User talk:Majora

File permission problem with File:Parachute Band Billboard.jpg

Hi Majora - Thank you for bringing the license attribution to my attention. I had Sarah Barlow (photographer) confirm her giving me permission to use the photo of the listed Wikipedia page and sent it to the Wikipedia email. Waiting on their confirmation receipt.

Thank you for the helpful info! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Parsnippoets (talk • contribs) 22:52, October 12, 2017 (UTC)

Copyright status of photos on Fuller_(artist)

Hi Majora,

All photos used on this page are from the same Flickr photostream here. The "About" section of this photostream says the following:

"After requests by followers and media outlets, this selection of images have been released for use under the attribution/non-commercial creative commons license."

I'm new to Wikipedia so please let me know if I'm missing something obvious, but I don't understand why you have labelled these photos copyright violations when the artist himself has said they can be used under a CC license.

Could you explain your reasoning here? Thanks.

Throwbackthursdays (talk) 11:47, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

@Throwbackthursdays: Not all Creative Commons licenses are created equal. There are many of them that we do not accept because they are not "free enough". In order for a license to be acceptable it would have to allow anyone to use or modify the image, at any time, and for any purpose (including commercial reuse). The non-commercial restriction on those images is the issue. There was one that was labelled as "All Rights Reserved" as well. That is the one I labelled as a copyright violation. The others I labelled for deletion under the WP:F3 criterion. Our sister project, Commons, has a nice list of Creative Commons licenses that we do accept. If you have any other questions please let me know. --Majora (talk) 17:54, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

@Majora: OK, that makes sense. Thank you so much for the clear explanation. I'm going to read about the different types of CC licenses then I'll try contacting the artist to see whether I can get permission to use these on the correct license. Thanks again. Throwbackthursdays (talk) 18:16, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Jeff_Johnson_(musician)

The information is dated and needs to be resorted and organized, especially the discography. I am not being compensated by Johnson, but I have written dozens of articles on him and have reached out to him regarding inspiration and sources. Any help you can provide me I would appreciate.

This is the new Wiki Information I have written:

