User talk:NickOfCyprus

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Demetrios Pepagomenos[edit]

Could you expand the article possibly? For example, what impact did his discoveries have?

ShakespeareFan00 11:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-Hi shakespearefan00, i originally made the Byzantine Medicine article, but not many people helped with it! It is hard to do this kind of thing with no help.

Atheist-Islamic Alliance[edit]

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Image Tagging Image:Greeks2.JPG[edit]

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Thanks for uploading Image:Greeks2.JPG. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then there needs to be an argument why we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then it needs to be specified where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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Pictures were taken from the Greek Ministry of Culture website, as explained already. They are open to the public domain.

We need to see the actual source for each image, including its authorship. We'd also need some proof that images from the Ministry of Culture are in the public domain and that the Minsitry of Culture only uses its own images on its website instead of licensing them from other sources. Jkelly 19:59, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do I go about doing that? Ministry of Culture pictures are in the public domain, that is easy to prove, but how do I prove that they are the Ministry's own images? Why would they release them into the public domain if they were not Greek Ministry pictures? All I can find with relative to the latter are this:

Collection of material, writing, editing of texts: Pigi Kalogerakou, Aspasia Michanou, Dimitris Mylonas, Andreas Vlachopoulos

Texts were written by - the Ephorates of Antiquities and Monuments of the Ministry for the section "Cultural Heritage" - the services of the Ministry and the cultural organisations and institutes involved for the section "Modern and Contemporary Cultural Creation" - Prof. Chrysanthos Christou, Member of the Athens Academy for the introduction to "Visual Arts in Modern Greece" - Kostas Georgousopoulos, philologist and theatre critic, for the introduction to "Theatre in Greece" - the services of the Ministry for the sections "Great Projects of the Ministry", "Special Issues" and "Selected Cultural Events"

Source: http://www.culture.gr/

Actually, it would be great if you could demonstrate that material from Greece's Ministry of Culture was released into the public domain as a first step. Jkelly 22:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I cannot find the relevant place on their site anymore, but for the El Greco image I used and cropped, it is already on wikimedia commons here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:El_Greco_051.jpg

For the Pericles one:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pericles.jpg

The others are all from HM of C. I sent them an email for verification of it. It hsould come frough within the next day.

Your edit to Wikipedia:Community Portal[edit]

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/GreekWarrior[edit]

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For the Arbitration Committee. --Srik e it ^{(Talk | Email)} 08:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]