Zachmorris2001

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File would be better on Commons

Hi. Thanks for your contributions. I'm Andrew Alder, one of the many volunteer administrators of English Wikipedia.

I just moved the article Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors to its new name and noticed that while the File:Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors.tif is described as licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License, it's currently at English Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia Commons.

There are two problems with the current situation. The one that concerns me immediately is there's some risk of deletion of the file if someone were to investigate the claim about the license and you, for any reason, did not respond quite quickly with the required evidence. The other is that other language versions of Wikipedia can't use the image unless it is either uploaded individually to each, or moved to Commons.

The file is eligible for migration to Commons, and in time it may just happen, but it would probably be better for you to resubmit the file to Commons. The license would need to be clarified to move it anyway, I think, although I confess I'm not all that familiar with either process. We probably need to go through the OTRS system to verify permission in either case. There may also be a third alternative to moving or resubmitting the image to Commons by just going through OTRS at English Wikipedia, but that would not solve the second problem about other language versions use of the file. And I'm not too familiar with OTRS either.

But we are all learners here, and I'll help in any way I can. Sorry if this seems a quibble, but Wikipedia takes copyright issues very seriously (often far too seriously IMO, but that's another story), and I'm concerned that if I don't give you this bad news now, it may be worse news later. I have had a certain amount of bitter experience in such matters... Wikipedia's community of contributors is no more perfect than is the encyclopedia itself, I'm afraid.

If we do as I suggest, no changes would be necessary to the article. Once the file is at Commons, we simply request deletion from Wikipedia as a duplicate, and the article will automatically find the Commons version instead once this occurs. Andrewa (talk) 18:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Andrewa! I'll see about the image switch. Zachmorris2001 (talk) 18:52, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors.tif

Thanks for uploading File:Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors.tif, which you've attributed to Drew Holcomb. 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 {{OTRS 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. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read the Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 01:06, 9 November 2014 (UTC)