Jeff Johnson (born 1956) is a recording artist, composer and producer who has released numerous solo and collaborative recordings on his own Ark Records / ArkMusic label since it’s establishment in 1977. He also creates and leads Christian contemplative worship featuring music, readings from the Psalms and silent prayer called the Selah Service. Originally from the Port-land, Oregon area, he currently resides in the San Juan Islands in the state of Washington, Unit-ed States. Vocal recordings Johnson’s early vocal recordings were stylistically progressive rock. The lyrics were inspired by a diverse group of authors, artists and historical figures including CS Lewis, Charles Williams, George MacDonald, Blaise Pascal, Francis Schaeffer, Tom Stoppard, William Shakespeare, Auguste Rodin, Paul Gaugin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Ludwig II of Bavaria. His more recent vocal works are more liturgical in theme and include words from the Biblical Psalms as well as prayers by early Irish saints Columba and Patrick as well as Teresa of Ávila and Francis of Assisi. Instrumental recordings Johnson’s instrumental releases cover a broad spectrum of Celtic, New Age, Jazz and World music genres. His collaborations with Irish flutist, Brian Dunning, include music inspired by the stories of Ste-phen R. Lawhead as well as a series of Celtic Christmas releases which were licensed by Wind-ham Hill for that label’s Winter Solstice and Celtic Christmas compilations. He also collaborated on several releases with Portland, Oregon bassist, David Friesen and addi-tional releases with world- renowned guitarist, Phil Keaggy. Related recordings Johnson’s recordings have been licensed and featured on numerous commercials, compilations, spoken word and movie soundtracks including the Martin Scorsese film, “Gangs of New York,” Ruth Bell Graham’s “A Quiet Knowing,” the Hearts of Space “Celtic Twilight” and Windham Hill “Winter Solstice” and “Celtic Christmas” series, Eckhart Tolle’s “Music to Quiet the Mind,” Angela Elwell Hunt’s “The Tale of Three Trees,” Keith Patman’s “Centerpoint: Poetry & Music for Christmas and Scott Cairn’s “Parable.” Discography If I Do Not Remember (2016) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin Jonathan’s Lullaby (2016) Jeff Johnson Home Again – Single (2015) Jeff Johnson WinterSky Live EP (2015) Jeff Johnson, Phil Keaggy, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin Broken, Gazing (2014) Jeff Johnson (featuring Wendy Goodwin) Parable (2014) Poetry & readings by Scott Cairns Music by Jeff Johnson & Roy Salmond WaterSky (2012) Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy Two Songs For Holy Week EP (2015) Jeff Johnson Winterfold (2013) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin Antiphon (2011) Coram Deo Ensemble – Jeff Johnson, Janet Chvatal, Brian Dunning, Wendy Goodwin & Marc Gremm Under The Wonder Sky (2010) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & Wendy Goodwin Frio Suite (2009) Jeff Johnson & Phil Keaggy Journey Prayers (2009) Jeff Johnson Selah Audio Meditations – Vol. 3 / The Way Of The Cross (2009) Featuring readings by Jeff Johnson with music from various ArkMusic recordings. King Raven, Vols. 1 - 3 (2008) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Dreams Of A Christmas Night EP (2007) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Standing Still (2007) Jeff Johnson Selah Audio Meditations – Vol. 2 (2007) Featuring Celtic prayers written by J. Philip Newell read by Jeff Johnson with music from Ark-Music recordings. A Thin Silence (2006) Jeff Johnson Selah Audio Meditations – Vol. 1 (2006) Featuring readings by Jeff Johnson with music from various ArkMusic recordings. Vespers – light into Light (2005) Jeff Johnson with Janet Chvatal   Stars In The Morning East – A Christmas Meditation (2005) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning The Katurran Odyssey – A Musical Journey (2004) Originally released by Hearts of Space Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Patrick (2003) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Benediction (2002) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning, John Fitzpatrick & Jozef Lupták The Memory Tree (2002) Jeff Johnson The Enduring Story – A Retrospective (2001) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning A Quiet Knowing Christmas (2001) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & John Fitzpatrick Byzantium – The Book of Kells & St. Aidan’s Journey (2000) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning A Quiet Knowing – Canticles For The Heart (2000) Jeff Johnson, Brian Dunning & John Fitzpatrick The Bard & The Warrior (2001) Originally released in 1997 as “Music Of Celtic Legends” (Windham Hill) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Prayers Of St. Brendan – The Journey Home (1998) Originally released by Hearts of Space Jeff Johnson with Janet Chvatal & Brian Dunning Navigatio (1997) Jeff Johnson with Janet Chvatal Psalmus (1996) Jeff Johnson with Janet Chvatal The Isle Of Dreams (1994) Jeff Johnson Songs From Albion 3 (1994) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning Songs From Albion 2 (1993) Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning

  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rupzip (talk • contribs) 02:38, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

@Rupzip: Quite a few things are wrong with what you are trying to do. Your conflict of interest aside what you are trying to put on that page is pure, unambiguous, advertising. Wikipedia is not for promotional or advertising purposes. We don't care one bit what the artist or the label wants on their page. That isn't how Wikipedia works. We have specific policies on what is and what isn't appropriate. All material on all pages should be sourced to a published reliable source that has editorial oversight and a history of fact checking. You removed sourced content and inserted material without sources. That isn't acceptable.

In addition to your removal of sourced content, the content that you did add was incredibly promotional. It looks like it came straight out the PR rep's mouth. That isn't acceptable. If you want to learn how to properly use Wikipedia please take a look at the Tutorial. --Majora (talk) 02:46, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Well, I do PR for a living for USPS, so I guess that's how I write! I'll try to be a little less polished ! And the removed sourced material actually went some of my articles. However, I understand and will be more compliant in my edits. Can I at least reorder the Discography and link to their source? Rupzip (talk) 03:00, 21 November 2017 (UTC)rupzip

@Rupzip: Provided there is a published reliable source that can be used to verify the content you want to add/reorder, please do. --Majora (talk) 03:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Snow

I do not accept this, Because a *❄️* can not prevent policy change--Persian-iran (talk) 06:19, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

WP:SNOW is not an essay. You may, of course, challenge the close but I must warn you. Doing so would be incredibly unwise and probably result in a BOOMERANG. We are here to build an encyclopedia. It really doesn't seem like you are here to do the same. It really appears like you are here to "right great wrongs". --Majora (talk) 21:17, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

You reverted my edit to this page and threatened to seek sanctions if I made it a second time, so I'd like to talk a bit about why you object to it so strongly.

