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The remainder of Category:Photographs by Stevan Kragujević not yet uploaded to Commons[edit]

Hello VRT, Serbian Wikipedia over at sr:Kategorija:Stevan Kragujević contains many files not yet transferred over to Commons. Some of them locally uploaded there have OTRS tags, but not all, despite all having the claim to have been uploaded "with the approval of [Stevan's] daughter Tanja Kragujević" ("po odobrenju kćerke Tanje Kragujević"), just like the rest of files VRT verified on Commons. Are all OTRS tagged files ready to be moved to Commons? What about the rest? There are many non-tagged files, so I worry we could be left without these if not resolved on time. I asked on the linked Serbian Wikipedia category's talk page but haven't received a relevant answer to my question. –Vipz (talk) 17:47, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It will need a Serbian language user to determine, but my impression with Google translate is that "No" is the answer. --Krd 12:37, 10 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ticket:2016032310006997[edit]

File:Charleroi-industrie-terril-paysage-Christophe-Vandercam.jpg , last update 4 avril 2016 à 19:58, https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2016032310006997.

Basically, I would like to understand if it is possible to have proof of purchase by the city of Charleroi, as expressed " image faisant partie d'une commande passée par l'administration communale de Charleroi au photographe Christophe Vandercam. http://www.charleroi-bouwmeester.be/"

As I was able to understand directly with the photographer, the image was sold to the city and other privates. Suddenly the city made it available in wikimedia with CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed. The problem is that the Visual Right Group company is saying that the rights belong to another company (image stock/database provider) and is demanding payment for the rights.

Thank you Bangiomorpha (talk) 11:20, 20 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Thibaut120094: , can you please look into this question? Ellywa (talk) 20:11, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
We received back in 2016 a scanned written CC BY-SA 4.0 permission from Christophe Vandercam with his signature (link for VRT agents). Thibaut (talk) 15:09, 5 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Checking for permissions for File:Dyanasofya02.jpg and File:Dato'_Sri_Ruddy_Awah.jpg.[edit]

The photographer of File:Dyanasofya02.jpg informed me that he has sent a release email on the 15th of November (he may not have mentioned the URL), while the photographer of File:Dato'_Sri_Ruddy_Awah.jpg sent a release email on the 17th of November and would like the full resolution version taken down and replaced with a lower quality version. For the latter, is it better to delete the file and upload the replacement as attached by the photographer? HejTuWou (talk) 02:54, 20 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The question cannot be answered without further information. What is the ticket number? --Krd 19:28, 28 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Deletion of pictures of Jacques Aeschlimann, Willy Aeschlimann and Jean-Philippe Faure[edit]

Hello, I added pictures to the Wikipedia pages of Jacques Aeschlimann, Willy Aeschlimann and Jean-Philippe Faure that were deleted. How could this deletion be canceled ? The pictures of Jacques Aeschlimann, Willy Aeschlimann and Jean-Philippe Faure were sent to me by the owners of the rights on the pictures. Thank you for your help. Best regards Vialdrou (talk) 21:04, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The ticket regarding these files is ticket:2023072010005839. Could someone check please? Yann (talk) 21:12, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Pinging @Mussklprozz for help. ─ The Aafī (talk) 09:10, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
In the case of Willy Aeschlimann and Jean-Philippe Faure, the authorship is unclear, sender of the ticket is not the rights holder. In the case of Jacques Aeschlimann, we can possibly get a heirs' licence. Sorry, following the client's last answer, I had expected further message from her, leaving both sides in mutual waiting. I will write her again now, trying to clarify at least the authorship of the Jacques Aeschlimann photos. Mussklprozz (talk) 09:45, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Mussklprozz
Jean-Philippe Faure wrote me that he has sent you or will send you very soon the information that he took the picture and accepts that it is put freely on Wikimedia commons.
The heir of Willy Aeschlimann and Jacques Aeschlimann, Caroline Aeschlimann, wrote me that she will send very soon more informations concerning who took the pictures of them (mostly different members of their family) and the identity of their heirs. Their heirs all accepted that the pictures were put on Wikimedia commons. Transmission of their acceptance can be organized. That's something to check with her. Vialdrou (talk) 15:21, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Merci @Vialdrou, I am looking forward to the further communication with them. As soon as authorships, heritage and permissions are claryfied, the images can be restored. – J'attends avec intérêt la suite de la communication avec eux. Dès que les droits d'auteur, le patrimoine et les autorisations seront clarifiés, les images pourront être restaurées. Amitiés, Mussklprozz (talk) 15:42, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Bonjour @Mussklprozz,
Caroline Aeschlimann m'a informé que les discussions continuaient sur certaines photos mais que d'autres avaient d'ores et déjà été validées. Est-ce correct ?
Merci pour votre travail.
Amitiés, Vialdrou (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ticket:2023122710007663[edit]

