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HMS Campania
editHi, in Image:HMS Campania (1914) sinking.jpg, you described Campania as having been rammed by HMS Revenge. I believe this information may have come from the Imperial War Museum website. If so, you might be interested to know that it is in fact incorrect – Campania was rammed by no vessel, but broke free from her moorings during a storm in the Firth of Forth. She collided, not with Revenge, but with HMS Royal Oak. Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship, so I wonder if this where the confusion came from. Campania then scraped the side of Glorious, before later sinking. The story is readable in detail from the official report held at the National Archives Office, Kew. If you are willing to supply an e-mail address, I can e-mail you a photocopy of Royal Oak's log book for that day, describing the sequence of events. Regards, BillC 17:34, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
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Easyplex 09:10, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Je pense qu'on peut supprimer ce fichier-ci et retenir "HMS Queen (D19).jpg", qui est une copie exacte. :)
Pay attention to copyright | Image:HMS Belfast Tower Bridge.jpg has been marked as a copyright violation. The Wikimedia Commons only accepts free content, that is, images and other media files that can be used by anyone, for any purpose. For details on what is acceptable, please read Commons:Licensing. You can ask questions about Commons policies in Commons:Help desk.
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Davepape 18:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
- Okay - as long as you're confident that the IWM is really releasing it as PD and can point to a statement to that effect. I don't know their policies, but only know that some sources will label images as "public" without them being truly free as in Commons:Licensing. --Davepape 19:26, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
- {{PD-author|authorname}} is the template I prefer for such a case, along with a link to the appropriate info on the source site. --Davepape 02:23, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
IWM images and copyright
editJust because an image is available there and has a prolly "german official photograph" as author/license information does not mage this image legally available for use/reuse here. With unknown auther it's not usable at all unless it's from pre-1900 (it's almost sure that these image are old enough to be PD-old). In case of the Bismarck/Prinz Eugen photos the photographer is of german origin so a death of author + 70 years regulation counts (and not what IWM believes).--Denniss 19:35, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
- I had to revert again. The only person able to release images (or other copyrightable works) under a specific license is the original author. So no author = no PD unless PD because of age. These images best qualify as fair use and you have to upload them to the english wikipedia if you want to use them here. --Denniss 20:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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Denniss 23:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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Denniss 23:51, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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Benea 14:01, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
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--Lokal_Profil 20:19, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
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Tip: Categorizing images
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Thanks a lot for contributing to the Wikimedia Commons! Here's a tip to make your uploads more useful: Why not add some categories to describe them? This will help more people to find and use them.
Here's how:
1) If you're using the UploadWizard, you can add categories to each file when you describe it. Just click "more options" for the file and add the categories which make sense:
2) You can also pick the file from your list of uploads, edit the file description page, and manually add the category code at the end of the page.
[[Category:Category name]]
For example, if you are uploading a diagram showing the orbits of comets, you add the following code:
[[Category:Astronomical diagrams]]
[[Category:Comets]]
This will make the diagram show up in the categories "Astronomical diagrams" and "Comets".
When picking categories, try to choose a specific category ("Astronomical diagrams") over a generic one ("Illustrations").
Thanks again for your uploads! More information about categorization can be found in Commons:Categories, and don't hesitate to leave a note on the help desk.BotMultichillT 08:14, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- Image:HMS Slinger seaplane.jpg was uncategorized on 6 September 2009.
File:MV_Atlantic_Conveyor_Harrier.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
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Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 20:21, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Your account will be renamed
editHello,
The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.
Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Benea. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Benea~commonswiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.
Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
20:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
Renamed
editThis account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)
02:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
File:HMS Stonehenge.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.
If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. |