It strikes me as a costless bit of humor that serves us well. Thousands of people see it (e.g. this tweet). It doesn't make Wikipedia any less accurate or informative, and it might encourage people to join in, because it shares a sense of fun. I haven't yet understood the objection. Mortee (talk) 01:29, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Mortee I can't speak for Majora but here's my take on all this. I am generally sympathetic to your point of view because I have also trolled the Wikipedia a couple times and in fact one my "jokes" is still there after 10 years (although its arguable whether there's actually anything wrong with it). Anyway what I would say is, if you get called on a joke you have to back down, you can't defend it. The default state of any article is complete seriousness. This is necessary for the project to work IMO. In addition, WP:BRD requires you to get consensus for most any challenged edit. Which you won't get for a joke. Then, on the merits, I think the "(right)" and the "indifferent" are a bit broad -- they're admirably dry, but perhaps at least a bit too obvious as jokes.

I agree that people are a bit too serious here. Even Samuel Johnson made a few jokes in his dictionary ("Patron: One who countenances, supports, or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery"). I recall hearing of a serious work of computer science where the index held the entries "Endless loop: see Loop, endless" and "Loop, endless: See Endless loop", heh.

It would be fine (IMO) if we had ten or twenty jokes in the entire encyclopedia. However, you're never going to be able to stop at that number. And many of the jokes will be broad and stupid, because many of editors are broad and stupid (and some are thin and stupid). We used to have a tradition here of putting silly stuff on the front page on April 1, but some moron (an admin, but I repeat myself) put a juvenile, unfunny, and somewhat offensive joke on the front page, and that put paid to that.

What I do is make occasional forays into humor on the talk pages. Even there you want to go light since these are also for serious purpose, but at least not presented to the public. (Sorry for hijacking your talk page, Majora. As I say Majora may have an entirely different take on the matter). Herostratus (talk) 08:09, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Herostratus. This was beautifully written and well-argued as well. Rather than take up space here I'll reply to a couple of your points on the talk page for the article. Mortee (talk) 16:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

SD

I've contested the speedy deletion of File:Bryn Mawr, Granville, OH, US.jpg - see the talk page. Google specifically permits it for non-commercial use. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@Bubba73: Unfortunately, "non-commercial use only" licenses are generally not acceptable, at least for Wikipedia purposes. Because Wikipedia is a free content encyclopedia, most images have to be freely licensed. That means that the copyright holder allows anyone to use the images for any purpose, including commercially. If there's a good reason to use an image that does not meet that criteria, it can be used in a limited form under the WP:Non-free content guidelines, provided that an appropriate rationale is written on the file's description page. Non-free pictures of living people and towns or buildings in the US are almost always replaceable by freely-licensed images, and therefore shouldn't be uploaded to Wikipedia. If you've got a question about the copyright status of a particular work, stop by the WP:Media copyright questions page. --AntiCompositeNumber (Ring me) 01:18, 29 November 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)

Dana Milbank

I can't make sense of the IP's comment. Can you? The only significant content on talk:Dana Milbank was in 2008. I reverted and left a EW message. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 03:02, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138: Nope. There is nothing in their contribs either to indicate that they discussed those changes anywhere. Who knows what they mean but that removal obviously wasn't discussed anywhere. --Majora (talk) 03:06, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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FIle:Dr. Robert F. Turner.jpg

I thought I followed the instructions. I added a link to the copyright notice for all photos. Txantimedia (talk) 00:45, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

@Txantimedia: Apologies. I just saw that you removed the tag since you put the link way at the bottom of the page. All fixed. Thanks. --Majora (talk) 00:50, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

No problem. I don't do this much (this is only the second photo I've uploaded, and I struggled with the first one as well), so I'm sure I did't do it in a way that it is commonly done. Everything is OK now, though. Correct? Txantimedia (talk) 00:54, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

@Txantimedia: Yep. Everything is all set. --Majora (talk) 01:12, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Reply to help-me on anonymous IP account

I noticed that you declined to answer a {{helpme}} in this user talk page edit. I think the user was asking how to create an individual Wikipedia account when they're on a rangeblocked Internet provider, which is what the IP block message probably told them to do. Was this a misunderstanding, or was it actually declined because that user might actually be the abuser? --Closeapple (talk) 19:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Asking about something that happened over a month ago is a little strange but ok. My reasoning is contained within my edit summary. I assumed it wasn't about editing Wikipedia. I assumed it was about using, creating, or logging on to their Verizon account (as in the use of https://login.verizonwireless.com/amserver/UI/Login). They didn't respond or ask anything else and I would have known if they did. Helpme requests are automatically transmitted to IRC so they are picked up immediately and the template also contains a link to log on to the IRC help channel where I was present and would have assisted if I was proven incorrect. Why do you ask? Did they use a different IP to ask the same question? How did you stumble across a random talk page like that? --Majora (talk) 20:36, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

