Hi Phoenix, The photo of the nice Falabella stallion File:Festivo2.jpg is lovely, but it was uploaded once and then deleted by the people in charge of reviewing photos because it lacked proper copyright permissions. I see it has been uploaded again, but again it still has a tag on it saying it will be deleted in 7 days if proper permission for use is not provided. That's why I've tossed it for now, if it gets deleted, then I just have to go in and fix it again anyway. It looks like the person who took the photo (Captain E H Eckholdt?) gave you some sort of permission, but unless wikimedia commons gets it in writing from that person, they just don't take people's word for it...follow the directions they gave on the tag that's on the image page. In short, if copyright is retained and the photo is not free for anyone to use for anything, it is very difficult to get it to "stay" on commons. (That's why there aren't very many good photos there, the photographers have to release most copyright ownership, about all we can keep is a right to have the photo attributed to the person who took it, and even that isn't always followed). Anyway, we LOVE the photo, but can't use it until the powers that be over at wikimedia commons say that the copyright problem is fixed. Good luck! Montanabw(talk) 23:20, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
- HI again Phoenix. Can you pretty please with maple sugar on top make the people at wikimedia commons happy so that they don't keep deleting the Festivo2 photo over and over again? It IS a wonderful photo and we really want to be able to keep it for the Falabella article, but it has to have a proper license. They will help you with proper copyright if you ask for help. The photo at commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Festivo2.jpg ) has a message saying "This file is missing evidence of permission. It has an author and source, but there is no proof that the author of the file agreed to license the file under the given license. Please provide evidence of permission by either providing a link to a site with an explicit grant of permission that complies with the licensing policy or by forwarding email communication granting permission to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org. Unless permission is granted, the file can be speedy deleted seven days after this template was added and the uploader was notified: (10 May 2010)."
- You CAN send them proof that there is permission from whomever owns the rights to the photo. So if YOU are "Captain E H Eckholdt", then consider just changing the tag to release it under the GDFL "copyleft" license (explained here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:L_ ) and not the tag you have on it. Or, if you must retain copyright, ask wiki commons what they need in the form of written permission, or read their files here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates -- they have a whole protocol for getting this done. If you are NOT "Captain E H Eckholdt" then you need Captain Eckholdt himself/herself to give written permission according to their guidelines. If he/she just says to you it's OK, they don't know if it is really that person's OK or not without independent verification. I know this is a pain in the butt (I've not been able to use some really nice images I have wanted to use), and it's why a lot of the time I have just taken to using photos I have taken myself and release directly to wikimedia commons when I need an illustration for something. (For an example of what I do with my own photo copyrights for commons, I use the GDFL-CC license, whatever they have tagged on the list as "recommended" - see my copyright on this image as an example, and yes, I am giving it away for free, basically, but I consider it for educational use, so it's OK with me: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RabicanoArab.jpg )
