Robert Scott Horning wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
On OTRS I received a complaint that some photo's were taken from a
website. As the photo's were located on Commons, I informed the
gentleman to go to the Commons administrators. In this case they were
world war II photo's of machine guns. I told the gentleman that even
if the photos were taken from his website, it would not matter when
the photos are already in the pubic domain.
The question, as it is not possible for a Dutch admin to remove
photos from Commons and as it has no impact to remove the pictures
from an article, is it correct to refer this gentleman to the Commons
admins or is there / should there be a procedure for these issues.
On Commons, if you think there is a copyright tag you can throw on
images you think are in dispute, which is the {{Copyvio}} tag, and any
user can add that onto the image. You don't need to be an admin.
Please make sure you put in a reason on the image page when you think
there is a problem, or try and contact the user who uploaded the
content (to be kind to a potential new user who thought uploading
random stuff from web pages was appropriate). The tag will get
flagged to a category which the admins on Commons check very
regularly, and will delete if it is against Commons policy.
Hoi,
In this case Commons states that it is public domain. There is this user
who has just another WW II website and is the opinion that we copied his
website. I am not completely aware of how these things are done on
Commons and, I do not agree with some of the procedures that I do know.
The thing is with OTRS, I am not just some user. By notifying me of this
issue the gentleman may think he is talking to the WMF itself while in
fact it has nothing to do with the nl.wikipedia. So the issue is also a
bit bigger than just this and that is why I ask for some guidance.
Thanks,
GerardM