I went in this order:

1. While removing the unsourced garbage from Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/2606:6000:624E:CE00:F81A:20C3:F486:35D0, which goes back several months, I went to clean up Danny Wells.
2. Sometimes that user from 2606:6000:624e:ce00::, in order to insert unsourced claims, would make sloppy edits then clean it up in a following edit so the last edit looked like an improvement. But in this case, 2606:6000:624e:ce00:: left the sloppy edit, and 2600:1000:b008:8e2a:460:e51f:9923:e3a2 cleaned it the next day, and then I noticed that 2600:1000:b000::/41 was also blocked, so I wondered if they were the same sockpuppets.
3. So I looked at the contribution history for 2600:1000:b000::/41, and the latest thing that popped up was that request, which seemed like it had an odd response in that, instead of something like User talk:2600:1000:B071:A8E3:3C8C:4013:B491:FA7E, it just had a "does not relate to Wikipedia editing" response, so that made me wonder whether maybe experienced responders were reluctant to point out {{anonblock}} instructions to that IP range.

The sockpuppet on 2606:6000:624e:ce00::/64 (and a few IPv4 addresses) is a specific sockmaster with a specific focus. So I was trying to figure out whether 2600:1000:b000::/41 is just a huge rangeblock with a lot of collateral damage, or whether it was a specific insidious sockmaster that experienced responders were trying to avoid helping. Looks like just collateral damage to me now. There are 3 or 4 questions of that nature in August to October in the 2600:1000:b000::/41 contributions. --Closeapple (talk) 21:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Should have known it was SPI. Digging is their specialty over there (and they are very good at it too). I very well could have made a mistake in tagging that as "not about Wikipedia". In any case, I would have just pointed them to WP:ACC which probably wouldn't have touched a rangeblock like that with a ten foot pole anyways due to the LTA issues. I agree with you about it probably being collateral. That is quite the large range of IPs being IPv6. My bad for misconstruing their request. --Majora (talk) 22:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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hi

you can keeep his family details ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:191:8401:705C:55AA:B39C:5D67:7BE9 (talk) 03:26, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about since you have edited from an IP address that does not have any other edits. I'm assuming it was about a revert I did and if it was about family details I'm guessing it had something to do with WP:BLP. What that policy states is that any information on a biography on a living person must be sourced. Any non-sourced material should be removed immediately. If you have a source for these details then please provide it. If this is about something else please let me know and I'd be happy to assist you. --Majora (talk) 02:51, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

I need your help

I screwed this up: File:Dr._James_S._Robbins.jpg

It's not non-free use. It's the same as the previous one I uploaded. I misunderstood the form when I was uploading the file. I should have chosen free use with the copyright from this page: https://www.vvfh.org/index.php/research/books. I have no idea how to fix this. I hope you can. One day I will figure all of this out. Txantimedia (talk) 04:11, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

@Txantimedia: All fixed. The image has also been moved to Commons. Our centralized repository for free images. It can be found here File:Dr.JamesSRobbins.jpg. --Majora (talk) 02:56, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks you so much. I promise, I'll do better in the future. Txantimedia (talk) 03:04, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Don't worry about it at all Txantimedia. It takes a while to learn all the ins and outs here. If you need any other assistance don't hesitate to let me know. I'd be happy to help. --Majora (talk) 03:08, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Vodafone logo question

Hi Majora. I just pinged you about another matter, but I'd like you're opinion on File:Vodafone.svg. In Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2016 December 7#File:Vodafone logo.png, bth you and Explicit commented that File:Vodafone logo.png was not below c:COM:TOO#united Kingdom. For reference, the Commons file has replaced the non-free in Vodafone and is also being added the infoboxes of various other Vodafone articles by Special:Contributions/186.179.100.137. If the Commons file is OK, then fine. If not, then the non-free will be deleted per WP:F5 when it probably shouldn't. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:12, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

All fixed Marchjuly. Image on Commons nominated for deletion and the ones here removed/restored to the way it was before. --Majora (talk) 03:09, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

Blake Ricciardi

The photo was taken by someone specifically for Blake and he owns the original photo. How do I remove the copyright and allow it for upload? Thanks!

Jkingaround (talk) 01:59, 12 December 2017 (UTC)