Добрый вечер! Прошу обработать данное разрешение для дочерних сайтов Росавтодора для шаблона {{Rosavtodor.ru}}. MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 19:56, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@MasterRus21thCentury Thanks for asking. The ticket awaits action from an agent who knows Russian language. I don't know it and cannot act. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 20:32, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@TheAafi: This appears to concern the 573 files in Category:Files from Rosavtodor.ru tagged with {{Rosavtodor.ru}}.   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 23:31, 27 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

(Copyright status of) page x missing from Dictionary of the Vilamovan language[edit]

Hi, I was redirected to post my inquiry here, which concerns ticket number ticket:2014061910007868. As the title describes, page x (i.e. after ix, before xi) is missing from the file series Dictionary of the Vilamovan language. The category, created almost a decade ago, has a label indicating that the rights holder has given written permission to license the work here. The missing page is also available online from the Polish national library, which labels the file as being in the public domain (in Poland, evidently). However, as a presumably posthumous (author died 1919) work published in 1930-1936 (page x would appear to be part of Vol. 1, so from 1930), I'm not confident on what the status would be for our purposes (i.e. according to the US situation, where it doesn't seem to have ever been published) and I'm also not confident that the written permission applies to the whole work or only the files so far uploaded (thus inadvertently excluding the missing page). Basically I'd like to know, what are the chances of adding the missing page (or having it added by a trusted volunteer) without inadvertently violating copyright? Helrasincke (talk) 19:15, 9 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rheinmetall HX. Модель 44М[edit]

ТТХ автомобіля. Інструкція з експлуатації 2A02:2378:11F1:370C:0:0:0:1 10:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Rheinmetall HX. Model 44M

TTX of the car.

Operating Instructions
translator: Google Translate via   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:49, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
IP: Привіт і ласкаво просимо. Яке це має відношення до Commons:Volunteer Response Team або до Commons загалом?
Hi, and welcome. What does this have to do with Commons:Volunteer Response Team, or with Commons in general?   — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 13:49, 14 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

ticket:2009111010047484[edit]

I was skimming through old DR's and came across Commons:Deletion requests/File:Norbert sternmut.jpg, and this 14 year old ticket in permissions-de queue affects it. Google translate has been unhelpful. ─ The Aafī (talk) 11:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Kept. --Krd 09:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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ticket:2014122310000729[edit]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Bakov.jpg relates to a file I added permission to. Unfortunately I no longer have access to VRT so I can not re-check it. Jarekt (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Jarekt: I posted a response on the DR. ─ The Aafī (talk) 16:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Retirer photo[edit]

Bonjour je souhaite que l’on supprime immédiatement cette page et ma photo pour des enjeux personnels importants . SVP merci de me répondre rapidement christine 209.121.189.13 11:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  • Translated as "Hello, I would like this page and my photo to be immediately deleted for important personal reasons. Please, thank you for responding quickly Christine"
  • What files are you referring to?
Gbawden (talk) 11:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Checking for permissions of Category:Portrait paintings by Natalia Pavlusenko[edit]

Please check file permissions. Who gave the permissions: the photographer or the author of the paintings? These images are the works of modern Ukrainian artist Natalia Pavlusenko, who is engaged in the historical reconstruction of images of people from the 16th and 17th centuries. These portraits were painted in 2021, each one is on her website and there is a copyright notice. Link to the artist's website:

