurt, but no "agenda". I looked at Wikimedia Commons but it is a maze and I could not figure out how to make a request.Payasam (Mukul Dube) (talk) 12:23, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Honestly, I think it is a great picture that you can be proud of. I still see it being used by responsible media, with credits to you and Wikipedia commons. So, why don't you let it rest? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 12:42, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, thank you, it is a good one. Many irresponsible jokers have used it without credit to anyone. When they did not respond to my questions or tried to wriggle out, I sent them angry messages: which was all I could do, given the realities of the legal system in India. Shehla Rashid decided that my criticism of a news agency sent to /three/ newspapers was sent to "/all/ Kashmiri media outlets", that I was "threatening" and that sending her a copy of this and a couple of similar messages was "harassment". I believe in justice and fairness -- a search of the Internet will bring up things I have written. Maybe I should forget about this affair, specially as the girl spoke of "depression" (whether she just felt low or was clinically depressed is not clear) after the UP election and as she faces incessant foul abuse and threats and may have come to regard even people like me as the beasts she meets on the Internet. Payasam (Mukul Dube) (talk) 13:21, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Indeed, when we contribute to Wikipedia, we are essentially giving up ownership, for the good of the world. Let us be content with that. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 14:43, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

And those who put themselves on Wikipedia also may imagine that they are acting for the good of the world. Bye. Payasam (Mukul Dube) (talk) 19:38, 4 August 2018 (UTC)