In addition, until recently, the artist sold merch with these portraits on her website:

Seva Seva (talk) 18:43, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Seva Seva: I confirm the permissions release is perfectly fine, and these three files are released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unadapted License. I have cross-verified everything. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 19:19, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Unadapted should mean Unported. I just used Google Translate. ─ The Aafī (talk) 19:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Did I understand correctly that permission is granted by the artist Natalia Pavlusenko, not the user who uploaded the photo? I am asking because there is no freedom of panorama in Ukraine (see COM:FOP Ukraine), so any work of art that has been photographed needs permission. Seva Seva (talk) 19:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Seva Seva: I can't share the names publicly, but I can confirm that the permission is perfectly fine. ─ The Aafī (talk) 20:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Seva Seva: since I don't have access to VRT, I'm allowed to conjecture: this all makes sense if that is Natalia Pavlusenko's account. - Jmabel ! talk 21:17, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel: Sorry, I don't really understand how the VRT system works. I have never used it myself. If I understood The Aafī's words "perfectly fine" correctly, it meant that permission was obtained from the artist himself. Do VRT permissions work differently? The "Structured data" says that these images are "original creation by uploader". This is strange, because the user also uploaded other works in this way, such as : File:Art object by Glib Viches. Sun Gates.1989.jpg or File:Art object by Glib Viches. Presenсe. 1992.jpg. But they were maded by another artist - en:Glib Viches. So, the uploader and the artist cannot be the same person. Also, "Structured data" says Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, not 3.0. Could you explain to me - VRT confirms only what is in "Structured data" or not? Seva Seva (talk) 22:04, 17 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Aafī is saying that the confidential correspondence in which the VRT agent engaged, and which they (The Aafi) can see, but you and I cannot, convinces them that the permission came from the legitimate holder of the copyright. Since that would almost certainly be Natalia Pavlusenko and the uploads credit the account name as author, I can only reasonably assume this is her account or that of someone representing her to whom she is willing to have her work credited. Since you and I are not privy to that correspondence, anything beyond that is conjecture. I would say that at this point, The Aafi has written here without any qualification to their endorsement of the validity of the license. @TheAafi: one question, though. Under the license, which requires attribution, are they really OK with attribution to "Commons user Paintgol", or should the license template add "author=Natalia Pavlusenko"? -Jmabel ! talk 01:08, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Jmabel, I do not see any such requirements but it believe its worth a question. The ticket is not in English (and the original release didn't come in English either). I suppose @Andriy.v can make a follow up here. ─ The Aafī (talk) 05:19, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@TheAafi: "I can't share the names publicly", but Ahonc below did it. So who is right? Andriy.v (talk) 18:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
She is author of the pictures, it is not secret.--Anatoliy 🇺🇦 (talk) 18:59, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Ahonc and @Andriy.v: I tend to be more precautious. We are in agreement to not share "non-public information" and I consider everything on VRT non-public even if the names associated are public. Ahonc is right, the name is already public. I won't disagree with them either. I will close this thread is resolved. Best regards, ─ The Aafī (talk) 19:55, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Permission is granted by the Natalia Pavlusenko. --Anatoliy 🇺🇦 (talk) 10:27, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Дякую, Ahonc! I have no more questions. I think this discussion can be closed... --Seva Seva (talk) 14:41, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by Oleg Palchyk[edit]

Can someone please check to see if Ticket:2023122010003929 is valid, so I (or someone else) can close that DR. Thanks, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:07, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: I believe that permissions are fine and comply with the file's metadata, and per what is here. However, according to @Ahonc, the permissions are insufficient, and VRT hasn't received a response back since 31 December 2023. ─ The Aafī (talk) 10:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
He gave link to image on Commons and did not answer when I ask link to original source.--Anatoliy 🇺🇦 (talk) 10:29, 18 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Commons:Deletion requests/File:TAG Andy Warhol Soup Can 02.jpg[edit]

This file nominated for deletion has ticket:2009012510001013 attached to it. Can a VRT agent please weigh in? Thanks. —holly {chat} 22:21, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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